> a combined Paramount-Warner would account for less than 20 percent of all watch time is this supposed to be an argument? any individual's share of editorial control over content should be closer to well below 1% 20% is a lot

Steve Herman@newsguy.bsky.social · 2d ago

"While I was silent, others were happy to write my story for me. No more." - David Ellison, chief executive of Paramount Skydance www.nytimes.com/2026/08/04/op...

the most 2026 brainstorming session apparently grok didn't give them the answer they wanted (they must have tried it prior to sending this embarrassing email) also, are these broke ass mfs even in any position to help Ukraine at this point? all the pentagon money seems to have gone into a black hole

Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · 2d ago

U.S. military asks troops for ‘creative and unconventional’ ideas to ‘punish Iran’

had a funny thought while listening to a thing and remembering another thing the same thing that "AI" did to art stores, it also did to app stores it made discovering the next big app much harder for everyone, reducing the odds of success for most app-focused startups great job lol, truly amazing

finally got a link to share with people who try and say "oh you DON'T LIKE AI??? what about ALPHAFOLD!!!!" as if it has anything to do with any of this AI capex

Engadget@engadget.com · last wk.

DeepMind's award-winning AlphaFold team is no more.

breaking: Wikimedia Foundation says it will not voluntarily recognize its workers union, instead insisting on an election held under Trump's NLRB. Wiki Foundation execs dodged this question at its massive conference last week. www.404media.co/wikimedia-wa...

Wikimedia Waits Until After Its Massive Conference to Say It Won’t Voluntarily Recognize Union

A supermajority of Wikimedia Foundation workers say they have signed union cards, but the foundation is insisting on an election.

404media.co

I saw some ads IRL for renting computers not too long ago I wonder if those computers have similar reposession tech on them to what's described here (location signals, remote disabling of most frequently used apps etc.)

By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)@doctorow.pluralistic.net · 2w ago

It may strike you as weird, but lenders *love* lending to poor people who will have trouble paying them back. Obviously, lenders want to be repaid, and the more money you have, the easier it is to settle your debts, but that means that if you have a lot of money, you pay *less* to borrow. 1/

Ok, European friends, the ECB is going to redesign the Euro banknotes and are doing a survey to see what design europeans like the most. YOU HAVE TO VOTE FOR THE BIRD ONES!! LET US HAVE LITTLE BIRDS IN OUR MONEY. There are many designs to choose from as well: surveys.ecb.europa.eu/lng/en/pageT...

things like this are particularly interesting in the context of EU's "chat control", where these companies are incentivized to spy on everyone's private messages to "protect children" curious what @eppgroup.bsky.social - the party lobbying most intensely for chat control - thinks about it

Scott Horton@robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 2w ago

Mark Zuckerberg's assistant at Meta, Josh Felker, who was responsible for Meta's "digital experiences for kids," was arrested after admitting he tried to sext a 13-year-old during an undercover sting. nypost.com/2026/07/20/u...

catching up on industry s3/s4 it feels like the closer it gets to politics, the more it gets into conspiracy drama and exposes a very liberal-leaning understanding of things having witnessed the recent blatant corruption in the UK from 1700km away, it feels really fucking naive at this point

www.youtube.com/watch?v=YF0K... (the video is in English) it's become a meme that IMF usually pushes austerity (belt tightening) and infrastructure privatization (oligarchs profiteering by abusing lack of competition) onto countries with budgetary issues thankfully this time it didn't happen here

Starptautiskais Valūtas fonds: Latvijai nākamajos gados būs jāpalielina budžeta ieņēmumi (LAT sub)

YouTube video by LTV Ziņu dienests

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randomly thinking about how the brain works was thinking about how the word "is" actually corresponds to vast variety of concepts (equality, assignment, descriptors etc.) and has lots of usually unexpressed qualifiers (current, historical, fictional, hypothetical etc.)

one weird thing that exists in our local laws is that "the market" is personified for the purposes of determining whether an action is legal or not (the text in the image is machine-translated by Opera but I've verified that it's accurate enough, even if a bit awkwardly phrased)

people have tried to argue that "AI" is a learning tool and can be used for good here's data indicating that roughly 90% of people likely cheated used for good my ass, real life data disagrees with that cope

Jason Koebler@jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 4w ago

this rules www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...

youtu.be/bodlO7uPe4M?... cool convo about world trade big corpos do like to try shoving all sorts of garbage into just about anything, don't they squeezing deregulatory rules into trade agreements is something quite special though same playbook as with DMCA section 1201

Whatever Happened to Tariffs? with Lori Wallach

YouTube video by Unlearning Economics

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www.cnbc.com/video/2026/0... 3:18 > [..] today, there is no dark compute, every amount of compute that is being deployed is being utilized. even if we're ignoring the impossibility of that statement, and the clever trick of only considering "deployed" compute, this still seems like a stretch

AI is becoming more of a necessity, says BofA's Vivek Arya

Vivek Arya, senior semiconductor analyst at Bank of America Securities, joins 'Squawk Box' to discuss the momentum in the chip sector, what investors should expect, and more.

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futurism.com/future-socie... lol

fordhamlawreview.org/wp-content/u... the parts I did read seemed alright but I have an issue with the premise as Louis Rossmann likes to say - "don't accept the premise of assholes" in this case the assholes are the oligarchs and the corrupt "Chicago school" retards

As the director of a historical video game preservation institution, and someone who has dedicated his entire adult life to this cause, this is accurate. We have attempted to work with the industry's trade organization to find a legal path forward, but they refuse to offer a meaningful alternative.

Chloe "in ✈️ at home" Adams@addamschloe.bsky.social · last mo.

piracy is the only extant form of media preservation that exists in games right now, you might find it morally reprehensible but there is literally no other institution that will keep games alive in 25, 50 years' time

seemingly a lot of economic fairness solutions boil down to "the only way to stop a bad guy with greed is a good guy with greed" anything market-based (a lot of antitrust stuff), unions etc. it becomes an infinite loop balancing act, not unlike pushing a ball down Penrose stairs

the new video by @bennjordan.bsky.social at 3:10 (youtu.be/4FZy1lBNykA?...) reminded me of my old thread on capitalism: bsky.app/profile/arch... also left a comment on the video that includes some new bits that the thread didn't cover: www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FZy...

The Richest Country Is Pretty Mid Now

YouTube video by Benn Jordan

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Arvīds Kokins@archo5.bsky.social · 8mo ago

overall it seems there's far more ideological consistency if capitalism were to be split into two distinct parts - the organized theft part (privatization, commodification, profit), and the "we really need to make it sound nice or they'll eat us alive" part (competition, innovation, growth[?])

Ford has rehired hundreds of senior engineers after replacing them with AI backfired and has cost the company billions of dollars. AI adoption is blamed for Ford being the most recalled automaker in the U.S. with 51 recalls covering over 11 million vehicles in the first half of 2026 alone.

Incredible chart from @propublica.org. If you don’t follow enviro stuff closely, your instinct might be that the hold-your-nose solution (carbon capture from fossil fuels) would be the “pragmatic” one versus covering Earth in solar panels, which seems utopian. In fact it’s the opposite

it's a bit funny seeing a bunch of people marxifying (in a way) due to "AI" - either the rent seeking based on stolen IP or the RAM/disk price increases talking about seizing the means of production and whatnot problem is, the people working on both are AFAIK already paid very well for their work

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Goo... > [..] the idiom 'killing the goose that lays the golden eggs' [..] refers to the short-sighted destruction of a valuable resource, or to an unprofitable action motivated by greed. hmm, unprofitable action motivated by greed? I wonder what it reminds me of...

Ed Zitron@edzitron.com · last mo.

SoftBank’s investor presentation is one of the greatest things ever made. I’ve been thinking about it all day. These are the real slides shown in a speech where Masayoshi Son said he wouldn’t retire for at least another decade. The goose stuff is truly demented. Bravo group.softbank/media/Projec...

Treating surveillance as an isolated privacy problem is the wrong frame, says UN Special Rapporteur Gina Romero, who argues digital monitoring is dismantling the trust, funding, and institutional memory that civil society depends on to function. www.techpolicy.press/the-quiet-er...

The Quiet Erosion of Collective Action Under Digital Surveillance

Digital surveillance is undermining privacy, trust and civic freedoms across 84 countries, writes United Nations Special Rapporteur Gina Romero.

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not all universities (UC Berkeley Law has a good policy) but this one is damn good

www.reuters.com/legal/litiga... that would be abso-fucking-lutely unacceptable @ec.europa.eu "enhancing product visuals for presentation purposes" = lying -expect to get sued for it p.s. "Retailers are already using AI widely to generate marketing images" we can tell, it looks like lazy-ass shit

AI-generated ads should be exempt from EU transparency rules, retail association says

Eurocommerce, the European retail association whose members include Amazon , H&M, Inditex, and Ikea, is ​asking EU tech chief Henna Virkkunen to exempt ‌AI-generated advertisements from the bloc's new...

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saw this x.com/IndusThink/s... looked up the person being interviewed (V. Anantha Nageswaran) turns out he wrote a book "The Rise of Finance: Causes, Consequences and Cures" thought it might be interesting found some of it: api.pageplace.de/preview/DT04... noticed a big issue while reading though

how I imagine investing for dividends it's not quite that simple (really should be a bunch of people reaching into some of each other's pockets) but should be accurate as a general principle it's just extracting of the same surplus that you (or others like you) have overpaid to make it possible