Music publishers including UMG, Warner Music, and Sony drop a copyright suit against Verizon following a SCOTUS decision limiting ISP liability in Cox's suit (Kyle Jahner/Bloomberg Law)
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/tech-and
Music publishers including UMG, Warner Music, and Sony drop a copyright suit against Verizon following a SCOTUS decision limiting ISP liability in Cox's suit (Kyle Jahner/Bloomberg Law)
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/tech-and
April 21, 2026 -- There is the unmistakable feeling that the wheels are coming off the MAGA bus. (Heather Cox Richardson/Letters from an American)
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/april-21-2026
http://www.memeorandum.com/260422/p50#a260422p50
Are you planning flying in the coming months? Consider train...
"The executive director of the International Energy Agency, said there would be flight cancellations “soon” if oil supplies from the Middle East were not restored within the coming weeks.
KLM, part of the Air France-KLM group, said on Thursday it would cut 160 flights in the coming month because of high kerosene jet fuel prices."
Ad buyers say ad rates for ChatGPT are falling from $60 CPM to as low as $25 and the minimum spend to advertise is down to $50K from $250K at launch (Krystal Scanlon/Digiday)
https://digiday.com/marketing/everything-is-coming-down-chatgpt-ads-are-gett…
The president of Glendale Community College was pelted with a chorus of furious boos
after an AI tool tasked with reading graduating students’ names completely flunked the assignment.
As local outlet AZFamily reported, students and families at the Phoenix-area school were left disoriented when the names being read over the ceremony’s loudspeakers failed to match those of the students actually walking across the stage.
The names displayed on the ceremony’s jumbotron were also…
Ad buyers say ad rates for ChatGPT are falling from $60 CPM to as low as $25 and the minimum spend to advertise is down to $50K from $250K at launch (Krystal Scanlon/Digiday)
https://digiday.com/marketing/everything-is-coming-down-chatgpt-ads-are-gett…
A rare daylight #fireball coming with a loud bang was seen and heard Tuesday morning over the U.S. and Ohio in particular: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHBjApk3d6w - see https://skyweek.wordpress.com/2026/03/12/allgemeines-live-blog-ab-dem-12-marz-2026/ for links to many more reports. And https://ares.jsc.nasa.gov/meteorite-falls/events/windfall-oh says: "Signatures of falling meteorites are seen in data from three weather radars [...] NASA Meteoroid Environment Office finds that this was a 2m diameter object weighing around 6 metric tons - more of a small asteroid than a large meteoroid. [...] There are meteorites on the ground around Windfall, OH towards River Styx, OH."
Am I the only one who finds the sombre, weighty talk of sportscasters talking about a sacked coach or a bemoaning a popular team failing to 'fire on all cylinders' weirdly incongruous coming immediately on the heels of similarly sombre media discussing current events where thousands are dying and world war three is emerging (i.e. actual, real stakes).
Sources: Ted Sarandos met with several heads of exhibition at CinemaCon in Las Vegas and discussed the possibility of putting more Netflix films into theaters (The Wrap)
https://www.thewrap.com/creative-content/movies/netflix-theaters-ted-sara…