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Meta delays new commercial terms that critics say let it scrape publisher content to November 20, a day after the News/Media Alliance demanded their withdrawal (Sarah Fielding/Fast Company)
https://www.fastcompany.com/91628981/meta-

Meta quietly delays controversial update that critics say will allow website scraping
Following outrage from news publishers, the tech giant pushed back an update for business accounts by three weeks. It still plans to move forward with it.

Generative AI’s per-query footprint can be small compared to flying, eating meat, or even Zoom. Until agents show up and compute goes through the roof.
How I updated my AI footprint calculator accordingly https://jonippolito.substack.com/p/agents-are-where-ais-energy-bil…

In the latest episode of Quadcast, Hollywood cinema and religion scholar Dr. Richard Lindsay ’04 M.Div. discusses the films that form America’s imagination around the Bible.
https://divinity.yale.edu/news/2026-09-17-sil…

Oh, look: a vanity publisher behaving badly. And make no mistake. $6k flowing from the author to the publisher makes them a vanity house, even if they call it a "temporary loan."
https://writerbeware.blog/2026/10/16/author-complaints-at-starfish-b…

Author Complaints at Starfish Bay Publishing - Writer Beware
I first heard of Australian children’s publisher Starfish Bay Publishing (SBP) in 2024, thanks to a question from an author about the advisability of investing in SBP’s Author Supported Traditional Publishing Programme. Implemented, SBP’s website explained, because of “the severe effect the pandemic had on our publishing business”, this program–despite using the word traditional–required authorsRead More

#FlyingLess puts you in iconic #trains, like this Polish-German InterCity. That’s a decent way to end the #EAAST conference. Including, of course,
VEGAN CABBAGE!🥬

Haven’t heard this song in years. It really exemplifies the mid 90s culture as I experienced it. Still catchy as ever too. I got this song from a promo-CD from the label called “The Gigantic Recording Corporation Proudly Presents Volume II”.
For anyone feeling nostalgic.
#music #pop

Yes, important to note that the plot is entirely from a Confederate POV. It’s a throwaway plot — not as problematically soaked in Confederate Lost Cause nostalgia as, say, Gone With the Wind, merely an absurdity situated in Civil War Georgia — but it’s definitely one of those films you see for the filmmaking and not for the story. And it’s definitely one to skip if you’re not willing to compartmentalize that (which to be clear is a perfectly reasonable refusal to make).
https://mathstodon.xyz/@markgritter/117482290292862972

Hey all
We have a new retrofit demo to share:
https://retrofit.sh/demos/manually-test-schema-changes/
Imagine your team has been using retrofit for the past couple weeks and now every branch to be reviewed has a schema change that will require a migration in pr…

Halo Reach: flying around in space
I am, apparently, a little way through the game, and I restarted halfway through chapter 3.  The difference in gameplay from the first Halo is marked, with increased reliance on team members and communication, and a move to large scale set pieces rather than small-scale battles in corridors from one waypoint to the next.  The world feels a lot more empty and open, and you have a sense of partaking in a massive war rather than an…

Yes, important to note that the plot is entirely from a Confederate POV. It’s a throwaway plot — not as problematically soaked in Confederate Lost Cause nostalgia as, say, Gone With the Wind, merely an absurdity situated in Civil War Georgia — but it’s definitely one of those films you see for the filmmaking and not for the story. And it’s definitely one to skip if you’re not willing to compartmentalize that (which to be clear is a perfectly reasonable refusal to make).
https://mathstodon.xyz/@markgritter/117482290292862972