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Netflix and Goalhanger agree to a new two-year deal to broadcast The Rest Is Football podcast through the next two Premier League seasons and the Euros in 2028 (Ned Holmes/Radio Times)
https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/sport/footb…

The Rest Is Football future on Netflix confirmed following FIFA World Cup 2026 coverage
It's good news for fans of Gary Lineker, Alan Shearer, and Micah Richards...

Smoke Gets In Your...Hole Where Your Soul Should Be
MAGA may have a set a new mark for belligerent stupidity
BILL MCKIBBEN
JUL 20
...wildfires, and hence smoke, will persist all summer, and since the hot world we’re creating produces ever more wildfire and hence an endless supply of future smoke, I think it’s worth taking a moment to get all this on the record.
Also, the flow of smoke down from Canada has produced a perfect MRI of the MAGA nervous system, reveali…

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So disappointing. I admired what this director has done previously, and this 40 second “trailer” is almost unwatchable. Not a single character is there; there is no there there.
https://xcancel.com/NeillBlomkamp/status/2079078300660769193#m

Neill Blomkamp (@NeillBlomkamp)
NIGHTBORNE is the first full test AI film I have made. It was made using Seedance 2.0. I've been experimenting with AI for a couple of years, and it's now at the point where I want to tackle a full feature in this format. This is a 13-minute test start. It was made with real concept artists, and features the faces and voices of 32 real people. Barley Studios will be my new AI studio for creating my own films, the way Oats Studios was for traditional film and VFX. @Barleystudiosai Full film…

In case you've not seen it, Scrapper is on the BBC iPlayer. It's fantastic film.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m002rwg7

Scrapper
Georgie, a dreamy 12-year-old girl, lives happily alone in her London flat, filling it with magic. When her estranged father turns up out of the blue, she is forced to confront reality.

Would you believe it:
a teacher and her students say their reading ability soared after banning tech in the classroom.
Maureen Mulvaney, an AP Literature and English teacher at Washburn High School in Minneapolis, started the low tech experiment last year after becoming frustrated with plagiarism, distracted students, and plunging literacy rates. 
And so, with the enthusiastic support of parents, she banned phones and laptops, requiring all coursework to be done with pencil a…

Student Reading Ability Spikes After Removing Tech From Class
Students reported feeling more confident about their reading ability after their teacher banned laptops and phones in the classroom.

Filings: Grubhub parent Wonder is raising hundreds of millions at a $9B valuation; source: founder Marc Lore indicated he'll contribute $200M to the round (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/marc-lores-wonder-t…

Marc Lore’s Wonder Ties $9 Billion-Valuation Fundraise to Future IPO
Wonder, the owner of GrubHub and Blue Apron, is lining up hundreds of millions of dollars, at a valuation of $9 billion, in what could be its last round before going public. To seal the deal, founder Marc Lore has been offering investors sweeteners—and putting his own money in the pot. The ...

I have some sketches of an essay that I need to write, but I think it's worth brain-dumping a bit more in the mean time.
#LLMs are an attempt to make tech grow forever. But like, how many "your mom/a friend, but done by a precarious worker instead" apps do we really need? Everything right now is in the AI grift hole, but there's almost nothing of interest (even if you ignore the ethical concerns). Like, no, I don't fucking want a robot to lie to me about my groceries. That doesn't sound like a useful feature. There's a lot of useless shit being pumped out to prop up the bottom line, and a lot of people just want to be able to use their old phone for more than a couple of years.
No one is happy with this. No one wants this. Except the billionaires who are forcing us all to drink the capitalism koolaid, because they'd rather exterminate life on earth than live in a world where they experience consequences.
Nothing grows forever. That's not how literally anything in reality works, or has ever worked, at all in history. Some people think that the universe itself may work like that, but that's only an educated guess. Finite things don't grow forever. Every organism, every society, every technology, every dynamic and adaptive system we have ever known goes through a growth phase and then goes in to a stabilization phase. Or, following a Malthusian pattern, grows until it reaches a catastrophic point and collapses. Like lemmings. Or reindeer. Or cancer.

“…most notable change is…shutdown of BET . Paramount Skydance announced…the standalone streaming service will cease operations in June 2026, &…library will be folded directly into Paramount . BET programming, including series, films & specials, will move to a BET section within Paramount .”
Can’t imagine why Ellisons would shut down BET , what could the reason B? Don’t wanna guess, I wanna get this white.

The Future of Paramount+: What Streamer Skydance Is Shutting Down
Paramount Skydance announced the closure of BET+.

Andi Tepelena, a prominent activist and art curator organizing the 2026 civic protests in Tirana, Albania
made these remarks to emphasize the deepening political crisis.
He stated that m
"the regime has activated an army of patronage Nazis to tarnish the protest,"
but added that this battle has been won by the citizens and their supporters.
Tepelena stressed that protesters are united around the demand for the removal of the government and a profound c…

"We have won the war with the patronageists who try to dirty us", Andi Tepelena on the protest: Parties must be re-formed, or they will end up in the dustbin of history
Following the protests taking place in the country, Andi Tepelena has stated that, in his opinion, the civic movement has managed to withstand the attempts to discredit it on social networks and by organized political structures. He stated that, “the regime has activated an army of patronage-fascists to tarnish the protest”, but added that this battle has been won […]