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Backstage Collapsed: Universal Recording and the Architecture of Courtship
A panelist on a recent broadcast conversation made the following argument. Young people across the wealthy world are not having children. Before they do not have children, they do not date. Before they do not date, they do not interact at the dances, the parties, the mixers their parents and grandparents used as the primary infrastructure for finding mates. Even when they show up at such…

Backstage Collapsed: Universal Recording and the Architecture of Courtship | David Boles, Blogs
A panelist on a recent broadcast conversation made the following argument. Young people across the wealthy world are not having children. Before they do not have children, they do not date. Before …

TIL:
Brokkoli, Blumenkohl, Rosenkohl etc. schmecken vielen Leuten nicht, weil sie genetisch dazu veranlagt sind.
Das Gen TAS2R38 lässt diese Leute den Bitterstoff Phenylthiocarbamid stärker riechen/schmecken.
Phenylthiocarbamid ist im übrigen ein Gift mit LD50 3mg/kg bei Mäusen.
Meine Sinne haben also korrekt reagiert, mich vor Gift gewarnt, drum wollte ich diese Gemüse nicht essen.
ABER MIR WURDE ES IN DEN MUND GESTOPFT UND DIESER ZUGEHALTEN BIS ICH SCHLUCKTE!

FCC Chairman Brendan Carr ordered the accelerated renewals while investigating Disney’s diversity practices, yet critics argue the timing signals political retaliation following late-night host Jimmy Kimmel’s comments about First Lady Melania Trump. https://ground.news/article/abc-files-tv-station-renewals-to-fcc-under-protest-americans-bear-the-cost-of-this-order

SpaceX filing: X's ad revenue was $1.8B in 2025, $1.7B in 2024, and $2.3B in 2023, below Twitter's $4B in 2021; X and Grok now have 6.3M active paid subscribers (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/busine…

Elon Musk’s Grandiose Media Ambitions Are Now a Real Threat to Some Major Players
SpaceX's IPO filing reveals ad revenue for X is still below what it was when Musk acquired Twitter, but it is growing again. Meanwhile, Grok is producing 2 billion AI videos per month, while SpaceX's nascent connectivity business threatens the likes of Comcast and AT&T.

Two groups file a petition to deny FCC review of ABC's TV station licenses; they say they will seek revocations if stations restrict speech in trade for FCC OK (Matthew Keys/TheDesk.net)
https://thedesk.net/2026/06/frequency-forward-media-action…

Groups file formal petition to deny over FCC's probes into Disney, ABC
The filing makes the organizations formal parties to the proceeding, granting them standing to participate in the case and appeal future FCC decisions.

In the US supreme court,
it seems Trump has found loyalists in his crusade against immigration and immigrants.
In a pair of rulings on Thursday,
the court allowed the Trump administration to end humanitarian protections that have granted people from Haiti and Syria the right to live and work legally in the US for more than a decade,
and cleared way for the government to turn away asylum seekers at the US-Mexico border by physically blocking them from setting foot on U…

Trump finds partner in supreme court in his war against immigration
Recent rulings have bolstered president’s pitiless campaign against people of colour fleeing violence and disaster

Code that was working and passing all tests, untouched for weeks, now failing tests on the exact same computer, exact same checkout, exact same commit.
This is the bane of my existence. And no, Grand Theft Autocomplete will not fix this. (It will probably make it worse.)
#Programming #AI

Wenn Ihr Euch mal zwei Stunden richtig fremdschämen wollt, empfehle ich den grandios guten Dokumentarfilm "Meanwhile in Namibia" von Jonas Spriestersbach.
Filmkritik von @… hier:

MEANWHILE IN NAMIBIA von Jonas Spriestersbach | Sennhausers Filmblog
Es ist immer wieder erstaunlich, mit welcher Bereitwilligkeit sich viele Leute vor einer Kamera um Kopf und Kragen reden, ohne es zu merken. Der Altmeister solcher Sammeltätigkeiten ist der Österreicher Ulrich Seidl, aber mit seinem jüngsten Dokumentarfilm kann ihm der Hamburger Jonas Spriestersbach (Tiere, 2019) durchaus das Wasser reichen. Für seine «No Budget»-Produktion ist Spriestersbach nach

SpaceX filing: X's ad revenue was $1.8B in 2025, $1.7B in 2024, and $2.3B in 2023, below Twitter's $4B in 2021; X and Grok now have 6.3M active paid subscribers (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/busine…

Elon Musk’s Grandiose Media Ambitions Are Now a Real Threat to Some Major Players
SpaceX's IPO filing reveals ad revenue for X is still below what it was when Musk acquired Twitter, but it is growing again. Meanwhile, Grok is producing 2 billion AI videos per month, while SpaceX's nascent connectivity business threatens the likes of Comcast and AT&T.

Shares of quantum computing companies surged Thursday after the US government awarded grants and took equity stakes: D-Wave closed up 33%, Rigetti 30%, IBM 12% (Chloe Taylor/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/21/quantum-stocks--us-taking-equity-stakes.html…

Quantum stocks soar as U.S. reportedly plans $2 billion ‘award’ and taking equity stakes
Quantum computing shares popped in premarket trading following reports that the U.S. government will award grants to nine firms operating in the space.