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Paramount will absorb BET at the beginning of June, following Paramount's acquisition of Tyler Perry Studios' equity stake in BET (Nellie Andreeva/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2026/03/bet-plus-folded-paramount-plus-tyler-perry-1236752222/

BET+ To Be Folded Into Paramount+ As Tyler Perry’s Stake Is Acquired By Paramount
BET+ will be folded into Paramount+ after Paramount has acquired Tyler Perry's equity stake in the BET streamer. EXCLUSIVE

One of my VR Lighthouses died last month. These things are gyroscopically spinning 24 hours a day for, what, a decade now? Nearly.
No wonder. Mostly the industry seems to be settling on using head-mounted cameras rather than sweeping infra-red beams and receptors on the head anyway.
It is true that lighthouses give accurate positioning, but means I can't easily take the headset next door, say. Or to a party.
So inside-out, as they call it, is fine for the headset now and mostly okay for the hand-controllers.
But it offers no solution at all for the foot-trackers and hip-tracker that I need for puppetting the characters in the #vr #slimeVR #trackers

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The Trump administration has stepped up an effort to unmask a Reddit user who criticized Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
After failing to obtain information through a summons issued to Reddit,
the government reportedly issued a subpoena demanding that Reddit provide the information and appear before a grand jury in Washington, DC.
The Intercept described the subpoena today.
“According to a subpoena obtained by The Intercept, Reddit has until April 14 to pro…

Report: US demands Reddit unmask ICE critic, summons firm to grand jury
Trump admin reportedly gets grand jury involved in attempt to identify Redditor.

Imagine:
You are these parent of an adorable 4-year-old kid. They have made a toy airplane out of spare cardboard. Sadly, during play the wing has fallen off. You, a wise parent, produce a piece of duct tape and tape it back on. Your kid asks: "but what if the tape breaks, or the other wing falls off?" Dutifully, and with a completely serious manner, you duct tape the other wing, and then with a sharpie you write "Please DO NOT fall off!" on each wing. "There," you say, now the wings will not fall off. "
Your child happily returns to their play.
Imagine:
You are boarding a Boeing airplane for an intercontinental flight. Just the other day you were reading news about the emergency exit door falling off a Boeing airplane during flight. Thankfully nobody was injured in that incident, but a passenger could have been sucked out the gap and killed. As you walk down the aisle towards your seat at the back, you notice that around the emergency exit door of this plane, there are some scratch marks. It looks like it might not be 100% seated in place. You see several rolls worth of duct tape slapped onto the gaps between the door and the frame. In sharpie, someone has written "Please DO NOT fall off!" on the duct tape.
This is a post about #Agentic #AI.
To clarify: there are a host of reasons why using Claude Code is unethical in the first place, besides the fact that its a danger to its users. These make it unethical to use it even for a child's-toy-like application. But the source code we've just witnessed in the recent leak is *exactly* this level of "engineering." If you see an app that claims to be "programmed with AI" and it has any possibility of failing in a way that could harm you (for example, if it connects to the internet, meaning that poor programming could allow hackers to take over the device you run it on), my advice is: "Do not use it and warn your friends and family."
P.S. yes, this advice does apply to Microsoft Widows at this point, although that can be a tougher bullet to bite.

#CarlHeastie continues to be awful, but NYers maybe want to give his office a call to tell him to stop blocking the Stop Super Speeders bill. His office # is 518-455-3791, I just called and someone answered right away.
#StopSuperSpeeders

News articles complaining about the state of the navy, during a time of conflict, are like news articles that wait until heavy snow to complain about the lack of investment in snow plows.
The UK's previous government took a bet that they wouldn't actually need a full navy before the 2030s - hence the "frigate gap".

The Royal Navy’s frigate gap – how deep and how long will it last? - Navy Lookout
The RN is now in a position where ageing frigates are being decommissioned well before the replacements are available. There is little that can be done in the short term, but here we attempt to analyse if and when the situation might be recovered. Type 23s holding on Following our analysis of this issue last

Whilst the US is falling behind in the global #EV race, there is fortunately one place where dreams still come true: Disneyland is going 100% electric
(as part of a commitment to net zero by 2030)
https://w…

Disneyland begins testing electric Autopia ride vehicle prototypes
Disneyland is designing, engineering and testing a fully electric ride vehicle prototype.

President Trump says the GENIUS Act is being "threatened and undermined" by banks, following their opposition to stablecoin yield payouts (Nikhilesh De/CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2026/03/03/trump…

Trump urges passage of U.S. Clarity Act, attacks banks for 'undercutting' GENIUS
U.S. President Donald Trump said in a post on Truth Social that the banking industry is trying to undermine the stablecoin bill he signed into law last year.

Wow. Admittedly I still teach this, but didn't think remembering how to do long division would be all that difficult. This has got me curious. Do you remember how to do long division? (no answers from current students/teachers please) #poll boosts appreciated. Try 100÷4 if you want to try it out and see if it comes back to you