And speaking of @… , send an email to their president robin.sparkman@propublica.org with text similar to the following:
Dear Robin Sparkman,
I am writing to you in solidarity with the ProPublica Guild. It is past time that you agree to a fair contract, complete with the protections these workers need to continue producing award-winning journalism…
Cowboys Get Update on Trey Hendrickson’s Decision Timeline https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/trey-hendrickson-update-decision-timeline/
WMG acquires independent music distributor Revelator, following Universal's Downtown acquisition, as the record industry focuses on serving independent artists (Jem Aswad/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/music/news/warner-music-acqu…
Following the fatal shootings of American citizens Renee Good and Alex Pretti by federal agents in Minneapolis last month,
Democrats have refused to support long-term funding for the Department of Homland Security unless Republicans agree to reforms on the tactics of federal agents carrying out Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown.
“The American people rightfully expect their elected representatives to take action to rein in ICE and ensure no more lives are lost,” Senate minorit…
Ich erinnere mich wieder, warum ich beim Skifahren immer die Skihütten gemieden habe und lieber gehungert habe.
Wie kann man so viele Classics und Hits der 80er und 90er so verhunzen? Die Musik kann doch keiner mögen, ausser man trinkt viel... Ooooh! Das ist ein Geschäftsmodell!!!
Filing: Chinese AI chipmaker Axera aims to raise up to ~$379.2M in a Hong Kong IPO, offering 104.9M shares at ~$3.61 each; trading expected to start February 10 (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific
Well. I’ve been accepted to my first conference!
This will sound strange to many academics out there, but working in the fine arts I don’t generally pay much attention to academic conferences—but having had a research semester last fall I was able to do a deep dive into the educational philosophy of practice-based filmmaking education and apparently the conference organisers agree that it’s interesting! I got an email this morning that my abstract was accepted.
Now I just need in…
RE: https://dair-community.social/@timnitGebru/116332667717903322
I really think that we _are_ starting to build those tools. I'm party to a lot of discussions about how to use these tools well, and a lot of that starts to look like systems design: what are controls? What are the feedback loops? Where do we need to add new frictions? Where do we need to eliminate old bottlenecks?
We are still very, _very_ early in this.
But the work is getting done, and a lot of us 'haters' need to get in the drivers seat and start putting up useful critique like mttaggart's. I don't agree with the entire article, but it's solid work and solid case report. It’s very good stuff. We need a lot more of these conversations.
And we need to let people hate it. Not to be confused with obstinate blocking, but to have the feelings of hating it, of disliking the processes it engenders, of finding those new footings — or rejecting the bad ones. We can't look at this clearly unless we have the space to hate it.
Disney says ESPN is valued at ~$30B and the NFL's 10% equity stake in ESPN valued at ~$3B; Disney has the right to buy back NFL's stake in 2034, per a filing (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business