Google says it has stopped charging Canadian advertisers a 2.5% surcharge after Canada rescinded the DST following President Trump's threats (Pippa Norman/Globe and Mail)
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/arti…
Chinese game Revenge on Gold Diggers, one of the most popular and contentious video games in the country, sparks a debate over misogyny and male resentment (Li Yuan/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/17/busines
Have a beautiful Day of Aphrodite aka Venus' Day aka Frigg's Day aka Friday 🌹
"It is said, following the resentment of Aphrodite against Menelaos who had arranged the abduction of Helene: he had promised a hecatomb to Aphrodite as the price of the marriage, and didn't offer it."
Ptolemy Hephaestion, New History Book 4
🏛 Venus of Arles, Hymettus marble, Roman artwork, end of the 1st century BCE
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Filmmaker and artist Cauleen Smith on valuing community over status – #creativity and #community
BTW - If you're feeling stressed, this should help.
Thanks to @… for this helpful tip.
#CanadianBeaversAreAwesome
https://youtu.be/vNePhmCMnbU?si=mH6o5vcOQKZovG-n
sp_high_school_new: High school dynamic contacts (2011-2012)
These datasets contain the temporal network of contacts between students in a high school in Marseilles, France. The first dataset gives the contacts of the students of three classes during 4 days in Dec. 2011, and the second corresponds to the contacts of the students of 5 classes during 7 days (from a Monday to the Tuesday of the following week) in Nov. 2012.
This network has 180 nodes and 45047 edges.
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Filing: Skydance CEO David Ellison and FCC Chair Brendan Carr met on July 15 to discuss the Paramount merger and "Skydance's commitment to unbiased journalism" (Ted Johnson/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/07/david-ellison-fcc-skydance-pa…
Meta says it has taken down around 10M Facebook profiles so far this year that were impersonating or repeatedly reusing content from large content producers (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/14/following-youtu…
Meta says it has taken down around 10M Facebook profiles so far this year that were impersonating or repeatedly reusing content from large content producers (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/14/following-youtu…