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Melania Trump launches Muse Films, her new production company, ahead of the release of an Amazon MGM Studios feature documentary about her in January (Patrick Hipes/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/11/melania-trump-production-company-documentary-12366…

Melania Trump Launches Production Company As Her Documentary Release Date Nears
First Lady Melania Trump said she has launched a production company, Muse Films, ahead of the release of an Amazon MGM Studios documentary about her.

Here’s the lightning sketch of Paul’s Treatise Against Efficiency that I’ve never written:
1. Efficiency is asymptotically inefficient: as costs approach zero, the cost of further reducing them approaches infinity.
2. Efficiency prioritizes the measurable over the difficult-to-measure.
3. Efficiency prioritizes what those in power see (or imagine) over on-the-ground reality.
4. Following from 2 and 3, efficiency reduces the amount and quality of information flowing into a human system.
5. Efficiency foments institutional inflexibility.
6. By removing slack, efficiency causes small failures to cascade more readily and increases the risk of catastrophic failure.
7. Following rom 4, 5, and 6, efficiency trades small costs for massive risks: from failures, from missed opportunities, and from inability to adjust.
8. Efficiency, when pushed, strangles the emergent phenomena that in the long term create all new things of value.
9. Thus, although it can be a by-product of evolution, efficiency as a goal in itself strangles evolution.
10. Efficiency as a goal strangles joy.

https://apnews.com/article/croatia-protest-far-right-surge-4f76f067fef8ea56f682c79bb5fae61d

Hi, it’s Al Franken.
I don’t usually send messages like this, so I’m hoping you’ll read to the end for a GREAT story. 
Before that, though, I want to tell you about Peggy Flanagan.
She is unbelievably great and she’s running to keep Minnesota’s Senate seat blue. 
Her end-of-month fundraising deadline is tonight so I’ll get to the point: Please donate now. 

Peggy Flanagan for Minnesota | Democrat for U.S. Senate
Lt. Governor Peggy Flanagan's ready to take our Minnesota values to D.C. — to fight to rebuild the middle class, protect our rights, and hold the extremist billionaires trying to run off with our country accountable. If elected, she’ll be the first Native American woman to ever serve in the U.S. Senate. Will you join us in this Minnesotan-powered campaign?

Romania to develop joint drone production with Ukraine to protect NATO's eastern flank, Romanian FM says: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/01/romania-to-develop-joint-drone.html

UMG and Stability AI announce a partnership to develop music creation tools powered by "responsibly" trained AI (Marc Schneider/Billboard)
https://www.billboard.com/pro/umg-stability-ai-partnership-develop-music-creation-tools/

UMG Partners With Stability AI to Develop Music Creation Tools for Artists, Producers
Following its Udio settlement, UMG teams up with Stability AI to build responsibly trained AI tools that empower artists and protect copyrights.

The Dutch Data Protection Authority, the national privacy watchdog, told Het Financieele Dagblad that it has counted dozens of such AI-related data breach reports so far this year.
https://nltimes.nl/2025/12/30/dutch-privacy-watchdog-warns-rising-ai-ch…

Dutch privacy watchdog warns of rising AI chatbot data leaks
The number of reported data breaches linked to workplace use of AI chatbots such as ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini is rising sharply in the Netherlands, according to the Dutch Data Protection Authority, following a recent leak involving the municipality of Eindhoven.

I distributed a few hundreds of my stickers ISO8601ultras, "We do not test on animals, we test in production" and "Nett hier. Aber waren Sie schon mal in Ankh-Morpork?" in almost all sticker boxes around #39C3 this morning.
If you still don't find one, write to me, we can meet between talks.

The leading vaccine regulator at the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has announced a far stricter course for federal vaccine approvals,
following claims from his team that Covid vaccines were linked to the deaths of at least 10 children.
Experts suggest the announcement will make the vaccine approval process significantly more difficult.
Dr Vinay Prasad, whose vaccine policy direction has been supported by the US health secretary, Robert F Kennedy Jr, told FDA staff that…

Filing: China's top DRAM maker CXMT plans to raise $4.2B in a Shanghai IPO; CXMT held a 4% global share in Q2 2025 and targets HBM production by the end of 2026 (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/ch…