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“Since the boycotts of ABC and Disney began, Disney has now lost millions of dollars in market cap. In addition, the company has lost hundreds of thousands, if not millions of paid subscriptions to its services.”
As it should. Iger earned this.
https://aaronparnas.substack.com/p/new

lkml_thread: Linux kernel mailing list
A bipartite network of contributions by users to threads on the Linux kernel mailing list. A left node is a person, and a right node is a thread, and each timestamped edge (i,j,t) denotes that user i contributed to thread j at time t. The date of the snapshot is not given.
This network has 379554 nodes and 1565683 edges.
Tags: Social, Communication, Unweighted, Timestamps

Unleashing the Potential of Multimodal LLMs for Zero-Shot Spatio-Temporal Video Grounding
Zaiquan Yang, Yuhao Liu, Gerhard Hancke, Rynson W. H. Lau
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.15178

Unleashing the Potential of Multimodal LLMs for Zero-Shot Spatio-Temporal Video Grounding
Spatio-temporal video grounding (STVG) aims at localizing the spatio-temporal tube of a video, as specified by the input text query. In this paper, we utilize multimodal large language models (MLLMs) to explore a zero-shot solution in STVG. We reveal two key insights about MLLMs: (1) MLLMs tend to dynamically assign special tokens, referred to as \textit{grounding tokens}, for grounding the text query; and (2) MLLMs often suffer from suboptimal grounding due to the inability to fully integrate …

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Continent
Abayomy Afrobeat Orquestra:
🎵 Malunguinho
#AbayomyAfrobeatOrquestra
https://alittlesomethingrecordings.bandcamp.com/track/malunguinho
https://open.spotify.com/track/0xqdZHy8OMlTRNhLTzchzP

How Tea’s Founder Convinced Millions of Women to Spill Their Secrets, Then Exposed Them to the World https://www.404media.co/how-teas-founder-convinced-millions-of-women-to-spill-their-secrets-then-exposed-them-to-the-worl…

I feel like this Masto post will be evidence in yet another claim against Air Canada for wrecking someone’s mobility aid.
https://mastodon.social/@mollyanglin/115228115467133057

Molly Anglin (@mollyanglin@mastodon.social)
Attached: 1 image Sitting on the tarmac for an Air Canada flight from Toronto to Ottawa… The ground crew spent 2 hrs trying to fit a wheelchair into the cargo. After a very long time, they took it off the plane - but appeared to have detached the battery and maybe broken it. 😱 There were maybe 7-10 people out there trying to fix it. I feel for the owner of that chair! #accessibility #aircanada

«A 404 Media investigation reveals how the man who started Tea, the ‘women dating safety’ app, tried to hire a female ‘face’ for the company and then hijack her grassroots community.»
What a depressing and disgusting longread about some of the ugliest sides of tech bros.
https://www.404media.co/how-teas-founder-convinced-millions-of-women-to-spill-their-secrets-then-exposed-them-to-the-world/

DPRK supplies Russia with millions of shells: the alliance of dictators grows stronger: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/17/dprk-supplies-russia-with-millions.html

NYC tech-scene sanguine about Mamdani
https://www.wired.com/story/tech…

Source: Pylon, which uses AI to automate B2B customer service, raised $31M led by a16z and Bain Capital at a valuation in the hundreds of millions of dollars (Stephanie Palazzolo/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/andreessen-…

Why Andreessen and Bain Backed a Self-Described ‘Zendesk Killer’
Automating customer service has been among the most popular applications of artificial intelligence models, and investors have pumped about $1 billion into six key startups developing them. Now, a seventh is throwing its hat into the ring.San Francisco-based startup Pylon has raised $31 million ...