Steven Bartlett's FlightStory makes a "seven-figure" investment in Maggie Sellers Reum's Hot Smart Rich, whose podcast reached 1.8M downloads in its first year (Jesse Whittock/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/12/steven-ba
Urban Texture 🧩
城市质地 🧩
📷 Nikon F4E
🎞️ ERA 100, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite
NIVEL weekrapportage week 1.
Met een lichte toename van de griepachtige klachten.
En de kanttekening dat er nog een oud- en nieuw-huisartsen-sluitings-effect in de cijfers kan zitten.
We zitten in ieder geval nog ruim onder de epidemische grens. De griepepidemie lijkt vooralsnog niet eerder te beginnen dan vorig jaar.
#qp2t
Irked because my watch showed 7.5 km (not that I was looking at it desperately or anything…) 😉
An afternoon meeting prevented my running in daylight on the greenway, so I headed over to one of the high schools to use their track. (My favorite track at the middle school is still all torn apart for some sort of culvert work. 😤)
One end is all pine trees and the fragrant smell each lap was lovely.
4/1 minute run/walk intervals for 7.46 km in 57:43, average pace of 7:44/km.
An apparent disinformation campaign falsely identified Steve Grove, CEO/publisher of The Minnesota Star Tribune, as the ICE agent who shot a Minneapolis woman (David Gilbert/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/people-are-using-ai-to-f…
What is the GÉANT Emerging NREN Programme (ENP) really like?
During #TNC25, we spoke with 2025 participants and asked them to share their stories in their own words.
The video below captures what the programme is really about.
Hear from the ENP Programme Manager Luis Martin Flores, and participants Joy Otuya (KENET), Rajan Parajuli (NREN), Caroline Namuddu (RENU), and Isaac Ainamaa…
Reminder:
Degrowth UK plans to run a series of articles as a stock-take of degrowth and ecosocialism worldwide.
Details and how to submit:
https://degrowthuk.org/2026/01/21/call-for-articles-degrowth-and-ecosocialism-the-global-pict…
Source: Piers Morgan's YouTube-based venture Uncensored is raising £22.5M from The Raine Group, Theo Kyriakou, and others at a £97M pre-money valuation (Mark Kleinman/Sky News)
https://news.sky.com/story/piers-morgan-s-uncensored-nears-…
A district court judge denies Texas AG Ken Paxton's request for a restraining order preventing Samsung from collecting data on TV watchers (Ryan Autullo/Bloomberg Law)
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/tech-and-telecom-law/sa…
Sources: Paramount's Gulf sovereign funding, accounting for ~30% of the deal's value, and potential political scrutiny led WBD to reject Paramount's initial bid (Rohan Goswami/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/12/08/2025