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The Yomiuri Shimbun, Japan's largest newspaper by circulation, sues Perplexity, alleging unauthorized reproduction of its articles, and seeks $14.7M in damages (Andrew Deck/Nieman Lab)
https://www.niemanlab.org/2025/08/japans-l

Japan’s largest newspaper, Yomiuri Shimbun, sues AI startup Perplexity for copyright violations
The Yomiuri Shimbun, Japan’s largest newspaper by circulation, has sued the generative AI startup Perplexity for copyright infringement. The lawsuit, filed in Tokyo District Court on August 7, marks the first copyright challenge by a major Japanese news publisher against an AI company. The fil…

I just had a video conversation on Signal with Nouran (@…) and her brother Yousef from Gaza.
Their family is one of countless ones in Palestine who are still alive but unsure of what tomorrow is going to bring. Last night was especially tough with Israel’s renewed bombing. Yousef told me that at least they are still in their own home and that …

Urgent help for Ahmed's family
"I’m tired, Mama. I’m thinking of the hours that I'll spend tomorrow in the water line." – says 9 year old Ahmed to his mother before going to sleep.

Västeuropas största kärnkraftsverk stoppas pga ”massiv och oförutsägbar” mängd maneter i kylvattnet.
https://www.dn.se/direkt/2025-08-11/maneter-stoppar-vasteuropas-storsta-karnkraftverk/

DN Direkt - Maneter stoppar Västeuropas största kärnkraftverk
Västeuropas största kärnkraftsverk – i Gravelines i norra Frankrike – har tvingats stoppa elproduktionen sedan man påträffat en ”massiv och…

Übersetzungsproblem: Masse an abgehörtem Material überfordert den BND
BND-Abhörstationen schneiden täglich viele Gespräche mit, fangen Mails & Co. ein. Doch der Einsatz einiger KI-Übersetzer ist untersagt, die Auswertung leidet.

Hub survey: 42% of Americans say they were more likely to keep subscribing to a streaming bundle over an individual app; only 14% say they were less likely (Matthew Keys/TheDesk.net)
https://thedesk.net/2025/08/hub-streaming-bundles-june-2025-survey/

Hub: Streaming bundles make consumers stick around
Consumers are more likely to keep a streaming subscription when they are able to pair it with other services through a bundle.

The article linked here by @… is beautifully written. Another one to add to my collection of “I wish I could write like this”.
The substance is just as good.
https://mastodon.social/@cl…

The Quiet Technocrat Who Enacts Putin’s Ruthless Agenda.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/10/world/europe/putin-russia-ukraine-war-sergei-kiriyenko.html?unlocked_article_…

The Russian Technocrat Who Helps Enable Putin and Manage the Ukraine War
For three years, Sergei V. Kiriyenko has handled the political aspects of the war in Ukraine, rising among a cadre of skilled managers who oversee the sprawling Russian state.

Fairfax County expands its bikeshare network to 94 stations, with more to come. While Montgomery County has been shrinking its 77-station network, despite having urbanized areas more conducive to bikeshare use than anywhere in Fairfax. https://www.ffxnow.com/2025/08/08/capit…

Capital Bikeshare expands to Herndon area, Huntington Metro station | FFXnow

Wonder if I can get Mechahitler to mount these shelves for me

AGI is “not a super useful term”? But IIRC, as defined by OpenAI, they’ll hit AGI when they generate $100 billion in profit. So, how’s that coming along? Not so great, huh?
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/11/sam-altman-says-agi-is-a-pointless-term-expe…

A bigger bed means more bed room but less bedroom :neocat_floof_explode:

this looks pretty bad for Phil Ginsburg tbh
https://missionlocal.org/2025/08/phil-ginsburg-parks-alliance-drew-becher-crane-cove-port-of-s-f/

One call could’ve saved S.F. millions. Nobody picked up the phone.
Rec and Park GM Phil Ginsburg knew his nonprofit ally the Parks Alliance was in trouble, and kept quiet. Whose interests was he serving?

Russian attacks kill 4, injure 18 in Ukraine over past day, hit energy grid: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/11/russian-attacks-kill-injure-in.html

‼️Die #Petition
"Unbeschränkte Steuerpflicht für deutsche Staatsangehörige mit Wohnsitz im Ausland vom 06.08.2025"
hat bisher 145 Mitzeichnungen.
Es fehlen noch 29855 Unterschriften bis zum 23.10.2025.

Lecciones del ‘caso Rosalía’: ¿tienen que hablar o callarse los artistas sobre la guerra en Gaza?
https://elpais.com/cultura/2025-08-10/lecciones-del-caso-rosalia-tienen-que-hablar-o-callarse-los-artistas…

Eine Freund:in von mir hat grad das größte Erwachen von Klassenbewusstsein jemals: sie arbeitet in einer Bar und die Arbeitgeber:innen stehen immer im Hinterzimmer am Handy auf irgendeiner Aktienseite um das Geld was die Arbeitenden an der Bar verdienen in irgendwas zu investieren.

I went down a rabbit hole trying to understand some health issues, and I ended up with an idea for a study that involves Espresso and heart disease risks that would be relatively easy to perform and could help make more informed health decisions. My journey (and this is only one tiny aspect, I've been thinking about this a lot) started a bit more than a year ago when I got a blood test as part of a health checkup that contained some concerning values, notably high glucose and high LDL. 🧵…

It's hard not to conclude the current US government hates Denmark right now...
Ørsted shares sink on $9bn fundraising plan to shore up Trump-hit wind project - https://on.ft.com/412NPYE via @FT

For nearly 40 years
the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program,
a special federal court system,
has compensated Americans who prove they were harmed by vaccines while also protecting the manufacturers from litigation.
Now Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. plans to overhaul the program, saying he will make it more efficient and speedier for Americans seeking payment.
He said in a social media post last month that the vaccine court had “devolved into a morass of i…

Kennedy’s Next Target: the Federal Vaccine Court
The system for compensating people injured by vaccines needs significant reform. But the health secretary could alter it in ways that ultimately reduce vaccine access for everyone.

PVC cement is kinda scary and I am not completely convinced I need to use it. lol
None of this pipe is going to be completely inaccessible, and I may need to adjust things down the line... all the joints are within the wet zone of the holes so no water lost if there are any small leaks.
started early this morning so I could get at leaat something done before the oppressive heat sets in.
I need to go to the store rn to pick up fittings.
#poolpond #bacyardproject #diy

Tipp: Trackpad beim MacBook abschalten
Wenn das im Mac eingebaute Zeigegerät versagt, kann man es auch deaktivieren. So gehen Sie vor.
https://www.heise.de/ratgeber/Tipp-Trackpa

How to report setlists to PROs after shows and why you should
#MusicianTips #LiveMusic

How to report setlists to PROs after shows and why you should
Learn how to report setlists to PROs and maximize your earnings as a musician in the complex world of music rights.

Trump will send National Guard into Washington (Paul McLeary/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/08/11/trump-national-guard-washington-00502705
http://www.memeorandum.com/250811/p43#a250811p43

from my link log —
Explicit refinement types.
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3607837
saved 2025-08-04 https://dotat.at/:/4F…

Instant goosebumps on each listen:
Antonio Ruscito - Alodrone (original, no beats, 2020)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtRGiE-DnXM
Another version in this stunning 1h45m joint performance with Luigi Tozzi (timestamped link):

Einerseits ist da diese Begeisterung möglichst viele Menschen mit sich in den Abgrund zu reißen und sicherlich sind da auch Leute, die gerne dabei zuschauen, wie sich andere herunterstürzen. Andererseits sind da Vertrauensverluste durch Intransparenz, sei es nur durch Filz in Politik und Regierung oder Wirtschaft.
Aber Kampagnen, die empfehlen sich in der Sonne zu verbrennen und Krebs im eigenen Körper zu fördern... Aber Hauptsache es brennt!

The anti-sunscreen movement and what to know about its claims
A growing anti-sunscreen movement on social media is causing concern among dermatologists, who warn that avoiding sunscreen increases long-term health risks.

The person who accepts lies for strategic reasons loses the facts as weapons. In the world the liar creates, the liar wins every battle. The only remedy against alternative truths is the truth.
Dutch author Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer, on Von der Leyen's "trade deal" with Trump.

Mijn essay in De Morgen van dit weekend: | Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer | 51 comments
Mijn essay in De Morgen van dit weekend: De vernedering van Ursula von der Leyen | Gedeeld artikel van De Morgen https://lnkd.in/dhdwsNMV | 51 comments on LinkedIn

"AI Summaries" have infested #ScienceDirect now with their inaccurate but confidently-formulated statements... Fortunately some people are fighting back, like @… who emailed them about it:

Wir haben Perseiden beobachtet. Das war schön. Als ich mich an einem Foto versucht habe, ist ein Auto durchgefahren.

It's been years since I've bought anything from them (so yes I've contributed to the problem) but eBuyer used to be my go-to supplier of computer equipment. Looks like they've fallen on hard times & been bought out by Mike Ashley's Fraser Group, likely to become an online retailer of general stuff.
#eBuyer #eBuyerUK #FraserGroup
https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/12/uk_tech_retailer_ebuyer_heads/

Witzig, die Beteiligung hält sich sehr stabil bei 88 - 10 - 2 Prozent.
Jetzt ist dann vor allem die Gesamtzahl interessant, die grob anzeigt, wieviele nicht mehr da sind.
https://systemli.social/@anneroth/115354654641302880

looool eric fuckin' adams
https://patch.com/new-york/washington-heights-inwood/s/jjc29/mamdani-leading-nyc-mayor-race-by-nearly-20-points-new-poll-finds?

Junge Erwachsene in einer normalen Kirchengemeinde? Ja, die gibt es. Wir haben jetzt sogar eine Landingpage für unsere Angebote: https://www.kemnat-evangelisch.de/angebote/gruppen-kreise/junge-erwachsene

"One good thing about acting in film is that it's good therapy."
-Denzel Washington
#acting #coaching #inspiration

Don't miss today's Metacurity for ongoing reports from hacker summer camp and all the other critical infosec developments you should know, including
--US feds clawed back $1 million from BlackSuit and Royal gangs,
--US seeks to recoup $1m from DPRK hackers,
--US charges four Ghanian nationals for romance scams and BECs,
--Personal data of 500K cervical cancer victims stolen,
--FCC issues new rules for subsea data cable security,
--Erlang/OTP vulnerab…

US feds clawed back $1 million from BlackSuit and Royal gangs
US seeks to recoup $1m from DPRK hackers, US charges four Ghanian nationals for romance scams and BECs, Personal data of 500K cervical cancer victims stolen, FCC issues new rules for subsea data cable security, Erlang/OTP vulnerability exploited in the wild against OT networks, much more

Cafe life.
(At Vancouver’s Purebread, which is a fine bakery.)
#Photography

I saw a shooting star 🌠 last night.
There may be even more today, keep your eyes open! 🤩
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/aug/12/stargazers-prepare-for-meteor-shower-of-the-year-as-the-perseids-peak

I continue to be amazed that anyone uses Amazon AWS, or Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud Services. Only someone who's very happy to completely lock their business into a 3rd party proprietary stack they don't control, and loves paying 20x (2000%!) more than reasonable commodity infrastructure rates would do so. I'm amazed that these businesses are even viable. Just goes to show how much flab most corporations have. They're ripe for disruption and displacement.

Match is settling with the FTC for $14M and a number of changes like making it easy to cancel subs, after the FTC sued in 2019 over false advertising and more (Lauren Forristal/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/12/matc

Match to pay $14M to the FTC due to false advertising and other deceptive practices | TechCrunch
Match Group agrees to pay the FTC $14 million after it was sued for deceiving users into buying subscriptions.

"Civilization 7": Take-Two hofft nach schwachem Launch auf Aufholjagd
"Civilization 7" wird auf Steam weniger gespielt als die Vorgänger – eine bittere Statistik für Publisher Take-Two. Der CEO zeigt sich dennoch optimistisch.

The Associated Press plans to end its weekly book reviews, beginning September 1, citing low audience engagement, but will continue to cover books as stories (Dan Kennedy/Media Nation)
https://dankennedy.net/2025/08/08/the-associa…

The Associated Press tells its book critics that it’s ending weekly reviews
Terrible news from The Associated Press. Media Nation correspondent J.A. passes along this note from Anthony McCartney, the AP’s global entertainment and lifestyle editor. AP to end its weekl…

Latuff never misses:

It’s always “AI is great for generating boilerplate code” and never “why do we even need boilerplate code, maybe programming is broken”

Someone has the undivided attention of all 4 cats

there's still kindness in San Francisco
https://missionlocal.org/2025/08/a-couple-of-hours-at-the-mission-district-soup-kitchen-that-almost-didnt-open/

A couple of hours at the Mission District soup kitchen that almost didn’t open 
The soup kitchen serves freshly cooked meals three times a week for up to 150 people. Visitors say the meals are a blessing.

This article is a good example of why I’m fed up with the “if used responsibly” argument:
https://thejournal.com/articles/2025/08/07/the-brain-drain-how-overreliance-on-ai-may-erode-creativity-and-critical-thin…

Clas är som Mulder och Scully i en och samma person, och jag har haft turen att ha honom som kollega i många år. Glad att (ännu) fler nu får lyssna till honom. https://www.sverigesradio.se/avsnitt/clas-svahn-sommarpratare-2025

Clas Svahn
Journalisten och UFO-experten om en märklig och oförklarlig händelse i Järfälla 1995.

Speak softly but carry a big stick....🎁
Europe builds for war as arms factories expand at triple speed - https://on.ft.com/46OaLyx via @FT

@… Merhaba, Aseel.
@… and I would love to have a quick video chat with you on Signal Messenger so that we can add your account to ‪

Gaza Verified
I’ve personally had video conversations on Signal with the people from Gaza whose Mastodon accounts on the fediverse are listed here and I verify that their accounts are genuine. – Aral Balkan

Historic preservation is bad for affordability #296903.
Parking lot preserved as historic landmark (yes, this is not the Onion) in Cleveland Park, DC raises price to $26 for parking less than one hour -- even less than 15 minutes. https://www.popville.com/2025/08/cleveland

“Anyone else experience the new parking scheme at Sam’s Park n’ Ride?” - PoPville
"Dear PoPville, I wanted to write to you to see if anyone else has experienced the new parking scheme at Sam's Park n' Ride in Cleveland Park. I went to pull into the lot the other day, and it said "just pull through" with no ticket to pull. I did so, and it looks like

heise | Praktische Mac-Tools: 16 Werkzeuge für ein besseres macOS
Erweitern Sie den Funktionsumfang Ihres Macs und bewältigen Routineaufgaben effizienter: 16 besondere Tools abseits der üblichen Empfehlungen.

Judge rejects unsealing Ghislaine Maxwell grand jury transcripts (Dan Mangan/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/11/jeffrey-epstein-ghislaine-maxwell-trump-grand-jury.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250811/p42#a250811p42

Before the Large Hadron Collider,
the same 27 km tunnel housed
LEP: the Large electron-positron collider.
In the early 2000s, the infrastructure for the Large Electron Positron collider was removed and replaced with new infrastructure for the Large Hadron Collider: the currently-running LHC.
After the LHC is retired, going back to colliding electrons and positrons in the same tunnel is an option that should be explored for building a Higgs factory:
not for its …

The fastest, cheapest particle physics path to a Higgs factory
A next-generation collider is required for studying particle physics at the frontiers. Here's the fastest, cheapest way to get it done.

Die #EU plant, ihre #Emissionen bis 2040 um 90 % gegenüber 1990 zu senken.
Der Vorschlag umfasst flexible Instrumente wie #CO2-Entfernung und den internationalen

Kann die EU Klimaschutz vorantreiben und dabei wettbewerbsfähig bleiben?
Der jüngste Vorschlag der Europäischen Kommission, die Emissionen bis 2040 um 90 % gegenüber dem Stand von 1990 zu reduzieren, wird von europäischen Gesetzgebern, Mitgliedstaaten und Umweltschützern gleichermaßen kritisiert. #EuDecoded

Diving into the rabbithole of multi/hybrid cloud environments with regard to encryption, key-management, certificates, IAM etcetera. Big fun 😀
Always looking for recent and relevant literature on this subject.
#cloud #iam

“If ‘state capitalism’ were proposed by Democrats or progressives, it would be considered socialism or communism. Done by a neofascist president — as chronicled by the The Wall Street Journal — it’s simply considered inefficient (as the Journal concludes).” - @…

Trump’s “State Capitalism”
It would be communism under any other dictator

OMG, Tesla deactivated a Cyber Truck when it was in motion on a highway.
https://old.reddit.com/r/CyberStuck/comments/1mmbq9w/lets_go_ahead_and_deactivate_here_looks_like_a/

Noch einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Digitale Verwaltung: Deutschland im EU-Vergleich weiterhin abgehängt
…

Sea reports Q2 revenue up 38% YoY to $5.26B, vs. $5B est., a $414M net income, vs. $444M est., Shopee revenue up 34% YoY to $3.8B, driven by commissions and ads (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-08-12/s…

Source: Fox and ESPN plan to launch a bundle of their upcoming streaming services, Fox One and ESPN, on October 2 for $39.99 per month (Dade Hayes/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/08/fox-one-espn-bundle-streaming-sports-1236483398/

ESPN And Fox Will Bundle Their Soon-To-Launch Streaming Services
In the latest streaming milestone, ESPN and Fox are forming a bundle of their soon-to-launch services.

I always assumed “sando” was bro-speak for sandwich.

Really enjoying mood.camera for iPhone, the film emulation is fun and I really hate the normal “computational photography” that Apple does which makes photos look terrible.

I adopted a cat that used to live with a blacksmith, but the first thing she did when we got home was make a bolt for the door.

So, Altman’s superintelligence will allegedly do away with millions of jobs, but don’t worry kids, after graduating you “could be leaving on some kind of mission to explore the solar system on a spaceship.”
“Some kind of a mission,” huh? That’s a nice way of saying that he’ll shoot useless people into space.
This level of stupidity and arrogance is sickening.

The A.O.C. Deepfake Was Terrible. The Proposed Solution Is Delusional. (Zeynep Tufekci/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/11/opinion/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-deepfake-ai.html?unlocked_article_code=1.dU8.c_eL.5W-UVl551e0G&smid=url-share
http://www.memeorandum.com/250811/p40#a250811p40

Zum 75. von Steve Wozniak: Kurzer Höhenflug, ein Absturz, aber immer obenauf
Steve Wozniak baute die ersten beiden Apple-Computer. Obwohl er sich bereits Mitte der 1980er-Jahre zurückzog, steht Woz bis heute auf Apples Gehaltsliste.

Calls coming in are reports of homeless encampments, mental health crises and people sleeping on sidewalks.
Those calls will now be directed to Los Angeles County’s Emergency Centralized Response Center,
a new department designed to consolidate over 150 outreach teams across 88 cities, all under one roof.
The department soft-launched in January of this year following a motion that was introduced by LA County Supervisor Lindsey Horvath back in September 2024
Officials…

A look inside LA County's new emergency dispatch center for homelessness
The department hopes to increase accountability and deliver results

Don't miss today's Metacurity for the critical infosec developments you might have missed over the weekend, including
--Embargo may be a rebranded version of ALPHV ransomware group,
--Russian threat group GreedyBear is stealing crypto,
--Israel beat Iran in the brief war's cyber conflicts,
--M&S resumes click and collect orders,
--GPT-5 was a disaster and easy to hack,
--Hacker breached dealership portal and could hack customers' cars,

New Embargo group may be a rebranded version of ALPHV ransomware gang
Russian threat group GreedyBear is stealing crypto, Israel beat Iran in the brief war's cyber conflicts, M&S resumes click and collect orders, GPT-5 was a disaster and easy to hack, Hacker breached dealership portal and could hack customers' cars, Korea's Yes24 ransomwared again, much more

‼️Die #Petition
"Vorsätzliche Verbreitung medizinischer Desinformation unter Strafe stellen vom 15.08.2025"
hat bisher 160 Mitzeichnungen.
Es fehlen noch 29840 Unterschriften bis zum 23.10.2025.

Gazajournalisterna bevittnade kollegornas död: ”Israel vill att vi ska tystas”. Av Saeed Alnahhal. https://www.dn.se/varlden/gazajournalisterna-bevittnade-kollegornas-dod-israel-vill-att-vi-ska-tystas/

Journalister om kollegornas död: ”Israel vill att vi tystas”
Flera journalister miste livet i en israelisk attack. Deras kollegor ser händelsen som ett försök att tysta röster som bär vittnesmål om kriget.

Sling TV debuts shorter-term packages aimed at sports fans: a day pass for $4.99, a weekend pass for $9.99, and a week pass for $14.99 (Austin Karp/Sports Business Journal)
https://www.sportsbusinessjournal.com/Articles/2025/08/12/s…

Sling TV offering new products ahead of football
Dish-owned Sling TV will begin offering day, weekend and weeklong passes for fans to dip in and potentially dip out of the service. A day pass for Sling TV, which is a first-of-its-kind for a vMVPD, will run fans $4.99 for a 24-hour window. Weekend passes go for $9.99 and weeklong passes for $14.99.

Next year I need to align our family vacation with the late stage of the iOS beta cycle.

Deutsch-österreichischer Angriff auf Metas Geschäftsmodell
5.000 Euro für jeden deutschen Facebook- oder Instagram Nutzer fordert eine neue Verbandsklage gegen die Meta Business Tools. Doppelt so viel für Kinder.

The EU Commission approves Prosus' €4.1B takeover of Just Eat Takeaway in a bid to create a "European tech champion" to rival DoorDash, which acquired Deliveroo (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/d0e4f0d1-a0e1-4f4d-9bb1-adff0a357768

‼️Die #Petition
"Überweisung von Vermögenswirksamen Leistungen durch die Bundesagentur für Arbeit vom 10.08.2025"
hat bisher 42 Mitzeichnungen.
Es fehlen noch 29958 Unterschriften bis zum 15.10.2025.

Bone 🦴
Btwo 🦴🦴

Kennedy's Next Target: the Federal Vaccine Court (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/11/health/kennedy-vaccine-court.html?unlocked_article_code=1.dU8.Xnht.8w4PLtR2ioXG&smid=url-share
http://www.memeorandum.com/250811/p38#a250811p38

Tankeväckande text av Martin Gustafsson på DN Kultur. https://www.dn.se/kultur/martin-gustafsson-vi-har-sprungit-rakt-i-den-terrorns-falla-hamas-gillrade-for-oss/

Martin Gustafsson om Gaza och terrorismens cyniska logik
Kollapsen inför Gaza är moralisk men den visar också på en svaghet i tanken. Vi har målat in oss i just det hörn där Hamas vill ha oss.

Big Bang KI-Festival: "Machen ist wie wollen, nur krasser"
Das Big-Bang-KI-Festival enthielt neben Weckrufen auch Diskussionen über Risiken von KI und Beiträge zur Drogen- und Mediensucht. Die ePA kassierte Lacher.

Paramount acquires the US rights to UFC for $7.7B over seven years, beginning in 2026, making all 43 annual live events available exclusively on Paramount (Alex Sherman/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/11/paramount-buys-ufc-rights-skydance-merger.html…

Paramount buys UFC rights in $7.7 billion, 7-year deal in first major move post-Skydance merger
The Paramount deal will eliminate the pay-per-view model used by ESPN in its current UFC deal, making all events available for no extra charge on Paramount+.

Anthropic plans to offer Claude to US lawmakers for $1 per year, following OpenAI; a source says Google is in talks to offer Gemini on similarly cheap terms (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/1a141c0c-f2b5-45de-a4d7-ed45eb37c0e1

Having some apps now liquid ass and some using the old design—the old design is much clearer and much less intrusive and much more “leave the content alone”

I hope Apple updates FinalCut Pro and LogicPro with Liquid Glass so I can figure out what to do for some tricky UI bits.

When I was little, my family hired a dogsitter to feed my dog while the family was out of town. They forgot to, so my dog survived on corn & veggies in the garden.
I learned from her, so I embraced the corny early on...

Disinformation and the Dropping of the Atomic Bombs (Victor Davis Hanson/American Greatness)
https://amgreatness.com/2025/08/11/disinformation-and-the-dropping-of-the-atomic-bombs/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250811/p29#a250811p29

Massgripanden väcker frågor om Storbritanniens ansvar i #Gaza https://www.dn.se/varlden/erik-de-la-reguera-massgripanden-vacker-fragor-om-storbritan…

Erik de la Reguera: Att så många grips är en del i budskapet
Erik de la Reguera: Att så många grips i en brittisk civil olydnadsprotest mot terrorstämplingen av Palestine Action är en del i budskapet

Katie Miller, a former top aide to Trump and Musk and the wife of Stephen Miller, aims to attract conservative women with her new podcast, which debuted Monday (Tatum Hunter/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/08/12/ka…

Top aide to Trump and Musk seeks even greater influence as a podcaster
Katie Miller, who most recently worked for Elon Musk, says the right-wing podcast sphere is dominated by men. She wants a slice of the pie.

@… tbh Fox stuff was better before Microsoft bought them. You could create stunning screens!

Dem Governor Nails Trump On Redistricting: He Cheats On Wives, Golf, And Voting (David Edwards/Crooks and Liars)
https://crooksandliars.com/2025/08/dem-governor-nails-trump-redistricting-he
http://www.memeorandum.com/250811/p33#a250811p33

Nonprofit news outlet Spotlight PA teams up with Nexstar in Pennsylvania to widen the reach of Spotlight PA's reporting, funded by a $500K Press Forward grant (Sophie Culpepper/Nieman Lab)
https://www.niemanlab.org/2025/08/can-nonp

Can nonprofit news mix with local TV? A Pennsylvania partnership aims to find out
“This is a nut that no one else in the country has cracked — how to translate what nonprofit newsrooms are doing for commercial TV.”

The Washington Post names Sara Kehaulani Goo president of the Creator Network, the newest version of its "third newsroom", independent of the editorial newsroom (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/pr/2025/08/12/sara-keha…

Sara Kehaulani Goo named President of the Creator Network

Trump Administration Live Updates: President to Deploy National Guard in Washington, D.C. (Eric Schmitt/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/08/11/us/trump-news
http://www.memeorandum.com/250811/p30#a250811p30

The Yomiuri Shimbun, Japan's largest newspaper by circulation, sues Perplexity, alleging unauthorized reproduction of its articles, and seeks $14.7M in damages (Andrew Deck/Nieman Lab)
https://www.niemanlab.org/2025/08/japans-l

Japan’s largest newspaper, Yomiuri Shimbun, sues AI startup Perplexity for copyright violations
The Yomiuri Shimbun, Japan’s largest newspaper by circulation, has sued the generative AI startup Perplexity for copyright infringement. The lawsuit, filed in Tokyo District Court on August 7, marks the first copyright challenge by a major Japanese news publisher against an AI company. The fil…

Memo: Crunchyroll is undergoing layoffs as part of a restructuring to shift resources toward high-growth markets outside the US, like India, Brazil, and Mexico (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/crunchyroll-layoffs-restructur…

Crunchyroll Layoffs: Anime Service Restructures for International Growth
Sony's Crunchyroll is laying off a number of employees as part of a restructuring to shift resources toward higher-growth markets outside the U.S.

iHeartMedia hires ex-Amazon exec Lisa Coffey in the newly created role of chief business officer, overseeing iHeart's new ad products and digitization efforts (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/digital/news/iheartmedia-…

iHeartMedia Hires Amazon Alum Lisa Coffey as Chief Business Officer
Lisa Coffey has joined iHeartMedia, the biggest U.S. radio broadcaster, in the newly created role of chief business officer.

Martin Sorrell's S4 says it is in early talks to combine with private equity-owned MSQ; S4 has a ~£130M market cap after its stock has declined ~35% in 2025 (Amy Thomson/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-…

Local news streamer Zeam acquires the NewsOn local broadcast streaming service from Sinclair Broadcast Group (Cynthia Littleton/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/zeam-acquires-newson-local-tv-streaming-sinclair-1236487505/

Streaming Platform Zeam Acquires NewsOn From Sinclair Broadcast Group
Streamer Zeam has acquired the NewsOn local TV platform from Sinclair Broadcast Group as Zeam looks to expand its consumer and B-to-B operations.

Paramount plans to show select UFC live events on CBS and will explore buying international rights in the future as they become available (Lucas Shaw/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-08-11/paramount-buys-u…

Disney and Webtoon strike a deal that brings about 100 Disney comics titles to Webtoon, with characters from Disney, Marvel, 20th Century Studios, and Star Wars (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/digital/news/webtoon-disney…

Disney Webtoon Deal: 100 Marvel, Star Wars & More Titles Coming to App
About 100 webcomics featuring characters from Disney, Marvel, Star Wars and 20th Century Studios will be available in Webtoon under a multiyear deal.