Sources: the US nears a trade deal with Taiwan that would reduce tariffs on the island's exports and include a commitment from TSMC to build 5 fabs in Arizona (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/business/economy/trump-taiwan-deal.html
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting has voted to dissolve after Republicans rescinded $1.1B at President Trump’s behest.
This ends the 58-year-old agency that distributed federal funds to NPR, PBS and more than 1,500 local public radio & television stations. https://apple.news/AXdo2-zPuRCiJSiIVd3
email_enron: Email network (Enron corpus)
The Enron email corpus, containing all the email communication from the Enron corporation, which was made public as a result of legal action. Nodes are email addresses and node i links to node j if i sent at least one email to address j. Non-Enron email addresses are also present, but only their links to/from Enron addresses are observed.
This network has 36692 nodes and 367662 edges.
Tags: Social, Communication, Unweighted, Multigr…
existence of TransCanada Corporation implies the existence of CisCanada Corporation
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
Thievery Corporation:
🎵 The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (feat. David Byrne) (Louie Vega remix)
#ThieveryCorporation
Corporate cowardice in action...
As Bob Dylan once wrote "money doesn't talk, it swears". And here is a case where a big corporation opens its kimono for nazis.
"Hilton Hotels removing Minneapolis franchise location after it again denied DHS booking"
https://www.
This is probably related to an in-progress VPN service Barrett Lyon has been working on. See domain shown for details.
https://social.bgp.tools/@new_ripe_asns/statuses/01K9F4SHHZQ5JV0E23W9SKDKDA
facebook_organizations: Within-organization Facebook friendships (2013)
Six networks of friendships among users on Facebook who indicated employment at one of the target corporation. Companies range in size from small to large. Only edges between employees at the same company are included in a given snapshot.
This network has 1429 nodes and 32876 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted
Steve Cropper - a musician who wrote or played on many of the best American pop recordings of the twentieth century - is no more. Here's a track you may have heard before, co-written by Cropper and Redding. the latter tragically dying before the song's release.
Otis Redding, "(Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay" (1968)
When I go to the site-previously-known-as-birdsite, usually because I want to visibly annoy a corporation nowadsys, I'm always slightly shocked to see it's still actually going!
With at least one powerful acceleratorist ai corporation looking to fund/partner with open source live coding projects, I wonder if anyone will take the bait
"Terry Gross Conducts 'Fresh Air' Interview On Bluetooth During Uber Shift" #CPB Corporation for Public Broadcasting
If you were dumb enough to hand over your DNA & biological fingerprint to Ancestry or 23andme, why stop there?
With Oura, you can hand over your daily health information to a corporation that can be subpeona'd or have your data stolen from!
People have been denied health insurance or disqualified for benefits because of data discovered about one's past health that should be protected...
...but who cares? Tech is cool, right? 🤨
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facebook_organizations: Within-organization Facebook friendships (2013)
Six networks of friendships among users on Facebook who indicated employment at one of the target corporation. Companies range in size from small to large. Only edges between employees at the same company are included in a given snapshot.
This network has 320 nodes and 2369 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted
“TABS [by Mozilla] pulls exactly the data you need—from HTML to Markdown to JSON—using the fastest, most efficient method for each page. It adapts to the structure and complexity of the site, staying stealthy and reliable so your [AI] agents always get what they need without friction.”
Ethical Stealthy AI Scraping (tm) by Mozilla.
#Mozilla
PEGATRON Corporation announces first U.S. manufacturing site in Georgetown, Texas https://georgetowntexas.gov/news_detail_T29_R597.php
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting agreed Monday to
fulfill a $36 million, multi-year contract with NPR
that it had yanked after pressure from the Trump White House.
The arrangement resolves litigation filed by NPR accusing the corporation of
illegally yielding to Trump's demands that the network be financially punished for its news coverage.
The argument, part of a broader lawsuit by NPR and several stations against the Trump administration,
focu…
Comic Sans MS is a sans-serif typeface created and designed by Vincent Connare and released by Microsoft Corporation in 1994.
China's biggest oil company just hit a major solar breakthrough.
CNPC developed a perovskite solar cell with 25.05% efficiency—impressive on its own, but here's the bigger story: they're planning to pair it with silicon cells to slash energy costs. Pilot production starts 2026, mass production 2028.
Their goal? Match their oil output with renewables by 2035.
Yet more presumably to HostRoyale, who has not been considered a major player in the hosting business afaik. And they are not particularly cheap. But they are acquiring a substantial amount of v4 space that is making me at least, perk up and take notice. Something is driving these purchases, and I'm afraid to learn what that is if I start digging.
…
Och FFS.
"#Firefox will grow from a browser into a broader ecosystem of trusted software."
"It will evolve into a modern AI #browser and support a portfolio of new and trusted software additions."
One job. A browser has ONE. SINGLE. JOB.
Reminder, Ohio Linux Fest / Open Libre Free Conference is in about two weeks - Saturday December 6th!
Grab your tickets today and come join the party!
https://go.rallyup.com/olf2025/Campaign/Details
No guarantee a stray cow won't wander in, but we'll do our bes…
Billion dollar corporation and yet I cannot change the brightness of an HDR monitor. #windows is terrible.
I guess I can, I need to open the settings, open monitor settings, click the correct monitor with HDR enable, enter HDR settings, scroll to SDR brightness and then adjust the slider.
....
On KDE I can scroll the mouse wheel on the brightness icon in the plasma panel.
@… @… Someone in Cupertino really wants to show the EU who’s boss.
(Spoiler: It’s the government, not the corporation)
facebook_organizations: Within-organization Facebook friendships (2013)
Six networks of friendships among users on Facebook who indicated employment at one of the target corporation. Companies range in size from small to large. Only edges between employees at the same company are included in a given snapshot.
This network has 165 nodes and 726 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted
Good Morning #Canada
On this day in 1948, the longest serving political leader in the British Commonwealth retired. William Lyon Mackenzie King served 21 years and 154 days as Prime Minister of Canada, in non-consecutive terms, from 1921–1926, 1926–1930, and 1935–1948. He led Canada through the Great Depression, introduced Old Age Pensions, nationalized the Bank of Canada, passed the 1938 National Housing Act to improve housing affordability, established the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Trans-Canada Air Lines, and the National Film Board, and implemented Unemployment Insurance. His government was also responsible for Japanese Internment Camps, and he believed strongly in the occult.
This video from TVO is an excellent overview of King's career. It's probably a two coffee viewing this morning if you have the time, but IMO worth the investment.
#CanadaIsAwesome #CanadianHeroes
https://www.tvo.org/video/mackenzie-king-at-150
Heute vor 22 Jahren: Am 18. Dezember 2003 akzeptierte der #Iran das sogenannte #Zusatzprotokoll das unangekündigte Kontrollen in iranischen #Atomanlagen erlaubt, das Parlament ratifizierte es j…
email_enron: Email network (Enron corpus)
The Enron email corpus, containing all the email communication from the Enron corporation, which was made public as a result of legal action. Nodes are email addresses and node i links to node j if i sent at least one email to address j. Non-Enron email addresses are also present, but only their links to/from Enron addresses are observed.
This network has 36692 nodes and 367662 edges.
Tags: Social, Communication, Unweighted, Multigr…
For all its success, there are two things Netflix wants and has never achieved. First is to win the Academy Award for best picture and, second, to make a proper blockbuster movie. It’s well to remember that Netflix is a US corporation, not the radical guerrilla outfit it sometimes presents itself as. And they want their films to be at the heart of mainstream American culture in the same way their TV shows are.
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/dec/05/what-does-netflix-hope-to-achieve-by-buying-warner-bros?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
Folks creating free and open software for the common good: here’s a checklist of everything else you should be doing so corporations can make the best use of your free labour.
I mean, sure, some good security tips here and worth reading anyway but do fuck off with holding free software developers to account for supply chain attacks. It’s your fucking supply chain, not ours, you fucking corporation.
email_enron: Email network (Enron corpus)
The Enron email corpus, containing all the email communication from the Enron corporation, which was made public as a result of legal action. Nodes are email addresses and node i links to node j if i sent at least one email to address j. Non-Enron email addresses are also present, but only their links to/from Enron addresses are observed.
This network has 36692 nodes and 367662 edges.
Tags: Social, Communication, Unweighted, Multigr…
Housing policy in BC finally starting to bear fruit:
"Rental prices seem to be taking a dip in B.C. as the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC) released its 2025 Rental Market Report, which showed that Greater Victoria’s vacancy rate rose to 3.3 per cent, the highest it’s been since 1999…. The report noted that the steepest rent declines are focused in B.C. and Ontario, with B.C. being host to seven of of the top 15 cities recording the largest annual rent declines for apartments.”
A largest-ever national population decline helps a lot too!
#CanPoli #BCPoli #YYJ #Victoria
Pete Buttigieg and Robert Reich have highlighted our plan to
✅ defeat Citizens United:
“Interesting things are happening across the country…
Montana is trying to address this through attention to what a corporation can and can’t do,
because that’s actually decided at the state level.
So instead of working it at the ‘speech’ side of the equation,
💥they’re working at the
‘what is a corporation’ side of the equation.” --Secretary
email_enron: Email network (Enron corpus)
The Enron email corpus, containing all the email communication from the Enron corporation, which was made public as a result of legal action. Nodes are email addresses and node i links to node j if i sent at least one email to address j. Non-Enron email addresses are also present, but only their links to/from Enron addresses are observed.
This network has 36692 nodes and 367662 edges.
Tags: Social, Communication, Unweighted, Multigr…
email_enron: Email network (Enron corpus)
The Enron email corpus, containing all the email communication from the Enron corporation, which was made public as a result of legal action. Nodes are email addresses and node i links to node j if i sent at least one email to address j. Non-Enron email addresses are also present, but only their links to/from Enron addresses are observed.
This network has 36692 nodes and 367662 edges.
Tags: Social, Communication, Unweighted, Multigr…
email_enron: Email network (Enron corpus)
The Enron email corpus, containing all the email communication from the Enron corporation, which was made public as a result of legal action. Nodes are email addresses and node i links to node j if i sent at least one email to address j. Non-Enron email addresses are also present, but only their links to/from Enron addresses are observed.
This network has 36692 nodes and 367662 edges.
Tags: Social, Communication, Unweighted, Multigr…
facebook_organizations: Within-organization Facebook friendships (2013)
Six networks of friendships among users on Facebook who indicated employment at one of the target corporation. Companies range in size from small to large. Only edges between employees at the same company are included in a given snapshot.
This network has 320 nodes and 2369 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted
email_enron: Email network (Enron corpus)
The Enron email corpus, containing all the email communication from the Enron corporation, which was made public as a result of legal action. Nodes are email addresses and node i links to node j if i sent at least one email to address j. Non-Enron email addresses are also present, but only their links to/from Enron addresses are observed.
This network has 36692 nodes and 367662 edges.
Tags: Social, Communication, Unweighted, Multigr…
email_enron: Email network (Enron corpus)
The Enron email corpus, containing all the email communication from the Enron corporation, which was made public as a result of legal action. Nodes are email addresses and node i links to node j if i sent at least one email to address j. Non-Enron email addresses are also present, but only their links to/from Enron addresses are observed.
This network has 36692 nodes and 367662 edges.
Tags: Social, Communication, Unweighted, Multigr…
email_enron: Email network (Enron corpus)
The Enron email corpus, containing all the email communication from the Enron corporation, which was made public as a result of legal action. Nodes are email addresses and node i links to node j if i sent at least one email to address j. Non-Enron email addresses are also present, but only their links to/from Enron addresses are observed.
This network has 36692 nodes and 367662 edges.
Tags: Social, Communication, Unweighted, Multigr…