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MrBeast, who earned an estimated $85M in 2025, says AI-generated videos could threaten creators' livelihoods, calling it "scary times" for the industry (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/06/mrbe

MrBeast says AI could threaten creators' livelihoods, calling it 'scary times' for the industry | TechCrunch
As Sora tops the App Store, MrBeast says AI could threaten creators' ability to make money.

Q&A with Patreon CEO Jack Conte on social media algorithms, studying music at Stanford, music streaming economics, creators, TikTok, influencers, AI, and more (Katie Drummond/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/the-big-interview-podcast-jack-conte-patreon/…

Patreon CEO Jack Conte Wants You to Get Off of Your Phone
The man who cofounded Patreon is tired of influencers making content to get clicks. He’d rather creators earn lifelong fans—and he has a plan for that.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #SoundOfCinema
Carter Burwell:
🎵 Good Fortune "Visions of the Hope Your Life Promises"
#CarterBurwell
https://open.spotify.com/track/1Gp1Q53eMkKjaaXUEjE73n

"A vile creature.
The worst thing on the face of the earth."
Former Speaker of the House Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.)
didn't mince her words when asked about the president in an interview with CNN.
https://bsky.app/profile/motherjones.com/post/3m4…

Mother Jones (@motherjones.com)
"A vile creature. The worst thing on the face of the earth." Former Speaker of the House Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) didn't mince her words when asked about the president in an interview with CNN. Watch—

The "Telecommunications Charter" being signed by UK telecoms providers today includes traceability data sharing between networks and the police, and the blocking of internet resources identified by NCSC.
https://www.gov…

Fraud Sector Charter: telecommunications (accessible version)

A Transience Criterion for Uniformly Bounded Markov Chains with Asymptotically Zero Mean Drift
Dan Andrei Tudor
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.03937 https://ar…

A Transience Criterion for Uniformly Bounded Markov Chains with Asymptotically Zero Mean Drift
In this paper, we give an overview of mean drift conditions for the state-space classification of discrete-time Markov Chains and we present a new transience criterion for uniformly bounded Markov Chains with asymptotically zero drift. The criterion does not need a condition on the second-moment drifts and can be applied to certain chains for which other criteria fail.

As an historian of the fur trade in Canada, I think it's sort of perfect that the Thomson and especially the Weston families get the charter. Nobody performed the proud Canadian tradition of corporate monopoly over the basic necessities of life and knowledge of the outside world better or longer than the HBC.
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Thomson, Weston families win Hudson's Bay charter auction with sole bid | CBC News
The Hudson's Bay Company has chosen the new owners of the royal charter that created the company more than 350 years ago.

Unsure if I've even mentioned this anywhere before,
but I've maintain a "Steam Curator" page for the last few years, keeping a log of how well games handle custom keyboard layouts - feel free to follow it if you want to see a note on Steam Store pages telling you whether a game's keybind settings are up-to-snuff:

Steam Curator: Can You Change The Keybinds, aka Colemak Gamers
Details on which games, at the time of review, had customizable keybinds - and to what extent. (No, a "DVORAK" switch is not enough, developers!)

👀 @… https://mastodon.online/@9to5Mac/115497690764957504

9to5Mac (@9to5Mac@mastodon.online)
Attached: 1 image iOS 26.2 hints new ‘Apple Creator Studio’ could be coming https://9to5mac.com/2025/11/05/ios-26-2-hints-new-apple-creator-studio-could-be-coming/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Q&A with Patreon CEO Jack Conte on social media algorithms, studying music at Stanford, streaming, paying out $10B, creators, TikTok, influencers, AI, and more (Katie Drummond/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/the-big-interview-podcast-jack-conte-patreon/

Patreon CEO Jack Conte Wants You to Get Off of Your Phone
The man who cofounded Patreon is tired of influencers making content to get clicks. He’d rather creators earn lifelong fans—and he has a plan for that.