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The 'S&P 493' reveals a very different U.S. economy (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/11/24/sp500-stock-market-tech-nvidia/?pwapi_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJyZWFzb24iOiJnaWZ0IiwibmJmIjoxNzYzOTYwNDAwLCJpc3MiOiJzdWJzY3JpcHRpb25zIiwiZXhwIjoxNzY1MzQyNzk5LCJpYXQiOjE3NjM5NjA0MDAsImp0aSI6IjEzNGE2MWQ5LWY2YWItNGMzOS05YzVhLWU0MDhmZGNjZjZmMiIsInVybCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3Lndhc2hpbmd0b25wb3N0LmNvbS9idXNpbmVzcy8yMDI1LzExLzI0L3NwNTAwLXN0b2NrLW1hcmtldC10ZWNoLW52aWRpYS8ifQ.cmGRw_oh0OgrMqArv-NAE_48U7LCXF3i_aXmHqxDQmk&itid=gfta
http://www.memeorandum.com/251125/p1#a251125p1

Europe's startup ecosystem, which had 35,000 early-stage companies in the EU and the UK in 2024, per Atomico, is hindered by complex and varying regulations (Niki Kitsantonis/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/business/europe-st…

Hoping to Grow in Europe, but Bogged Down by Red Tape
Start-ups are booming in the European Union, but experts say bureaucracy keeps them from expanding across borders.

participating in the JavaScript ecosystem continues to feel like living in a house that’s on fire and all of your roommates are just buying their own fire extinguishers and pretending that it’s just a temporary bout of really hot weather

Fantastic ARTE documentary about the dark side and dangerous negative impacts of global tree planting & carbon credit programs, in reality often PR frauds/distractions, relying on lack of regulation & scientific errors, amounting to nothing more than clear cutting existing mature forests, replacing them with fast growing monocultures (mostly Eucalyptus or Douglas firs) for future logging activity, handing out subsidies to the forestry industry and displacing indigenous people/ecosyst…

The Pentagon unveils a "new media" press corps, largely from right-wing outlets like Gateway Pundit, with 60 people signing its new restrictive press policy (Washington Post)

Pentagon announces a new right-wing press corps after mass walkout
A new crop of conservative media and influencers signed an agreement with the Pentagon, including the Gateway Pundit, the Post Millennial, Human Events and the National Pulse.

I am The Post's 'federal government whisperer.' It's been brutal. (Hannah Natanson/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/12/24/trump-federal-government-workers/?pwapi_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJyZWFzb24iOiJnaWZ0IiwibmJmIjoxNzY2NTUyNDAwLCJpc3MiOiJzdWJzY3JpcHRpb25zIiwiZXhwIjoxNzY3OTM0Nzk5LCJpYXQiOjE3NjY1NTI0MDAsImp0aSI6ImI0MWExYTBhLTg4ZGUtNDY0ZC05ZjY2LWFlMzU4NDUwMGQ1NCIsInVybCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3Lndhc2hpbmd0b25wb3N0LmNvbS9wb2xpdGljcy8yMDI1LzEyLzI0L3RydW1wLWZlZGVyYWwtZ292ZXJubWVudC13b3JrZXJzLyJ9.Ezntv_M0MTgAqtBOVWaSV73jbRQ_YTWcuea9FJ2KKEM&itid=gfta
http://www.memeorandum.com/251224/p10#a251224p10

Q&A with Z.ai Director of Product Zixuan Li on Chinese AI models embracing open source, attracting global users for its GLM model, training on memes, and more (ChinaTalk)
https://www.chinatalk.media/p/the-zai-playbook

The Z.ai Playbook
Zixuan Li on the Chinese AI ecosystem

A look at DHS and ICE's social media efforts, which are propelled by the White House's demands to "flood the airwaves" and make use of right-wing influencers (Washington Post)

Inside ICE’s social media machine creating viral arrest videos
Thousands of internal ICE messages show how its public affairs team has coordinated with the White House to satisfy Trump administration demands for viral arrest videos

Trump administration abruptly recalls scores of career ambassadors (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/12/22/trump-ambassadors-recalled/?pwapi_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJyZWFzb24iOiJnaWZ0IiwibmJmIjoxNzY2Mzc5NjAwLCJpc3MiOiJzdWJzY3JpcHRpb25zIiwiZXhwIjoxNzY3NzYxOTk5LCJpYXQiOjE3NjYzNzk2MDAsImp0aSI6IjBjMWM2NDJlLWNhZGYtNGY0OS1hNmY1LTJlYThjZGU3N2FjMyIsInVybCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3Lndhc2hpbmd0b25wb3N0LmNvbS9uYXRpb25hbC1zZWN1cml0eS8yMDI1LzEyLzIyL3RydW1wLWFtYmFzc2Fkb3JzLXJlY2FsbGVkLyJ9.kVLZsQtVwk1fCXqiOg2VbBKwt4pzKbv80P2_B1Xw2Ic&itid=gfta
http://www.memeorandum.com/251222/p98#a251222p98

U.N. climate talks fizzle out 10 years after Paris accord (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2025/11/22/climate-summit-brazil-agreement/?pwapi_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJyZWFzb24iOiJnaWZ0IiwibmJmIjoxNzYzNzg3NjAwLCJpc3MiOiJzdWJzY3JpcHRpb25zIiwiZXhwIjoxNzY1MTY5OTk5LCJpYXQiOjE3NjM3ODc2MDAsImp0aSI6Ijk1NGJhZGQ3LWE1OWQtNDM3NC1iY2E3LTAwYmRmMmNlOWQ1YiIsInVybCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3Lndhc2hpbmd0b25wb3N0LmNvbS9jbGltYXRlLWVudmlyb25tZW50LzIwMjUvMTEvMjIvY2xpbWF0ZS1zdW1taXQtYnJhemlsLWFncmVlbWVudC8ifQ.A7GIY_0EDsMcI4WRM5XH7fHNTz_zZU7nFRRcRjXveLw&itid=gfta
http://www.memeorandum.com/251122/p58#a251122p58