@memeorandum@universeodon.comCNN poll finds majority of Americans say Trump is focused on the wrong priorities (CNN)
https://cnn.com/2026/01/16/politics/trump-economy-first-year-cnn-poll
http://www.memeorandum.com/260116/p27#a260116p27
@cdarwin@c.im
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.caPoillievre's shrinking caucus made it to the BBC. It might be an interesting leadership review in January, but I honestly don’t see anyone else ready to step into his position if he was forced into a leadership race.
"Polling shows Poilievre remains popular with the majority of Conservatives, though that margin is shrinking. An Angus Reid poll released on Thursday revealed 58% of recent Conservative voters back Poilievre, down from 68% in August.”
#CanPoli #CPC #CdnPoli
@memeorandum@universeodon.comThe House Republican Majority Is Down to Almost Nothing (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/13/us/politics/congress-house-republicans-majority.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260113/p156#a260113p156
@fanf@mendeddrum.orgfrom my link log —
Most people do not expect Google to track their activities so pervasively.
https://www.niemanlab.org/2019/04/does-google-meet-its-users-expectations-around-consumer-privacy-this-ne…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialCineverse says it is acquiring IndiCue, a profitable CTV ad tech company, for $22M plus up to $18M in earnout as Cineverse focuses on streaming infrastructure (George Winslow/TV Tech)
https://www.tvtechnology.com/platform/streaming/cinevers…
@publicvoit@graz.social10 Years of Let's Encrypt #Certificates
https://letsencrypt.org/2025/12/09/10-years
Mindblowing statistics of this extremely important project, delivering
@sean@scoat.esHere's hoping they lose as badly as the PQ the last two times, and that #Montreal actually manages to elect representation that doesn't get washed out by a gross majority, so the province doesn't have to posture hating Montreal so much.
Don't let la porte frappe you on the way out after gutting so many of the services we paid for.
Also FPtP is a bad voting system. I said it…
@carlos@social.perceptiveconstructs.com @carlos@perceptiveconstructs.com
@Techmeme@techhub.socialDiscord says that the "vast majority of people can continue using Discord exactly as they do today" without needing to use a face scan or ID to verify their age (The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/876575/discord-age-verification-vas…
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.iodenial ← current step
anger
bargaining
depression
acceptance
https://www.theverge.com/tech/876575/discord-age-verification-vast-majority-users-inference
@memeorandum@universeodon.comMajority Of Voters Think Fatal Shooting Of Minneapolis Woman By ICE Agent Was Not Justified, Quinnipiac University National Poll Finds; 57% Of Voters Disapprove ... (Quinnipiac University Poll)
https://poll.qu.edu/poll-release?releaseid=3944
http://www.memeorandum.com/260113/p89#a260113p89
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialReport: AI-generated music uploads account for <1% of total streams; AI-adoption is strongest in functional and low-stakes settings such as background music (Advanced Television)
https://www.advanced-television.com/2026/02/12/report…
@markhburton@mstdn.social"In short, [the bond markets] fret that the government might shift towards the interests of working people. They are relying on the spectre of market chaos to exorcise that spectre."
Majority want major shift left– but can the opportunity be seized? | Morning Star
https://www.
@timbray@cosocial.caBC Greens will let their deal with the NDP govt lapse next month for what seem to me pretty good reasons: https://bcgreens.ca/leaders-statement-will-not-renew-carga/
Current seats (out of 93): NDP 47, Conservatives 39, Green 2, right-wingnuts 5. So Eby’s gotta manage…
@memeorandum@universeodon.comTrump Is Losing the Reasonable Majority (E. J. Dionne Jr/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/13/opinion/trump-swing-voters-approval-rating.html?unlocked_article_code=1.8U8.7NyA.S0wcW8QgISiu
http://www.memeorandum.com/251213/p32#a251213p32
@benb@osintua.euPoll: Majority of Americans think Ukraine territorial concessions, troop cap would hand victory to Russia: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/05/poll-majority-of-americans-think.html
@Techmeme@techhub.socialUS PE firm Haveli Investments agrees to acquire a majority stake in business contract software company Sirion; a source says the deal values Sirion at about $1B (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/haveli-buy-majority-stake-contract-…
@cdarwin@c.imFormer Alaska representative
❤️#Mary #Peltola announced on Monday she is running for Alaska’s US Senate seat,
handing Democrats a major recruitment victory as the party battles to reclaim the chamber’s majority in this year’s midterm elections.
Peltola, who served as Alaska’s sole House member from 2022 un…
@simon_brooke@mastodon.scotOK, let's be clear about #Autism:
A majority of engineers, including software engineers, are #ActuallyAutistic; I suspect a majority of architects and people who invent new stuff generally are; many people in the creative arts are.
Without
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioAmy Klobuchar couldn’t get a majority of the DFL straw poll vote in South Minneapolis — a measly 30% — and she is •running unopposed•.
Shades of 2024 when a strong “uncommitted” primary vote for unopposed Biden presaged electoral disaster.
Minnesotans, use this to light a fire under her. Harangue her office. And hey…maybe field a primary opponent. Freak her campaign and the State DFL the absolute fuck out.
It’s a win if we get a better nominee •or• if we get her to show a little more fight again ICE and Trump.
https://minnesotareformer.com/briefs/klobuchar-overwhelmingly-wins-dfl-caucus-straw-poll-but-many-submit-protest-votes/
@CubitOom@social.linux.pizzaFascist Paramilitary invaders hit a community member with their car, laughed about it, and pepper sprayed witnesses and neighbors while abducting people in a Somali majority neighborhood. (Minneapolis, MN - 12/9/25)
Source:
https://reddit.com/comments/1pkao8y
@servelan@newsie.socialDissappointed about this; #trans ppl don't deserve the abuse: "After majority Democrats refused to hold hearings, Republicans convened events where dozens of people spoke in support of measures on transgender athletes and parental rights."
With rally and ‘listening sessions’, WA initiative supporters deliver their message • Washington State Standard
https://washingtonstatestandard.com/2026/02/04/with-rally-and-listening-sessions-wa-initiative-supporters-deliver-their-message/
@memeorandum@universeodon.comSurprise defection leaves Carney's Liberals just one seat short of majority (Mickey Djuric/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/11/carney-short-liberal-majority-00688193
http://www.memeorandum.com/251211/p151#a251211p151
@primonatura@mstdn.social"Plastic patrol: the citizen scientists tackling litter in Australian waterways"
#Australia #Litter #Environment
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #SonicReducer
T.S.O.L.:
🎵 Abolish Government / Silent Majority
#TSOL
https://cleopatrarecords.bandcamp.com/track/abolish-government-silent-majority
https://open.spotify.com/track/1R79vtF6xSaDdTrh8qId8W
@paulbusch@mstdn.caMaybe I'm in my own little info bubble but I find it hard to believe that 60% of Canadians would support a new pipeline from Alberta to the west coast. I was disappointed with Carney's negotiation/capitulation to Smith, and I think longterm it's a misstep by the Liberals. Indigenous People will fight it tooth and nail, and we should support them in that effort. B.C. doesn't want a new terminal on their coast. Demand for oil continues to drop and there's a real risk the pipeline is severely underused upon completion. Most of the money made from oil moving through this pipe will leave Canada. Canada's reputation is polluted with this announcement while the majority of countries continue to develop alternative energy solutions. I can understand the support from Alberta as the province doesn't appear to have a strategy for transitioning from an oil dependent economy. But who are the other Canadians that Angus Reid surveyed?
#CanPoli #Pipeline
https://youtu.be/3VISu7l6FhY?si=kgpadeUAXu8DC5uP
@LillyHerself@Mastodon.socialRE: https://flipboard.com/@bbcnews/world-c8sqdvr9z/-/a-bt4aeOSIRcKarXXEripzQg:a:3199692-/0
This will have no effect on people who have no or moderate beliefs, (the overwhelming majority of Quebecois) but will …
@metacurity@infosec.exchangeIt's interesting that all the press coverage of a police raid of cyberscammers in Bihar, India emphasizes that the majority of the people arrested were women.
15 women among 22 held for cyber fraud in Bihar
https://www.ptinews.com/story/national/15-
@Techmeme@techhub.socialReport: SpaceX is expected to make around $15B in revenue in 2025, increasing to between $22B and $24B in 2026, with the majority coming from Starlink (Juby Babu/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/spacex-pursue-2026-i…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialCandle Media sells a majority stake in ATTN: back to ATTN:'s founders and others; the digital media company was valued at $150M when Candle bought it in 2022 (Sara Fischer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/02/10/candle-media-sells-attn
@kurtsh@mastodon.socialPhoenix Suns majority owner Mat Ishbia (CEO United Wholesale Mortgage, which is being sued by Ohio's AG & under a class action lawsuit) is the living incarnation of big dumb, testosterone money.
▶️ The #PhoenixSuns #Fraud
@joe@toot.worksI saw a handful of videos online about this particular ev1. When they crushed the majority of them (they were originally only leased, never sold), they gave away a few to museums, and they gave away a few to universities with a stipulation that they never sell them. It sounds like a university stopped knowing that they owned it, had it towed, and the towing company went through the process
of legally selling it at auction. GM didn't care enough to claim ownership.
#EV1
@newstik@social.heise.deSeveral US states celebrate armed defenders of #slavery with official holidays every year, including #Mississippi.
The #Republican majority there even prevents a
@burger_jaap@mastodon.socialNational Grid DSO's contracted flexibility numbers are impressive. The domestic segment is showing particularly strong growth, with EV charging accounting for the majority of this. Many small units are coming together to make a big contribution.
https://dso.nationalg…
@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot"The #Labour party won one third of the votes (34%) in an election in which under two thirds (60%) of the electorate voted. Only one in five (20.4%) registered electors in Britain support this government. It has no mandate to do anything. If it tries to do anything radical, then, as Thatcher did with the poll tax, it will find the difference between Westminster games and real politics.
T…
@kingconsult@berlin.social> Die Chefin des #Verbraucherzentrale @… stellt sich gegen ein #Mindestalter für #TikTok #Instagram und andere #SocialMedia-Dienste. Stattdessen fordert Ramona Pop einzelne Funktionen zu verbieten.
09.02.2026, @… für #Spiegel #Netzwelt: #Meta’s #DigitalMajorityAge is a distraction to avoid #compliance«:
#DSA #Datenschutz #AgeVerification #Kinderschutz #Alterskontrollen
@Techmeme@techhub.socialOmdia: global humanoid robot shipments rose more than 5x YoY in 2025 to ~13K units; China accounted for the vast majority, led by AgiBot shipping ~5,168 units (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-08/chi…
@primonatura@mstdn.social
@scott@carfree.cityJoe Eskenazi's @… column today speculates that Connie Chan and allies will run a doomed prop to close Sunset Dunes park, just to turn out voters for Chan.
But a good chunk of No on K voters are in congressional district 15, outlined, and can't vote for Chan. #sfpol<…
@paulbusch@mstdn.caGood Morning #Canada
Last weekend our granddaughter visited to help decorate our tree and we watched Elf, a movie about #Christmas spirit, because we were feeling Christmassy. I think the majority of Canadians believe in the spirit of this season. We're a little bit more polite and kinder, if that's even possible, and underneath the snark, the passive aggressiveness, the ##ElbowsUp, is a pack of big cuddly beavers. You don't have to take my word for it because places like Quebec City, Banff, and Vancouver regularly end up on lists for best places to sit on Santa's knee. He lives in Canada so not a surprise. Did you know that in 2018, Canada was ranked as #1 most Christmassy country in the world. They can't put it on the internet if it isn't true.
#CanadaIsAwesome #MerryChristmas
https://dailyhive.com/mapped/canada-ranked-1-most-christmassy-country-in-the-world
@hex@kolektiva.socialSo in another dream I just woke up from, I was talking to someone about "the idea problem" (that it's becoming harder to monitize ideas, from a vox article written by an AI cooked reporter).
https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-it-could-happen-here-30717896/episode/executive-disorder-white-house-weekly-46-313675864/
Basically, I was arguing that the majority of inventions target men because patriarchy puts economic control in men's hands. As men have started to help more with childcare, there have been more inventions related to childcare. (I don't have any idea if this is true. Seems legit, but I'm just relating my dream. I think I was also oversimplifying a bit to "men" and "women" because of my audience, but anyway it was a dream.) There's actually more low-hanging fruit, I pointed out, related to making care work easier.
So I argued that the real problem was a failure to invest in research into solving that problem. Today there are all these boondoggles built around killing people. What if, instead of all this government research into killing people, we dumped a ton of money into making it easier to support a household? That would be great for the economy. (Being asleep, I seem to have forgotten that working people need money.)
In the blur of being just awake I started thinking about how you could kickstart the US economy by taking the money from the AI boondoggle and other autonomous murder bots and create something like a program to build robots for housekeepers. You'd still be funding tech with government money, so the same horrible people get paid, but you're now actually solving real problems. It wouldn't even matter if it was a boondoggle, honestly. Just dumping money into something other than murdering people is good enough.
I imagined first if there was a program to fund a robot housecleaner, like robot dog with AI some laundry pickup, that would be provided, free of charge, to help people with children. It would work the same as the military boondoggle where a private company makes the government buy a piece of hardware from them and then also pay them to service it for some number of years. But instead of that hardware sitting around waiting to kill someone, it would be getting brought to people's houses to help them.
Then I thought, hey, you could even boost the economy more if you just had government funding for doulas and housecleaners and paid them a living wage. Hey, you could really kickstart the economy by nationalizing healthcare and including doula support as part of all births. Oh, and you could also just include the optional household help for families with children until the kids turn 18.
None of this is perfect (I don't actually think most of this is possible from any state), but the point is that it's actually wildly easy to figure out all kinds of ways to invest in the economy and monitize ideas as long as you aren't entirely focused on the same old "make money from spying on people and killing them." Funny that. Like they said in the podcast, maybe "finding ideas" isn't the problem.
Hope you enjoyed the weird semi-awake brain dump/rant.
@PaulWermer@sfba.social"Google said the vast majority of its AI Overviews were factual and helpful, and it continuously made quality improvements. The accuracy rate of AI Overviews was on a par with its other search features like featured snippets, which had existed for more than a decade, it added."
So Google admits that it's AI AND OTHER SOFTWARE PRODUCTS actually provide #misinformation. Mi…
@paulwermer@sfba.social"Google said the vast majority of its AI Overviews were factual and helpful, and it continuously made quality improvements. The accuracy rate of AI Overviews was on a par with its other search features like featured snippets, which had existed for more than a decade, it added."
So Google admits that it's AI AND OTHER SOFTWARE PRODUCTS actually provide #misinformation. Mi…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialThe UK's Global acquires a majority stake in The Overlap, the YouTube sports media network founded by ex-Manchester United soccer player Gary Neville (Max Goldbart/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2026/01/global-buys-gary-neville-the-overlap-…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialUbisoft closes its mobile-focused Halifax studio weeks after majority of the workers voted to unionize, as CWA Canada says it is "demanding information" (Chris Kerr/Game Developer)
https://www.gamedeveloper.com/business/ubis…
@memeorandum@universeodon.comRepublican Rep. LaMalfa dies, further narrowing GOP's House majority (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/01/06/lamalfa-death-house-republicans/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260106/p56#a260106p56
@glauber@writing.exchangeLet's flood Congress with postcards!
Let your elected representatives know you care!
#TheMajorityProject: 12 Million Postcards to Congress – Signs Of Justice
https://www.signsofjustice.com/products/tmp<…
@ErikJonker@mastodon.socialKarpathy about AI & education (summarized some points), i agree with these point, other opinions?
1. You will never be able to detect the use of AI in homework. Full stop.
2. Therefore, the majority of grading has to shift to in-class work (instead of at-home assignments), in settings where teachers can physically monitor students.
3. We want students to be able to use AI, it is here to stay and it is extremely powerful, but we also don't want students to be naked in …
@metacurity@infosec.exchange @simon_brooke@mastodon.scotRE: #Holocaust
@servelan@newsie.social"Reports indicate that the majority of people choosing to do this are people of color, including many Latino U.S. citizens."
US citizens are carrying passports amid ICE fears | The Week
https://theweek.com/politics/us-citizens-carrying-passports-fear-ice
@raiders@darktundra.xyzFernando Mendoza Gets Tom Brady Message Amid Raiders Link https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/indiana-fernando-mendoza-tom-brady-message/
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialReliance's Jio Studios acquires a 50.1% equity stake in Sikhya Entertainment for ~$16.7M, uniting India's largest studio with the Oscar-winning production house (Hannah Abraham/Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/hannahab…
@bobmueller@mastodon.world"After a century of putting genetics on a pedestal, the geneticists have some surprising news for us: The vast majority of chronic disease isn’t caused by our genes." #Parkinsons
https://ww…
@memeorandum@universeodon.comHouse GOP searches for votes to reopen government with razor-thin majority (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/02/02/house-gop-funding-bill/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260202/p20#a260202p20
@newsie@darktundra.xyzMost Press Arrests In 2025 Resulted In Zero Criminal Charges https://thedissenter.org/most-press-arrests-in-2025-resulted-in-zero-criminal-charges/
@servelan@newsie.socialMajority of Americans say Trump needs to show evidence that boats US is blowing up are really carrying drugs | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-venezuela-drug-boats-americans-poll-b2870894.html
@kurtsh@mastodon.socialWhat's crazy is the vast majority of #Obamacare subscribers voted for #Trump.
And Trump is making their payments increase by 75%.
☑️ 77% of 2025 Obamacare enrollees lived in Trump‑won states. About 80% of all premium tax credits flowed to residents of those same states.
@memeorandum@universeodon.comI Served in Congress During Trump's First Term--I Know Exactly Why the GOP Majority Is Falling Apart (David Trott/The Daily Beast)
https://www.thedailybeast.com/i-served-in-congress-during-trumps-first-termi-know-exactly-why-the-gop-majority-is-falling-apart/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251125/p60#a251125p60
@ErikJonker@mastodon.socialIt is clear Trump now has another platform, after X , to control people in the US and feed them with disinformation. They supplement each other nicely with regard to age groups etc. If FB, WhatsApp, LinkedIn also tighten their "moderation" with regard to anti-trump sentiments, an Orwellian picture emerges.
https://www.
@kubikpixel@chaos.social @Techmeme@techhub.socialThoma Bravo acquires a majority stake in Java platform Azul, which received a $340M majority investment from Vitruvian Partners and Lead Edge Capital in 2020 (Chris Metinko/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/enterprise-software-deals/2025/11/18/tho…
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca"Nine members of Premier Danielle Smith’s United Conservative Party caucus are facing recall petitions — enough to potentially tip the balance of power in the legislature.”
Imagine... IMAGINE... if the a majority-government in Canada lost their majority through recalls. Epic.
#canPoli #CdnPoli #ABPoli #Democracy
https://www.ctvnews.ca/edmonton/article/six-more-alberta-government-mlas-face-recall-petitions/
@memeorandum@universeodon.comRepublicans' House Majority Is Shakier Than Ever (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/politics/republicans-house-majority-is-shakier-than-ever-6732b8d2
http://www.memeorandum.com/260126/p6#a260126p6
@cdarwin@c.imTrump urged Republicans in the Senate to scrap the #filibuster,
saying it had become an obstacle to "effective governing" and removing it would prevent another government shutdown
and pave the way for his party to push through its legislative priorities.
“The filibuster is hurting the Republican Party,” Trump told Politico.
He called on Republican lawmakers to eliminat…
@katrinakatrinka@infosec.exchange @Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: OnlyFans is in talks to sell a nearly 60% stake to Architect Capital in a deal that values the company at around $5.5B, including debt (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/deals/onlyfan
@memeorandum@universeodon.comScathing Poll Reveals Huge Majority Think America Spiralling 'Out of Control' Under Trump (Martha McHardy/The Daily Beast)
https://www.thedailybeast.com/scathing-poll-reveals-huge-majority-think-america-spiralling-out-of-control-under-trump/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260121/p59#a260121p59
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social[Thread] Politico is ending its print newspaper, which had been publishing three times a week while Congress is in session, at the end of the year (Scott Nover/@scottnover)
https://x.com/scottnover/status/1993035321932759144
@memeorandum@universeodon.comThe midterms are cracking Mike Johnson's grip on House votes (Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/01/23/mike-johnson-absences-gop-majority
http://www.memeorandum.com/260123/p125#a260123p125
@primonatura@mstdn.social"EU installs 27.1 GWh of battery storage in 2025 as utility scale leads"
#EU #EuropeanUnion #Batteries #Energy
@Techmeme@techhub.socialTikTok users in the US were presented with a new privacy policy; the changes were part of the app's ownership transition and now allow precise location tracking (Reece Rogers/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/tiktok-new-privacy-policy/
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialSources: OnlyFans is in talks to sell a nearly 60% stake to Architect Capital in a deal that values the company at around $5.5B, including debt (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/deals/onlyfan
@buercher@tooting.chMultinational pharmaceutical companies have enjoyed extraordinary profits, dividends and share buybacks over the past two decades – more than $1,500bn between 2000 and 2018. A majority of them are US-owned. In 2024, US corporations made 49% of the top 20 big pharma revenue.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/dec/24/is-trump-lowering-drug-prices?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
@cdarwin@c.imCongressional Democrats are expected to overwhelmingly reject a bill to fund ICE,
the agency spearheading Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown,
amid mounting outrage over its heavy-handed and violent tactics in Minnesota and elsewhere.
Signals for a no vote came from Hakeem #Jeffries, the Democratic minority leader in the House of Representatives, along with Pete
@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot"Polling across 36 nations by the Pew Research Center found that 84% see economic inequality as a big problem, and 86% see the political influence of the rich as a major cause of it. In 33 of these nations, a majority believe their country’s economic system needs either “major changes” or “complete reform”. In the UK, a YouGov poll revealed, 75% support a wealth tax on fortunes above £10m, while only 13% oppose it."
@Techmeme@techhub.socialTikTok's new majority US-owned JV includes investors Oracle, Silver Lake, and Abu Dhabi's MGX, each holding 15%, and Dell Family Office; ByteDance retains 19.9% (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/b905cb50-3093-4273-b097-4cedc835fadd
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.caI have never seen this political calculus made this clear.
“In other words, to remove the president using the impeachment process, the forces of sanity would need to muster a two-thirds majority in the Senate. To remove the president under the 25th Amendment, they would need to do it in both houses.”
That means there are only two ways for him to go, and only one reasonable people have:
Only the People of America can save the USA now.
#Protest #Unrest #Revolt #USA
https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-situation---evident-clinical-symptoms
@Techmeme@techhub.socialTikTok says ByteDance sold a majority stake in the app's US operations to a group of non-Chinese investors, including Oracle, MGX, and Silver Lake (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/technology/tiktok-deal-oracle-bytedance-china-us…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialTikTok's new majority US-owned JV includes investors Oracle, Silver Lake, and Abu Dhabi's MGX, each holding 15%, and Dell Family Office; ByteDance retains 19.9% (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/b905cb50-3093-4273-b097-4cedc835fadd
@memeorandum@universeodon.comHow the House Slumped to Historic Lows of Productivity in 2025 (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/01/17/us/politics/house-republicans-majority-productivity.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260117/p15#a260117p15
@memeorandum@universeodon.comMajority of corporate Trump ballroom donors represented by 3 lobbying firms, watchdog says (Arden Farhi/CBS News)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/corporate-trump-ballroom-donors-represented-by-3-lobbying-firms/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251119/p36#a251119p36
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialTikTok says ByteDance sold a majority stake in the app's US operations to a group of non-Chinese investors, including Oracle, MGX, and Silver Lake (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/technology/tiktok-deal-oracle-bytedance-china-us…
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.caOh look, the #BCNDP Government finally noticed the Post-Secondary system is collapsing. *slowclap*
Can hardly wait for that report next spring... maybe I will still have a job by then...
PS: I have a crazy idea: perhaps post-secondary should be majority-funded by government, not by exploitative international tuitions that can just *disappear*)
PPS: Domestic enrolment is not declining in any significant kind of way in the sector. From the “State of Post Secondary Education in Canada 2025” by Alex Usher:
"This decline in per-student funding is therefore not primarily a result of a significant decline in total funding; rather, it is a result of expenditures remaining more or less
constant while enrollments increased.”
WHICH IS WHAT EDUCATORS HAVE BEEN SAYING FOR DECADES
#layoffs #education #educationIsaRight #PostSecondary #VIU #BCPoli #CanPoli #CdnPoli #University #College
https://albernivalleynews.com/2025/11/25/b-c-launches-independent-review-of-post-secondary-education-system/
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialStudy: local broadcast TV supported 1.5M US jobs in 2025 and had a $748B annual GDP impact, with advertising accounting for the largest share at $628B (Matthew Keys/TheDesk.net)
https://thedesk.net/2026/01/broadcast-tv-economic-contributions-2025/
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialPew: 57% of US adults ages 65 prefer to watch their news, while among adults under 30, 45% prefer to get news by reading, 31% by watching, and 23% by listening (Pew Research Center)
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/20
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialSources: DAZN is in advanced talks to acquire a majority stake in US regional sports broadcaster Main Street Sports Group, formerly Diamond Sports Group (Lauren Thomas/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/bus…
