Tootfinder

McKay: Not expecting tush push ban proposal https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/48010331/rich-mckay-expect-tush-push-ban-proposal-year

"Conservation Groups Push for Fossil-Free Forest Zones at COP30"
#COP30 #Environment
https://h…

Conservation Groups Push for Fossil-Free Forest Zones at COP30 | Happy Eco News
More than 70 organizations at COP 30 called for the establishment of fossil-free forest zones to protect tropical forests and Indigenous territories from oil and gas development.

Judges push back on ICE abuses, and freedom from religion prevails
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2026/3/21/2373949/-Judges-push-back-on-ICE-abuses-and-freedom-from-religion-prevails

Trump backs push for Christian nationalism with lame Bible reading (Lisa Needham/Daily Kos)
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2026/4/21/800024434/whitehouse/trump-backs-push-for-christian-nationalism-with-lame-bible-reading/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260422/p26#a260422p26

Trump attempts to confirm TACO status
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/21/push-to-bring-us-and-iran-together-for-peace-talks-as-ceasefire-deadline-looms?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other…

Trump announces extension of Iran ceasefire until ‘discussion concluded’
Declaration comes amid intense efforts to bring two sides together in Pakistan for new round of talks

How psychedelics push your brain to dream while awake https://theconversation.com/how-psychedelics-push-your-brain-to-dream-while-awake-new-study-276708 Now how to nudge the brain of blind people to see through sound-guided mental image…

How psychedelics push your brain to dream while awake – new study
How psychedelics induce intense visuals.

Energy crisis revives push to drill in Philippines’ largest intact wetland https://news.mongabay.com/2026/04/energy-crisis-revives-push-to-drill-in-philippines-largest-intact-wetland/

Energy crisis revives push to drill in Philippines’ largest intact wetland
MINDANAO, Philippines — There’s been a renewed push in the Philippines to develop oil and gas deposits in the southern Liguasan Marsh, prompted by the energy crisis caused by the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran, which has drawn criticism from environmental groups. The 288,000-hectare (712,000-acre) Liguasan Marsh, the largest intact wetland in the Philippines and home […]

Trump team defends redistricting push as GOP faces limited gains (Isaac Arnsdorf/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/04/22/trump-team-defends-redistricting-push/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260422/p129#a260422p129

India's AI Summit highlighted the limits of the country's AI ambitions, as the US and its tech companies largely dismissed India's push for global AI governance (Krishn Kaushik/Financial Times)
https://giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/acti…

Overnight: The Trump administration is making a renewed push to deport
Kilmar Abrego Garcia,
telling a judge they've sorted out logistics to send him to Liberia
(and rejected his proposal to go to Costa Rica)
https://assets.bwbx.io/documents/users/iqj…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AfternoonShow
Pablo Gad:
🎵 Don't Push Jah
#PabloGad
https://reggaeontop.bandcamp.com/album/dont-push-jah

"Industrial chemical leaks could push ozone layer recovery back by 7 years"
#Ozone #Environment #Emissions

Industrial chemical leaks could push ozone layer recovery back by 7 years
The recovery of the ozone layer in Earth's stratosphere could be delayed by several years, according to an international study led by Swiss research institution Empa which included contributions from University of Bristol researchers. The cause is persistent emissions of so-called feedstock chemicals, which are still permitted as raw materials in industry. These ozone-depleting substances have so far been excluded from international agreements because, according to the current study, their emis…

Jim Acosta, actor Noah Wyle, US Sen. Adam Schiff, and others push for a federal film and TV tax credit; Acosta pitches an independent journalism credit (Raquel Calhoun/The Wrap)
https://www.thewrap.com/industry-news/industry-t…

Noah Wyle Joins IATSE Chief in Push for Federal Film and TV Tax Credit
"It’s really hard to shoot a tv show in LA ... Unless… you adopt an economic model," the "Pitt" star says during the hearing.

Why Dallas Cowboys Must Make Trade Push For Steelers' Alex Highsmith https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/dallas-cowboys-must-make-trade-push-pittsburgh-steelers-alex-highsmith

The Hype Coach
Whether you’re seeking that extra push to reach your goals or craving insights to amplify your current mindset, you’re in the right place...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/hype-coach/

It's like they're all in on it.

"As a Fed governor, Warsh made it clear that he sees the Fed’s role as one that deals exclusively with monetary policy and cautioned against the central bank slipping into “fiscal” territory – tax and spending decisions usually taken by the government."
Because as everyone knows, treating problems with complex, interacting functions by treating the functions as independent #silos with …

"As a Fed governor, Warsh made it clear that he sees the Fed’s role as one that deals exclusively with monetary policy and cautioned against the central bank slipping into “fiscal” territory – tax and spending decisions usually taken by the government."
Because as everyone knows, treating problems with complex, interacting functions by treating the functions as independent #silos with …

If #Apple does not know how to implement push-based sync (aka automatic sync), which is obvious by now that they do not, at least the apps should provide a “Sync now" action.
I am staring at Journal app on the #macOS #Tahoe and it does not want to sync the latest entry from the iPhone even if that entry was created over 1 hour ago.

Push to PROD day for all who celebrate >:3

"U.S. District Judge April Perry ruled that the case is “moot,” meaning there’s no meaningful action left for her to take. But she warned that there are still “fail safes” built into the legal system, especially if it turns out there were “misrepresentations” from the Trump administration."
Judge tosses lawsuit over Trump's push to deploy National Guard to Chicago
https://www.dailyherald.com/20260420/nation-and-world-politics/judge-tosses-lawsuit-over-trumps-push-to-deploy-national-guard-to-chicago/

The EU's DSA probe into Shein is just the latest of the company's problems, which are stacking up in many of its big markets as it seeks to push through an IPO (Financial Times)
https://giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/actions/redeem/1b8de19a-…

Twitter founder Jack Dorsey is running into some serious issues while overhauling his financial services company, #Block.
Earlier this month, the company started laying off its staff as part of what Bloomberg characterized as an “efficiency push,”
potentially affecting up to ten percent of the company’s workforce.
It’s been a painful, drawn-out process that could drag on for weeks, sources to…

Jack Dorsey’s New Company Falling Apart as It Forces Employees to Use AI
Twitter founder Jack Dorsey is running into some serious issues while overhauling his financial services company, Block.

Miami Herald, Sacramento Bee, and Kansas City Star unions filed grievances with McClatchy, saying it didn't give enough notice for "major technological change" (Corbin Bolies/The Wrap)
https://www.thewrap.com/media-platforms/jo

‘More Stories, More Inventory’: Inside the Backlash to McClatchy’s AI News Tool | Exclusive
Unions representing the Miami Herald, the Sacramento Bee and the Kansas City Star have filed grievances against the company over its AI push.

A man pushed me in the street, he wanted to teach me a lesson. Is that OK now? | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/feb/17/men-push-abuse-women-street-stranger

Why...... 😆
#microsoft

Microsoft Confirms Recent Windows 11 Updates Break Push Button Reset
Microsoft confirmed recent Windows 11 updates break the “Reset this PC” feature in March 2026 hotpatch notes.

Indian digital payments company Pine Labs plans to embed OpenAI APIs into its infrastructure to enable AI-assisted settlement, reconciliation, and invoicing (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/18/openai-deepens-india-push-…

OpenAI deepens India push with Pine Labs fintech partnership | TechCrunch
OpenAI moves beyond ChatGPT in India with a Pine Labs deal targeting enterprise payments and AI-driven commerce.

Pentagon aggressively lobbies EU against Buy European weapons push – POLITICO
#Politics #EU

GOP governor: Trump’s push to end TPS for Haitians ‘is wrong’
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5750059-dewine-defends-haitian-migrants/

Had an #acting #coaching not breathe during the scene unless they 1) needed air, or 2) could make the other character do something by using their breath. The push-pull between the characters suddenly took sharper shape, stakes raised, all by connecting with the need for air.

Justin Jefferson: It's good for J.J. McCarthy to feel the 'pressure' Kyler Murray brings to Vikings' QB room https://www.nfl.com/news/justin-jefferson-it-s-good-for-j-j-mccarthy-to-feel-the-pressure-ky…

China’s Edge in an Oil Shock: Electric Cars and Renewables.
Beijing’s decades-long push to reduce its dependence on foreign oil with huge investments in clean energy sources like electric vehicles is now paying off. https://www.nytimes.com/20…

China’s Edge in an Oil Shock: Electric Cars and Renewables
Beijing’s decades-long push to reduce its dependence on foreign oil with huge investments in clean energy sources like electric vehicles is now paying off.

Republicans air misgivings about redistricting push after Virginia vote (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2026/04/22/congress/house-republicans-redistricting-regrets-00887168
http://www.memeorandum.com/260422/p106#a260422p106

This should be the beginning of the end.
That the corporate press is suppressing it & the Democratic Party isn’t trumpeting it from the hills bodes even worse than things already did. But it is a big crack in the dam, and we should all push. #EpsteinFiles

Tim Cook's increased mentions of Visual Intelligence hint it will be a major part of Apple's new wearables; sources: Apple considers a deep red iPhone 18 Pro (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters

4 Bold Free Agency Predictions That Would Push Cowboys Back Into the Playoffs https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/news/4-bold-free-agency-predictions-would-push-dallas-cowboys-back-into-playoffs

I read this fascinating thread while listening to Qobuz and by sheer coincidence, this track came on and it seems horribly appropriate:
#IfYouTolerateThisYourChildrenWillBeNext Manic Street Preachers on Qobuz https://open.qobuz.com/track/55341288
https://mastodon.social/@sellathechemist/116075306722957554
@… - The Russians cannot be trusted. At best the Russians will buy time, and then have another go.
When will European governments call a spade a spade and really push to disconnect from Russian oil and gas? If that means buying it from the US interim so be it. But then really push hard for energy and military security.
Russia is NOT going away. Nor is its hatred of Europe which is why the've been waging war on us in myriad ways for the last 20 years.
4/end
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/feb/14/alexei-navalny-poisoning-death-russia-frog-toxin

RE: https://mastodon.social/@verge/116257102307053080
There's no fucking mystery here (the Verge doesn't imply one, the article is well written, Im just saying aloud) - there is zero fiscal incentive for automakers to PUSH low end models.
Auto…

push, push

I fiddled something again. The challenge was to enable static web file “hosting” out of Forgejo Repos. This doesn’t come out of the box from Forgejo and there are various ways to solve this.
I went for a hopefully lightweight setup using a Caddy Webserver to serve the static files and a little Rust program to act as a Webhooks for Forgejo to call on push to the repo. The repo can be found at

forgejo-static-pages
forgejo-static-pages

FTC push for age verification a ‘major landmark’ for spread of the tool https://therecord.media/ftc-push-for-age-verification-a-major-landmark-for-implementation

Thousands of early-career NIH researchers forming union for first time
The push for better pay and benefits among US scientists arrives at world’s largest biomedical funder.
-- Nature [paywall]
-- But 'crickets' in the mainstream media
@…

Thousands of early-career NIH researchers forming union for first time
Push for better pay and benefits among US scientists arrives at world’s largest biomedical funder.

Ukrainian Forces push Russian troops back near five settlements, DeepState says: https://benborges.xyz/2026/03/03/ukrainian-forces-push-russian-troops.html

Trump advisers privately strategize around a new midterm push: Democrats would be worse (Adam Cancryn/CNN)
https://www.cnn.com/2026/04/22/politics/midterm-strategy-trump-democrats
http://www.memeorandum.com/260422/p95#a260422p95

A profile of Neil Shen of HSG, formerly Sequoia China, which raised $9B from US investors before US restrictions and has funded Manus and other Chinese startups (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/the-hong-…

The slavery exhibits at the President's House have been removed following Trump administration push (The Philadelphia Inquirer)
https://www.inquirer.com/politics/nation/presidents-house-independence-park-exhibits-removed-20260122.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260122/p146#a260122p146

Donald Trump’s AI push fuels revolt in Maga heartlands
https://giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/actions/redeem/101eb9c7-18f5-43e2-97eb-3fa1cf28f213
Archive https://archive.ph/DlT49
Trump wants AI, but it is getting harder to get that done...
Via @… on Bluesky

Consider the Strongest Notification Protections for Your Secure Messaging Apps
Secure chat tools are designed to keep the content of the messages safe inside the app.
So, for secure chat apps like WhatsApp and Signal, that means the company that makes those apps cannot see the content of your messages,
and they’re only accessible on your and your recipients’ devices.
Once messages land on a device, it’s still important to consider some privacy precautions, particularly…

How Push Notifications Can Betray Your Privacy (and What to Do About It)
A phone’s push notifications can contain a significant amount of information about you, your communications, and what you do throughout the day. They’re important enough to government investigations that Apple and Google now both require a judge’s order to hand details about push notifications over...

How psychedelics push your brain to dream while awake https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-03-psychedelics-brain.html "psychedelics make the brain more likely to 'see' images from memory rather than what's actually in front of it"; mental imagery

How psychedelics push your brain to dream while awake: New study
A new study in mice suggests psychedelics make the brain more likely to "see" images from memory rather than what's actually in front of it.

An experiment finds X's feed algorithm favored conservative content, and switching to the "For you" feed shifted users' views toward more conservative positions (Ece Yildirim/Gizmodo)
https://gizmodo.com/researchers-find-t

X's Algorithm Pushes Users to Lean More Conservative, Researchers Find
The algorithm also doesn't like posts by traditional news media, the researchers found.

White House Offers New Details on Its Push to Ban Housing Investors (Rebecca Picciotto/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/white-house-offers-new-details-on-its-push-to-ban-housing-investors-97fb1829?st=FymPTN&reflink=article_imessage_share
http://www.memeorandum.com/260219/p114#a260219p114

I do not want to talk about what companies want. Why they want to push for AI (even if I had a pretty good intuition and understanding of why).
I do care about my career and I am probably quickly tempted to generalize my thoughts on this.
I wouldn’t really enjoy spending my time reviewing, debugging, correcting, and fixing, and most importantly carrying the responsibility, for a statistical engine. I don't see what the career progression is either. Is it “push as fast as possible to get a promotion and get out of this area before the 💩 starts breaking and you end up spending 1000% of your time in incidents?”

Alibaba reports Q3 revenue up 2% YoY ~$41.3B, below ~$42B est., and net income down 67% YoY to ~$2.4B, as it seeks to monetize its expensive AI push (Luz Ding/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-19/alibaba-r…

Ukraine stalls Russian push near Hulyaipole amid heavy losses: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/02/ukraine-stalls-russian-push-near.html

FCC Chair Brendan Carr announces a voluntary campaign for broadcasters to celebrate the United States' 250th birthday by airing patriotic content (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/politics…

FCC Asks Broadcasters to Run “Patriotic, Pro-America Content” In America 250 Push
FCC chairman Brendan Carr's Pledge America campaign suggests that TV and radio stations air PSAs or begin their days with the Pledge of Allegiance .

Republicans, Braced for Losses, Push More Voting Restrictions in Congress
Legislation that would require proof of citizenship to register to vote was only the beginning
as the G.O.P. presses to sharply limit voting in line with Trump’s false claims of widespread fraud
MAGA rep Bryan Steil’s "Make Elections Great Again "bill would ban universal voting by mail
and prohibit the counting of ballots received after Election Day.
It would ban ranked-choice v…

Republicans, Braced for Losses, Push More Voting Restrictions in Congress
Legislation that would require proof of citizenship to register to vote was only the beginning as the G.O.P. presses to sharply limit voting in line with President Trump’s false claims of widespread fraud.

Daniel Jeremiah's top 150 prospects in the 2026 NFL Draft class https://www.nfl.com/news/daniel-jeremiah-s-top-150-prospects-in-the-2026-nfl-draft-class

"Palantir needs the SEC and investors to know that it may not be able to recruit, hire, or retain talent if immigration regulations and restrictions tighten or if visa caps are imposed."
Palantir happily helped Trump's deportation push—and screwed itself
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2026/2/18/2369352/-Palantir-happily-helped-Trump-s-deportation-push-and-screwed-itself

Interviews with over three dozen people detail how lobbyist Mike Davis used his ties to Trump to push the DOJ to approve deals, including HPE's Juniper deal (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/law/lobbyists-

One of the main areas of pushback that Republican leadership in Congress has faced in trying to pass an extension of "section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act" (Fisa) is push to keep the bill “clean”,
-- despite GOP hardliners insisting that reforms and additions are needed.
Some members of the conference, like Representative Anna Paulina Luna, a Republican from Florida, have said that
if Donald Trump’s sweeping voter ID bill ends up falling off th…

For all the praises for AI for programming:
```
Q: When to use CLOB data type in SQLite?
Claude: […] XML or JSON documents (though SQLite has a dedicated JSON type now) […]
Q: Give me the link to the SQLIte JSON type
Claude: You're right to push back on that — I misspoke. SQLite does not have a JSON data type. JSON data in SQLite is stored as plain TEXT.
```
I do understand companies do not care.
I fail to see how developers would NOT care.

An experiment finds X's feed algorithm favored conservative content, and switching to the "For you" feed shifted users' views toward more conservative positions (Ece Yildirim/Gizmodo)
https://gizmodo.com/researchers-find-t

X's Algorithm Pushes Users to Lean More Conservative, Researchers Find
The algorithm also doesn't like posts by traditional news media, the researchers found.

"Chance of El Niño forming in Pacific Ocean may push global temperatures to record highs in 2027"
#Climate #ClimateChange

DeepState: Defense of Myrnohrad nears end as Russian forces push toward Pokrovsk: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/17/deepstate-defense-of-myrnohrad-nears.html

FT: Beijing backs brain implant push to rival Elon Musk's Neuralink #NeuroXess #BCI

Judge: RFK Jr. overreached in push to restrict gender-affirming for minors (Sophie Brams/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5793065-rfk-jr-gender-affirming-care-minors-court-ruling/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260320/p82#a260320p82

Sources: top VC firms operating in India are expected to commit investments ranging from $300M to $500M each to India's AI ecosystem at the AI Impact Summit (The Economic Times)
https://economictimes.indi…

Major VCs line up top dollars for coordinated AI capital push in India
Top venture capital firms in India are set to invest $300–500 million each into the country’s AI ecosystem, covering infrastructure, enterprise applications and sector-specific solutions. Global and domestic VCs, including Khosla Ventures, Accel India and Lightspeed, are participating. Combined, these commitments could exceed $1 billion, surpassing last year’s startup funding.

Imax partners with Apple TV to show five 2026 Formula One races across at least 50 US Imax locations, as Imax continues to push into live events (Etan Vlessing/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/imax-f1-races-12…

Imax to Bring Real F1 Races Live to U.S. Screens After ‘F1: The Movie’
The partnership with Apple TV will see five races from Miami to Monza screen in 50 locations nationwide later this year.

Sources: Google has created strike team to improve its coding models; Sergey Brin told DeepMind staffers that they must aggressively pivot to catch up on agents (Erin Woo/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/google-creates-strike-t…

Google Creates Strike Team to Improve Coding Models
Google has assembled a strike team of researchers and engineers to improve its AI coding models, according to three people with direct knowledge of the situation, as it looks to automate more of its own coding and ultimately its AI research. The push was prompted in part by Anthropic’s recent AI ...

A top Justice Department official delivered a hardball message to federal prosecutors.
🆘Go after the protesters with everything you have.
In a conference call in late January,
the official, Aakash Singh, laid out the department’s basis for prosecuting demonstrators:
🔥National Security Presidential Memo 7 -- a sweeping directive issued by President Trump last September.
It expanded the definition of
"domestic terrorism" to include not only violent c…

‘Go Big and Go Loud’: Inside the Justice Dept.’s Push to Prosecute Protesters
Prosecutors have struggled to prove in court what the president and his aides have repeatedly said in public: that a network of leftist activists presents a serious threat to national security.

"America, Not Americans": Inola Residents Say Trump's Industrial Push Is Coming at Their Expense - Oklahoma Watch
https://oklahomawatch.org/2026/03/11/america-not-americans-inola-residents-say-trumps-industrial-push-is-coming-at-their-expense/

Voice actors worldwide are mobilizing to protect their livelihoods and personality rights as Hollywood studios push AI dubbing to replace human performances (Rina Chandran/Rest of World)
https://restofworld.org/2026/ai-voice-actors-hollywood-dubbing/

Voice actors fight to save their livelihoods and local cultures from Hollywood’s AI push
Voice AI tools are quickly replacing voice-over and dubbing artists, raising concerns not only about jobs but also loss of cultural relevance in non-English-speaking nations.

California lawmakers push to strip Cesar Chavez's name from state holiday (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/03/18/california-chavez-rename-00835436
http://www.memeorandum.com/260319/p47#a260319p47

Sources: the glowing "26" in Apple's WWDC invite is teasing a revamped Siri, memory shortages may push Mac Studio and touch MacBook Pro launches by a few months (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/ne…

TikTok, Instagram and X push more right-wing content at young users | Euractiv
https://www.euractiv.com/news/tiktok-instagram-and-x-push-more-right-wing-content-at-young-users/

Middle East crisis live: Israeli officials push back on US claim that Trump knew nothing about gasfield attack (Lucy Campbell/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2026/mar/19/iran-war-live-updates-oil-prices-gas-field-strikes-pentagon-more-funds-trump-news
http://www.memeorandum.com/260319/p75#a260319p75

Workers describe a deteriorating culture at Jack Dorsey's Block as morale plunges amid rolling layoffs and a push to use AI tools to improve productivity (Reece Rogers/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/inside-rolling-layoffs-jack-dorsey-block/

Inside the Rolling Layoffs at Jack Dorsey’s Block
Workers describe a deteriorating culture at Block, the company behind Square and Cash App, where layoffs continue and employees are expected to use AI tools daily.

'Go Big and Go Loud': Inside the Justice Dept.'s Push to Prosecute Protesters (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/19/us/politics/justice-dept-prosecute-protesters.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260319/p20#a260319p20

India partners with Alibaba.com to help Indian startups and small businesses reach overseas buyers, highlighting its selective engagement with Chinese platforms (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/13/india-…

India partners with Alibaba.com for export push despite past China tech bans | TechCrunch
India turns to Alibaba.com's B2B network of 50 million buyers in 200 countries to help businesses scale global exports.

OpenAI agrees to acquire Astral, which makes Python tools for developers, to integrate its team into Codex, and says Codex has 2M users, up 3x since January (Agnee Ghosh/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

As Trump pressures Congress on the SAVE America Act, states push their own versions (Jane C. Timm/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/trump-pressures-congress-pass-america-act-states-push-versions-rcna261282
http://www.memeorandum.com/260312/p100#a260312p100

Voice actors worldwide are mobilizing to protect their livelihoods and personality rights as Hollywood studios push AI dubbing to replace human performances (Rina Chandran/Rest of World)
https://restofworld.org/2026/ai-voice-actors-hollywood-dubbing/

Voice actors fight to save their livelihoods and local cultures from Hollywood’s AI push
Voice AI tools are quickly replacing voice-over and dubbing artists, raising concerns not only about jobs but also loss of cultural relevance in non-English-speaking nations.

Trump officials push Theodore Roosevelt for Pro Football Hall of Fame (Dan Diamond/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/04/18/nfl-hall-theodore-roosevelt-trump/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260418/p60#a260418p60

Mastercard unveils a Crypto Partner Program with 85 companies, including Binance, PayPal, and Ripple, to link blockchain tech with its payments infrastructure (CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/business/2026/03/

Binance, PayPal, and Ripple join Mastercard’s massive new push into blockchain payments
More than 85 partners will work with Mastercard to connect on-chain payments with banks, merchants and global commerce as part of the payment giant's recent crypto program.

Axiamatic, which offers an "agentic control plane" to manage large-scale enterprise transformations, emerges from stealth with $54M from Greylock and Bessemer (Lily Mae Lazarus/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2026/03/11/ex…

Exclusive: AI startup Axiamatic raises $54 million to help companies push their digital transformations forward
The Greylock and Bessemer-backed startup has just emerged from stealth under the leadership of three-time founder Rajiv Gupta and Kaushik Narayan.

Colorado Democrats Push to Rip Up 2028 House Map for an Extra Edge (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/18/us/politics/colorado-redistricting-house-map-2028.html?unlocked_article_code=1.NFA.s6Xy.D9cG4B8dHNWt&smid=nytcore-ios-share
http://www.memeorandum.com/260218/p65#a260218p65

Robinhood launches a public testnet for Robinhood Chain, an Ethereum Layer 2 network on Arbitrum supporting 24/7 trading, with a broader rollout later in 2026 (CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/business/2026/02/

Robinhood (HOOD) starts testing its own blockchain as crypto push deepens
The Robinhood Chain, built on Ethereum-based Arbitrum, aims to become key plumbing for around-the-clock trading and plugging tokenized stocks into DeFi.

Meta Begins $65 Million Election Push to Advance A.I. Agenda (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/18/technology/meta-65-million-election-ai.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260218/p56#a260218p56

Investigation: Jeffrey Epstein spent hundreds of thousands on a campaign to manipulate Google search results and sanitize his Wikipedia, after his 2009 release (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/18/business/media/jeffrey-epstein-online.html

Inside Jeffrey Epstein’s Push to Cleanse His Past Online
After he left jail in 2009, Mr. Epstein hired a host of people to make him look better on Google, Wikipedia and many other places on the web.

Trump claims victory on affordability as public anxieties persist (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/02/15/trump-economy-white-house-push/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260215/p8#a260215p8

Chinese cities are offering free apartments and office space to attract and incubate "one-person companies", startups run by a single founder with AI's help (Viola Zhou/Rest of World)
https://restofworld.org/2026/china-ai-one-person-companies-incentives/

China is mobilizing thousands of one-person AI startups
Under a national AI push, local governments are turning coworking space and data centers into AI incubators.

Raskin demands Trump cognitive test in 25th Amendment push (Andrew Solender/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/04/10/raskin-demands-trump-cognitive-test-in-25th-amendment-push
http://www.memeorandum.com/260410/p97#a260410p97

RapidFort, which develops tools for securing software supply chains, raised a $42M Series A led by Blue Cloud and ForgePoint, taking its total funding to ~$51M (Duncan Riley/SiliconANGLE)
https://siliconangle.com/2026/02/03/ra

RapidFort raises $42M to push continuous remediation for software supply chain security - SiliconANGLE
RapidFort raises $42M to push continuous remediation for software supply chain security - SiliconANGLE

A look at China's push to become a world leader in brain-computer interfaces, as Shanghai-based startup NeuroXess moves to human trials with Beijing's backing (Eleanor Olcott/Financial Times)
https://giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/actions/re…

Junyang Lin, a tech lead on Alibaba's Qwen team, abruptly steps down; two other members of the Qwen team also leave (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/03/alibabas-qwen-tech-lead-steps-down-after-major-ai-push/

Alibaba's Qwen tech lead steps down after major AI push | TechCrunch
Reactions rippled through Alibaba's Qwen team after tech lead Junyang Lin stepped down following a major model launch.

The EC awards a six-year, €180M sovereign cloud contract to four European providers as part of a push to reduce the EU's dependence on non-European tech (Leo Marchandon/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/media-tel

Sources: the US' AI chip export push risks being undermined by licensing bottlenecks, staff attrition, and unclear policy at the Bureau of Industry and Security (Maggie Eastland/Bloomberg)

Gecko Robotics secures a $71M US Navy contract to use robots to slash repair time for dated ships, as the US races to reindustrialize its aging defense systems (Samantha Subin/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/17/gecko-robotics-navy-contract-ship-repair-t…

Gecko Robotics brings its AI to U.S. Navy ship repair in latest next-gen defense tech deal
CEO Jake Loosararian said Gecko is supporting the Navy's push to have 80% fleet readiness by 2027.

Microsoft says it is on pace to invest $50B by 2030 to help expand AI across the "Global South"; it unveiled $17.5B worth of AI investments in India in 2025 (Abu Sultan/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/micros