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Jeff Bezos says Amazon MGM Studios' decision to acquire and release Melania "was a good business decision", denying that it was "a way of buying influence" (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/film/news/jef

Jeff Bezos Defends 'Melania' Documentary as 'Very Good Business Decision,' Denies It Was Way to Buy Influence
Jeff Bezos insists that Amazon MGM Studios' decision to acquire and release "Melania," a documentary about the First Lady, was smart business -- and not an attempt to curry favor with her husband.

Sources: Anthropic is in talks to rent servers powered by Microsoft-designed chips; source: Anthropic has steadily increased its Azure usage since November 2025 (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/anthropic-talks-use-microsofts-ai-chips…

Anthropic Is in Talks to Use Microsoft’s AI Chips
Anthropic is in talks to rent servers powered by Microsoft-designed AI server chips as it seeks more computing power to meet rising demand for its AI, according to two people who spoke to executives involved in the discussion. Winning Anthropic as a customer would be a coup for Microsoft, whose ...

Ah yes, DHH is certainly who we should look towards for how to govern the NixOS foundation. /s
This blog post is the wildest shit I had to read in a while.
https://fzakaria.com/2026/07/18/how-to-piss-off-your-nix-friends

Die EU-Kommission hat vorläufige Erkenntnisse veröffentlicht, wonach Amazon Web Services und Microsoft Azure die Schwelle für eine Gatekeeper-Einstufung nach dem Digital Markets Act erfüllen. Bei einer finalen Designation drohen Interoperabilitätspflichten, Lock-in-Verbote und Bußgelder bis zu 10 Prozent des globalen Umsatzes. Eine endgültige Entscheidung wird für Ende 2026 erwartet. #heise

Heute mal wieder für eine längere Tour mit dem #BromptonElectricGLine #rausgeschafft, 44km. Schön war's und das Wetter hat auch mitgespielt. (Es hat erst kurz danach angefangen, zu pieseln. Trotz Sonne war's aber noch eher kühl, vor allem an schattigen Stellen und bei Wind.

There are these discussions about whether gender/sex is binary or not. Well, one can certainly implement it binary (e.g. in a questionnaire):
Sex: [Yes]/[No]
And we will all agree this is not nuanced enough and people will ask: what do you count as sex?
#gender #sex

I'm working with an agency (https://transformstudios.com), and we're looking for a Sr. .NET dev with solid Azure DevSecOps experience for a long term contract.
Needs to definitely be Senior level with min 20 hr per week availability starting August.
Anyone got a recommendation?

Shelves, reading activity etc | decisions.joinbookwyrm.com
"Looking through our Issues log, one of the most consistent sources of both confusion and frustration seems to be both the user interface and the mental model for the related concepts of shelves and readthroughs."
-- Hugh
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Shelves, reading activity etc
Looking through our Issues log, one of the most consistent sources of both confusion and frustration seems to be both the user interface and the mental model for the related concepts of shelves and readthroughs.@Mouse has had a draft PR for this since 2022. We all seem to agree in principle that the current arrangement needs to be fixed, but whilst I personally agree with the gist of Mouse's proposal there (deprecate default/functional shelves completely and use ReadThroughs to hold all reading…

Since it was relevant to a discussion I just had on here and is something most people probably haven't thought about much (unless you've taken one of a handful of philosophy classes), I thought I'd try to lay out a key piece of Descartes' Meditations (#philosophy

Sources: Microsoft is in discussions to acquire LLM developer Inception; SpaceX also courted Inception, which is looking for a price of over $1B (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/microsoft-eyeing-startup-deals-life-after-openai-2026-05-13/