How Larry Ellison is helping his son David build a media empire, including making the case to Trump for why Paramount, not Netflix, should acquire WBD (Theodore Schleifer/New York Times)
https://www.nytime…
FINANCIAL TIMES
The US and Ukraine have drafted a new 19-point peace deal,
but left the most politically sensitive elements to be decided by the countries' presidents,
according to Ukrainian first deputy foreign minister Sergiy Kyslytsya.
Washington had previously put Kyiv under pressure to agree a 28-point proposal that had been developed by US and Russian officials and crossed several long-standing Ukrainian red lines.
Kyslytsya, who was in the room as par…
Microsoft blocks Israel’s use of its technology in mass surveillance of Palestinians | Israel | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/sep/25/microsoft-blocks-israels-use-of-its-technology-in-mass-s…
like I feel like I should take an Adderall to sort things out but I'm trying to figure out if I even have enough things to sort that it'd be worth it bc like Nothing Has A Place To Go rn until I acquire Places and I can't go do more laundry bc I can't afford it rn so like??
When It Hits the Fan - The Prince Andrew Crisis
Possibly more discord and disagreement than I have ever heard before between the hosts Yelland and Lewis on this one.
I think I have to agree with Yelland here that royal PR is in a total mess and the upcoming generation (George, Charlotte and Louis) are going to have to force their parents to shake things up.
Series A, Episode 08 - Duel
BLAKE: Yes.
AVON: Then I agree. [Lets go of Blake]
JENNA: Deactivating.
BLAKE: Vila, Gan, Jenna: we're going for a ram, take out the command ship.
GAN: A ram?!?
BLAKE: I don't see that there's any other hope for us.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/108/173
Could not agree more https://mastodon.social/@randahl/115261841076178853
@raph_v@mstdn.social
I had a look at your posts, and I'm not sure where it is you're wanting replies. Nothing there I can add to (Maths/Computer Science). I agree with your comments about AI (have written about it a few times). I can see you've been boosted several times, so there are definitely people reading them. You might also like to check out Lemmy...
PersONAL: Towards a Comprehensive Benchmark for Personalized Embodied Agents
Filippo Ziliotto, Jelin Raphael Akkara, Alessandro Daniele, Lamberto Ballan, Luciano Serafini, Tommaso Campari
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.19843
These days, anti-GenAI screeds cross my radar every week. Even when I agree with what they’re saying (I often do), they’re mostly saying the same things. So, FWIW, here’s one with a fresh PoV: https://going-medieval.com/2025/10/21/on-ai-and-the-golem/
With an entertain…