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Now the reality is that all speech has that affiliation-building aspect and the argument-building aspect, but the scale of each varies a _lot_.
This thread itself is doing both! I'm making some concrete persuasive points here, but I'm also setting up an affiliation here. I want more people to join this "thinking well about the world" club and conversation. I want us to end up collectively in a better place than we're at. We gotta band together to do that. But also that means we need to communicate like we're in public and talking to people who don't all agree, and some of whom are hostile, and some of whom are real boneheads for various reasons.

Sony Pictures Entertainment and Sony Music Entertainment (Japan) agree to buy WildBrain's 41% stake in Peanuts Holdings for ~$457M, raising Sony's slice to 80% (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/film/news/sony-acquire-peanuts-457-mil…

Sony to Own Control of Peanuts in $457 Million Deal With WildBrain
Sony will own 80% of Peanuts Holdings after acquiring the 41% stake in the entity from WildBrain.

Microsoft Azure:
"On 15 November 2028, we'll be retiring F, Fs, Fsv2, Lsv2, G, Gs, Av2, Amv2, and B-series Azure VMs. You won't be able to use or purchase these VMs, or any constrained core sizes that are part of the retiring VM series, after that date."
Three-year advance notice, pretty sure that is the longest advanced warning I've ever seen for something like this.

It is predictable that EU leaders won’t be able to agree on strong actions against Trump. At the same time this can have disastrous consequences for the EU, the war in Ukraine etc. It is like watching a car crash….
#EU #Trump

Some Republicans Begin to Echo Trump's Case to Acquire Greenland (Robert Jimison/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/20/us/politics/republicans-trump-greenland.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260120/p126#a260120p126

1/ Last year I had to spend time with someone who votes far-right.
I could have avoided all political discussions but I gave it a try - knowing about the risc!
At some topics I said: I don't want to discuss that, I have a strong opinion there but let's skip that please.
At other topics, the discussions got heated until I said: waait. We don't need to fight. We agree to disagree. But none of us can change it. Our duty is to vote, not to fight each other. And I d…

quand ton pote est un peu trop accro... prenez soin de vous #santé #rave #party - YouTube

Nach dem Cloudflare-Ausfall: Digital völlig unsouverän
Die Ausfälle von AWS, Azure und Cloudflare haben gezeigt: Das Netz steht auf tönernen Füßen. Der Countdown zum GAU läuft. Ein Kommentar.
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Manchmal denke ich, die Click-baiter machen sich über uns lustig...
Wer kommt auf so ein bescheuertes Motiv?

Wenn ihr Mitarbeiter einstellt, mit denen ihr noch nie persönlich interagiert habt und wahrscheinlich auch nicht mal regelmässig per Videokonferenz, dann kann es gut sein, dass sie gar nicht sind, wen sie vorgeben zu sein.
Eigentlich keine überraschende Erkenntnis. Ausser für Big-Tech-Firmen.
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