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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

Billionaire Larry Ellison,
the largest shareholder of Paramount,
often speaks to connections at the White House but, in at least one of the calls,
engaged in a dialogue about possibly firing CNN hosts whom Donald Trump is said to loathe, including Erin Burnett and Brianna Keilar.
Senior White House officials have discussed internally their preference for Paramount Skydance to acquire Warner Bros Discovery in recent weeks,
and one official has discussed potentia…

RE: https://mastodon.scot/@LaChasseuse/115941198098862825
Impressive message. I agree with it.
But then I try to find their stance on Ukraine, Russia, etc. and I can't.
What I found is this:
> Elected Greens will: ...immediately …

Montreal-based music and video distributor Stingray Group is acquiring TuneIn for up to $175M, in a deal expected to close by the end of 2025 (Matthew Keys/TheDesk.net)
https://thedesk.net/2025/11/tunein-acquired-by-stingray-music/

Streaming audio platform TuneIn to be acquired by Stingray Music
November 11, 2025 - Stingray will acquire TuneIn for up to $175 million, expanding its global reach in digital audio streaming and advertising.

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.

Will Cowboys consider sitting Dak Prescott down the stretch? https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47360296/dallas-cowboys-dak-prescott-no-shutdown

Paramount launches a hostile bid to acquire WBD, offering WBD shareholders $30 per share in an all-cash deal; sources say WBD rejected the same bid last week (CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/08/paramount-skydance-hostile-bid-wbd-netflix.html

Paramount Skydance launches hostile bid for WBD after Netflix wins bidding war
Netflix won a bidding war for the Warner Bros. film studio and HBO Max streaming service, but it doesn't plan to buy WBD's TV networks.

Unpopular opinion (maybe): Everyone is shitting on #Mozilla for stuffing #AI into #Firefox. And I largely agree. But I would actually like to see _more_ AI in

If you “honour” my #DoNotTrack* signal, why don't you just shut the fuck up, dear https://docs.spring.io? 🙄
* More accurately:

PARAMOUNT LAUNCHES All-CASH TENDER OFFER TO ACQUIRE WARNER BROS. DISCOVERY FOR $30 PER SHARE (Paramount Skydance Corporation)
https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/paramount-launches-all-cash-tender-offer-to-acquire-warner-bros-discovery-for-30-per-share-302635412.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251208/p56#a251208p56