TikTok Signs Agreements With Investors in Step Toward Avoiding a U.S. Ban - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/business/media/tiktok-deal-agreements-us-investors.html
Detroit announces the return of trains at their central station (or at least very near it) bus station a potential extension of the Wolverine Amtrak train from Chicago all the way to Windsor/Toronto
Canadian extension would require some Canadian funds, in the current political climate I have my doubts. But glad to see Detroit re-investing into better transport infrastructure.
Automaker Stellantis and Pony.ai sign a non-binding agreement to develop robotaxis for deployment in Europe, with plans to start testing in the coming months (Rebecca Bellan/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/17/stellantis-teams-up-w…
The Los Angeles Times Guild reached a tentative agreement with management after more than three years of bargaining, averting a strike authorized by members (Tess Patton/The Wrap)
https://www.thewrap.com/los-angeles-times-guild-averts-strike-tentative-agree…
I wrote a book review of "Geopolitics at the Internet’s Core" by Fiona Alexander, Laura DeNardis, Ph.D., Nanette Levinson, and Francesca Musiani. It initially seems to be a dense technical history of Internet Protocol—that constellation of technical specifications and social agreements that makes the internet work. But this would be a profound misreading.
What Alexander, DeNardis, Levinson, and Musiani have actually written is something far more elegiac: a cenotaph for a bygo…
Drone production, air defense sustainment — Germany backs Ukraine with $1.4 billion in defense agreements: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/18/drone-production-air-defense-sustainment.html
"Parents would have to sign a nondisclosure agreement if their child was admitted."
What kind of school is this? Just because of the #Musk name, people accept the weirdest sh…, ahem, conditions?
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Trump admin broke spending deal agreement to halt mass layoffs, judge says (Hassan Ali Kanu/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/17/government-mass-lawyoffs-hearing-00695923
http://www.memeorandum.com/251217/p117#a251217p117
With no takers yet, White House sets meeting with colleges still weighing an agreement with Trump | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/donald-trump-white-house-university-of-virginia-linda-mcmahon-massachusetts-institute-of-technology-b2847678.html
Memo: after Sinclair bought an 8% stake, Scripps says it's exploring stations sales with "many" broadcasters but talks with Sinclair didn't lead to an agreement (Al Tompkins/Poynter)
https://www.poynter.org/business-work/2025…