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The real reason RFK Jr. is coming for your antidepressants (Amanda Marcotte/Salon)
https://www.salon.com/2026/05/18/the-real-reason-rfk-jr-is-coming-for-your-antidepressants/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260518/p49#a260518p49

Sources: Apple and the DOJ are in early discussions about settling a 2024 antitrust lawsuit alleging that Apple violated antitrust laws (Bloomberg)

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The last six months in LLMs in five minutes
I put together these annotated slides from my five minute lightning talk at PyCon US 2026, using the latest iteration of my annotated presentation tool. # I presented this lightning …

Paramount agrees to a request from 12 states, led by CA, to link their federal antitrust case in the WBD merger to an existing Paramount subscriber lawsuit (Gene Maddaus/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/film/news/paramount-states-antitrust-cas…

Paramount Agrees to States' Move to Link Antitrust Case to Subscriber Suit
Paramount has agreed to tie the antitrust suit to an earlier case, meaning the state case will end up before Judge Araceli Martinez-Olguin.

eu_procurements: EU procurement contract networks (2008-2016)
A bipartite network of public EU procurement contracts, from 2008 to 2016, between issuing buyers (public institutions such as a ministry or city hall) and supplying winners (a private firm). Contracts are aggregated into annual snapshots, edges are annotated with contract value information. Nodes are annotated with location information, including country of origin.
This network has 839824 nodes and 4098711 edges.

13.07.2026: Toleranz oder Intoleranz gegenüber Antidemokraten – was schadet wirklich unserer Demokratie? https://aquarium.teufel100.de/2026/07/13/13-07-2026-toleranz-oder-intoleranz-gegenueber-antidemok…

13.07.2026: Toleranz oder Intoleranz gegenüber Antidemokraten – was schadet wirklich unserer Demokratie? - Svens kleiner Blog - Gedanken, Erlebnisse, Meinungen, Essays zu Gesellschaft, Alltag, Demokratie und vielem mehr.
In den letzten Tagen habe ich wieder vermehrt darüber nachgedacht, wem gegenüber ich Toleranz zeigen muss und warum es kein Widerspruch ist, wenn tolerante Menschen nicht immer tolerant sind. Auslöser war zum einen die Frage hier im Blog, ob ich für eine Allparteien-Koa gegen die AfD bin, welche unter dem Artikel „Auf den Abgrund starren“ gestellt wurde. Zum anderen aber auch die Diskussion darüber, ob es einer Demokratie guttut, wenn Parteitage von Antidemokraten blockiert werden. Nim…

Sources: the EU is set to unveil its preliminary findings that AWS and Azure likely meet the criteria for regulation under the DMA as early as next week (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-06-18/microsoft-ama…

Sen. Elizabeth Warren and seven Democratic House members write to the DOJ, calling for an impartial antitrust review of Fox Corp's planned $22B Roku acquisition (Etan Vlessing/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/…

Lawmakers Call For “Impartial” DOJ Probe of Fox’s $22 Billion Roku Buy
Democratic politicians, led by U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren and U.S. Representative Becca Balint, raised concerns of “recent rubber-stamping of deals” that may violate antitrust laws and impede enforcement.  

The UK CMA launches an antitrust investigation into Microsoft's business software dominance, focusing on its bundling of Windows, Word, Teams, and other apps (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/uk-opens-antitr…

XDOF, which is building data pipelines, collection tools, and annotation systems for robot training data, emerges from stealth with $70M (Tim Fernholz/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/17/colle…