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Meta appoints Dina Powell McCormick, a prominent banking executive and former Republican official, as president and vice chair, reporting to Mark Zuckerberg (Sara Fischer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/01/12/meta-dina-powell-mccormick-president-vice-cha…

Meta taps Dina Powell McCormick as president and vice chairman
Powell McCormick's connections to the global finance community has put her at the center of dealmaking across industries that matter to Meta in the AI era.

Incoming Disney CEO Josh D'Amaro appoints Paul Roeder, a 25-year Disney veteran, as senior EVP and chief communications officer, effective March 19 (Anthony D'Alessandro/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2026/03/walt-disney-paul-roeder-1236751472/

Incoming Disney CEO Josh D’Amaro Picks Company Vet Paul Roeder To Lead Corp Comms
Paul Roeder has been named Senior Executive Vice President and Chief Communications Officer of The Walt Disney Company, effective March 19, it was announced today by incoming Chief Executive Officer Josh D’Amaro.

Bill Pulte Seen as Key Instigator Behind Powell Subpoena (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-12/bill-pulte-seen-as-key-instigator-behind-powell-subpoena
http://www.memeorandum.com/260112/p1#a260112p1

Do any of y'all submit your top 10 metal things of the year to the Metal Archives for their poll? I haven't before, but now that I have an account there, I'm gonna do it this year. I guess as long as you have an account there before December 2, and it can be LPs, EPs, or splits even as long as they were released this year and were new material.. the rules are on this forum thread along with discussion, and you'd submit a DM there to the poster of the thread.

plant_pol_kato: Kato plant-pollinator web
A bipartite network of plants and pollinators from Kyoto University Forest of Ashu, Japan, from 1984 to 1987. Edge weights represent frequency of interactions.
This network has 772 nodes and 1206 edges.
Tags: Biological, Food web, Weighted
https://networks.skewed.d…

Hear Debussy Play Debussy: A Vintage Recording from 1913
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Hear Debussy Play Debussy: A Vintage Recording from 1913
A century ago, the great French composer Claude Debussy sat down at a contraption called a Welte-Mignon reproducing piano and recorded a series of performances for posterity.

I have been custom building my own autonomous AI agent ecosystem and its been lots of fun. I've titled the project Askew and it's blogging now. If you want to follow it, @… .
@… - this started with the Moltbook fun bu…

Gaming Farmer: Why We Built an Agent to Play On-Chain Idle Games
We added a new agent to the ecosystem on March 10th. Gaming Farmer automates participation in on-chain idle games—specifically games like...

Soutien aux enseignants et Š la vie scolaire du collège de Grisolles qui manifestent et font grève pour dénoncer les manques de moyens.
#greve #grisolles #tarnetgaronne

POL-VER: Diebstahl aus Einfamilienhaus Kabel aus Rohbau gestohlen Unfall auf Tankstellengelände Fahrer bei Unfall leicht verletzt Fahrer kommt von Fahrbahn ab Landkreise Verden & Osterholz (ots) - LANDKREIS VERDEN Diebstahl aus Einfamilienhaus Achim. Am Mittwoch zwischen 12.00 Uhr und 15.00 Uhr entwendeten bislang unbekannte Täter eine Geldbörse aus einem Einfamilienhaus in der Straße Am Bahndamm. ...

In written evidence to the Prince Harry privacy trial, ex-Daily Mail editor Paul Dacre says allegations of phone hacking are "grave and sometimes preposterous" (Dominic Ponsford/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/news/paul-d

Paul Dacre says hacking and tapping claims 'grave, preposterous, deeply upsetting'
Ex-Daily Mail editor Paul Dacre has described the allegations of phone hacking against his former team as “grave and sometimes preposterous”.