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Nielsen: The most-watched Christmas NFL game was Netflix's Lions-Vikings, with 27.5M live plus same-day US viewers; Prime Video's Chiefs vs. Broncos drew 21.06M (Katie Campione/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/12/christmas-2025-n…

Netflix’s Lions-Vikings Leads NFL Christmas Day Audiences; Prime Video Trails With Chiefs-Broncos But Sets ‘Thursday Night Football’ Record
Netflix had the largest audience for this year's Christmas Day NFL matchups, and Prime Video still set a record despite trailing

Essentially this is abusive behavior and the only way out is to break the cycle.
This doesn't preclude valid criticism, but each party in this must recognize that the other parties aren't them and do not have the same audiences, the same requirements for rigor, or the same style of communication.

Do you know @…? It's a European newsoutlet owned by readers, journalists, translators – more than 220 people from 30 countries.
"at Voxeurop, we play a unique role: connecting European audiences, translating and contextualizing to tell the story of what's happening across borders, and bringing you voices you won't find a…

LOL I stepped away from Mastodon for a couple hours and everybody is VERY MAD that I made jokes about CLIs. I use them every day, guys, it's gonna be okay. I promise I did not hurt Zork's feelings. It is, however, a factual statement that CLIs are not discoverable user interfaces and they are a poor choice for mainstream audiences; this debate was settled long ago.

NBC's entire primetime lineup on Sundays and Tuesdays is now reserved for sporting events through the spring, a stark example of broadcast TV's focus on live TV (John Koblin/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/28/business/media/broadcast-tv…

It’s Easier Than Ever to Turn Your Dial to a Live Event
Broadcast TV continues to draw big audiences. And they are increasingly getting special events, award shows and sports — lots of sports.

Analysis: YouTube's top conservative podcasters drive a boom in host-read ads targeting right-wing audiences; nearly 91% of 876 episodes had political ads (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2025-conservative-youtube-stars-marketing-boom/

Day 26: Emily Short
If you know who Short is, you know exactly why she's on this list. If you don't, you're probably in the majority. She's an absolutely legendary author within the interactive fiction (IF) community, which gets somewhat pigeonholed by stuff like Zork when there's actually a huge range of stuff in the medium some of which isn't even puzzle-focused, and Short has been writing & coding on the bleeding edge of things for decades.
I was lucky enough to be introduced to Short's work in graduate school, where we played "Galatea" as part of an interactive fiction class. Short uses a lot of clever parser tricks to make your conversation with a statue feel very fluid and conversational, giving to contemporary audiences a great example of how vibrant interaction with a well-designed agent can be in contrast to an LLM, if you're willing to put in some work on bespoke parsing & responses (although the user does need to know basic IF conventions). While I didn't explore the full range of Galatea's many possible outcomes, it left a strong impression on me as a vision for what IF could be besides dorky puzzles, and I think that "visionary" is a great term to describe Short.
If you'd like you get a feel for her (very early) work, you can play Galatea here: #30AuthorsNoMen

Moloch's Bargain: Emergent Misalignment When LLMs Compete for Audiences
Batu El, James Zou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06105 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.…

Moloch's Bargain: Emergent Misalignment When LLMs Compete for Audiences
Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly shaping how information is created and disseminated, from companies using them to craft persuasive advertisements, to election campaigns optimizing messaging to gain votes, to social media influencers boosting engagement. These settings are inherently competitive, with sellers, candidates, and influencers vying for audience approval, yet it remains poorly understood how competitive feedback loops influence LLM behavior. We show that optimizing LLMs …

Legacy news sources in #Japan aren’t doing their part in engaging younger audiences. I sat down with Japan Today to discuss why the new generation is turning to #TikTok clips and #Line updates instead of

Poynter announces a pilot project establishing a local public editor in Indianapolis to serve as a bridge between the public and local newsrooms (Poynter)
https://www.poynter.org/news-release/2025/poynter-launches-publ…

Poynter launches public editor project to serve news audiences in Indianapolis - Poynter
Partner newsrooms will publish the editor’s independent analysis of local news coverage across the market.

Ben Meiselas is a very busy man.
His “pro-democracy” channel MeidasTouch,
which he runs with his younger brothers Jordan and Brett,
puts out 15 or more videos a day, most of them presented by Meiselas himself.
The prolific output is part of the reason The MeidasTouch has become one of the most listened-to podcasts in the US,
routinely beating the mighty Joe Rogan in both video and audio,
and even overtaking Fox News in YouTube views.
Rogan and oth…

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#ComposerOfTheWeek #COTW
- Icons of British Light Music
Donald Macleod explores how light music emerged from the theatre pits of late-19th-century Britain and began to find audiences in concert halls, music halls and at home.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001pv1g

Bill and Ted's Broadway Debut
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/keanu-reeves-and-alex-winter-reunite-on-stage-in-broadways-waiting-for-godot

Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter reunite on stage in Broadway’s ‘Waiting for Godot’
It's a classic of theater that continues to be taken on by top actors and still resonates with audiences. “Waiting for Godot” mixes despair and comedy to raise questions about the meaning of life. Now, Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter, two actors who are great friends, are doing their waiting on Broadway. Senior arts correspondent Jeffrey Brown has the story for our arts and culture series, CANVAS.

Does anyone know what happened to the BBC Things linked-data service? It looks like it's been down since at least February 2025?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/things/

Things
BBC Things provides a single reference for the growing collection of entities that matter to the BBC and our audiences.

‘We’re fighting for you!’ Podcaster Ben Meiselas on taking on the Maga media – and winning the ratings battle | Podcasts | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2025/oct/11/podcaster-ben-me…

lol it’s so genuinely fun seeing Cory take decades of fluency in how these systems are broken and serve it up for a mainstream audiences. Even if you know “enshittification” well, this is worth the watch. And love to @…! https://

The 2nd annual memorial concert for Samantha Whitney is this Sunday! Tickets are available in-person and for the livestream—the show will be ASL-interpreted, and the livestream will be captioned! Please please please get your tickets! ➡️ https://thegreenroom42.venuetix.com/sh

"...the scams perpetrated during the Corbyn period by Labour Together, CCDH and its sock-puppet ‘Stop Funding Fake News’ (SFFN) to topple Corbyn and install Starmer in his stead, have led directly to the burgeoning police state Starmer is building against the people of this country, their rights and their freedoms, all to protect Israel and its interests."
Starmer's attempt to destroy Corbyn reaches US

Starmer's Corbyn smear accusations FINALLY go global with US coverage
Starmer's attempt to bring down Corbyn was notably investigated in The Fraud - which is now making its way over to American audiences

The UK's Channel 4 reports streaming minutes up 14% YoY in 2025 to 69B, with total individual audience up 2% YoY; the average viewer streamed 1,000 minutes (Advanced Television)
https://www.advanced-television.com/2025/12/22/channel-4-streaming-…

Channel 4: Streaming viewing up 14% in 2025
Channel 4 has revealed a snapshot of the nation’s viewing habits for 2025, in a roundup of facts that reveal how audiences spent their time in front of the sc

"Did Joseph Carl Robnett Licklider (1915-1990) read “An Experiment in Time”? Could it be that he had a series of dreams between 1960 and 1968, and that he quickly wrote them down in his diary before breakfast? We can only speculate. But we do know for a fact that those dreams begat a nothing short of extraordinary sequence of writings."

J. C. R. Licklider & M. Mitchell Waldrop
The writings of Jorge Luis Borges twist our perception of time and space. In between articles about Shaw, Chesterton, Wilde, and Coleridge, his 1952 book "Otras Inquisiciones" included an unexpected gem: a short story called "El Tiempo y J. W. Dunne". The question is, who was this John William Dunne and what does he have to do with time? Well, his name might be forgotten by contemporary audiences, but Dunne was the author of one of the biggest bestsellers of the first half of the twentieth cent…

Airy: Reading Robot Intent through Height and Sky
Baoyang Chen, Xian Xu, Huamin Qu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08381 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.08381…

Airy: Reading Robot Intent through Height and Sky
As industrial robots move into shared human spaces, their opaque decision making threatens safety, trust, and public oversight. This artwork, Airy, asks whether complex multi agent AI can become intuitively understandable by staging a competition between two reinforcement trained robot arms that snap a bedsheet skyward. Building on three design principles, competition as a clear metric (who lifts higher), embodied familiarity (audiences recognize fabric snapping), and sensor to sense mapping (r…

lol it’s so genuinely fun seeing Cory take decades of fluency in how these systems are broken and serve it up for a mainstream audiences. Even if you know “enshittification” well, this is worth the watch. And love to @…! https://

The Feature Understandability Scale for Human-Centred Explainable AI: Assessing Tabular Feature Importance
Nicola Rossberg, Bennett Kleinberg, Barry O'Sullivan, Luca Longo, Andrea Visentin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07050

The Feature Understandability Scale for Human-Centred Explainable AI: Assessing Tabular Feature Importance
As artificial intelligence becomes increasingly pervasive and powerful, the ability to audit AI-based systems is becoming increasingly important. However, explainability for artificial intelligence systems is not a one-size-fits-all solution; different target audiences have varying requirements and expectations for explanations. While various approaches to explainability have been proposed, most explainable artificial intelligence (XAI) methods for tabular data focus on explaining the outputs o…

Disney says Hulu will replace the Star hub on Disney on October 8 in international markets as part of Disney's plan to expand Hulu globally (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/790403/disney-plus-hulu-integration-global-expa…

Hulu isn’t going away after all — it’s going global
Disney is expanding Hulu to worldwide streaming audiences in preparation for the “unified” Disney Plus app experience that’s launching next year.

Spotify's video podcasts deal with Netflix will bring 16 shows to the platform, including The Bill Simmons Podcast, The Rewatchables, and Serial Killers (Spotify)
https://newsroom.spotify.com/2025-10-14/netflix-partnership-the-ringer…

Spotify Studios and The Ringer Video Podcasts Are Coming to Netflix — Spotify
Early next year, your favorite video podcasts are getting a bigger stage. Spotify and Netflix are teaming up to bring sports, culture, lifestyle, and true crime video podcasts from Spotify Studios and The Ringer to Netflix to complement the streamer’s existing programming and unlock new audiences and wider distribution for the shows.  Audiences will be...

Analysis: YouTube's top conservative podcasters are driving a boom in host-read ads targeting right-wing audiences; nearly 91% of 876 episodes had political ads (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2025-conservative-youtube-stars-marketing-boo…

Le Monde joins more than 20 publishers in offering NYT subscriptions to some subscribers at no extra cost, exposing NYT to new audiences (Mark Stenberg/Adweek)
https://www.adweek.com/media/new-york-times-le-monde-bundle-ai-translation-onbackground/

Can The New York Times Be the ‘Essential’ Newspaper for the Entire World?
A new subscription bundle with Le Monde, coupled with the promise of AI translation, underscore its untapped international audience

As viewers move online, animation studios are forced to find new ways to finance their work; YouTube is emerging as a testing ground and launchpad for originals (Ben Croll/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/biz/global/animation-gigantos…

YouTube is Reshaping a Global Animation Industry in Flux
To reach audiences migrating online, producers must develop new financing and distribution models beyond traditional broadcaster support.

An interview with Ben Meiselas, who runs the left-leaning US media company MeidasTouch with his brothers Jordan and Brett, on Trump, right-wing media, and more (Steve Rose/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2

Instacart integrates its retail data with TikTok Ads Manager, letting consumer packaged goods advertisers target audiences and measure conversions within TikTok (Anu Adegbola/Search Engine Land)
https://searchengineland.com/instacart-tiktok-ads-manager-463072

Instacart brings retail media targeting to TikTok Ads Manager
The partnership lets CPG advertisers use Instacart’s retail data to target high-intent shoppers and track purchases directly within TikTok.

URL Media, a network of community publishers that serve BIPOC audiences, receives a three-year, $5M Knight Foundation grant as it works to expand partnerships (URL Media)
https://url-media.com/url-media-secures-5-million-knight-foundation-grant/

URL Media Secures $5 Million Knight Foundation Grant to Build Unprecedented Sustainable Infrastructure for Community Media
Three-Year Grant Fuels Critical Infrastructure and Network Growth from 37 to 100 Publisher Partners Plus 250 Creators and Trusted Messengers to Reach 50 Million People in all 50 States by 2028.

Disney says Hulu will replace the Star hub on Disney on October 8 in international markets as part of Disney's plan to expand Hulu globally (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/790403/disney-plus-hulu-integration-global-expa…

Hulu isn’t going away after all — it’s going global
Disney is expanding Hulu to worldwide streaming audiences in preparation for the “unified” Disney Plus app experience that’s launching next year.