@Techmeme@techhub.socialBeehiiv launches Community, which lets subscribers chat with each other, adds programmatic ads and an AI tool that helps creators manage their audiences (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/16/newsletter-platf…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialMedia and entertainment company Macro acquires AllBlk, a streaming platform dedicated to Black audiences, from AMC Global Media (Dade Hayes/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2026/09/macro-acquires-streaming-service-allblk-amc-global-media-123710…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialABC News launches four experimental, half-hour programs on ABC News Live, based on web data about the news stories audiences are seeking out (Brian Steinberg/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/abc-news-twist-live-stream-tv-news-gio-benitez-1…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialBeehiiv launches Community, which lets subscribers chat with each other, adds an AI tool that helps creators manage their audiences, and adds programmatic ads (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/16/newsletter…
@fanf@mendeddrum.orgwe were agreeing in the pub that “no more fucks to give” is pure brilliance https://youtu.be/Vqbk9cDX0l0
and i unfairly observed that thomas benjamin wild esq’s other songs aren’t always up to the standard of the hit that made him famous (duh)
tho i do like his musical complaint that his audiences dem…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialHow museums are using AI chatbots to reach new audiences, as some museum staff worry AI-generated inaccuracies and bias could undermine them as trusted sources (Naomi Rea/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/998152e8-90cd-4d95-ae43-e07b773ab943
@cdarwin@c.imRE: https://c.im/@cdarwin/117253864087940631
In these eat-the-rich times,
it’s the dark side of wealth, fame and alleged genius that stir audiences.
Enter two new documentaries to whet your appetite.
@hynek@mastodon.socialbetween all the dunking on DHH/Omarchy I can’t shake the gnawing thought of why it took HIM to make a desktop Linux that is perceived “cool” by normies & is doing the numbers 1Password used as an excuse?
It doesn’t matter whether it sucks if everybody is using it—there has to be a lesson to be learned here!?
The $$$ only came once it had momentum, & while he had a following, he has far from the biggest audiences in FOSS. He’s a dude who spent most of his career building websites on a Mac FFS.
@shriramk@mastodon.socialSomething I love about film festivals is, whereas most commercial movies are made for audiences & fine-tuned by algos, here you still find self-indulgent flicks. Some are terrible, and some are just amazing. RIIFF is one of my favorite things about summer!
https://film-festival.org/
@cdarwin@c.imBack with his comically large gavel,
Joe Gruters
– the Republican National Committee chair
– kicked off the second night of the GOP midterm convention.
Gruters noted that today is the one year anniversary of Charlie Kirk’s death – Gruters said "let’s be more like Charlie Kirk.”
Later today, we’ll also hear from vice-president JD Vance, who’ll deliver the keynote address.
Donald Trump will also speak again:
“I’m going to be just sort of getting …
@BBC3MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#KeyChanges:Radio3sEssentialHistoryOfClassicalMusic
- 1807: A New Quartet
1807, Vienna. Beethoven’s new Razumovsky Quartets bewilder performers and audiences alike.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m003026g
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialOfcom reports that 26% of UK viewers in 2025 chose Netflix first for TV viewing, vs. 25% for the BBC; in 2024, 28% turned to the BBC first and 23% to Netflix (Max Goldbart/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2026/07/netflix-chosen-over-bbc-uk-audi…
@theodric@social.linux.pizzaControl the conversation, control the population.
@clongclongmoo@social.bau-ha.usdie nmi! – Total Club Destruchtion
https://archive.org/details/wuerfel47-die_nmi-total_club_destruction
@cdarwin@c.imAspiring autocrats operate differently in the 21st century;
In previous eras, they had little hesitation about unleashing violence and committing massive human rights violations.
Today, they try to fool both domestic and international audiences into thinking that democracy and the rule of law still exist.
The recently deposed Hungarian prime minister, Viktor Orbšn, was a master of this technique;
He spent many years performing what he called “the peacock dance”
@BBC3MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#RoundMidnight
- New from Sarah Elizabeth Charles
Yazmin Lacey concludes her 4/4 feature week tonight with an album by a late jazz vocalist who deeply influenced contemporary music, many artists and audiences, including Yazmin.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002ksl7
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialRentrak: US summer 2026 box office revenue hit a record $4.76B, beating 2013's record, with each of the four months topping $1B for the first time (Anthony D'Alessandro/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2026/09/box-office-summer-2026-record-1237068355/
@newsie@darktundra.xyzAre Public Libraries Becoming Children’s Libraries? https://www.404media.co/are-public-libraries-becoming-childrens-libraries/
@cowboys@darktundra.xyzHow the Cowboys helped comedian Will Ferrell quit a dead-end job at Disneyland https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2026/07/17/cowboys-will-ferrell-disney-job-fake-tryout-podcast-story/…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialFacebook brings back Facebook Creator Studio as a stand-alone app with built-in AI chatbot to help creators grow their audiences through personalized guidance (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/24/facebook-rolls-out-an-ai-companion-…
@servelan@newsie.socialIn case you want to keep apprised of today's 2 minute hate by the right (recent headline shows WSJ drank the 'Smithsonian bad' koolaid):
theRighting – Alerting Mainstream Audiences to Today’s Headlines from the Right
https://therighting.com/
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialA look at the declining representation of LGBTQ characters on TV, as smaller audiences and slow growth pressure execs to cater to "safer" mainstream audiences (Jose Alejandro Bastidas/The Wrap)
https://www.thewrap.com/media-platforms/tv
@Techmeme@techhub.social
@arXiv_csCR_bot@mastoxiv.pageDeepfake News Detection: A Multimodal Framework Integrating LipNet, DeepSpeech and ResNET for Enhanced Audio-Visual Analysis
Ameena Khan, Muhammad Ahsan Aziz, Muhammad Junaid Asif, Naeem Akhter, Rana Fayyaz Ahmad
https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.20579 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2607.20579 https://arxiv.org/html/2607.20579
arXiv:2607.20579v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Deepfake news refers to AI-generated (or AI ma-nipulated) multimedia content intentionally generated to deceive audiences by manipulating the facial expressions, or speech while maintaining the realistic appearance. The rapid progress of generative AI has made the synthesis of highly realistic fake videos and cloned voices widely accessible, posing a serious threat to the authenticity of digital news media. This paper presents a multi-modal framework that discerns the authenticity of video content by jointly exploiting audio and visual cues, thereby addressing the challenge of detecting the deepfake videos. We proposed a framework that involves features extraction from lip movements, audio content and video frames. Lip movements and speech content are encoded using the LipNet and DeepSpeech2 models, while facial features are extracted by leveraging the use of BlazeFace and represented with ResNet18. The extracted feature vectors are concatenated into a holistic video representation and classified with an ensemble of machine learning and deep learning models, including Random Forest (RF), Multi-layer Perceptron (MLP) and Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) networks. Exten-sive experiments performed on the FakeAVCeleb dataset shows that the proposed approach attains an accuracy of 94% using augmented audio features, outperforming a state-of-the-art multi-modal ensemble baseline. The results confirm the robustness and practical potential of the proposed framework for deepfake news detection.
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@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialA look at The Athletic's creator partnerships, a program it launched last September to find new audiences that has resulted in ~75 videos with 50M views overall (Hanaa' Tameez/Nieman Lab)
https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/08/the-athl
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialTikTok is making it difficult for indie media outlets like TPM and Garbage Day to build audiences, sometimes taking down multiple videos without explanation (Talking Points Memo)
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/the-weekender/tiktok-doesnt-want-us-to-tal…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialNew media sites on the left have found growing audiences; Drop Site News co-founder Ryan Grim says his two-year-old site has 800K free and 60K paid subscribers (Ali Swenson/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/democratic-
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialThe Economist launches Economist Play, a $15-per-month audio and video tier, costing around $10 less than its all-access premium subscription (Sara Guaglione/Digiday)
https://digiday.com/media/the-economists-new-audio-and-video-tier-targets-youn…
@teledyn@mstdn.caI fear these two sides of a cineplex popcorn says something about their view of these target audiences
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social @Mediagazer@mstdn.socialForbes unveils Forbes Creator, which uses TikTok, Instagram, and events to push video-led coverage fronted by six creators, with flexible, case-by-case payments (Alyssa Mercante/Digiday)
https://digiday.com/media/forbes-tests-a-creator-led-audie…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialMemo: MS NOW plans to launch a $7.99/month membership program for "super fans" on September 9, offering members-only content verticals, a 24/7 feed, and more (Max Tani/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/08/19/2026/ms-now-to-launch…
@kurtsh@mastodon.socialI love Alan Ritchson. 20yrs of persistence until Reacher. And OP gets it wrong: He deals "justice" & that's his audiences follow him for.
▶️ when "overnight success" takes two decades
#alanritchson #reacher #aquaman #hawk
