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CBS News Digital's WGA East members reach a deal with management on their first collective bargaining agreement, a week before Skydance is set to take over (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/digital/news/cbs-news-digital-wga-east-u…

CBS News Digital WGA East Union Members Reach Three-Year Contract Deal
WGA East members at CBS News Digital reached a deal on their first collective-bargaining agreement, coming a week before Skydance-Paramount deal closes.

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The barbarian role of cultural demolition crew is especially important when you consider how often cultural reconstruction is needed. Many of Rome’s glaring defects — exploitation, authoritarianism, corrupt self-aggrandizement — flow from deeply human tendencies. Time and again they’ve transformed promising civilizations into decaying, oppressive monstrosities. Time and again, history seems to cry out: Bring on the demolition crew! And time and again barbarians cheerfully respond to the call. Their previous massive wreaking of destruction, near the end of the second millennium B.C., had come after civilization went through centuries of apparent ossification.
In a way, barbarians are just a special case of that general and potent zero-sum dynamic in cultural evolution: brutal competition among neighboring societies. This rivalry renders ossified cultures vulnerable to a makeover, minor or major. They may be taken over by a vast neighboring civilization, which will revamp them in its image. Or they may be infiltrated and perhaps even disassembled by barbarians, paving the way for future reassembly. Or they may revive and prevail — an example of the “challenge and response” dynamic stressed by Arnold Toynbee. In any event, the point remains the same: however deeply human the tendencies of exploitation, authoritarianism, and self-aggrandizement, cultures that surrender to them may not be long for this world.
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(Robert Wright, Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny)
Is it time for the barbarians now? Or perhaps we — here on Fedi — are the barbarians.

Me: you should always capitalize acronyms, it's called “ICE” or “NATO” not “Ice” and “Nato”
Them: so you capitalize “LASER” too?
Me: uhhh, well, it's different you know—

Canada and Mexico are creating a new trade route,
the "Northern Corridor",
that bypasses the United States entirely.
This move is projected to cost the U.S. economy $125 billion
while adding billions to the economies of Canada and Mexico.
https://www.

Skipping the US: Mexico and Canada enter into trade bypass agreement
It seeks to safeguard the continuity of trade flows between the two nations without US border interference.

SEC filing: Oracle signed multiple large cloud agreements, including one that is expected to contribute $30B in annual revenue starting in FY28; ORCL jumps 5% (Samantha Subin/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/30/oracle-orcl-stock-cloud-deal.html

Oracle stock jumps after $30 billion annual cloud deal revealed in filing
Oracle shares have jumped more than 33% this year, benefiting from cloud growth and the rise of artificial intelligence models.

Neulich hat mir ein Bekannter aus dem Alltag eines global agierenden Untermnehmens erzählt und dass mehr oder weniger frei gestellt wurde, mit KI zu arbeiten. Das führt nun dazu, dass Emails generiert werden und die Antworten ebenso mit KI entstehen. Maschinen kommunizieren mit Maschinen. Aber statt sich einzugestehen, dass der Alltag von bullshit jobs geprägt ist, im Kapitalismus viel nicht notwendige Arbeit essenziell erscheint, redet man sich ein, effizient zu arbeiten.

wikiconflict: Wikipedia edit wars (2009)
A network representing editorial interactions among editors of the English Wikipedia. Nodes are editors, and an edge denotes an edit conflict between the two editors. Edge are timestamped and signed. A positive sign indicates the users have agreement on the edit, and the negative sign indicates a disagreement (a reversion) on the edit.
This network has 118100 nodes and 2917785 edges.
Tags: Social, Conflict, Signed, Timestamps

I’m so glad sane, rational leadership from the US Federal Government lead to smooth sailing for trade between most of Europe and most of North America.
Gratifying to see intelligible, useful agreement that won’t needlessly jeopardize the livelihoods of millions. /s
https://www.

EU and US spin conflicting versions of trade deal
The European Commission and the White House are making contradictory claims about the content and scope of the EU-US trade deal. #EuropeNews

Still chasing a tricky bug in ngscopeclient that will have to wait until tomorrow.
Scenario:
* Open a pre-existing scopesession containing a protocol analyzer online
* Start acquiring new data
The very first waveform acquired seems to not end up in history, but all other processing works normally including protocol decodes (so we basically end up with a phantom waveform in the protocol analyzer that doesn't match up with one in history).

McClatchy will shutter In Touch, Life & Style, Closer, and First for Women in June, laying off their staffs, after acquiring the titles in a December merger (Chris Gardner/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreport…

In Touch, Life & Style, Closer and First for Women Magazines to Shutter, Lay Off Entire Staffs
“Despite the best efforts of many of our talented colleagues, we have been unable to develop a profitable business model for four of our magazine titles,” a McClatchy spokesperson tells THR.