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WGA West report: the number of members reporting earnings fell 9.4% YoY in 2024, while total earnings rose 12.7% to $1.5B in the same period, below 2022's $1.9B (Katie Kilkenny/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business

TV and Film Writing Jobs Grew More Scarce, Even If Earnings Were Up Slightly in 2024
The annual tally from the Writers Guild West shows that its members may have made slightly more money overall than during the 148-day strike year of 2023, but there's fewer jobs available.

faculty_hiring: Faculty hiring networks (Comp. Sci., Business, History)
Three networks of faculty hiring in Computer Science Departments, Business Schools, and History Departments. Each node is a PhD-granting institution in the respective field, and a directed edge (i,j) indicates that a person received their PhD from node i and was tenure-track faculty at node j during time of collection (2011-2013). All data collected from faculty public rosters at the sampled institutions.
Thi…

Zo kan hij zijn bedrijven nog sneller de grond in jagen
https://nos.nl/artikel/2569129-musk-stopt-als-adviseur-van-regering-trump-na-bezuinigingsmissie

Anthropic tests AI running a real business with bizarre results https://www.artificialintelligence-news.com/news/anthropic-tests-ai-running-a-real-business-with-bizarre-results/

Anthropic tests AI running a real business with bizarre results
Anthropic tasked its Claude AI model with running a small business to test its real-world economic capabilities.

If your business, with no sense of humor about it, refers to departments within itself as P&PMD and PB&PMC, how am I supposed to interact with you with a straight face? 😆
I mean, even Franz Kafka's gonna laugh at you, right? 😯
(this is based on a true story)
#jobs #business

If you’ve ever tried putting butter in your coffee, you have Dave Asprey to thank.
(Sure, it was your annoying coworker who finally convinced you,
but that’s where your annoying coworker got the idea.)
Asprey is arguably the man who popularized the brew of smart drugs, supplements, and self-experimentation
we now know as biohacking.
As part of his multi-million-dollar empire
—which also involves the company Bulletproof Labs
and dressing increasingl…

Snake Venom, Urine, and a Quest to Live Forever: Inside a Biohacking Conference Emboldened by MAHA
WIRED attended a biohacking conference filled with unorthodox and often unproven anti-aging treatments. Adherents revealed how the Make America Healthy Again movement has given them a renewed fervor.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #SonicReducer
Bikini Kill:
🎵 Suck My Left One
#BikiniKill
https://bikinikill.bandcamp.com/track/suck-my-left-one-4
https://open.spotify.com/track/4IQY0TThr7YebYWf2X07xC

Memo: Business Insider is cutting staff by 21% to "endure extreme traffic drops outside of our control" and "exiting the majority of our Commerce business" (Ben Mullin/@benmullin)
https://x.com/benmullin/status/1928046544390926339

Ben Mullin (@BenMullin) on X
scoop: Business Insider is reducing staff by 21% as it reduces its reliance on “traffic-sensitive businesses.” Memo from CEO Barbara Peng:

faculty_hiring: Faculty hiring networks (Comp. Sci., Business, History)
Three networks of faculty hiring in Computer Science Departments, Business Schools, and History Departments. Each node is a PhD-granting institution in the respective field, and a directed edge (i,j) indicates that a person received their PhD from node i and was tenure-track faculty at node j during time of collection (2011-2013). All data collected from faculty public rosters at the sampled institutions.
Thi…

The New York Times doubles down on cooking videos by partnering with cooking creators, expanding its video lineup, exploring more brand collaborations, and more (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business

Inside The New York Times’ Plan to Double Down on Cooking Videos (Exclusive)
The Times plans to work with cooking creators and its own staff to build up a video slate, beginning with a weekend baking series, and a video spinoff of The Veggie newsletter.