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Second Law of Business Meetings:
If there are two possible ways to spell a person's name, you
will pick the wrong one.
Corollary:
If there is only one way to spell a name,
you will spell it wrong, anyway.

Paramount, California AG Rob Bonta, and the WGA schedule a two-day meeting for settlement discussions about the WBD deal, starting October 14 (Winston Cho/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business

It’s a Date: Paramount, California AG and Writers Guild Agree on Meeting for Settlement Talks
The Oct. 14 talks will be the first time the two sides formally sit down to discuss a resolution to the case.

"Only 13% of biodiversity promises from 180 influential companies pass accountability test"
#Biodiversity #Business

Only 13% of biodiversity promises from 180 influential companies pass accountability test
New research by the University of Oxford and the Stockholm Resilience Centre at Stockholm University has revealed that most biodiversity commitments made by large, influential companies are not precise enough to enable society to evaluate whether they are making progress toward meeting their commitments. The results have been published in One Earth.

French PM Lecornu will hold a crisis meeting Monday over a June-July cyberattack on France's tax agency that compromised 678K individual and business accounts (Phil Serafino/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Officials from the US met Houthi leaders over the weekend at the country’s embassy in Muscat, Oman, it has been confirmed,
leading to the US decision
⚠️ not to intervene to help Saudi Arabia drive back a Houthi advance inside Yemen.
The Iran-backed militant group reassured the US that the ceasefire agreement between the two sides struck in 2025 still held
⚠️and the movement had no intention of attacking US shipping in the Red Sea.
Only Saudi-linked shipping was…

US opts not to back Saudi Arabia in Yemen after meeting Houthi leaders
Iran-backed militants have offered Trump administration assurances over safety of Red Sea shipping

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #FocusBeats
Mojo:
🎵 MADNESS (Instrumental)
#Mojo
https://mojo10.bandcamp.com/track/madness

«Wegen Handy in die Klinik!? – Raus aus der Mediensucht:
Smartphone, Tablet, Computer, Konsole – allgegenwärtig im Alltag, beruflich wie privat. Viele fühlen sich vom Bildschirm bestimmt, manche haben die Kontrolle längst verloren. Medien können süchtig machen wie Alkohol oder Nikotin.»
…und ich sende dies euch nun online, per meinem Handy, das Medium über Mediensucht euch zu ;)
📺

Y-Kollektiv - Wegen Handy in die Klinik!? – Raus aus der Mediensucht - hier anschauen
Medien können süchtig machen: Reporterin Helena Brinkmann begleitet unter anderem einen jungen Mann im Kampf gegen seine Mediensucht und zeigt, wie exzessiver Konsum Verhalten und Beziehungen verändert und zur ernsthaften Erkrankung werden kann.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #LateJunction
Matmos:
🎵 The Rust Belt
#Matmos
https://open.spotify.com/track/4ZaJZcd7lSFswJ8qBiF5yZ

Consensys plans to split into two companies: MetaMask, with Joe Lubin as CEO, and a new Consensys focused on Ethereum and institutional infrastructure (Jason Shubnell/The Block)
https://www.theblock.co/news/business/2026

An American scientist who has studied underground nuclear tests
has been detained in China for more than 18 months on spying charges,
according to his supporters and a US lawmaker.
💥Youlin Chen, a seismologist, has been “wrongfully detained” since November 2024,
US Senator Edward Markey said in a statement Tuesday.
Donald Trump raised Chen’s detention and asked for his freedom during a meeting with Chinese leader Xi Jinping in Beijing in May,
according to …

US expert on underground nuclear tests held in China for 18 months
An American scientist who has studied underground nuclear tests has been detained in China more than 18 months on spying charges, according to his supporters and a US lawmaker.