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Memo: David Leavy, who became CNN's COO in 2023, is leaving; sources say the longtime key lieutenant of David Zaslav is returning to Warner Bros. Discovery (Brian Steinberg/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/david-leavy-cnn…

David Leavy, CNN's COO, Will Return to Warner Bros. Discovery
David Leavy will leave CNN and return to duties at corporate parent Warner Bros. Discovery, where he has long been a key aide to CEO David Zaslav

University of Virginia president resigns amid pressure from the Trump administration (CNN)
https://cnn.com/2025/06/27/us/university-of-virginia-president-resigns
http://www.memeorandum.com/250627/p161#a250627p161

Will we get steamrolled by Elon Musk's Neuralink Blindsight brain implant PR sometime later today?
Remember, Joseph Lazzaro on CNN in 2002: "We are at the beginning of the end of blindness with this type of technology." https://edition.cnn.com/2002/HEALTH/06/1…

Random PR of the day https://github.com/pbzweihander/fediday.org/pull/16

Fix carousel scroll on small screens by cheeaun · Pull Request #16 · pbzweihander/fediday.org
Before: The first post is cropped and can't be scrolled to After: The first post appears and scrollable Solution is using safe https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/justify-content...

Techies are always chasing the mythical tool that will let them "focus on the work" and avoid tedious distractions like "talking to people." AI tools are only the latest to promise this impossible dream.
But talking to people IS the work. You can complain about it on the internet, or take responsibility and make your life a lot easier.
#LLM

Can Designers Avoid Meetings?
LLMs are not the first tool to promise that they can free us from having to talk to people so we can "focus on the work." But talking to people IS the work.

So sorry to everyone who thought he was actually done.
#uspol

Here comes the boom! Studying the effects of rocket launch sonic booms on neighboring communities: #SonicBoom spreads.

The evidence here is very simple: if you go into DOGE actually trying to improve efficiency, and then try to work transparently and report the truth that existing government teams are functioning very efficiently already, they will can you. https://sahillavingia.com/doge

DOGE Days
My experience joining the United States DOGE Service as a software engineer, and what I learned along the way.

Random PR of the day https://github.com/pbzweihander/fediday.org/pull/16

Fix carousel scroll on small screens by cheeaun · Pull Request #16 · pbzweihander/fediday.org
Before: The first post is cropped and can't be scrolled to After: The first post appears and scrollable Solution is using safe https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/justify-content...

The United States Is About to Embark on a Terrifying Experiment in Mass Statelessness (Matt Watkins/Slate)
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/06/scotus-analysis-amy-coney-barrett-texas-babies-stateless.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250627/p149#a250627p149