L.A. mayoral forum canceled after leading candidates pull out
Organizers on Monday canceled a televised forum for Los Angeles mayoral candidates after City Councilmember Nithya Raman dropped out,
which meant all three of the leading candidates would be no-shows.
Mayor Karen Bass originally committed to the forum but dropped out last week,
saying she would instead travel to Sacramento to lobby state officials for funding on a variety of issues including homelessness a…
Source: Anthropic is in talks with Blackstone and other PE firms to form a JV selling consulting services for integrating Claude into portfolio companies (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/anthropic-talks-blackston…
Laos can do more to mitigate chemical pollution of rivers flowing into Vietnam (analysis) https://news.mongabay.com/2026/04/laos-can-do-more-to-mitigate-chemical-pollution-of-rivers-flowing-into-vietnam-analysis/…
"Romania to conclude memorandum with Mastercard implementing European Digital Identity Wallet"
Who knows more details about this? Many questions. 🤔
https://www.actmedia.eu/financial-and-bank
If a not-for-profit for-profit privacy-protecting company funded by surveillance capitalism isn’t trustworthy, I don’t know what is. @… https://polymaths.social/@c…
Source: Browns cutting OT Conklin after 6 years https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/48183102/browns-releasing-starting-ot-jack-conklin-source-says
The other day, my friend shared this video on consulting collectives, which is when "a small group of independent consultants or freelancers share clients, resources, and revenue on specific projects while maintaining their independence on others" :
https://www.instagram.com/p/DUDtOqGkTmY/…
Memo: George Cheeks says Nickelodeon Animation Studios will operate as a label within CBS Studios, similar to BET Studios, consolidating TV production units (Nellie Andreeva/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2026/04/nickelodeon-anima…
🐧 #science Using ankle bands on penguins for chemical surveillance.
https://www.ucdavis.edu/health/news/penguin-toxicologists-find-pfas-chemicals-r…
Waymo launches a $30 per month membership program called Waymo Premier, with perks including 10% cashback and five free ride cancellations per month (Sean O'Kane/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/11/waymo-launches-a-lo…