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It’s great to see a publication say “Naw, Fuck AI.” Support them if you can.
#noAI

No AI: This is Why Your Radavist Membership Matters
 Kyle Klain and John were having a conversation yesterday, when Kyle shared some AI-generated slop from Women's Health magazine with John. Women's Health is owned by parent company Hearst Corporation. This entity made $13 billion in 2024, yet they have to use AI to generate imagery for a clickbait article claiming cycling is better for weight loss and fitness than walking... TL;DR: PLEASE SUPPORT OUR HUMAN-BEING-GENERATED CONTENT Kyle began his text with "You should fucking highlight this shit…

The "Board of Peace" was created as a result of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) adoption of Resolution 2803 on November 17, 2025,
which authorized the organization as a “transitional administration with international legal personality”
intended to “set the framework and coordinate funding for the redevelopment of Gaza.”
However, the organizational charter revealed in Davos is light on details and makes no mention of Gaza.
This has caused many to…

“Board of Peace” Trademark Filings Reveal Its Murky Legal Status
The “Board of Peace” trademarks are not owned by the organization itself, but by the United States Patent and Trademark Office, marking an unprecedented use of executive branch power to protect rights of an ambiguously defined supranational entity.

Japanese memory chipmaker Kioxia's stock falls 14% after a Bain Capital-backed entity sold $2.1B worth of shares at a discount, stoking AI valuation concerns (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-26…

Chipmaker Kioxia Sinks After Bain-Backed Firm Discloses Selloff
Kioxia Holdings Corp.’s shares dived more than 14% after a Bain Capital-backed entity unloaded $2.1 billion of shares in the Japanese memory chipmaker at a discount, stoking concerns about the lofty valuations of global AI-related firms.

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TikTok says the new US entity has not updated its algorithm since the joint venture was announced, after users accused it of suppressing posts related to ICE (David McCabe/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/27/us/tiktok-ice-minneapolis-techni…

TikTok Blames Technical Problems After Users Claimed It Blocked ICE Posts
Some users had accused the app of blocking them from posting videos about Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The app said it was a power outage issue.

Mastodon announced fiscal sponsorship via WE AID,
a German nonprofit organisation that supports charitable projects within an established legal framework.
This partnership offers donors
tax-deductible contributions in Germany
and ensures verified integrity through WE AID’s oversight.
It also enables Mastodon to operate as a nonprofit entity,
strengthening the commitment to a user-first,
community-driven platform,
free from algorithmic manipul…

Mastodon Joins Forces with WE AID
We're partnering with WE AID as our fiscal sponsor for donations in Europe.

SK Hynix announces a new US-based "AI Company" from a restructuring of its California-based subsidiary Solidigm, and commits at least $10B to the new entity (Dylan Butts/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/28/sk-hynix-ai-company-us.html

South Korea's SK Hynix to establish a special ‘AI Company’ in the U.S.
SK Hynix will set up a new U.S.-based company focused on artificial intelligence solutions, with $10 billion committed to the project.

Niemand vertraut einer Domain. Man vertraut einer Marke. 🤝
​Im SEO starren alle auf Domain-Metriken (DR, DA). Aber Google denkt anders.
E-E-A-T (Experience, Expertise, Authoritativeness, Trust) hängt nicht an der URL, sondern an der Entity dahinter.
​Wenn der ADAC einen Artikel über Reifen schreibt, vertraut man dem. Egal ob auf adac.de oder einer Subdomain.
Wenn billig-reifen-test-24.de das schreibt, eher nicht.
​SEO ist heute Markenaufbau. Starke Marke = Vertra…

TikTok says the new US entity has not updated its algorithm since the joint venture was announced, after users accused it of suppressing posts related to ICE (David McCabe/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/27/us/tiktok-ice-minneapolis-techni…

TikTok Blames Technical Problems After Users Claimed It Blocked ICE Posts
Some users had accused the app of blocking them from posting videos about Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The app said it was a power outage issue.

Mastodon announced fiscal sponsorship via WE AID,
a German nonprofit organisation that supports charitable projects within an established legal framework.
This partnership offers donors
tax-deductible contributions in Germany
and ensures verified integrity through WE AID’s oversight.
It also enables Mastodon to operate as a nonprofit entity,
strengthening the commitment to a user-first, community-driven platform,
free from algorithmic manipulation an…

Mastodon Joins Forces with WE AID
We're partnering with WE AID as our fiscal sponsor for donations in Europe.

"The Metro is alive. It breathes, it listens, it waits. It is not just tunnels and darkness, but a living, breathing entity that holds the souls of those who walk it and reveals truths only to those who are willing to see."
-- Сердар Искандеров
#MetroLastLight #Metro2033

A reminder that when you connect to JSTOR, you are connecting to an entity that generates tens of billions a year and that killed Aaron Swartz. #jstor

»TikTok signs deal for sale of U.S. unit after yearslong saga:
TikTok has signed a deal to divest its U.S. entity to a joint venture controlled by American investors, per an internal memo seen by Axios«
When will the children & young people (all people) finally realize that dss Internet is decentralized and not about a few power-hungry corporations?
(A rhetorical question in my dream of freedom)
🤷

Scoop: TikTok signs deal for U.S. unit after yearslong saga
The deal would end a yearslong saga to force TikTok's Chinese parent ByteDance to sell the company's U.S. operation.

I have just become resigned to the fact that Oklahoma will probably be without PBS sooner or later, especially since Arkansas dropped it. I assume I can just sponsor an out of state entity once that happens and watch it over the internet However. . .
#pbs #oklahoma

RE: https://mastodon.social/@sarahjamielewis/115730052589989499
It is super expensive but it really seems to be time to think about how to create and fund an entity that can fork Firefox while Mozilla does some weird AI pie in the sky shit.

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Source: the TikTok US deal values it at just around $14B; TikTok's US entity makes roughly $14B annually in advertising revenues alone, per analyst estimates (Sara Fischer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/01/23/tiktok-deal-trump-app-ban

TikTok divestiture deal closes
The deal ends a yearslong saga to force TikTok's Chinese parent ByteDance to sell the company's U.S. operation.

"The Securing American Funding and Expertise from Adversarial Research Exploitation (SAFE) Act would deny federal funding to any U.S. scientist who collaborates with anyone “affiliated with a hostile foreign entity,” a category that includes four countries: China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea. The prohibited activities would include joint research, co-authorship on papers, and advising a foreign graduate student or postdoctoral fellow. The language is retroactive, meaning any interactions during the previous 5 years could make a scientist ineligible for future federal funding."
https://www.science.org/content/article/u-s-congress-considers-sweeping-ban-chinese-collaborations

The news is a lot more surreal if you choose to read "the Pentagon" as being some dimension-straddling eldritch entity that casts a pentagonal shadow into our realm rather than a boring metonym for the intelligence-military complex

In Canada, the CBC might be the kind of entity to help run / coordinate “public service social media” as described in this Tech Policy Press article https://www.techpolicy.press/public-service-social-media-as-a-democratic-safeguard/
With interop…

This CSO letter submitted today has a single #China/#HongKong entity, China Labour Bulletin.
Which self-dissolved in mid-2025...
https://foejapan.org/en/issue/20251205/27117/

Call for the Suspension of Irresponsible Nickel Development in Palawan, the Philippines — More Than a Decade Without Effective Environmental Measures, Leaving Community Rights at Risk — International Petition (8,411 Signatories from 36 Countries; 90 Organizations from 40 Countries) Submitted to Sumitomo Metal Mining | Friends of the Earth Japan
Ahead of Human Rights Day on December 10, an international petition calling for the suspe...

hardware iceberg, near the top:
- nobody can implement I2C in hardware (except for Philips)
- SPI doesn't exist as a coherent entity
- UART has a CDR loop but you don't think of it that way
- MSP430 "JTAG" 🦋

The retreat of US military from Europe is long overdue and a blessing in disguise, Europe should be able to defend itself without the help of the US in the future. NATO should be replaced by an European defence entity.
#eu #defence

TikTok says ByteDance sold a majority stake in the app's US operations to a group of non-Chinese investors, including Oracle, MGX, and Silver Lake (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/technology/tiktok-deal-oracle-bytedance-china-us…

TikTok Strikes Deal to Create New U.S. Entity and Loosen App’s Ties to China
The Chinese parent company of the popular video app said a group of non-Chinese investors would create an American TikTok to avoid a federal ban.

Source: the TikTok US deal values it at just around $14B; TikTok's US entity makes roughly $14B annually in advertising revenues alone, per analyst estimates (Sara Fischer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/01/23/tiktok-deal-trump-app-ban

TikTok divestiture deal closes
The deal ends a yearslong saga to force TikTok's Chinese parent ByteDance to sell the company's U.S. operation.

So this is percolating and the results so far are not surprising.
I'd vote NO, for the following reasons:
- oil demand continues to decline and risk is high we'll end up with an expensive underutilized pipeline. Therefore high risk we'll end up subsidizing any private entity that builds this thing.
- why would we invest public dollars to support infrastructure for a product where 75% of the profit leaves Canada? There has to be a net benefit, beyond steel sales and jobs, for this project to be considered.
- Indigenous land rights must be respected. They will be left with the rusting pipeline decades in the future, and it's impact on the land.
- the B.C. government must also have a final vote as they have to give up land and provide support.
- we don't need additional oil tankers on our west coast.
- and most importantly, with this MOU, Canada pretty much declared we aren't serious about protecting the environment or fighting climate change. We're oil whores. Harsh but....
#CanPoli #ClimateAction

"Archaeologists: D.C. Capitol May Once Have Been Used For Legislating"

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@… TIL:
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jumping_the_shark>
＂… a creative work or entity has evolved and reached a point in which it has exh…

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This network has 225498 nodes and 293697 edges.
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Trump has sent letters of invitation to various heads of government to join a new "Board of Peace",
which he will chair.
The organization was envisioned as part of the United Nations–backed effort for the reconstruction and transitional governance of Gaza.
But the new board’s charter, details of which have not been previously reported, appears to give the board a global remit, according to a copy we reviewed.
And the price of a permanent position on the…

Trump’s Billion-Dollar Board of Peace
The new entity has a global remit and a steep price for a permanent seat.

Internal memo: TikTok has signed a deal to sell its US unit; Oracle, Silver Lake, MGX will collectively own 45% of the US entity, and ByteDance will retain ~20% (Sara Fischer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/12/18/tiktok-sale

Scoop: TikTok signs deal for sale of U.S. unit after years-long saga
The deal would end a years-long saga to force TikTok's Chinese parent ByteDance to sell the company's U.S. operation.

Internal memo: TikTok has signed a deal to sell its US unit; Oracle, Silver Lake, MGX will collectively own 45% of the US entity, and ByteDance will retain ~20% (Sara Fischer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/12/18/tiktok-sale

Scoop: TikTok signs deal for sale of U.S. unit after years-long saga
The deal would end a years-long saga to force TikTok's Chinese parent ByteDance to sell the company's U.S. operation.

dbpedia_location: DBpedia entity-location network
A bipartite network of the affiliations between named entities from Wikipedia and particular notable locations, as extracted from Wikipedia by the DBpedia project. The date of this snapshot is uncertain.
This network has 225498 nodes and 293697 edges.
Tags: Informational, Relatedness, Unweighted

Researchers find Predator spyware is being used in several countries, including Iraq https://therecord.media/intellexa-predator-spyware-continues-despite-sanctions

Sony Pictures Entertainment and Sony Music Entertainment (Japan) agree to buy WildBrain's 41% stake in Peanuts Holdings for ~$457M, raising Sony's slice to 80% (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/film/news/sony-acquire-peanuts-457-mil…

Sony to Own Control of Peanuts in $457 Million Deal With WildBrain
Sony will own 80% of Peanuts Holdings after acquiring the 41% stake in the entity from WildBrain.

dbpedia_location: DBpedia entity-location network
A bipartite network of the affiliations between named entities from Wikipedia and particular notable locations, as extracted from Wikipedia by the DBpedia project. The date of this snapshot is uncertain.
This network has 225498 nodes and 293697 edges.
Tags: Informational, Relatedness, Unweighted

dbpedia_location: DBpedia entity-location network
A bipartite network of the affiliations between named entities from Wikipedia and particular notable locations, as extracted from Wikipedia by the DBpedia project. The date of this snapshot is uncertain.
This network has 225498 nodes and 293697 edges.
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Trump family's World Liberty Financial says its entity World Liberty Trust has applied for a US banking license, which would let it issue the USD1 stablecoin (Vicky Ge Huang/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/finance/currencies/wor<…

dbpedia_location: DBpedia entity-location network
A bipartite network of the affiliations between named entities from Wikipedia and particular notable locations, as extracted from Wikipedia by the DBpedia project. The date of this snapshot is uncertain.
This network has 225498 nodes and 293697 edges.
Tags: Informational, Relatedness, Unweighted

dbpedia_location: DBpedia entity-location network
A bipartite network of the affiliations between named entities from Wikipedia and particular notable locations, as extracted from Wikipedia by the DBpedia project. The date of this snapshot is uncertain.
This network has 225498 nodes and 293697 edges.
Tags: Informational, Relatedness, Unweighted

President Trump says Netflix's planned acquisition of WBD will have "to go through a process", as it would create an entity with "a lot of market share" (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12…

Alt5 Sigma accumulated $1.5 billion of World Liberty Financial cryptocurrency in August as part of a circular deal that routed more than an estimated $500 million to an entity affiliated with President Donald Trump
Public companies, like Alt5 Sigma, must notify the SEC within four business days when their independent accountant resigns, and their accountant must reviewany interim financial statements included in a quarterly report.
Alt5 Sigma told the SEC on Black Friday its indep…

Trump Crypto Partner Alt5 Sigma May Have Violated SEC Rules After Another Filing Discrepancy
Alt5 Sigma told regulators its accountant resigned in November, while he says he notified the company three months earlier.

President Trump says Netflix's planned acquisition of WBD will have "to go through a process", as it would create an entity with "a lot of market share" (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12…

dbpedia_location: DBpedia entity-location network
A bipartite network of the affiliations between named entities from Wikipedia and particular notable locations, as extracted from Wikipedia by the DBpedia project. The date of this snapshot is uncertain.
This network has 225498 nodes and 293697 edges.
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BNP Paribas says it is joining nine other European banks including ING, UniCredit, and CaixaBank developing a euro-pegged stablecoin in a JV called Qivalis (CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/business/2025/12/02/bnp…

Comcast completes the separation of most of its cable networks into a separate entity called Versant Media, led by Mark Lazarus as CEO (Georg Szalai/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news…

Versant CEO Touts “Scale, Strategy and Leadership to Grow” as Comcast Completes Separation
The owner of MSNBC and CNBC will start trading on the Nasdaq under the ticker symbol VSNT.

The Netflix-WBD deal should quiet concerns, for now, from CNN employees worried about the prospect of Paramount combining CBS News and CNN in a WBD acquisition (John Koblin/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/business/media/cnn-net…

CNN Is Excluded From Netflix’s Warner Bros. Deal for Now
The prospect of Paramount’s buying Warner Bros. Discovery had led CNN journalists to wonder if the channel may be combined with CBS News. Instead, CNN will remain in a separate corporate entity.