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Sources: Salesforce's Slack tells customers in China, Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan that they must migrate their accounts to partner Alibaba before February (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/salesforces-slack-stop-…

Salesforce’s Slack to Stop Direct Service in China, Farm Out to Alibaba
Salesforce’s Slack has told customers in mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan that they must migrate their accounts to partner Alibaba Group before February, if they want to continue with instant-messaging service, according to a Slack customer in mainland China and an Alibaba Cloud employee. The move is in response to a privacy and data security law that came into effect this year in

MLB finalizes deals with NBC/Peacock, Netflix, and ESPN; sources: NBC/Peacock pays ~$200M/year, Netflix pays $50M/season, ESPN maintains $1.65B over three years (Andrew Marchand/The Athletic)
https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6820362/2025/11/19/mlb-t…

MLB lands new media deals with NBC, Netflix and ESPN as league restructures TV future: Sources
The three-year agreements were a direct result of ESPN opting out of the final three seasons of its contract in February.

On February 3, 2023, a Norfolk Southern train carrying hazardous chemicals derailed in the small town of East Palestine, Ohio.
Three days later, Norfolk Southern pressured local authorities to dump and burn five tanker cars full of chemicals,
blasting a mushroom cloud of toxic phosgene and hydrogen chloride into the air.
Nearly three years later, residents like Jami Wallace and her family are still suffering the toxic fallout

Residents in this small town ‘left for dead’ after industrial disaster
“It's not fair. We're people, our lives matter. My daughter's life matters. And that's what everybody is telling me: ‘You guys are just the cost of doing business. We can kill a whole community and who cares?’”

Christmas 1604 ledger shows Shakespeare top of the bill https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/about/news/christmas-1604-ledger-shows-shakespeare-top-of-the-bill/

Christmas 1604 ledger shows Shakespeare top of the bill - The National Archives
A set of accounts from James I’s Master of the Revels which record one of the first performances of Shakespeare’s Othello in the run-up to Christmas 1604 will be on show at The National Archives from 12 January-5 February. Edward Tilney’s accounts book shows “The Moor of Venice” being performed in Banqueting House, Whitehall, on […]

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DARPA_LifeLog

Online influencer Andrew Tate,
a self-described misogynist who has millions of young male followers,
was facing allegations of sex trafficking women in three countries
when he and his brother left their home in Romania to visit the United States.
“The Tates will be free,
Trump is the president.
The good old days are back,”
Tate posted on X before the trip in February
— one of many times he has sung the president’s praises to his fans.
But…

The White House Intervened on Behalf of Accused Sex Trafficker Andrew Tate During a Federal Investigation
Federal authorities were chided for seizing electronic devices from Tate and his brother, and told to return them, records and interviews show. Experts said the intervention was highly inappropriate.

Good Morning #Canada
Listening to Christmas tunes and watching the snow fall.
Notable Canadian snowstorms:
- 1913 Great Lakes Storm. The most destructive natural disaster on the Great Lakes, causing 250 deaths & destroying 19 ships.
- 1941 March Blizzard: Brought 100 km/h winds and temps of -45°C to Saskatchewan and Manitoba, leading to the deaths of 72 people.
- 1944: 47 cm of snow hit Toronto in a single day. Unfortunately, the Canadian Army was overseas.
- 1971 Montreal: 45 cm of snow on March 4th & wind gusts of 110 km/h. 200 Ski-Doo owners provided emergency transport.
- 1977: This blizzard struck Southern Ontario January 28 to February 1. Toronto DID NOT call the Army.
- 1999 Toronto Snowstorm: A series of snowfalls paralyze the city, total snowfall for January reached 118 cm. Yes, the mayor called the Army.
- 2007 February 2007: Storm hits Central and Eastern Canada, with Ottawa setting a single-day snowfall record of 35.7 cm.
#CanadaIsAwesome #Snowmageddon
https://www.readersdigest.ca/travel/canada/worst-snowstorm-in-canada/

Do you guys think the recent memory price surge would have an effect on the pricing of the Fairphone 6? I really want to get one but I'm in Australia until February and the only way to get it is by shipping it to the other side of the planet which obviously comes at a cost. But it wouldn't matter if it's going to be 100€ more next year anyways. 😩
#Fairphone

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #6MusicsJukebox
Makeshift Art Bar:
🎵 Birthday Party (6 Music Session, 4 February 2025)
#MakeshiftArtBar
https://makeshiftartbar.bandcamp.com/track/birthday-party
https://open.spotify.com/track/1izOkBHkWXSgOKz4ijDKBl

Nixon's "Saturday Night Massacre" was 52 years ago today.
It was a shocking breach of DOJ norms, and a major turning point for public opinion on Watergate.
Trump already had one of these (on a Thursday) in February,
and has had at least four more since then
https://bsky…