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A profile of Bari Weiss and an in-depth look at her hostile takeover of CBS News; a source says Weiss has said she is pursuing a "de-Baathification of CBS" (Clare Malone/New Yorker)
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/01

Inside Bari Weiss’s Hostile Takeover of CBS News
A Profile of the new editor-in-chief, covering her previous work at the Times and The Free Press and her work and relationships with Larry and David Ellison, Donald Trump, Sharyn Alfonsi, and Tony Dokoupil.

I spend a lot of my teaching life helping students learn to use Git, and I cannot emphasize enough how hostile the user experience of a merge conflict is for a new user. It looks like everything is broken. The terminology is crap. The verbiage is bamboozling. The default actions are all booby traps. The most important information is buried. The UI is terrible (both CLI and most GUIs). It’s incredibly easy to accidentally commit the conflict markers. It’s a nightmare.
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The perfect confluence of expertise and location: ex-cop and now Brown professor Brandon del Pozo in The Atlantic on the Brown shooting. Worth reading as an antidote to the hustlers, influencers, and agenda-pushers on social media.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/12/

Why the Brown University Shooter Is Still at Large
Given the sheer volume of mass shootings in America, an unknown shooter with an unknown motive will sometimes make an escape.  

Bilerek ve isteyerek para için öldürme girişimi. Bakalım arkasından kim çıkacak.
https://www.birgun.net/haber/hastalarda-sahte-tibbi-urun-kullanildi-bakanlik-hastalarin-tespitini-istedi-668179

The consequences of the 996 working hour system:
"On the Chinese internet, the country’s current predicament – slowing economic growth, a falling birthrate, a meagre social safety net, increasing isolation on the world stage – is often expressed through buzzwords. There is tangping, or “lying flat”, a term used to describe the young generation of Chinese who are choosing to chill out rather than hustle in China’s high-pressure economy. There is runxue, or “run philosophy”, which re…

WBD recommends shareholders reject Paramount's unsolicited cash bid, calling the offer "illusory" and saying it believes Netflix's proposal is still superior (Wall Street Journal)
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We have an unhealthy relationship to productivity, especially in the West, and especially in societies based around and rooted in capitalism that say we should be constantly hustling. we should be constantly doing more, more, more. https://www.overcomecompulsivehoarding.co.

"If the Scottish Government can’t close Prestwick, Wick or other Scottish airports they own to hostile or illegally operating US military traffic the way it did for Israeli military traffic in 2024 then officials there should do everything in their power to make it as difficult as possible for the US to use those facilities" -- does #ScotGov not now wholly own Prestwick,

The classic user-hostile “Yes / Maybe Later” alert, but with a twist:
In this case, the missing button is “Remind Me When We’ve Finally Backed Out Our Terrible UI Redesign”

Paramount launches a hostile bid to acquire WBD, offering WBD shareholders $30 per share in an all-cash deal; sources say WBD rejected the same bid last week (CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/08/paramount-skydance-hostile-bid-wbd-netflix.html

Paramount Skydance launches hostile bid for WBD after Netflix wins bidding war
Netflix won a bidding war for the Warner Bros. film studio and HBO Max streaming service, but it doesn't plan to buy WBD's TV networks.