Tootfinder

Amazon plans to merge MX Player into Prime Video in India, combining free and paid streaming catalogs on a single platform over the next few months (Naman Ramachandran/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/amazon-mx-player-merges-prime-video-india-1…

Amazon MX Player Joins Prime Video in India Streaming Merger
Amazon MX Player is merging with Prime Video to create a large Indian streaming service, spanning free, paid, and ad-supported content.

Amazon plans to merge MX Player into Prime Video in India, combining free and paid streaming catalogs on a single platform over the next few months (Naman Ramachandran/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/amazon-mx-player-merges-prime-video-india-1…

Amazon MX Player Joins Prime Video in India Streaming Merger
Amazon MX Player is merging with Prime Video to create a large Indian streaming service, spanning free, paid, and ad-supported content.

New Dutch prime minister visits Kyiv two weeks after taking office: https://benborges.xyz/2026/03/08/new-dutch-prime-minister-visits.html

#TIL: "predatory towing".
"Service Request #5: Is My Car in a Lot of Trouble?" @ 99% invisible #podcast
https:…

Oopies.
https://futurism.com/robots-and-machines/amazon-prime-drones-water

Video Shows Amazon Drone Dropping Package Into Pond
Amazon's Prime Air Delivery service is notching a few misses these days, including a number of packages delivered straight to Davy Jones.

Wow things are going great.
#uspol

Pedro Sšnchez: No to war
It is naive to think that escalating conflict in #Iran will lead to anything good, writes Spain’s prime minister.
A powerful statement.
Every EU country should agree with this.
https://archive.vn/V5gMx

Chris Murphy, the senior senator from Connecticut, said
it does not appear the United States has actually reached a ceasefire agreement with Iran,
since both countries are sharing different terms of the agreement.
But, if the agreement that Iran believes it has entered into is true,
that would be “cataclysmic for the world”.
In an appearance on CNN shortly after Donald Trump announced the ceasefire in a social media post, Murphy said:
“Who knows what’s go…

That man is a steady source of profound insights.
Keir Starmer says a lot of work remains to make US-Iran ceasefire hold - BBC News
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cj0ve1006g9o

Keir Starmer to visit Middle East after US-Iran ceasefire deal
The prime minister welcomes the deal, saying the UK will do "all we can to support and sustain this ceasefire".

"One proves political maturity by not banging on about injustice, by not troubling too much the rich and powerful. To try it out, simply stand in front of a mirror and slowly declare yourself to be “pro-business and pro-worker”. If you can do that without flinching at the obvious contradiction, then congratulations! You too can be prime minister"
This isn't my analysis of why #Starmer

So, I finally gave Hazbin Hotel (Amazon Prime) a shot, and…I’m liking it. I love the animation style, there’s some wins in the songs, I like the contest between Vox (video) and Alastor “the Radio Demon” (Alastor is the first temptation I’ve had to do a ‘stume for in a LONG time)

Trump should remember that if he continues to attack Sanchez, he will end up fighting the whole EU. Especially if he wants to "punish" Spain.
But he is so stupid he probably doesn't realize that.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c93wwq1n542o

Spain's Pedro Sánchez hits back at Trump threat to sever trade saying 'no to war'
Spain's prime minister delivers a strong rebuttal to US President Donald Trump's threat to end trade with his country.

Nicola Jennings on Donald Trump and Keir Starmer – cartoon
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2026/mar/04/nicola-jennings-donald-trump-keir-starmer-cartoon?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

Nicola Jennings on Donald Trump and Keir Starmer – cartoon
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2026/mar/04/nicola-jennings-donald-trump-keir-starmer-cartoon?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

"Wildfires used to 'go to sleep' at night. Climate change is turning them into prime burning hours"
#Climate #ClimateChange #Wildfires

Wildfires used to 'go to sleep' at night. Climate change is turning them into prime burning hours
Burning time for North American wildfires is going into overtime. Flames are lasting later into the night and starting earlier in the morning because human-caused climate change is extending the hotter and drier conditions that feed fires, a new study found.

Wildfires used to 'go to sleep' at night. Climate change is turning them into prime burning hours https://phys.org/news/2026-04-wildfires-night-climate-prime-hours.html

Wildfires used to 'go to sleep' at night. Climate change is turning them into prime burning hours
Burning time for North American wildfires is going into overtime. Flames are lasting later into the night and starting earlier in the morning because human-caused climate change is extending the hotter and drier conditions that feed fires, a new study found.

NFL stars who retired early: Drew Dalman joins recent standouts to end career before age 30

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/nfl-stars-who-retired-early-drew-dalman-andrew-luck…

RE: https://mastodon.social/@burger_jaap/113441521436240302
Today, I learned that the new Prime Minister of the Brussels Region is the district mayor who ordered the removal of these bicycle parking facilities.

He added: "So, it is not enough to simply say we stand with Jewish communities. Of course we do, but we have to show with action. And that responsibility lies with each and every one of us."
If he only said "We stand with Palestinians", even with his fingers crossed behind his back, it would be an improvement. But no, for him it was OK to starve them.
As I said,

Keir Starmer to host Downing Street summit to address antisemitism
The prime minister will meet leaders from a number of sectors at Downing Street on Tuesday.

from my link log —
Building resilient services at Amazon Prime Video with chaos engineering.
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/opensource/building-resilient-services-at-prime-video-with-chaos-engineering/
saved 2020…

Building resilient services at Prime Video with chaos engineering | Amazon Web Services
Large-scale distributed software systems are composed of several individual sub-systems—such as CDNs, load balancers, and databases—and their interactions. These interactions sometimes have unpredictable outcomes caused by unforeseen turbulent events (for example, a network failure). These events can lead to system-wide failures. Chaos engineering is the discipline of experimenting on a distributed system to build confidence […]

Lasst uns den gescheiterten, toxischen Trumpismus doch als Chance für einen Aufbruch sehen, für eine neue Weltordnung! Darüber sprach Pedro Sšnchez an der Tsinghua Universität in Peking am 13. April 2026.
2 Zitate aus lesensenswerter Rede:
"Zum 1. Mal in der modernen Geschichte keimt der Fortschritt an vielen Orten der Welt gleichzeitig auf."
"Eine Multipolarität ohne Regeln führt zu Rivalität und aus Rivalität entstehen nur Kriege, Handelskonflikte und Unte…

Multipolarity Not a Hypothesis but the New Reality in Which the World Lives: Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez
...what is happening today is not a transfer of hegemonies. It is a multiplication of poles. Not only of power, but also of prosperity. And this is great news for Europe,' Sanchez said.

In a prime-time address to the nation on Wednesday evening, Trump is expected to describe the U.S.-Israeli war against Iran as a major success that could end in a few weeks.
In what was perhaps a pre-emptive pitch before Mr. Trump’s speech, the president of Iran posted an open letter to the American public,warning of the costs of a prolonged war.
“Continuing along the path of confrontation is more costly and futile than ever before,” President Masoud Pezeshkian said in the lette…

Iran War Live Updates: Trump to Speak to Nation Tonight on War

606 people died trying to cross the Mediterranean Sea in the less than two months 2026 had so far, that's the deadliest period on record.
More dangerous routes taken, constant pushbacks received, all because of Frontex.
Gaza showed us that so-called European values don't exist outside of Europe, Frontex is a prime example of how European values don't exist anywhere, especially not in Europe.

If you haven't checked out Secret Level (Prime), you really should. Short animated films based on games. By the team behind Love, Death & Robots.
The first episode is based on D&D and I would watch the shit out of a feature-length film like that.
#streaming #ShortFilm

Secret Level
Adult animated series of original short stories which are set within the worlds of beloved video games. Each episode serves as a gateway to a new adventure, unlocking exciting worlds from beloved gaming classics and highly anticipated new titles.

Sinclair's Tennis Channel is selling its streaming service on the Prime Video Channels store, as part of a streaming push that will include other distributors (Lucas Shaw/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Keir Starmer, prime muppet.

Instead of AI, could we please have a technology that allows us to instantly and viscerally direct our ire at the politicians who underfunded whatever crumbling public service is involved instead of the struggling service workers who are now forced to deal with it? Dreaming of a world where instead of the pissed off dude saying something shitty about the late train to the station agent, he's getting in the face of the prime minister instead.

"It is unconscionable, it's illogical, it is difficult to comprehend," said the Irish Prime Minister about protestors blockading Ireland’s only oil refinery because they want the price of gas to go down. In other news, Trump is blockading Iran’s blockade of the Strait of Hormuz for the same reason and I plan to hit myself in the head to stop my headache.
#USpol

Amazon Prime Video plans to raise the price of its ad-free plan, Ultra, to $4.99 per month, and add support for up to five simultaneous streams, from April 10 (Emma Roth/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/894466/amazon-prime-video-ultra-ad-free-price-hi…

Amazon Prime Video’s ad-free plan is getting a price hike
Amazon Prime Video is raising the price of its ad-free plans from $2.99 / month to $4.99 / month. The tier, which it’s rebranding as Prime Video Ultra, will also come with access to 4K/UHD streams.

just released liboprf-0.9.4
it brings compatibility with python3.14
liboprf is a library implementing the OPRF from https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9497.html and in addition it also provides a threshold variant (tOPRF) and a distributed key generation (DKG) protocol for the tOPRF shar…

Roku launches Howdy on Amazon's Prime Video in the US, the first time the $2.99-per-month, ad-free streaming service is available outside Roku's ecosystem (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/rokus-howdy-amazon-prime-video-chan…

Roku Howdy $3/Month Service Launches on Amazon Prime Video Channels
Roku has lassoed Amazon's Prime Video Channels as a distributor of its low-cost Howdy streaming service -- the first time the $2.99/month package is available outside Roku's ecosystem.

I feel like we all knew this. This is Bibi's crusade and Trump is enough of a doddering old fool to get talked into destroying the world.
https://ground.news/article/trump-approved-iran-operation-after-netanyahu-argued…

Trump approved Iran operation after Netanyahu argued for joint killing of Khamenei: Report
Less than 48 hours before the U.S.-Israeli strike on Iran began, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke by phone to President Donald Trump about the reasons for launching the kind of complex, far-off war the American leader once had campaigned against.

The Japanese Love Their Prime Minister. This Is Huge (Quico Toro/Persuasion)
https://www.persuasion.community/p/the-japanese-love-their-prime-minister
http://www.memeorandum.com/260212/p118#a260212p118

The death toll from Thursday’s attack on the B1 bridge in Karaj, Iran, has risen to eight, up from two,
and 95 others were injured, Iranian state media reports.
Donald Trump earlier boasted about the attack,
warning Tehran there was “much more to follow”
and urged it to “make a deal before it is too late”.
⭐️Iran’s foreign minister Abbas Araghchi said the attack wouldn’t force Tehran to surrender.
“It only conveys the defeat and moral collapse of an enemy…

How local rules generate emergent structure in cellular automata
Manuel Pita
https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.00273 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2604.00273 https://arxiv.org/html/2604.00273
arXiv:2604.00273v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Cellular automata generate spatially extended, temporally persistent emergent structures from local update rules. No general method derives the mechanisms of that generation from the rule itself; existing tools reconstruct structure from observed dynamics. This paper shows that the look-up table contains a readable causal architecture and introduces a forward model to extract it. The key observation in elementary cellular automata (ECA) is that adjacent cells share input positions, so the prime implicants of neighbouring transitions overlap. That overlap can couple the transitions causally or leave them independent. We formalize each pairwise interaction as a tile. A finite-state, tiling transducer, $\mathcal{T}$, composes tiles across the CA lattice, tracking how coupling and independence propagate from one cell pair to the next. Structural properties of $\mathcal{T}$ are used to classify ECA rules that can sustain regions of causal independence across space and time. We find that, in the 88 ECA equivalence classes, the number of local configurations at which coupling is structurally impossible -- computable from the look-up table -- predicts the prevalence of dynamically decoupled regions with Spearman $\rho = 0.89$ ($p < 10^{-31}$). The look-up table encodes not just what a rule computes but where it distributes causal coupling across the lattice; the framework reads that distribution forward, from local logical redundancy to emergent mesoscopic organization.
toXiv_bot_toot

💸 Albania, Europe’s laboratory where AI combats (or hides) corruption
https://english.elpais.com/international/2026-02-19/albania-europes-laboratory-where-ai-combats-or-hides-corruption.html

Albania, Europe’s laboratory where AI combats (or hides) corruption
Following the government’s announcement that a virtual minister will control public contracts, the Public Prosecutor’s Office is investigating its creators and the deputy prime minister

From The Conversation
Three ways Canada can navigate an increasingly erratic and belligerent United States
Charles Conteh
Professor of Public Policy and Administration, Department of Political Science, Brock University
"...the Canada-U.S. relationship is a complex picture of deep interdependence, marked by significant power imbalances, and the creative ways Canada has learned to adapt and prosper. ..."

You might be getting 2,897 square feet of prime real estate. Or you might be getting negative 2,897 square feet. Who can say? All sales final.
*fact check: apparently this is common notation in real estate.

French ICC Judge Nicolas Guillou is living a nightmare after the US sanctioned him and other judges for issuing an arrest warrant against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, once again exposing the risk of Europeans' reliance on American services.
https://www.

US sanctions turn ICC judge’s daily life into a nightmare
French ICC Judge Nicolas Guillou is living a nightmare after the US sanctioned him and other judges for issuing an arrest warrant against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, once again exposing the risk of Europeans' reliance on American services. #EuropeNews

Belgian Prime Minister Bart De Wever, with longstanding ties to Russian officials, is blocking use of frozen Russian central bank assets worth over €185 billion held in Belgium, effectively protecting Kremlin interests and limiting aid to Ukraine.: https://benborges.xyz/2026/04/12/belgi

Austria is the latest to take a stance against directly aiding the U.S. and Israel’s war.
Also citing its neutrality principles, Switzerland announced in March that it had halted all weapons export licenses to the U.S. and other involved countries since the first U.S.-Israeli bombardments on February 28,
and would continue doing so “for the duration of the conflict.”
Spain has opposed the war from the start, with its socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sšnchez proclaiming “no a…

Austria Becomes Latest EU Country to Deny US Military Use of Its Airspace
The country’s defense minister said it’s denied military airspace requests from the US since the outset of the war.

Amazon replaces Amex with US Bancorp as the issuer for its Prime Business and Amazon Business credit cards that it is relaunching in the coming months (Yizhu Wang/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-31/…

When Does AI Fakery Become AI Reality?
We are living in the precise historical moment when the question "Is this real?" has become unanswerable in real time, and the fact that nobody seems particularly alarmed by this should alarm us all. The case study arrived this month with the force of a wartime broadcast, which is exactly what it was: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, whose physical whereabouts and physical condition have been the subject of intense…

When Does AI Fakery Become AI Reality? | David Boles, Blogs
We are living in the precise historical moment when the question “Is this real?” has become unanswerable in real time, and the fact that nobody seems particularly alarmed by this should…

'In the words of Ciaran Martin, former director of GCHQ’s National Cyber Security Centre, “Not only is there no duty to disclose details of the vetting case” [to, for instance, the prime minister, but that] “there is a duty not to disclose them”. It is clear that this current convention is a recipe for disaster.'
https://…

BEST OF BYLINES: Why has Sir Olly Robbins been thrown under the bus?
After a week of revelations and chaos in Westminster, John Cole explains why the removal of a senior civil servant highlights much deeper failures in vetting, timing, and political accountability

Government issued and fleet managed mobile phone used by a senior member of the Prime Minister's office, and contents are not backed up?
This is either embarrassing for government in one way, or it's embarrassing for government in a different way.
https://www.

Morgan McSweeney did not disclose his No 10 job in phone theft 999 call, transcripts show
In highly unusual move, Metropolitan police have released full transcript of call made by then chief of staff to PM

I love "Yes, Prime Minister", such a great show!
The Smoking Ban:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=p1DviQ9mva0&is=G7CwAImsKUO9XEF7

Maxx Crosby Makes Stance Clear on Raiders Drafting Fernando Mendoza https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/maxx-crosby-draft-qb-fernando-mendoza/

Hahaha! Haha! Hahahahahahahahahaha!
No. Not a chance.

Canada starts 'fuel tax holiday', including aviation fuel, expected to cost an estimated C$2.4 billion.
The stupidest tool from the box.
Keeps demand and prices artificially high, costs billions, and largely ends up with households that don't need support. 🤦‍♀️🤦‍♂️🤦
https://www.

Carney temporarily suspending federal fuel excise tax on gas, diesel and aviation fuel | CBC News
A day after sweeping three byelections in Ontario and Quebec that gave him a majority in the House of Commons, Prime Minister Mark Carney says he is temporarily removing the federal excise tax on gas and diesel.

"They didn’t ask why didn’t you tell Iran, they asked why didn’t you tell your allies. Is that so hard to understand?"
Also, the coping trumpist bots in the comments explaining to everyone he just told her "the truth", while he's probably telling a hundred lies a day. Full MAGA dementia 😬
Trump Makes Pearl Harbor Joke In Meeting With Japan’s Prime Minister - The New York Times

US sanctions on ICC should be used as an indicator of where to direct efforts to grow independence from US businesses
https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2026/02/18/us-sanctions-turn-international-criminal-court-judge…

US sanctions turn ICC judge’s daily life into a nightmare
French ICC Judge Nicolas Guillou is living a nightmare after the US sanctioned him and other judges for issuing an arrest warrant against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, once again exposing the risk of Europeans' reliance on American services. #EuropeNews

Amazon Prime Video plans to raise the price of its ad-free plan, Ultra, to $4.99 per month, and add support for up to five simultaneous streams, from April 10 (Emma Roth/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/894466/amazon-prime-video-ultra-ad-free-price-hi…

Amazon Prime Video nearly doubles the price to go ad-free and stream 4K video
Amazon Prime Video is raising the price of its ad-free plans from $2.99 to $4.99 per month and removing 4K streaming from Prime subscribers who don’t pay extra.

Global energy crisis is underway thanks to Trump's war on Iran. Gov'ts ordering measures to save petrol & natural gas.
Thailand orders civil servants to work from home https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/th

Thailand orders bureaucrats to use stairs and work from home in energy saving drive
Thai Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul has ordered civil servants to conserve energy amid an energy squeeze brought on by the conflict ​in the Middle East, a government spokesperson said on Tuesday, ‌with measures including suspending overseas trips and using stairs instead of elevators.

Spain’s Sanchez demands Netanyahu free Spaniard seized on aid flotilla | Gaza | Al Jazeera
https://www.aljazeera.com/video/newsfeed/2026/5/2/spains-sanchez-demands-netanyahu-free-spaniard-seized-on-aid-…

Spain’s Sanchez demands Netanyahu free Spaniard seized on aid flotilla
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez is demanding Israel to release the 'abducted' Spaniard taken from the flotilla.

Americans have been waiting for their president and commander in chief to address the nation
and explain why the country is at war.
For weeks, Donald Trump has offered only snippets and sound bites about his decision to lead the United States into another conflict in the Middle East;
his prime-time address this evening was,
one assumes,
aimed at informing and reassuring the American public.
Maybe he’d have been better off not trying.
Trump’s criti…

Maybe Trump Should Not Have Given This Speech
His address raised more questions than it answered about the war in Iran.

Sources: Amazon plans to move its Prime Day sale from July to late June; the shift affects its financial reporting, with event sales coming in Q2 rather than Q3 (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-12/ama…

Amazon Plans to Shift Annual Prime Day Sale to June From July
Amazon.com Inc. is moving up its annual Prime Day sale to June from July, according to people familiar with the matter, shifting the schedule for an event that’s become a big part of the e-commerce economy.

New Statesman: "Thank God someone finally said it. Thank God Keir Starmer, specifically, said it. For the first time, after months of statements so cautious they’re the political equivalent of the colour beige, the Prime Minister has finally admitted that Donald Trump is a bad man doing bad things which will, as a side effect, have bad consequences for the population of Britain."

LOL, at some point I had an Amazon Prime membership (because I wanted to watch certain shows and they were only on Prime Video).
I just got a physical letter from Amazon telling me that the US government decided that I was missold Prime as I only used certain benefits and that the FTC requires them to pay me compensation.
How much? $14.99. The letter came with a cheque. There is no possible way to cash that in Norway. Oh and they spelt my name wrong anyway because they cannot do …

Mailbag: Should Cowboys trade first-round pick? https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/mailbag-should-cowboys-trade-first-round-pick

from my link log —
Deterministic primality testing for limited bit width.
https://www.jeremykun.com/2026/04/07/deterministic-miller-rabin/
saved 2026-04-10

Trump launched the war on Iran on 28 February in partnership with the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, but without consulting Nato allies. He did not invoke article 5 of the treaty, which triggers collective defence from other members in the event of an “an armed attack against one or more of them in Europe or North America”. Such an attack had not taken place.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/01/trump-says-he-is-absolutely-considering-withdrawing-us-from-nato?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Is das alles vielleicht nur eine dystopische Shitshow?
Nächster move? Trump bettelt die Mullahs an, aber der Iran weigert sich Öl und Gas zu liefern.
Man glaubt doch bald nichts mehr...
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/03/19/world/iran-war-news-trump-oil

I hope that Starmer stays:
https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/editorials/keir-starmer-labour-mandelson-sarwar-resign-b2916855.html
He's doing a difficult job and I'm not persuaded any of the likely …

Sir Keir is the loneliest PM – but he must stay in office
Editorial: It would be detrimental to the country if the prime minister was bowled out of office so soon after winning a historic election. For all the ongoing setbacks, he must come out fighting

Raiders Issued Major Maxx Crosby Update From NFL Insiders https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/major-maxx-crosby-update-nfl-insiders/

The UK plans to update the Media Act 2024 to bring streaming platforms with 500K users under "enhanced" Ofcom regulation, giving it power to investigate them (K.J. Yossman/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/tv/global/netfl…

Streamers in U.K. Set to Come Under ‘Enhanced Regulation’ from Ofcom
U.K. media regulator Ofcom is set to oversee streaming platforms including Netflix, Prime Video and Disney+ following new legislation.

Trump, in trying to impress Japan, likened his attack on Iran to Imperial Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor. He is directly admitting that he's the bad guy.
#uspol

Watch: Trump compares attack on Iran to Pearl Harbor in meeting with Japanese PM
In a meeting with Japanese Prime Minister, US President Donald Trump was asked why he didn't inform allies about his plan to attack Iran.

"The lesson isn’t “be accurate” or “be fair.” The lesson is: make us look good, or face the consequences."
NBC Hid The Boos For JD Vance. Where’s Trump’s ‘Unfair Editing’ Lawsuit? | Techdirt
https://www.techdirt.com/2026/02/09/nbc-hi

NBC Hid The Boos For JD Vance. Where’s Trump’s ‘Unfair Editing’ Lawsuit?
If you watched NBC’s prime time broadcast of the Winter Olympics opening ceremony on Friday, you saw Vice President JD Vance in the stands at San Siro Stadium in Milan with his wife, Usha. Th…

Prime Video offers Masters Tournament coverage for the first time, with two hours of live broadcasts Thursday and Friday plus feeds from "Amen Corner" and more (Stephen Battaglio/Los Angeles Times)
https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/masters-amazon-pr…

The Masters is Amazon Prime's next test in live sports
Prime Video is carrying early round coverage of golf's most prestigious event on Thursday and Friday.

I searched "formula 1 going woke" to boost my blood pressure. Also works with "the bride movie woke" 😄
Breitbart is particularly beneficial if you need a healthy blood-boiling exercise, their respective titles being:
"Maggie Gyllenhaal’s Ultra-Woke Frankenstein Flick ‘The Bride!’ Bombs at Box Office"
vs.
"Melania Film Debuts as #1 Movie in America on Amazon Prime"
I am curious, how basic should your readers/viewers/listen…

If there's one thing that's become clear from the current Mandelson furore, is that no details from security vetting are passed on - even to the Prime Minister.
And that's surely what you'd want.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said
“Iran is being decimated”
as the U.S. and Israel target its ballistic missile and nuclear programs from the air
-- But meaningful regime change will require a
🔥 “ground component,”
Netanyahu added that the Iranian people must ultimately “rise to the moment.”

Netanyahu says Iran is being 'decimated' but revolution requires 'ground component'
Netanyahu's comments came after President Donald Trump, speaking in the Oval Office, said earlier that he would not send U.S. troops to the Middle East.

Ex-presidents and prime ministers of Barbados (Freundel Stuart), Dominica (Edison James), Grenada (Tillman Thomas), Guyana (Donald Ramotar), Jamaica (Bruce Golding and PJ Patterson) St. Lucia (Kenny Anthony) and Trinidad & Tobago (Keith Rowley) praised Cuba’s long-standing commitment to their Caribbean neighbours through medical brigades, educational scholarships and and disaster relief.
Blockade of Cuba is now putting lives at risk. | Morning Star

The UK plans to update the Media Act 2024 to bring streaming platforms with 500K users under "enhanced" Ofcom regulation, giving it power to investigate them (K.J. Yossman/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/tv/global/netfl…

Streamers in U.K. Set to Come Under ‘Enhanced Regulation’ from Ofcom
U.K. media regulator Ofcom is set to oversee streaming platforms including Netflix, Prime Video and Disney+ following new legislation.

U.K. might lose a prime minister because a guy who worked for him knew another guy who hung out with Epstein.
Meanwhile the U.S. opposition party is telling our President, who was Epstein's best friend, that his secret police should get better training so their public street murders look less messy.
https://

Tim Onion (@bencollins.bsky.social)
U.K. might lose a prime minister because a guy who worked for him knew another guy who hung out with Epstein. Meanwhile the U.S. opposition party is telling our President, who was Epstein's best friend, that his secret police should get better training so their public street murders look less messy.

Amazon's Melania documentary fell 67% in its second week box office with $2.4M; Amazon MGM Studios says it is sparking "interest" among Prime Video subscribers (Pamela McClintock/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/m…

Amazon MGM Goes on Offense as ‘Melania’ Risks Getting Sacked at Super Bowl Box Office
The first lady's documentary is falling off steeply in its second weekend, prompting Amazon MGM to go on the offensive and stress that the film is in it for the long game, whether theatrically or streaming.

Fourteen months after
Robert F Kennedy Jr was sworn in
as US health secretary,
the country’s prime public health agency over which he presides
is in a state of disarray.
Eighty per cent of the top director positions at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) stand vacant,
with no permanent leader to drive policies affecting the health of millions of Americans.
No one is in place to coordinate the agency’s day-to-day work fighting infecti…

Predator: Badlands is on Disney UK https://www.justwatch.com/uk/movie/predator-badlands

Predator: Badlands - movie: watch streaming online
Find out how and where to watch "Predator: Badlands" on Netflix and Prime Video today - including free options.

Raiders Urged to Make Blockbuster Decision Before NFL Draft https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/urged-make-blockbuster-decision-nfl-draft/

Of course the Prime Minister has convened a meeting of COBRA.
ha ha
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/apr/15/critical-atlantic-current-significantly-more-likely-to-collapse-than-thought…

A 10-day ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon has come into effect,
-- pausing fighting in the devastating conflict between Israel and Hezbollah that has killed more than 2,100 Lebanese people and displaced over 2.1 million.
The agreement was announced earlier by Donald Trump, who said he had spoken with Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Lebanese president Joseph Aoun, and invited both leaders “for meaningful talks” at the White House.
Both leaders welcome…

British Prime minister condemns 'horrific antisemitic attack'
after four Jewish community ambulances set on fire
Keir Starmer has called for communities to “all stand together” in the face of an “horrific antisemitic attack”,
which saw four Jewish community ambulances set on fire.
The Metropolitan Police confirmed the incident is being treated as an antisemitic hate crime,
with CCTV showing three individuals setting light to an ambulance in the early hou…

Critics wonder if this is America’s “Suez moment,”
when a leading power signals the start of its international decline.
The Suez crisis took place in October 1956, when Britain, France and Israel attacked Egypt to force open the Suez Canal.
President Dwight D. Eisenhower, with an election days away, ordered them to stop.
Prime Minister Anthony Eden of Britain resigned.
President Gamal Abdel Nasser of Egypt became a hero of anti-colonialism.
Suez became …

A Cease-Fire for Now in Iran, but a Blow to American Credibility
Critics wonder if this is America’s “Suez moment,” when a leading power signals the start of its international decline.

On Thursday Trump recast his denial, saying he had told the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, not to attack Iranian gasfields again, but he appeared unable to explain the logic of how the junior partner in a wartime military alliance had felt able to act unilaterally with such internationally damaging consequences.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/19/iran-says-it-will-show-zero-restraint-if-energy-infrastructure-is-targeted-again?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Raiders Issued Blockbuster Take Involving Bengals’ Tee Higgins https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/blockbuster-take-involving-bengals-tee-higgins/

The 72nd meeting of the Bilderberg group,
the elite and secretive policy conference that is the longtime subject of endless conspiracy theories,
was held at the weekend in Washington DC.
A security cordon went up around the opulent Salamander hotel for the notoriously media-shy summit,
which was packed as ever with prime ministers, military leaders, tech billionaires and the heads of giant investment companies.
Bilderberg, which since the 1950s has been the int…

Good Morning #Canada
#HappyBirthday to Sir John Joseph Caldwell Abbott (March 12, 1821 – October 30, 1893) who was a Canadian lawyer and politician who served as the 3rd prime minister of Canada from 1891 to 1892. Probably not well known by Canadians he nonetheless lived an interesting life and the attached Wiki is full of details both fascinating and informative, such as being the great-grandfather of Christopher Plummer. He was Canada's 1st native born PM, and one of just 2 Prime Ministers, the other being Mackenzie Bowell, to have held the office while serving in the Senate rather than the House of Commons. His political career had to overcome his signing of a declaration to join with the United States, and he was at the center of the CPR bribery scandal that brought down Macdonald's government. His 17 months as PM were regarded as effective, despite the fact that he spent a considerable amount of time trying to nominate John Thompson to take his place.
#CanadaIsAwesome #History
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Abbott