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A look at CoComelon, as the preschool YouTube brand moves from Netflix to Disney ; Moonbug executives hope a DreamWorks feature film will make it a franchise (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business

CoComelon Is Ready to Grow Up
The preschool brand that started on YouTube is moving from Netflix to Disney+, and executives are hoping that a feature film can propel it to franchise status.

Power Rankings: Where do the 3-2 Raiders stack up? https://www.raiders.com/news/power-rankings-where-do-the-3-2-raiders-stack-up

In the past 72 hours, Donald Trump has dropped all pretense,
torched a couple decades of American policy,
and undermined 18 months of his own diplomacy.
He lifted sanctions on the import of Russian diesel fuel, in violation of the letter and spirit of laws that he himself signed.
He has threatened to stop sharing intelligence with Ukraine, unless Ukraine agrees not to target Russian refineries,
thus demanding that Kyiv give up its most effective weapon while as…

Trump’s Message to Ukraine Is Now Crystal Clear
The president’s actions over the past 72 hours look like an effort to force Kyiv to surrender.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@overcastfm/117082749501050792
For those, like me that have to look up "srt file": A subtitle file (.srt), a standard format used for captions/subtitles in video players and editing software.
Gives you transcr…

Week 6 NFL power rankings: 5-0 Vikings continue rise as Bears, Raiders, Cowboys stumble https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7684474/2026/10/13/nfl-power-rankings-week-6-vikings-bears-raiders-cowboys/

A look at the economics of Anthropic's data center leases as analysts estimate a 245 MW site could yield ~$1.3B/mo; sources say it signed a cloud deal with IREN (Ann Davis Vaughan/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/at…

The Attractive Economics Behind Anthropic Data Center Sprint
Why is Anthropic driving its partners to speed up the $530 billion of data center leasing deals it has signed?It’s simple: Every server Anthropic plugs in sooner to run its products could be wildly profitable, according to fresh analysis of upcoming AI data center sites, including one Anthropic ...

Week 6 NFL power rankings: 5-0 Vikings continue rise as Bears, Raiders, Cowboys stumble https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7684474/2026/10/13/nfl-power-rankings-week-6-vikings-bears-raiders-cowboys/

Just had my funnest ride yet! Managed to NOT stall at every intersection, exchanged my first THREE biker waves, and actually got up to 50! lol Love this thing. Anyway, here's a poorly framed timer-shot of me on my R3
#R3 #yamahaR3

One of the benefits of living in a larger city is that freelance art handlers end up networking with one another. That makes it a lot easier to find the next job.
Q: What do you look forward to most in your retirement?
A: Painting, making my own paintings. I don’t have a really clear plan, but play a little more music, rekindle my podcast. Recreational outings with my wife. And then maybe a little traveling.
14/

Raiders vs. Patriots preview: How they match up, injuries, bold predictions https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/raiders/raiders-vs-patriots-preview-how-they-match-up-injuries-bold-predictions-3898332/

Fudge it. I have made it appear as though I have been working sufficiently for today. Time to play the new #ArcRaiders update.
#clockingout #takethisjobandshoveit

Once again, some numbskull has posted, in this case, a 37-minute YouTube video about a word, in which the uploader spends the entire 37 minutes mispronouncing the word because they haven't bothered to look up how it was pronounced before recording their VO.
This is simple shit. I can't believe they're letting people this inept out of high school. We need to start only allowing language use on a may-issue permit basis.

I'm on a podcast talking about why San Franciscans should vote Yes on I for Affordable Housing, Guaranteed! Look up Street Speak on your podcast platform of choice or listen here:
https://www.buzzsprout.com/726741/episodes/19775729

#windowFriday #fensterfreitag

Please Look Up
Each episode highlights all of the fascinating constellations, planets, and asteroids that you should be keeping an eye out for in the night sky...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/please-look-up-2/

Didn't get to see a total eclipse yet since I picked up astrophotography, but here's the annular one in 2023, as seen from Roswell, New Mexico.
Very simple setup with a professional-grade telescope solar filter film (from Baader) and a small handheld Nikon J5 mirrorless camera.
I would recommend NOT to use those cardboard eclipse glasses for photography, it's way too easy to get it wrong and ruin your camera sensor (or worse, your eyesight if you look through e.g. a DSLR and it accidentally slips).
If you don't really know what you're doing it's much better to just enjoy an event like this directly with the eclipse glasses on your face. (It's safe to look directly during totality, and totality only.)
There will be plenty of pictures!
#astrophotography

When you literally look NetBSD up last night and Tonybtw releases a video on how to set it up, with his own oxwm.
You know where that Saturday is going 🤣
#oxwm #netbsd

Amazon's Prime Video plans to make English-language dubs look more natural by using AI to lip-sync actors' mouths in dubbed titles (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/prime-video-ai-sync-actors-mouths-dubbed-maxto…

Prime Video Uses AI to Sync Actors' Mouths in Dubbed Titles, Starting With 'Maxton Hall'
Prime Video wants to make English-language dubs look more natural by using AI to sync up actors' mouths, starting with German series 'Maxton Hall.

Tua Tagovailoa appears to suffer possible injury ahead of Week 1: Who's up next with Michael Penix inactive?

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/tua-tagovailoa-app…

Week 6 NFL power rankings: 5-0 Vikings continue rise as Bears, Raiders, Cowboys stumble https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7684474/2026/10/13/nfl-power-rankings-week-6-vikings-bears-raiders-cowboys/

In case anyone’s wondering (I was!)
You can look up “Remedy Entertainment Oyj” on https://www.liitot.fi/en/ and confirm for yourself that Remedy’s workers are covered by the Finnish Industrial Union and the Trade Union for the Public and Welfare Sectors JHL.
Don’t Be a Tool — Unionize ✊

This galaxy pair is also known as
"Nā ʻUhane Māhoe Huki Pū i ke Ola"
(“Twin Spirits Pulling Together Creating Life").
The name was chosen by a trio of high school interns who helped direct the creation of this image using the Gemini North observatory. 🔭
https://bsky.a…

Corey S. Powell (@coreyspowell.bsky.social)
Gas + gravity + time leads to surprising and gorgeous results. Look at this peculiar galaxy pair, NGC 7253. Gravity caused a couple hundred billion balls of hydrogen to light up as stars, held together in two great swarms that then collided, scattered & reassembled. 🧪🔭 https://noirlab.edu/public/images/noirlab2621a/

A look at the current state of humanoid robotics and challenges like generalization and completing long tasks, which may take years or even decades to overcome (Kai Williams/Understanding AI)
https://www.understandingai.org/p/why-humanoid-robots-wont-catch-up

Why humanoid robots won’t catch up to human workers any time soon
A deep dive into the current state of humanoid robotics.

"What??"
#Caturday

42°C in Slovakia, over 41°C in Austria, power plants stopped because water lever in Danube and Vistula is critically low. But don't look up...
#ClimateCrisis
https://www.

Extreme heat breaks temperature records in central and eastern Europe
Slovakia reaches new high of 42C as authorities in Poland forced to shut down Kozienice and Połaniec power plants

When did TI start putting package mechanical drawings in their datasheets instead of making you look up the package code and downloading them separately?
That was like my single biggest complaint with their documentation and I'm glad it's changed.

A look at the revamped 60 Minutes; Nick Bilton calls his lack of broadcast news experience an "asset" and says Trump is "one thousand percent" fair game (Benjamin Mullin/New York Times)
https://www.

‘60 Minutes’ Prepares for a High-Pressure Premiere After Its Turbulent Shake-Up
Nick Bilton, the new executive producer, has begun to put his stamp on the show. Up first: an exclusive interview with an officer who was aboard the F-15 fighter shot down over Iran.

normalize unisex bikes
#BikeTooter #Mixte

To spot the meteors, go outside after dark, away from clouds and city lights.
Venkatesan plans to drive to the Sierra Nevada.
The best views will be between midnight and dawn when the constellation Perseus is high in the northern sky.
The meteors will appear to radiate from that constellation.
Look up and give your eyes a half hour to adjust to the darkness.
Vanderbosch recommends picking a patch of sky to focus on until a quick, bright streak passes by
– e…

Perseid meteor shower set to dazzle northern hemisphere this week
Astronomers say viewing conditions promising for this year’s shower, and 50 to 100 meteors an hour may be visible

Wood planes: Anyone have a good reference to what a correctly set up plane (Stanley type 4) should look like when properly adjusted? I want photos that show the relation between the blade and chipbreaker, and what it should look like from underneath when looking at it's gap. I see plenty of people doing restoration and getting rust off and sharpening etc - but not found the detail to make sure I put it back together properly.

Last week I ordered some equipment for pickup at Micro Center. It was a big surprise when I showed up in the morning and saw a thousand people lined up to get in. The line extended around the back of the store and around temporary barriers, like a theme park. Turns out it was some kind of "grand re-opening" and they were giving away flash drives.
Happily, I was able to come back later in the day and get my order, as well as a nice commemorative mug.

The Summary
Brings you concise news bulletins every morning and evening to keep you up to date, plus an in-depth look at the story driving the agenda of day - every afternoon...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/the-summary/ …

A look at Emeryville, CA-based Atomic Machines, which is training AI on materials and designs to revamp how microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) are built (Cade Metz/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/07/science

The Start-Up That Wants to Build ‘Microrobots’ With A.I.
Atomic Machines is training artificial intelligence on materials and designs — and then using it to build tiny physical devices.

Friday Links 26-27
I skipped a week again. Some good podcasts this week, have a listen to the ones about The Pragmatic Programmer and the one about performance.
For some fun, play Snek and watch the relaxing visualisation of train movements.
https://christof.damian.net/2026/08/fr

I'm watching Law & Order: Criminal Intent 1x02 "Art" #LawOrderCriminalIntent

Art
When a museum curator and an art authenticator are found dead in what was set up to look like a murder-suicide, Goren and Eames follow the clues and…

https://www.universetoday.com/articles/older-alien-worlds-might-still-be-stuck-in-the-slime-age

When the human commits the crime of smelling like another cat!

A look around the AFC West at the quarter mark of the season https://www.raiders.com/news/a-look-around-the-afc-west-at-the-quarter-mark-of-the-season

i'm finna mail out some mix tapes this weekend so heads up michigan (ann arbor, ann arbor, and birmingham) and california (LA, oakland, SF).
hey, check out the splatter!

So this is an old paper, but I was reviewing some stuff and re-read it just now, and was once again glad that people are doing research like this, and that the results are so lovely. A great antidote to despair about "human nature" is to just look at what kinds of communities kids can actually make for themselves when given a positive framework to work from and actual agency.
#anarchism #anarchy #games

Alpine Autumn (2026)
(No extra saturation, only polarization. For those never been in the mountains around this time of the year, these colors sure might look artificial to you...)
#FootpathFriday #LandscapePhotography

Martial Artists Train with Fox Masks -- that weapon is a three-section staff #photo

Don't look up, summer 2026 edition.
By Maarten Wolterink.

Messages on @… made me take a look at JFK.
This looks like a Christmas decoration 😂
#jfk #newyork

What is your cure for getting out of a creative slump?
That's usually my brain's way of asking for a pause. I look around me: what's going on in my life? Stress? Worries? Grief? Anger? Unresolved problems soaking up the energy?
Show the ol' noggin some compassion and let it have the break it's asking for.
Just don't overdo it.
#writersofmastodon

A look around the AFC West at the quarter mark of the season https://www.raiders.com/news/a-look-around-the-afc-west-at-the-quarter-mark-of-the-season

As a kid, I read a children's book about codes and ciphers and cryptography which featured something I'm very confident was from vintage pulp fiction series The Shadow. I've looked for this shadow a few times over the years and never found it, despite how seemingly easy it sounds to look up. Any of yall got this

Trump posted touched-up version of his golf photo to look younger and slimmer (Rhian Lubin/The Independent)
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-golf-photo-truth-social-b3030450.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260810/p62#a260810p62

An in-depth look at OpenAI's wiki incident: other hacked message boards, OpenAI's cover-up, how harmless web search tasks led agents to break out, and more (Zvi Mowshowitz/Don't Worry About the Vase)
https://thezvi.substack.com/p/openai-and-the-wiki-incident…

OpenAI and the Wiki Incident
I did not expect to be back here so soon with more OpenAI agent swarm coverage.

(post composed while ducking to keep below the rage and anguish flying everywhere from KDE, Debian, etc...)
So I'm cleaning up decades of old blog. I've used the Jekyll exporter to pull it all down, I've got @… 's BSSD in place, and I'm comparing what the YAML headers in the exported files look like compared to the BSSD headers (and se…

It's wild how much more efficient and effective it is to ask a late frontier model like Fable or Astra to look something up instead of using a search engine.

Okay I'm going to confess: I absolutely love the "styles" tools in the Photos app. I find them to be a fantastic starting point, and often the only thing I need.
Occasionally I will then fine tune using the other tools, and even more occasionally I will send a photo to Photomator.
I feel like the "natural" style, with the tone at like -60 or 70, and the saturation all the way up gives me a look that I associate with photos that come from Nikons.

🤔 2 cents:
- "Bookmark" saves a *reference* but it gives the impression that you need to organize them later.
- "Save" saves a *copy* but it gives the impression that you can just look it up later.
- Logically, “Save” sounds wrong because saved posts are kinda ephemeral — they can be edited, deleted, reported, etc.
- However, “Save" feels *lighter* than “Bookmark” because it doesn’t require organising them, so there's less friction for users to use it.
Twitter’s “Bookmark” may just be legacy.

https://thenarwhal.ca/grizzly-bear-haines-junction-yukon-coexistence/
An intimate look at life alongside grizzly bears
Haines Junction sits in one of Yukon's densest grizzly bear corridors. In this tiny town, Indigenous Knowledge and decades of pre…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
Dizzee Rascal:
🎵 Fix Up, Look Sharp
#DizzeeRascal
https://studiostar.bandcamp.com/track/dizzee-rascal-fix-up-look-sharp-studio-star-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/0uP15QSJzK4Yyn1oAjsZsV

As I listen to the Revolutions podcast mini series on 1848, it's hard not to fixate in the ways in which the Liberal obsession with nationalism and national borders planted the seed for the genocides that followed. Liberals are still confused by why genocide is a persistent problem, as though liberalism itself should have fixed it. "We must establish more liberal institutions," they believe, "like the ICC, so that we can hold people accountable."
But genocide is simply a property of nations and borders. Nations have always be arbitrarily drawn and diverse groups of people have always lived together. I grew up with the balkanization of post-soviet Russia and post colonial Wars in Africa. Conservatives (that is, classical Liberals) would talk about how these people were simply uncivilized or somehow genetically predisposed to conflict. But the Bosnian and Rwandan genocides were similar to the Liberal violence implicit in nationalism from the beginning. The Bosnian Genocide was quite specifically a product of the Liberal nationalism of 1848.
There are still people in the world whose culture is defined by migration. These cultures do not recognize the legitimacy of borders because borders make their culture impossible. The very existence of these lines, and their necessary enforcement, is genocidal to pastoralists and other migratory people.
You literally cannot have borders and not be committing genocide. Concepts of national identity just add to the genocidal push, targeting ethnic minorities. Ethnicities defined by not having a nation of their own, such as Roma and non-zionist Jews, are, like pastoralists, permanently threatened by these imaginary lines.
And now, people look at the genocide ICE is carrying out, at the terror and murder, and they blame Trump. But Trump is simply the avatar of forces far beyond his comprehension.
Every liberal needs to look at their beliefs and realize that these murderous policies are implicit in the very concept of a nation.

Just went to look into what the “propagator model of computation” is, and read just enough to understand that it may be a better basis for actual AI than the LLM and diffusion models. Also just enough to recognize that I no longer have the brain of my 20’s, when I positively hoovered up such things.

Don’t look now, but suddenly the U.S. Senate is in play
At the start of this election cycle,
it looked like winning control of the Senate was all but out of Democratic reach.
There are 35 contests on the ballot in November.
Of those, nearly two dozen are effectively over before they’ve even started,
given the advantage one party holds over the other.
Of the remainder, most are being held in states Trump won in 2024,
which makes them, broadly speaki…

Democratic Senate control has moved from a reach to a toss-up
The four-seat gain Democrats need to win control once seemed all but out of reach. Odds are looking up, though the party still faces a tough path, with toss-up races in a half dozen (mostly red) states.

if you look carefully, you can just see the last tiny bit of the sun as it dips behind the sea, just to the left of the stick in the center.
#seaWednesday #meermittwoch #sunset…

Oh joy. Having to dig into sysouts and determine the root cause of a problem is that the brodcast file was full. This shouldn't be my job, it is the job of the system admin. From what I can see it filled up almost two weeks ago and no one thought to look at it and from what I see they don't run anything to archive the contents and then set to empty.
That isn't a hard thing, a short JCL that can be scheduled to run once a week and the problem will disappear.

2026 NFL Week 1 early odds: Cowboys road favorites vs. Giants, while Panthers in familiar position vs. Bears

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/2026-nf

I go into the basement. There's a huge mess on the floor. Clove is looking up at me with a panicked look, meowing over & over. I figure it was Erie (she's the evil one), and Clove is trying to tell me that it wasn't her fault.
I sigh, walk upstairs, & start talking to my wife...

Oh! #FootpathFriday
One photo from the ruin of the castle #neideck which we visited.
I like castles and ruins not just for their look but because they offer a huge amount of information and history!
Well happy weekend! And happy reading

All this Sonic talk lately, figured it was time to fire up Mania on my Deck as I've had it on Steam for quite a while. And I'm gonna grab Origins Plus, as it has a ton of Sonic games on it, and it's on sale for just $12 right now. Mania has such a cool intro. 🔵
#Sonic #SonicMania

Of course #GitHub is having an incident again right that moment I want to look up something to file an issue. 📉

Mocking up a new ngscopeclient UI feature
I'm only half kidding, I think a "wtf is this signal" auto-ID / auto-decode feature might be interesting to try to build at some point. But it won't look like this.

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/117247842721973234
The “you are somebody now” is really striking in how overtly fascist the messaging is—if you want to read up on it, look up “New Man” as used by fascism.

Friday Links 26-24
I liked the "Border Collie" post today, the podcast about air conditioning in Europe, and the interview with Mike D.
https://christof.damian.net/2026/07/friday-links-26-24.html

If anyone else has been trying to set up automatic post deletion on Moshidon, you can't, it has to be done through a browser. This is probably blindingly obvious to most people. You have to have a right old dig about clicking on Preferences and hamburgers and Prefs again and so on. I've set mine to delete after six months. No-one needs to look at my old nonsense by then. I am grandly going to give this the hashtag

A look at a radio show co-hosted by an AI DJ and a human that is expanding in LA and other cities, as radio workers worry synthetic hosts may soon replace them (Nilesh Christopher/Los Angeles Times)
https://www.latimes.com/business/story/202

Los Angeles’ José FM’s Spanish-language morning show features an AI co-host
AI killed the radio star: DJ chatbots are already chatting up airwaves, humans are pushing back.

A look at a radio show co-hosted by an AI DJ and a human that is expanding in LA and other cities, as radio workers worry synthetic hosts may soon replace them (Nilesh Christopher/Los Angeles Times)
https://www.latimes.com/business/story/202

Los Angeles’ José FM’s Spanish-language morning show features an AI co-host
AI killed the radio star: DJ chatbots are already chatting up airwaves, humans are pushing back.

Predicting Cowboys 17-man practice squad https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2026/08/31/predicting-cowboys-17-man-practice-squad/91544611007/

The Scottish Government has trailled its plans for a major reorganisation of local government.
You know, the people who deliver social housing, maintain roads, clean up after storms, run the schools that prepare children for their futures, deliver social care, look after refugees...those people. And there wasn't a single mention of climate change, the collapse of biodiversity, or systematic pollution of...everything.
If I were thinking about reorganising local government, I w…

rain clouds cleared up a bit this evening so i went out on bike.
#dusk

Apple unveils Apple Music Hall, a live music venue in London's Battersea Power Station with a capacity of up to 600 people and two recording and mixing studios (David Phelan/Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidphelan/2

Apple Music Hall Revealed: 1st Look Inside Apple’s New Music Venue At London HQ
A new, highly customizable music venue in Battersea Power Station opens as part of a full production facility.

From The Narwhal
We’re hiring!
In case you missed it: we’re looking for two smart people to help us make The Narwhal even stronger for years to come!
Are you an expert in fundraising strategy? Then our director of philanthropy role might be the perfect fit for you as we look to level up the relationships we need to keep this special place thriving.

The Narwhal is hiring a director of philanthropy
We’re hiring a director of philanthropy to lead The Narwhal’s revenue strategy and fundraising operations with a focus on foundation giving and major gifts

A new-look C.J. Stroud opens up about cutting hair, becoming leaner ahead of season https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/49712506/houston-texans-cj-stroud-new-look-cut-hair-leaner

Raiders vs. Saints preview: How they match up, injuries, bold predictions https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/raiders/raiders-vs-saints-preview-how-they-match-up-injuries-bold-predictions-3891842/

‘To cover hate with more love’: Burned Pasadena temple’s mural restored after more antisemitic vandalism
The original graffiti was quickly removed, and a mural was commissioned in its place.
But to Leventhal’s surprise, the new mural was defaced with swastikas and a message reading,
“ZIONSIM IS NOT WELCOME.”
The word Zionism was misspelled.
“Ever since the mural was put up, I look at it out of pure joy,”
Leventhal, a senior director at the USC Shoah Fou…

Pasadena mural restored after antisemitic vandalism at burned temple
A defaced mural at the Pasadena Jewish Temple & Center was restored after an act of antisemitic vandalism. Community members gathered in solidarity.

A look at Holograms, Meta's take on Apple Vision Pro's Personas, launching with a shoulders-up version this fall for WhatsApp calls on Ray-Ban Display glasses (David Heaney/UploadVR)
https://www.uploadvr.com/meta-hologram-realistic-avatars-meta-…

Hologram: Meta Is Finally Set To Ship Realistic Avatars, And We Tried Them
Meta finally set a concrete timeline to ship realistic avatars, shoulders-up on Meta Ray-Ban Display and then full-body on Meta VR Glasses. We briefly tried both at Connect.

LOOK: Fight breaks out on Day 1 of Bengals training camp with Ja'Marr Chase at center of the scuffle

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/fight-breaks-out-bengals-training-camp…

That the US has a health problem isn’t controversial.
The Make America Healthy Again movement, led by US health secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr, has highlighted soaring rates of obesity, diabetes and chronic disease.
The movement’s public face isn’t scientists or doctors,
but influencers posting videos from saunas, gyms and parks talking about better choices and individual discipline.
Eat more red meat. Do more push-ups. Drink raw milk. Avoid vaccines and boost your na…

The US public is fed up with RFK Jr. To really ‘make America healthy again’, it should look to Europe
Americans are dying younger than Europeans, despite being the wealthiest people on the planet. Wellness fads won’t change that, says public health expert Devi Sridhar

A look at Business Insider's shift from aggregation and toward scoops under EIC Jamie Heller; original content now makes up 80% of output, up from 40% in 2024 (Andrew Deck/Nieman Lab)
https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/07/business-insiders-big-bet-against-agg…

A new website lets drivers see if their vehicle has been looked up using Flock’s surveillance camera system
— amidst growing backlash over the company’s sprawling network of automated cameras.
The “Have I Been Flocked” site compiles Flock Safety’s audit logs,
allowing drivers to look up their license plate number to see if authorities
— or someone else
— has run their information through the system.
If a person’s license plate appears in the database, it…

Raiders vs. Chargers preview: How they match up, injuries, bold predictions https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/raiders/raiders-vs-chargers-preview-how-they-match-up-injuries-bold-predictions-3888467/

A look at CazéTV, which has 41M YouTube subscribers and livestreamed the 2026 FIFA World Cup in Brazil, as Brazilian regulators investigate its ad practices (Ana Clara Otoni/Nieman Reports)
https://niemanreports.org/caze-tv-casi

A look at China's push to catch up with US AI chips; sources: its Vice Premier warned AI companies that anyone who resisted using local chips was a traitor (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/world/china/china-ai-chips-ra…

The Giants' season is already in danger, plus an early NHL preview https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7618768/2026/09/22/rams-giants-jaxson-dart-injury-the-pulse/

A look at Founders Fund-backed State Affairs, which raised $70M and uses AI trained on reporting by its 76 staffers to power a Bloomberg Terminal-like product (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2026…

A Peter Thiel-backed startup makes a surprising bet: Putting reporters in statehouses
State Affairs combines media and technology at a time when tensions between the two industries are at a fever pitch.

A look at State Affairs, whose statehouse coverage is used to train LLMs powering a Bloomberg Terminal-like product; it's raised $70M and has 76 editorial staff (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/20

A Peter Thiel-backed startup makes a surprising bet: Putting reporters in statehouses
State Affairs combines media and technology at a time when tensions between the two industries are at a fever pitch.

There is one solitary (and very literal) ray of sunshine amidst the climate change gloom:
the steady rise of solar, wind and batteries.
That clean energy trinity has broken out of its Chinese base and over the last few years expanded quickly across the planet
– from Karachi to California to Cuba, solar panels are going up faster than any energy source has ever grown.
It’s even begun to demonstrate that it can drive emissions down:
China seems to have started o…

The climate fight has one great ally. You just can’t look at it directly
There is hope in solar power. As the UN meets, we are urging leaders to pursue a clear goal: clean energy for all by 2030

2026 NFL Week 4 early odds: Chiefs road favorites over undefeated Raiders, Bucs no longer favored vs. Packers

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/2026-nfl-week-4-early-odds-chiefs-r…

A look at upcoming changes to 60 Minutes under Nick Bilton, including making greater use of its archive and potentially turning interviews into podcasts (Charlotte Klein/New York Magazine)
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/bari-weiss…

Bari Weiss Blew Up 60 Minutes. Now She Has to Fix it.
Inside Bari Weiss’s battles with the 60 Minutes staff and her attempts to overhaul the show, which include the recent hires of Ross Douthat and Ariel Levy.

Trump's war has failed.
His economic policy has failed.
His trade policy has failed.
MAHA has failed.
His political project is failing.
Donald Trump is a world-altering, titanic f*ck up:
He and his team increasingly look like rapacious buffoons who are way over their head:
Yesterday our desperate, addled leader clownishly refused to answer which countries he was importing low cost beef from:
The sense of decay is everywhere

Weeks Before Election He’s Losing Trump Clownishly Raises Prices On All Sorts Of Things
Tom Bonier is coming by live Tuesday, Noon ET to talk about the growing problem of the integrity of polls and for a deep dive on the 2026 elections

A look at Backstory, an experimental AI image authentication tool from Google DeepMind, offered for testing to journalists, researchers, and other fact checkers (Andrew Deck/Nieman Lab)
https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/08/googles-new-ai-tool-help…

Google’s new AI tool helps fact-checkers investigate AI fakes
Backstory automates provenance checks, reverse image searches, and context tracing to speed up verification work.

Position-by-position breakdown of the Raiders' initial 53-man roster for 2026 season https://www.raiders.com/news/raiders-initial-53-man-roster-2026-season-position-by-position

What history says about Diego Pavia's NFL chances after his release by the Ravens https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7467950/2026/07/25/diego-pavia-released-nfl-chances/

A look at The Athletic's creator partnerships, a program it launched last September to find new audiences that has resulted in ~75 videos with 50M views overall (Hanaa' Tameez/Nieman Lab)
https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/08/the-athl

Position-by-position breakdown of the Raiders' initial 53-man roster for 2026 season https://www.raiders.com/news/raiders-initial-53-man-roster-2026-season-position-by-position

Under-the-Radar 7th-Rounder Shaking Up Raiders Depth Chart in Year 2 https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/raiders-cody-lindenberg-linebacker-depth-chart-breakthrough/