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Google-Chef hält kontroverse KI-Antworten von Gemini für "völlig inakzeptabel"
Nach problematischen Antworten der eigenen KI gibt Sundar Pichai in einem internen Memo Fehler zu. Der Google-CEO verspricht strukturelle Änderungen bei Gemini.

US election workers face thousands of threats – so why so few prosecutions?
The US Department of Justice circulated a memo to all federal prosecutors and FBI agents. There had been a “significant increase in the threat of violence against Americans who administer free and fair elections”, the memo said.
The increase in threats amounted to “a threat to democracy. We will promptly and vigorously prosecute offenders.”
The memo announced the formation of a new unit within the ju…

EU's hostility towards Meta's "Pay or Okay" model is misguided as the model does not force users to use Meta's platforms and it has been deemed GDPR compliant (Eric Benjamin Seufert/Mobile Dev Memo)
https://mobiledevmemo.com/pay-or-okay-

Europe's misguided hostility towards Pay or Okay | Mobile Dev Memo by Eric Seufert
Europe's misguided hostility towards Pay or Okay. Mobile marketing and advertising, freemium monetization strategy, and marketing science. Mobile Dev Memo.

More #layoffs
“Jack Dorsey's Block lays off 'large number' of staffers, adding to wave of tech-industry cuts”
https://www.businessinsider.com/block-layo

Jack Dorsey's Block lays off 'large number' of staffers
Dorsey told staff in a Tuesday memo that a "large number" of Block employees, including those at Cash App and Square, were being laid off.

Before the "we have no moat" memo from #google appeared almost a year ago, it seemed like it was only a matter of time until google's #LLM would overtake #OpenAI. The memo made it clear that per…

Mitch McConnell: Some Thoughts on Mastery, Destruction and Minority Rule (Talking Points Memo)
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/mitch-mcconnell-some-thoughts-on-mastery-destruction-and-minority-rule/sharetoken/HKlwxw9i77vE
http://www.memeorandum.com/240229/p99#a240229p99

Ingraham Blames Migrants For #Measles Outbreak Caused By Anti-Vaxxers - National Memo
https://www.nationalmemo.com/measles-outbreak

Ingraham Blames Migrants For Measles Outbreak Caused By Anti-Vaxxers
On the February 26 edition of The Ingraham Angle, host Laura Ingraham weaponized a recent measles outbreak in Florida to baselessly malign migrants.At least eight children in Broward County have contracted the virus, at least six of them at one elementary school, and an additional adult case was confirmed in Polk County.

Memo: Google CEO Sundar Pichai calls Gemini's problematic responses around race "completely unacceptable" and vows to make structural changes to fix the problem (Reed Albergotti/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/02/27/2024…

Google CEO calls AI tool’s controversial responses ‘completely unacceptable’ | Semafor
In a memo to employees sent Tuesday evening, Sundar Pichai vowed to make structural changes to address the issues found in Gemini’s racially inaccurate images.

Exclusive: Some US officials say in internal memo Israel may be violating international law in Gaza (Humeyra Pamuk/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/some-us-officials-say-internal-memo-israel-may-be-violating-international-law-2024-04-27/
http://www.memeorandum.com/240427/p19#a240427p19

Poll Shows Even #Republicans Don't Trust #GOP To Protect #SocialSecurity - National Memo

Poll Shows Even Republicans Don't Trust GOP To Protect Social Security
A new survey from Navigator Research doesn’t just show how strongly voters feel about protecting Social Security and Medicare, but it also shows how much voters don’t trust Republican lawmakers to do it. And that’s including a solid majority—61%—of Republicans.

Dog caught the car. Doesn’t know what to do! They’re trapped. Senators Now Defending IVF CoSponsored Bill to Outlaw It - TPM – Talking Points Memo https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/senators-now-defending-ivf-cosponsored-bill-to-outlaw-it<…

Senators Now Defending IVF CoSponsored Bill to Outlaw It
Sen. Steve Daines (R) of Montana heads the Senate Republican campaign committee, which today sent out a memo to all its candidates instructing them to vigorously defend IVF fertility treatments which…

Leaked NYT Gaza Memo Tells Journalists to Avoid Words “Genocide,” “Ethnic Cleansing,” and “Occupied Territory”
https://theintercept.com/2024/04/15/nyt-israel-gaza-genocide-palestine-coverage/

Leaked NYT Gaza Memo Tells Journalists to Avoid Words “Genocide,” “Ethnic Cleansing,” and “Occupied Territory”
An internal style memo from New York Times editors tells reporters not to use words like “genocide” or “Palestine” when covering Israel’s war on Gaza.

Mozilla fires 60 people to “focus on bringing ‘trustworthy AI into Firefox.’”
Fuck you, Mozilla. No one is asking for AI in Firefox. Sadly, you’re the best we can hope for under capitalism. So if we want something better, we should look into alternative models.
https://

Mozilla downsizes as it refocuses on Firefox and AI: Read the memo | TechCrunch
After installing a new interim CEO earlier this month, Mozilla, the organization behind the Firefox browser, is making some major changes to its product

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.04058 has been replaced.
link: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=a

Measuring the Evolution of the NuSTAR Detector Gains
The memo describes the methods used to track the long-term gain variations in the NuSTAR detectors. It builds on the analysis presented in Madsen et al. (2015) using the deployable calibration source to measure the gain drift in the NuSTAR CdZnTe detectors. This is intended to be a live document that is periodically updated as new entries are required in the NuSTAR gain CALDB files. This document covers analysis up through early-2022 and the gain v011 CALDB file released in version 20240226.

Memo: Paramount starts layoffs to reduce costs; sources say ~800 employees, or an estimated 3% of its headcount, are getting cut across all divisions (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2024/tv/news/paramount-global-layoffs-ceo-bakish-…

Paramount Global Layoffs Are Underway: Read CEO Bakish Memo to Staff
Paramount Global, amid a swirl of M&A discussions, is laying off about 800 employees worldwide as it looks to trim costs.

"Here’s another idea we ought to test: let’s mashup a couple of tech billionaire fantasies by sticking Sam Altman on a SpaceX rocket and firing it at Mars. The benefit to humanity is potentially immense. (Just think… at a bare minimum, we wouldn’t have to continue to wade through Altman’s bullshit anymore!)"
(Original title: A Memo to OpenAI: You Are Not the Protagonists)

D279,386 - issued in 1985 for a "party needs memo holder." #DesignPatents

What the every-loving fuddlebuckets is up with all these companies pivoting to AI whose business has not a damned thing to do with AI?!
In 1849, did railroad companies melt trains for scrap so they could “refocus on gold?”
From @…:

Leaked NYT Gaza Memo Tells Journalists to Avoid Words “Genocide,” “Ethnic Cleansing,” and “Occupied Territory” https://theintercept.com/2024/04/15/nyt-israel-gaza-genocide-palestine-coverage/

Good thread!
https://social.polotek.net/@polotek/112321179433233038

Sources: TikTok has replaced several senior executives, including the one running its trust and safety unit, giving the CEO more oversight of content moderation (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/ti

TikTok Shakes Up Executive Ranks, Giving CEO More Oversight of Content Moderation
TikTok has shaken up its senior ranks, replacing several senior executives including the person running its trust & safety unit, which handles content moderation, and appointing a protege of CEO Shou Zi Chew to oversee that part of the business, according to people at the company and a memo ...

Did you ever believe that Hunter Biden took a #laptop full of incriminating information into a computer repair shop and abandoned it there? That the repair shop decided to examine its contents and transmit them to Rudy Giuliani and Steve Bannon?
Of course not. Because you have more common sense than reporters and editors at every major news organization.
The whole thing was a Russian disinfor…

A Bigger Story Than You Can Possibly Imagine
I know that's a big headline that promises a lot. But I think it's true. David has a good rundown of the events in the Morning Memo. But I want to do my best to set them out on a larger canvas that…

Hey, all you guys who were skeptical about Russians interfering in our politics! Seems like you were duped. The Russians have been interfering since 2015, at least. https://talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo/russia…

Russia’s Staggering Success In Duping GOPers And Right Wing Media
The implications of this Russian operation are staggering, especially for the willing Republicans and right-wing media stooges who were Putin’s useful idiots.

White House sends House Republicans 'vacation reading' about consequences of congressional inaction in Ukraine: https://benborges.xyz/2024/02/22/white-house-sends.html

well this was unexpected: I launch the Mozilla firefox-bin that I've been using for months, and it is gone, the binary is just an ad for the snap! The packages.mozilla.org repo path is a 404!
Must be a memo somewhere I didn't get.

“ The memo—written by Times standards editor Susan Wessling, international editor Philip Pan…”
Wessling reports either to Joe Kahn, top editor, or Carolyn Ryan/Marc Lacey, seconds-in-command.
This doesn’t get done w/out approval by Kahn and Sulzberger.
https://theinte…

Leaked NYT Gaza Memo Tells Journalists to Avoid Words “Genocide,” “Ethnic Cleansing,” and “Occupied Territory”
An internal style memo from New York Times editors tells reporters not to use words like “genocide” or “Palestine” when covering Israel’s war on Gaza.

Still Pretending To Be President, Trump Even Has An 'Envoy' - National Memo
https://www.nationalmemo.com/ric-grenell

Still Pretending To Be President, Trump Even Has An 'Envoy'
Ever since he sullenly departed from the White House in January 2021, a portion of Donald Trump’s supporters have maintained that he is actually still in charge of the “real” government and running the military while President Joe Biden is left with a fake government and a ”bad military.” That view may be deep into the land of deplorable delusions, but in a way, Trump really has been running his own government.

Singularity: a Seventh Memo?
Matteo Gallone, Sandra Lucente
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.18487 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2403.18487<…

Singularity: a Seventh Memo?
In this paper we explore the relationships between Calvino's memos and Mathematics. In the first part, we discuss how Lightness, Quickness, Exactitude, Visibility, Multiplicity are present in the mathematical language, reasoning and in the work of the mathematician. In addiction, we follow a similar path for the topics of Calvino's lecture of which we only know the title or some notes. In the final part, we explain why `Singularity' could be chosen as topic for Calvino's seventh lecture.

Who Paid For Sarah Sanders' Six Figure Super Bowl Extravaganza? (Hunter Walker/Talking Points Memo)
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/who-paid-for-sarah-sanders-six-figure-super-bowl-extravaganza
http://www.memeorandum.com/240227/p93#a240227p93

“When you do criming, eventually it catches up to you.” —@TTbuttonguys_2020 https://apple.news/Aqrh8tS_2QDSNvueE_qTiUw

Mozilla fires 60 people to “focus on bringing ‘trustworthy AI into Firefox.’”
Fuck you, Mozilla. No one is asking for AI in Firefox. Sadly, you’re the best we can hope for under capitalism. So if we want something better, we should look into alternative models.
https://

Mozilla downsizes as it refocuses on Firefox and AI: Read the memo | TechCrunch
After installing a new interim CEO earlier this month, Mozilla, the organization behind the Firefox browser, is making some major changes to its product

Mozilla is "scal[ing] back its investment in its mozilla.social Mastodon instance" in addition to a bunch of other projects.
Who is surprised? Mozilla, for years and years now, has started projects, made big promises, and then killed them again. Remember the phone? Persona? IoT? These are just the ones I'm remembering.
And now they chase AI instead. Send help.

Mozilla downsizes as it refocuses on Firefox and AI: Read the memo | TechCrunch
After installing a new interim CEO earlier this month, Mozilla, the organization behind the Firefox browser, is making some major changes to its product

"I can’t see how #Weiss’s office can manage its two cases at once. It’s prosecuting #Smirnov for knowingly injecting Russian disinformation into U.S. law enforcement. He’s also prosecuting #HunterBiden

A Bigger Story Than You Can Possibly Imagine
I know that's a big headline that promises a lot. But I think it's true. David has a good rundown of the events in the Morning Memo. But I want to do my best to set them out on a larger canvas that…

Hey, all you guys who were skeptical about Russians interfering in our politics! Seems like you were duped. The Russians have been interfering since 2015, at least. https://talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo/russia…

Russia’s Staggering Success In Duping GOPers And Right Wing Media
The implications of this Russian operation are staggering, especially for the willing Republicans and right-wing media stooges who were Putin’s useful idiots.

Josh Marshall lays it on the line about the Hunter Biden laptop etc etc etc
"This entire thing has been based on Russian plants and intelligence operations from the start."
"The real issue is the reporters, editorialists and commentators, who vouched for and credited this whole edifice of lies and BS."
"Every last person among the serious people of the nation’s capital has egg on their face. And it’s not even clear they fully realize it yet."

A Bigger Story Than You Can Possibly Imagine
I know that's a big headline that promises a lot. But I think it's true. David has a good rundown of the events in the Morning Memo. But I want to do my best to set them out on a larger canvas that…

Memo: Boston public radio station WBUR CEO Margaret Low says 31 employees, or ~14% of its staff, are leaving, with 24 of them taking a voluntary buyout (Aidan Ryan/The Boston Globe)
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2024/04/24/business/wbur-layoffs/

WBUR lays off seven employees, as 24 staffers take buyouts
The decision to lay off staff comes two months after WBUR chief executive Margaret Low first informed staff that the station was facing financial challenges.

What the every-loving fuddlebuckets is up with all these companies pivoting to AI whose business has not a damned thing to do with AI?!
In 1849, did railroad companies melt trains for scrap so they could “refocus on gold?”
From @…:

Expedia plans to cut about 1,500 roles this year, mainly in its Product & Technology division; the company had 17,100 employees at the end of 2023 (Todd Bishop/GeekWire)
https://www.geekwire.com/2024/expedia-group…

Expedia Group cutbacks will impact 1,500 roles this year, more than 8% of workforce
Expedia Group expects about 1,500 roles to be impacted by cutbacks under an operational review announced in an internal memo.

I've just pushed a git commit with the comment:
" Massive code clean-up, all tests still pass.
...but I'm still struggling to understand how it works and how I use it. Memo to self: document your code better."
https://github.com/simon-brooke/…

Massive code clean-up, all tests still pass. · simon-brooke/walkmap@cb5041e
...but I'm still struggling to understand how it works and how I use it. Memo to self: document your code better.

Today is officially the first day of Spring!
I guess mother nature got confused or didn't get the memo!
But that's ok, the colder the better.
#Weather #Spring #FirstDayOfSpring

Senate #GOP campaign memo: 'Imperative' to 'clearly and concisely reject' Alabama #IVF ruling - Alternet.org
https://www.…

Senate GOP campaign memo: 'Imperative' to 'clearly and concisely reject' Alabama IVF ruling
The National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) — the main campaign arm for GOP candidates for the US Senate — is urging Republicans to distance themselves from the Alabama Supreme Court's recent controversial ruling that frozen embryos are equivalent to human children.Since the ruling, three in...

Jan. 6 Architect John Eastman Roasted By Judge In Disbarment Case (David Kurtz/Talking Points Memo)
https://morningmemo.talkingpointsmemo.com/p/jan-6-architect-john-eastman-roasted
http://www.memeorandum.com/240328/p36#a240328p36

Memo: Boston public radio station WBUR CEO Margaret Low says 31 employees, or ~14% of its staff, are leaving, with 24 of them taking a voluntary buyout (Aidan Ryan/The Boston Globe)
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2024/04/24/business/wbur-layoffs/

WBUR lays off seven employees, as 24 staffers take buyouts
The decision to lay off staff comes two months after WBUR chief executive Margaret Low first informed staff that the station was facing financial challenges.

#Movies #BackToTheFuture
Via All The Right Movies @ATRightMovies
·
4h
Universal studio head Sid Sheinberg was not sold on the title of BACK TO THE FUTURE, and sent Steven Spielberg this memo with his very odd name change suggestion.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.06775 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCY_…

Twenty Constructionist Things to Do with Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
In this paper, we build on the 1971 memo "Twenty Things to Do With a Computer" by Seymour Papert and Cynthia Solomon and propose twenty constructionist things to do with artificial intelligence and machine learning. Several proposals build on ideas developed in the original memo while others are new and address topics in science, mathematics, and the arts. In reviewing the big themes, we notice a renewed interest in children's engagement not just for technical proficiency but also to cultivate …

Tim Cook sieht Vision Pro als so bedeutend wie Mac oder iPhone an
In einem internen Memo feiert Apple-Chef Tim Cook die Markteinführung seines VR-Headsets. Er erwähnt auch, dass das Gerät anders vermittelt werden muss.
…

They’ll actually get more money on the finalized deal.
“MAC commissioner Jon Steinbrecher, who is one of the 11-member CFP Management Committee members, sent a memo to his league administrators saying that such reports (as The Athletic’s) are "incorrect" and premature.”

Internal Tesla memo: Elon Musk tells staff to perform a "short test ride" with customers to demonstrate Full Self-Driving, a "hard requirement" from now on (Edward Ludlow/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Tesla (TSLA) Must Give Driver-Assist Demonstration With Every US Sale, Musk Says
Tesla Inc. staff are now required to install and demonstrate the company’s driver-assistance technology before handing cars over to buyers in North America, a “hard requirement” that Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk says will slow deliveries.

Memo: NBCU News Group Chair Cesar Conde tells staff NBC dropped Ronna McDaniel as a paid contributor and apologizes for hiring the former RNC chair (Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2024/03/26/nbc-news-ronna-mcdaniel-commentator

Ronna McDaniel out at NBC News following backlash
Her hiring set off a rare on-air protest from the network's top talent.

Love Battery – Corporate Memo
[from «Confusion Au Go Go», 1998, with Dan Peters on drums]
#FediRadio

How did The New York Times, one of the world’s most famous and well-established publications, choose to review Geraldine DeRuiter’s ( @…) new book?
By illustrating her decapitated head on a plate, getting devoured by another woman. No, I’m not joking.
I got mad about it. I wrote about why:

Platform Responsibility: In Defense of Geraldine DeRuiter
Why we write and why we read. If you publish content online, you’re responsible for the harm that it may cause. It seems like The New York Times didn’t get the memo.

I've just pushed a git commit with the comment:
" Massive code clean-up, all tests still pass.
...but I'm still struggling to understand how it works and how I use it. Memo to self: document your code better."
https://github.com/simon-brooke/…

Massive code clean-up, all tests still pass. · simon-brooke/walkmap@cb5041e
...but I'm still struggling to understand how it works and how I use it. Memo to self: document your code better.

Memo: The New York Times told journalists covering the Israel-Hamas war to restrict the use of "genocide", "ethnic cleansing", and "occupied territory" (The Intercept)
https://theintercept.com/2024/04/15/nyt-israel-gaz…

Leaked NYT Gaza Memo Tells Journalists to Avoid Words “Genocide,” “Ethnic Cleansing,” and “Occupied Territory”
An internal style memo from New York Times editors tells reporters not to use words like “genocide” or “Palestine” when covering Israel’s war on Gaza.

Evidence Of #GOP Complicity In Kremlin Assault On America Is Now Overwhelming - National Memo
https://www.nationalmemo.com/pro-russian-republicans

Evidence Of GOP Complicity In Kremlin Assault On America Is Now Overwhelming
On February 23, a federal judge in California ordered marshals to seize Alexander Smirnov at his lawyers' office only days after he had been released on bail by a different judge, with the clear implication that he might be preparing to flee the country. Smirnov is the much touted prime witness in t...

Memo: Thrasio CEO Greg Greeley plans to resign and five other senior executives will "step down when Thrasio emerges from Chapter 11 in the coming weeks" (Annie Palmer/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/04/24/amazon-agg…

Internal memo: G/O Media sells The Onion to a new Chicago-based firm, Global Tetrahedron, which promises to keep The Onion's staff intact and in Chicago (Katie Robertson/@katie_robertson)
https://twitter.com/katie_robertson/status/1783557935433437441<…

Katie Robertson (@katie_robertson) on X
More here — this is the email Jim Spanfeller, CEO of G/O Media, sent out today. And yes I’m told Global Tetrahedron is in fact a real company

Super disappointed with Mozilla. https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/111931373599955648

Ars Technica (@arstechnica@mastodon.social)
Attached: 1 image Mozilla lays off 60 people, wants to build AI into Firefox Memo details layoffs, "strategic corrections," and a desire for "trustworthy" AI. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/02/mozilla-lays-off-60-people-wants-to-build-ai-into-firefox/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

Memo: Microsoft names Pavan Davuluri as its Windows and Surface chief; Microsoft had split the Windows and Surface groups after Panos Panay left in Sept. 2023 (Tom Warren/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/2024/3/25/24111931/microsoft-windows-…

Microsoft has a new Windows and Surface chief
Pavan Davuluri is Microsoft’s new Surface and Windows chief. He recombines leadership of two groups that were split up after Panos Panay left for Amazon last year.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.06775 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCY_…

Twenty Constructionist Things to Do with Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
In this paper, we build on the 1971 memo "Twenty Things to Do With a Computer" by Seymour Papert and Cynthia Solomon and propose twenty constructionist things to do with artificial intelligence and machine learning. Several proposals build on ideas developed in the original memo while others are new and address topics in science, mathematics, and the arts. In reviewing the big themes, we notice a renewed interest in children's engagement not just for technical proficiency but also to cultivate …

Internal memo: G/O Media sells The Onion to a new Chicago-based firm, Global Tetrahedron, which promises to keep The Onion's staff intact and in Chicago (Katie Robertson/@katie_robertson)
https://twitter.com/katie_robertson/status/1783557935433437441<…

Katie Robertson (@katie_robertson) on X
More here — this is the email Jim Spanfeller, CEO of G/O Media, sent out today. And yes I’m told Global Tetrahedron is in fact a real company

Memo: Microsoft's Bing chief Mikhail Parakhin plans to exit his roles and look for a new position, after Microsoft hired Mustafa Suleyman to run Microsoft AI (Dina Bass/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Microsoft Bing Chief Parakhin Exiting Role After Suleyman Named AI Leader
Microsoft Corp.’s Mikhail Parakhin, head of the company’s Bing search engine and advertising businesses, will exit those roles and look for a new position, a week after the software giant named Mustafa Suleyman to oversee consumer artificial intelligence work and asked Parakhin to report to him.

This hurts both parties.
Of the two of them, the AP the most.
Next most, what remains of the industry itself.
Most of all, it’ll hurt us, as an audience.
https://www.thewrap.com/gannett-drops-ap-associated-press-usa-today/

Gannett to Halt Use of AP Content in its Publications
The company will stop using the outlet’s content on March 25, according to an internal memo from chief content officer Kristin Roberts

Can DC Reporters Overcome Their Trumper Shock-Training? (Talking Points Memo)
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/can-dc-reporters-overcome-their-trumper-shock-training/sharetoken/KGBJRFFolANQ
http://www.memeorandum.com/240222/p95#a240222p95

Sources: Mozilla plans to scale back its investment in a few products, including its VPN, Relay, and its Online Footprint Scrubber, as it lays off ~60 employees (Frederic Lardinois/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2024/02/13/mozi

Mozilla downsizes as it refocuses on Firefox and AI: Read the memo | TechCrunch
After installing a new interim CEO earlier this month, Mozilla, the organization behind the Firefox browser, is making some major changes to its product

Memo: Semafor elevates Max Tani to media editor; Ben Smith says Tani will play a big role producing and appearing at Semafor's media summit and other projects (CNN)
https://view.newsletters.cnn.com/messages/1713918236075722c14b22c11/raw
…

Can DC Reporters Overcome Their Trumper Shock-Training? (Talking Points Memo)
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/can-dc-reporters-overcome-their-trumper-shock-training/sharetoken/KGBJRFFolANQ
http://www.memeorandum.com/240222/p95#a240222p95

Internal memo: Vice Media "will no longer publish content on vice.com" and may partner with established media companies to distribute its content (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/media/vice-me

Memo to its US staff: TikTok vows legal battle if US' divestment bill becomes a law, saying the bill is "a clear violation" of its users' First Amendment rights (Zheping Huang/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles…

TikTok Vows Legal Battle as the US Presses for App’s Sale or Ban
TikTok told employees it will fight in the courts if a US bill forcing a ban or divestiture of the Chinese-owned app is signed into law, as one of the world’s most valuable technology businesses tries to fend off an existential crisis in its most important market.

Internal memo: Vice Media "will no longer publish content on vice.com" and may partner with established media companies to distribute its content (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/media/vice-me

'We're Getting Slaughtered': Coulter Blames Lost Elections On Religious 'Zealots' - National Memo
https://www.nationalmemo.com/ann-coulter-abortion

'We're Getting Slaughtered': Coulter Blames Lost Elections On Religious  'Zealots'
Over the years, conservative firebrand author Ann Coulter hasn't been shy about attacking "godless" liberals. And she has defended the Religious Right on many occasions.

Twenty Constructionist Things to Do with Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
Yasmin Kafai, Luis Morales-Navarro
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.06775 h…

Twenty Constructionist Things to Do with Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
In this paper, we build on the 1971 memo "Twenty Things to Do With a Computer" by Seymour Papert and Cynthia Solomon and propose twenty constructionist things to do with artificial intelligence and machine learning. Several proposals build on ideas developed in the original memo while others are new and address topics in science, mathematics, and the arts. In reviewing the big themes, we notice a renewed interest in children's engagement not just for technical proficiency but also to cultivate …

We Have Met the Enemy and He Owns the Valet Booth at Trump Tower (Talking Points Memo)
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/we-have-met-the-enemy-and-he-owns-the-valet-booth-at-trump-tower/sharetoken/3jTLuWi6kWgZ
http://www.memeorandum.com/240322/p66#a240322p66

[Thread] Engadget announces layoffs and a restructuring that separates news and features from reviews and buying advice (Max Tani/@maxwelltani)
https://twitter.com/maxwelltani/status/1760714150354014545

Max Tani (@maxwelltani) on X
Memo that went out to staffers at Engadget announcing layoffs today

#Trump Faces Huge Potential Damages In January 6 Civil Lawsuits - National Memo
https://www.nationalmemo.com/capitol-insurrection-trump

Trump Faces Huge Potential Damages In January 6 Civil Lawsuits
Before Justice Arthur Engoron released his verdict in New York Attorney General Letitia James' civil fraud case, many legal experts predicted that Trump would get clobbered financially. And that's exactly what happened. On Friday afternoon, February 16, Engoron ordered Trump to pay almost $355 million.

[Thread] Engadget announces layoffs and a restructuring that separates news and features from reviews and buying advice (Max Tani/@maxwelltani)
https://twitter.com/maxwelltani/status/1760714150354014545

Max Tani (@maxwelltani) on X
Memo that went out to staffers at Engadget announcing layoffs today

Memo: Aaron LaBerge, the CTO of Disney Entertainment and ESPN, will leave the company after June for personal reasons, to become the CTO of Penn Entertainment (Alex Sherman/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/04/22/disney-cto-aaron-l…

Google fires 28 employees over their participation in a 10-hour sit-in at the company's New York and Sunnyvale offices to protest its business ties with Israel (Thomas Barrabi/New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2024/04/17/business<…

Google fires 28 employees involved in sit-in protest over $1.2B Israel contract
In a companywide memo obtained by The Post, Google vice president of global security Chris Rackow said their “behavior was unacceptable, extremely disruptive, and made co-workers feel threatened.”…

Tesla layoffs: 10% of employees impacted, read the Elon Musk memo
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/04/15/tesla-shares-dip-in-premarket-trade-on-global-layoff-reports.html

Memo: John Collison says Stripe is in "no rush" to go public and payments volume rose 25% YoY to $1T in 2023; source: Stripe hit $1B in net revenue in Q3 2023 (George Hammond/Financial Times)
https://t.co/f9yFN6nzxG

The Legal Coup -- In late 2020, a group of conservative movement attorneys set out to build ... (Josh Kovensky/Talking Points Memo)
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/feature/intro-chesebro-docs
http://www.memeorandum.com/240212/p68#a240212p68

In a memo, Gannett Chief Content Officer Kristin Roberts says the publisher will stop publishing AP content on March 25 "to invest further in our newsrooms" (Ben Mullin/@benmullin)
https://twitter.com/benmullin/status/1770119387162218505

Ben Mullin (@BenMullin) on X
Statement from Gannett on decision to drop AP: “This decision enables us to invest further in our newsrooms and leverage our incredible USA TODAY Network of more than 200 newsrooms across the nation as well USA TODAY to reach and engage more readers, viewers and listeners.”

Internal TikTok memo: the company is "disappointed" the US House passed the TikTok divestment bill, and plans to lobby the Senate not to pass the legislation (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

TikTok Tells Staff That Strategy Stays the Same After House Vote
TikTok told employees the company isn’t planning to change its approach to protecting user data even after US lawmakers passed a bill to ban the app in the country unless its Chinese owner sells it.

The Legal Coup -- In late 2020, a group of conservative movement attorneys set out to build ... (Josh Kovensky/Talking Points Memo)
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/feature/intro-chesebro-docs
http://www.memeorandum.com/240212/p68#a240212p68

News sites are closing due to the collapse of programmatic ad revenue; a case study of Talking Points Memo shows how subscriptions kept the site in business (Josh Marshall/Talking Points Memo)
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/why-is-your-news-s…

Why Is Your News Site Going Out of Business?
Over the years I've written about structural problems in the digital news industry, often driven by the growth of platform monopolies and other issues. Just in the last few months and even in the last…

Memo: Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services says health insurers cannot use AI to determine care or deny coverage to members on Medicare Advantage plans (Beth Mole/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/0

AI cannot be used to deny health care coverage, feds clarify to insurers
CMS worries AI could wrongfully deny care for those on Medicare Advantage plans.

Don't Be Lulled Into Thinking Trump II Will Just Be A Repeat Of Trump I (David Kurtz/Talking Points Memo)
https://morningmemo.talkingpointsmemo.com/p/dont-be-lulled-into-thinking-trump
http://www.memeorandum.com/240313/p51#a240313p51

Internal memo: Alibaba plans to roll out a new staff incentive plan on April 1 that combines equity with cash, a significant change to attract and retain talent (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Alibaba Overhauls Incentives to Entice Staff as Stock Languishes
Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. will roll out a new employee incentive plan starting April that combines equity with cash, a significant adjustment designed to help the e-commerce giant attract and retain talent despite fierce competition.

WGA East says 26 of the 50 NowThis members represented by the union have been laid off; an internal memo says no additional layoffs are planned (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2024/digital/news/nowthis-news-layoffs-1235912770/

NowThis Layoffs: Half of News Staff Laid Off, Union Says
Half of the editorial team of NowThis, a social media-focused news company, has been laid off, according to the union representing the staffers.

In a lengthy memo on Alibaba's internal forum, Jack Ma voiced his support for a company undergoing a turbulent restructuring, saying it is now on the right path (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Jack Ma Emerges to Cheer Alibaba Overhaul Plan in Online Forum
Jack Ma took to an internal Alibaba forum to voice his support for a company undergoing a turbulent restructuring, emerging from seclusion for the second time in months to try and shore up sagging morale at the Chinese e-commerce pioneer he co-created.

Thoughts On the Hur Report (Josh Marshall/Talking Points Memo)
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/thoughts-on-the-hur-report

Thoughts On the Hur Report
Let me share a few thoughts on the Biden special counsel report. First off, this is another example of the universal rule: Republican special counsels are chosen to investigate Democrats.

Memo: SiriusXM plans to cut ~160 jobs, or ~3% of its workforce, after laying off 475 employees, or ~8% of its workforce, in March 2023 (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2024/digital/news/siriusxm-layoffs-160-employees-1235908020/…

SiriusXM to Lay Off 160 Staffers, About 3% of Workforce
SiriusXM is eliminating about 160 jobs, a layoff affecting just under 3% of the satellite radio and audio streamer's workforce.

Memo: The Wall Street Journal names Elena Cherney as senior editor, leading the Standards and Ethics team and championing press freedom and free speech (Chris Roush/Talking Biz News)
https://talkingbiznews.com/media-news/cherney-to-lead-wsj-sta…

Cherney to lead WSJ standards and ethics team - Talking Biz News
Wall Street Journal editor in chief Emma Tucker sent out the following on Thursday: Dear all, I am delighted to announce that Elena Cherney is now Senior Editor of the Wall Street Journal and will lead our Standards and Ethics team. In this role, as a vital part of the Journal’s senior leadership, Elena will advise me […]

Memo: AWS plans to cut several hundred jobs in its Sales, Marketing, and Global Services organization, and a few hundred in its Physical Stores Technology team (Todd Bishop/GeekWire)
https://www.geekwire.com/2024/amazon-web-s

Amazon Web Services cuts hundreds of jobs in sales, training, and physical stores tech group
AWS is cutting several hundred jobs on its sales, marketing and services group, and a few hundred jobs on its physical stores tech team.

Memo: NPR Chief Content Officer Edith Chapin defends NPR's journalism and commitment to reflecting a diverse array of views, rejecting Uri Berliner's assessment (David Folkenflik/NPR)
https://npr.org/2024/04/09/1243755769/npr-journalist-ur…

Memo: Okta CEO Todd McKinnon says the company plans to lay off 400 employees, or ~7% of its staff, as the "reality is that costs are still too high" (Rohan Goswami/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/02/01/okta-to-lay-off-7percent-o…

Memo: Bell Media plans to sell 45 radio stations and end some TV newscasts in stations such as CTV and BNN Bloomberg, after its parent BCE announced layoffs (Sammy Hudes/The Canadian Press)
https://www.

Bell ends some CTV newscasts, sells radio stations in media shakeup amid layoffs
Bell Media is ending multiple television newscasts and making other programming cuts after its parent company announced widespread layoffs and the sale of 45 of its 103 regional radio stations.

Memo: Warner Music plans to lay off 10% of its staff, or 600 people, wind down its podcast network Interval Presents, and sell the websites Uproxx and HipHopDX (Jem Aswad/Variety)
https://variety.com/2024/music/news/warner-music-to-lay-off-…

Warner Music to Lay Off 10% of Staff
The tough news continues for the music industry as Warner Music announced that it will lay off 10% of its staff, or 600 people, in the coming weeks.

Memo: CNN revamps its morning schedule, moving up News Central to 7am ET; This Morning moves to Atlanta, Phil Mattingly and Poppy Harlow will move to new roles (Lachlan Cartwright/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-ne

‘CNN This Morning’ Moving to Atlanta, Staffers Asked to Reapply for Jobs
The show’s 50-person team have been told they can reapply for jobs within the network, according to the people familiar.