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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.

lol a conversation I just had w/ a friend
[here's that MR: https://salsa.debian.org/ddp-team/release-notes/-/merge_requests/268 ]

Boston's GBH and New England Public Media plan to merge operations, keeping separate branding and headquarters; Susan Goldberg will remain GBH's top executive (Julian Wyllie/Current)
https://current.org/2026/05/gbh-new-engl…

GBH, New England Public Media to merge operations this summer
The largest station in public media and its neighboring station in the region are joining forces.

what a mess lol
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/glib/-/merge_requests/3987

glib/gthread-posix: Block futex_time64 usage on Android API level < 30 (!3987) · Merge requests · GNOME / GLib · GitLab
Hi all, This PR is to fix the usage of futex_time64 causing an instant Seccomp crash on Android < 11. This syscall is...

If you have two PRs with the same code what are the reasons you would reject one but allow the other? (other then you wouldn't merge the same code twice)
#development

One of the beautiful things about Sublime Merge¹ (and git/diffs) is that you can see exactly what has changed in complex expected values in tests to ensure that you’re updating the tests without overlooking regressions.
(This is from the Markdown page loader tests in Kitten², as I’m refactoring to implement the upcoming breaking change in the stateful components API³ as it affects the generated code for stateful layout components in Markdown pages.)
¹ Which I always have running,…

This becomes especially interesting when you understand the history of the church as a quasi-revolutionary organization. One could describe early church history as a mostly-successful attempt to overthrow the Roman empire. I say mostly successful because, in the end, the Roman state mutated the church for it's own ends and basically pulled a Lenin.
The early church was a religion of women and slaves that set up alternative institutions. See, the Roman economic system basically ran through the temples. Temples were basically the banks of their day (thus money changers in the temples and all that). So when the church set up their own institutions, they were actually attacking the economic system of the Roman empire. *That* is why the empire tried to destroy them. The Romans didn't really care about the gods. They would just mutate their beliefs to pull other pagans in. No, it wasn't about the gods. The Christian were fucking with the money.
The whole church as an institution was about dual power, and Paul (one of the early founders of the church) was central to organizing this into a political machine that could actually threaten the dominant order. One could argue that he saw the potential of the church, and used it to solidify his own power.
It all basically worked, right up until Constantine figured out how to flip the whole thing against the most radical elements. He had his people collect up different books of the Bible and modify them in such a way that it favored Rome. The trick here was to highlight the existing antisemitic threads of early church, and destroy the anti-Roman ones. Anti-authoritarian sects were killed as heretics, and centralized sects became aligned under the church.
This strategy of controlling internal dissent probably feels quite familiar. It's basically how the US works.
But this whole time, during the whole lead up to this, Christianity was illegal and it was continuing to grow as a system of dual power. When Romanism merged with Christianity, it created the most authoritarian institution in human history that brutally destroyed all opposition. Even still, several hundred years later it's power broke.
Today Liberalism has separated banking and the church, and has created the illusion of separation of church and state. But the same dual power strategy that allowed the first church to gain enough power to merge with the Roman power structure have now allowed Christian Nationalism to fully merge with Americanism into the Christian Fascism we see today...

JWST observes the assembly of a massive #galaxy at z~4: https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.13650 -> "NIRCam images and NIRSpec/IFU spectroscopy (R=2700) show that TGSSJ1530 1049 is part of one of the densest-known structures of continuum and line-emitting objects found at these redshifts. [...] Based on the physical separations and velocity differences between the galaxies, it is expected that these galaxies will merge to form a massive galaxy within a few Gyr. The system qualitatively resembles the forming brightest cluster galaxies in cosmological simulations that form early through a rapid succession of mergers."

"The surveillance state runs on volunteers: people who do the implementation work for free, out of genuine conviction, with no paper trail connecting them to the money that wrote the laws."
https://www.sambent.com/the-engineer-who-tried-to-put-ag…

"Hi [Name]"
This doesn't start well. "[Name]" instead of, you know, an actual name. Did an AI write the email, or was it just an incompetently written mail merge program? Maybe the AI wrote the mail merge?
'We're doing hardware for AI'
And that didn't exactly improve your chances.
And finally, what they actually needed is something that I haven't touched since college.
Buh buy.

The latest release of the small and nifty monitoring tool #Beszel merged a pull request from some AI dude who made it using Claude. The merge request's text has the usual embarrassing amount of emojis and it was merged without a lot of back and forth. It adds the ability to notify and send data to external services like healthchecks.io. This feels slightly unnerving to me. Wasn't there a r…

"The sooner David Ellison takes over that network the better,"
Pete Hegseth said during a morning briefing.
Hegseth's invoking the name of the Paramount Skydance chief executive
— whose company will take control of CNN once its deal to merge with Warner Bros. Discovery is finalized
— amplified the fear many have that the cable news channel will seek to appease the Trump administration
Hegseth made the remarks after blasting CNN's reporting on t…

“Oh but the real speed gains come from having swarms of them working in parallel”:
1. Conservatively, at this rate I would need 20 “agents” working in parallel to get the speed anywhere near my level.
2. I don’t have 20 changes I want to make to my code, so that isn’t plausible.
3. Have you tried integrating 20 merge conflicts? Hint: It takes longer than you think. But okay, we can just account for that additional slowdown by having *40* agents work in parallel except then …

How much do you think someone would have to pay redhat and canonical to introduce a no-slop policy including all upstream projects (llvm, systemd, kernel, etc)?
Like if you offered them $100M to permanently ban all of their devs from using LLMs, not merge any LLM generated upstream commits, etc. would they do it? $200M?

Crosslisted article(s) found for math.LO. https://arxiv.org/list/math.LO/new
[1/1]:
- Do not throw out the baby: Clarithmetics as alternatives to weak arithmetics
Giorgi Japaridze
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.26040 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLO_bot/116316995419379292
- On merge-models
Buffi\`ere, Lin, Ne\v{s}et{\v{r}}il, de Mendez}, Siebertz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.26570 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csDM_bot/116316992797678948
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“Honoring Mobile OS Text Size”
https://adrianroselli.com/2026/02/honoring-mobile-os-text-size.html
Looks at the new HTML thing proposed from CSSWG (yeah, not confusing) and tries to merge Safari’s propriety hack with Google’s CSSWG proposal and Canary impl…

Honoring Mobile OS Text Size
If your users scale the text size in Android or iDeviceOS, that doesn’t always affect the size of text on a web page. It’s a function of browser and authored code, as opposed to a standardized approach. That may be changing. Support The current state of affairs in the three…

Hi :gitannex: #git and #gitAnnex crowd. How do I configure git so a `git annex assist` (or the assistant) will *never* stop in a merge conflict? It should just choose one side, I don't care about conflicts.
@…

Highspot, which has raised $650M and makes AI-powered sales enablement software, plans to merge with rival Seismic; the combined company will be called Seismic (Taylor Soper/GeekWire)
https://www.geekwire.com/2026/seattle-based…

Confirming Nunki as the closest #CoreCollapse progenitor candidate to the Sun: https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.17011 -> it's a pair of 6 M_Sun stars at 69 parsec that will merge into a 10 M_Sun star and thus end as a supernova.

There’s life beyond VSCode… thought I’d share my dev setup:
• Main monitor: WezTerm¹ running in a three (sometimes four)-way split with Helix Editor² as my main editor, a terminal pane for general commands while working, and Yazi³ usually running in another for working with files/directories in a project.

• Other monitor: Sublime Merge⁴ always running full-screen so I can immediately see exactly what I’ve changed (in real time) as I’m working.
Others (not shown): Br…

Report: Canada's Cohere and Germany's Aleph Alpha are in talks to merge; the German government would be willing to become a key customer of a combined company (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/legal/transactiona

I've been using #navidrome for a few years now. I really liked it.
Over the past two months or so, it keeps crashing. I've never had that happen before, but now half the time when I load the web interface, it's unavailable and I have to manually start it.
I also noticed that merge requests and commits to the project seem to be making heavy use of AI tools.
I d…

The CEO of Boston NPR station GBH says "it would make a lot of sense to merge" with WBUR, another Boston NPR station; both have good short-term finances (Aidan Ryan/The Boston Globe)
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2026/03/12/business/gbh-wbur-merger-defundin…

GBH open to WBUR merger after public media defunded
Public broadcasters across the country have so far weathered $1.1 billion in federal cuts. But public media executives fear the relief is temporary.

Replaced article(s) found for q-bio.PE. https://arxiv.org/list/q-bio.PE/new
[1/1]:
- Multi-scale species richness estimation with deep learning
Victor Boussange, et al.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.06358 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_qbioPE_bot/114827906343277830
- Speciation by local adaptation and isolation by distance in extended environments
Lara D. Hissa, Flavia M. D. Marquitti, Marcus A. M. de Aguiar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.06719 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_qbioPE_bot/115014772512868183
- Sex chromosome stability and turnover across vertebrates: a developmental gene regulatory network...
Wen-Juan Ma, Ricard Fontser\`e, Tristan Cornelis, Paris Veltsos, Qi Zhou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.23624 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_qbioPE_bot/116158604279592691
- Split-or-decompose: Improved FPT branching algorithms for maximum agreement forests
David Mestel, Steven Chaplick, Steven Kelk, Ruben Meuwese
https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.18634 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csDS_bot/113225219437770040
- Genetic contribution of advantaged ancestors in the biparental Moran model -- finite selection
Camille Coron (MIA Paris-Saclay), Yves Le Jan (LMO)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.01178 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mathPR_bot/113944371956056819
- Stability analysis and long-time convergence of a partial differential equation model of two-phas...
Luce Breuil (MERGE)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.19814 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mathAP_bot/116277582769324623
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Bright [C II]158 μm Streamers as a Beacon for Giant Galaxy Formation in SPT2349-56 at z = 4.3: #GiantGalaxies could form just 1.4 billion years after the Big Bang: https://www.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de/pressreleases/2026/forming-massive-galaxies-in-the-early-universe - new radio observations of molecular gas reveal how dozens of galaxies rapidly merge together in the early Universe.