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To Meet Pledges to Save Forests Spending Must Triple, U.N. Report Says - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/climate/deforestation-united-nations-report.html

A few remarks on "AI" usage and the narrative surrounding it. I think it's about the difference between disconnected creating and embodied making.
(Original title: Something from nothing)
https://tante.cc/2025/12/12/something-from-nothing/

Something from nothing
I am not a talented person, I’ve never been called “gifted” or anything like that. Anything I can do, anything I achieved took a lot of work and stubbornness to achieve. Don’t get me wrong. I am not saying that I’m “selfmade” and that my position in society, my access to resources, etc. had nothing […]

Crypto casinos have become online gambling havens for teens and problem gamblers, propped up by operators who turn social media influencers into recruiters (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/1

How Online Crypto Casinos Use Celebrities and Livestreamers to Recruit Gamblers
Using exploitative marketing strategies, the illicit gambling websites have profited and lured in a young generation of gamblers.

Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion, and Peter Howitt win the Nobel Prize in Economics for their work on how innovation and technological progress helps economic growth (Eshe Nelson/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/business/nobel-prize-economics.html…

Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt Share Nobel in Economics
Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt won the prize for showing how “society must keep an eye on the factors that generate and sustain economic growth,” an award committee member said.

Netflix is shifting its video game strategy to focus on popular titles like Pictionary, Boggle, and Tetris, playable on TVs with smartphones as controllers (Nicole Sperling/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/business/media/netflix-video-game-tv.ht…

Netflix Is Bringing Video Games to Users’ TVs
The company is shifting its video game strategy to focus more on popular games you already know, such as Pictionary and Boggle.

A look at Cybathlon, an event by ETH Zurich where researchers team up with people with disabilities in a competition to test brain-computer interfaces (Oliver Whang/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/scien…

At the Cybathlon, May the Best Brain-Computer Interface Win
Every four years at the Cybathlon, teams of researchers and technology “pilots” compete to see whose brain-computer interface holds the most promise.

Online loans marketplace LendingTree says CEO and Chairman Doug Lebda died at 55 in an ATV accident on his family's farm; Lebda founded LendingTree in 1996 (Ryan Mac/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/business/doug-lebda-lendingtree-…

Doug Lebda, LendingTree C.E.O. and Founder, Dies in ATV Accident
LendingTree named its chief operating officer, Scott Peyree, as its new chief executive.

Spotify's deal to bring video podcasts to Netflix bars shows from airing in full on YouTube; Netflix won't run ad breaks, but Spotify's integrated ads remain (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/business/media/netflix-spotify-pod…

Netflix Jumps Into Podcasts With Spotify Deal
Netflix will show video versions of 16 podcasts on sports, culture, entertainment and true crime.

Sources: Apple and Major League Soccer agree to make all MLS games available on Apple TV for no extra charge in 2026, ending the MLS Season Pass subscription (Paul Tenorio/The Athletic)
https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6804777/2025/11/13/mls-apple-tv…

MLS, Apple TV to bring games outside of extra paywall in 2026: Sources
Beginning next season, MLS games will be even more accessible via Apple TV

Parisians and BHV Marais staff protest Shein's 1,000-square-meter store, set to open November 1, as France tries to curb the company's presence in the country (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/business/shein-retail-store-paris-back…

Parisians Protest Shein’s First Physical Store
As the Chinese online fast-fashion retailer prepares to open a physical space in a venerable department store, France pushes to stem the company’s presence in the country.