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Docs: an ITN journalist got a "significant" settlement after facing disability discrimination from an HR consultant engaged to improve workplace conditions (Jake Kanter/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2026/08/itn-journalist-payoff-mental-h…

ITN Journalist Exited With “Significant” Payoff After Review Found He Suffered Mental Health Discrimination
ITN faces fresh questions about its workplace culture after an external review concluded that a journalist suffered disability discrimination.

I know that Turnip’s announcement of a $5,000 payoff/extortion scheme will annoy many left-of-center folks, but my initial reaction was joy. It means that even POTUS47 is so pessimistic about Republican turnout in the coming midterm election, that he will grasp desperately for anything to help them win, further disgracing Republicans in the process.
#FiveThousandDollars

Mark Zuckerberg unveils Meta Enterprise Platform, its "next major pillar of our business" to deploy AI tools, and appoints MongoDB CEO Chirantan Desai to run it (Meghan Bobrowsky/Wall Street Journal)
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from my link log —
The changing role of finite-state model checking.
https://ahelwer.ca/post/2026-08-24-finite-state-future/
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The changing role of finite-state model checking
This post stems from a recent conversation with Heidi Howard where we talked about the changing role of TLA⁺ & finite-state model checking in both research and industry. For a long time, users of TLA⁺ (or other formal specification languages like Quint) had a classic 80/20 payoff/effort choice available to them: they could either put in a large amount of effort to formally prove their system properties correct with 100% confidence, or for 20% of that effort they could model-check their syst…

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Father John Misty:
🎵 The Payoff (Radio Edit)
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https://open.spotify.com/track/2WIcSjSoGt78KKBnzViTdC

It is not inevitable that corporations pump money into developing this technology at the current pace, a pace that exceeds all other such bursts of private mass technology investment in US history. Their leaders •could• decide there’s a lower payoff or a larger downside risk then they’d thought, and change their investment strategy.
Could. Not necessarily “should” or “will,” but could.
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Father John Misty:
🎵 The Payoff (Radio Edit)
#NowPlaying #FatherJohnMisty
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