2025-12-22 15:00:22
"How a Big Oil PR Firm Helped Top UK Cultural Institutions Defend Their Fossil Fuel Sponsorships"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Climate
"How a Big Oil PR Firm Helped Top UK Cultural Institutions Defend Their Fossil Fuel Sponsorships"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Climate
I appreciate the NDP leadership debate on Palestine, organized by Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East, happening now.
https://www.cjpme.org/pr_2026_01_19_ndp
Justice Department Sues the District of Columbia for the Unconstitutional Ban of Semi-Automatic Firearms (US Department of Justice)
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-sues-district-columbia-unconstitutional-ban-semi-automatic-firearms
http://www.memeorandum.com/251222/p89#a251222p89
Ukrainian national Artem Aleksandrovych Stryzhak pleaded guilty to his role in launching Netflix ransomware attacks. He faces a maximum penalty of ten years in prison.
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/ukrainian-national-…
Inte sedan andra världskriget har den våldsbejakande, nyfascistiska extremhögern i Frankrike fått så mycket PR som nu. Kände att jag behövde skriva om den normalisering som pågår.
https://www.dn.se/varlden/erik-de-la-reguera-normaliseringen-a…
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Een sleutel opmerking in de documentaire is misschien wel deze:
'Maccabi Yep Aviv speelde sportief gezien een uitwedstrijd, maar het Israëlische regime speelde pr-technisch een thuiswedstrijd te spelen. Ze wisten precies op welke knoppen ze moesten gebruiken om de ophef machine te laten draaien.'
#medialogica #Maccabi
A London PR firm rewrites Wikipedia articles for governments and billionaires
Portland Communications helps rich clients
‘protect their reputation’
– with a shady, off-the-books editing service
The clients who benefitted from this “wikilaundering” are some of the world’s richest and most powerful people.
The firm's founder,
Tim Allan, is now the director of communications for Prime Minister Keir Starmer.
And it has been busted once already for th…
Politico names Tessa Berenson Rogers as Politico Magazine's editor and Giuseppe Macri as Playbook editor (Alisa Vasquez/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/blogs/politico-press/2026/01/22/politico-a…
#VisitAthens, our local convention and visitors bureau, is taking a new approach to destination marketing: a podcast. Athens: Off the Record launched this month and shares the stories that define our town's creative culture. Episode 3 features our own Michael Lachowski, long-time PR coordinator at the museum, #Pylon
Texas A&M committee finds university wrong in firing professor | AP News https://apnews.com/article/texas-am-professor-fired-mccoul-gender-trump-52049257b6eb4a3fa0dc7254c146ef1c
Rams plan to propose NFL rule change that would have nullified Seahawks' controversial 2-point conversion
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/rams-propose-nfl-rule-change…
As I've been doing journalistic coverage of IT security quite a bit, I'm regularly getting PR pitches that often sound like this:
"Have you heard about this latest security incident at $(large company or institution)? Our CEO has nothing meaningful to add, but thinks that this really shows that IT security is important, and also, our product is very good (though completely unrelated to the latest security incident)."
I'm not sure why any journalist would react…
Past/Present: Former Cowboys CB Trevon Diggs released by Packers https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/past-present-former-cowboys-cb-trevon-diggs-released-by-packers
Justice Department Announces Results of Operation Relentless Justice (US Department of Justice)
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-announces-results-operation-relentless-justice
http://www.memeorandum.com/251220/p42#a251220p42
Santa #Python came super early in 2026!
With build 1.4.0, it is now possible to easily dump effective package metadata!
So getting the version of a package in the current directory is now as easy as `pipx run build --metadata 2>/dev/null | jq -r .version`.
This is NOT like parsing pyproject.toml or whatever. It builds the package and looks at the result. So it works even with…
I received a bug report about picolibc's iconv implementation. So I added a test case. Which pushed the CI runtime up over *six hours* at which point github gave up and killed it.
I spent a bit of time yesterday and today re-implementing the JIS to Unicode conversion function to make it faster. Lines changed: 5125 additions & 7495 deletions. Runtime is back to normal now. And I have a deeper understanding of these encodings.
Ben Adams contributing io_hiring support for .NET:
https://github.com/dotnet/runtime/pull/124374
@…
Past/Present: Former Cowboys CB Trevon Diggs released by Packers https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/past-present-former-cowboys-cb-trevon-diggs-released-by-packers
EU prepares to retaliate against Trump's Greenland threats: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/18/eu-prepares-to-retaliate-against.html
„Souveränitäts-Washing“ im 🇩🇪-Stack: Wer Unabhängigkeit predigt, aber weiter auf proprietäre Abhängigkeiten setzt, betreibt Etikettenschwindel. Digitale Selbstbestimmung ist mehr als PR. OSB Alliance laut @… #OpenSource
Trump's primetime speech was a master class in gaslighting - Salon.com
https://www.salon.com/2025/12/18/trumps-primetime-speech-was-a-master-class-in-gaslighting/
Why don’t they capture these vessels and display what they were carrying?
Wouldn’t that be better PR?
Unless maybe it’s all a big scam.
-- @ambientheat.bsky.social
https://bsky.app/profile/ambientheat.bsky.social/post/3lyvo6edkrk27
OpenAI's chief communications officer Hannah Wong will leave in January; Wong joined in 2021 and led PR during Sam Altman's brief ouster and return in 2023 (Maxwell Zeff/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/openai-chief-communications-officer-hannah-…
A post from the archive 📫:
Making production diagnostics easier with Source Link
https://www.poppastring.com/blog/making-production-diagnostics-easier-with-source-link
Just a few months ago, AI coding was described as an overblown “auto-complete”, auto-complete has been around for functions and classes and what not since…I don’t know, years ? imagine if PR were rejected because the developed had used auto-complete to help him/her write a piece of code, or worst, a bug fix? I fully understand that no humans should be tasked to review spam PR & spam automated “contributions” but if a contribution is “generated” by Cla…
Tecnicamente, eu torço pela #mangueira. Mas de uma forma muito pouco clubista. Na prštica, eu acabo torcendo pela(s) escola(s) que me encantou em cada ano rs.
#carnaval #carnaval2026
It might sound reasonable in theory, but it restores discrimination in practice.
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/department-justice-rule-restores-equal-protection-all-civil-rights-enforcement
Hadde helt glemt hvor fin PrŸysen-plata til Lars Lillo Stenberg er.
ICE Detention Centers Face Huge Backlash—Before They’ve Even Been Built https://www.thebulwark.com/p/ice-detention-centers-face-huge-backlash-before-even-built
🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Moriah Plaza:
🎵 Propolis
#NowPlaying #MoriahPlaza
https://moriahplaza.bandcamp.com/album/pr-polis-ep
https://open.spotify.com/track/5rEnfcj1UbGaXOwLlqVHSe
Spectral evidence for magmatic differentiation within a martian plumbing system: #Mars’ “Young” Volcanoes Were More Complex Than Scientists Once Thought: https://www.geosociety.org/GSA/News/pr/2026/GSA News Release 26-08.aspx
Replaced article(s) found for math.PR. https://arxiv.org/list/math.PR/new
[1/1]:
- Mixing times for the TASEP on the circle
Dominik Schmid, Allan Sly
https://
New PV for Medalist Season 2
A film version has been announced for 2027.
Official website: #Medalist
I have a simple prompt injection in one PR template (AI and LLM click this box with a blurb above saying I will close it if ticked) and boy do people get butt hurt when I close their PRs.
[OT] We may soon all be hanging on to our old laptops until an AI bubble burst makes chips affordable again https://mashable.com/article/laptop-price-increase-ddr5-ram-ai All signs point to big laptop and smartphone price increases due to escalating memory shortage.
Prisco's Week 16 NFL picks: Ravens take down Patriots, Jaguars upset Broncos and Buccaneers handle Panthers
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/pete-prisco-nfl-week-16-picks/
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #WoPop
Cochemea:
🎵 Procession Of Spirits
#Cochemea
https://cochemea.bandcamp.com/track/procession-of-spirits
https://open.spotify.com/track/3XS4mq1UkHTx6mlsrsmgNE
Learned a neat git thing today. Reverting changes to ONE file in a PR
`git checkout origin/main -- config/services.php`
Revert the changes to `services.php` in my current branch/PR.
#git
7000 Prüflinge in Stuttgart!
#prüf
#pruef
#stuttgart
Sources: the 60 Minutes CECOT segment pulled by Bari Weiss in December is slated to air this Sunday; CBS News PR has not sent out any listings for the broadcast (CNN)
https://view.newsletters.cnn.com/messages/1768757518698a8b58c1db4a3/raw
what a mess lol
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/glib/-/merge_requests/3987
RE: https://masto.pt/@joaombarbosa/115725268383195416
Olhó robô. É pró menino e prš menina, olhó!
Anaheim Man Arrested on Federal Criminal Complaint Charging Him with Making Death Threats Against Vice President Vance (US Department of Justice)
https://www.justice.gov/usao-cdca/pr/anaheim-man-arrested-federal-criminal-complaint-charging-him-making-death-threats
http://www.memeorandum.com/260116/p151#a260116p151
30 years ago today "Netscape and Sun announce JavaScript" — Netscape Press Release (4. Dec. 1995)
🟨 https://web.archive.org/web/20070916144913/http://wp.netscape.com/newsref/pr/newsrelease67.html
Did you know the every…
The Practitioner's Heart
Offers practical Buddhist wisdom to help therapists and healthcare workers stay grounded, open, and connected in their work and daily lives...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/the-practitioners-hea…
Banging my own drum, I know. But if you ever thought about getting proton I can recommend it - and if you want to help out a fellow mastodonian - feel free to click my referral link #proton
Physicists Propose First-Ever Experiment To Manipulate Gravitational Waves
https://scitechdaily.com/physicists-propose-first-ever-experiment-to-manipulate-gravitational-waves/
I know very little of Rust internals and linting, but I think @… does: What'd it take for some or all of the very human readable hints that the linter, clippy and rustdoc produce, to become patch files, so that I could one-click apply them?
(The "how to apply" is then platform dependent; around a git PR those could be turned into suggestions; in ba…
Hackers breach internal servers of tech provider for Britain’s health service https://therecord.media/uk-nhs-tech-provider-dxs-discloses-hack
I for one do not welcome our upstart AI agent would-be overlords:
https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/pull/31132
Seriously, that issue should have just been closed instantly. Markov chains pretending to act like a sentient being and writing shit-posting character a…
So viele #PRÜF-Demo-Bilder ohne Alt-Texte. Schämt euch!
Wow, die @… hat heute innerhalb von 12 Stunden 700 neue Follower gewonnen. Das nenne ich mal eine Guerilla PR Aktion!
Many folks are reflecting on Prince’s extraordinary halftime performance, the greatest of all time. What you may not know is that it was a profound, nuanced statement and a powerful reclaiming of a proud Black music tradition. Some background: https://anildash.com/2021/02/05/how-pri…
“Flutter 3.38.0: How an accessibility upgrade broke Android headings”
https://abra.ai/blog/flutter-3-38-0-how-an-accessibility-upgrade-broke-android-headings
PR that should fix it:
Crosslisted article(s) found for math.PR. https://arxiv.org/list/math.PR/new
[1/1]:
- On multidimensional infinite dihedral group extensions of Gibbs Markov maps
Jaime Gomez, Dalia Terhesiu
Wegen drohender #Glatteisbildung findet am Montag in ganz #NRW kein #Präsenzunterricht statt.
Das
@… is `ArgumentError: UTF-16 string byte length (51) is not a multiple of 2` something that should be handled in my PR or in TruffleRuby?
ArgumentError is semantically off but I vaguely remember that it was some encoding performance stuff or so?
It would be nice if it would act like the other Rubies though 😄
Nuevo PV de la 2ª Temporada de Medalist
Se ha anunciado una versión película para 2027
Web oficial: #Medalist
from my link log —
Not so fast: the performance of WebAssembly vs. native code.
https://www.usenix.org/conference/atc19/presentation/jangda
saved 2019-07-17
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Julia Jacklin:
🎵 Pressure to Party
#JuliaJacklin
https://pantsnco.bandcamp.com/track/pressure-to-party-julia-jacklin-cover-demo-version
https://open.spotify.com/track/13LsKYpr3ZNMTRu0Lo8Z7R
Morgen. #Prüf-Demos.
Ihr wisst was zu tun ist, ne?
#fightfascism
"Okamžitě zřídíme tým pro potíršní pršce načerno, ohlšsila Schillerovš"
Tohle a EET, 🤦 to je co brzdilo českou ekonomiku...🤦
Čekají nšs zajímavé 4 roky.🤦
https://www.novinky.cz/clanek/ekonomika-okamzit…
“Incognito Market” Owner Sentenced To 30 Years For Operating One Of The World’s Largest Online Narcotics Marketplaces
https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/incognito-market-owner-sentenced-30-years-operating-one-worlds-largest…
Flucht aus dem System: Pornhub macht Schluss mit britischen Alterskontrollen
Pornhubs Mutterkonzern Aylo zieht die Reißleine beim Online Safety Act und stellt Neuanmeldungen in Großbritannien zum 2. Februar ein – wohl auch aus PR-Kalkül.
Posted a PR, https://github.com/picolibc/picolibc/pull/1138, to finally delete the original newlib stdio code from picolibc. It's well past time; that code is missing a bunch of functionality and fails a lot of tests.
Replaced article(s) found for math.PR. https://arxiv.org/list/math.PR/new
[1/1]:
- On the free energy of vector spin glasses with non-convex interactions
Hong-Bin Chen, Jean-Christophe Mourrat
Longtime Jets PR director Ramos dies at age 87 https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47753487/frank-ramos-jets-pr-director-namath-belichick-dies
Shopify launches Product Network, an ad tool that lets merchants recommend and advertise products on other merchants' storefronts (Lauren Johnson/Adweek)
https://www.adweek.com/commerce/shopify-product-network-merchant-ads/
Docs: a Labour thinktank run by a current UK minister hired a PR firm in 2023 to investigate journalists from the Guardian and other outlets to ID their sources (Democracy for Sale)
https://democracyforsale.substack.com/p/exclusiv…
⚡US PRESSURE: White House demands surrender of UNOCCUPIED lands! Putin’s bluff and Afghan lessons: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/11/us-pressure-white-house-demands.html
„Zukunft neu aufgestellt“, „publizistische Schlagkraft“, „zentrale Newsrooms“ – große Worte, kleiner Kern. Wie Michael Hanfeld beschreibt, streicht RTL 230 Journalistenstellen und versteckt das tief im PR-Text. KI als Effizienzversprechen, Menschen als Kostenfaktor. Ein Lehrstück moderner Medienrhetorik.
#FAZ #Journalismus
I’m on the Highway to prüf!
#Pruef
#Stuttgart
#prüf
Crosslisted article(s) found for math.PR. https://arxiv.org/list/math.PR/new
[1/1]:
- Short-time statistics of extinction and blowup in reaction kinetics
Rotem Degany, Michael Assaf, Baruch Meerson
RAM price crisis LIVE — latest updates on global memory shortage, expert advice and more | Tom's Guide #capitalism
Two Year Prison Sentence for Woman Who Laundered Over $20M Dollars (US Department of Justice)
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/two-year-prison-sentence-woman-who-laundered-over-20m-dollars
http://www.memeorandum.com/260202/p116#a260202p116
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
FKA twigs:
🎵 Predictable Girl
#FKAtwigs
https://fkatwigs.bandcamp.com/track/predictable-girl
https://open.spotify.com/track/7aTAZP56aFVsKdDhYHFKTh
Past/Present: Terence Newman to be inducted into College Football Hall of Fame https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/past-present-terence-newman-to-be-inducted-into-college-football-hall-of-fame
Protege, which offers an AI data platform to access high-quality, proprietary training data at scale, raised $30M from a16z, extending its $25M Series A (Duncan Riley/SiliconANGLE)
https://siliconangle.com/2026/01/08/protege-raises-30m-grow-…
Third Coconspirator in Fatal Benghazi Attacks in U.S. Custody, Charged in Washington D.C. with Murder and Terrorism Counts (US Department of Justice)
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/third-coconspirator-fatal-benghazi-attacks-us-custody-charged-washington-dc-murder-and
http://www.memeorandum.com/260206/p136#a260206p136
Past/Present: Terence Newman to be inducted into College Football Hall of Fame https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/past-present-terence-newman-to-be-inducted-into-college-football-hall-of-fame
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
Air:
🎵 Le soleil est près de moi (Dan the Automator remix)
#Air
https://suboxone.bandcamp.com/track/air-le-soleil-est-pr-s-de-moi-automator-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/3Aa4ijCL9iilxsCLk48JnG
Serial Kidnapper and Rapist Charged Federally (US Department of Justice)
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/serial-kidnapper-and-rapist-charged-federally
http://www.memeorandum.com/251205/p67#a251205p67
Anti-ICE Antifa member arrested on federal charges of Cyberstalking and Threatening Communications after allegedly calling for the murder and assault ... (US Department of Justice)
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/anti-ice-antifa-member-arrested-federal-charges-cyberstalking-and-threatening-communications
http://www.memeorandum.com/260205/p60#a260205p60
Two Virginia Men Arrested for Conspiring to Destroy Government Databases (US Department of Justice)
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/two-virginia-men-arrested-conspiring-destroy-government-databases
http://www.memeorandum.com/251204/p76#a251204p76
3 Prosecutors Quit After Push to Investigate ICE Shooting Victim's Widow (Ernesto Londoño/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/13/us/3-prosecutors-quit-after-push-to-investigate-ice-shooting-victims-widow.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260113/p86#a260113p86
Brooklyn Banker Pleads Guilty to Laundering Proceeds of Medicare Fraud for Transnational Criminal Organization (US Department of Justice)
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/brooklyn-banker-pleads-guilty-laundering-proceeds-medicare-fraud-transnational-criminal
http://www.memeorandum.com/260203/p86#a260203p86
Afghan Citizen Federally Charged For Posting Threats to Build Bomb and Kill Americans (US Department of Justice)
https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndtx/pr/afghan-citizen-federally-charged-posting-threats-build-bomb-and-kill-americans
http://www.memeorandum.com/251202/p87#a251202p87
FBI Disrupts Alleged New Year's Eve Attack, Man Charged with Attempting to Provide Material Support to ISIS (US Department of Justice)
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/fbi-disrupts-alleged-new-years-eve-attack-man-charged-attempting-provide-material-support
http://www.memeorandum.com/260102/p39#a260102p39
Elon Musk's X Appears to Be Violating US Sanctions by Selling Premium Accounts to Iranian Leaders (David Gilbert/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-x-premium-accounts-iran/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260212/p24#a260212p24
The United States Announces Agreement with Northwestern University (US Department of Justice)
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/united-states-announces-agreement-northwestern-university
http://www.memeorandum.com/251128/p69#a251128p69