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China's draft AI rules have measures to protect kids, like time limits and parental consent, ban gambling promotion content, and add suicide chats restrictions (Osmond Chia/BBC)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8dydlmenvro

Artificial intelligence: China plans rules to protect children and tackle suicide risks
The draft regulations are aimed to address concerns around chatbots, which have surged in popularity in recent months.

Embattled top Hegseth aide wins promotion (Daniel Lippman/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/26/embattled-top-hegseth-aide-wins-promotion-00706727
http://www.memeorandum.com/251226/p33#a251226p33

How Raiders GM Spytek Was Involved in Leonard Promotion https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-identifying-players-should-franchise-tag

The $35M marketing campaign for Melania is roughly 10x the budget for similar documentaries like CNN's RBG; some suggest Amazon is currying favor with Trump (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/28/business/media/amazon-melania-trump-fi…

Amazon’s $35 Million ‘Melania’ Promotion Has Critics Questioning Its Motives
The tech giant is spending $35 million to promote its film about the first lady, far more than is typical for documentaries.

Safari-Browsen mit ProMotion: Auf iPhone, Mac & Co. zunächst deaktiviert
Teurere Apple-Geräte beherrschen schon seit Jahren höhere Refresh-Raten. In Safari sind die aber standardmäßig inaktiv. Die Umschaltung ist aber einfach.

🎁 #KimiK25 Launch Top-Up Bonus: Get up to 50% in Vouchers! #MoonshotAI #AI #Promotion
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Amazon's $35M marketing campaign for Melania is ~10x the budget for similar documentaries like CNN's RBG; some suggest Amazon is currying favor with Trump (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/28/bus…

Amazon’s $35 Million ‘Melania’ Promotion Has Critics Questioning Its Motives
The tech giant is spending $35 million to promote its film about the first lady, far more than is typical for documentaries.

Rob Leonard’s Raiders DC promotion earns support, sparks concession debate https://raiderramble.com/2026/02/19/rob-leonards-raiders-dc-promotion-earns-support-sparks-concession-debate/

Quinnen Williams, Whitecotton reunion short lived; DL coach to Titans https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2026/01/26/cowboys-dl-coach-aaron-whitecotton-titans/88372466007/

I just realized there's a perfect word for the endless promotion of AI:
Splopaganda!

Sources: CNN restricted staff from using its platforms for self-promotion, after Jake Tapper pushing his Joe Biden book turned into a "rolling infomercial" (Cameron Adams/The Daily Beast)
https://www.thedailybeast.com/cnn-forces-internal-chan…

CNN Rewrites Its Rules After Jake Tapper’s Biden Book Fiasco
The anchor is said to be “very, very unhappy” at the network’s new policy on self-promotion.

The racist online video that Donald Trump recently shared and then deleted generated a bipartisan furor
-- because of its portrayal of Barack and Michelle Obama as apes.
-- What was little remarked on was how it presented Trump himself — as the “King of the Jungle.”
After a year back in the White House, Trump’s efforts to promote himself as the singularly dominant figure in the world have become so commonplace
that they no longer seem surprising.
He regularly d…

Trump’s Relentless Self-Promotion Fosters an American Cult of Personality
President Trump has engaged in a spree of self-aggrandizement unlike any of his predecessors, fostering a mythologized superhuman persona and making himself the inescapable force at home and around the world.

Uni Leipzig setzt alle Stellenverlängerungen aus, inkl. Promovierende https://kreuzer-leipzig.de/2026/01/29/leipzig-uni-streik-verdi-promotion

ESPN to make Super Bowl year-round experience https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47897537/espn-year-super-bowl-year-round-experience

I do not want to talk about what companies want. Why they want to push for AI (even if I had a pretty good intuition and understanding of why).
I do care about my career and I am probably quickly tempted to generalize my thoughts on this.
I wouldn’t really enjoy spending my time reviewing, debugging, correcting, and fixing, and most importantly carrying the responsibility, for a statistical engine. I don't see what the career progression is either. Is it “push as fast as possible to get a promotion and get out of this area before the 💩 starts breaking and you end up spending 1000% of your time in incidents?”

Why Raiders' Promotion of Rob Leonard Was the Right Decision https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-promotion-rob-leonard-was-right-decision

"Measuring Instagram's effectiveness for academic library service promotion: An AIDA model approach"
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.acalib.2026.103199
"This study analyzes the effect of

Je regarde "C Ce soir", le zapping en ayant fait la promotion de quelques bons morceaux.
Y'a deux jeune péteux qui joutent façon section théatrale de Sciences Po et Laure Adler.
#CCesoir

🚀 PHP 8 feature: Constructor property promotion simplifies everything. Write public function __construct(public readonly string $customerId, public readonly array $items) {} - clean, typed, immutable.
💎 #Laravel specific: Use $fillable arrays and $casts for Eloquent models. Use Attribute accessors for computed properties. Never add undefined properties directly to models.

Key Cowboys Assistant Could Be Poached By Steelers, Mike McCarthy https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/news/key-dallas-cowboys-assistant-could-be-poached-steelers-mike-mccarthy

This guy is not one of my coworkers, but if he were I'd give him a promotion
https://buttplug.engineer/@qdot/116013563036905129

this could open up a lot more senior promotion opportunities in the civil service, if the lances are pointy enough
https://mastodon.social/@anon_opin/115848728109955857

While X still dominates Threads on the web,
the Threads mobile app for iOS and Android has seen an increase in daily active users over the past several months.
Similarweb’s data shows that
Threads had 141.5 million daily active users on iOS and Android as of January 7, 2026, after months of growth,
while X has 125 million daily active users on mobile devices.
This appears to be the result of longer-term trends,
rather than a reaction to the recent X contro…

Threads edges out X in daily mobile users, new data shows | TechCrunch
Threads’ daily mobile usage has quietly surpassed X as Meta leans on cross-promotion, creator tools and fast feature rollouts — even as X faces fresh controversies

Cowboys assistant expected to interview with Mike McCarthy for Steelers OC job https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2026/01/27/cowboys-lunda-wells-interview-steelers-oc-mike-mccarthy/8837…

Senators freeze Coast Guard admiral's promotion over swastika, noose policy (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/12/17/coast-guard-swastika-kevin-lunday/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251217/p91#a251217p91

Can you guess which country's EV charging strategy prioritises market-based price signals to guide charging and discharging?
#V2G

Similarweb: Threads had 141.5M DAUs on iOS and Android as of January 7, driven by Instagram promotions, while X had 125M DAUs; X continues to lead on the web (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/18/threads-edges-out-x-in-daily-mo…

Threads edges out X in daily mobile users, new data shows | TechCrunch
Threads’ daily mobile usage has quietly surpassed X as Meta leans on cross-promotion, creator tools and fast feature rollouts — even as X faces fresh controversies

Similarweb: Threads had 141.5M DAUs on iOS and Android as of January 7, driven by Instagram promotions, while X had 125M DAUs; X continues to lead on the web (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/18/threads-edges-out-x-in-daily-mo…

Threads edges out X in daily mobile users, new data shows | TechCrunch
Threads’ daily mobile usage has quietly surpassed X as Meta leans on cross-promotion, creator tools and fast feature rollouts — even as X faces fresh controversies

ESPN launches 'Year of the Super Bowl' to count down to February 2027 https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7037450/2026/02/11/espn-super-bowl-2027/

The Trump administration recently dropped its
National Security Strategy
and, like all things Trump,
it’s equal parts nonsense and vitriol.
It signals a self-defeating retreat from any sort of global leadership
and the regime’s open promotion of white nationalism at home and abroad.
The document is extremely light on the “strategy” part,
but is chock full of naked racism and Great Replacement rhetoric.
If you fed a low-rent knockoff version o…

We're the baddies now. Our new Security Strategy shows it.
It's a gift to the Kremlin and a middle finger to our erstwhile allies.

Equilibria: Fair Multi-Tenant CXL Memory Tiering At Scale
Kaiyang Zhao, Neha Gholkar, Hasan Maruf, Abhishek Dhanotia, Johannes Weiner, Gregory Price, Ning Sun, Bhavya Dwivedi, Stuart Clark, Dimitrios Skarlatos
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.08800 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.08800 https://arxiv.org/html/2602.08800
arXiv:2602.08800v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Memory dominates datacenter system cost and power. Memory expansion via Compute Express Link (CXL) is an effective way to provide additional memory at lower cost and power, but its effective use requires software-level tiering for hyperscaler workloads. Existing tiering solutions, including current Linux support, face fundamental limitations in production deployments. First, they lack multi-tenancy support, failing to handle stacked homogeneous or heterogeneous workloads. Second, limited control-plane flexibility leads to fairness violations and performance variability. Finally, insufficient observability prevents operators from diagnosing performance pathologies at scale.
We present Equilibria, an OS framework enabling fair, multi-tenant CXL tiering at datacenter scale. Equilibria provides per-container controls for memory fair-share allocation and fine-grained observability of tiered-memory usage and operations. It further enforces flexible, user-specified fairness policies through regulated promotion and demotion, and mitigates noisy-neighbor interference by suppressing thrashing.
Evaluated in a large hyperscaler fleet using production workloads and benchmarks, Equilibria helps workloads meet service level objectives (SLOs) while avoiding performance interference. It improves performance over the state-of-the-art Linux solution, TPP, by up to 52% for production workloads and 1.7x for benchmarks. All Equilibria patches have been released to the Linux community.
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A look at the 2026 Super Bowl ads from Anthropic, Amazon, OpenAI, and others, as AI continued to take center stage in ad creations and AI product promotion (Lauren Forristal/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/08/super-bowl-60-ai-ads-svedka-…

From Svedka to Anthropic, brands make bold plays with AI in Super Bowl ads | TechCrunch
From the first AI-generated Big Game ad courtesy of Svedka to Anthropic's beef with OpenAI, here are the biggest ads from Super Bowl LX.

Report: Cowboys to interview current position coach for DC promotion https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2026/01/12/cowboys-dl-coach-aaron-whitecotton-interview-defensi…

Raider Nation Chatter: Grading Klint Kubiak’s Raiders staff so far https://raiderramble.com/2026/02/19/raider-nation-chatter-grading-klint-kubiaks-raiders-staff-so-far/

Spotify reports Q4 revenue up 13% YoY to €4.5B, Premium users up 10% YoY to 290M, MAUs up 11% YoY to 751M, and a €701M operating income, above €639.1M est. (Ashley Carman/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02…

A look at the 2026 Super Bowl ads from Anthropic, Amazon, OpenAI, and others, as AI continued to take center stage in ad creation and AI product promotion (Lauren Forristal/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/08/super-bowl-60-ai-ads-svedka-a…

From Svedka to Anthropic, brands make bold plays with AI in Super Bowl ads | TechCrunch
From the first AI-generated Big Game ad courtesy of Svedka to Anthropic's beef with OpenAI, here are the biggest ads from Super Bowl LX.

Spotify reports Q4 revenue up 13% YoY to €4.5B, Premium users up 10% YoY to 290M, MAUs up 11% YoY to 751M, and a €701M operating income, above €639.1M est. (Ashley Carman/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02…

#Mastodon #Fediverse #Outreach #Ottawa #OttawaPlace #Media #politicians
I was reading this funny story about a Jeopardy! question that featured Ottawa Mayor Mark Sutcliffe.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/who-is-mark-sutcliffe-ottawa-s-mayor-stumps-jeopardy-champ-9.7013496
It features a link to his X where he (manually) recorded the Answer/Question. So then I ended up on his X profile.
He has 33,000 followers.
He posted 12 minutes ago.
75 engagements - 0 likes - 0 boosts - 0 replies
1h ago
313 engagements - 0 likes - 1 boost - 1 reply
another 1h ago
354 - 3 - 1 - 0
another 1h ago
669 - 3 - 1 - 1
another 1h ago
570 - 1 - 0 - 0
2h ago
461 - 7 - 1 - 2
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Like... what good is 33 000 followers if less than 1/3rd potentially see your post and you get nearly no real engagement?
My Theory: While Politicians think they are using X/FB because “that's where the people are”, the data shows that the "people" beyond clicking ‘follow' never actually see them or engage with that person. Instead, what the profile is actually used for is self promotion. A known place where the *media* can pick up the relevant happenings of a politician.
Which then begs the question. Would said Mayor of Ottawa be able to do exactly the same thing, and engage with the same or more constituents on ottawa.place?