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Paramount refused to air an advertisement blasting the $111 billion merger agreementbetween Paramount Skydance and Warner Bros. Discovery, according to Freedom of the Press Foundation, the nonprofit advocacy group that submitted it to run during the Tump/Whitehose cage match.
The rejected 30-second spot features Trump calling journalists
“the enemy of the people”
and suggested that Trump-allied Paramount chairman and CEO
David Ellison could force CNN, the flagship War…

Paramount Refused to Air an Ad Criticizing Its Merger With Warner Bros.
The commercial was submitted by the Freedom of the Press Foundation to run during Donald Trump’s UFC event. It criticized the $111 billion merger as a threat to the First Amendment.

from my link log —
Why I stopped “creating content”.
https://refactoringenglish.com/blog/why-i-stopped-creating-content/
saved 2026-07-21

Why I Stopped “Creating Content”
Why did we all start talking about content, traffic, distribution, and conversions?

Block launches Buzz, an open source collaboration workspace on Nostr protocol for humans and AI agents to share messages, code repositories, workflows, and more (Block)
https://block.xyz/inside/introducing-buzz-where-humans-and-agents-work-together

Introducing Buzz: where humans and agents work together
Today we're releasing Buzz, a free, open source collaboration platform where humans and AI agents work together in a shared workspace. It's available now at buzz.xyz. Buzz is a collaboration workspace built on the Nostr protocol. It has channels, threads, direct messages, voice, media sharing, code repositories, and automated workflows. The interface will feel familiar to anyone who's used a modern team communication tool.

Inhospitable America: The Confounding Position of African American
https://ift.tt/R9vx5Sd
updated: Sunday, July 19, 2026 - 7:44pmfull name / name of organization: LaRonda Sanders-Senu/ SAMLA…
via Input 4 RELCFP

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AfternoonShow
Rapsody:
🎵 Nina
#Rapsody
https://kemetic7ntr.bandcamp.com/track/part-5-hatshepsut-rapsody-queenlatifah-ninasimone-x-laurynhill-readyornot-amerigogazaway-the-shaman-cambatta-chibey-7od-selfhealthwealth-thetwinpillars-aarashid-balance-light-dark-gxfr-benny-joep
https://open.spotify.com/track/7qDYx1hasHgyRMPsezx0dR

Someone else pointed out that I left out a whole bunch of racism stuff. I also realized I totally left out the settler colonialism aspect of cars which... there are books about.
Looks like I'm gonna need to revisit this a lot after I do some more reading.
Speaking of which, if you feel like there's something missing here please feel free to point it out. I know it's not exhaustive (just exhausting(.

Socket: TeamPCP, the gang claiming GitHub's repositories breach, also executed 20 "waves" of supply chain attacks recently, compromising 500 pieces of software (Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/teampcp-software-supply-chain-attack-spree-github/…

A Hacker Group Is Poisoning Open Source Code at an Unprecedented Scale
GitHub is just the latest victim of TeamPCP, a gang that has carried out a spree of software supply chain attacks that has impacted hundreds of organizations.

On Wednesday, a grand jury in Ohio
refused to bring felony charges against a Clermont County man
accused of destroying a Flock automatic license plate reader (ALPR).
https://futurism.com/future-society/grand-jury-ohio-flock-alpr-surveillanc…

Grand Jury Declines to Indict Man Caught on Camera Destroying Flock Pole
A grand jury made the exceedingly rare decision to decline federal charges against an Ohio man accused of tearing down a Flock ALPR.

The Justice Department on Friday refused to issue a signed declaration from acting Attorney General Todd Blanche verifying that it no longer intends to pursue President Donald Trump's "Anti-Weaponization Fund."
The DOJ's refusal comes after a federal judge last week gave the administration seven days to verify in a declaration that it wouldn't create the controversial fund. 
"Such declarations are unnecessary and the compelled testimony of senior official…

DOJ refuses to issue signed declaration verifying 'Anti-Weaponization Fund' is dead
The DOJ has refused to issue a signed declaration from acting AG Todd Blanche verifying that it no longer intends to pursue President Trump’s "Anti-Weaponization Fund."

Peace between the United States and Iran has broken down, and the price of Brent crude oil is rising.
While prices are still well below previous wartime peaks, oil markets are once again under pressure
—and things are almost certain to get worse.
During the first round of the war, oil prices never reached the calamitous levels predicted by some analysts.
This seems to have taught the White House a FLAWED lesson:
that the global oil system is more robust than the d…

The Oil Market Is Much More Vulnerable Than Trump Believes
Depleted reserves and changed circumstances make price spikes more likely this time around.