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Ted Sarandos says Paramount's "move was entirely expected", but Netflix is "super confident" that it will get the WBD deal "across the line and finish" (Cynthia Littleton/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/biz/news/ted-

Netflix CEOs 'Super-Confident' of Closing Warner Bros. Discovery Deal
Netflix's co-CEOs projected confidence about closing Netflix's takeover of Warner Bros. and HBO Max despite Paramount's hostile bid for the studio.

Warner-Wettbieten: Netflix-Chef reagiert gelassen auf Paramount-Angebot
Das Übernahmeangebot für Warner von Paramount war für Netflix-Chef Sarandos erwartbar. Derweil wurde bekannt, dass auch Jared Kushner am Angebot beteiligt ist.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
PVA:
🎵 Exhaust / Surroundings
#PVA
https://pvaareok.bandcamp.com/track/exhaust-surroundings
https://open.spotify.com/track/4fDTJAPJHc5Z0XCpL7qIFz

Indian national surrenders to Ukraine after fighting for Russia for 3 days, military says: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/07/indian-national-surrenders-to-ukraine.html

Sources: Ted Sarandos Met With Donald Trump Ahead of Netflix's Winning Warner Bros. Deal (Borys Kit/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/ted-sarandos-donald-trump-netflix-warner-bros-deal-1236443019/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251207/p49#a251207p49

Sources: Ted Sarandos met with President Trump in November, and both agreed WBD should go to the highest bidder; Sarandos argued that Netflix wasn't a monopoly (Lucas Shaw/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

The Privacy Paradox
Hadn’t realised that this short piece on privacy by Al Jazeera that I contributed to had aired. Apparently did mid August :)
https://www.aljazeera.com/video/aljazeerauntangles/2025/8/13/the-privacy-paradox

The Privacy Paradox
We claim to value privacy, but surrender it daily, often without knowing.

plant_pol_vazquez: Vazquez & Simberloff plant-pollinator webs
Eight bipartite networks of plants and pollinators, from the Nahuel Huapi National Park and surrounding areas in Rio Negro, Argentina, from September 1999 to Feburary 2000. Edge weights represent the frequency of species interaction, and there is a common set of vertices across all eight webs.
This network has 144 nodes and 47 edges.
Tags: Biological, Food web, Weighted, Multilayer

Former Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director
Susan Monarez is scheduled to testify about her high-profile firing from the agency at a hearing next Wednesday before the
Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions.
Chair Bill Cassidy (R-La.) said the hearing will allow lawmakers on the committee to directly learn about the circumstances surrounding Monarez’s ouster and the resignations of other top officials at the CDC.
Cassidy said his commit…

Sarmat has failed! Russia's "unique" missile does not work #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/06/sarmat-has-failed-russias-ampquotuniqueampquot.html