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Sources: David Ellison, the CEO of Skydance, has recently held early discussions about acquiring Bari Weiss' The Free Press (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/business/free-press-skydance-acquisition-talks.html

Skydance in Early Talks to Acquire Bari Weiss’s Free Press
David Ellison, the founder of Skydance, and Bari Weiss, the co-founder of The Free Press, are attending the annual Allen & Co. conference in Sun Valley this week.

Lead ammunition to be banned for hunting and shooting in England, Scotland and Wales https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jul/10/lead-ammunition-ban-hunting-shooting-england-scotland-wales

Scouting LaNorris Sellers: South Carolina quarterback similar to Daunte Culpepper https://www.nfl.com/news/scouting-lanorris-sellers-south-carolina-quarterback-similar-to-daunte-culpepper

“The users who choose Cursor are hardcore vibe addicts. They are tech incompetents who somehow BSed their way into a developer job. They cannot code without a vibe coding bot.”
I see no lie.
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/07/09/cursor-t…

Cursor tries setting less money on fire — AI vibe coders outraged
Anysphere is the startup that produces Cursor, your sort-of dependable vibe coding buddy. You tell Cursor what you’d like and it spits out a complete function! This leads to some spectacular vibe c…

You want to customize the settings, right? Of course you do. Thats why you need settings for the settings.
But…what if you want to customer the •customizer•???
The why we invented Settings Settings Settings. Only from Apple. https://mastodon.social/@_inside/114655449845163418

Europol: Datendiebstahl ist Big Business und eine erhebliche Bedrohung
KI und andere Spitzentechnologien beschleunigen die Schattenseiten der digitalen Revolution, moniert Europol. Cyberkriminelle steigerten damit ihre Effizienz.

Thinking for no particular reason today* about the peculiar genius of Stanislaw Lem
A Jew, a doctor, a Pole, in the resistance against Hitler & Stalin & capitalism, an SF legend, feared by PK Dick, lauded by UK Le Guin
…& one of the earliest AGI skeptics
>… held that information technology drowns people in a glut of low-quality information, and considered truly intelligent robots as both undesirable and impossible to construct.

Stanisław Lem - Wikipedia

Mastodon 4.4, now available, has a small setting that’s a big deal. See Administration/Server Settings/Discovery, “Allow external sites to see your Mastodon server as a traffic source”.
It means that every time you post a link to a site, that site is going to see as many hits as the number of instances that you have followers on, and those hits are going to be labeled as coming from Mastodon.
This is going to seriously increase Fediverse visibility. Get your instance admin to tur…

@… ヤバイ操作を禁止する設定あるから活用するといいよ。
https://fedibird.com/settings/preferen

CNN’s Jason Carroll was zip-tied and escorted away—for reporting the news.
But they claimed he wasn’t under arrest?
Why are they shooting rubber bullets at and silencing journalists?
We still have a First Amendment.
https://bsky.app/profile/cwebbonline.c