Google plans to shut down Tables, a work-tracking tool and competitor to Airtable, in December and directs users to migrate to Google Sheets or AppSheet (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/11/google-is-shutting-down-tables-its-airtable…
Poland to send military representatives to Ukraine for training on shooting down Russian drones.
https://kyivindependent.com/poland-to-send-military-representatives-to-ukraine-for-training-on-shooting-down…
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
Steelers' Heyward hints at sitting out into season https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45947512/steelers-heyward-open-sitting-season-contract
I find people who have the stance that you shouldn’t have a politics stance way more irritating than even right-wing people (at least the latter say it out loud who they are).
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.
Graphic videos of Charlie Kirk's shooting, first posted to X, also spread to Instagram, Threads, YouTube, and Telegram within hours, amassing millions of views (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/…
Paramount acquires the US rights to UFC for $7.7B over seven years, beginning in 2026, making all 43 annual live events available exclusively on Paramount (Alex Sherman/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/11/paramount-buys-ufc-rights-skydance-merger.html…