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Dotdash Meredith unionized workers ratify contracts with management after negotiating since 2021; the deal covers ~160 staffers at People and other magazines (Natalie Korach/The Wrap)
https://www.thewrap.com/dotdash-meredith-union-reaches-contract-agree…

Dotdash Meredith Union Reaches Contract Agreements
The three-year deals cover approximately 160 staffers at People, Entertainment Weekly and Martha Stewart Living

Do consumers really benefit from dynamic tariffs? And what is the best way to heat your home? And does that make 1 1=3?
I am looking forward to the launch of the report and will be part of the panel for @… discussing the findings of the European consumer organisation on Friday 26 April. Register here:

Apple's handling of Epic's account closure turned a US contract dispute into a DMA enforcement priority due to the appearance of a gatekeeper silencing critics (Florian Mueller/games fray)
https://gamesfray.com…

OK, why is TFG's property not now - this instant - undergoing levy of execution of judgement?
https://www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-dollar175-million-bond-is-even-shadier-than-it-looks

Trump’s $175 Million Bond Is Even Shadier Than It Looks
New information shows that the insurance company that swooped in and bailed out Trump with a $175 million bond isn’t on a list of vetted companies—and wrote a bizarre contract.

Unionized workers at two Gannett outlets, the Austin American-Statesman and the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, strike over stalled contract negotiations (Angela Fu/Poynter)
https://www.poynter.org/business-work/2024

Gannett journalists in the solar eclipse’s path go on strike - Poynter
Unionized workers at the Austin American-Statesman and the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle are striking over stalled contract negotiations

“Severing the link between the impulse to read and the act of buying is existentially threatening for publishing. Generally, I’m in favour of the strategic use of platforms, but when the platform becomes king, that is usually to the disadvantage of the creator.”

Lizzy Kremer, David Higham Associates m.d. | ‘We are conscientious in our contract work and we’re proud of that’
As m.d. of the almost 90-year-old agency, Lizzy Kremer isn’t afraid of a little hard work and says what's crucial is "a keen sense of unseen advocacy and active engagement with publishers".

So one of those companies you’d use to do things like agree to online contracts or buy a house is now picking up some AI and selling itself to a private equity firm.
Just call me into the office. I’ll sign forms the old fashioned way.
From: @…

Vielleicht doch mal Zeit, die TINA-Politik beim wissenschaftlichen Personal zu beenden. #IchbinHanna
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frma.2024.…

Unionized workers at two Gannett outlets, the Austin American-Statesman and the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, strike over stalled contract negotiations (Angela Fu/Poynter)
https://www.poynter.org/business-work/2024

Gannett journalists in the solar eclipse’s path go on strike - Poynter
Unionized workers at the Austin American-Statesman and the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle are striking over stalled contract negotiations

DocuSign says it is acquiring contract workflow automation startup Lexion for $165M; Lexion had raised $35.2M (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/06/docusign-acquires-ai-powered-contract-management-firm-lexion/…

DocuSign acquires AI-powered contract management firm Lexion | TechCrunch
DocuSign has announced a deal to acquire Lexion, a startup building an AI-powered contract management firm, for $165 million.

eu_procurements: EU procurement contract networks (2008-2016)
A bipartite network of public EU procurement contracts, from 2008 to 2016, between issuing buyers (public institutions such as a ministry or city hall) and supplying winners (a private firm). Contracts are aggregated into annual snapshots, edges are annotated with contract value information. Nodes are annotated with location information, including country of origin.
This network has 839824 nodes and 4098711 edges.

✊🏾 Seven Lessons from Starbucks Workers’ Historic Victory
#labor

Seven Lessons from Starbucks Workers’ Historic Victory
The entire labor movement should wake up and pay attention to the lessons from Starbucks workers’ victory this week.

“Severing the link between the impulse to read and the act of buying is existentially threatening for publishing. Generally, I’m in favour of the strategic use of platforms, but when the platform becomes king, that is usually to the disadvantage of the creator.”

Lizzy Kremer, David Higham Associates m.d. | ‘We are conscientious in our contract work and we’re proud of that’
As m.d. of the almost 90-year-old agency, Lizzy Kremer isn’t afraid of a little hard work and says what's crucial is "a keen sense of unseen advocacy and active engagement with publishers".

I have #LongCOVID, so my body is fucked. It feels like it is slowly dying on me. But the deepest damage the ongoing pandemic has done to me personally, is that it has made me lose my last shred of hope in humanity. The decrease in solidarity and the increase in ableism that i experienced, either because it was directed towards myself or because i observed it all around, in society at large, has sent me into complete despair.
The social contract has been broken, when the weakest no longer get protected. Which opens up the path for fascism to spread. And neither the radical leftists nor the feminists, who usually write solidarity, antifascism, yadda yadda onto their flags, seem to make the connection.
Never before have i felt so lonely, so utterly desperate. There is not one chance in hell that we can tackle the even bigger issues, like the climate crisis, inequality or migration, when we have failed to mobilize in order to combat the organized abandonment and slow murder that has been unleashed during this pandemic against our chronically ill and disabled siblings.
The radical leftist project has failed.
Capitalism and fascism have won.
But way too few even notice this.
#AntiAbleism #COVID19

OpenAI says that while discussing for-profit terms, Elon Musk "wanted us to merge with Tesla" or wanted "majority equity, initial board control, and to be CEO" (The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/2024/3/5/24091773

OpenAI says Elon Musk wanted ‘absolute control’ of the company
OpenAI has responded to a lawsuit filed by Elon Musk, saying Musk supported a closed-source, for-profit venture but wanted total control over it.

eu_procurements: EU procurement contract networks (2008-2016)
A bipartite network of public EU procurement contracts, from 2008 to 2016, between issuing buyers (public institutions such as a ministry or city hall) and supplying winners (a private firm). Contracts are aggregated into annual snapshots, edges are annotated with contract value information. Nodes are annotated with location information, including country of origin.
This network has 839824 nodes and 4098711 edges.

"the rise of AI products like #ChatGPT, and the #LLMs underlying them, have made high-quality training data one of the internet’s most valuable commodities. That has caused internet providers of all sorts to reconsider the value of the data on their servers, and rethink who gets access to what. Being too …

With the rise of AI, web crawlers are suddenly controversial
For decades, a humble text file governed the behavior of web scrapers. But as the AI industry grows, the social contract of robots.txt is falling apart.

In another union win, UAW signs contract with Daimler Truck in NC - National Zero
https://nationalzero.com/2024/04/27/in-another-union-win-uaw-signs-contract-with-daimler-truck-in-nc/

URGENT in #berlin
My friend's landlord just cancelled her contract and she has to find a new room/apartment within the next 3 months. She can pay 600€ max on her own, or she and a friend can pay 1000€ together for two rooms. She has a cat that must be welcome.
If you know of any places that qualify, please DM.
Please boost for reach.

Cowboys Star Micah Parsons’ Brother Speaks Out On Future https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/cowboys_star_micah_parsons_brother_speaks_out_on_future/s1_17150_40215468

Cowboys Star Micah Parsons’ Brother Speaks Out On Future
Dallas Cowboys edge rusher Micah Parsons became eligible for a contract extension this offseason, but a rift may be developing between the two sides. A recent report surfaced that the Cowboys were growing tired of Parsons’ behavior, which could have an impact on how Dallas approaches negotiations with the superstar pass rusher. However, Parsons’ brother, Terrence Parsons Jr., doesn’t seem to think this will affect much of anything. Terrence took to social media to comment on the situation…

#Kelce contract raise was a no brainer for KC, it will probably cost them a 10th of what they will sell to swifties in merchandise
https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/400634

Travis Kelce wasn't going to hold out, 'grateful' to Chiefs for deal - ESPN
Travis Kelce said on his "New Heights" podcast that he wasn't going to hold out for a raise so he's "grateful" to the Chiefs for wanting to sign him to a new deal.

I’m having fun making #YouTube #Thumbnails with my digital muse @… for the @…

In other news I’m starting a new #business with my BFF 🤩. So excited to get it going. He’s already won our first contract 🤩🤩🤩
#entrepreneurship

TFW you find an ideal contract, but the role is hybrid and 100s of miles away.
THIS COULD HAVE BEEN FULLY REMOTE!

Hello #Roku, and welcome to your premier of “An Exciting Adventure With The EU Unfair Contract Terms Directive” https://octodon.social/@jalefkowit/112039897343180175

Every time i watch Linux videos I want to break the contract i signed with my school and install arch on my laptop. I miss it wayy too much.
#linux #arch #archlinux

Lacrosse legend, Pat Spencer! 😁
Signed to a two-way because Quiñones was just made a full-time Warrior. :warriors:
#DubNation
https://www.hoopsrumors.com/2024/0…

Warriors, Pat Spencer Agree To Two-Way Contract
The former lacrosse star is being promoted from the G League to fill the team's newly opened two-way slot.

Just as we all knew all along, #Reddit’s move to charge exorbitant fees for API access was so they can cut lucrative deals to sell user-created material to train #AI models.
I was a redditor of about 15 years when I decided to delete everything I wrote and close my account because I foresaw this hostile rep…

Reddit Is Said to Sign AI Content Licensing Deal Ahead of IPO
Reddit Inc. has signed a contract allowing a company to train its artificial intelligence models on the social media platform’s content, according to people familiar with the matter, as it nears the potential launch of its long-awaited initial public offering.

Formula 1: Drive to Survive 6x06 "Leap of Faith" ★★★★★★★☆☆☆ #Formula1DriveToSurvive

Formula 1: Drive to Survive 6x06 "Leap of Faith"
Lewis Hamilton’s been loyal to Mercedes for 13 years. But winning comes first — and with his contract up for renewal, he has to make a tough decision.

Starbucks resumes contract negotiations with its union, in a climate that points to a successful result. Five days after the union victory at Volkswagen. These stories have much greater consequences than student demonstrations over Gaza, but where are the news media???

Starbucks and Union Set to Restart Contract Talks After Bitter Standoff
The company and Workers United, which represents more than 10,000 of the chain’s employees, broke off negotiation nearly a year ago.

Some proprietary software lobbyists are trying to spin the xz story as an "anti open source" story, and I see demands like "you shall only use opensource software if you have a contract with someone guaranteeing support and security". I'd be curious: Can I see the contract those people have with Microsoft or whatever company you never heard of that wrote the firmware in their wifi card that guarantees the same for the closed source software they're using?

GP practices shouldn't have to contract separately for providing services to the NHS, separate negotiations, separate terms and conditions, separate and additional costs on both sides.
All of the GP practices should be nationalised and brought into the NHS in all four countries, governance should be local, very local.
#GPPractices

@… advocates for #degrowth?
Great, but please stick to that consistently and don't use growth as a shorthand for economic health.
Also recognise the contradictions of a growth-oriented GND.
Thanks.
I don’t believe in growth

Please don’t try to buy this book
This book, supposedly by me, is being advertised on Amazon: This comes from Amazon. There is only one problem. There is no such book. I cancelled the contract to write it in 2022 when I had long Covid and had no energy to work on it over very many months. Once I...

Bob Iger says "succession is the board's No. 1 priority" and that the search committee met seven times in 2023; Iger's contract extension runs through 2026 (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2024/biz/news/bob-iger…

Iger on Proxy Battle: Disney Board's Top Priority Is CEO Succession
Bob Iger said the Disney board is proceeding with "urgency" in trying to identify the next CEO and called the proxy fight a "distraction."

Of course they do. Google is so problematic it’s hard to keep track. https://akademienl.social/@Frederik_Borgesius/112268596458685901

We know we need to replace gas boilers with heat pumps, but we don't know where best to start. https://takes.jamesomalley.co.uk/p/we-could-make-our-homes-easier-to

We could make our homes easier to decarbonise by using a crazy, sci-fi technology called a "database"
Change a few words on a contract, change the world

"Nothing in the contract requires outlets to label the articles created with these tools to let readers know how they were produced."
Google created an AI tool to rip off news outlets, and it's paying other outlets to use it
htt…

Google created an AI tool to rip off news outlets, and it's paying other outlets to use it
Google has created a new suite of AI tools—tools that have reportedly not yet been released to the public, but that are being provided to news outlets as part of the Google News Initiative . ...

Military AI targeting as a service provided by the biggest behavioural ad marketplace owner.
That's one point where publishers should ask themselves if something went wrong.
https://time.com/6966102/google-contract-israel-defense-ministry-gaza-w…

🪧 Molson Coors strike in danger as it enters second month
#labor

Molson Coors strike in danger as it enters second month
Despite their courageous stand, Molson Coors workers have been isolated by the Teamsters after the bureacracy forced through a sellout contract at Anheuser-Busch.

There's got to be some really weird contract and/or financial shenanigans about Rashford playing because no manager in their right mind would pick such an underperforming - and clearly not bothered - player week in, week out. I guess we'll have to wait for Ten Hag's autobiography...

#Football

Over 50 ex-Google employees, fired in connection with a sit-in protest against Google's business ties to Israel, file an NLRB complaint for unlawful retaliation (Gaby Del Valle/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/30/2414568

Google workers fired for protesting Israeli contract file NLRB complaint
Google terminated over 50 workers that it says were connected to protests against “Project Nimbus” in its New York City and Sunnyvale offices.

Bob Iger says "succession is the board's No. 1 priority" and that the search committee met seven times in 2023; Iger's contract extension runs through 2026 (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2024/biz/news/bob-iger…

Iger on Proxy Battle: Disney Board's Top Priority Is CEO Succession
Bob Iger said the Disney board is proceeding with "urgency" in trying to identify the next CEO and called the proxy fight a "distraction."

@… often in Germany people get very sick during a contract termination notice. Could be related.

eu_procurements: EU procurement contract networks (2008-2016)
A bipartite network of public EU procurement contracts, from 2008 to 2016, between issuing buyers (public institutions such as a ministry or city hall) and supplying winners (a private firm). Contracts are aggregated into annual snapshots, edges are annotated with contract value information. Nodes are annotated with location information, including country of origin.
This network has 839824 nodes and 4098711 edges.

Some proprietary software lobbyists are trying to spin the xz story as an "anti open source" story, and I see demands like "you shall only use opensource software if you have a contract with someone guaranteeing support and security". I'd be curious: Can I see the contract those people have with Microsoft or whatever company you never heard of that wrote the firmware in their wifi card that guarantees the same for the closed source software they're using?

🏈 @… #NFL
Via Adam Schefter 🤖 @…
New Texans RB Joe Mixon now has signed a three-year, $27 million contract extension that …

[Thread] The Desert Sun NewsGuild says it has reached an agreement for its first contract with Gannett, and its strike is now set to end on March 3 (@tdsnewsguild)
https://twitter.com/tdsnewsguild/status/1764094653094314129

Desert Sun NewsGuild (@TDSNewsGuild) on X
BREAKING: The Desert Sun NewsGuild has reached an agreement for its first contract!!! We’re thrilled to have a deal with immediate, life-changing raises for many of our members, annual raises for every member, and crucial workplace protections. More details to come, but first:…

🪧 Molson Coors strike in danger as it enters second month
#labor

Molson Coors strike in danger as it enters second month
Despite their courageous stand, Molson Coors workers have been isolated by the Teamsters after the bureacracy forced through a sellout contract at Anheuser-Busch.

There's still time to join this online panel, starting at 9:30 CET: the European Consumer Organisation will be presenting their new work on dynamic ⚡ prices and the best way to heat your home (and power your car). I'll be on the panel with other experts to discuss the findings and the way forward.

Uhoh! Someone’s mad at journalists again and Social Media companies are like “ok!”.
“YouTube is blocking access in India to a story by CBC's The Fifth Estate on the alleged contract killing of a Canadian Sikh separatist after the Indian government ordered the social media platform to take that action.”
#CanPoli

Swedish communication workers union will stop servicing Tesla charging stations on March 4 unless Tesla signs union contract with metalworkers union. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/another-swedish-union-warns-action-121758591.html

Another Swedish union warns of action against Tesla
Swedish trade union Seko said on Wednesday members may stop installing and servicing Tesla's charging stations in the country in support of union IF Metall's...

[Thread] The Desert Sun NewsGuild says it has reached an agreement for its first contract with Gannett, and its strike is now set to end on March 3 (@tdsnewsguild)
https://twitter.com/tdsnewsguild/status/1764094653094314129

Desert Sun NewsGuild (@TDSNewsGuild) on X
BREAKING: The Desert Sun NewsGuild has reached an agreement for its first contract!!! We’re thrilled to have a deal with immediate, life-changing raises for many of our members, annual raises for every member, and crucial workplace protections. More details to come, but first:…

We’re going to need a bigger contract.
#hashtaggames
#OddContractTerms

Brandon Aiyuk trade rumors: Star WR unfollows 49ers on social media amid negotiations about new contract

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/brando…

Brandon Aiyuk trade rumors: Star WR unfollows 49ers on social media amid negotiations about new contract
Aiyuk's patience is apparently growing thin

Just in case someone here happens to have one: anyone have a link to a post-COVID union contract that has COVID-19 safety provisions in it, bonus points if it's at an academic institution?
Boosts appreciated for reach.

We know we need to replace gas boilers with heat pumps, but we don't know where best to start. https://takes.jamesomalley.co.uk/p/we-could-make-our-homes-easier-to

We could make our homes easier to decarbonise by using a crazy, sci-fi technology called a "database"
Change a few words on a contract, change the world

Paywalled; Rome did not do well when it started hiring mercs. Just sayin'...
Russia to Hire Contract Soldiers in Bid to Avoid Unpopular Draft | Military.com
https://www.military.com/daily-news/2024/04/19/russia…

Russia to Hire Contract Soldiers in Bid to Avoid Unpopular Draft
Russia is preparing to enlist more contract soldiers as it presses its invasion of Ukraine, aiming to avoid at least for now another mass call-up that could undermine popular support for the war.

Union members strike at Gannett's Desert Sun, calling for a fair labor contract and saying they've been denied regular cost-of-living raises for three years (@tdsnewsguild)
https://twitter.com/tdsnewsguild/status/1763581208070607034

Desert Sun NewsGuild is on strike! (@TDSNewsGuild) on X
It's official: As of 7 a.m. today, @TDSNewsGuild is now on strike!!! Taking this step is not easy. But after being denied any sort of regular cost of living raises for the last three years, we decided it's time to deny @Gannett our labor until a fair contract is reached!

Do not resign! Force them to fire you. If you resign, there is no chance they will rehire you. Read the contract and force them to live up to the terms.
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/03/11/bloodbath-at-rnc-trump-team-s…

Google fires ~20 more staff the company says participated in protests denouncing an Israeli cloud contract; an activist workers' group says the total is now 50 (Washington Post)
https://wapo.st/3WdPCIG

Google fires more workers after CEO says workplace isn’t for politics
Some employees protested the tech giant’s contract with the Israeli government. They’ve been let go.

Man, Cousin's career earnings are ridiculous! Another amazing contract just fell into his lap.
https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/39708564/qb-kirk-cousins-leaving-vikings-4-year-deal-falcons

QB Kirk Cousins leaving Vikings for 4-year deal with Falcons - ESPN
Vikings free agent quarterback Kirk Cousins has agreed to a four-year contract with the Falcons, his agent announced.

How Disney repeatedly extending Bob Iger's contract, including five extensions between 2011 and 2017, became a key criticism of Nelson Peltz's Trian Partners (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/media…

🪧 Cornell grad student union demands university prioritize contract negotiations
https://ithacavoice.org/2024/04/cornell-grad-student-union-demands-university-prioritize-contract-negotiations/

They’ll actually get more money on the finalized deal.
“MAC commissioner Jon Steinbrecher, who is one of the 11-member CFP Management Committee members, sent a memo to his league administrators saying that such reports (as The Athletic’s) are "incorrect" and premature.”

eu_procurements: EU procurement contract networks (2008-2016)
A bipartite network of public EU procurement contracts, from 2008 to 2016, between issuing buyers (public institutions such as a ministry or city hall) and supplying winners (a private firm). Contracts are aggregated into annual snapshots, edges are annotated with contract value information. Nodes are annotated with location information, including country of origin.
This network has 839824 nodes and 4098711 edges.

A look at robots.txt, a good will-based social contract governing the behavior of web crawlers, as experts call for more rigid tools for managing AI crawlers (David Pierce/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/24067997/robots-txt-ai-text-file-web-crawl…

With the rise of AI, web crawlers are suddenly controversial
For decades, a humble text file governed the behavior of web scrapers. But as the AI industry grows, the social contract of robots.txt is falling apart.

Source: Paramount and Charter extend contract renewal talks; the contract, which affects Paramount's cash flow amid buyout talks, was set to expire on April 30 (Jennifer Maas/Variety)
https://variety.com/2024/tv/news/paramount-charter-deal-ta…

Paramount, Charter Agree on Deal Talks Extension to Avert Blackout
Paramount and Charter agreed to extend their talks on a deal renewal, to prevent Paramount's networks from going dark -- for now.

Just had this experience with new phone plan for 2nd time. This time in person, not via internet/phone.
They offered me a plan with phone. Then gave me a contract to sign with a price $800 higher. They refused to put their oral offer in writing. I obviously walked away.
How can this possibly be legal? Do all phone companies do this?

Years ago a company had to write a drug policy - it was mandated by a government contract. They leaned back, put on their thinking caps, and put pen to paper (or fingers to keyboard) and came up with this succinct, one word, company drug policy:
Share.

Finnish heat pump owners save 25% on their electricity bills (with a dynamic contract, 10% with a fixed-price contract) with smart controls. Winner of a Finnish Innovation Fund challenge, Kapacity is now coming out of beta mode:
https://www.kapacity.io/ar…

Google fires 28 employees over their participation in a 10-hour sit-in at the company's New York and Sunnyvale offices to protest its business ties with Israel (Thomas Barrabi/New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2024/04/17/business<…

Google fires 28 employees involved in sit-in protest over $1.2B Israel contract
In a companywide memo obtained by The Post, Google vice president of global security Chris Rackow said their “behavior was unacceptable, extremely disruptive, and made co-workers feel threatened.”…

Man, Cousin's career earnings are ridiculous! Another amazing contract just fell into his lap.
https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/39708564/qb-kirk-cousins-leaving-vikings-4-year-deal-falcons

QB Kirk Cousins leaving Vikings for 4-year deal with Falcons - ESPN
Vikings free agent quarterback Kirk Cousins has agreed to a four-year contract with the Falcons, his agent announced.

eu_procurements: EU procurement contract networks (2008-2016)
A bipartite network of public EU procurement contracts, from 2008 to 2016, between issuing buyers (public institutions such as a ministry or city hall) and supplying winners (a private firm). Contracts are aggregated into annual snapshots, edges are annotated with contract value information. Nodes are annotated with location information, including country of origin.
This network has 839824 nodes and 4098711 edges.

Scale AI signs a one-year contract with the Pentagon to provide a means to test and evaluate LLMs that can be used for military planning and decision-making (Brandi Vincent/DefenseScoop)
https://defensescoop.com/2024/02/20/scale-ai-p…

Scale AI to set the Pentagon’s path for testing and evaluating large language models 
Scale AI will create a comprehensive test-and-evaluation framework for generative AI within the DOD.

Aardig stuk over de ervaring met een jaar dynamische energieprijzen. Kleine misvatting: dynamische prijzen zijn niet alleen voordeliger als je verbruik aanpast, maar ook als 'gemiddelde' consument als je niets doet.
https://www.volkskran…

Wat zijn de voor- en nadelen van een dynamisch stroomcontract?
Met een dynamisch stroomcontract kan de prijs voor (groene) elektriciteit elk uur veranderen. Daar kun je geld mee besparen. Energieredacteur Bard van de Weijer sloot zo’n contract. Hoe veranderde dat zijn verbruik en wat leverde het op? 

🛩️ Ukraine says it could make 2m drones a year with financial help from west
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/20/ukraine-says-it-could-make-2m-drones-a-year-with-financial-help-from-west<…

Sources: Don Lemon agrees to separate with CNN in a ~$24.5M deal, the full pay from his final contract, which extended 3.5 years from his ousting in April 2023 (Emily Smith/The Wrap)
https://www.thewrap.com/don-lemon-cnn-split-deal/

CNN Pays Don Lemon $24.5 Million to Settle Anchor's Network Ouster | Exclusive - TheWrap
Former CNN host Don Lemon landed a $24.5 million deal after he was fired from the network.

Years ago a company had to write a drug policy - it was mandated by a government contract. They leaned back, put on their thinking caps, and put pen to paper (or fingers to keyboard) and came up with this succinct, one word, company drug policy:
Share.

In its lawsuit, the US DOJ says Apple deploys "privacy and security justifications as an elastic shield that can stretch or contract" to serve its interests (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2024/03/21/doj-

DOJ calls Apple's privacy justifications an 'elastic shield' for financial gains | TechCrunch
The U.S. DOJ sued Apple over monopolistic practices accusing it of modifying its practices for privacy and security for financial gain.

Detroit told the Detroit Free Press that its FOIA request would cost $17K , another case of Michigan FOIA allowing public bodies to hide behind prohibitive fees (Dana Afana/Detroit Free Press)
https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/mic

City of Detroit wants $17,000 to fill FOIA request on controversial Detroit murals
Detroit City Council declined to pay a $215,000 contract for seven murals done by out-of-town artists.

Sources: Reddit signed a deal early in 2024, worth ~$60M on an annualized basis, allowing a large unnamed AI company to train its models on Reddit's content (Amy Or/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Reddit Is Said to Sign AI Content Licensing Deal Ahead of IPO
Reddit Inc. has signed a contract allowing a company to train its artificial intelligence models on the social media platform’s content, according to people familiar with the matter, as it nears the potential launch of its long-awaited initial public offering.

Detroit told the Detroit Free Press that its FOIA request would cost $17K , another case of Michigan FOIA allowing public bodies to hide behind prohibitive fees (Dana Afana/Detroit Free Press)
https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/mic

City of Detroit wants $17,000 to fill FOIA request on controversial Detroit murals
Detroit City Council declined to pay a $215,000 contract for seven murals done by out-of-town artists.

eu_procurements: EU procurement contract networks (2008-2016)
A bipartite network of public EU procurement contracts, from 2008 to 2016, between issuing buyers (public institutions such as a ministry or city hall) and supplying winners (a private firm). Contracts are aggregated into annual snapshots, edges are annotated with contract value information. Nodes are annotated with location information, including country of origin.
This network has 839824 nodes and 4098711 edges.

Sources: Reddit signed a deal early in 2024, worth ~$60M on an annualized basis, allowing a large unnamed AI company to train its models on Reddit's content (Amy Or/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Reddit Is Said to Sign AI Content Licensing Deal Ahead of IPO
Reddit Inc. has signed a contract allowing a company to train its artificial intelligence models on the social media platform’s content, according to people familiar with the matter, as it nears the potential launch of its long-awaited initial public offering.

A US official says SpaceX's Pentagon contract to deploy terminals in Ukraine between June 2023 and May 2024 is worth $23M; the deal may not be renewed (Anthony Capaccio/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

SpaceX’s Pentagon Contract to Supply Starlink in Ukraine Is Worth $23 Million
The Pentagon revealed that its contract to deploy Elon Musk’s Starlink terminals in Ukraine is worth $23 million, finally putting a dollar figure on a deal that has embroiled one of the world’s richest men in the Russia conflict — sometimes to his own chagrin.

🪧 Boston University graduate students strike over pay, healthcare, housing and other benefits
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Boston University graduate students strike over pay, healthcare, housing and other benefits
Members of the Boston University Graduate Workers Union (BUGWU) went on strike March 25, demanding a new contract guaranteeing pay increases, more health and dental care coverage, plus other benefits such as childcare, affordable housing, workload limits and aid for international graduate students.

Sources: Reddit has inked a deal with Google to make its content available for training the search giant's AI models; source: the contract is worth ~$60M a year (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/technology/reddit-ai-conte…

SAG-AFTRA members ratify new three-year TV animation agreements, which include wage increases and AI protections for voice actors, with 95% voting in favor (Katie Campione/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2024/03/sag-aftra-tv-animat…

SAG-AFTRA Members Overwhelmingly Approve TV Animation Agreement
SAG-AFTRA members overwhelmingly approved the 2023 TV animation agreement.

Count the red flags in this job offer. https://boards.greenhouse.io/outlier/jobs/4362304005
The (unsolicited) email said "Earn extra income in your spare time" which immediately made me think it was a pyramid marketing scheme. Yup: "you will get paid…

Palantir wins a US Army contract worth $178.4M to provide battlefield AI systems for the TITAN ground station, the Army's first "AI-defined vehicle" (Lindsay Clark/The Register)
https://www.theregister.com/2024/03/08/palantir_wins_us_army_contr…

Palantir wins US Army contract for battlefield AI
US spy-tech firm at center of UK health data systems applies its technology to altogether different ends

Filings: MediaLink founder Michael Kassan, fired by UTA for cause, accuses the UTA of breach of contract and fraud in relation to the 2021 MediaLink acquisition (Matt Donnelly/Variety)
https://variety.com/2024/film/news/uta-frau…

UTA Accused of Fraud, Breach of Contract by MediaLink CEO
Michael Kassan, founder and CEO of MediaLink, has accused owner UTA of breach of contract and fraud in arbitration documents obtained by Variety.

Sources: Reddit signed a deal early in 2024, worth ~$60M on an annualized basis, allowing a large unnamed AI company to train its models on Reddit's content (Amy Or/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Reddit Is Said to Sign AI Content Licensing Deal Ahead of IPO
Reddit Inc. has signed a contract allowing a company to train its artificial intelligence models on the social media platform’s content, according to people familiar with the matter, as it nears the potential launch of its long-awaited initial public offering.

A US federal judge dismisses DirecTV's lawsuit from March 2023 that accused Nexstar of engaging in price-fixing activity around the retransmission consent fees (Cynthia Littleton/Variety)
https://variety.com/2024/tv/news/directv-nexstar-a…

Judge Dismisses DirecTV's Antitrust Lawsuit Against Nexstar
A judge has dismissed the antitrust lawsuit DirecTV filed last year accusing Nexstar of engaging in price-fixing activity in contract negotiations.

Sources: SpaceX's Starshield is building a network of spy satellites under a classified, $1.8B contract with the US spy agency National Reconnaissance Office (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/technology/space/m

Sources: Reddit has inked a deal with Google to make its content available for training the search giant's AI models; source: the contract is worth ~$60M a year (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/technology/reddit-ai-conte…

Sources: Don Lemon had not technically inked an X contract before Elon Musk killed the deal; Lemon plans to post his interview with Musk on March 18 on YouTube (Max Tani/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/03/13/2024/don-lem…

Don Lemon's deal with Elon Musks collapses over interview | Semafor
Lemon will seek to be paid for a contract he didn't sign.

Advantage Informatics, which has a contract with Gannett to provide "advertorial content", has deep ties to "pink slime" sites from Brian Timpone's Metric Media (Steven Monacelli/Nieman Lab)
https://www.niema…

A company linked to a large “pink slime” network is being hired by big publishers like Gannett
An executive from a company associated with Metric Media was hired to teach journalism, but the story doesn't end there.

Condé Nast staff marked for layoffs in November are assigned to a "central editorial group" as they await the outcome of their union's contract negotiations (Katie Kilkenny/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.…

Condé Nast Purgatory: Dozens of Staffers Marked for Layoffs Bide Time at “Central Editorial Group”
While their union negotiates with top execs about the scale and terms of layoffs, employees who had been working at GQ, Vanity Fair and Bon Appétit have been consigned to a unit that, sources say, mainly includes busy work.