Tootfinder

A look at CollectiveMetrics.org, a new nonprofit founded by two ex-Meta ad executives that aims to bring more transparency to digital advertising to fight scams (Craig Silverman/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/scam-ads-are-flooding-so…

Scam Ads Are Flooding Social Media. These Former Meta Staffers Have a Plan
Rob Leathern and Rob Goldman, who both worked at Meta, are launching a new nonprofit that aims to bring transparency to an increasingly opaque, scam-filled social media ecosystem.

Manchester’s Local Plan is available in draft.
You've til 17 Nov to respond.
Our post gives you the links to the plan and consultantation, AND our draft response that you can use as a template for yours!
In summary, the council is constrained by planning regulations but they could still do much better.
Tell them!
 #Manchester

Manchester’s Local Plan – responding to the consultation
Local Plans are what guide the pattern of a land use and and building across a council area.  In the case of Greater Manchester (excluding Stockport), the Joint Strategic Plan, Places for Everyone …

24 Hour Business Plan Podcast
The business planning podcast for leaders who want clear, practical strategies to drive growth and execution without the jargon...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/24-hour-business-plan/ …

"Great British Energy plans 15 GW clean energy investment"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Energy

Great British Energy plans 15 GW clean energy investment
UK government-owned energy company’s first strategic plan sets GBP 15 billion private finance target and commits to support for more than 1,000 local and community energy generation projects.

European Union 27, under far right climate denialist pressure, opts for lower carbon emissions target and keeps door open for offsets beyond the EU, despite having been given a highly critical report on them.
No coverage that I can find in the UK press.
El tirón antiecológico germina en el plan contra el cambio climštico de la Unión Europea

El tirón antiecológico germina en el plan contra el cambio climático de la Unión Europea
Dos años después de que la UE forzara una histórica petición de abandonar los combustibles fósiles, la presión de los partidos negacionistas se hace notar en vísperas de la Cumbre del Clima de Brasil

This is how you say that the Republicans are rigging the voting systems without saying the Republicans are rigging the #voting systems.
Michael Steele knows. The #Republicans aren't worried about this election because they have a Plan B. Watch this space:

For the past 15 years, I've observed San Francisco leaders talk about how important climate action is - but not actually do a lot. There now a petition asking the Mayor to take meaningful action at
https://sign.moveon.org/petitions/mayor-lurie-implement-…

Mayor Lurie: Prioritize Climate Action Plan goals as you restructure city government
San Francisco approved a detailed and comprehensive Climate Action Plan in 2021 with a top-line goal of net-zero GHG emissions by 2040. Some progress towards this goal has been made since then, including general fund budget money awarded over the last few years to the SF Environment Department, for the first time ever. But we are now in danger of going backwards in our fight to mitigate climate change. Mayor Lurie and the Board of Supervisors recently approved a 2-year budget that revokes...

For the past 15 years, I've observed San Francisco leaders talk about how important climate action is - but not actually do a lot. There now a petition asking the Mayor to take meaningful action at
https://sign.moveon.org/petitions/mayor-lurie-implement-…

Mayor Lurie: Prioritize Climate Action Plan goals as you restructure city government
San Francisco approved a detailed and comprehensive Climate Action Plan in 2021 with a top-line goal of net-zero GHG emissions by 2040. Some progress towards this goal has been made since then, including general fund budget money awarded over the last few years to the SF Environment Department, for the first time ever. But we are now in danger of going backwards in our fight to mitigate climate change. Mayor Lurie and the Board of Supervisors recently approved a 2-year budget that revokes...

Putin insists certain elements of Trump’s peace plan to end Ukraine war are unacceptable | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/russia-putin-trump-ukraine-peace-plan-b2878544.html

Sources: Sequoia's Pat Grady and Alfred Lin plan to deepen the firm's AI focus and reframe its image as less politically partisan, after Roelof Botha's exit (Kate Clark/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

EHDS als "Versuchskaninchen": Europas ambitionierter Plan für Gesundheitsdaten
Die EU plant mit Gesundheitsdaten und KI die digitale Souveränität. Experten diskutieren die Chancen, Risiken und wirtschaftlichen Hürden.

#AdventOfCode Day 5: My stupid part 1 solution was too slow (because I checked each ingridient instead of compare the ranges). After fixing that it was fast and correct. I have a plan for part 2, but $job to do, so let's see when I get a round tuit (to quote an old #Perl saying).

Vibe coded my first #n8n node for Wallabag. Excited to put it to use. Plan is to use n8n to send new #Wallabag entries to the Webarchive as well. But first... some sleep.

Average man, average man
Median height, weight, and arm span
Fits a shirt, medium size
Airplane legroom will suffice
Average man, average man
Tells his dates he's five foot ten.
Faster than half his peers,
Gets buzzed from a couple beers.
How tough is he? Worry not:
Orders takeout "medium hot."
Average man, average man
Has a 401k plan
Doesn't follow news at all
Skipped his annual physical
Wears ties wi…

Wildbergers Modernisierungsagenda klingt nach digitalem Frühling: weniger Zuständigkeiten, KI im Amt, mutige Experimente. Aber wie Adi Preissler wusste: Entscheidend is’ auf’m Platz. Papier kann vieles, Praxistests zeigen alles. Ohne Unterstützung aus allen Ressorts – und vom Kanzler – bleibt's ein schöner Plan, meint Johannes Winkelhage im FAZ #Digitalwirtschaft Newsletter

"We plan to include your paper as an appendix to our book". Abt. #NiceTry

Boah ey, ich glaube ich gehe mett.
Seit Monaten nehme ich mir vor meinen alten Raspi 3 durch einen 5er zu ersetzen.
Bisher macht der nicht viel außer piHole DNS blocking.
Der Plan war nun unter anderem Home Assistant zu installieren.
Warum? Weil ich diverses ioT Gedöns habe, von diversen Herstellern. Ich hätte das aber gerne mit nur einer App steuerbar.
Gleichzeitig will ich den Pi noch für andere Dinge nutzen,z.B. TimeMachine für Mac Backups, LUKS-Verschlüsselte Ne…

Plan für dieses Wochenende: Winterschlaf.

Bücherhallen Hamburg (@…) completes successful switch to new library system
https://librarytechnology.org/pr/31917

De VVD:
"Demissionair minister Mariëlle Paul (Sociale Zaken en Werkgelegenheid, VVD) heeft zich, voordat ze besloot een regeling rond huisvestingskosten voor arbeidsmigranten in stand te houden, niet laten adviseren door uitzendkoepel ABU en andere partijen."

Minister Paul besloot eigenhandig plan in te trekken dat arbeidsmigranten moest beschermen
Arbeidsmigranten: Vakbonden, de uitzendbranche en SER-voorzitter Kim Putters zeggen niet met minister Mariëlle Paul van Sociale Zaken (VVD) te hebben gesproken over intrekking van een zorgvuldig voorbereid kabinetsplan.

Mij lijkt het een verschrikkelijk plan dat Rotterdam z'n kunstacademie verliest.
Onderteken de petitie:
https://savewdka.petities.nl/

Save WDKA, the Willem de Kooning Academy
The Hogeschool Rotterdam (HR) announced a merger with the department of Communication, Media and Innovation (CMI), part of a bigger reorganization. With this merge the Willem de Kooning Academy (WdKA) loses its autonomous position, its status as art academy. Help us preserve our art education! https://savewdka.petities.nl

"Senior Tories dismayed at Badenoch’s ‘catastrophic’ vow to repeal Climate Change Act"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Climate

The White House published a photo in which Netanyahu is seen forced by Trump to apologize to Qatari PM Al Thani while reading a piece of paper on the phone. I guess the script was 99% sure provided to him by Trump or his administration.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/whitehouse/5

@… First I've heard of this - very exciting! https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/jeremy-hansen-moon-1.7649455

In 4 months, Canadian Jeremy Hansen will blast off to the moon — where he'll also be a human guinea pig | CBC News
If all goes to plan, next February could see the return of humans to the moon. Four people — NASA astronauts Victor Glover, Reid Wiseman, Christina Koch and Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen — will see it as no one has before. And they will also be collecting valuable health data on themselves.

"Asad Rehman, chief executive of Friends of the Earth, said:
“Kemi Badenoch’s desperate attempt to sound like Donald Trump on climate change is taking her party further away from the interests of future generations, businesses, and the needs of ordinary people.
"Millions of lives are already being ruined and nature is being pushed to the brink. An act of political vandalism of this scale will not be easily forgiven or forgotten."

Replacing Climate Change Act is political vandalism that would abandon future generations | Friends of the Earth
Kemi Badenoch’s plan to replace the Climate Change Act is anti-science, anti-business and turns its back on those at the sharp end of climate breakdown now and future generations, says Friends of the Earth.

“Gevraagd of er een plan b is voor als de VS zich terugtrekt antwoordde Rutte ontkennend. Zo'n plan is volgens hem niet nodig.”
De eerste keer dat ik serieus hoop dat Rutte liegt.
NAVO-chef Rutte: Poetin denkt ten onrechte dat hij het langer volhoudt https://nos.nl/l/2593056

NAVO-chef Rutte: Poetin denkt ten onrechte dat hij het langer volhoudt
De buitenlandministers van de landen waren vandaag bijeen in Brussel, maar moesten het zonder de Amerikaanse minister doen.

"My supervisor @ BLM (Bureau of Land Management) just informed his team that they were told not to give a rating higher than a 3 on our performance plan. Anything higher requires a justification to be written"
Employee Prefomance Ratings Vent. : r/fednews
https://www.reddit.com/r/fednews/comments/1pftabq/employee_prefomance_ratings_vent/

Auch mal was neues: Zug steht mit 6.20 Uhr im System und fährt mir um 6.18 Uhr vor der Nase weg (also, literally, wenn der Kaffee 15 Sekunden früher fertig gewesen wäre, hätte ich ihn noch gekriegt ...). Nicht so dramatisch, weil in 20 Minuten der nächste fährt, aber geplant war das so nicht.

Sources: Meta does not plan to abandon building the metaverse, and expects to shift the savings from the layoffs into investments in its AR glasses (Mike Isaac/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/technology/meta-cuts-metaverse-unit.html

Meta Weighs Cuts to Its Metaverse Unit
Meta plans to direct its investments to focus on wearables like its augmented reality glasses but does not plan to abandon building the metaverse.

🌷 China’s lopsided growth puts spotlight on Xi’s five-year plan
#china

China’s lopsided growth puts spotlight on Xi’s five-year plan
Data about China's economy arrived as top officials gather in Beijing for what is known as the Communist Party’s fourth plenum to hash out development plans through 2030.

It's absolute insanity that the recruiting arm of the US army is just the violence of poverty.

Guyana brings solar power to Indigenous village, part of larger plan to prioritize Amerindian communities in national development. #climatechange #climatesolutions #climate

Guyana commissions solar grid for Indigenous village
A remote village in western Guyana is set to benefit from round the clock power following the commissioning of a solar grid with a combined capacity of 217.4 kW.

The ARRL has a long online text band plan which they have condensed for HF into The Considerate Operator's Frequency Guide which is not really in a convenient form to print and carry with you into the field when operating portable

MS NOW, formerly MSNBC, plans to launch membership subscriptions in the summer of 2026, offering events, curated insights, and moderated community spaces (Sara Fischer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/12/04/ms-now-msnbc-subscription-plan-members

Exclusive: MS Now to launch membership-based subscription product next summer
It represents the most significant digital investment in the network's 30-year history.

Think Tank legt Zehn-Punkte-Plan für europäische Seekabel-Strategie vor
Vier US-Konzerne kontrollieren 71 Prozent der Seekabel-Kapazität. Ein Brüsseler Think Tank fordert jetzt eine ganzheitliche EU-Gegenstrategie.

Oh, look, the result of anti-immigration fascists' policies are labor shortages.
Who would've known?
(unless it's paired with starting a global trade war, I suppose; in that case you'd get an economic slump, bankrupcies and unemployment... if you don't TACO)
https://…

Italy's right-wing government unveils new work permit plan to address labor shortages
The Italian government has announced a significant increase in the issuance of work permits for non-EU workers, planning to distribute 500,000 …

If #MayorLurie could only explain how this plan would provide housing affordable to the full mix of household incomes, without trotting out the hypothetical (and misleading) explanations of #filtering and related misleading

Vancouver housing is 'impossibly unaffordable,' says new report
Vancouver is behind only Hong Kong and Sydney, according to the 2024 Demographia International Housing Affordability Report. Read more.

If #MayorLurie could only explain how this plan would provide housing affordable to the full mix of household incomes, without trotting out the hypothetical (and misleading) explanations of #filtering and related misleading

Vancouver housing is 'impossibly unaffordable,' says new report
Vancouver is behind only Hong Kong and Sydney, according to the 2024 Demographia International Housing Affordability Report. Read more.

Finally getting around to trying to do something with the shattered solar panel I ended up with when the couriers failed twice to not smash part of my order. The PV layer under the tempered glass is still intact and functional, so my plan is to fill the impact point with CA glue, then coat the entire top with urethane to improve its weather resistance, and ultimately use it to directly power a PTC heating element in a shed. *Any* additional free heat in that building is a plus, and *any* ben…

Keir Starmer has announced an "online hospital" initiative to transform how outpatient care is delivered in England.
https://www.computing.co.uk/news/2025/pm-unveils-online-hospital-plan

NHS unveils 'online hospital' plan to slash waiting lists
Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has announced a landmark "online hospital" initiative to transform how outpatient care is delivered in England.

A product owner arrives in the place they plan to build Rome:
"Do you think you can finish by EOD?"

The #EU Cyber Resilience Act (Regulation (EU) 2024/2847) has now an Implementing Act:
https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/factpages/cyber-resilience-act-imple…

"the [Chinese] plan removes #ElectricVehicles from the list of strategic emerging industries. That move has been misread by some commentators as a retreat. It is better seen as a milestone of maturity. When an industry no longer needs preferential support or policy protection, it has crossed from experiment to normalcy"

Step by awful step, Trump is using this 12-stage plan to seize total control - Raw Story
https://archive.ph/PYl60

An Abortion Censorship Crisis on Social Media
@…’s Stop Censoring Abortion Campaign Uncovers a Social Media Censorship Crisis
How Meta Is Censoring Abortion
https://…

Our Stop Censoring Abortion Campaign Uncovers a Social Media Censorship Crisis
For months, EFF has been investigating stories from users whose abortion-related content has been taken down or otherwise suppressed by major social media platforms. In collaboration with our allies—including Plan C, Women on Web, Reproaction, and Women First Digital—we launched the #StopCensoringAbortion campaign to collect and amplify these stories.

Me hace mucha gracia unos detalles que tienen en el tour para aprende go en la web de go.dev.
Uno es el color del terminal, que es el mismo tiene Acme de Plan 9.
Otro es que todos los ficheros de ejemplos terminan con una línea en blanco. Si haces un script rc en Plan 9 sin un salto de línea después de la última instrucción no te funciona.

Day 10: Stacey Mason
Another academic, but this time one of my compatriots; we overlapped at UC Santa Cruz as advisees of Michael Mates, and even collaborated on a Twitch stream called ScholarsPlay for a bit, although we never coauthored any papers. We did chat about our research, and I had many good discussions with her about agency in interactive fiction, a topic we both published on. Her paper "On Games and Links: Extending the Vocabulary of Agency and Immersion in Interactive Narratives" (#20AuthorsNoMen

Jesus FUCKING Christ, that's quite a jump.
Just jacked the price up by a third.
#Xbox
#gamepass

**U.S. District Court Judge Karin Immergut issued a second temporary restraining order late Sunday night blocking the administration from deploying any states National Guard to Oregon**
Trump-appointed judge blocks president's plan to send California National Guard to Oregon for second time - The Mirror US
https://www.themirror.com/news/politics/breaking-trump-appointed-judge-blocks-1429168

#NYC #Greenway

Greater Greenways Long-Term Expansion Plan

Just what I needed to illustrate the Ellen Ullman quote “We build our computers the way we build our cities—over time, without a plan, on top of ruins.”
https://mastodon.social/@cmconseils/115304182925244661

Tories, incredibly enough led by an African woman, go full fascist.
Conservatives pledge to remove 750,000 migrants under borders plan - BBC News
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c708g5x2yqzo

Conservatives pledge to remove 750,000 migrants under borders plan
The party unveils new policies on illegal migration as its annual conference begins in Manchester.

Sexpuppen in Kinderoptik: Frankreich droht Shein
Sexpuppen mit kindlichem Aussehen bei Shein rufen in Frankreich die Justiz auf den Plan. Die Plattform handelt, doch die Regierung verschärft den Ton.
https://www.

Die Chefin der Messenger-App Signal droht damit, sich vom europäischen Markt zurückzuziehen. Grund ist der Plan der EU, Hintertüren in Apps einzubauen, die eine automatische Suche nach kriminellen Inhalten ermöglichen #Tagesschau #Signal

Documents: Foxconn's subsidiaries and China's Luxshare plan expansions in Vietnam to boost gaming device production, reinforcing Vietnam's supply chain role (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific

Taking notes from the successes and failures of the Russian revolution, a group of anarchists (including Nestor Makhno, a Ukrainian anarchist militant who was critical in defeating the Tzar's army and who later also fought the Red Army) wrote a document titled the "Organizational Platform of the Libertarian Communists." This document came to be known as "The Platform." It remains one of the most important first-hand revolutionary documents, outlining a clear revolutionary plan.
I've taken this, the Viable System Model from cybernetics, and my own organizing experience, to describe an organization to confront the current set of crises.
This continues to build on the stuff I have been writing, but it's a lot less high level theory and a lot more specific.
https://anarchoccultism.org/building-zion/a-solarpunk-fractal-microservices
As always, editing notes (typos, grammar, spelling, etc) are always welcome, as are any questions. My ADHD brain tends to go a lot faster than anything else, so I have a tendency to drop words and have a lot of trouble catching them later. Between my ADHD and mild dyslexia, it can be pretty hard for me to catch when autocorrect gives me the wrong word.
A lot of folks have already been super helpful in offering their editing support, and I'm really grateful. Writing this has felt collaborative, and it should. On the one hand this comes from my own experience and research, but on the other I'm also voicing things that have come from conversations here. This has all been a bit of my voice and a bit of the federated world, and I'm really appreciating that.

What do people think about the "dark forest theory of the internet" ? https://www.ystrickler.com/dftrevisited/

Today's Plan: https://eyebeemania.net/2025/11/29/todays-plan.html

Today's Plan
My plan for today was to get out of bed and to drink coffee. …

Ireland, Spain, Slovenia, and the Netherlands exit Eurovision after Israel received an all-clear to compete; the BBC and Germany's SWR plan to participate (The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2

"Revised UK environmental plan sets new goals for nature, pollution and farming"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Environment

I've been a customer of Tierra Vegetables for over 30 years. (They sell at the Saturday Ferry Plaza Farmers Market in SF; their peppers are amazing, a full range from sweet to gasp/agony) And we've visited the farm on many occasions. It would be a serious loss if the farmland they have nurtured and improved is converted to other uses.
The good news is they have a transition plan - but looks like they need public support.
From the go fund me page (link in article): …

I've been a customer of Tierra Vegetables for over 30 years. (They sell at the Saturday Ferry Plaza Farmers Market in SF; their peppers are amazing, a full range from sweet to gasp/agony) And we've visited the farm on many occasions. It would be a serious loss if the farmland they have nurtured and improved is converted to other uses.
The good news is they have a transition plan - but looks like they need public support.
From the go fund me page (link in article): …

An interview with Guardian EIC Katharine Viner on plans to produce more video and audio and create jobs focused on social media and visual elements globally (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/news-leaders/kathari…

Katharine Viner interview: Guardian editor sets out multi-year transformation plan
Interview with Guardian editor-in-chief Katharine Viner about her first ten years, upcoming transformation plan, and Noel Clarke libel case.

Digitalminister: Kupfernetz soll gebietsweise abgeschaltet werden
Das Digitalministerium stellt Eckpunkte zur Kupfer-Glas-Migration zur Konsultation. Kupfernetze sollen drei Jahre nach Glasfaser-Vollausbau stillgelegt werden.

AI chip startup Groq, last valued at $6.9B, says it plans to break ground on 12 new data centers in 2026; Groq has set up 12 data centers in 2025 so far (Kimberley Kao/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/ai-unicorn-groq-charts-data-cente…

*na*?? @… toch …
140 luchtaanvallen en daarna heb je zomaar ineens tientallen doden, geen idee waar dat door komt??
*door*!!
“Tientallen doden na 140 Israëlische luchtaanvallen” https://nos.nl/l…

Tientallen doden in Gaza-Stad • 'VS en Israël bijna akkoord over plan Gaza'
In dit liveblog lees je het laatste nieuws over de oorlog tussen Israël en Hamas.

About Manchester’s Local Plan and how to respond to the consultation.
#Manchester #planning #LandUse

Manchester’s Local Plan – responding to the consultation
Local Plans are what guide the pattern of a land use and and building across a council area.  In the case of Greater Manchester (excluding Stockport), the Joint Strategic Plan, Places for Everyone …

Neuer Plan: Nur noch Wissenschaftsdokus auf arte schauen, und den Glauben an die Menschheit langsam anwachsen lassen.
Wir können nämlich sooo tolle Sachen! Eigentlich.
https://www.arte.tv/de/videos/083905-001-A/vom-schreiben-und-denken-die-…

The fracturing of the Dutch far-right, after Wilder's reminded everyone that bigots are bad at compromise, is definitely a relief. Dutch folks I've talked to definitely see D66 as progressive, <strike>so there's no question this is a hard turn to the left (even if it's not a total flip to the far-left)</strike> a lot of folks don't agree. I'm going to let the comments speak rather than editorialize myself..
While this is a useful example of how a democracy can be far more resilient to fascism than the US, that is, perhaps, not the most interesting thing about Dutch politics. The most interesting thing is something Dutch folks take for granted and never think of as such: there are two "governments."
The election was for the Tweede Kamer. This is a house of representatives. The Dutch use proportional representation, so people can (more or less) vote for the parties they actually want. Parties <strike>rarely</strike> never actually get a ruling majority, so they have to form coalition governments. This forces compromise, which is something Wilders was extremely bad at. He was actually responsible for collapsing the coalition his party put together, which triggered this election... and a massive loss of seats for his party.
Dutch folks do still vote strategically, since a larger party has an easier time building the governing coalition and the PM tends to come from the largest party. This will likely be D66, which is really good for the EU. D66 has a pretty radical plan to solve the housing crisis, and it will be really interesting to see if they can pull it off. But that's not the government I want to talk about right now.
In the Netherlands, failure to control water can destroy entire towns. A good chunk of the country is below sea level. Both floods and land reclamation have been critical parts of Dutch history. So in the 1200's or so, the Dutch realized that some things are too important to mix with normal politics.
You see, if there's an incompetent government that isn't able to actually *do* anything (see Dick Schoof and the PVV/VVD/NSC/BBB coalition) you don't want your dikes to collapse and poulders to flood. So the Dutch created a parallel "government" that exists only to manage water: waterschap or heemraadschap (roughly "Water Board" in English). These are regional bureaucracies that exist only to manage water. They exist completely outside the thing we usually talk about as a "government" but they have some of the same properties as a government. They can, for example, levy taxes. The central government contributes funds to them, but lacks authority over them. Water boards are democratically elected and can operate more-or-less independent of the central government.
Controlling water is a common problem, so water boards were created to fulfill the role of commons management. Meanwhile, so many other things in politics run into the very same "Tragedy of the Commons" problems. The right wing solution to commons management is to let corporations ruin everything. The left-state solution is to move everything into the government so it can be undermined and destroyed by the right. The Dutch solution to this specific problem has been to move commons management out of the domain of the central government into something else.
And when I say "government" here, I'm speaking more to the liberal definition of the term than to an anarchist definition. A democratically controlled authority that facilitates resource management lacks the capacity for coercive violence that anarchists define as "government." (Though I assume they might leverage police or something if folks refuse to pay their taxes, but I can't imagine anyone choosing not to.)
As the US federal government destroys the social fabric of the US, as Trump guts programs critical to people's survival, it might be worth thinking about this model. These authorities weren't created by any central authority, they evolved from the people. Nothing stops Americans from building similar institutions that are both democratic and outside of the authority of a government that could choose to defund and abolish them... nothing but the realization that yes, you actually can.
#USPol #NLPol

Reminder that Google can nuke your entire account at any time for any infraction, real or hallucinated, on any platform in their portfolio. Use https://takeout.google.com and always have a backup plan for what happens to all the other website accounts bound to your Gmail address.

At least Rubio says what it is...
"US senators say Rubio told them Trump’s Ukraine peace plan is Russia’s ‘wish list’"
https://apnews.com/article/ukraine-peace-plan-security-confernece-halifax-senators-6041a181…

US senators say Rubio told them Trump's Ukraine peace plan is Russia's 'wish list'
U.S. senators critical of President Donald Trump’s approach to ending the Russia-Ukraine war say they spoke with Secretary of State Marco Rubio who told them that the peace plan Trump is pushing Kyiv to accept is a “wish list” of the Russians and not the actual U.S. plan. The 28-point peace plan was crafted by the Trump administration and the Kremlin without Ukraine’s involvement. It acquiesces to many Russian demands that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has categorically reject…

Ines Schwerdtner schreibt im Faschonetzwerk
"Unser @ jan_vanaken
beschreibt, warum Trumps Plan kein Friedensplan ist, sondern sich unrealistische Allmachtsphantasien breit machen. Ein Frieden kann es nur mit der palästinensischen Bevölkerung geben"
PLO: Jo wir sind dabei.
Vielleicht ist man selbst schon so hart auf Hamas-Propaganda hängen geblieben, dass man keinen "Frieden" akzeptieren kann, bei dem Israel weiter besteht?

Conservation group to sue feds over lack of national wolf recovery plan • Washington State Standard
https://washingtonstatestandard.com/2025/12/03/repub/conservation-group-to-sue-feds-over-lack-of-national-wolf-recovery-plan/

Sources: if Netflix wins the WBD bid, DOJ's Gail Slater and her senior reports have discussed how they plan to launch a multiyear investigation into the deal (Charles Gasparino/New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2025/12/03/medi…

Exclusive | Netflix acquisition of Warner Bros. studio and HBO Max would face stiff DOJ antitrust opposition: sources 
Antitrust officials are likening the Netflix purchase of WBD to Ticketmaster buying a popular entertainment venue like Madison Square Garden.

Disney says Hulu will replace the Star hub on Disney on October 8 in international markets as part of Disney's plan to expand Hulu globally (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/790403/disney-plus-hulu-integration-global-expa…

Hulu isn’t going away after all — it’s going global
Disney is expanding Hulu to worldwide streaming audiences in preparation for the “unified” Disney Plus app experience that’s launching next year.

Bundesregierung verabschiedet "Modernisierungsagenda"
Bei seiner Klausurtagung hat das schwarz-rote Bundeskabinett einen Plan zur Modernisierung des Staates verabschiedet – mit einigen offenen Punkten.
https:/…

Guardian:
"Greens struggle for coverage at the best of times, and these aren’t the best of times. The news today will be dominated by the repurcussions from the Manchester synagogue attack."
https://www.theguardian.com/politic…

Condé United and The NewsGuild "strongly condemn" Teen Vogue's consolidation, saying it will throttle staff diversity and blunt its progressive political bent (Katie Kilkenny/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business

As Condé Nast Folds Teen Vogue Into Vogue’s Website, NewsGuild Condemns the Plan
The union, which reps staffers, says the move was "clearly designed" to blunt the journalism of the brand, which has leaned in to progressive politics.

Netanyahu heeft het plan behoorlijk naar zijn hand weten te zetten.
Vervolgens wordt het door Trump als slikken-of-stikken gepresenteerd aan Hamas.
Dat is natuurlijk geen reele manier van onderhandelen / vrede stichten.
Zou me ook niet verbazen als al die arabische landen die zogenaamd 'akkoord zijn', de versie van Netanyahu nog niet eens gezien hebben.
Hamas gaat hier m.i. echt niet zomaar ja tegen zeggen.

Netflix quietly removes support for casting from its mobile app to most modern TVs and streaming devices, including Chromecast, regardless of subscription plan (Adamya Sharma/Android Authority)
https://www.androidauthority.com/netflix-casting-chromecas…

Netflix quietly killed casting from phones to newer Chromecasts and Google TV Streamer
Netflix no longer supports casting shows from a mobile device to most TVs and streaming devices, regardless of the plan you're on.

This is the EU plan it seems, not confirmed, copied it from Bluesky.
#Ukraine

Smartmatic v. Fox News: a Smartmatic lawyer says Rupert and Lachlan Murdoch authorized a plan for Fox News to embrace Trump's 2020 claims to win back viewers (Jeremy Barr/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2025/dec/02/rupert-lachlan-mur…

Sources: Apple doesn't plan to comply with India's mandate to preload a state-owned cyber safety app on iPhones and will raise its concerns with New Delhi (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boa

Sources: if Netflix wins the auction for WBD, Paramount plans to go directly to WBD shareholders to argue that Netflix's bid would face regulatory issues (Charles Gasparino/New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2025/12/02/media/pa

Exclusive | Paramount Skydance has a ‘plan B’ if Netflix wins auction for Warner Bros. Discovery: sources
A source close to WBD said the media giant believes this is now a “horse race” between Paramount Skydance and Netflix whose outcome is a “toss up,” giving it “50 50” odds. 

Manchester’s Local Plan – responding to the consultation | Steady State Manchester
https://steadystatemanchester.net/2025/10/27/manchesters-local-plan-responding-to-the-consultation/
Our draft response notes some glaring prob…

Manchester’s Local Plan – responding to the consultation
Local Plans are what guide the pattern of a land use and and building across a council area.  In the case of Greater Manchester (excluding Stockport), the Joint Strategic Plan, Places for Everyone …

Unlawful caps and work requirements.
Millions could lose housing aid under Trump plan - Salon.com
https://www.salon.com/2025/10/01/millions-could-lose-housing-aid-under-trump-plan_partner/

Source: The Washington Post's Opinion editor, Adam O'Neal, is laying off six employees and some contractors as part of a plan to shake up the section (Ben Mullin/@benmullin)
https://x.com/benmullin/status/1973826666121097505

Ben Mullin (@BenMullin) on X
scoop: Adam O’Neal, the new Opinion Editor at The Washington Post, is laying off staffers as part of a plan to shake up the section. A source says six employees are affected. I’ve also been told some contractors are being terminated. Here’s one email provided by a source:

"The plan could involve an ‘incentive based pricing structure’ for contractors, according to the report"
Kristi Noem mulls using private bounty hunters to track down immigrants, report says | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/kristi-noem-ice-bounty-hunters-report-b2856825.html

Disney says Hulu will replace the Star hub on Disney on October 8 in international markets as part of Disney's plan to expand Hulu globally (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/790403/disney-plus-hulu-integration-global-expa…

Hulu isn’t going away after all — it’s going global
Disney is expanding Hulu to worldwide streaming audiences in preparation for the “unified” Disney Plus app experience that’s launching next year.

'This was a momentous occasion staged for 4 distinct audiences: foreign powers, US military, US civilian authorities, and the American people.
All these audiences needed to see in real time POTUS letting those luminaries know that he considers them to be expendable and see them being given their new mission statement: to fulfill POTUS’s desires to use the military against civilians who stand up for democratic freedoms.'
A Holistic Plan for an Authoritarian Military
https://lucid.substack.com/p/a-holistic-plan-for-an-authoritarian

In East Timor, U.S. Retreats From Plan to Build ‘Lifesaving’ Sewage Plant - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/world/asia/east-timor-us-aid-sewage.html

OpenAI launches ChatGPT Go in Indonesia for ~$4.50 per month, expanding its budget-friendly ChatGPT subscription plan after debuting it in India in August (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/22/after-india-openai-l…

After India, OpenAI launches its affordable ChatGPT Go plan in Indonesia | TechCrunch
OpenAI is launching ChatGPT Go in Indonesia to compete with Google AI Plus plan.

Rachael Bade, who previously co-authored Politico Playbook, Sean Spicer, and Democratic strategist Dan Turrentine plan online political show The Huddle (Status)
https://www.status.news/p/sean-spicer-rachel-bade-dan-turrentine-show-youtube

The 'Huddle' in Washington
Rachael Bade is teaming up with Sean Spicer and Dan Turrentine on a new venture, Status has learned, braving the crowded independent media space with a new political show.

Don’t be fooled – Trump’s Gaza peace plan is a colonial con-trick on the Palestinians | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/trump-gaza-plan-israel-netanyahu-blair-b2836449.html

Netflix quietly removes support for casting from its mobile app to most modern TVs and streaming devices, including Chromecasts, regardless of subscription tier (Adamya Sharma/Android Authority)
https://www.androidauthority.com/netflix-casting-chromeca…

Netflix quietly killed casting from phones to newer Chromecasts and Google TV Streamer
Netflix no longer supports casting shows from a mobile device to most TVs and streaming devices, regardless of the plan you're on.

Mastodon, the nonprofit behind the social network, plans to offer paid hosting, moderation, and support services for organizations joining the fediverse (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/19/mast

Mastodon has a new plan to make money: Hosting and support services for the open social web | TechCrunch
Mastodon launches hosting and support services to generate revenue and expand the open social web.

Nvidia and HPE plan to build two new Vera Rubin-based supercomputers for Los Alamos National Laboratory, for national security and scientific research (Anton Shilov/Tom's Hardware)
https://www.

Nvidia unveils Vera Rubin supercomputers for Los Alamos National Laboratory, total of seven new supercomputers — announcement comes on heels of AMD's recent supercomputer wins
Vera Rubin forges into supercomputers.

A US district judge temporarily suspends the Trump administration's reduction-in-force plan to eliminate 532 jobs at USAGM, which oversees Voice of America (Michael Kunzelman/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/voice-of-america-trump-…

Judge suspends plan to cut hundreds of Voice of America jobs
A federal judge has agreed to temporarily suspend the Trump administration’s plan to eliminate hundreds of jobs at the agency that oversees Voice of America. U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth in Washington, D.C., ruled Monday that the U.S. Agency for Global Media cannot implement a reduction in force eliminating 532 jobs for full-time government employees on Tuesday. Those employees represent the vast majority of its remaining staff. Voice of America is a government-funded broadcaster founde…

WFT?
Fox Contributor Questions Trump’s Plan to Eliminate Income Tax: ‘The Math Doesn’t Really Work There’
https://www.mediaite.com/media/tv/fox-contributor-questions-trumps-plan-to-eliminate-income-tax-the-math-doesnt-really-work-there/

OpenAI offers its cheaper ChatGPT Go plan for free for one year to users in India starting November 4, but did not say how long the offer would remain available (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/27/openai-offers-free…

OpenAI offers free ChatGPT Go for one year to all users in India | TechCrunch
ChatGPT Go is now free for Indian users under a limited-time promotional offer.