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@burger_jaap@mastodon.social
2025-12-16 10:07:03

Dynamic energy tariffs have grown steadily in the Netherlands over the past twelve months: 40%. 7% of all households now use such a contract.
acm.nl/nl/energie/energiemonit

Contract type shares: fixed, variable, dynamic
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de
2025-10-16 11:00:25

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.

eu_procurements: EU procurement contract networks (2008-2016). 839824 nodes, 4098711 edges. https://networks.skewed.de/net/eu_procurements
@paulwermer@sfba.social
2025-10-16 14:15:08

“Sometimes the decision making criteria that the leadership uses to make a decision is different than the decision making criteria that might be reflected in scoring, but that really gets to the heart of it,” he said. 
That sounds a lot like #RFKJr's reasoning - Don't trust experts, I'm the one that knows what the right answer.

@PaulWermer@sfba.social
2025-10-16 14:15:08

“Sometimes the decision making criteria that the leadership uses to make a decision is different than the decision making criteria that might be reflected in scoring, but that really gets to the heart of it,” he said. 
That sounds a lot like #RFKJr's reasoning - Don't trust experts, I'm the one that knows what the right answer.

@servelan@newsie.social
2025-10-17 20:20:44

ICE Signs Contract To Employ Iris-Scanning Technology - Joe.My.God.
joemygod.com/2025/10/ice-signs

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-12-15 18:01:13

Lidar manufacturer Luminar files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy and says it reached a deal to sell its semiconductor subsidiary to Quantum Computing Inc. for $110M (Reshmi Basu/Bloomberg)
bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

@Mediagazer@mstdn.social
2025-11-18 00:30:36

CPB agrees to fulfill a $36M, multi-year contract with NPR, resolving litigation filed by NPR accusing CPB of illegally yielding to Trump's demands (David Folkenflik/NPR)
npr.org/2025/11/17/nx-s1-56111

@jorgecandeias@mastodon.social
2025-10-15 13:31:31

Scumbaggery ain't nothing new.
noc.social/@todayilearned/1153

@raiders@darktundra.xyz
2025-11-18 06:48:53

Cowboys' legend Dez Bryant sends message to George Pickens sportingnews.com/us/nfl/dallas

@Mediagazer@mstdn.social
2025-11-15 22:21:15

The Los Angeles Times Guild reached a tentative agreement with management after more than three years of bargaining, averting a strike authorized by members (Tess Patton/The Wrap)
thewrap.com/los-angeles-times-

@geant@mstdn.social
2025-11-11 12:51:49

🚨An email pops up: “Quick! Can you upload the contract here? My VPN’s down!”
It looks like your colleague. It feels urgent. But is it real? 👀
Smishing messages like these exploit trust and urgency, making us act before we think.
It’s easy to slip into autopilot when we’re busy.
But #digitalmindfulness means slowing down, even if for just a few seconds.
🔗 W…

GÉANT Cybersecurity 2025 campaign: Animated video 4
@stefan@gardenstate.social
2025-12-11 21:17:07

What Trinity Rodman's next contract means for the NWSL | Full Time by The Athletic Full Time
#nwsl

@burger_jaap@mastodon.social
2025-11-14 12:05:22

🇳🇴 Norwegian #EV drivers in many areas can now earn a 'Ladebonus' for offering flexibility to the energy system, regardless of their energy supplier or contract. With the 'Norgespris' static low price removing incentives for smart home charging, this enables grid-friendly behaviour in a user-friendly way.

@Mediagazer@mstdn.social
2025-11-14 22:56:06

Sources: the MLS-Apple TV deal will end in 2029, three and a half years earlier than planned; compensation averages $250M for the three remaining full seasons (Sportico)
sportico.com/leagues/soccer/20

@UP8@mastodon.social
2025-12-10 12:28:43

👿 How a ‘green gold rush’ in the Amazon led to dubious carbon deals on Indigenous lands
news.mongabay.com/2025/11/how-

@servelan@newsie.social
2025-10-11 16:43:54

'They have no contract': Immigration advocates can sue in regular courts and are not subject to 'Catch-22' of suing in contract court, appeals court rules in loss for Trump
lawandcrime.com/high-profile/t

@sauer_lauwarm@mastodon.social
2025-11-11 14:33:23

Im Protokoll stand etwas von "Ten Year Contract", das Gespräch behandelte freilich den "Tenure Track".

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-11-12 07:05:53

Foxconn reports Q3 revenue of $66.3B, in line with estimates, net profit up 17% YoY to $1.86B, vs. $1.63B exp., says it expects significant YoY growth in Q4 (CNBC)
cnbc.com/2025/11/12/foxconn-ho

@primonatura@mstdn.social
2025-11-02 11:00:12

"Brazil eyes April 2026 for first battery storage auction"
#Brazil #Batteries #Energy

ICE plans to hire dozens of contractors to scan X, Facebook, TikTok, and other social media platforms
to target people for deportation.
wired.com/story/ice-social-med

@davidaugust@mastodon.online
2025-10-03 21:04:00

ICE Wants to Build Out a 24/7 Social Media Surveillance Team.
#USpol

@newstik@social.heise.de
2025-10-02 05:59:37

A #fraud you may or may not have heard about. Target: book #authors. A company is so happy to promote your #book, they guarantee, in a professional contract, that they will sell 100k volumes of your book, an…

@ErikJonker@mastodon.social
2025-10-29 16:19:08

What a story...
#amazon

@grifferz@social.bitfolk.com
2025-10-06 14:16:36

Reading the drama about BBC having to edit an episode of Have I Got News For You because they incorrectly said that contract for UK ID card scheme went to company run by Tony Blair's son. Only to find it actually went to Oracle.
Some sort of litmus test for which kind of wonk you are? If IT wonk, be more outraged at Oracle. If politics wonk, be triggered by purported Blair nepotism

@Mediagazer@mstdn.social
2025-10-14 03:55:42

SAG-AFTRA announces a new agreement tailored for serialized microdramas, or "verticals", with budgets under $300K that it plans to circulate later this month (Katie Kilkenny/The Hollywood Reporter)
hollywoodreporter.com/business

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-11-10 20:40:47

Neros, which makes low-cost, military FPV drones in the US, raised $75M led by Sequoia, bringing its total funding to $121M, and won a US Army contract (Farah Stockman/New York Times)
nytimes.com/2025/11/10/busines

@brichapman@mastodon.social
2025-10-04 11:31:01

AGL breaks wind energy drought with 15-year contract in South Australia, supporting decarbonisation efforts and job creation. #climatechange #climatesolutions #climate

@kurtsh@mastodon.social
2025-09-28 18:16:09

If true, this explains why the #Browns took #ShedeurSanders for $4.6M:
▫️$15M (6%) of $250M in Shedeur merch equity & tax classification as a business revenue not personal income
▫️Sponsorships like Nike worth $5M-$10M & Beats by Dre, Gatorade, etc. worth $6.5M
▫️Owner…

@roelgrif@mstdn.social
2025-09-29 22:02:41

Goh, heeft het NSC eindelijk eens een goed voorstel.
volkskrant.nl/politiek/nsc-wil

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-10-06 08:35:46

US federal contracting records suggest US ICE is planning to hire ~30 contractors to monitor social media content, seeking leads for enforcement operations (Dell Cameron/Wired)
wired.com/story/ice-social-med

@karlauerbach@sfba.social
2025-09-27 19:37:41

Hmmm, this would seem to run afoul of the Constitution's ArtI.S10.C1.6.1 Contract Clause - except that that part of our Constitution applies only to States.
Personally, I do not understand why any international body would schedule events - like the World Cup or the Olympics - in the US.
"Trump warns he’ll move World Cup soccer games out of ‘unsafe’ cities like … Santa Clara? "

@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de
2025-12-06 00:00:26

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.

<…
eu_procurements: EU procurement contract networks (2008-2016). 839824 nodes, 4098711 edges. https://networks.skewed.de/net/eu_procurements
@mlawton@mstdn.social
2025-09-30 21:19:13

I don't know if Konate is distracted by contract extension concerns or is eagerly learning Spanish, but he's been shocking this season.
Salah doesn't look like he's suddenly fallen off the aging cliff, but he's been poor.
Losing Alisson & Ekitike are big blows, as both were massive contributors to the success the team has had.
Where to go from here? I think Slot needs to settle on something and stick with it. The churn is disruptive.

@UP8@mastodon.social
2025-10-08 20:21:41

🪨 Rocks on train tracks strand 900 Machu Picchu tourists amid protest
theguardian.com/world/2025/sep

@randy_@social.linux.pizza
2025-10-01 14:51:51

Contract with the Devil Himself.
Imagine waking up one random morning and deciding you want to become a pilot. Or a firefighter. In my small brain, that’s a normal dream.
But imagine you wake up and decide to become a dentist!
Any empathetic person on this flying rock would never willingly choose one of those Satan-worshipping professions. Hurting people all day long, using the creepiest tools the world has to offer — high-pitched drills, that little vacuum in the corner of y…

@stefan@gardenstate.social
2025-12-05 00:00:26

Trinity Rodman Contract Update! NWSLPA Exec Director, Meghann Burke, Breaks Down the Latest by The Women's Game
#nwsl

@geant@mstdn.social
2025-09-22 10:44:59

GÉANT receives the contract to hyperconnect European supercomputers 🎉
The EuroHPC Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU) awarded GÉANT a contract to provide ultra-high bandwidth, secure, pan-European, interconnect services for the EuroHPC #supercomputing infrastructure.
Together, EuroHPC JU, GÉANT and the European NRENs are taking a major step in strengthening Europe’s supercomputing eco…

Press release: EuroHPC JU awards contract to GÉANT to hyperconnect European supercomputers | Quote from Lise Fuhr, Chief Executive Officer of GÉANT
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social
2025-12-08 20:10:46

Sources: Anderson Cooper has signed a new deal with CNN (Brian Steinberg/Variety)
variety.com/2025/tv/news/ander

@brichapman@mastodon.social
2025-10-05 19:20:02

Neoen Australia making strides in Western Australia with new big battery projects, signaling shift towards renewable energy powerhouse in the region. #climatechange #climatesolutions #climate

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-10-08 18:21:09

New York-based Crosby, a law firm that uses AI to help speed up the contracts process, raised a $20M Series A co-led by Index Ventures, BCV, and Elad Gil (Alex Konrad/Upstarts Media)
upstartsmedia.com/p/crosby-ai-

@kurtsh@mastodon.social
2025-10-28 16:00:08

Trump un-banned the use of no-click, smartphone Spyware for use by ICE against immigrants & PROTESTORS.
☑️ICE reactivates contract with previously banned spyware vendor
wapo.st/4httse1
(Archive:

@PaulWermer@sfba.social
2025-10-29 14:20:47

But there's money to be made in supporting the #NetanyahuAdmininstrations crimes against humanity, ethnic cleansing and land theft. You want to let somebody else make that profit?

@paulwermer@sfba.social
2025-10-29 14:20:47

But there's money to be made in supporting the #NetanyahuAdmininstrations crimes against humanity, ethnic cleansing and land theft. You want to let somebody else make that profit?

@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de
2025-09-29 17:00:23

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.

eu_procurements: EU procurement contract networks (2008-2016). 839824 nodes, 4098711 edges. https://networks.skewed.de/net/eu_procurements
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social
2025-10-09 21:20:43

Newsroom union members at the Los Angeles Times vote to authorize a strike as they raise the pressure for a new contract after three years of negotiations (Katie Kilkenny/The Hollywood Reporter)
hollywoodreporter.com/business

@gwire@mastodon.social
2025-10-21 18:43:01

Amazon Prime has a documentary "Code Is Law" - which was released in February, but has an updated end from June 2025.
It deals with the question about "smart contracts" - are actions that are permitted by the code/words of a contract acceptable, even if they were not intended to be. (Most of the opinions given on this are from people who lost large amounts of money due to bugs.)

@karlauerbach@sfba.social
2025-11-20 20:30:21

My bet is that this will turn into a fairly substantial copyright and contract case.
"Kristen Bell Is the Star of a New Fox Jesus Podcast. No One Told Her"
rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-

@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de
2025-11-28 22:00:24

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.

<…
eu_procurements: EU procurement contract networks (2008-2016). 839824 nodes, 4098711 edges. https://networks.skewed.de/net/eu_procurements
@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-12-05 22:56:05

A US judge rules Google must renegotiate annually any contract that makes its search engine or AI app the default on smartphones and other devices (Bloomberg)
bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

@Mediagazer@mstdn.social
2025-11-05 22:46:03

As Google's YouTube TV and Disney continue a contract dispute, customers have lost some access to DVR files and digital movie purchases via Movies Anywhere (Scharon Harding/Ars Technica)
arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/1

@servelan@newsie.social
2025-11-18 20:59:28

NPR Wins Back $36M Contract Yanked Due To Trump - Joe.My.God.
joemygod.com/2025/11/npr-wins-

US ICE in full military gear jumping out of unmarked vans to disappear protestors in Portland.
This is modern fascism.
This is Trump's dystopian America.
This is a disgusting, immoral, breach of the social contract.
This must be stopped.

@Mediagazer@mstdn.social
2025-10-05 15:01:05

An interview with Michele Mulroney, the new president of WGA West, about helping bring Jimmy Kimmel back, plans for upcoming contract negotiations, and more (Wendy Lee/Los Angeles Times)
latimes.com/entertainment-arts

@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de
2025-10-23 11:00:26

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.

eu_procurements: EU procurement contract networks (2008-2016). 839824 nodes, 4098711 edges. https://networks.skewed.de/net/eu_procurements
@karlauerbach@sfba.social
2025-09-18 21:15:57

Our Congress is too cowardly to cancel Trumps contract.
But El Cheeto's show is loosing money, at lot more than a measly $40million/year. And viewers and voters are tuning away in droves.
The 2026 mid term elections are only a bit more than a year away. I am surprised that the obvious sole issues of importance are not being raised by aspiring candidates:
- No funding, i.e. zero dollars, zero - appropriated. Better a non functioning government than one that is activel…

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-11-26 02:35:53

Foxconn plans to spend another $569M through 2029 to expand its Mount Pleasant, WI AI server manufacturing site, adding to $717M invested through 2024 (Joe Schulz/WPR)
wpr.org/news/foxconn-expansion

@brichapman@mastodon.social
2025-09-21 23:37:00

New partnership brings clean energy and lower costs to businesses in the southern Philippines. A step towards a greener future for all! #climatechange #climatesolutions #climate

@Mediagazer@mstdn.social
2025-11-03 19:35:46

Paramount says Jon Stewart has renewed his contract to executive produce and partially host The Daily Show through 2026 (Tony Maglio/The Hollywood Reporter)
hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-ne

@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de
2025-10-24 04:00:24

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.

eu_procurements: EU procurement contract networks (2008-2016). 839824 nodes, 4098711 edges. https://networks.skewed.de/net/eu_procurements
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social
2025-12-01 17:10:40

An arbitrator has found that Politico violated key safeguards for AI adoption that had been negotiated into a contract with its unionized journalists (Andrew Deck/Nieman Lab)
niemanlab.org/2025/12/politico

@Mediagazer@mstdn.social
2025-10-01 02:15:53

YouTube TV drops Univision and other TelevisaUnivision networks after contract talks failed; Google is also in renewal negotiations with NBCU (Todd Spangler/Variety)
variety.com/2025/tv/news/univi

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-11-24 18:25:42

The US DOD and the intelligence community awarded Enabled Intelligence a seven-year, up to $708M data labeling contract in September, beating out Scale AI (Katrina Manson/Bloomberg)
bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

@Mediagazer@mstdn.social
2025-10-30 22:25:24

Sources: Gayle King, who has anchored CBS News' morning show for over a decade, is expected to leave the program next year; her existing contract expires in May (Variety)
variety.com/2025/tv/news/gayle

“They’re behind schedule, and so the President wants to make sure we beat the Chinese,”
acting NASA coordinator Sean Duffy said of SpaceX.
"[Trump] wants to get there in his term. So I’m in the process of opening that contract up.
I think we’ll see companies like Blue [Origin] get involved, and maybe others.
We’re going to have a space race in regard to American companies competing to see who can actually lead us back to the Moon first.”
There are a coupl…

@Mediagazer@mstdn.social
2025-12-01 05:15:34

Sources say Vanity Fair and Condé Nast execs are unsettled by the allegations against Olivia Nuzzi and are likely to let her temporary contract expire (Max Tani/Semafor)
semafor.com/article/11/30/2025

@Mediagazer@mstdn.social
2025-11-18 23:05:49

An Alabama state board votes to keep its contract with PBS for now, rejecting an effort to become the first state to cut ties following federal budget cuts (Kim Chandler/Associated Press)
apnews.com/article/alabama-pbs

@Mediagazer@mstdn.social
2025-10-30 22:16:05

A federal judge sets a December date for a bench trial in NPR's lawsuit claiming the CPB yanked away a planned $36M contract under intense White House pressure (David Folkenflik/NPR)
npr.org/2025/10/30/nx-s1-55909

@Mediagazer@mstdn.social
2025-11-24 11:05:47

Source: CNN quietly removed its stories from Apple News over the weekend, ending a contract to share content on the app; CNN and Apple are discussing a new deal (Max Tani/Semafor)
semafor.com/article/11/23/2025

@Mediagazer@mstdn.social
2025-10-27 19:35:39

A look at the fight between NPR and the CPB over a $36M contract to operate a satellite distribution system for public radio stations (David Folkenflik/NPR)
npr.org/2025/10/27/nx-s1-55861

@Mediagazer@mstdn.social
2025-11-19 23:30:53

Hearst plans to lay off 26 people at The Dallas Morning News, outsourcing print page production; the Dallas News Guild says the action violates its contract (Rachel Behrndt/WFAA-TV)
wfaa.com/article/money/hearst-

@Mediagazer@mstdn.social
2025-11-19 21:25:56

MLB finalizes deals with NBC/Peacock, Netflix, and ESPN; sources: NBC/Peacock pays ~$200M/year, Netflix pays $50M/season, ESPN maintains $1.65B over three years (Andrew Marchand/The Athletic)
nytimes.com/athletic/6820362/2

@Mediagazer@mstdn.social
2025-11-19 12:40:47

NYT says it will not renew Larry Summers' contract as a contributing writer for its Opinion section, after the publication of his emails with Jeffrey Epstein (Emine Sinmaz/The Guardian)
theguardian.com/us-news/2025/n