@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialDr. Phil's Merit Street Media JV, launched in April 2024, files for Chapter 11 and sues business partner Trinity Broadcasting Network for breach of contract (Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/07/dr-phil-merit-street-media-jv-ban…
@jkohlmann@mastodon.socialI just wrote a letter demanding a fair contract for @Writers Guild of America East members at Vox Media! Write one here: https://actionnetwork.org/letters/help-union-members-at-vox-media-win-a-fair-contract
@Techmeme@techhub.socialThe US Army awards Palantir a contract worth up to $10B over the next decade, creating a "comprehensive framework for the Army's future software and data needs" (Elizabeth Dwoskin/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/…
@jlpiraux@wallonie-bruxelles.socialLuka Doncic reaches 3-year, $165M extension with Lakers
#NBA #Lakers
https://www.
@aral@mastodon.ar.alTurns out the social contract was a con.
@karlauerbach@sfba.socialIf I were one of the universities that have caved and kow-towed to FFOTUS and have agreed to install government monitors...
I would simply give those monitors absolute no support - no office space, no keys, no access.
And when FFOTUS came to sue I would say "those contract terms are either unconscionable [not enforceable here in California] or the result of unlawful coercion [and thus not enforceable in most places.]
Of course FFOTUS would again try to withhold funds.
@Techmeme@techhub.socialMicrosoft and the CWA reach a tentative contract agreement for ~300 ZeniMax QA workers after two years of talks, marking Microsoft's first US union contract (Josh Eidelson/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
@cowboys@darktundra.xyzCowboys star shows Micah Parsons support amid cryptic message, contract drama https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/dallas-cowboys-star-shows-micah-parsons-support-amid-cryptic-message-contract-drama
@dnddeutsch@pnpde.social
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.deeu_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.
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialCBS News Digital's WGA East members reach a deal with management on their first collective bargaining agreement, a week before Skydance is set to take over (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/digital/news/cbs-news-digital-wga-east-u…
@gedankenstuecke@scholar.socialThe writing that Creative Commons is also "AI"-pilled has been on the wall for a while, and here we are are, wasting time and money on some useless signalling to "AI" scrapers that already don't care for any existing limitations…
https://creativecommons.org/2025/06/25/introducing-cc-signals-a-new-social-contract-for-the-age-of-ai/
@laimis@mstdn.socialUpdate to my loftyassist product adventure, with a new twist.
At 116 users, 18 paid plans.
New twist? I might be getting hired by Lofty to do some contract work for them. Let's see what the terms look like, but if all looks good, I might be transferring over some of my lofty assist ideas onto lofty itself. Pretty funny turn of events.
@ErikJonker@mastodon.socialMaar een kwart 😃 , prima score
#politiek
@aral@mastodon.ar.alCreative Commons jumps the shark.
*smdh*
#AI #CreativeCommons https://mastodon.social/@creativeco…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialSources: Lionsgate Motion Picture Group President Nathan Kahane is expected to leave his post by 2025's end and transition to a producing deal with the studio (Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/05/lionsgate-president-nathan-kahane-departu…
@wndlb@mas.toHow to write a release 101: https://esq.social/@NationalLawReview/114557843845477792
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: Microsoft is in advanced talks to land a deal that could give it ongoing access to critical OpenAI tech even if OpenAI reaches its goal of building AGI (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-07-29/micr…
@timbray@cosocial.caCreative Commons launches “CC Signals”. Quote:
“TL;DR – What are CC signals?
“CC signals are a proposed framework to help content stewards express how they want their works used in AI training—emphasizing reciprocity, recognition, and sustainability in machine reuse. They aim to preserve open knowledge by encouraging responsible AI behavior without limiting innovation.”
@tante@tldr.nettime.orgLooked at @…'s Signals page (https://creativecommons.org/ai-and-the-commons/cc-signals/) again.
I think this…
@markhburton@mstdn.socialGrenfell survivor urges government to speed up firms’ contract ban ahead of eighth anniversary | Morning Star
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/grenfell-survivor-urges-government-speed-firms-contract…
@ingo@social.stuetzle.cc»Longtime ABC News correspondent Terry Moran is out of job after he made a social media post critical of President Donald Trump and White House Deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller. The network announced Tuesday that Moran’s contract would not be renewed.« https://www.
@aral@mastodon.ar.alHey @…, how’s this for a CC signal for AI, you clowns?
🖕
https://creativecommons.org/2025/06/25
@mxp@mastodon.acm.org
@kurtsh@mastodon.socialWhat do you do with a news organization like ABC that is frightened to the point of being cowardly of the very institutions it's supposed to report on?
✅ ABC News Parts Ways With Terry Moran After Trump Social Media Post
https://deadline.com/2025/06/terry-mor
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.deeu_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.
@gwire@mastodon.social> US government announces $200 million Grok contract a week after ‘MechaHitler’ incident
This is one of those headlines that zips by in the movie's exposition-heavy title sequence.
https://www.theverge.com/news/706855/grok-mechahitler-xai-de…
@servelan@newsie.socialUSDA ended contract for food assistance ‘clearinghouse’ required by law, lawsuit claims
https://federalnewsnetwork.com/management/2025/06/usda-ended-contract-for-food-assistance-clearinghouse-required-by-law-lawsuit-claims/
@grumpybozo@toad.socialCalm down…
Despite the obnoxious footers you sometimes see on email written by the silly, no one can obligate you to protect data that they sent to you without some sort of contract. Maybe if you’re an employee, you have made an explicit agreement to protect your employer’s data. Maybe there is an implied agreement to protect information of your employer’s business partners. But there is NO blanket duty of care for email sent to you any more than there is for snail mail.
@gedankenstuecke@scholar.social«Scientific conferences are leaving the US amid border fears»
And this is just the beginning: Most big scientific conferences are not only already committed to 2025 venues but also 2026, given the long contract deadlines for such events. Academic societies are very reluctant to cancel existing contracts given how expensive doing so is.
Imho, 2027 will be the conference year to watch (if anything resembling a US academy is left by then).
https://archive.is/20250524023504/https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01636-5
@hex@kolektiva.socialIt seems like, again, just following the plain logic of the Constitution and Declaration of Independence (which, again, I do not subscribe to), that every law passed under Trump, every supreme court justice appointment by Trump, every supreme court ruling by Trump appointed justices, all the illegal firing, etc, must all, necessarily, be null and void.
And if not following from the insurrection act, or from the oath of office, then following from the Declaration of Independence itself. The logic here being that a constitution is a contract between the people and their government, which the later upholds in order to maintain its legal status. The violation of said laws by the government violates "consent of the governed" (which, again, I have issues with the concept entirely but we're just going to ignore that) and therefore nullifies the authority of that government, granting " the right of the people to alter or to abolish it."
That seems a lot like the hard reset some folks have been looking for. Given that existing flaws allowed this state to be reached, it would also be necessary for the true authority to correct those mistakes before assuming authority that derives from these principles.
Now, personally, I don't subscribe to any of this logic but it's interesting to explore, as an outsider, where the logic goes.
@Techmeme@techhub.socialLegalOn, whose contract review tool uses AI to identify risks and suggest edits, raised a $50M Series C, bringing its total raised to $200M (Kate Park/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/24/softbank-backed-legalon-fuels-ai…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialThe fate of Jimmy Kimmel's ABC show, whose contract ends in 2026, will reveal if Colbert's cancelation was a one-off or a fundamental shift in late-night TV (CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/26/cbs-canceling-colbert-raises-late-night-questions…
@Duckbill4994@social.linux.pizza@… following the #rsyslog AI debacle, will you be adjusting things like the social contract to disallow the use of AI in that way?
Or better put: what _is_ Debian's stance on this type of AI use?
@ErikJonker@mastodon.socialThis is completely crazy if you think about digital sovereignty....
#spain
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: Microsoft is pushing to remove the AGI clause from its OpenAI contract, which lets OpenAI limit Microsoft's access to its IP once its systems reach AGI (Berber Jin/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech…
@NFL@darktundra.xyzBengals in contract standoff with Trey Hendrickson: Breaking down where things stand going into training camp
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/bengals…
@gedankenstuecke@scholar.social«Scientific conferences are leaving the US amid border fears»
And this is just the beginning: Most big scientific conferences are not only already committed to 2025 venues but also 2026, given the long contract deadlines for such events. Academic societies are very reluctant to cancel existing contracts given how expensive doing so is.
Imho, 2027 will be the conference year to watch (if anything resembling a US academy is left by then).
https://archive.is/20250524023504/https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01636-5
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialAn Australian court finds ABC unlawfully terminated journalist Antoinette Lattouf in December 2023 for her social media posts opposing Israel's campaign in Gaza (The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2025/jun
@petaqui@masto.es¿Corrupción? ¿Donde?
@… https://mstdn.social/@Free_Press/114857399291118861
@bmariusz@techhub.socialDay 10
Well, technically it’s been a few days.
I just finished populating the entire partner-contracts layer in our system. That means hundreds of users, each linked to the correct unit, with the proper supervisor, job title, and contract type. All of it reflected in a single, consistent data model.
Every user has a contract pointing to their supervisor — with cascading relations:
- regional managers report directly to the admin,
- unit managers report to regional …
@metacurity@infosec.exchangeYou won't want to miss today's Metacurity for the most critical infosec developments you might have missed over the weekend, including
--Trump cyber EO reverses some parts of Biden, Obama orders
--Starlink endangers WH security,
--Nigeria convicts Chinese cybercriminals,
--US sentences Nigerian hacker,
--ICE arrests Oz hacker,
--Italy ends contract with spyware company Paragon,
--Supreme Ct. gives DOGE social security data,
--BADBOX 2.0 …
@mrwedders@social.linux.pizzaHoly yikes.
The one perm dev on my current contract gave his notice on Monday - which sucks.
The org has just given the project lead his notice too.
I will soon be the only dev left on a system I desperately do not want to own.
Time to update the CV? 😬
@lapizistik@social.tchncs.deDear „fundamental Christians“, for you the proof that the climate catastrophe is men made is easy:
• God said to Noah: “I have set my rainbow in the clouds, and it will be the sign of the covenant between me and the earth.” (Gen 9, 13)
• You are fighting rainbows, calling them and those who praise it evil.
• So you cut the contract that was sealed between us.
• Therefore there will be flood – and worse. One does not cut the gay ribbon between yourself and God.
• It i…
@servelan@newsie.socialGlendale terminates contract with HSI, ICE to house detainees in its jail – NBC Los Angeles
https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/glendale-terminates-contract-with-hsi-ice-to-house-detainees-in-its-jail/3718681/
@Techmeme@techhub.socialThe US Defense Department awards a one-year $200M contract to OpenAI to develop AI tools for addressing challenges in "warfighting and enterprise domains" (Jordan Novet/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/16/openai-wins-200-million-us-defe…
@gedankenstuecke@scholar.social«DOGE has provided a template for complete political and cultural rollback, exploiting AI's brittle affordances to trash any pretence at social contract. What the so-called educational offers from AI companies are actually doing is a form of cyberattack, building in the pathways for the hacker tactic of 'privilege escalation' to be used by future threat actors, especially those from a hostile administration.»
"The role of the University is to resist" by @…
https://danmcquillan.org/cpct_seminar.html
@cowboys@darktundra.xyzCowboys' Micah Parsons at Training Camp; Jerry Jones Sparks Contract Drama https://www.foxsports.com/stories/nfl/cowboys-micah-parsons-training-camp-jerry-jones-sparks-contract-drama
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialWith RSNs weakened due to cord-cutting, a look at how the NBA and teams are handling local broadcasts, as some turn to streaming and others buy their local RSNs (Mike Vorkunov/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6299679/2
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.deeu_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.
@raiders@darktundra.xyzBREAKING: Raiders Comment on Christian Wilkins Release https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/las-vegas-christian-wilkins-miami-dolphins-pete-carroll-training-camp
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialNews Corp extends CEO Robert Thomson's contract through June 2030, as it faces AI headwinds; Thomson joined in 2013 and his previous deal expired in June 2027 (Melissa Korn/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSeoul-based chip designer FuriosaAI signs a deal with LG to use its AI chip RNGD, its first major contract, after rejecting Meta's $800M buyout offer in March (Yoolim Lee/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
@aral@mastodon.ar.alAlso, may I just say, fuck Sergey Brin.
(How’s that for offensive, Sergey? You fucking genocide apologist piece of shit.) https://kolektiva.social/@oatmeal/114827622817744764
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.deeu_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.
@tiotasram@kolektiva.socialAI, AGI, and learning efficiency
My 4-month-old kid is not DDoSing Wikipedia right now, nor will they ever do so before learning to speak, read, or write. Their entire "training corpus" will not top even 100 million "tokens" before they can speak & understand language, and do so with real intentionally.
Just to emphasize that point: 100 words-per-minute times 60 minutes-per-hour times 12 hours-per-day times 365 days-per-year times 4 years is a mere 105,120,000 words. That's a ludicrously *high* estimate of words-per-minute and hours-per-day, and 4 years old (the age of my other kid) is well after basic speech capabilities are developed in many children, etc. More likely the available "training data" is at least 1 or 2 orders of magnitude less than this.
The point here is that large language models, trained as they are on multiple *billions* of tokens, are not developing their behavioral capabilities in a way that's remotely similar to humans, even if you believe those capabilities are similar (they are by certain very biased ways of measurement; they very much aren't by others). This idea that humans must be naturally good at acquiring language is an old one (see e.g. #AI #LLM #AGI
@servelan@newsie.socialReddit sues AI startup Anthropic for breach of contract, ‘unfair competition’
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/04/reddit-anthropic-lawsuit-ai.html
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources on key Microsoft-OpenAI clause: OpenAI decides when AGI and "sufficient AGI", capable of $100B in profits, are reached, and Microsoft can't build AGI (Steven Levy/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/microsoft-and-openais-agi-fight-…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialVox Media Union says it has reached a tentative three-year agreement with Vox Media, averting a strike (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/digital/news/vox-media-union-agreement-contract-1236430370/
@cowboys@darktundra.xyzJake Ferguson shares message to fans after mega deal with Cowboys https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/dallas-cowboys-jake-ferguson-shouts-out-coaches-fans-massive-new-deal
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSAG-AFTRA reaches a tentative deal with Activision, EA, Epic, Take-Two, and other game companies on the Interactive Media Contract, after months of strikes (Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/gaming/news/sag-video-game-companie…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialThe Chicago Tribune is offering buyouts to the newsroom's 75 union members; the newsroom last went through buyouts in 2021, when nearly 40 people left (Kaitlin Washburn/Chicago Sun Times)
https://chicago.suntimes.com/business/2025/06/12/chicag…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialWGA East-affiliated Vox Media Union voted to authorize a strike starting June 12 if its demands for higher pay and protections against AI abuse are not met (Jeremy Fuster/The Wrap)
https://www.thewrap.com/vox-media-union-authorize-strike-vote/
@Techmeme@techhub.socialVA used a DOGE AI tool by Gumroad founder Sahil Lavingia that hallucinated contract sizes to cancel 24 deals; Lavingia says "mistakes were made" (ProPublica)
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-doge-veterans-affairs-ai-contra…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialABC News says it has "made the decision to not renew" Terry Moran's contract after suspending him for calling Stephen Miller a "world-class hater" (Brian Stelter/@brianstelter)
https://x.com/brianstelter/status/1932543451179925550
@Techmeme@techhub.socialEdinburgh-based Wordsmith, whose AI tools help legal teams automate contract and policy reviews, raised a $25M Series A led by Index Ventures (Kyt Dotson/SiliconANGLE)
https://siliconangle.com/2025/06/04/wordsmith-ai-raises-25m-build-legal-a…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: Binance wrote the smart contract for USD1, a stablecoin launched by Trump's World Liberty, and promoted it to its 275M users, before CZ sought a pardon (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/20
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialSAG-AFTRA reaches a tentative deal with Activision, EA, Epic, Take-Two, and other game companies on the Interactive Media Contract, after months of strikes (Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/gaming/news/sag-video-game-companie…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSAG-AFTRA says Hollywood video game voice and motion capture actors signed a new contract with game studios, including AI protections like consent requirements (Danielle Broadway/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/media-tel
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialPolitico's editorial union says its new AI tool generates garbled or made-up DC intelligence, including a fictional basket-weaver guild; Politico defends it (Max Tani/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/06/08/2025/politicos-a…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialWGA East threatens a strike by Vox employees without a new contract that includes The Dodo Union staffers along with better pay, AI protections, and more (Sean Burch/The Wrap)
https://www.thewrap.com/vox-media-union-strike-pledge-new-deal-ai-protecti…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialSAG-AFTRA says Hollywood video game voice and motion capture actors signed a new contract with game studios, including AI protections like consent requirements (Danielle Broadway/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/media-tel
