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Filing: Shein will debut on the Hong Kong exchange on Sept. 1, seeking up to $1.8B in its IPO with Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, and JPMorgan as joint sponsors (Julia Fioretti/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

ICE is arresting relatives who come forward to take custody of migrant children in federal shelters
Attorneys say the federal agencies are using children as “bait” to detain sponsors,
leaving kids waiting in shelters for months
https://www.texastribune.org/20…

ICE is arresting relatives who come forward to take custody of migrant children in federal shelters
Attorneys say the federal agencies are using children as “bait” to detain sponsors, leaving kids waiting in shelters for months.

I'm very curious what people think about the American Mosquito Control Association's warning about using Mosquito Dunks to control mosquitoes. They assert without evidence that mosquito buckets will attract mosquitoes to our yards, making the problem worse. My suspicion is that AMCA's corporate sponsors want people to spray more pesticides. #mosquitoes #pesticides https://www.mosquito.org/mosquito-bucket

Nvidia's $500B funding package announcement for AI infrastructure follows SEC's July guidance that confirmed looser restrictions for data center securitizations (Tobias Burns/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/08/17/nvidia-fin

Nvidia financing initiative follows SEC guidance that takes sponsors off the hook for data center investments
Recent SEC instructions on data center bonds appear applicable to the recent Nvidia financing move, lawyers say.

Current state of donations (monthly, estimated):
- GitHub Sponsors: ~USD$199
- BuyMeACoffee: ~USD$40
- Patreon: ~USD$30
Total: ~USD$269
There are some folks who donate due to my other work, but the bulk are from @… users 🙇‍♂️

GitHub says individuals and orgs have invested $100M in open source maintainers and projects via GitHub Sponsors since 2019, with $10M in the past five months (Stephanie Lincoln/The GitHub Blog)
https://github.blog/open-source/mainta

$100 million for open source: A milestone built by the community
Celebrating $100 million contributed by the community to the people who build and sustain open source every day.

I care not who sponsors the teams, I'm just delighted gambling firms are getting the elbow.
@… https://c.im/@BBC/117089033467230185

This article is utter nonsense. The planning system does not prevent building.
1) The NPPF has a presumption for sustainable development, where 'sustainable' is nothing of the sort.
2) Sure councils can refuse planning applications but a) if they are the sponsors, why would they, and b) if they do then the planning inspectorate / Secretary of State will overturn the decision.
/contd.

Without radical planning reform, Burnham cannot build the houses he’s promising | LSE British Politics
Governments keep promising more houses, and keep failing to build them. If Burnham is to keep his promise, there needs to be a radical reform to planning rules.

Da möchte jemand #Werbung durch mich verkaufen:
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Fox Corp. extends its partnership with iSpot to include data that tells sponsors whether ads resulted in meaningful outcomes, such as a movie ticket purchase (Brian Steinberg/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/fox-ispot-measurement-partnership-o…

Fox, iSpot Aim to Deliver Faster Data Tying Ads to 'Outcomes'
Fox, iSpot Aim to Deliver Faster Data Tying Ads to Business 'Outcomes'

The Halifax International Security Forum is an annual gathering
of senior military officers, defence and intelligence officials from across the free world,
and representatives from the media, think tanks, large companies and civil society organizations
whose work relates to defence and security issues or in some way seeks to promote and preserve a healthy democratic world.
Funded by NATO, the Canadian government and private-sector sponsors,
the event is a major…

Matt Gurney: 'We will never fucking trust you again'
Some blunt talk for our American neighbours at the Halifax International Security Forum.

Thousands of children, sponsors arrested by ICE after tips from US child migrant agency (Kristina Cooke/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/thousands-children-sponsors-arrested-by-ice-after-tips-us-child-migrant-agency-2026-07-28/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260728/p28#a260728p28