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A Hollywood writer recounts working as an "AI trainer" for companies like Mercor, as AI gig work becomes the "new waiting tables" for entertainment workers (Ruth Fowler/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/i-work-in-hollywood-ev…

I Work in Hollywood. Everyone Who Used to Make TV Is Now Secretly Training AI
For screenwriters like me—and job seekers all over—AI gig work is the new waiting tables. In eight months, I’ve done 20 of these soul-crushing contracts for five different platforms. It’s bad.

@…
I took a sabbatical from full time therapy work last year to work full time in organizing and resistance work.
I launched Epsteinwiki.com
in December and it is a labor of love.
We are in need of volunteers if you know anyone interested in working on the archive.

A Hollywood writer recounts working as an "AI trainer" for companies like Mercor, as AI gig work becomes the "new waiting tables" for entertainment workers (Ruth Fowler/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/i-work-in-hollywood-ev…

I Work in Hollywood. Everyone Who Used to Make TV Is Now Secretly Training AI
For screenwriters like me—and job seekers all over—AI gig work is the new waiting tables. In eight months, I’ve done 20 of these soul-crushing contracts for five different platforms. It’s bad.

Knew it would need two coats.
NYT: Reflecting Pool Work Is Shoddy And Uneven - Joe.My.God.
https://www.joemygod.com/2026/05/nyt-reflecting-pool-work-is-shoddy-and-uneven/

Trump Is Having to Work Harder Than Ever to Keep GOP in Line (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/trump-is-having-to-work-harder-than-ever-to-keep-gop-in-line-efb653c6
http://www.memeorandum.com/260213/p125#a260213p125

Seeing members of the Iranian women's football team get asylum in Australia reminds me of this in the UK: Lift the Ban: Why People Seeking Asylum Should Have the Right to Work - Refugee Action https://www.refugee-action.org.uk/lift-the

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Prince:
🎵 Let's Work
#Prince
https://disc0mack.bandcamp.com/track/prince-lets-work-discomacks-extended-edit
https://open.spotify.com/track/0wgVCOPXv9YSgmRijmDSkh

This is really important. The New York Times is forcing one of my coworkers to choose between his job and taking care of his father. Tell them what you think of that: https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/tell-the-new-york-times-to-s…

That was different for the work commute.
First time in months buses arrived and on time! bus departed near the home stop @06:20. arrived at work @06:40. Ten minute walk to where I work, so 06:50. For months it was 07:15 to 07:30.
I am hoping that the commute home will go well. normally I leave around 15:00 and lucky to get home by 16:25. If they are on time and no cancellation it should be around 15:40.

I have finally figured out a way to cope with CJK scripts at work, and I've made _huge_ progress on a largely untested codebase
So of course the PMs are super change averse
"Look, I have been doing character encoding fixes since literally 2001"
"can you trust that the tests that I added are the right things"
"you do realize that the current system *doesn't work*, right?"
And each of them gets a "oh I don't know, so…

How Amazon pushes employees to integrate AI across their workload despite their concerns that the company's "half-baked" tools are creating more work (Varsha Bansal/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/ng-interact…

#Researchers or other professions who read articles for your work - which do you find better for focus, information processing and memorisation: reading on an electronic medium (computer, tablet, phone...) or on actual paper?
I thought I liked the electronic format but I'm wondering if it makes it harder to focus or remember things..
(This is only for work-based and not leisure…

Last month, I became aware of #GitHub #agentic #workflows. I succeeded in creating one, to extract structured data out of release notes, something that was done before manually.
Here are my

From Translink
Expo Line weekend maintenance work to begin in downtown Vancouver
Service impacts on Saturdays and Sundays until June
#Vancouver #Transit
Starting Sunday, March 22, Expo Line service will be temporarily reduced on weekends in downtown Vancouver until early June. Service will …

«Opponents to basic income programs often argue that recipients will become less motivated to do any work whatsoever. That isn’t what happened, though. The money helped artists move time out of work they were doing mainly to survive, and into the creative work they preferred.»

We studied what happened when financially struggling artists received $1,000 a month, no strings attached, for 18 months
Opponents of guaranteed-income programs often argue that recipients will simply take the money and be less motivated to do any work whatsoever.

I've been wondering lately if my job is #bullshit.
I've given it a lot of thought, and I think it's not directly bullshit. I'm doing stuff that's meaningful, at least in a narrow scope, both in my dayjob and my #FreeSoftware / #Gentoo work.
That said, with the arrival of all the bullshit CEOs, CTOs, all their bootlickers, wannabe bootlickers, and all the CEO/CTO/bootlicker cosplayers, the whole software industry is becoming filled with bullshit to the brim.
Even if my work is meaningful, it contributes more and more to software that's either scam in itself, used to scam people or pure unadulterated bullshit. Even if the tools used to be useful, they either gain bullshit parts or bullshit dependencies.
I hate this, and it's making me hate what I'm doing.

For those who have been hearing of a Fly Brain being uploaded, the work you've been hearing of is impressive, yet as always the pop science media has warped what happened a bit:
„The Fly Brain Breakthrough Is Real. The “First Brain Upload” Narrative Is Not.”
https://…

The Fly Brain Breakthrough Is Real. The “First Brain Upload” Narrative Is Not.
Scientists mapped a fruit fly’s 139,255 neurons in extraordinary detail. Then a startup turned that milestone into a story about brain…

"Can Special Collections Get a Rebrand?" @ Katina Magazine am Beispiel des Borthwick Institute for Archives at the University of York:
https://katinamagazine.org/content/article/future-of-work/2026/can-special-collections-get-a-re…

Strait of Hormuz Closure Triggers Work From Home, 4-Day Weeks In Asia - Slashdot
https://news.slashdot.org/story/26/03/12/0710204/strait-of-hormuz-closure-triggers-work-from-home-4-day-weeks-in-asia

Sonnet 027 - XXVII
Weary with toil, I haste me to my bed,
The dear repose for limbs with travel tired;
But then begins a journey in my head
To work my mind, when body's work's expired:
For then my thoughts--from far where I abide--
Intend a zealous pilgrimage to thee,
And keep my drooping eyelids open wide,
Looking on darkness which the blind do see:
Save that my soul's imaginary sight
Presents thy shadow to my sightless…

Every now and then, Vivaldi.. on my work computer - and only on my work computer - flashes and rebuilds its whole UI. Like the whole window goes blank for a second then its back.
Which _totally_ doesn't make me think they have something watching / scraping what Im doing. :/
edit: and not Vivaldi I mean, Im willing to bet its something work has installed on here.

For anyone who has the 2026 2nd gen Apple Studio Display (not XDR), does it work with macOS Sequoia (15.7.4)?
Please only reply if you can directly confirm that it works (or doesn’t).
(The specs say it requires macOS 26 but who knows if that’s true.)

The other day, my friend shared this video on consulting collectives, which is when "a small group of independent consultants or freelancers share clients, resources, and revenue on specific projects while maintaining their independence on others" :
https://www.instagram.com/p/DUDtOqGkTmY/…

JANEL ABRAHAMI | Career Advice for the Future of Work on Instagram: "Are you already doing this? How does it work for you? ⚡️ Consulting Collective (noun): when a small group of independent consultants or freelancers share clients, resources, and revenue on specific projects while maintaining their independence on others. Like the Avengers, but for client work. The solo consultant life is lonely and limiting, because you can only take on so much work, you have no backup when you’re sick or on vacation, and big clients often want teams, not individuals. But going back to a traditional agency or corporate job means giving up your autonomy + flexibility. So, consulting collectives are the clever middle ground no one’s talking about. Here’s how they actually work. @freelancingfemales @dreamersdoers @linkedinnews @entrepreneur @entreprenistas"
55K likes, 1,355 comments - janelabrahami on January 28, 2026: "Are you already doing this? How does it work for you? ⚡️ Consulting Collective (noun): when a small group of independent consultants or freelancers share clients, resources, and revenue on specific projects while maintaining their independence on others. Like the Avengers, but for client work. The solo consultant life is lonely and limiting, because you can only take on so much work, you have no backup when you’re sick or o…

Global energy crisis is underway thanks to Trump's war on Iran. Gov'ts ordering measures to save petrol & natural gas.
Thailand orders civil servants to work from home https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/th

Thailand orders bureaucrats to use stairs and work from home in energy saving drive
Thai Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul has ordered civil servants to conserve energy amid an energy squeeze brought on by the conflict ​in the Middle East, a government spokesperson said on Tuesday, ‌with measures including suspending overseas trips and using stairs instead of elevators.

DHS pick Markwayne Mullin once hired felon who illegally stored guns at work (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/03/12/dhs-pick-markwayne-mullin-once-hired-felon-who-illegally-stored-guns-work/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260312/p29#a260312p29

dbpedia_genre: DBpedia work-genre network
A bipartite network of the affiliations between artists and their works on one side and genre classifications on the other, as extracted from Wikipedia by the DBpedia project. The date of this snapshot is uncertain.
This network has 266717 nodes and 463497 edges.
Tags: Informational, Relatedness, Unweighted

After freeing up today for a personal priority appointment that was cancelled, I have zero work appointments in my calendar.
So I've decided to work from home and clock off early for the weekend. A morning of admin and writing awaits me...

Institutions of higher education (like the one I work for!) have an important cultural function: they act not just as venues for exchange of ideas, but as •exemplars• of •how• to exchange ideas — and as •arbiters• of which ideas are worth exchanging. Colleges and universities are an R&D department for the Overton Window.
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Michael Penix Jr. throwing during Falcons' Phase 2 workouts as QB competition nears https://www.nfl.com/news/michael-penix-jr-throwing-during-falcons-phase-2-workouts-as-qb-competition-nears

Late for Work: Blockbuster Trade Proposal Has Ravens Acquiring George Pickens https://www.baltimoreravens.com/news/ravens-cowboys-george-pickens-trade-draft-scenarios-big-questions

There are (sort of) two kinds of coders: those who see it as just a well-paying, stable job, and those who do it on nights and weekends because they love it, and it’s part of their identity. Today’s LLM tools now enable an individual to essentially be an entire software _factory_, and this is going to impact those 2 kinds of coders very differently — especially in how they respond to *both* of their bosses trying to put them out of work.

What do coders do after AI?
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

@… we’ll make it work! 🙌

A guy I used to work with just found this in the studio. It's a clamp clamp I printed on my RepRap back in... 2013 maybe? Look at those layer lines!
I'm happy to say we have better print quality 13 years later and I'm much better at designing things. 😉
#3DPrinting

A message from Dutch Rabobank meant as reassuring that doesn't really work that way. "For Europe and the Netherlands immediate physical fuel shortages due to disruption in the Strait of Hormuz are improbable until the end of May."
Published on 13 May.
https:…

Lovingly handwritten title on the spine! Meteorlogical Observations / Royal Observatory / Sydney / 1874-77
I love my job. (do you have random photos from work that make you happy?)

🧺 Device that can extract 1,000 liters of clean water a day from desert air revealed by 2025 Nobel Prize winner
https://www.

Device that can extract 1,000 liters of clean water a day from desert air revealed by 2025 Nobel Prize winner — claimed to work in desert air with 20% humidity or lower, delivering off-grid ‘personalized water’
The system can function in air with 20% humidity or less. But these 1,000 liter a day machines are not small, at around shipping container size.

Finally got my messaging apps transferred over to the GrapheneOS device!
For Signal, I had to restore a backup file: device-to-device sync failed.
For WhatsApp, I had to use a 5GHz 802.11ac network for the device-to-device transfer; 2.4GHz 802.11ax and 802.11n did not work, resulting in the very helpful error message "something went wrong." Due to GrapheneOS's sandboxing, restoring data from Google Drive didn't work, either, even with ALL permissions granted to …

Watch: Desert work | Raiders 2026 Offseason Program https://www.raiders.com/video/watch-raiders-2026-nfl-offseason-program-grind

Work was impossible. The geeks had broken my spirit. They had done too
many things wrong. It was never like this for Mencken. He lived like
a Prussian gambler -- sweating worse than Bryan on some nights and drunker
than Judas on others. It was all a dehumanized nightmare...and these
raddled cretins have the gall to complain about my deadlines.
-- Hunter Thompson, "Bad Nerves in Fat City", _Generation of Swine_

In October, ice agents “smashed the car windows and detained all seven occupants” of a van that they thought suspicious because people in it were going to work together. Carpooling. Carpooling is foreign and unintelligible to the brilliant and diligent ice agent who testified as JB. The concept of carpooling is beyond JB’s comprehension. 🤦‍♂️
The intellect on JB could be studied (but might make anyone studying it dumber).

Gosh darnit I just work with such wonderful people!!

What does it feel like to work on real Trust & Identity challenges alongside experts from GÉANT & NRENs while still being a student?
Read stories from past participants of the Trust & Identity Incubator Mentorship (TIM) programme. 👇
Hear directly from alumni Jovan Simonoski, Anna Kardos, Domonkos Baczo & Aleksandr Petrunin on their programme experience, and read how it can benefit you and your career.
Apply before 1 May 2026:

I should do some work with Authentik, but I keep getting sidetracked to find out where the default background for the SSO page is coming from
https://github.com/goauthentik/authentik/blob/main/web/src/assets/images/flow_background.jpg

Please, for the love of all that is holy in this world, Microsoft, please fix Defender so that it is not constantly running, or constantly running when I turn on my machine, or whatever. I could handle a 15-minute suck of all my system resources once per day, ideally outside a primetime window, but whatever you're doing is ridiculous. I can't work.

This will get better when the rack kit for the SPD3303X-E comes in but for now it's just sitting on a shelf.
Now I have a DUMPTRUCK plus the STM32MP2 x Kintex-7 test board all wired up with power, jtag, annd serial console for remote firmware/gateware dev work.
Free bench space, coming soon (slowly)

Institutional Data. Open Knowledge. AI. How can we create better bridges between them and work together to solve some of our big issues around data and access to knowledge in the age of AI?
The coming AI-BRIDGES Symposium in London (May 28-29) looks at these questions.
If you care about Open Knowledge, Institutional Data and AI, join us!
Registration open till May 21st. It's free, but seats are limited. Link to full program and registration here:

🤩 I'm at the ViCom Annual meeting - in about one hour we'll present our planned work for the second phase in our ✨emojis✨ project! #vicom #visualCommunication #linguistics https://vicom.info/

Excellent logo. #GraphicDesign #Beer
https://pixelfed.crimedad.work/p/crimedad…

I have written another essay for my blog. This one is about where I'm up to with my mad #Lisp system, and is *really* obscure!
https://www.journeyman.cc/blog/posts-outpu

Vector space, Pages, Mark-but-don't-sweep, and the world's slowest ever rapid prototype
...it was intended, largely, to be a giant thought experiment. But now enough of it *does* work that I can see fundamental design mistakes, and I'm thinking about whether it's time to treat it as a rapid prototype...

Because, make no mistake, they will.
All we can really do is work for a better collapse.

Yesterday, I learned young kids can regrow amputated fingertips. It was for a work ice-breaker thing and a coworker told us about her middle fingertip regrowing.
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2013/06/10/190385484…

Whew! Finish another phase and committed before #Claude crashed.
Do you think that the folks that work at #Anthropic are logging in to Codex now to fix Claude Code?

Fiber broadband tariffs work as cross-subsidies. Every higher plan helps fund the smaller, more affordable ones. So if you can, just click that upgrade. To my knowledge, not a single end customer provider is currently profitable with fiber. Definitely true for Germany, but probably for other countries as well.
#Internet

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@laudanum/116565995592278746
This is scandalous - but will be recognised by women as well, as we receive worse healthcare than men. It's the patriarchy at work.

I would recommend against doing any work to view any “secret videos” that are in any way associated with any child sexual abuse case. @… https:…

RE: https://journa.host/@timkmak/116220822731497272
If Trump isn't getting paid by Russia to be their agent, he's a moron for doing their work without getting paid...

Paramount responds to Hollywood creatives' letter against its WBD acquisition, reiterating its commitment for 30 theatrical feature films annually, and more (Ted Johnson/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2026/04/paramount-warner-bros-merger-creatives-…

Paramount Responds To Letter From Hollywood Figures, Says WBD Merger Will Ensure Creatives Have “More Avenues For Their Work, Not Fewer”
The company argued that the Warner Bros. Discovery merger will create "more avenues" for work, not fewer.

Most of the #Indians who applied for my #journalism job neglected to put any language skills on their resume.
Something that others mostly don't do - including other South Asians.
Why is this? Is it a tacit way of saying that they are really only able to work in English?

Corn cheese fritter cakes, egg and bacon, tea and coffee. Probably just games at home today after work. #TogetherBreakfast https://photos.app.goo.gl/16vdsZKsCnKpBKhX7

For the first time, 50% of employed US adults say they use AI at work a few times per year or more; leaders are more likely to see AI's impact as positive (Andy Kemp/Gallup)
https://www.gallup.com/workplace/704225/rising-adoption-spurs-workforce-chang…

Rising AI Adoption Spurs Workforce Changes
Half of U.S. workers now use artificial intelligence. AI adoption links to organizational disruption and individual productivity gains but not transformational changes to work.

they want to keep you busy, but this ain't bread and games no more

@… I’m still here, making this thing work 😅

The Senate returns to work today, while the House will hold a brief procedural session before getting back to regular business on Tuesday.
Lawmakers have still not passed a funding bill to reopen the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) subagencies affected by the record-breaking partial government shutdown, now in its ninth week.
During the two-week recess, House Republican speaker Mike Johnson took no action to advance a Senate-passed measure that would reopen agencies like th…

LinkedIn says it has "implemented organizational changes"; a source says LinkedIn plans to cut about 5% of its 17,500 full-time workers (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/world-at-work/linke…

A guy I was trying to get a job interview with in March of 2020 just posted this long thing about how he uses AI at work.
Dodged a bullet thanks to COVID I guess?

I've been talking before why money won't solve the burnout problem. But let's for a minute assume that you really wanted to help people maintaining #FreeSoftware by paying them. The problem is that:
1. You have to pay them a living wage.
While all monetary help is appreciated by developers, they need a living wage. Not "that should prevent you from starving to death" but the kind of money that can support a honest (but not lavish) lifestyle: pay the bills, feed your family, cover other living costs such as repairs, clothes, appliances, and let you save enough for future emergencies.
It's simple as that. If you can't do that, they're going to need a dayjob. If they're lucky, it won't collide with their #FLOSS work. If they're not, it will kill them. Or they'll fall somewhere in the middle, slowly burning out until they can neither maintain their projects, nor work.
2. You need to guarantee that the payouts will continue.
People need security. They're not going to stay unemployed, let alone quit their job or turn down a job offer, unless they either have good guaranties or substantial savings (or they're in a really bad shape and wouldn't be able to handle the job anyway). The job market is hell, and people just know that when the payments stop, they may not be able to find a job soon, let alone a good job. Even "passively" looking for a job can burn you out.
So yeah, one-off payments and pinky swears won't do. And it isn't even a matter of whether we can trust you; it's a matter if you'll actually be able to continue paying us. And honestly, I don't really know how to solve that. Perhaps by paying up front, but for how long? Finding a job may take more than a year, finding a good job may be once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.
3. It can't end up being a job.
Perhaps most difficult of all, these payments can't really come with explicit obligations. I mean, that's the whole point: you want to support FLOSS, not turn it into a corporate project. You want the maintainer to remain free and enjoy the work. That is unlikely to happen if their livelihood is now dependent on your satisfaction. And even if it isn't, I for example would still feel indebted to whoever's paying me to do FLOSS, even if they really didn't expect anything in return, and would fall into a spiral of guilt-inflicted burnout if I failed to maintain the software satisfactorily.
#OpenSource

A lovely post from Jeanette Croen, a PhD placement student, on her work at the British Library doing computational analysis on early printed book descriptions https://www.bl.uk/stories/blogs/posts/computational-analysis-of-book-descr…

Computational analysis of book descriptions: placement project
A PhD placement reflects on her time at the British Library and her research in using computational analysis on early printed book descriptions.

“You wouldn’t work with a racist. Don’t work with somebody that’s destroying the job that allows you to feed your children.” https://www.youtube.com/shorts/XRTlHWnKdA8

"The Holy See affirms its unwavering conviction that efforts to control, limit, reduce, and eventually eliminate nuclear weapons are not an unrealistic prospect, but a possibility and an urgent moral imperative." - Archbishop Gabriele Caccia, the Holy See’s Permanent Observer to UN, Oct. 21, 2025.

Holy See: Eliminating nuclear weapons is an urgent moral imperative - Vatican News
Archbishop Gabriele Caccia, the Holy See’s Permanent Observer to the United Nations, urges the international community to work towards preventing the ...

😵‍💫 UK has wealthy Europe’s ‘third-highest’ rate of young adults not in work or study
https://www.theguardian.com/money/2026/apr/28/uk-has-wealthy-europes-third-highest-rate-of-18-to-24-year-olds-not-in-work-o…

UK has wealthy Europe’s ‘third-highest’ rate of young adults not in work or study
Resolution Foundation report says ‘crisis’ stems from rising ill-health and a failing system of benefits and job support

Progress! CI jobs for two consecutive commits dispatched by GitHub commit hook.
First one had some minor issues, I fixed the CI script, then pushed a new commit before the first build had finished running.
If everything works, we should get a full build of both commits soon.
I've started work on the infrastructure for artifact uploading but need another day or two to get that all wrapped up.

New Zealand Outlines How Potential Fuel Rationing Would Work | Financial Post
https://financialpost.com/pmn/business-pmn/new-zealand-outlines-how-potential-fuel-rationing-would-work

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@laudanum/116565995592278746
This is scandalous - but will be recognised by woman as well, as we receive worse healthcare than men. It's the patriarchy at work.

Samsung and its South Korean labor union fail to reach a pay deal; the union has said workers will strike for 18 days from May 21 if its demands are not met (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/world-at-work/samsung-…

The GF and I share our locations with each other via Google maps. Because a) we're grossly cute like that b) its easier than asking "where the fuck ARE you?" all the time.
I didn't recall the GF going to work, but she could have slipped out and me not notice so...
Instead of walking 10' to look out the window to see if the car is still here, i just checked Google maps to see where her avatar was. Yep, still home.
Im such a

AI and work: an expert assesses how far this revolution still has to run https://theconversation.com/ai-and-work-an-expert-assesses-how-far-this-revolution-still-has-to-run-277650

AI and work: an expert assesses how far this revolution still has to run
What’s real, what’s over-stated and what risks have we missed so far?

Kazuo Ishiguro, Philippa Gregory, Richard Osman, and ~10,000 writers publish Don't Steal This Book, an "empty" book to protest AI companies using their work (Dan Milmo/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/202

Sources: Meta plans sweeping layoffs that could affect 20% or more of the company, amid mounting AI infrastructure costs; it had ~79,000 employees as of Dec. 31 (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/world-at-work/meta-planning-swe…

Today was my first attempt at a “normal” workday in the past three months. I got into the office by 9:20am, has#d to lie down for a while because I was in pain and dizzy, felt better after that but drowsy all day and I think blurred vision too. I got work done but at like 75% speed. Made it to 5pm and then got home completely exhausted. It’s a start.

One of my strong suites in all the packaging work is the knowledge in my head.
"Why don't you write it down for others to benefit from, then?", you'd ask.
The thing is, this knowledge is basically "hot cache". I'm bumping hundreds of #Python packages in #Gentoo, so I remember stuff. And because of that, I can quickly notice some things or answer some questions.
If that were written down, the effort needed to find it would diminish all the gain. I mean, technically *it is* already written down, and the whole point is that I have it "cached".

Sources: Meta has paused the Persian Gulf section of its 2Africa subsea cable project as the war in the Middle East freezes activity in the region (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-12/work-on-…

Trump's dynamic duo needs more work (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/playbook/2026/03/10/trumps-dynamic-duo-needs-more-work-00820348
http://www.memeorandum.com/260310/p14#a260310p14

A look at efforts to preserve local news archives, including work made for digital platforms first, and why some news leaders see archives as community gifts (Kristen Hare/Poynter)
https://www.poynter.org/reporting-editing/2026/saving-local-ne…

Saving local news also means saving the archives - Poynter
From person-to-person coaching and intensive hands-on seminars to interactive online courses and media reporting, Poynter helps journalists sharpen skills and elevate storytelling throughout their careers.

Kazuo Ishiguro, Philippa Gregory, Richard Osman, and ~10,000 writers publish Don't Steal This Book, an "empty" book to protest AI companies using their work (Dan Milmo/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/202

Nonprofit RSL Media launches the Human Consent Standard, an AI licensing framework for use of people's work or likeness, backed by George Clooney and others (Emma Roth/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/928534/rsl-me…

George Clooney, Tom Hanks, and Meryl Streep back new ‘Human Consent Standard’ for AI licensing
RSL Media is launching a new AI licensing standard backed by Tom Hanks, George Clooney, and Meryl Streep, which will allow people to set terms for how AI systems can use their creative works or likenesses.

Bloomberg has told employees based in the Persian Gulf, including at its Dubai regional headquarters, that they can temporarily work from outside the region (Alexander Cornwell/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/

Nonprofit RSL Media announces the Human Consent Standard, an AI licensing framework for use of people's work or likeness, backed by George Clooney and others (Emma Roth/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/928534/rsl-m…

George Clooney, Tom Hanks, and Meryl Streep back new ‘Human Consent Standard’ for AI licensing
RSL Media is launching a new AI licensing standard backed by Tom Hanks, George Clooney, and Meryl Streep, which will allow people to set terms for how AI systems can use their creative works or likenesses.

In a comment on the BBC's charter, Reach says the BBC's "aggressive expansion" into local news and strong visibility in Google Search hurts local publishers (Alice Brooker/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/re…

Reach attacks BBC’s ‘aggressive expansion’ into local news
Reach has accused the BBC of damaging the local news ecosystem and urged the broadcaster to work with journalists outside of the company.

Mythos Preview is the first AI model to complete both of AISI's cyber ranges, which measure models' cyberattack capabilities; GPT-5.5 solved only one of them (AI Security Institute)
https://www.aisi.gov.uk/blog/how-fast-is-autonomous-ai-cyber-capabil…

How fast is autonomous AI cyber capability advancing? | AISI Work
The length of tasks frontier models can autonomously complete in our narrow cyber suite has been doubling every few months. This doubling rate has become faster over time, and recent models exceeded our previous trends.

Microsoft launches Copilot Cowork, integrating Anthropic's Claude Cowork tech into Microsoft 365 and using Work IQ to ground actions in organizational data (Charles Lamanna/Microsoft 365 Blog)
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-

Copilot Cowork: A new way of getting work done | Microsoft 365 Blog
Copilot Cowork turns intent into action across Microsoft 365—automating tasks, coordinating workflows, and keeping you in control. See how.

Cybersecurity analysis: Claude Mythos Preview had a 73% success rate on expert-level capture-the-flag challenges, which no model could finish before April 2025 (AI Security Institute)
https://www.aisi.gov.uk/blog/our-evaluation-of-claude-mythos-previe…

Our evaluation of Claude Mythos Preview’s cyber capabilities | AISI Work
We conducted cyber evaluations of Anthropic’s Claude Mythos Preview and found continued improvement in capture-the-flag (CTF) challenges and significant improvement on multi-step cyber-attack simulations.

Sources: Elon Musk pushed out two more xAI co-founders after getting frustrated with xAI's coding product progress and brought in "fixers" from SpaceX and Tesla (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/e5fbc6c2-d5a6-4b97-a105-6a96ea849de5

Elon Musk pushes out more xAI founders as AI coding effort falters
Tesla and SpaceX managers sent in to review work as billionaire’s start-up struggles to keep pace with rivals

Sources: Apollo Global, Morgan Stanley, and others are testing Grok internally as part of xAI's finance sector push, but financiers are rarely using it for work (Carmen Arroyo/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Mastercard unveils a Crypto Partner Program with 85 companies, including Binance, PayPal, and Ripple, to link blockchain tech with its payments infrastructure (CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/business/2026/03/

Binance, PayPal, and Ripple join Mastercard’s massive new push into blockchain payments
More than 85 partners will work with Mastercard to connect on-chain payments with banks, merchants and global commerce as part of the payment giant's recent crypto program.

The US SEC and CFTC announce an agreement to coordinate operations where their duties overlap, including building a combined crypto oversight framework (Jesse Hamilton/CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2026/03/11

SEC, CFTC end years of rivalry with deal that will mean combined crypto oversight
The two agencies sealed their memorandum of understanding to link the parts of their work that overlap, and coordinated crypto oversight is among the top goals.

Sources: data labeling startup Handshake's gross annualized revenue hit ~$1B, vs. $550M in January; Mercor hit a $1B gross annualized revenue pace this year (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/handshake-merc…

Handshake, Mercor Revenue Surges on Demand for Human Contractors to Train AI
AI firms’ voracious appetite for more data has lifted sales for obscure startups doing the industry’s unglamorous work: contracting with lawyers, PhDholders and medical doctors who grade the answers AI models generate. The latest is Handshake, a 12-year-old startup that began as a job site for ...

As weather betting grows on prediction markets, climate experts are debating whether it improves forecasts by aggregating knowledge or is simply a zero-sum game (Bloomberg)