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The US book business faces challenges including AI slop, but print sales and e-book and audiobook revenue were stable in 2025, and 422 stores joined the ABA (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/30/books/b

Dragons, Sex and the Bible Drove Book Sales in 2025
Nonfiction and Y.A. are hurting, but genre fiction and the Good Book are booming. Here’s how book sales looked in 2025.

Lieferdienste: Bas prüft Verbot von Subunternehmern nach kriminellen Vorwürfen
Arbeitsministerin Bas will gegen Arbeitsrechtsverstöße in der Lieferkette von Uber Eats, Wolt & Co. vorgehen. RBB-Reporter deckten kriminelle Strukturen auf.

A good thing the republicans just gerrymandered texas assuming theyd keep the latino voters they picked up in 2024 forever!
https://bsky.app/profile/isilanor.bsky.social/post/3mdrjno2ngs2f

eressëa 🦭 (@isilanor.bsky.social)
a "fun" fact is that texas' state senate map is so gerrymandered that this swing would flip all but four republican districts [contains quote post or other embedded content]

bag_of_words: Bag of words (2008)
Five text collections in the form of bags-of-words, i.e. a bipartite document–word network. Left nodes are documents and right nodes are words. Edge weights are multiplicities. .
This network has 13919 nodes and 746316 edges.
Tags: Informational, Text, Bipartite, Weighted, Metadata
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CBS faced a technical snafu that knocked the live broadcast of "New Year's Eve Live: Nashville's Big Bash" off the air for about 12 minutes on December 31 (Cynthia Littleton/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/cbs-na…

'Nashville's Big Bash' Live Telecast Interrupted by Technical Problems
CBS' 'Nashville's Big Bash' live New Year's Eve special faced a lengthy interruption Wednesday night due to technical problems.

We've reached the point when new child rape accusations come out, Trump doesn't even try to deny them anymore.
https://bsky.app/profile/nunesalt.bsky.social/post/3mdr5fr2yrs2u

Devin Nunes' Alt-Mom (@nunesalt.bsky.social)
We've reached the point when new child rape accusations come out, Trump doesn't even try to deny them anymore.

Beschädigtes Unterseekabel: Finnland vernimmt Besatzung auf verdächtigem Schiff
Ein Schiff steht unter Verdacht, unterseeische Datenkabel in der Ostsee beschädigt zu haben. Die Ermittlungen in Finnland schreiten laut Polizei voran.

Amazon's Melania documentary opens with $7M at the North American box office, above pre-release estimates of $3M to $5M; Amazon spent $75M on the documentary (Rebecca Rubin/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/film/box-offi

Melania Box Office: First Lady Doc Beats Expectations
Sam Raimi's thriller "Send Help" lead the box office over several newcomers, including the "Melania" doc and YouTuber Markiplier's "Iron Lung."

One of the many nightmare scenarios facing us is that
a badly led and mostly destroyed intelligence infrastructure
fails to prevent a major terrorist attack
and that attack is then used as justification to speed up the fascism.
-- Ken White
https://bsky.app/profile/kenwhite.bsky

Popehat of Serious Proportion (@kenwhite.bsky.social)
Yeah, one of the many nightmare scenarios facing us is that a badly led and mostly destroyed intelligence infrastructure fails to prevent a major terrorist attack and that attack is then used as justification to speed up the fascism. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

Disney's Zootopia 2 hits $556M in sales in its global debut, the fourth-highest debut of all time, including $272M in China, the sixth-largest start of all time (Rebecca Rubin/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/film/box-offi

'Zootopia 2' Sets Box Office With $556 Million Globally
"Zootopia 2" unleashed a box office stampede as Disney's animated sequel raced to $556 million in its global debut.