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Meta strikes multiyear commercial AI data deals with news publishers, including CNN and Fox News, to provide real-time answers for its Meta AI chatbot (Sara Fischer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/12/05/meta-ai-deals-news-publishers

Exclusive: Meta strikes multiple AI deals with news publishers
Meta's new partners include USA Today, People Inc., CNN, Fox News, The Daily Caller, Washington Examiner and Le Monde.

MyJobQuote, a trades-booking business, includes dubious "experts" who have provided AI-generated or misinformed commentary to the UK press at least 600 times (Rob Waugh/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/…

Dubious experts deployed by MyJobQuote published more than 600 times in UK press
A network of apparently fake experts has polluted the British media with at least 600 pieces of often AI-generated and misinformed commentary.

Czechia's populist Ano party wins parliamentary elections, threatening future aid to Ukraine: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/04/czechias-populist-ano-party-wins.html

Good example why open sources projects should self-publish or even counter-publish as a GNA in @…
Distributed publishing is not weakening the security advisory publication but it’s providing additional valuable sources.
#gcve

The government’s biggest coal sales in more than a decade, is coming in a few days,
offering 600 million tons from publicly owned reserves next to strip mines in Montana and Wyoming.
The sales are a signature piece of Trump’s ambitions for companies to dig more coal from federal lands and burn it for electricity.
Yet most power plants served by those mines plan to quit burning coal altogether within 10 years, an Associated Press data analysis shows.
Three other mines po…

Trump wants to mine more coal from public lands as appetite for it lags
U.S. officials in coming days are set to hold the government’s biggest coal sales in more than a decade. About 600 million tons of the fuel will be auctioned from publicly owned reserves next to strip mines in Montana and Wyoming. Data analyzed by The Associated Press shows most of the power plants served by those mines plan to quit burning coal altogether within 10 years. The sales are a signature piece of President Donald Trump’s ambitions to dig and burn more coal from federal lands. The…

I began posting this around year 2000.... It still seems quite valid.
The First Law of the Internet
Every person shall be free to use the Internet in any way that is privately beneficial without being publicly detrimental.
The burden of demonstrating public detriment shall be on those who wish to prevent the private use.
Such a demonstration shall require clear and convincing evidence of public detriment.
The public detriment must be of such deg…

'Catastrophic populism:' Critics push back against Zelensky's winter support package for Ukrainians: https://benborges.xyz/2025/11/05/catastrophic-populism-critics-push-back.html

Physicist Steve Hsu says he has published a peer-reviewed theoretical physics paper whose main idea came from GPT-5 (Steve Hsu/@hsu_steve)
https://x.com/hsu_steve/status/1996034522308026435

steve hsu (@hsu_steve) on X
I think I’ve published the first research article in theoretical physics in which the main idea came from an AI - GPT5 in this case. The physics research paper itself (on QFT and state-dependent quantum mechanics) has been published in Physics Letters B. I've written an

Sources: Vox Media's board has discussed spinning off its podcast network due to active interest; Penske may be interested in Vox's digital publishing assets (Sara Fischer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/11/04/vox-media-explores-sale-podcast-publishing…

Scoop: Vox Media board has discussed spinning out podcast network
Vox Media has received active interest in its podcast network from strategic and financial sponsors.

Colorado voters overwhelmingly supported a pair of ballot measures that aim to ensure every public school child in the state is able to access free meals at their schools.
Proposition MM increases taxes on wealthy households earning more than $300,000 annually.
The measure supplements a previously passed referendum from 2022 that also called for increases in taxes in order to help fund schools, but which fell short of its funding goals.
The tax increases will affect around …

Colorado Passes Measures to Feed All Public School Kids by Taxing the Wealthy
Excess funds from the school meals program would be redirected toward the state-managed SNAP program.