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YouTube reorganizes its product group, naming Christian Oestlien as head of all subscription products, including YouTube TV, Music, and Premium (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/digital/news/youtube-product-r…

YouTube Product Group Reorg: Christian Oestlien to Head Subscriptions Group
YouTube is making a major reorganization to its product teams, with veteran exec Christian Oestlien taking on new responsibility for a newly created group housing the video giant's subscription products.

Prolongement de la ligne bleue… sans les portes de protection
#montreal
https://www.lapresse.ca/actualit…

🤝 Why protests can bring people together across political divides
#protests

Why protests can bring people together across political divides
How can people with diametrically opposed views suddenly stand shoulder to shoulder in protest? Researchers from Copenhagen, Oslo and Mainz have investigated this question. The starting point is the COVID protests, which were driven by three unifying strategies.

product_space: Atlas of Economic Complexity export network
Two networks of economic products, where a pair of products are connected if they are exported at similar rates by the same countries. The data are a projection from a bipartite network of nations and the products they export. Edges weights represent a similarity score (called "proximity"). Data based on UN Comtrade worldwide trade patterns. SITC network based on the Standard International Trade Classification and HS …

Most Cambodia & Laos tree cover loss in 2024 happened inside protected areas https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2025/10/most-cambodia-laos-tree-cover-loss-in-2024-happened-inside-protected-areas/
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Most Cambodia & Laos tree cover loss in 2024 happened inside protected areas
More than half of Cambodia and Laos’ tree cover loss in 2024 was recorded inside protected areas, Mongabay’s Gerald Flynn reports. The findings were a result of Mongabay’s analysis of satellite data published by the Global Land Analysis and Discovery laboratory at the University of Maryland, in partnership with Global Forest Watch. In Cambodia, 56% of the nation’s […]

ICE purposefully rammed their vehicle into a protestor’s truck in California.
In Chicago, federal agents tear gassed local police during a protest.
This is what happens when a wannabe dictator is running the country.
This is why millions of Americans peacefully stood up to defend our rights in the No Kings protests.
Peaceful protest is not a crime. It’s the foundation of our democracy.
I’m Fred Wellman
—Army combat veteran, entrepreneur, dad, MeidasTouch …

SSU and partisans disrupt RUSSIAN plans in CRIMEA #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/29/ssu-and-partisans-disrupt-russian.html

epinions: Epinions product ratings (2005)
A bipartite network of users and the products they rated on the website Epinions.com. A user connects to all products on which that user entered a rating. Edge weight represents the rating score, and edges are timestamped.
This network has 876252 nodes and 13668320 edges.
Tags: Economic, Preferences, Timestamps, Weighted

Seventeen years after the Large Hadron Collider switched on,
particle physicists are realizing that they can use the collider to explore how information flows through quantum systems
— a question at the foundations of quantum computing.
The two possible spins of the quarks correspond to the 0 and 1 states of a qubit,
a unit of quantum information.
“It is treating the process of colliding things together and forming new particles as a quantum processor,”
s…

Particle Physicists Detect ‘Magic’ at the Large Hadron Collider | Quanta Magazine
The supercollider is now being used to explore quantum phenomena, including a “magic” form of quantum entanglement.