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YouTube's head of products for podcasts Steve McLendon says viewers streamed 700M hours of podcasts on TV in October, up from 400M hours in October 2024 (Ashley Carman/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

People Watched 700 Million Hours of YouTube Podcasts on TV in October
That’s up from 400 million hours a year ago as podcasts become the new late-night TV.

Here’s an interesting little curio. Was hanging at a friend's place and the conversation wandered to ancient times; when she was 16, an upstate-New-York girl, she took off with a carload of friends and went to Woodstock. She pulled out an original program, dropped from a helicopter near stage-front, and her ticket, uncanceled because by the time they got there the systems had broken down.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AfternoonShow
Witchdoctor:
🎵 Holiday/12 Scanner
#Witchdoctor
https://ejthewitchdoctor.bandcamp.com/track/holiday-12-scanner
https://open.spotify.com/track/2c5PsIWzvA09SiyVp90DRS

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UK Gambling Commission says Meta is turning a blind eye to illegal gambling site ads on Facebook and Instagram, calls its ad library a "window into criminality" (Olivia Solon/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

A federal judge in Texas declared a mistrial on Tuesday after a defense lawyer wore a shirt in court with images from the civil rights movement,
delaying a closely watched case in which the Trump administration is accusing a group of protesters of being terrorists and says they are part of a “North-Texas antifa cell”.
US district judge Mark Pittman, an appointee of Donald Trump, declared a mistrial only hours after jury selection began at the federal courthouse in downtown Fort W…

Having just watched #Jaws for the first time in ages, I was stunned by the famous opening sequence ... but not by its cinematography or acting or editing - but by the never-ending chain of in-your-face #continuity errors in lighting once the girl enters the water: one moment we have a low Sun and a red sky, then we have the Sun near the zenith (with a day for night effect) then low again and so on, for several cycles.
Now #Spielberg, is there supposed to be some hidden message here? Well, there isn't.
(Once it's day, fortunately, this problem is gone, and a great movie unfolds, still fresh after 50 years. And I know, you shouldn't mess with a masterpiece, but Lucas added characters to Star Wars IV, and Cameron corrected a wrong star pattern in Titanic, so may be Spielberg could just, for an anniversary special edition ... o.k., I shut up. ;-)

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
BT:
🎵 Never Gonna Come Back Down
#BT
https://wayoutwest-hybridremixanthology.bandcamp.com/track/never-gonna-come-back-down-hybrids-breaktek-mix
https://open.spotify.com/track/4osK7pNsNUvD1AMHQjoDFy

YouTube terminates Screen Culture and KH Studio, two large channels that used AI to create fake movie trailers; the platform earlier suspended the channels' ads (Jake Kanter/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/12/youtube-terminates-scr…

YouTube Shuts Down Channels Using AI To Create Fake Movie Trailers Watched By Millions
YouTube has terminated two prominent channels, Screen Culture and KH Studio, using artificial intelligence to create fake movie trailers.

Social media addiction trial: Mark Zuckerberg says increasing engagement on Instagram is not a company goal and that Meta removes underage users it identifies (CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/18/meta-mark-zuckerberg-social-media-safety-trial.html…

Zuckerberg testimony: Upping engagement on Instagram was not a company goal
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg took the stand in a closely watched social media and safety trial that could reshape the industry.