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“Google operationalized YouTube and built it up to be the world’s most structurally important video platform”: Cory Doctorow
https://doctorow.medium.com/https-pluralistic-net-2026-02-07-aimsters-revenge-effective-means-of-access-control-df30088f654c

Glimmers of hope in these dark Trumpian times. @rudepundit@mstdn.social
https://rudepundit.blogspot.com/2026/01/zohran-mamdanis-radical-refocus-of-left.html

On the TV side, Figgis’ credits included War & Peace, Walter & June, Burton and Taylor, Poldark, The Borgias and Anne with an E.
https://deadline.com/2025/12/susie-figgis-dead-harry-potter-casting-director-was-77-1236649732/

Read “Big Tech joins the race to build the world’s heaviest airplane“ by Cory Doctorow on Medium: https://doctorow.medium.com/https-pluralistic-net-2025-12-09-temporarily-embarrassed-founders-solidarity-beats-scarcity-07ff1205daf1

The appeals court also agreed that Apple acted in "bad faith" by rejecting viable, compliant alternatives in internal discussions.https://www.alternet.org/alternet-exclusives/new-trump-directive-is-a-threat-to-every-american/

As a result, Apple now has a $4.1 trillion market capitalization and the second biggest weight in the S&P 500. https://apple.slashdot.org/story/25/12/09/2118205/apples-slow-ai-pace-becomes-a-strength-as-market-grows-weary-of-spending

It’s a wide-open race for Best Documentary Feature this year, making for excitement for Academy Awards watchers and anxiety for filmmakers. https://deadline.com/2025/12/oscars-best-documentary-features-1236631913/

According to the South China Morning Post, just one mining site in Inner Mongolia “ is estimated to hold enough of the element to power China entirely for more than 1,000 years.” https://www.zerohedge.com/energy/china-successfully-operates-worlds-first-thorium-molten-salt-reactor

“From your car to your thermostat, the key systems in your life are increasingly a monthly bill, meaning that every time you add something to your life, it’s not a one-time expenditure; it’s a higher monthly cost of living, forever.”
@pluralistic@mamot.fr

The series was created for television by showrunner and executive producer Bruce Miller and executive produced by Warren Littlefield… https://blavity.com/entertainment/the-handmaids-tale-sequel-series-the-testaments-drops-first-look-photos-chase-infiniti

The Polish director revisits the life of the iconic writer, born into a German-speaking Czech Jewish family in Prague in 1883, from his teen years to his untimely death at just 40. https://deadline.com/2025/12/agnieszka-holland-interview-franz-kafka-biopic-franz-1236637924/

Drone strikes increased tenfold under Obama, helping fuel anti–U.S. backlashes in several nations. https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/12/05/obamas-powerpoint-death-parade-led-to-trumps-venezuelan-killings/

“That real issue is Trump’s challenge to Congress’s constitutional taxing and spending powers.” https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/10/weird-shutdown-trump-congress/684685/?utm_source=feed

Generative AI is nothing more than a form of social suicide that must be reined in before it’s too late. https://disconnect.blog/generative-ai-is-a-societal-disaster/