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YouTube Lays Claim to Another Crown: The World’s Largest Media Company The influential financial research firm MoffettNathanson suggests that the Google-owned video platform passed Disney's media business in 2025.

This is incredible data esp for those of us who remember when YT started in early 2005 and when Goog bought it for $1.65b in fall 2006. Is there a link to the Moffettt research somewhere? www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/dig...

I get it. Tho the Christian war thing is actually kinda funny in the most black way possible. “The secular Americans backing the Jewish state against the evil Muslims of Iran to make the middle east a Christian nation” Only the US would say/do something so stupid with a straight face.

Abrupt Change for Warner Bros. Prompts Many Grim Faces

Cue the AOL-TimeWarner comparisons by week’s end www.nytimes.com/2026/02/28/b...

Yes. Tho it is also true that original NAZIs would look down on anyone who wasn’t proud to be one. “How you going to create a master race if you’re too spineless to say that’s what you want?” Can we call this new kind weasel NAZIS? I see a new taunt coming.

Enveda's AI makes drugs from plants. It could revolutionize pharma. Enveda, led by founder Viswa Colluru, thinks making drugs from plants using AI and robots will revolutionize pharma worldwide.

What’s future of drug development? Maybe it’s plants, thanks to AI and robots. It’s why I found Enveda so interesting. They say they are on track to develop FDA approved meds four times faster and a tenth the cost of big pharma. That’s latest from CrazyStupidTech crazystupidtech.com/2026/02/27/e...

What is it about Warner Bros. That has doomed it to be a big part of the worst mergers in American history? See Time+Warner, AOL+Time Warner. Now Paramount/WBD. Crazy.

Newsom to probe claims of Trump-critical censorship at TikTok The review comes amid wider accusations that content criticizing ICE is being flagged for review or throttled, just days after the platform closed a Trump-backed deal to avoid facing a U.S. ban.

It figures that we had to take TikTok from the Chinese for its users to truly experience censorship. politi.co/4q14V2E

Mika Anderson (@mikaanderson) ICE shot and killed a down citizen in broad daylight. We cannot continue this BULLSHIT!!

Seven ICE agents have a man on the ground.They’re on top of him. He’s struggling.They shoot him; he dies.ICE claims self defense. Cops or former cops: What would explain this fact pattern?
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Re Greenland-The EU needs a maximalist response to Trump - to use its bazooka. It’s only way to get Trump to respect them. It will cause them pain and might end NATO. But it will cause a meltdown of support for Trump from the US biz community. Negotiations with Trump until they do that is pointless.

I’m so old I saw it as a short in a movie theatre when it came out … in 1992.

South Park - The Spirit of Christmas (Jesus vs. Santa) In 1992, Trey Parker and Matt Stone made The Spirit of Christmas (aka Jesus vs. Frosty) while they were students at the University of Colorado. After seeing the…

It is my sworn duty to post this video on this day. South Park. Jesus vs Santa. 1992. vimeo.com/149917416?fl...

Is it just me or has Google News become so filled with Trump Admin press releases that it is almost unusable? I just counted 12 out of 23 headlines.

Supreme Court Agrees to Review Trump Order Restricting Birthright Citizenship

Am I wrong to be worried scotus even agreed to hear this case? The easiest path would have been for them to simply not hear it and let lower court rulings stand. Does this case actually have a chance of success?

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Re context - that’s a great turn of phrase. Many thanks.

We remember the internet bubble. This mania looks and feels the same. The AI revolution is three years old Nov. 30. In just 36 months AI has gone from great-new-toy, to global phenomenon, to where we are today - debating whether we are in one of the biggest technology b...

Boom, bubble, bust, boom. We remember the internet bubble like it was yesterday. This mania is too similar for our comfort. Too much spending. Too much leverage. Too many crazy deals. China. That’s the latest from …
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Contributor: Cuts to Medicaid and to insurance subsidies will push ERs past the brink The financial logic is delusional: Eliminating coverage for 33 million residents doesn't cure their ills. They can either be managed inexpensively in doctors’ offices and clinics — or at orders of mag...

Everyone has an opinion about the govt shutdown, Obamacare subsidy cuts and Medicaid cuts on healthcare, esp ER care. Except, few pundits have ever worked in an ER. This writer has been an ER doc for three decades. Maybe we should listen to him stead of politicians. www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...

iRobot Founder: Don’t Believe The (AI & Robotics) Hype! Rodney Brooks, co-founder of three robotic companies and an AI guru has a pragmatic and honest opinions about the state of AI and Robotics. An interview!

Are you in the mood for a 6000-word interview about AI, Robotics, and get a lowdown on the hype and reality of the two of the hottest tech trends? Well, we have you covered in this chat with @rodneyabrooks.bsky.social (Also, please sign up for our newsletter) crazystupidtech.com/2025/09/29/i...

Elon Musk Just Became The First Person Ever Worth $500 Billion Musk is now half-way to becoming the first ever trillionaire.

Means that $100 to someone worth $1 million is $50 million to Elon. Let that sink in.
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Only other team I can think of was 69 Mets and they were only 9.5 games out in mid August. In those days no wild card. You won’t division or you went home

I Thought I Knew Silicon Valley. I Was Wrong Tech got what it wanted by electing Trump. A year later, it looks more like a suicide pact.

Whether you know a lot or nothing about Silicon Valley, this is a must read piece by my friend and former Wired bud Steven levy @stevenjayl. He has seen the evolution of tech from its beginnings. He knows everyone. Few have as powerful a lens. It’s just seminal. www.wired.com/story/silico...

Can someone explain why a traditional network tv broadcast license - and therefore the opinion of the FCC - is remotely meaningful in a world where virtually zero content is consumed that way and where virtually zero eyeballs consume it that way? Is there truly no workaround to this 80 yr old tech?

There was no “ideology,” leftist or otherwise. What if he was just a kid in love, who saw a man spreading hatred that endangered the person he loved. And he broke.

Why has Trump filed a $15bn lawsuit against the New York Times? President has accused paper of trying to damage his ‘business, personal and political reputation’

If I’m NYT I actually countersue for harassment.Trump knows this is a ridiculous lawsuit.But he also knows that after the coverage sane washes it, he has an extra tool to hammer the NYT credibility, esp if courts don’t dismiss immediately.They must. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

September's Reading & Meeting features Yeva Johnson, Brandy Collins, Audrey Ferber and Nate Olivarez-Giles reading from their works in progress. Emcee Christl Rikka-Perkins will lead a Q&A about their work and writing process.

Techmeme turns 20 today. This is a @techmeme.com appreciation post.

In a time of personalized feeds, fragmented audiences and endless noise, an old-school, hand-curated (with input from algorithms) landing page that collates the day's most noteworthy tech news is a godsend. www.techmeme.com

Gabe Rivera's 20-year-old headline site, Techmeme, has never been hotter. Journalism is getting battered now. But thanks to the AI boom, Gabe Rivera's 20-year-old headline site Techmeme has never been hotter. Media companies should take notes.

Here’s the piece @gaberivera.bsky.social refers to in his note. crazystupidtech.com/2025/09/08/a...

California electric-vehicle drivers will lose carpool lane privileges A program allowing motorists with a Clean Air Vehicle decal to drive solo in carpool lanes is ending after it was not extended by the federal government, according to the California Department of Moto...

I get that Trump’s cuts killed the new decal program. Disagree w it. But why does that mean existing ev owners get hammered re car pool lanes? Doesn’t cost state a dime to let them continue and there are half a million of them. www.latimes.com/california/s...

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Obama’s election in 2008,much as it pains me to say it.Lit a fire of resentment and prejudice building since 1980s when US manuf stopped supporting single earner middle class families wo college degree. Watching tech bros become billionaires while you lost your house sunk the hook. Want to be wrong.

I wasn’t the first Techmeme reader, but pretty close. I saw it for the first time sometime in late 2005 or early 2006. Been hooked ever since. Perhaps the lesson here is that “Change is good. But more often than not, less is more. “