Trump signed the agreement that, according to a preliminary draft, requires Meta to pay out roughly $25 million, $22 million of which will go to a fund for Trump’s forthcoming presidential library. The remaining amount goes to attorneys’ fees and the other plaintiffs, a person familiar with the matter said.
The settlement comes after Zuckerberg has worked to ingratiate himself with Trump since he won the 2024 election, donating $1 million to his inauguration and then attending as he sat alongside Cabinet members. He also relaxed new content moderation rules on Facebook, Instagram and Threads, scrapping partnerships with third-party fact-checking groups and moving toward an X-style “community notes” system instead.
Trump and Zuckerberg specifically discussed the lawsuit when he visited Trump’s club in November following the election, the source said.
https://lite.cnn.com/2025/01/29/business/trump-meta-settlement/index.html
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Exercise-mimicking drug sheds weight, boosts muscle activity in mice
"But the new drug, known as SLU-PP-332, doesn’t affect appetite or food intake. Nor does it cause mice to exercise more. Instead, the drug boosts a natural metabolic pathway that typically responds to exercise. In effect, the drug makes the body act like it is training for a marathon, leading to increased energy expenditure and faster metabolism of fat in the body.
“This compound is basically telling skeletal muscle to make the same changes you see during endurance training,” said Thomas Burris, a professor of pharmacy at UF who led the recent research into the new drug.
“When you treat mice with the drug, you can see that their whole body metabolism turns to using fatty acids, which is very similar to what people use when they are fasting or exercising,” Burris added. “And the animals start losing weight.”
[#]BetterLivingThruChemestry" #obesity #antiAging
https://news.ufl.edu/2023/09/exercise-mimicking-drug/
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Charlamagne Wants Dems to Embrace GOP's Model Of Incivility | The Daily Show
Saw this on The Daily Show. Its the best and most clear prescription for the Democrats I’ve seen. The title is “Charlamagne Wants Dems to Embrace GOP’s Model Of Incivility” but that doesn’t really capture it. Its not the incivility as much as not letting the GOP get away with murder and not pretending like the GOP is normal and stop bringing a pen to a nuclear battle.
[#]USPolitics
https://youtu.be/g1ACmdglOSA?si=9uHB5GF2unR30HXv
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"I am a Nazi" - says Elon Musk
"Well, that doesn't mean he's a Nazi" - says a Muskbro
Comic by Pizza Cake Comics https://www.patreon.com/pizzacakecomic
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"The question now is not a million miles away. Who will support? Who will collaborate? Who will decide that they are “not political” and look away as millions of people are harmed? Who will make excuses for it all? Who secretly welcomes the push for theocracy, for in-groups and out-groups, for “traditional” values that prioritize rigid gender roles, segregation, and oligarchy? Who, in other words, is safe?
Are you “optimistic” about the new regime? Will you be complicit?
When someone needs help — when ICE comes after them, or worse — will you look away, or worse, cheer them on? Or will you be a point of safety for someone who needs it?
And what about when it gets worse? Because, left unchecked, it will.
In the face of rising fascism, what kind of person are you? What kind of person do you want to be?"
[#]antifascist
https://werd.io/2025/in-the-face-of-this-who-do-you-want-to
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Anyone else having issues connecting to the Apple iCloud Mail server to get their iCloud account Mail? I can't even see it on the icloud.com website. The mail section shows "There was a problem loading this content."
[#]Apple #iCloud #Email #AppleMail
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Twelve Dudes and a Hype Tunnel: Scenes from the ‘Super Bowl for Excel Nerds’
"At stake was a $5,000 prize, a wrestling-style championship belt and the title of world’s best spreadsheeter. But the organizer, Andrew Grigolyunovich, is dreaming bigger. He hopes to turn competitive Excel into a popular e-sport where pros compete for million-dollar prizes and big-league glory."
[#]GiftArticle #Excel
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/20/us/microsoft-excel-world-championships.html?unlocked_article_code=1.qk4.ViS9.M-CppLNY7iZz&smid=url-share
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"Trump’s evil will soon be fully revealed.
It is not only Trump who will be swept into power; he will be surrounded by sycophants and loyalists. He will be fêted by once-proud billionaires who have been reduced to pathetic supplicants. Their bows are so deep they cannot stand up; their knees are so bent they nearly fall over; they have kissed so many rings their lips are permanently puckered.
The legacy media, which once proclaimed itself the protector of democracy, is a hollowed-out shell. Paralyzed by the moral indifference of both-sides journalism, it has atrophied and shrunken. Tamed by Trump and abandoned by readers and viewers, it has retreated to the safety of promoting games, puzzles and cooking."
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Historic celebration of the Grateful Dead in L.A. to continue as planned despite fires
“This year’s MusiCares’ Persons of the Year ceremony, set to honor the Grateful Dead, will move ahead despite the Los Angeles wildfires.
The Recording Academy, which owns the musician-focused charity, confirmed on Tuesday, Jan. 14, that the gala will still be on Jan. 31 but will now include “a special appeal for donations to support wildfire relief efforts.”
The annual event at the Los Angeles Convention Center will be just two days before the 67th Grammy Awards, which the Recording Academy also said will proceed as planned at the Crypto.com Arena. “
[#]GratefulDead #Music #GiftArticle
https://www.sfchronicle.com/entertainment/article/grateful-dead-la-fires-musicares-grammys-20036027.php?utm_source=marketing&utm_medium=copy-url-link&utm_campaign=article-share&hash=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuc2ZjaHJvbmljbGUuY29tL2VudGVydGFpbm1lbnQvYXJ0aWNsZS9ncmF0ZWZ1bC1kZWFkLWxhLWZpcmVzLW11c2ljYXJlcy1ncmFtbXlzLTIwMDM2MDI3LnBocA%3D%3D&time=MTczNzMyMjAwMTM4NQ%3D%3D&rid=MTE1NDI1MjQtMDYwYi00NTQ0LThhNzUtMGQ3MDkxMmIzZGZh&sharecount=MQ%3D%3D
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A mystery photographer made stunning images of 1960s San Francisco. Clues point to a filmmaking legend
"There’s Carlos Santana, performing so early in his career that his hair is short. A formation of baton-wielding police advance down a San Francisco State pathway. And along with the photos of multicolored Volkswagens, Black Panthers rallies, and counterculture celebrities including Timothy Leary and Jerry Garcia, there are 75 unprocessed rolls of film containing 2,700 more unknown treasures.
At the center of it all is a man, a mystery and a race against the clock. Delzell is on a quest to uncover exactly who took these transcendent photos, while raising money so the images can be developed and viewed by the public; his all-or-nothing $49,000 Kickstarter campaign ended Wednesday as dramatically as any Golden State Warriors buzzer-beating shot."
[#]GiftArticle
[#]SanFrancisco #1960s #photography
https://www.sfchronicle.com/totalsf/article/mystery-photos-san-francisco-filmmaker-1960s-20032349.php?utm_content=hed&sid=53b774109dbcd404550000c5&ss=A&st_rid=11542524-060b-4544-8a75-0d70912b3dfa&utm_source=marketing&utm_medium=copy-url-link&utm_term=headlines&utm_campaign=article-share&hash=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuc2ZjaHJvbmljbGUuY29tL3RvdGFsc2YvYXJ0aWNsZS9teXN0ZXJ5LXBob3Rvcy1zYW4tZnJhbmNpc2NvLWZpbG1tYWtlci0xOTYwcy0yMDAzMjM0OS5waHA%3D&time=MTczNzMxOTAzODM1NA%3D%3D&rid=MTE1NDI1MjQtMDYwYi00NTQ0LThhNzUtMGQ3MDkxMmIzZGZh&sharecount=MQ%3D%3D
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Musk & Trump American Gothic Horror
by Chriss Riddell of The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2025/jan/18/chris-riddell-on-the-new-american-gothic-starring-donald-trump-and-elon-musk-cartoon
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I knew one day I’d have to watch powerful men burn the world down – I just didn’t expect them to be such losers
"Alongside those holding political office, tech gragillionnaires (I had to invent a new number) like Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg obviously wield huge global influence with their computers and numbers and whatnot. There has been a lot written about them and there will be more, as they continue to shape the world and win favour with Donald Trump. Big, scary, probably ruinous things lie ahead. But I’m here to discuss the smaller part. The insult to injury, the sprinkling of salt in the wound.
Whether I am engaging with the news, or with Musk tweeting constantly like a man with no job or friends, or with Zuckerberg sending out weird videos and appearing on Rogan, I am in pain. Not just because I don’t like what they are doing but because they are so incredibly, painfully cringe."
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jan/16/i-knew-one-day-id-have-to-watch-powerful-men-burn-the-world-down-i-just-didnt-expect-them-to-be-such-losers
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The Secret of the Sichuanese iPad
Or, how the rise and fall of RCA explains everything. Part V of The Universal Commerce of Light
"There exist few better proofs of the proposition value of “investing in productive capabilities” than the decision of Taiwan’s government in the 1970s to target the semiconductor industry as a focus of industrial growth.
Amazingly, this too is an RCA story!"
https://andrewleonard.substack.com/p/the-secret-of-the-sichuanese-ipad
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“it’s been pretty unnerving” for Senate Republicans, “because this nominee is so deeply unqualified and unprepared,” yet they fear political retaliation from Trump if they vote their consciences. Referring to reports that Hegseth, a former National Guard major and Fox News weekend host with minimal civilian management experience, has been accused of drunkenness on the job, sexual impropriety at work, and other kinds of professional misconduct, Blumenthal said, “Someone who is inebriated, or self-dealing, or managerially incompetent in this position could put the whole nation at risk. My Republican colleagues are unsettled,” he added, “and some genuinely feel scared and intimidated.”
[#]USPolitics
https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/the-pressure-campaign-to-get-pete-hegseth-confirmed-as-defense-secretary
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Joseph Goebbels...would later marvel that the National Socialists had succeeded in dismantling a federated constitutional republic entirely through constitutional means. Seven years earlier, in 1926, after being elected to the Reichstag as one of the first 12 National Socialist delegates, Goebbels had been similarly struck: He was surprised to discover that he and these 11 other men (including Hermann Göring and Hans Frank), seated in a single row on the periphery of a plenary hall in their brown uniforms with swastika armbands, had—even as self-declared enemies of the Weimar Republic—been accorded free first-class train travel and subsidized meals, along with the capacity to disrupt, obstruct, and paralyze democratic structures and processes at will. “The big joke on democracy,” he observed, “is that it gives its mortal enemies the means to its own destruction.”
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https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/01/hitler-germany-constitution-authoritarianism/681233/?gift=E9o0y7Rlfcfv2OQ1sSVCEvrQkGL3c1IiZa1SLV8I6tc&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
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"Announcing The Index: Reader-Supported Journalism"
(I subscribed. Its hosted on Ghost, not Substack)
https://www.joanwestenberg.com/announcing-the-index-reader-supported-journalism/
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Seconds Since the Epoch
"This is not at all news, but it comes up often enough that I think there should be a concise explanation of the problem. People, myself included, like to say that POSIX time, also known as Unix time, is the number of seconds since the Unix epoch, which was 1970-01-01 at 00:00:00.
This is not true. Or rather, it isn’t true in the sense most people think. For example, it is presently 2024-12-25 at 18:51:26 UTC. The POSIX time is 1735152686. It has been 1735152713 seconds since the POSIX epoch. The POSIX time number is twenty-seven seconds lower.
...
The length of the day is not 86,400 seconds, and in fact changes over time. To keep UTC days from drifting too far from solar days, astronomers periodically declare a leap second in UTC. Consequently, every few years POSIX time jumps backwards, wreaking utter havoc. Someday it might jump forward."
https://aphyr.com/posts/378-seconds-since-the-epoch
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The Death of the Hero: Why We Need Captain America to Punch Hitler Again
https://www.joanwestenberg.com/the-death-of-the-hero-why-we-need-captain-america-to-punch-hitler-again/
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First, a boom. A big boom, maybe, with the price of bitcoin, ether, and other cryptocurrencies climbing; financial firms raking in profits; and American investors awash in newfound wealth. Second, a bust. A big bust, maybe, with firms collapsing, the government being called in to steady the markets, and plenty of Americans suffering from foreclosures and bankruptcies.
[#]GiftArticle #cryptonews
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/01/cryptocurrency-deregulation-future-crash/681202/?gift=E9o0y7Rlfcfv2OQ1sSVCEmwz0D9TQafM4HxnFZkgx0g&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
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“You’ve got to stop covering him like he’s just another politician, with a different agenda,” Johnston told me recently. “He’s a criminal and a con artist. And that has to be central to everything you cover about him.”
[#]USPolitics #USMedia
https://presswatchers.org/2024/12/trump-coverage-needs-to-change-and-heres-how/?fbclid=IwY2xjawHmBoZleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHdd9DWWDNt-uvshmmK_2Uk2ab-sA-ysM_2iSzC3BuUffKp12Uk_QnBYmzw_aem_cRG3qgHvYUQKtGaEpUi9tA
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