
2025-07-14 03:08:00
Adobe Analytics: Prime Day's four-day event drove over $24B in US e-commerce sales, up 30.3% YoY; traffic from generative AI sources was up 3,300% YoY (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/14/prime-day…
Security Alert for U.S. Citizens: U.S. Embassy Iraq (June 15, 2025) (U.S. Embassy & Consulate in Iraq)
https://iq.usembassy.gov/security-alert-for-u-s-citizens-u-s-embassy-iraq-june-15-2025/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250615/p42#a250615p42
Genndy Tartakovsky's developing a new show 'Heist Safari' that looks pretty great. Loved what he did with Dexter's Lab. This one's about three estranged frog brothers who meet up at their dad's funeral, have to rob a bank to inherit their late dad's fortune, and have issues when they cut side deals with mobsters. Every episode will be executed as just one shot, the events won't be in chronological order, and it'll have an EDM score. Looks & sounds prom…
Trump's big Russia announcement fails to lift spirits in a fatigued Ukraine: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/15/trumps-big-russia-announcement-fails.html
This is a very informative and, I think, balanced analysis of the Iran nuclear question and Israel's reckless attack.
How Israel and the U.S. manufactured a fake crisis with Iran that could lead to all-out war – Mondoweiss
https://
Fears of racial profiling rise as Border Patrol conducts ‘roving patrols,’ and detain U.S. citizens
video: “These guys, literally based off of skin color! My homie was born here!” The friend said Gavidia was being questioned “just because of the way he looks.”
U.S. Border Patrol Sector Chief Greg Bovino,
who oversaw raids that included picking people up at Home Depot
and stopping them on the highway,
has emerged as a key figure in L.A.
He stood alongside…
NFL players, teams celebrate Father's Day https://www.nfl.com/news/nfl-players-teams-celebrate-father-s-day-2025
Some non-citizen journalists working in the US are self-censoring, wiping their social media accounts, canceling travel plans, and more, fearing deportation (Angela Fu/Poynter)
https://www.poynter.org/reporting-editing/…
Bradley's understanding of this is outstanding. We can discount the goal, perhaps, but he was so very good in both directions. He was constantly showing up in places that Salah left for him and his chemistry w/ Mo & Szoboszlai is terrific. Frimpong;s signing asked questions about who might be the starter. In my view, it's Bradley. Frimpong was good. He's certainly fast, but he didn't get to show as much offensively and Bradley is a better defender. I think it's depth/…
It's not over. Join the fight this Monday, June 16th @ 5PM PT.
✅ No Kings: What's Next in the Fight? (Attendee Debrief Call)
https://www.mobilize.us/nokings/event/798722/?utm_source=indivisible
A song I think of every time I hear about major flooding from summer storms (as in #Montreal yesterday). The studio version's good, the live one's better.
Blue Meanies, "Pave the World" (live, 1998)
https://youtu.be/bTiRP8qZmUI
Lattice paths and the Geode
Ira M. Gessel
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.09405 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.09405
First images of the Sun's south pole!
Solar Orbiter is the first space probe to look at the Sun's poles – and finds the magnetic field there in a state of turmoil. The Sun's magnetic field is currently undergoing a flip. During its latest flyby of the Sun at the end of March this year, the Solar Orbiter space probe had its first clear view of our star's poles. First images:
Two things can be true, even if they seem in opposition.
Hitler's race law was based on Jim Crow. Lebensraum was a direct translation of Manifest Destiny to Europe. The genocide of indigenous Americans was the inspiration and roadmap for the Holocaust. Red Summer was a genocide event. Chinese exclusion was a genocide event. The genocide of indigenous Americans continued, and the Dakota Access Pipeline is an example of that continuance.
And... Trumpian fascism is new phase of America that's markedly different than anything that anyone alive had ever experienced. Trump was inspired by Hitler's speeches and read them regularly. He admires Hitler and tries to emulate him. The language he used during his first campaign were developed by Neonazi groups like Aryan Brotherhood working with the KKK. His image was shaped by white and Christian nationalists, as is his platform today. He is a new and more dangerous kind of monster. The death camps are new. The scale of what's happening is new. The concentration of power is new.
These can both be true, and are.
#USPol
Of course. And it's not just the Internet.
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/jul/13/are-a-few-people-ruining-the-internet-for-the-rest-of-us
Dignan analysiert: Apples KI-Rückstand ist so gravierend wie Microsofts „Mobile-Fail“. Perplexity als Allheilmittel? Kaum. Aber Tim Cook braucht dringend eine Story für den Kapitalmarkt—zur Not für 20 Mrd. Dollar. #TechDebatte #Apple
Música nueva de estos dias: indie rock con mucho toque femenino. El segundo disco de estudio de Wet Leg, «moisturizer»
#WetLeg
Now that the weekend is over, check out today's Metacurity for the top infosec developments you might have missed, including
--Suspected Chinese hackers breach top telco law firm,
--13 Romanians busted for phishing attacks on UK revenue & customs office,
--Hacker shares racist and antisemitic posts on Elmo's X account,
--Flaw can trigger train emergency break,
--DoJ tries to recoup Trump boosters' stolen crypto,
--Google Gemini for Workspace…
Another free laptop I got recently is a an HP 14-dq0005tg but there's no power supply and I don't have a power adapter that will fit. Reviews seem to suggest it's pretty crappy so I don't even want to bother with getting a power supply for it.
It's lightweight and slim, but the 14" screen seems to be just 1920x1080 and supposedly has "noisy cooling".
I may just see if I can send it to HP for recycling.
U.S. Multifamily Market Snapshot — May 2025
Arbor - May 14, 2025
“Examining key benchmarks for the sector, the multifamily market’s consistent performance provides a solid foundation for continued expansion despite broader economic uncertainties, while well-positioned multifamily investors consider new opportunities.”
#ArborRealtyTrust
It’s sad it’s come to having to offer this as travel advice, but if you need to fly to the US and are apprehensive, pre clearance through at the US borders in Irish airports is a great idea. You arrive at a domestic terminal.
https://metro.co.uk/2025/06/06/a-us-border-dub…
By Israel’s own metric, it has wounded over 2 million Palestinians in Gaza alone.
#israel #genocide #ethnicCleansing
from my link log —
Diagnosing a double-free concurrency bug in Rust's unbounded channels.
https://materialize.com/blog/rust-concurrency-bug-unbounded-channels/
saved 2025-05-15
#Blakes7 Series B, Episode 03 - Weapon
JENNA: We're below horizon now.
GAN: Then she's lost!
AVON: Only us. She got what she really wanted.
VILA: I thought that was us.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/203/510…
It was unavoidable that this week I'd end up writing about Apple's latest blunder. But in the context of Figma's Sites bullshit and Shopify recasting designers as "artists" it's even worse than one OS making a stupid decision.
The mission of #UXdesign is being changed: orienting away from making useful products that work for everyone, and towards branding.
…
Mark Zuckerberg has created the saddest place on the internet with Meta AI's public feed https://www.businessinsider.com/mark-zuckerber…
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
SAULT:
🎵 I.L.T.S.
#SAULT
https://saultglobal.bandcamp.com/track/i-l-t-s
'Know-Your-Customer' means 'Guarantee me a way to silence or destroy my political opponents'
"The ICC’s chief prosecutor has lost his email, and his bank accounts were frozen. American staffers told that if they travel to the U.S. they risk arrest."
https://
Reminder: public protest is about visibility, not hiding. The power comes from people being willing to be visible, put their time on the line, and if needed, their bodies.
If you're going to start shit, maybe just ... don't. Direct action of the illegal sort requires careful planning and a tactical and strategic plan for why it will win. It happens sometimes, but it's not the mode, it's not the mode of the No Kings protests. This is a popular, public demonstration of outrage. It's legal (for now, and I hope, ever).
Yes, the police may try to kettle protesters and then trap them into curfew violations in places that have curfews. Masks won't save us from that where it happens. Just running the system with competent representation (and enough bodies to make it A Problem for the system) will.
We don't all need to be masked vigilantes at protests, and in a lot of cases, we need to be worried about the people masking up and starting shit. Remember that this is our opponents current tactic: masked, violent attacks. Don't look like them.
As you ford life's rivers, keep your knees bent and face upstream so you can better see what's coming at you. But as you crawl life's ductworks, face downwind and keep your mouth shut lest you suck in dust-bunnies.
#NaturalPhilosophy #Strife and
Elmo’s X Account Briefly Hacked, Posts Obscene Messages (AP News, 13 July 2025)
#MediaLit
Loving my new compression socks - they help with my #longCovid induced #POTS - so wanted to give a shout out to Hannah from Not Your Grandma's for creating such wonderful garments
(she's also struggling to keep the shop afloat so hoping to support a small UK business)
One of the RV dwellers Lurie plans to displace is a staffer helping Joel Engardio fight his recall. #sfPol
https://sfstandard.com/2025/07/11/l…
Thread on today's 'red line' demonstration in The Hague. It's called the International city of peace and justice, but our government there has been extremely reluctant to criticize Israel for the genocide it is committing in Gaza. Let alone to take action: long overdue!
https://mastod…
On Saturday I met Freddie greyhound, Mandy greyhound's nephew¹. Mandy passed away in 2021.
Coincidentally both homed by WGW and Freddie now lives a few miles from where Mandy lived her pet life. His human knows Mandy's humans well.
Considering the rather small greyhound gene pool this is not unusual. Mandy's sire has had over 5,000 offspring so far.
#Greyhounds
python_dependency: Python Dependency Network
Python's package dependency networks. Nodes in the network are Python's packages registered to PyPI and edges are dependencies among packages.
This network has 58743 nodes and 108399 edges.
Tags: Technological, Software, Unweighted
https://networks.sk…
🌌 The World’s Largest Camera Captures 10 Million Galaxies, Discovers 2,104 Asteroids in First Photos
https://petapixel.com/2025/06/23/the-worlds-largest-camera-captures-10-million-galaxies-discovers-2104-astero…
Trump's 'severe tariffs' on Russia probably won't work, experts say: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/15/trumps-severe-tariffs-on-russia.html
Eagles OT Lane Johnson believes he's still improving at 35: 'I'm getting close to maybe my peak' https://www.nfl.com/news/eagles-ot-lane-johnson-believes-he-s-still-improving-at-35-i-m-getting-close-t…
He'll keep it up until Americans won't be allowed to travel.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-administration-weighs-adding-36-countries-travel-ban-memo-says-2025-06-15/
Cloudflare starts blocking access to pirate sites in the UK; previously, blocking was almost entirely done by local ISPs (Andy Maxwell/TorrentFreak)
https://torrentfreak.com/cloudflare-starts-blocking-pirate-sites-for-uk-users-tha…
Trump's ultimatum on Ukraine war: Kremlin weighs response as tensions rise: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/15/trumps-ultimatum-on-ukraine-war.html
Q&A with BBC Commercial CEO Tom Fussell on the company's record revenue, BritBox's international growth, BBC's paywall in the US, YouTube, and more (Georg Szalai/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business
Well, this day is off to a shitty start. It appears that some magat militia moron is trying to kill DFL legislators in Minnesota.
https://www.startribune.com/brooklyn-park-police-searching-for-suspect-in-multiple-targ…
U.S. Inflation Accelerated in June as Trump's Tariffs Pushed Up Prices (Colby Smith/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/business/cpi-report-inflation-june.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250715/p34#a250715p34
Jaguars' Trevor Lawrence praises Travis Hunter's work ethic: 'One of the hardest-working guys we have' https://www.nfl.com/news/jaguars-trevor-lawrence-praises-travis-hunter-s-work-ethic-one-of-the-hardest-…
Suddenly the political outlook looks very grim in Spain as the majority coalition party, Sšnchez's PSOE is mired in a corruption scandal.
Sšnchez himself not implicated but his judgement in appointing ministers is.
Minority parties could withdraw.
Election not due til 2027 but how long can he hold on?
Alliance of post Franco PP and neofascist Vox is the nightmare scenario.
El día en que colapsó la legislatura
University of Edinburgh School of Political Science graduates stage mass walk out at graduation ceremony to protest university’s complicity in Israel’s genocide of the Palestinian people.
https://www.reddit.com/r/AlJazeera/s/G9teVzIYZJ
How Benchmark's investment in Chinese startup Manus has highlighted a philosophical divide in Silicon Valley over China, patriotism, and the pursuit of profit (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-07-1…
On Saturday I met Freddie greyhound, Mandy greyhound's nephew¹. Mandy passed away in 2021.
Coincidentally both homed by WGW and Freddie now lives a few miles from where Mandy lived her pet life. His human knows Mandy's humans well.
Considering the rather small greyhound gene pool this is not unusual. Mandy's sire has had over 5,000 offspring so far.
#Greyhounds
Today's main news on nu.nl: how Dutch holiday makers can save €20 by refueling their car in the country with the lowest gasoline price... https://www.nu.nl/economie/6362496/omrijden-voor-een-tankbeurt-op-vakantie-loont-dit-jaa…
Putin's negotiator calls for 'constructive dialogue' as Trump shifts stance on Ukraine: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/14/putins-negotiator-calls-for-constructive.html
China's Economy Grows Steadily Despite Trump's Tariffs (Keith Bradsher/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/14/business/china-economy-gdp-q2.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250715/p35#a250715p35
NFL's top 10 defenses in 2025? Broncos edge out Eagles and Ravens for No. 1 spot; Patriots will rise https://www.nfl.com/news/nfl-s-top-10-defenses-in-2025-broncos-edge-out-eagles-and-ravens-for-no-1-spot-patriots-will-…
Jensen Huang says Chinese military is unlikely to use Nvidia's AI chips, citing the risk of the chips being "limited at any time" due to US export restrictions (Ian King/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
Sen. Jon Ossoff speaks about the Republican tax cuts for billionaires. Democrats will be running against Trump's Big Bad Bill.
#savannah
A four-day US military drone exercise in Alaska exposed significant technological and operational gaps compared to Chinese and Russian drone capabilities (Farah Stockman/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/13/business/drones-us-military-manu…
Trump says he's 'disappointed but not done' with Putin: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/15/trump-says-hes-disappointed-but.html
Commanders to retire Hall of Fame WR Art Monk's No. 81 during 2025 season https://www.nfl.com/news/commanders-to-retire-hall-of-fame-wr-art-monk-s-no-81-during-2025-season
Trump Piles Fresh Sanctions on Cuba's Flailing Tourism Industry (Jim Wyss/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-07-14/trump-piles-fresh-sanctions-on-cuba-s-flailing-tourism-industry
http://www.memeorandum.com/250714/p110#a250714p110
Kremlin calls Trump's tariff warnings 'quite serious': https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/15/kremlin-calls-trumps-tariff-warnings.html
Steelers RB Jaylen Warren has 'no doubt' he can shoulder larger workload: 'That's the way I'm training' https://www.nfl.com/news/steelers-rb-jaylen-warren-has-no-doubt-he-can-shoulder-lar…
Foreign journalists in the U.S. are self-censoring to protect themselves from the Trump administration (Angela Fu/Poynter)
https://www.poynter.org/reporting-editing/2025/foreign-journalists-in-the-u-s-are-self-censoring-to-protect-themselves-from-the-trump-administration/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250714/p144#a250714p144
'Russia doesn't care' — Trump's 50-day Ukraine ceasefire deadline dismissed by Moscow pundits: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/15/russia-doesnt-care-trumps-day.html
Cowboys first-year HC Brian Schottenheimer on his late father, Marty: 'I know he's proud; I miss him like crazy' https://www.nfl.com/news/cowboys-first-year-hc-brian-schottenheimer-on-his-la…
The least believable part of the new Superman movie wasn't the flying Kryptonian. It was public opinion changing because of a single newspaper story when an army of mutant monkeys were shitposting on Lex Luthor's behalf.
A look at SpaceX's investment and Tesla's potential cash infusion in xAI and the idea that investing in Tesla is betting on the "Musk Mars Conglomerate" (Matt Levine/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/newsletters/2025-07-…
Ancient miasma theory may help explain Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s vaccine moves (Rob Stein/NPR)
https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/06/14/nx-s1-5429732/ancient-miasma-theory-may-help-explain-health-secretary-robert-f-kennedy-jr-s-vaccine-moves
http://www.memeorandum.com/250614/p72#a250614p72
Chargers LB Daiyan Henley determined to build on breakout year: ‘There’s so much more for me’ https://www.nfl.com/news/chargers-lb-daiyan-henley-determined-to-build-on-breakout-year-there-s-so-much-more-for-me
Anthropic now uses Canva's MCP server, letting Canva users manage designs via Claude's UI, following similar integrations with Figma, Notion, Stripe, and Prisma (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/706637/canva-anthropic-claude-ai-mcp-s…
Trump has stricken Truth and Justice from the American Way.
A depraved criminal with a masked police force is trying to rule the United States by edict.
Ukraine's new Liut ground drone 'destroys' Russian position with machine gun, HUR claims in new video: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/14/ukraines-new-liut-ground-drone.html
Fixing the Bears defense: Three things we know about Dennis Allen's plan https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45715254/nfl-chicago-bears-dennis-allen-defense-montez-sweat
CSET researchers: China's SMEE has only a 4% market share in older-generation chip lithography, far below ASML and Nikon, a "chokepoint" for China's chip plans (Debby Wu/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
My sister was on Medicaid, tethered to an oxygen concentrator, shuffling around with the help of a rollator for several years before she died. Trump would have made it happen faster, had she not beat him to it.
Ukraine's parliament set to dismiss government on July 16 amid cabinet reshuffle: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/15/ukraines-parliament-set-to-dismiss.html
Predicting NFL All-Pros at every offensive position: What they look like, where they're picked and who's next
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/pr…
A look at 10 AI agent startups from YC's first-ever spring Demo Day; the batch included 144 companies, 70 of which focused on agentic AI (Samantha Stokes/Business Insider)
https://africa.businessinsider.com/new
Keith Kellogg in Kyiv: the U.S. is preparing a new defense deal with Ukraine!: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/14/keith-kellogg-in-kyiv-the.html
Sources: the US DOJ is reviewing whether Google's planned $32B acquisition of cybersecurity company Wiz would illegally limit competition in the market (Josh Sisco/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
Kyiv court releases Ukraine's top anti-corruption activist on recognizance as his lawyer dismisses the charges: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/15/kyiv-court-releases-ukraines-top.html
Orban urges EU action over Ukraine's conscription practices: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/15/orban-urges-eu-action-over.html
Austin-based Autonomize AI, which develops AI agents for automating administrative workflows in healthcare and life sciences, raised a $28M Series A (Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/health-tech-deals/2025/06/12/autonomize-ai-raise…
Belarus shoots down Russian drone, Ukraine's HUR claims: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/14/belarus-shoots-down-russian-drone.html
Ukrainian Security Forces foil Russian intel's terror plots, arrest two agents: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/14/ukrainian-security-forces-foil-russian.html
Ukraine remains itself through the ages! Zelensky's greetings on the occasion of the Statehood Day: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/15/ukraine-remains-itself-through-the.html