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Cards on deck: Trump keeps stack of orders ready to play as needed
Throughout Trump’s second term, White House staff have maintained a stash of executive orders and proclamations they can deploy
depending on the themes of the moment and the narratives they want to shape,
a senior White House official said, speaking on the condition of anonymity to talk frankly about internal strategies.

Some orders are put into the calendar well in advance, the official said.
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Cards in deck: Trump keeps stack of orders ready to play as needed
Trump has a large stack of executive orders prepared and ready — some written before he took office — that he can release whenever the mood strikes.

Millions of public euros subsidize bullfighting through regional televisions https://www.animanaturalis.org/n/46882?utm_source=Mastodon
Madrid raises its voice against bullfighting and for a cruelty-free culture

Millions of public euros subsidize bullfighting through regional televisions
We reveal the hidden cost of public funding for bullfighting broadcasts on Spain’s regional television channels, which has increased in recent years, especially in those Autonomous Communities governed by the Partido Popular and VOX.

Hello, won't you tell me your name?: Investigating Anonymity Abuse in IPFS
Christos Karapapas, Iakovos Pittaras, George C. Polyzos, Constantinos Patsakis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04307

Hello, won't you tell me your name?: Investigating Anonymity Abuse in IPFS
The InterPlanetary File System~(IPFS) offers a decentralized approach to file storage and sharing, promising resilience and efficiency while also realizing the Web3 paradigm. Simultaneously, the offered anonymity raises significant questions about potential misuse. In this study, we explore methods that malicious actors can exploit IPFS to upload and disseminate harmful content while remaining anonymous. We evaluate the role of pinning services and public gateways, identifying their capabilitie…

Attention les yeux ! Première analyse "en direct" d'une solution "en double anonymat" qui fait sa pub sur Linkedin, pour vérifier l'age des personnes accédant Š un site pornographique : AnonymAge !
On rappelle que le double anonymat, c'est que le site porno n'apprend pas l'identité de l'utilisateurice et l'application de vérification n'apprend pas le site visité.
Deuxième étape de la vérification : on prend son téléphone, on lan…

In 2018, an #anonymous Trump administration official delivered a stark warning about the threat he said the president posed with his erratic behavior.
The author was later revealed to be #Miles #Taylor.
When Trump returned…

Miles Taylor fights Trump’s order targeting him, calling it ‘an attack on free speech’
In 2018, an anonymous Trump administration official delivered a stark warning about the threat he said the president posed with his erratic behavior. The author was later revealed to be Miles Taylor. When Trump returned to office, he claimed Taylor’s actions could be treasonous and ordered DHS and other agencies to launch an investigation. Taylor joined Amna Nawaz to discuss his legal response.

Rethinking Contrastive Learning in Session-based Recommendation
Xiaokun Zhang, Bo Xu, Fenglong Ma, Zhizheng Wang, Liang Yang, Hongfei Lin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05044

Rethinking Contrastive Learning in Session-based Recommendation
Session-based recommendation aims to predict intents of anonymous users based on limited behaviors. With the ability in alleviating data sparsity, contrastive learning is prevailing in the task. However, we spot that existing contrastive learning based methods still suffer from three obstacles: (1) they overlook item-level sparsity and primarily focus on session-level sparsity; (2) they typically augment sessions using item IDs like crop, mask and reorder, failing to ensure the semantic consist…

Researchers detail a technique Meta uses to glean some of its logged-in users' browsing histories from Chromium-based browsers on Android via web identifiers (Dan Goodin/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/06/headline-to-come/

Meta and Yandex are de-anonymizing Android users’ web browsing identifiers
Abuse allows Meta and Yandex to attach persistent identifiers to detailed browsing histories.

Demand that the European Union does not leave millions of dogs and cats unprotected against illegal breeding! #AnimalRights

Demand that the European Union does not leave millions of dogs and cats unprotected against illegal breeding!
While MEPs prepare to vote on a groundbreaking regulation on the welfare of dogs and cats, animal welfare organizations warn: the proposed exemptions could leave millions of animals unprotected.

As we say here in Massachusetts - "shockah"
https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/06/meta-and-yandex-are-de-anonymizing-android-users-web-browsing-identifiers/

Meta and Yandex are de-anonymizing Android users’ web browsing identifiers
Abuse allows Meta and Yandex to attach persistent identifiers to detailed browsing histories.

In the spring and summer of 2008, when Donald Trump was still a registered Democrat,
an anonymous blogger known as Mencius Moldbug posted a serial manifesto under the heading
“An Open Letter to Open-Minded Progressives.”
Written with the sneering disaffection of an ex-believer,
the hundred-and-twenty-thousand-word letter argued that egalitarianism,
far from improving the world,
was actually responsible for most of its ills.
That his bien-pensant re…

Curtis Yarvin’s Plot Against America
A Profile of Curtis Yarvin, the right-wing thinker behind the Substack “Gray Mirror,” who has been embraced by J. D. Vance, Marc Andreessen, Peter Thiel, and other supporters of Donald Trump. Ava Kofman reports.