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Ah fuck, people are using LLMs for kernel code. They really are going to fuck over everything, aren't they?
https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1026558/9f3079fb392c4a9a/

I also noticed what @… noticed: the Minneapolis police — Minneapolis!! — having to warn citizens about another law enforcement agency who are even more dangerous and less accountable than they are. https://hachyderm.io/@rationaldoge/114752072701388506

We have to talk about burning trash🗑️🔥
Waste incinerators / waste-to-energy plants that generate electricity and heat are an enormous and often underestimated source of CO2 🏭💨🌎. For example, in Germany, a country where waste-to-energy plants are common, their emissions are higher than those of cement.
Waste incinerator operators will often claim that half of their emissions don't count 🌿 or even that they already have net-negative emissions 🌎. I disagree with both 🧵

Just Stop Burning Trash
Waste-to-energy plants are a massive source of carbon dioxide emissions. Yet, it is not obvious what the best solution for high-emitting incinerators would be. Should incinerators be equiped with carbon capture? How much can recycling rates be improved, and what role should chemical recycling play? And could landfills be a carbon storage solution?

Ein letztes #FotoDerWoche von meiner österlichen Italienreise - hier ein Abstecher von Florenz ans Mittelmeer bei Livorno.
https://blog.till-westermayer.de/index

Photo of the week: Livorno, port area - XI
Ein letztes Foto von der Florenz-Reise, aber eben nicht aus Florenz, sondern aus Livorno. Die Hafenstadt liegt etwas siebzig Kilometer westlich von Florenz. Nachdem ich auf einer Karte gesehen hatte, dass das Mittelmeer gar nicht so weit entfernt ist, habe ich kurzentschlossen einen nachmittäglichen

The King's Lodge
(Not all kings built hunting lodges, even fewer built them on precipices like these, but some of Bavaria's last ones did and not just in one place... Not endorsing kings in any form, just admiring their choice of locations.... btw. the picture only shows the top half of the drop)
#MountainMonday

Testifying before Congress, Kari Lake said reform at USAGM "was not possible" but the CEOs of RFE/RL, RFA and MBN said she had not met with them even once (Scott Nover/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/media/2025/06…

At committee hearing, Kari Lake defends dismantling VOA
Trump’s senior adviser to USAGM said that she’s rooting out waste and abuse. Democrats railed against her for weakening America’s soft power abroad.

Trump's budget bill — the one and only major legislative effort of Trump 2.0 — is the most regressive, least populist policy package in living memory.
With its distinctive mix of tax cuts laser-focused on the rich and spending cuts that most hurt middle- and low-income Americans,
it would shift more resources up the income ladder than any bill passed since scorekeepers started keeping track.
And when voters learn what it would do — even Republican voters — they recoil…

Opinion | The Four Ugliest Points About the Big Beautiful Bill
It is wildly regressive. And when voters learn what it does — even Republican voters — they recoil against it.

Visited the old soviet radio telescope again and got a guided tour.
Fantastic tour guy even turned the 32 meter one around for us and we got to walk on the inside of a 16m dish.

Mein Rückblick auf Winter des Wolfes ist online.
https://indie7g.wordpress.com/2025/04/25/winter-des-wolfes/
Bei Schlachten, Belagerungen etc. finde ich den Wechsel zwischen Mikro- und Makro-Ebene im Tischrollenspiel nicht immer einfach.
Wie seid ihr die Schlachten in der Kampagne angegangen?
Mein Vorgehen: Drei Listen: freundliche Einheiten, feindliche Einheiten, Orte. Alle Mitspielenden wählen aus jeder Liste und gestalten so eine Szene in der ihre Figur im Spotlight stehen kann, so wie sie es sich wünschen. Diese wird mit einem Würfelwurf, nicht mehr, aufgelöst. So kommt die Dramaturgie der Schlacht in Bewegung, die Helden sind an den Brennpunkten und es sollte für jeden Geschmack etwas dabei sein.

The woman who could impede RFK Jr.’s anti-vaccine agenda
The public would be better-off with a serious person such as Susan Monarez at the CDC’s helm.

The Senate should confirm her, and fast.
Monarez, meanwhile, needs to recognize the burden she is accepting.
Being CDC director is not an easy job, even in less contentious times.
Having to report to Kennedy makes it incalculably harder.
Lives will depend on whether Monarez resists Kennedy’s efforts to …

The woman who could impede RFK Jr.’s anti-vaccine agenda
Susan Monarez deserves to be confirmed as CDC director.