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"It starts, specifically, with the sight of working class people being used as weapons against themselves. Not by accident, not through some failure of communication or lack of the right messaging, but deliberately and with considerable skill" -- @… writing very much what I'm feeling today.
Worth a read.

I Am Exhausted. And I’m Not Looking Away.
On working class exhaustion, solidarity, and the choice we cannot avoid

I feel sorry for the time traveler coming here from the 20th century, seeing claims of teleportation in the (US) headlines, and discovering that we didn't _actually_ figure out teleportation - it's just one of our whackjob leaders spouting off.
No flying cars, either. Sorry mate.

America's 250 th anniversary coincides with sweeping rollbacks of civil rights,
deteriorating relations with traditional allies
and growing domestic opposition to the administration’s handling of immigration and free speech.
Against this backdrop, many Americans say they feel increasingly cynical about the country’s future.
For Laurie King, a Georgetown University anthropology professor in Washington DC, anxiety defines the moment.
“I’m very anxious.
T…

‘The wheels are coming off’: readers reflect on the 250th anniversary of the American experiment
Against a backdrop of sweeping rollbacks of civil rights and deteriorating relations with allies, many are feeling cynical

Fucking around with a Sony A7S that was loaned to me ages ago. I'm finally at the point with the work that I do where I'm feeling the need to be able to run a camera myself, even if it's just to clearly communicate with people I work with.
It has a Sony FE 1.8/50 lens, that's all I've got to work with 😂
#photography

I am already starting to feel the winds of the enshitifaction with the AI providers. For someone who is deeply embedded with AI for coding and every day operational needs this is slowly bubbling up to the top of mind. It's your typical tech company story arc: a very generous and cheap functionality to get you sucked in and then they suddenly start tightening the noose. Be it the strength of the model or usage credits but I am feeling it. It's coming.

Servers operated by Ubuntu and its parent company Canonical have been down for more than a day, following a "sustained, cross-border attack" (Dan Goodin/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/05/ubuntu-infrastructure-ha…

Ubuntu infrastructure has been down for more than a day
The outage has hampered communication concerning a critical vulnerability that gives root.

The US House Judiciary Committee is coming down hard on the S. Korean government for its actions against online retailer Coupang following a massive breach.
New Report Exposes South Korea's Discriminatory Attacks on American-owned Businesses
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New Report Exposes South Korea's Discriminatory Attacks on American-owned Businesses
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the House Judiciary Committee released an interim staff report titled, "Closed for Competition: South Korea's Discriminatory Attacks on American-owned Businesses." The report details South Korea's history of discriminatory treatment against American-owned businesses and the ways in which it has escalated over the past sever

Donald Trump raked in more than
$1billion from his crypto businesses last year, a federal filing released Monday shows,
giving a substantial boost to his annual income.
In his second term, Trump and his family have heavily invested in digital money and various crypto businesses
with Trump announcing at the start of 2025 that he wanted the US to be the “crypto capital of the world”.
Trump’s crypto earnings are in addition to profit from his legal settlements, real…

Alarm bells over conflict of interest as filing shows Trump raked in $2bn in 2025
Crypto ventures eclipse much of property portfolio, with revenue also coming from Trump-branded products

Anthropic says it expects Mythos-class models to be available to all customers "in the coming weeks" following the development of stronger safeguards (Madison Mills/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/05/28/anthropic-opus-release-mythos

Anthropic releases new model, Opus 4.8
A Mythos-class model is expected in the coming weeks.