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Ireland’s basic income for artists
has been made permanent
after research showed that it boosted the economy.
Other nations have similar schemes.
With more homegrown artists now coming from privileged backgrounds
and AI disrupting the creative industries,
there are calls for the UK to follow suit

‘Imagination and creation are products of time and space’
Artists help power the economy and enrich society, yet many struggle to make ends meet. Ireland's pioneering income scheme aims to change that - and is fuelling debate about whether the UK should follow.

Sources say Anthropic struggles to communicate effectively with the Trump administration; an official says it "screwed us" after failing to "honor" a cyber EO (Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/06/15/anthropic-white-house-fable-mythos

"They screwed us": Personality clashes sent Anthropic's models offline
Governing the world's most consequential technology is coming down to speaking President Trump's language.

Coming back to a code base and finding the following class `SchwererGustav ` implementing the `Cannon` contract as an event dispatcher...

In her introduction to an event on climate communication, initiator Mare de Wit quoted a man in the movie La Haine.
While falling from a tall building, he kept saying "Jusqu'ici, tout va bien."
So far, so good. A metaphor for climate change, for those of us who weren't hit hard by it yet.

Court filing: Google says it is ready to add third-party app stores in Google Play in the US on July 22, as Google and Epic withdraw their joint motion (Sean Hollister/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/policy/965792/google-ep…

Google and Epic give up fighting — third-party Android app stores are coming next week
Epic Games and Google have just jointly withdrawn their attempt to retroactively settle the lawsuit changing how Android app stores work in the United States.

The people in the trenches at Apple are likable, normal people doing great work and coming across as genuine in the video but the C-suite is trying to be funny and completely failing

Interesting to compare the author Neal Stephenson's profiles on X/twitter vs. Bluesky.
He has 89,4 K followers on X, where he still posts, but just under 10 K on Bluesky, where he doesn't post at all.
He has many fans on the fediverse who discuss his books, but he is not here.

I would go as far as to say maybe just don't retweet Elon Musk at all,
but what do I know?
I'm not the vice president of communications for the Milwaukee Brewers.
Tyler Barnes is, and on Tuesday he popped onto Twitter after a two-year hiatus to weigh in on British politics
by retweeting Elon Musk's white genocide propaganda.

Why Did The Brewers' VP Of Communications Retweet This Racist Crap? | Defector
With the Milwaukee Brewers sitting comfortably at the top of the NL Central, you might think that it’s an easy time to be their vice president of communications. Post the Jake Bauers highlight reel, oversee some decent memes featuring Bernie Brewer, and let the good vibes keep on flowing. All you have to do is…

Analysis: Meta removed code for an unreleased face-recognition system in the Meta AI app for its smart glasses, following a report on the code's existence (Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/meta-removes-face-recognition-code-meta-ai-app-smart-gl…

Meta Deletes Face-Recognition System From Its Smart Glasses App After WIRED Report
The code WIRED identified is gone from the latest version of Meta AI, the companion app for the company’s smart glasses. Meta won’t say why or whether it’s coming back.

Unimaginable that any FBI Director is as shameless as Kash Patel
as well as incompetent and greedy.

Equally unimaginable are the Senators who confirmed his appointment.
https://bsky.app/profile/macfarlanenews.bsky.social/post/3mqa5ma2h5c2u…

Scott MacFarlane (@macfarlanenews.bsky.social)
NEW: DC judge orders FBI to respond by July 30 to a lawsuit by watchdog group Democracy Forward, which seeks records/communications from Kash Patel's security team including the following terms: Alcohol Asleep Drunk Drinking Hungover Inebriated Intoxicated et al