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The Newsom administration is suing five more California cities
— Calexico, Costa Mesa, Half Moon Bay, Ridgecrest and Turlock — for failing to complete state-mandated housing plans, known as the “housing element.”

Huntington Beach was the first city to face such a legal action, and it recently finalized its housing element plans following a court-order and massive fines.
The law, which has been in place since 1969, requires cities and counties every eight years to d…

Newsom continues crackdown on cities over housing plan requirements. 'No city gets a pass,' governor says
Gov. Gavin Newsom and California Atty. Gen. Rob Bonta filed legal actions this week against five small cities that they say are failing to meet benchmarks required for housing planning.

Which Cowboys Draft Class Will Make the Biggest Impact in 2026? https://insidethestar.com/which-cowboys-draft-class-will-make-the-biggest-impact-in-2026

NFL sees Wednesday play as 'only good' for fans https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/48779217/nfl-says-following-fan-interest-midweek-games

Raiders Fans Make Feelings Abundantly Clear on Franchise Rebuild https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-fans-make-feelings-abundantly-clear-franchise-rebuild

Filing: OnlyFans owner Leonid Radvinsky's wife assumed significant control of OnlyFans holding company Fenix in March following the death of Radvinsky (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-05-07/onlyfan…

OnlyFans Owner’s Wife Takes Control of Business After His Death
Leonid Radvinsky’s widow has surfaced as a beneficiary of the business empire behind adult-content platform OnlyFans, the latest example of “sideways” inheritances through rich individuals passing wealth to their spouses.

New Ofcom proposals would fine social media platforms and search engines up to £18M or 10% of global revenue for failing to take action to stamp out scam ads (Anna Wise/The Independent)
https://www.the-independent.com/tech/ofcom-meta-european-…

Tech firms must ‘stamp out’ scam adverts or face fines, under Ofcom proposals
Firms could face fines of up to £18 million or 10% of global revenue, whichever is greater, once the new rules come into effect.

It's summer holiday time and we're back on the train, this time in 5 changes from Copenhagen to Amsterdam via Hamburg - so far (🤞) mostly on time. I'm astonished too. So let's try not to curse it.
I had planned board games, reading books, having a picnic and photo sorting for this trip. But work is unfinished and since leaving at 6am I've managed to finish two reports, clear some emails and now it's time to look at budgets.
Annoying to work on holiday but everyone else is on a screen too and at least this way I can catch up.
#LifeOfAscientist #FlyingLess

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.

A US judge cancels a Mississippi trial and disqualifies and fines lawyers on both sides after finding their filings were filled with hallucinated case citations (Jason Koebler/404 Media)
https://www.404media.co/judge-learns-lawye

Judge Learns Lawyers on Both Sides of Case Used AI, Cancels Trial, Kicks Everyone Off the Case
When two AIs argue against each other, the legal system loses.

Two observations:
- WiFi is notably slower over the German border
- Cloud storage and working in the cloud is a pain.
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