Meta says it has taken down around 10M Facebook profiles so far this year that were impersonating or repeatedly reusing content from large content producers (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/14/following-youtu…
❝Police on horseback charged at the crowd, striking some with wood rods and batons as they cleared the street in front of the federal building. Officers then fired teargas and crowd control projectiles at the large group, sending demonstrators, hotdog vendors and passing pedestrians fleeing through the street. Some have since regrouped, ignoring an LAPD dispersal order.
‘It was a total 100% over-reaction. We weren’t doing anything but standing around chanting peaceful protest,’ said Samantha Edgerton, a 37-year-old bartender.”❞
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2025/jun/14/trump-birthday-military-parade-no-kings-protest-live-updates?page=with:block-684e0b918f08be826d571aa2#block-684e0b918f08be826d571aa2
Former Wagner fighter seeks asylum in Finland after fleeing across Russian border, media reports: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/12/former-wagner-fighter-seeks-asylum.html
This is a perfect use of robots.
https://news.mit.edu/2025/eldercare-robot-helps-people-sit-stand-catches-them-fall-0513
Be Kind
Human kindness is amazing!
#kindness
Soon, I’ll be throwing away all my desktop computers as well, though I’m keeping my Lenovo Thinkpad around. I hate computers, yet I use them.
To me, computers are just junk nobody asked for. They’re glowing traps that keep us hooked, scrolling and clicking away our time for endless feeds. No matter the OS or hardware, it’s all distraction from reality.
Yes, Linux can free us and all that, and even the hardware can be part of that freedom. But the computers themselves remain a cir…
One of those days.
tw depression
https://evemassacre.de/blog/2025/05/12/one-of-those-days/
On the origin of the E1 electron trap level in GaN and dilute AlxGa1-xN films
Piotr Kruszewski, Jose Coutinho, Vladimir P. Markevich, Pawel Prystawko, Lijie Sun, Jerzy Plesiewicz, Chris A. Dawe, Matthew P. Halsall, Anthony R. Peaker
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10566
H-Net Job Guide Weekly Report for H-Histsex: 23 June - 30 June
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REPOSTING: Lecture by Wiebke Denecke (MIT) on ‘How Can We Leverage Our Cultural Wiring Around Nature…
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Russia: 1,000 civilians missing after Ukrainian withdrawal from Kursk region: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/12/russia-civilians-missing-after-ukrainian.html