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Check out my latest CSO piece, which examines how Trump’s nominees for national cyber director and CISA director will face shared challenges but different prospects in coping with unprecedented reductions in cyber personnel across the federal government.
Many thanks to Michael Daniel of the Cyber Threat Alliance and Mark Montgomery of FDD for their help and insight.
Daniel made a point about Trump's cutbacks on cyber spending, a situation that most cyber folks haven't see…

Top US cyber officials face divergent paths after Senate confirmation
Following their Senate confirmations, Sean Cairncross and Sean Plankey — Trump’s nominees for national cyber director and CISA director — will face shared challenges but different prospects in coping with unprecedented reductions in cyber personnel across the federal government.

The number of Americans filing for jobless benefits last week rises to highest level in eight months (Matt Ott/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/unemployment-benefits-jobless-claims-layoffs-labor-795ec07804ed3f35eb702af27c4983d0
http://www.memeorandum.com/250605/p53#a250605p53

I've been following the #Meshtastic and #meshnetwork hashtags for a few months now. Cool article came out in Wired

Dublin-based cross-border payment startup NomuPay raised a $40M Series C at a $290M valuation, following a $37M Series B at a $200M valuation in January 2025 (Kate Park/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025…

Irish fintech NomuPay lands $40M at a $290M valuation from SoftBank | TechCrunch
As global trade evolves, there's an increasing demand for diverse cross-border payment options. That's why an Irish-based fintech startup called NomuPay

In a few minutes I have an online meeting with someone called "Patrick", and my head keeps telling me to start the call with "Is this the Krusty Krab?"
#intrusivethoughts

The Trump administration deported a 31-year-old Salvadoran man minutes after a federal appeals court barred his removal while his case proceeded, the government admitted in a court filing this week.
In its filing, the government denied that it had violated the order from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, in New York, instead blaming “a confluence of administrative errors.”
The government had previously given the court what the judges called “express assurance” that…

Trump Officials Deported Another Man Despite Court Order
A federal appeals panel ordered officials not to deport a 31-year-old to El Salvador. Minutes later, it happened anyway. The government blamed “administrative errors.”

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.21059 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mat…

A remark on the number of automorphisms of some algebraic structures
In these notes we look at the following question. Given a category $\mathcal C$ of algebraic structure (e.g. the category of groups, monoids, partial groups, ...) and a rational $r\in \mathbb Q$, does there exists an element $x\in \mathcal C$ such that the size of its automorphism group $\text{Aut}_{\mathcal C} (x)$ divided by the size of $x$ (whatever that would means) is equal to $r$\,? To our knowledge, this question was introduced by Tărnăuceanu in the category of groups. Here, we answer …

Court filing: Paramount and Trump ask a judge to stay their 60 Minutes lawsuit until Thursday as they are in "good faith, advanced, settlement negotiations" (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/p

It's less than 6 months to Xmas, you might as well vote for the Lego Idea
"National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation - Griswold House"
https://beta.ideas.lego.com/product-ideas/4e51e9fe-f325-4ae6-a835-45cac06da106
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National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation - Griswold House | LEGO® Ideas
Are you serious Clark? - It’s the gift that keeps on giving the whole year! LEGO is the world’s most iconic toy and National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation is on…

Filing: CBS calls Trump's 60 Minutes lawsuit against the network "meritless" and an attempt to "evade bedrock First Amendment principles" (Ted Johnson/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/06/trump-60-minutes-lawsuit-cbs-4-1236440025/

CBS Calls Donald Trump’s Lawsuit A “Meritless” Attempt To “Evade Bedrock First Amendment Principles” In Latest Filing In ’60 Minutes’ Case
The network made its latest filing in the president's lawsuit over "60 Minutes"