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Tip for #FlyingLess as a family: prepare for long train rides with board card games. The #privacy friendly app games by @… are absolutely brilliant, easy to use, stable not stealing your data (or trying to sell your kids stuff).
(Edited to give right masto account: top work, thanks Secuso🙏 for the hours of fun your sudoku app has provided already).
https://secuso.aifb.kit.edu/english/105.php

Bernie Sanders warned of the US’s slide into authoritarianism
following Donald Trump’s decision to deploy the national guard to Los Angeles over the city’s protests against federal immigration raids.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/j…

Pretty shocking 18 minutes Lawrence O'Donnell about the emptyness of Trump and the results.
Lawrence O'Donnell: What you're feeling is the banality of cruelty from Trump and the Republican Party
https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinio

A good news story about the great gender preference divide.
After years of declining sex ratios that saw increases in female infanticide and missing girls, it seems there's a change.
'Globally, among babies born in 2000, a staggering 1.6m girls were missing from the number you would expect, given the natural sex ratio at birth. This year that number is likely to be 200,000—and it is still falling.'
Beautiful hope.

The stunning decline of the preference for having boys
Millions of girls were aborted for being girls. Now parents often lean towards them

Sign the petition: Save Our Swifts. Swifts alone have lost more than half their population in just 20 years. A big help would be to incorporate a “swift brick” that gives these birds a place to nest in all new houses. #Swifts
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Sign the petition: Save Our Swifts
Swifts have lost more than half their population in 20 years. A simple £35 brick in new builds could help save them. Labour used to support this – now they’re planning to backtrack. Sign the petition now to show them the public still backs this nature-friendly fix:

On Friday, Trump’s border czar,
Tom Homan, said he plans to send the National Guard to Los Angeles
to combat protests against ICE that began this weekend following immigration raids in the city.
“We are making Los Angeles safer. Mayor Bass should be thanking us. She says they are going to mobilize—guess what?
We are already mobilizing.
We are going to bring the National Guard in tonight,”
Homan told Fox News.
California Governor Gavin Newsom respo…

LA protests live: National Guard to arrive within 24 hours after being deployed by Trump over immigration demos
Demonstrators clash with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials in hours-long stand-off

More Belgian (Flemish?) households with solar panels, batteries or electric vehicles will be able to benefit from the flexibility they can offer the energy system as energy retailers Bolt and Trevion collaborate with VPP operator Powernaut.
https://powernaut.io/press/powernaut-a

Powernaut, Bolt, Trevion and Partners launch Belgium’s first energy contracts that pay consumers for grid support - Powernaut
Using Powernaut’s smart software, households with solar panels, home batteries, or EVs can now earn money by allowing their energy retailer to manage their devices intelligently. For example, devices may charge or reduce output during peak times to avoid grid overload. Retailers like Bolt and Trevion are offering these new contracts, allowing customers to benefit financially without sacrificing comfort. Partners such as Qbus and Innovoltus support the initiative, which is seen as a key step …

Vietnam ends two-child policy as birth rate hits record low | The Straits Times
https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/vietnam-ends-two-child-policy-to-stem-falling-birth-rates

#Redis Returns to #OpenSource under #AGPL License: Is It Too Late?

VChatter: Exploring Generative Conversational Agents for Simulating Exposure Therapy to Reduce Social Anxiety
Han Zhang, KaWing Tsang, Zhenhui Peng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.03520

VChatter: Exploring Generative Conversational Agents for Simulating Exposure Therapy to Reduce Social Anxiety
Many people struggle with social anxiety, feeling fear, or even physically uncomfortable in social situations like talking to strangers. Exposure therapy, a clinical method that gradually and repeatedly exposes individuals to the source of their fear and helps them build coping mechanisms, can reduce social anxiety but traditionally requires human therapists' guidance and constructions of situations. In this paper, we developed a multi-agent system VChatter to explore large language models(LLMs…