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Slovakia hints it won't block 18th sanctions package following EU assurances: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/15/slovakia-hints-it-wont-block.html

1/2 Thanks to @… for this interesting article. It speaks to me. :)
I’ve been weather blogging @… since 2005. It is interesting how it has changed, and how I have changed.
My website used to be just data from the (expensive) station I bought when I moved back to Port Alberni. It was a hobby and a side project to practice web/coding skills I use at work. My focus was on creating useful data for people that was more local/relevant than the official EC station outside of the city.
Then I put up a webcam and learned how to make timelapses. This got the attention of local media… because pictures. :)
Then I added a blog and started to write about the weather almost daily. This was before Facebook. There was a popular local online forum where I would post things. The media would also follow my website and they started to call me when there was extreme weather (usually very hot or very wet/stormy).
Then Facebook started to get big and I made a page that eventually had a few thousand followers. I would blog often. Lots of traffic from Facebook… this was 2010 and on. I blogged about climate and weather pretty equally.
Like anyone in Port Alberni, I was/am obsessed with the Martin Mars and got wrapped up in that issue along with others which combined with the weather following probably gave me just enough exposure to have me elected as a councillor in 2014.
I continued through that 4 years, blogging often in addition to councillor duties and work, heavily on facebook, then it all went sideways on my own poor judgement (go ahead and google it, it’s ok :)) and I was not reelected, but Facebook by 2018 had also changed. Cambridge Analytica, etc.
….Continued…
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-weather-apps-data-wildfires-storms-preparation-obsession-social-media/

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…

Following YouTube, Meta announces crackdown on 'unoriginal' Facebook content | TechCrunch
Like YouTube, Meta says it won't penalize users who are engaging with other people's content, doing things like making reaction videos, joining a trend, or adding their own takes.

Don't miss today's packed Metacurity for a ton of critical infosec developments you should know, including
--UK to spend $1.1 billion relocating Afghan helpers following data breach
--DOGE worker published the private key for four dozen-plus LLMs,
--US gov't IT contractor to pay $14.75m fine for overstated cyber services,
--Italian cops arrest Romanian behind 'Diskstation' ransomware gang,
--OMB readies post-quantum standard,
--MSFT'…

UK to spend $1.1 billion relocating Afghan helpers following data breach
DOGE worker published the private key for four dozen-plus LLMs, US gov't IT contractor to pay $14.75m fine for overstated cyber services, Italian cops arrest Romanian behind 'Diskstation' ransomware gang, OMB readies post-quantum standard, MSFT's 'digital escorts' leave DoD vulnerable, much more

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…

Following YouTube, Meta announces crackdown on 'unoriginal' Facebook content | TechCrunch
Like YouTube, Meta says it won't penalize users who are engaging with other people's content, doing things like making reaction videos, joining a trend, or adding their own takes.

Product idea announcement:
Securing your company's most important digital assets of the 21st century: [productA] transforms your most valued AI prompts into blockchain-secured NFTs.
(Yes, I feel dirty to have come up with such an idea. But I won't be the only one coming up with such 💩, and by posting it I can later tell people "See? ProductB is just plagiarism!". I don't have any plans to make such a product. If your moral code allows you to do it to exploit …

The rain has topped up the pool pond! 🙏 🌧️
It is overflowing at the overflow and only at the overflow, that I can tell :). I powered the pump up from its 40% (34W) to 75% (120W) to get things moving in the filter while we have the rain.
I might as well use it to allow it to clean the gunk out of the system naturally!
Still feels like I got rushed into filling it, but it is really satisfying nonetheless to see it functioning as designed in my head! lol
#poolpond #diy #backyardproject

AMD says it will restart shipments of its MI308 AI chips to China after the US Commerce Department said it would approve the sales, following Nvidia (Mackenzie Hawkins/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-07-…

Fact Check: Video Does NOT Show Gazans Fleeing Palestine Arriving In Sweden -- It Shows A West Bank Soccer Team Touring Europe: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/15/fact-check-video-does-not.html