2026-07-28 14:14:43
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im only making plans for nigel
An analysis of US payroll data across 730 occupations: employment among workers ages 22 to 25 in highly AI-exposed jobs is now shrinking by 3.8% per year (Nick Lichtenberg/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2026/06/27/what-is-ai-imp…
@… Congrats @…!
Oil is rising again this morning
after the US military said it knocked down an Iranian missile barrage
and worked with Saudi Arabia forces to strike sites in Iraq that Tehran-backed militias have used to launch attacks in recent days.
In what Washington cast as
“an attempted surprise attack” by Tehran,
Iran had launched multiple ballistic missiles at US forces in the Middle East,
ending a brief pause in fighting.
Iran’s target was a US base in Jord…
How are the tech corps justifying the AI bubble? Why, by just INVENTING SUBSCRIBERS!
It's easy when you lie!
https://bzangygroink.co.uk/archives/2026/06/18/how-google-lies/
It‘s been already a month since support for Web Serial came to Firefox and other browsers based on it.
https://hacks.mozilla.org/2026/05/web-serial-support-in-firefox/
It‘s one of these things where you first don’t know when you‘ll need it, but then you‘re g…
RE: https://freie-re.de/@qbi/116644775176842163
Der Auslöser für meine Umfrage war eine Diskussion über E-Rechnungen.
Es werden mehr und mehr Firmen verpflichtet, E-Rechnungen zu schreiben. Einige werden sicher schon E-Rechnungen empfangen. E-Rechnung heißt…
Here’s a petition by MP Jenny Kwan to the House of Commons to withdraw Bill C-22
https://www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en/Petition/Details?Petition=e-7416
Simply:
1) Withdraw the bill
2) Don’t collect & retain metadata
3) Don’t wea…
X settles a long-running legal battle with the World Federation of Advertisers, ending a case that accused brands like Mars and Shell of illegally boycotting X (Daniel Thomas/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/e1725176-ebe2-4d29-abe9-a27e11e8c1a8
Rome’s Pride parade bars Jewish LGBTQ float over refusal to call Gaza war ‘genocide’ – The Forward
https://forward.com/fast-forward/827887/romes-pride-parade-bars-jewish-lgbtq-float-over-refusal-to-call-gaza-war-genocide/
„Hitze macht aggressiv, und Hitze gleichzeitig wegleugnen zu müssen, damit das eigene Weltbild nicht ins Wanken gerät, macht noch aggressiver.“ Hitzewelle: Wir leben im Zeitalter der aggressiver Ignoranz #Aggnoranz– @chris_Stoecker #klimawandel
Hört endlich auf, Spinnern wie der
Judge temporarily blocks payouts from Trump's $1.8B 'anti-weaponization' settlement fund (Michael Kunzelman/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/trump-settlement-fund-antiweaponization-8baaee6aa8d83f0ad2905f5f8d457dec
http://www.memeorandum.com/260529/p36#a260529p36
Today's Supreme Court ruling should serve as a reminder that Trump doesn't rape only children.
RE: #Lübeck
RE: #Lübeck
Angesichts der aktuellen Temperaturen und der Prognose muß diesen Sommer doch Bluesky für alle, die auch nur ein wenig Englisch können, doch schrecklich unpopulär sein?
My old university proactively caving to Christian Fascism. UMass-Amherst eliminates an Arabic language learning program and cancels the hire of an Iranian professor for a tenure track.
https://electronicintifada.net/content/mccarthyism-massachusetts/51547…
Friends at table for Juneteenth celebration down by Southside Community Center
#photo #photography #groupportrait
RE: https://labyrinth.social/@nash/116828559108370757
<As Seen on TV!>
Don't let the word "model" fool you. AI can nail the orbits and still miss the physics—the same trick Ptolemy pulled for fourteen centuries.
https://open.substack.com/pub/jonippolito/p/ptolemaic-thinking-in-the-age-of
The stupidity of #47s pointless war with #Iran is damaging in so many ways - ways most of us never considered. It's more than the dead & injured and #inflation that get so much news coverage - and here is one m…
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #MusicMatters
Ludwig van Beethoven, Sir Roger Norrington & Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra:
🎵 Symphony No 3 in E flat major, Op 55, 'Eroica' (3rd mvt: excerpt)
#LudwigvanBeethoven
https://open.spotify.com/track/2ipHv5LHIxel9YoHPNet8p
RE: https://masto.ai/@Nonilex/116652454875429872
Trump want his face on 🤦$250🤦bill.
I would allow it ONLY under circumstance, that he won't be alive after the bill is printed.😈
Also there are few laws against that:
Presidential $1 Coin Act: Th…
@… thanks, documented where?
Just one other issue so far, also worked around:
<https://www.reddit.com/r/Ubuntu/comments/1
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MorningShow
HÆLOS:
🎵 Pray
#HÆLOS
https://open.spotify.com/track/77V8QD2ofscKhbKvFFQByG
Memory foam
Artichoke Thistle (aks Cardoon). LA Arboretum, Arcadia, California, USA. May, 2026. OM System OM-1 M.Zuiko 300mm F4 MC14. #laarboretum #thistle #flower
Mike Caulfield has developed a "deep background" AI prompt that students and others can use to make AI chatbots act like a useful research assistant, suitable for academic work:
https://checkplease.neocities.org/sift-toolbox/
(The page says you need a paid version …
I sometimes write scripts in Windows #PowerShell because it's a programming tool that is widely available in my environment without requiring any additional installs. I find the syntax to be clunky, but it's capable.
As I've noted before, I'm required to use Copilot at work, so I use it for tasks like this to burn tokens and earn work termination deferment points.
1/x…
RE: https://mastodon.de/@ErikUden/111612615292363278
All my homies hate Modi
Sources: ByteDance has partnered with chipmaker InnoStar to develop an AI inference chip modeled after Groq's LPUs, which are built to run AI models at low cost (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/chinas-byte…
From the basement of the Sandusky library, page 29 of the book Sandusky of To-Day proclaims the town to be the
“largest fresh water fish market in the world”.
Two pages later, an image of the lake whitefish, referred to as “Sandusky’s pride”, takes up the entire page.
But the book was published in 1888.
Lake whitefish was a delicacy in this part of North America for centuries.
Indigenous communities centered their lives and traditions on the fish.
By the …
RE: https://gush.taks.garden/note/e7b93172-37ae-4f2f-ae70-7f639ccce579
Yup - I feel sorry for Valve as people are hammering them for the intro price but what the fuck can they do against the AI Lords?
WSJ hires Samantha Henig as head of multimedia, overseeing the audio and video departments in a newly created role; Henig founded the NYT's audio department (Chris Roush/Talking Biz News)
https://talkingbiznews.com/they-talk-biz-news/wsj-hires-henig-a…
US Treasury secretary confirms plans for $250 bill featuring Trump’s face | Donald Trump News | Al Jazeera
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/5/29/us-treasury-secretary-confirms-plans-for-banknote-featuring-trumps-face?traffic_source=rss
zohran mamdani is actually giving out free ice cream and the trump administration's cuts to food safety regulation is causing explosive diarrhea... i can't... life imitates art... what the hell
Air traffic control run by Compaq computers is safe but inefficient, FAA head says (Kris Van Cleave/CBS News)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/faa-bryan-bedford-air-traffic-control-compaq-safe-inefficient-faa-head-says/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260529/p35#a260529p35
Digging up monochrome images for #monochromemonday I found this striking shot of Weill Hall in the snow -- it might get hot enough this week some of us will be wishing for winter
#photo #photography
It’s time to prosecute climate crimes – with laws that already exist
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jul/28/prosecute-climate-crimes-big-oil?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #MusicMatters
Ludwig van Beethoven, Sir Roger Norrington & Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra:
🎵 Symphony No 3 in E flat major, Op 55, 'Eroica' (3rd mvt: excerpt)
#LudwigvanBeethoven
https://open.spotify.com/track/2ipHv5LHIxel9YoHPNet8p
AI startup Shift launches a free home cleaning service in NYC to record first-person video with a camera-equipped cap and use it to train robots (Robert Hart/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/939765/ai-train…
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MorningShow
HÆLOS:
🎵 Intro/Spectrum
#HÆLOS
https://open.spotify.com/track/3PQH6w0yfM2ewcIGmKd2yL
Visa entlässt tausende Mitarbeiter
Knapp 2600 Mitarbeiter des Fintech-Unternehmens müssen laut CEO Ryan McInerney gehen.
https://www.heise.de/news/Visa-entlaesst-tausende-Mit…
The closure of the strait of Hormuz has created conditions for an extreme global biodiversity threat,
with scientists warning that thousands of stranded ships could spread invasive marine species across the world’s oceans once they begin sailing again.
More than 1,500 commercial vessels have been stuck in the Gulf since the strategic waterway closed on 28 February after the outbreak of the US-Israel war on Iran.
An international team of marine biologists said that with the …
mamdani is another knicks win away to be crowned prince
Sources: early-stage talks over a potential sale of iHeartMedia to SiriusXM have stalled after the two sides were unable to come to terms (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/29/business/dealbook/anthropic-ai-openai.html#link-6b6052c3…
This isn't about a few 'bad apples.' Israel is annexing the West Bank | Responsible Statecraft
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/israel-west-bank-annexation/
It's Not You -- Trump's Face Is Everywhere (Tyler Spence/NOTUS)
https://www.notus.org/trump-white-house/trump-face-everywhere
http://www.memeorandum.com/260529/p34#a260529p34
Xcena, whose MX1 chip performs data orchestration and KV cache management directly within memory modules, raised a $135M Series B at a $570M valuation (Kate Park/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/29/xcena-secures-135m-…
Anthony Fauci, the former veteran director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (Niaid),
invoked the Fifth Amendment during a hearing before the US Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee.
During his long history in the government, he many times appeared before committee’s for hearings and respects the value of oversight.
“However, given Senator Paul’s obvious obsession with calling for my prosecution,
his repeated slanderou…
🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#MusicMatters
- How to Listen
Conductor Sakari Oramo opens a window into the art of attentive listening. Today, Sakari explores the act of listening itself - what do we actually hear when we listen to music?
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002y1sk
Mehdi Hasan zeigt wie deutsche Medien von Anfang an mit der AfD hätten reden sollen — dieser AfD Spitzenpolitiker scheitert an den einfachsten Fragen. Da sieht man wie leicht sich die AfD entzaubert hätte, hätte man sie mal tatsächlich inhaltlich gestellt und nicht was auch immer der ÖRR in Deutschland tut.
https://youtu.be/VTOmrTYvGYI
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MorningShow
Public Service Broadcasting:
🎵 I Was Always Dreaming (Late Night Final remix)
#PublicServiceBroadcasting
https://publicservicebroadcasting.bandcamp.com/track/i-was-always-dreaming
https://open.spotify.com/track/3szri9jOPt0lounLeRVvwj
Roboter soll künftig bei der Apfelernte helfen
Am Bodensee wird ein Roboter getestet, der für den Einsatz im Obstanbau entwickelt wurde. Er soll künftig bei der Apfelernte eingesetzt werden.
https://www.
Former Tesla data labelers say FSD relies on laborious mapping for hazards; crash data analysis shows Tesla exaggerates FSD's safety via flawed methodology (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/investigations/why-…
Crews recover bodies of 6 workers in wake of Washington state chemical-tank rupture | CBC News
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/washington-state-chemical-tank-rupture-remains-found-9.7216081?cmp=rss
An opaque White House office staffed largely by veterans of Elon Musk’s
“department of government efficiency”
(Doge) has quietly rebuilt some of the federal government’s most sensitive websites
– for passport applications, voter registration, prescription-drug pricing and children’s savings
– in ways critics say appear to violate federal law.
The National Design Studio (NDS)
was established by a Donald Trump executive order last August,
and is led by…
Mamdani: Democratic socialist candidates 'can get elected anywhere across this country for any position' (Julia Cherner/ABC News)
https://abcnews.com/Politics/mamdani-democratic-socialist-candidates-elected-country-position/story?id=134286609
http://www.memeorandum.com/260628/p18#a260628p18
Wouldn't "Israel’s defence minister says large-scale Palestinian #EVICTION from Gaza will go ahead" be more accurate?
Israel’s defence minister says large-scale Palestinian migration from Gaza will go ahead
Allegations that China is behind US data center protests draw criticism from allies of the AI industry, who say the industry and politicians are in denial (Evan Halper/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MorningShow
Sharon Van Etten:
🎵 We Are Fine
#SharonVanEtten
https://sharonvanetten.bandcamp.com/track/we-are-fine
https://open.spotify.com/track/2wqWfGrPq6mqnrTlWen3XW
A study of 14,419 self-published novels on Amazon using Pangram's AI detection tools: in 2,168 of the books, 50% of prose was AI, and in 970 books, 90% was AI (Alexandra Alter/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/28/books/ai-bookselling-amazon.html…
„Corsair Cove“ angespielt: Piratenabenteuer für Aufbaustrategen
Im Aufbaustrategiespiel „Corsair Cove“ von Limbic Entertainment müssen Spieler ein Piratenimperium aufbauen. Wir haben das Spiel angespielt.
htt…
Behind the scenes: How shared fear of Iran led to an Israel-Lebanon deal (Barak Ravid/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/06/28/israel-lebanon-deal-iran-hezbollah
http://www.memeorandum.com/260628/p16#a260628p16
The US supreme court ruled that Donald Trump can fire leaders of independent agencies or commissions,
-- ending 90 years of court precedent that curbs executive power.
The vote in the case of
"Trump v Slaughter" is 6-3,
with dissents from Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Ketanji Brown Jackson and Elena Kagan.
The case was focused on the White House’s March 2025 firing of Federal Trade Commission member Rebecca Slaughter.
Trump fired Slaughter over email…
MediaTek says it has started to use Intel Foundry's advanced chip packaging in addition to TSMC's, as the mobile chip designer bets on AI demand for growth (Cheng Ting-Fang/Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/business/tech/
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MorningShow
Lea Porcelain:
🎵 I Am Ok
#LeaPorcelain
https://open.spotify.com/track/5ML5LwDXhRj4i4ThPQsKoR
“France voted for someone who has been lecturing, free, sovereign democracies like the United States, the UK, and Israel, while cozying up to the world’s worst oppressors.” - US ambassador to the UN, Mike Waltz
I cannot figure out if this is #gaslighting or Walz is ignorant enough to believe what he says. I strongly suspect the former, given his allegience to #47
US diplomats stage…
So würde eine KI als Start-up-Chef abschneiden
Princeton-Forscher lassen KI-Modelle 500 Tage ein Start-up führen. Nur drei schaffen es ins Plus – eine simple Wirtschafts-Weisheit ist besser als fast alle.
https://www.
Cassidy accuses RFK Jr. of building public health "upon a foundation of lies" (Margaret Brennan/CBS News)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/bill-cassidy-rfk-jr-public-health-foundation-of-lies-face-the-nation/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260628/p17#a260628p17
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MorningShow
Kristin Hersh:
🎵 The Letter
#KristinHersh
https://open.spotify.com/track/7nxVwmjj6liCFIo4KfihP4
June 27, 2026 -- Observers are noting that the reflecting pool fiasco, in which Trump created ... (Heather Cox Richardson/Letters from an American)
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/june-27-2026
http://www.memeorandum.com/260628/p15#a260628p15
In a landmark ruling that limits a president’s authority over the central bank,
the supreme court has ruled that Donald Trump’s firing of a Federal Reserve governor was unconstitutional,
In its opinion, the court said that Trump does not have the constitutional authority to fire a Fed governor without cause.
The case was centered on Lisa Cook,
a Biden appointee whose 14-year term on the Federal Reserve board of governors is scheduled to expire in 2038.
Cook is th…
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MorningShow
Depeche Mode:
🎵 Walking in My Shoes
#DepecheMode
https://gyzmusic.bandcamp.com/track/depeche-mode-walking-in-my-shoes-cover
https://open.spotify.com/track/2Y7ndoyiIm0IaFJa13gV3H
Who's next in Donald Trump's campaign of retribution? (Ella Lee/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/a43539fb-004a-4eb4-b63a-d591d4e59d6d
http://www.memeorandum.com/260628/p13#a260628p13
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MorningShow
Peter Gabriel:
🎵 Don’t Give Up
#PeterGabriel
https://petergabriel.bandcamp.com/track/dont-give-up
https://open.spotify.com/track/2t77hjgJY4sC9DoX5uaVUD
Streamer dressed as Uncle Sam arrested for masturbating during show at Great American State Fair in latest embarrassment (Emma Crabtree/The US Sun)
https://www.the-sun.com/news/16590844/streamer-uncle-sam-masturbating-arrested-state-fair/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260628/p12#a260628p12
Why the nation's founding document is barely legible (Karen Tumulty/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/06/28/why-stains-creases-handprint-mar-declaration-independence/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260628/p14#a260628p14
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Early
Big Mama Thornton:
🎵 Hound Dog
#BigMamaThornton
https://bluecenturyrecords.bandcamp.com/track/hound-dog-remastered
https://open.spotify.com/track/5Oc0vLGWdEWeCqIU8zyELt
Neue Verordnung soll Klarheit in den Kritis-Dschungel bringen
Die sogenannte Kritis-Verordnung soll mehr Klarheit für von Kritis-Dachgesetz und NIS2 gleichzeitig Betroffene bringen. Doch es bleibt komplex.
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