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AI researcher salaries are steadily rising, with total pay packages of $500K to $2M at Big Tech for mid to senior level staffers, up from $400K to $900K in 2022 (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/d48e7cfe-7b04-4cdd-8769-c88c83522118

AI talent wars lead to superstar salaries for top tech staff
OpenAI says it will review its compensation to high-profile engineers after being targeted by Meta

Social media companies ​​are blocking wide-ranging content - including posts about the wars in Ukraine and Gaza - in an attempt to comply with the UK's new Online Safety Act, BBC Verify has found.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj3l0e4vr0ko?at_medium=RS…

Tech giants blocking some Ukraine and Gaza posts under new online rules
Tech companies are restricting debates of public interest to comply the Online Safety Act, analysis shows.

wikiconflict: Wikipedia edit wars (2009)
A network representing editorial interactions among editors of the English Wikipedia. Nodes are editors, and an edge denotes an edit conflict between the two editors. Edge are timestamped and signed. A positive sign indicates the users have agreement on the edit, and the negative sign indicates a disagreement (a reversion) on the edit.
This network has 118100 nodes and 2917785 edges.
Tags: Social, Conflict, Signed, Timestamps

Advance Wars 1 2 Reboot Camp: blasting through
AW1 2RC is a compilation of the first two Advance Wars games (not the first games in the series, mind - Famicom Wars and Game Boy Wars hold that honour) with new graphics, the war room separated out into a combined section, and a few niceties added to make the game run a bit smoother. It also has a 'casual' mode which I seem to have been enrolled on, even though I answered "no" when asked if this was my first time playing…

Coming on Tuesday, 1st of July: a suite of compositions for pipe organ and trumpet.
Three pieces that fell out of my soul in response to the latest wars.
Only on Mirlo and BandCamp (for now).
#PipeOrgan #trumpet

Wars only know losers, no winners.
But according to Iran, Israel, and the US, they all won the war.

Ah something tells me Japan Expo starts this week
#manga

A typically cogent piece from Richard Heinberg.
Good to see this emphasis on the #bioregion as the appropriate scale to think about the (post #collapse) future. We've always emphasised this too, see thread to follow.
Bioregioning Is Our Future - resilience

Bioregioning Is Our Future
Humanity soon will be returning to low-power ways of organizing itself. And in our new age of tariff wars, the tide is already turning from global to regional in trade, investment, and politics. What has seemed impossible may soon become obviously necessary to larger numbers of people.

The BBC World Service has launched a pilot website in Polish using AI translation in a “systemic” way for the first time.
BBC News deputy global director Fiona Crack told Press Gazette the use of AI in the launch of BBC News Polska was designed to help bring the BBC’s coverage of stories of global interest such as the wars in Ukraine and Gaza to new audiences in a “slimline and efficient” way.

Inside the pilot BBC World Service website using AI translation
The BBC World Service has launched a pilot website in Polish using AI translation in a "systemic" way for the first time.

Disney and Webtoon strike a deal that brings about 100 Disney comics titles to Webtoon, with characters from Disney, Marvel, 20th Century Studios, and Star Wars (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/digital/news/webtoon-disney…

Disney Webtoon Deal: 100 Marvel, Star Wars & More Titles Coming to App
About 100 webcomics featuring characters from Disney, Marvel, Star Wars and 20th Century Studios will be available in Webtoon under a multiyear deal.

Yeah, "Ahsoka" was mediocre, but if not for "The Acolyte", "The Book of Boba Fett" would have been the single worst series in the history of Star Wars.
But sure, let's lobby for an S2. 🙄
☑️ “Where’s My Season 2?“: Temuera Morrison Finally Breaks Silence on 'The Book of Boba Fett's Future [Exclusive]

"Darkest-ever dwarfgoby fish gets named after Darth Vader"
#Fish #Animals
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Darkest-ever dwarfgoby fish gets named after Darth Vader
From the volcanic fjords of Tufi in Papua New Guinea, researchers have described a new-to-science species of a coral reef fish called a dwarfgoby with an unusual purplish-black color. The tiny fish is the “darkest of all described dwarfgobies,” the researchers say in the study, naming it Eviota vader after the Star Wars villain Darth […]

"Come to mind the names of violent battles: DR-DOS, Taligent, AmigaOS, Newton OS, Windows for Pen Computing, Copland, Vino, NeXTSTEP, Novell NetWare, JavaOS, BeOS, DoJ vs Microsoft, Rhapsody, POSIX, Linux is communism, Linux is a cancer, Samizdat, Windows Vista, SCO, Symbian, Solaris, OpenSolaris, systemd, Windows Phone, MeeGo, Tizen, Firefox OS, Sailfish OS. Countless mythical man-month hours were lost. Millions of lines of code were fired."

I was a big Bucky fan as a kid.
Bring back the weirdest animated series of 1991
The fight against a hypercapitalist AI makes Bucky O’Hare still feel relevant today
https://share.google/G6KdAsfoScKPkydE8

„Not like women! Women hold grudges.“
Who is fighting 100% of all the wars in the world again?
https://mastodon.social/@MAKS23/115051841278622830

Chimera games emerging from coevolutionary dynamics with endogenous feedbacks
Federico Maria Quetti, Andrea Civilini, Giacomo Frigerio, Silvia Figini, Giacomo Livan, Vito Latora
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20603

Chimera games emerging from coevolutionary dynamics with endogenous feedbacks
From climate change to financial bubbles and wars, the rapid pace of change in our world clearly shows that the commonly adopted assumption of a static environment in evolutionary game-theoretic models is often unrealistic. In this work, we introduce a coevolutionary game model where the game environment and the strategy dynamics are mutually coupled. In particular, the game played at each time is endogenously defined as a convex combination of two social dilemmas, weighted by the current abund…

Racked my brain over today’s #tunetuesday #cityaftermidnight until I came up with:
Bad boys inna London
Rude boys inna England
Bad boys inna Jericho
Rude boys inna Kingston
Mentions not one but TWO cities ✅
Talks about stars ✅ Ok Star Wars, but it’s good enou…

AI futures: Culture wars https://musicindustryblog.wordpress.com/2025/06/05/ai-futures-culture-wars/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_content=muz4now/magazine/Copy…

AI futures: Culture wars
AI is transforming culture, entertainment, business, and society at a pace unprecedented in the digital era. Unlike previous tech, AI is evolving at the speed of computing, not the speed of the hum…

The government wants AI to fight wars and review your taxes (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/07/14/trump-ai-government-war-taxes-jobs/?pwapi_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJyZWFzb24iOiJnaWZ0IiwibmJmIjoxNzUyNTUyMDAwLCJpc3MiOiJzdWJzY3JpcHRpb25zIiwiZXhwIjoxNzUzOTM0Mzk5LCJpYXQiOjE3NTI1NTIwMDAsImp0aSI6ImQzYzQzZDM3LTQ0ZDAtNGFmMi1iZWQ2LTk4NjRhMDgzYzA5MCIsInVybCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3Lndhc2hpbmd0b25wb3N0LmNvbS9idXNpbmVzcy8yMDI1LzA3LzE0L3RydW1wLWFpLWdvdmVybm1lbnQtd2FyLXRheGVzLWpvYnMvIn0.kvtXgmZI91Jffp-WZeTWZqUjlzhTWeFUcLPYhZPSGm4&itid=gfta
http://www.memeorandum.com/250715/p127#a250715p127

SWTOR stream is LIVE from Linux! Join me for some Star Wars action tonight on Twitch. #SWTOR #Linux

I don’t care too much about the term “clanker” referring to annoying bots (like idk pharmacy phone tree)—because you can’t insult them.
Instead it’s much better to insult the humans ordering bots to be made to profiteer from them and the wanton suffering they cause.
(Also the origin of the term from Star Wars uses it as essentially a racist slur on sentient beings [droids], which makes it problematic.)

train_terrorists: Madrid train bombing terrorists (2004)
A network of associations among the terrorists involved in the 2004 Madrid train bombing, as reconstructed from press stories after-the-fact. Edge weights encode four levels of connection strength: friendships, ties to Al Qaeda and Osama Bin Laden, co-participants in wars, and co-participants in previous terrorist attacks.
This network has 64 nodes and 243 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Weighted

Q&A with Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas on the browser as AI's killer app, AI talent wars, why users will eventually pay thousands for a single AI prompt, more (Alex Heath/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/decoder-podcast-w

Perplexity’s CEO on why the browser is AI’s killer app
Aravind Srinivas discusses Perplexity’s new Comet browser and the future of the web.

During the Browser Wars, I met this gasbag who was a middling, wannabe PoS then & he's an even bigger entitled, racist PoS now.
Think Larry Ellison but more slimy.
☑️ Tech billionaire Trump adviser Marc Andreessen says universities will ‘pay the price’ for DEI
https://www.

Tech billionaire Trump adviser Marc Andreessen says universities will ‘pay the price’ for DEI
Tech investor and Trump adviser Marc Andreessen in a private group chat attacked colleges for promoting diversity, saying they had discriminated against “native born kids.”

LIVE NOW on Twitch! 🚀 The galaxy calls! Continuing my adventures in Star Wars: The Old Republic tonight, all powered by Linux. Join the fun! #SWTOR

train_terrorists: Madrid train bombing terrorists (2004)
A network of associations among the terrorists involved in the 2004 Madrid train bombing, as reconstructed from press stories after-the-fact. Edge weights encode four levels of connection strength: friendships, ties to Al Qaeda and Osama Bin Laden, co-participants in wars, and co-participants in previous terrorist attacks.
This network has 64 nodes and 243 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Weighted

Don McLean Thinks Weird Al’s ‘Star Wars’ Parody of ‘American Pie’ Is ‘Better Than the Original’
https://flip.it/luQ77k

Don McLean Thinks Weird Al’s ‘Star Wars’ Parody of ‘American Pie’ Is ‘Better Than the Original’
Don McLean called Weird Al's 'Star Wars'-themed "American Pie" spoof "better" than his original version of the song in a new 'Billboard' cover story.

Hey #StarWars #Andor fan. I think you'll enjoy these rabbit hole playlists. 😁

▶️ Star Wars Andor - Epic Themes & Moments Playlist (Edits by SWFT)

train_terrorists: Madrid train bombing terrorists (2004)
A network of associations among the terrorists involved in the 2004 Madrid train bombing, as reconstructed from press stories after-the-fact. Edge weights encode four levels of connection strength: friendships, ties to Al Qaeda and Osama Bin Laden, co-participants in wars, and co-participants in previous terrorist attacks.
This network has 64 nodes and 243 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Weighted

CFP: Edited Volume on Star Wars and Politics in the Disney Era
https://ift.tt/Qk7WclK
updated: Monday, July 28, 2025 - 2:38pmfull name / name of organization: Dominic J Nardicontact…
via Input 4 RELCFP

wikiconflict: Wikipedia edit wars (2009)
A network representing editorial interactions among editors of the English Wikipedia. Nodes are editors, and an edge denotes an edit conflict between the two editors. Edge are timestamped and signed. A positive sign indicates the users have agreement on the edit, and the negative sign indicates a disagreement (a reversion) on the edit.
This network has 118100 nodes and 2917785 edges.
Tags: Social, Conflict, Signed, Timestamps

train_terrorists: Madrid train bombing terrorists (2004)
A network of associations among the terrorists involved in the 2004 Madrid train bombing, as reconstructed from press stories after-the-fact. Edge weights encode four levels of connection strength: friendships, ties to Al Qaeda and Osama Bin Laden, co-participants in wars, and co-participants in previous terrorist attacks.
This network has 64 nodes and 243 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Weighted