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Dzisiejsza demonstracja kolejnej wkurzonej grupy wyborców koalicji rządzącej pod KPRM - tym razem w sprawie (braku) pełnego respektowania wyroku TSUE odnośnie transkrypcji małżeństw jednopłciowych.

The FBI issued a warning on May 21,
as a new AI-powered attack enables
"threat actors to obtain Microsoft 365 access tokens and bypass multi-factor authentication (MFA) protocols without intercepting the user's credentials.”
Dubbed Kali365, this phishing-as-a-service threat was first discovered last month.
The FBI released its public service announcement “to warn the public"
that these attacks use Microsoft’s authentication infrastructure to steal …

FBI Warns Microsoft Users—New Attack Gains Access To Accounts
If you see one of these emails — check carefully, you may be under attack.

Kulturstaatsminister fordert Plattformabgabe und TikTok-Verkauf
Kulturstaatsminister Wolfram Weimer fordert einen europäischen Kauf von TikTok und kündigt die Einführung einer Plattformabgabe für Streamer noch für 2026 an.

Kulturstaatsminister fordert Plattformabgabe und TikTok-Verkauf
Kulturstaatsminister Wolfram Weimer fordert einen europäischen Kauf von TikTok und kündigt die Einführung einer Plattformabgabe für Streamer noch für 2026 an.

Your daily dose of #motonormativity : To report a stolen e-bike battery to the Danish police, you have to select the category "Tools / number plate / car parts / fuel / electricity". I wonder how many battery thefts go un/misreported because people don't click through all categories.

Most documents we encounter in the course of doing our work are somewhere between middling to terrible. A few years ago, I wrote "Make Better Documents", a simple set of guidelines for making presentations, reports, etc.
Now, I've turned that set of suggestions into a Better Documents skills.md file, an agent skill for those who use LLMs to help review documents. Naturally, it’s 100% free & open source, so I'd love for you to give it a try & let me know what y…

Becoming Skilled at Making Documents
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

Supreme Court Allows Trump to Strip TPS, Turn Away Asylum Seekers Arriving at the Border in Pair of New Immigration Rulings (Melissa Cruz/American Immigration Council)
https://www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/blog/supreme-court-immigration-ruling-tps-asylum-seekers/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260625/p104#a260625p104

Prince William is Selling 20% of His Duchy Landholdings to Build Affordable Housing and Restore Nature https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/prince-william-to-sell-20-of-his-duchy-landholdings-to-build-affordable-housing…

Prince William to Sell 20% of His Duchy Landholdings to Build Affordable Housing and Restore Nature
Prince William is selling 20% of the Duchy of Cornwell estate to fund affordable housing and nature projects over the next decade. Established by King Edward III in 1337, the vast private estate spans 128,000 acres across 19 counties to provide the heir to the British throne with an independent income, which today amounts to […]

Sources: Wix is expected to cut ~1,000 jobs in the coming months, or ~20% of its workforce, after weak Q1 earnings and a ~50% collapse of its stock in 2026 (Sophie Shulman/CTech)
https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/b1oebi11xge

Wix to cut 1,000 jobs in largest layoff round in company history
The company will reduce roughly 20% of its workforce after a steep stock decline and rising AI-related costs.

Bruttoleistung von rückgebauten und zugebauten #Windkraftanlagen an Land in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 22.05.2026.
Illustriert wird der Rückbau von kleinen Anlagen mit üblicherweise > 20 Betriebsjahren im Vergleich zu leistungsstärkeren neuen Anlagen. Keine 1:1 Beziehung hinsic…

According to the USPS tracker our #Dulcetta CDs ought to arrive in Chapel Hill by Thursday (assuming it doesn’t disappear into the Kernersville black hole).
While we wait here’s another sneak preview from the record.
When he was young man, Danny Gotham placed 2nd in the #fingerstyle

L 生
D 死
K 殺
かもしれない

After weeks of searching, I think I have broken @… ->
I am looking for a fast cheapish route home from UK. Eurostar extmely expensive, so I thought, how about ferry from Harwich to Hoek and then train to Copenhagen. Railfinder routes me back from Hoek van Holland to Harwich and home via Eurostar... 😂
Same algorithm, same...

Next to the UK and France, Ireland also experienced its highest May temperature on record today: 28.6°C
https://www.rte.ie/news/ireland/2026/0525/1575068-ireland-weather/

28.6C reached at Shannon, breaking May temperature record
A temperature of 28.6C has been recorded in Co Clare, breaking the May record for Ireland.

Acabo de ver a @… en Informe Semanal hablando de renovables. Tenéis ya el programa en RTVE si gustšis.

40 Solawis sind auch bei WWOOF* Deutschland Mitglied und öffnen ihre Türen für Personen, die sich für ökologische Landwirtschaft interessieren.
Die Wwoofer:innen lernen dabei viel über Landwirtschaft und verbinden sich auch mit der Solawi-Gemeinschaft. Im besten Fall springt die Begeisterung für den Anbau von Lebensmitteln über, die Wertschätzung für Lebensmittel steigt und es entstehen langjährige Freundschaften. 
Wenn dich interessiert, ob deine Solawi als WWOOF-Hof geeignet …

Happy #TowelDay to all who observe it.

1 Notable Aspect of Raiders OTAs Worth Watching https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-1-notable-aspect-worth-watching

If you need to remove a bottle cap from a bottle but all you have handy is another bottle cap will it work to remove the bottle cap from the bottle?
Yes. But... it may be messy.
(This toot brought to you by a person who had a cat sitting on them but forgot to grab a bottle opener before they sat down.)

Tomorrow! Join Grist Labs co-founder Stan for a demo of Grist's new MCP server.
We'll start small and then show off a complex workflow that leverages multiple integrations, so there's something for everyone.
Connect Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, or your own local models to your docs over the Model Context Protocol, then list and query tables, read and write rows, and build schema, all via OAuth with scoped access.
Register:

Heute vor 61 Jahren: Am 24. Juli 1965 zündeten die #USA im Rahmen von Operation Whetstone die Atombombe "Trogon". Whetstone war eine Serie von #Kernwaffentests bei der 1964/65 insgesamt 46 Bomben größtenteils im Testgebiet in

eMarketer: live sports TV ad spend in the US will top $20B in 2027 and hit ~$25B by 2030, growing 27% from 2026 to 2030, 4x the rate of the overall TV ad market (Mark Stenberg/Adweek)
https://www.adweek.com/convergent-tv/sports-tv-ad-spend-20-billion-live-games…

Sports TV Ad Spending to Top $20 Billion in 2027, As Live Games Defy Cord-Cutting
According to exclusive eMarketer data, the market will grow nearly four times faster than TV overall and linear will keep most of the money

RE: https://stefanbohacek.online/@stefan/116636126221238889
This is the way. Unless the profits from data centers return to communities, it's just extraction.
And data centers don't really bring that many jobs. They're a few guys replacing parts as stuff burns out. Maintenance on power feeds. But mostly they sit there, trying to stay cool.

#DH2026 I've heard my usual travel card (Monzo) doesn't work as well in South Korea so I'm trying Wowpass for convenience stores and street / small vendors. Took a few goes to find a bank card it worked with, so allow some time for that, or get cash to top it up.
Looking forward to my bus adventure from Incheon to Daejeoncheongsa for Daejeon!

2026 NFL Draft: Pick-by-pick analysis for Rounds 6-7 https://www.nfl.com/news/2026-nfl-draft-pick-by-pick-analysis-for-rounds-6-7

RE: https://mastodon.social/@jeffjarvis/116804861550228422
Ridiculous and unacceptable.

'Communities Not Cages': 200 Actions Across US Protest ICE Warehouse Detention | Common Dreams
https://www.commondreams.org/news/ice-warehouse-detention

This paper is at least a bit hype. The methodology is not actually targeting people who are trying to anonymize their stuff. It's startling with accounts on different platforms that are intentionally linked, then making them pseudo anonymous by removing the links, then asking the LLM to find the link.
While this isn't nothing, it's definitely not as scary as it sounds. It's unclear to me how the methodology would actually perform at scale.
That said, it's definitely something that would get a bunch of funding from the worst people on earth. The question is, what's their RoI? That's not really clear to me right now.
I need to see more research on this, but it's still worth keeping this in mind. There may well be ways to automate linguistic forensics, even if this isn't actually it. Those method would be linked to LLMs (indirectly at least) and should be considered to be more likely now than they have been in the past.
I added some other notes. I'll read through the research more and try to do a writeup when I can.
Here are other notes:
https://kolektiva.social/@Hex/116631346303097443
If anyone else writes something up first, please link here.

@… das wäre total toll! 😃

Semester är bra. En vecka nu.
Sen jobb hela sommaren. ☀️ 😅

Figured I'd take in True Romance again as it's on Netflix and it's been a lot of years. One of my favorites, though. Ah, 1993. Gary Oldman. Just all of it.
#90s

True Romance (1993)
Clarence marries hooker Alabama, steals cocaine from her pimp, and tries to sell it in Hollywood, while the owners of the coke try to reclaim it.

Aliens! 🇧🇷

“Freestyler”
by Steve'n'Seagulls (LIVE)
This Finnish classic originally made by Bomfunk MC's
We wanted to add some balkan swing and of course angle grinders and dancers 🚜
This video was made with one take and three microphones. And pretty neat Dimex Workwear
Best comments: “I love that the dancers are doing the moves from the original video 😂”
“I've never seen someone rock the triangle so hard before”

Ich glaube wenn man bei 38 Grad Celsius einen Urlaub in der regenreichsten Region Europas bucht, nennt sich das "Übersprungshandlung"... naja aber immerhin werden wir nicht schwitzen, nehme ich an

RE: https://c.im/@cdarwin/116637033641577631
In a 2024 documentary, “Diving Into the Darkness,” veteran Canadian cave diver Jill Heinerth recalls swimming
“through the graves of my friends all the time.
That list is well over a hundred people.”

China's market regulator says it had fined and confiscated ~$770M from Trip.com for abusing its dominant position in the domestic online hotel-booking market (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/chi…

Checked the shutter count in my main camera...
Nice.
Also, holy shit, THIS many?

Kumulativer Zubau der #Windenergieleistung in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 22.05.2026.
Summen der Inbetriebnahmen minus Stilllegungen.
Der Datenbestand enthält ggf. unplausible Datensätze.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff: Wie Solarparks Biodiversität fördern können

@… いまメンテ入れたからいけると思うよ。移行するなら自分のルームに別サーバのアカウント招待して、管理権限与えておくといいよ。

RE: https://fediscience.org/@Ruth_Mottram/116807070819840469
Why the ferry and not the eurostar you ask? Simple - London to Cologne alone by Eurostar, without the feed in and out would cost 1.5 times the total cost of train, ferry, train route -> which is actually the cheapest way for us as family of four to travel (just).* The airline price is slightly more than the train, but it takes 2 hours. Instead of 30 hours.
*Admittedly we are booking late..

Trump's latest declaration of an emergency leaves GOP allies scrambling again (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/06/25/trump-save-america-act-fight-puts-republican-allies-familiar-predicament/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260625/p103#a260625p103

This Raiders Position Battle Has Already Been Confirmed https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-this-position-battle-has-already-been-confirmed

So many things can go wrong during a cave dive.
Equipment can fail;
guidelines can break;
visibility can become nigh on impossible.
And, if things go wrong, you cannot just ascend to the surface as in other types of scuba diving.
You are reliant on your own wits, and your dive buddy.
While exploring these systems, cave divers will routinely squeeze through incredibly tight spaces.
Sometimes, “my shoulders are scraping the ceiling and my belly is o…

Cave diving is fraught with danger, but the reward is sights like nothing else on Earth
Exploring deep, dangerous underwater cave systems offers scientists and divers unparalleled glimpses into Earth’s history, even though the margins for error are tragically slim.

Republican lawmaker spills details on underground Trump resistance network within GOP - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-gop-2676814386/

Connecting accounts across platforms seems relatively easy, but it seems like it's much less successful when used against intentionally anonymized data. Still automatically re-identifying 9 or 125 people is pretty big if you're relying on your data to remain anonymous.
Definitely worth digging in on this more to see how much is researcher hype and how much is a real threat.

CBC/Radio-Canada becomes a full member of the European Broadcasting Union and is now eligible for Eurovision; the CBC won't yet say whether it will participate (Richard Raycraft/CBC News)
https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/canada-eurovision-eligible-202…

Canada can now enter Eurovision, but CBC won't say whether it will | CBC News
CBC/Radio-Canada became a full member of the European Broadcasting Union on Thursday, which means Canada is now eligible to enter the Eurovision Song Contest, but the country’s public broadcaster won’t say whether it will participate in the popular competition.

Your daily dose of #motonormativity : To report a stolen e-bike battery to the Danish police, you have to select the category "Tools / number plate / car parts / fuel / electricity". I wonder how many battery thefts go un/misreported because people don't click through all categories.

The blue one can summon a Demon

Tomorrow! Join Grist Labs co-founder Stan for a demo of Grist's new MCP server.
We'll start small and then show off a complex workflow that leverages multiple integrations, so there's something for everyone.
Connect Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, or your own local models to your docs over the Model Context Protocol, then list and query tables, read and write rows, and build schema, all via OAuth with scoped access.
Register:

Cognition acquires the makers of Poke, an AI assistant that users can access via messaging services, in a deal valuing Poke's parent in the "low nine figures" (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/24/why-

Why Cognition bought Poke: AI personality is becoming a competitive advantage | TechCrunch
AI coding startup Cognition has acquired Poke, the AI assistant you text like a friend, in a deal valuing the startup in the low nine figures. The acquisition brings Poke’s conversational style and interaction model to Cognition’s coding agent Devin, reflecting a growing belief that how AI assistants interact with users is as important as the models powering them.

Poetry gives people a language to express collective grief.
In Gaza, poetry documents what cameras cannot always reach and what numbers can never explain.
When destruction erases physical spaces, poetry becomes a witness to history.
https://w…

Trump Sons Invested in Private Fund Making Millions on Microcaps (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-06-25/trump-sons-invested-in-private-fund-making-millions-on-microcaps
http://www.memeorandum.com/260625/p91#a260625p91

#Deutschland bleibt Europas wichtigster Markt für #EBikes.
2025 entfielen 85 Prozent des Fahrradumsatzes auf motorisierte Räder. Nach Jahren starken Wachstums zeigt der Markt jedoch Anzeichen einer Sättigung.
Hohe Lagerbestände und schwächere Nachfrage führen zu sinkenden Preisen, von…

E-Bike-Boom in Deutschland flaut ab – Preise fallen
Nirgendwo in Europa wird so viel Geld mit E-Bikes gemacht wie in Deutschland. Nach Jahren des Booms ist der Markt gesättigt. Kunden profitieren von Rabatten.

Farewell to religious freedom, and Trump’s ballroom bribery balderdash
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2026/4/25/800027344/series/farewell-to-religious-freedom-and-trumps-ballroom-bribery-balderdash/

Update your threat model accordingly.
The document does explicitly talk about essentially automating linguistic forensics. This is a case where the semantic ablation of an LLM could actually help retain anonymity, but that has yet to be studied (as far as I know). This is not 100%, and probably wouldn't hold up in court (if you have a good lawyer).
But the point is not that. The point is that it would be used to identify a set of high probability candidate and then use targeted attacks from there. This does seem to miss. I haven't read far enough in to see why.
It also seems to be going on a lot more than linguistic forensics. It also doesn't seem to be about deanonymization so much as connecting accounts across platforms, where accounts may not be trying hard to obscure their identity. While this is definitely the type of research that would get very specific types of funding, that doesn't mean it works exactly as advertised.

Firefighters contending with an overheating tank of hazardous chemicals in southern California
said they had eliminated the threat of the tank exploding in an overnight operation, Orange County fire officials said on Monday.
The damaged chemical tank in Garden Grove California had cracked over the weekend,
which authorities were hopeful would relieve pressure and reduce the risk of an explosion.
Officials said crews conducted tank temperature checks at night to reduce …

The DOJ is prosecuting a Cop City protester for allegedly providing CBP with a "duress" passcode that wiped the contents of his GrapheneOS phone (Timothy Pratt/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/23/cop-city-protester-phone…

US government targets Cop City protester over phone operating system
Concern over US effort to prosecute Sam Tunick, accused by authorities of wiping his phone using GrapheneOS

A Trump Tower planned for the Georgian capital, Tbilisi, is to be built on land currently part-owned by the son of the US-sanctioned leader of the country, according to official records.
The proposed skyscraper, a joint venture between a local consortium and the Trump Organization, which is managed by the US president’s sons, Donald Trump Jr and Eric Trump,
will be on a plot whose current registered owner is the International Charity Fund Cartu.
According to official record…

Anzahl der #Windkraftanlagen je #Bundesland in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 22.05.2026.
Die „Ausschließliche Wirtschaftszone“ bedeutet Offshore-Standort.
Der Datenbestand enthä…

France defends abstention on UN slave trade resolution | Slavery | Al Jazeera
https://www.aljazeera.com/video/newsfeed/2026/4/25/france-defends-abstention-on-un-slave-trade-resolution

Google says computer use is now a built-in tool supported in Gemini 3.5 Flash, available via the Gemini API and Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform (Mateo Quiros/The Keyword)
https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-rese…

Introducing computer use in Gemini 3.5 Flash
A look at the built-in computer use tool in Gemini 3.5 Flash.

Iran has denied suggestions that a deal with the US is imminent,
pointing to the confusion in US positions and Israeli interference as key factors in why a complete agreement is proving difficult to secure.
Speaking at the weekly foreign ministry press briefing, Esmail Baghaei, the spokesperson for Iran’s negotiating team, also said future management of the strait of Hormuz was a matter for Oman and Iran to reach agreement on,
and that it was not tolls that were being propo…

X says it is cracking down on large accounts that have been gaming its revenue-sharing program by "programmatically reuploading content from smaller accounts" (Lakshmi Varanasi/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/x-cracks-down-on-sto…

X is cracking down on content thieves
X's head of product, Nikita Bier, says the platform is moving to protect its creator revenue share program from users who steal original content.

Politicians must be held accountable if their lies damage democracy,
according to a former US federal prosecutor and FBI general counsel who was pursued by Donald Trump.
The US must be “as creative as possible” and introduce sweeping structural reforms
if it escapes its current “mess”,
said Andrew Weissmann, laying out a proposal for a legislative crackdown on election deceit.
“Lying can be held to account,” argued Weissmann,
a senior figure in former FBI …

Der #ADFC zieht eine kritische Halbzeitbilanz zum Nationalen #Radverkehrsplan.
Wichtige Ziele bei #Radwegenetzen,

ADFC kommentiert Halbzeitbilanz des Nationalen Radverkehrsplans
Die Halbzeitbilanz des Nationalen Radverkehrsplans fällt aus ADFC-Sicht ernüchternd aus. Deutschland verfehlt zentrale Radverkehrsziele bei Ausbau, Sicherheit, Fahrradnutzung und Finanzierung.

"The NSF has a long history of supporting technology and research that powers many innovations the world relies on today. The agency helped language-learning app Duolingo get its start. NSF research has also helped evolve technology used in MRIs, cellphones and LASIK eye surgery."
National Science Board members dismissed by Trump - The Washington Post
https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2026/04/25/national-science-board-members-dismissed/

The gulf between US stocks and Americans’ spirits keeps widening.
The Dow on Friday hit a record high
— the same day consumer sentiment hit an all-time low.
Beyond pressures from the Iran war, which stock markets have largely shrugged off, AI is a factor in the divergence.
Traders are all-in on AI, but Americans are fretting over its impact on jobs.
Donald Trump has heralded the stock gains, but the bond market could put pressure on the White House.
Yields…

US consumer sentiment falls as Dow hits record
The gulf between US stocks and Americans’ spirits keeps widening.

Iranian state media reports that President Masoud Pezeshkian has issued an order to reopen international internet access after a near-90-day blackout (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/irans-pre…

"Grandma, get on": Ukrainian robot carried 77-year-old from grey zone near Lyman (VIDEO) - Euromaidan Press
https://euromaidanpress.com/2026/04/25/grandma-get-on-ukrainian-robot-carried-77-year-old-from-grey-zone-near-lyman/

Windkraft-Intensitätsindex je Bundesland relativ zum geometrischen Mittel aus Fläche & Einwohnerzahl, Stand 22.05.2026.
Nur in Betrieb befindliche Anlagen berücksichtigt. „Ausschließliche Wirtschaftszone“ (Offshore) ausgenommen.
👉 Erläuterung für Nerds 😊:

Trump hosted a gala luncheon for leading $TRUMP holders, where he spoke about his pro-crypto policies, but avoided the memecoin's declining value (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/finance/currencies/trumps-cryp…

Venice is sinking. We analyzed every plan to save it, and none would preserve the city as we know it
https://phys.org/news/2026-04-venice-city.html#goog_rewarded

A look at Tin Can's $100 retro-style, Wi-Fi-enabled landline phone, and how some schools are seeding the device to students in an attempt to curb smartphone use (Samantha Kelly/Bloomberg)

Opus 5 improves coding, reasoning efficiency, and prompt-cache-friendly tool use, and is priced at $5/1M input tokens and $25/1M output, same as Opus 4.8 (David Gewirtz/ZDNET)
https://www.zdnet.com/article/claude-opus-5-near-fable-performance-at-half-the…

Claude Opus 5 arrives with near Fable performance at half the price
Anthropic's latest Claude upgrade targets developers and enterprises with stronger coding, better reasoning efficiency, prompt-cache-friendly tool changes, and near-Fable performance at Opus pricing.

UNDERNEWS: Trump being sued for memo saying that text messages between officials can be deleted despite law to the contrary
https://prorevnews.blogspot.com/2026/04/trump-being-sued-for-memo-saying-that.html

World Foundation, the nonprofit behind the World protocol, raised $52.5M led by Pantera through a strategic sale of its WLD token with a one-year lockup (Yogita Khatri/The Block)
https://www.theblock.co/post/409610/world-foundation-wld-token-sale-funding

They ask me about Trump's latest 'post.
We could spend the whole day reacting to every buffoonish spectacle coming out of the White House,
but that's exactly what they want:
for us to lose focus.
Politics used to have a limit of shame.
Today, it seems the strategy is simply to exhaust our capacity for astonishment.
🔥Don't be distracted by the noise;
watch what they are doing to your rights while you stare at the screen.
-- BARAC…

A bona fide financial crisis has not broken out since the US housing meltdown of 2007.
Even the Covid pandemic and subsequent upsurge in inflation didn’t lead to financial upheaval.
The jitters produced by the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank in 2023 were soon forgotten.
Given this stability, it might take some effort to convince financial markets that another big one is around the corner.
But it is.
Financial markets and their regulating governments may believe …

A gaggle of women in the bloom of youth gathered outside Manhattan’s criminal courthouse last week,
waxing philosophical about Luigi Mangione and the man he is accused of murdering.
“Fuck Brian Thompson, that’s all I’m going to say,”
one of the three women, who sported a button adorned with Mangione’s face, said of the late UnitedHealthcare executive.
After directing the same invective towards Thompson’s mother, the woman continued: “I said what I said.”
“His c…

Patreon lays off 20% of its employees, or 93 people, citing a "painful" restructuring due to "profound" changes in the creator economy (Corbin Bolies/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/biz/news/patreon-cuts-20-percen…

Patreon Lays Off 20% of Employees as Part of ‘Painful’ Restructuring
Patreon, the creator-focused monetization platform, said it was laying off 20% of its employees as it changed how its internal structure operates.

The World Health Organization has warned that the Ebola outbreak is outpacing response efforts and countries neighbouring the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) are at high risk from the disease.
“We are urgently scaling up operations, but at the moment the epidemic is outpacing us,”
said the WHO’s director-general, Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus,
as he urged neighbouring countries to take immediate action.
Addressing an online meeting of the African Union about the ou…

Quartermaster, which is building an analytics platform and a SmartMast, with sensors on a ship's mast to relay real-time maritime data, raised a $43M Series A (Sean O'Kane/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/20/this-startup-raised-43m-…

This startup raised $43M to build a hive mind for ships | TechCrunch
The Arlington, Virginia-based startup has raised $42 million to equip ships with sensors that blow the current AIS tech out of the water.

Protesters outside a New Jersey migrant detention center where a hunger strike is under way alleged that US immigration agents deployed pepper spray and batons against them during a demonstration on Monday.
The protesters tried to stop ICE from transferring Martin Soto – who announced the strike – but officials said that they were able to move him to the Elizabeth contract detention facility.
Demonstrators claimed that the incident unfolded early this morning outside Delaney Hall…

Do you thnk it's possible that Fox News has told you something that they knew was not true?
https://bsky.app/profile/ashleyzacharias.bsky.social/post/3mmot2qvaws2c

Ashley Zacharias (@ashleyzacharias.bsky.social)
Do you thnk it's possible that Fox News has told you something that they knew was not true?

https://bsky.app/profile/sher12.bsky.social/post/3mmkuynp3422q

@sher12.bsky.social

Sources: Google AI researchers Jonas Adler and Alexander Pritzel, both viewed internally as key contributors to Gemini, are planning to leave for Anthropic (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-06-24/g…

The Populist Paralympian Who Wants to Roll Into the Senate
Iowa state Rep. Josh Turek has scored upsets before.
Flipping Iowa back to Democrats would be his biggest yet.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/05/the-populis…

The populist Paralympian who wants to roll into the Senate
Iowa state Rep. Josh Turek has scored upsets before. Flipping Iowa back to Democrats would be his biggest yet.

It’s been more than five years since the election,
the results already had been investigated multiple times,
and the ballots had been counted, recounted, and recounted again.
The lie that the 2020 election was stolen has persisted.
And the “Stop the Steal” movement’s most ardent believers now hold unprecedented positions of power,
including on the once-sleepy State Election Board in the important swing state of Georgia.
A lawyer known for his willingness …

Déjà vote: “Stop the Steal” never stopped
Election lies fuel an FBI raid and a push to rewrite voting laws as the 2026 midterms approach.

RE: https://c.im/@cdarwin/116633191257029221
Emergency crews in Orange County California faced a fourth day of trying to secure a bulging pressurized tank loaded with 7,000 gallons of methyl methacrylate.
Officials exhibited some optimism on Sunday.
Loca…

Failing chemical tank in Orange County rises to 100 degrees
— the maximum temperature on the gauge
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2026-05-24/failing-orange-county-chemical-tank-rises-to-…

Failing Orange County chemical tank rises to 100 degrees — the maximum temperature on the gauge
The failing Orange County tank filled with a toxic chemical and at risk of exploding has reached 100 degrees Fahrenheit, the maximum reading on the gauge, officials said Sunday.

Chimpanzees have only a slight preference for their right hand
https://www.sciencealert.com/two-ancient-clues-may-finally-explain-why-90-of-us-are-right-handed

Which countries could actually feed themselves independently if all international food trade shut down?
Just one, according to a new study.
Researchers from the University of Göttingen in Germany and the University of Edinburgh analyzed food production data from 186 countries.
The findings revealed that Guyana is the only country that can be entirely self-sufficient in all seven key food groups that the study focused on.
China and Vietnam were the runners-up, producin…

Just One Nation Produces Enough Food For Itself, Scientists Reveal
Global politics don't feel particularly cooperative at the moment, but which countries could actually feed themselves independently if all international food trade shut down? Just one, according to a new study.

China launched its crewed Shenzhou-23 spacecraft and eased it into a successful docking with a space station early Monday as part of Beijing's ambitions to send humans to the Moon by 2030, state media said.
During this mission, a Chinese astronaut is scheduled to spend a full year in orbit on the Tiangong space station, a crucial first in the Chinese lunar landing programme.
The Long March 2-F rocket blasted off in a cloud of flames and smoke on time at 11:08 pm (1508 GMT) Su…

Successful Launch Spurs China Toward Crucial First For Moon Landing
China launched its crewed Shenzhou-23 spacecraft and eased it into a successful docking with a space station early Monday as part of Beijing's ambitions to send humans to the Moon by 2030, state media said.

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Russia’s latest attacks against Ukraine, which involved an Oreshnik intermediate-range ballistic missile,
showed “reckless nuclear-brinkmanship”, the EU’s foreign policy chief said.
“Russia hit a dead-end on …

Russia used its powerful hypersonic #Oreshnik ballistic missile for a third time in Ukraine
as part of a massive attack on Kyiv and its surrounding region that killed at least four people and injured about 100.
Russia hit the city of Bila Tserkva in the Kyiv region with the missile, Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, said.
He described a heavy Russian assault that also hit a water…

When the Jamaican MP Nekeisha Burchell stood up to give her maiden speech, she was keenly aware of how much her country’s parliament mirrored the Westminster version thousands of miles away in London.
Burchell, the opposition spokesperson for culture, creative industries and information, approached the microphone and began to speak.
“Madam speaka, mi git up dis afta noon fi mek mi fuss sectoral speech, pan me portfolio …”
The speaker, Juliet Holness, immediately cut her off.…

Syria saw an opportunity when the war with Iran cut off access to one of the world’s most important shipping routes.
With multiple Mediterranean ports and borders with Turkey, Iraq, Jordan and Lebanon, the country offers a desperately needed alternative to the blocked Strait of Hormuz, a strategic waterway that, before the war, was used to transport a hefty share of the global oil supply.
Iraq and Gulf states including the United Arab Emirates have already begun to transport oil an…

Blocked Strait of Hormuz Leads to New Opportunities for Syria
The latest war in the Middle East has created new economic opportunities for Syria thanks to its geography.

Senate Republicans cast doubt on the viability of a potential peace deal between the United States and Iran over the weekend
as Donald Trump doubled down in support of his administration’s negotiations to end the nearly three-month-old war.
U.S. and Iranian officials have described an emerging framework that would reopen the Strait of Hormuz and in which, U.S. officials say, Iran would commit to disposing of its highly enriched uranium.
Iranian officials have also said that…

Senate Republicans Cast Doubt on a Potential Peace Deal With Iran
Lawmakers, including some of President Trump’s closest allies, slammed the emerging agreement as effectively undermining the president’s own war goals.

When Miami Beach activist
Donna Nevel was leafleting for Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) last year at one of the biggest art fairs in the country,
she was shocked to see a billboard-bearing truck emblazoned with her name and photo, along with the words “Jew hater.”
Now, JVP is alleging that Miami Beach City Commissioner David Suarez spent $4,000 of his own money on three billboard trucks to target Nevel and another outspoken JVP member as well as the local chapter of the organi…

South Florida Elected Official Targets 2 Constituents Who Are JVP Activists
Jewish Voice for Peace says a city commissioner personally spent $4,000 on billboard trucks targeting local activists.

Ccontrast Trump’s AI Jesus post with another Trump image that came into prominence last week:
As everyone else in the room is animated by concern for the fallen man’s well-being
—they’re elevating his legs to ensure that blood is flowing to his brain
—Trump is assuming the bored-to–petulant affect he normally shows when he’s not the center of attention.
He’s standing with his arms dangling at his side with his prepared remarks open on the desk in front of him.
He’…

How Trump Keeps Getting Away With Blasphemy
Liberals struggle to understand why the president’s evangelical supporters never seem to mind his sacrilegious tendencies. They’re missing the point.

Trump has been appeasing Putin and working to help Russia win its war with Ukraine since his first day in office and gotten nothing in return.
He just went to China and made major concessions without getting anything in return.
And now Iran
- it appears he once again is yielding to an adversary, getting nothing in return for the US,
and once again leaving the Iranian-Russian (and Chinese) alliance in a far stronger position.
It is as if every chance he gets T…

Our Weak And Cowardly Leader Keeps Yielding To Our Adversaries And Selling Out America
Let's keep working hard this weekend for Johnny Garcia in TX-35. The election is Tuesday!