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China's National Data Administration says the country's daily AI token consumption hit 140T in March 2026, up from 100T in December 2025 and 100B in early 2024 (Minxiao Chang/South China Morning Post)
https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trends/arti

Insert token: how China’s surging AI use is turning compute into currency
As the cost of running AI models continues to drop, the token economy is reshaping ecosystems far beyond corporate cubicles.

Some seasons of shows from Paramount UK, including The Agency, are £2.99 on Apple/Prime.
https://www.justwatch.com/uk/tv-series/the-agency-2024

The Agency - watch tv series streaming online
Find out how and where to watch "The Agency" online on Netflix, Prime Video, and Disney+ today – including 4K and free options.

If true, this will be a fail at the first hurdle.
Burnham to announce plans for new North Sea oil and gas drilling - BBC News
#ClimateCollapse

Burnham to announce plans for new North Sea oil and gas drilling
Drilling has become a controversial topic for the Labour party after the 2024 manifesto pledged to not issue new licences.

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Of course, there will still be ads. And auctions as well. And not only will that determine which ads show up, but how many words the LLM is writing about a product. They call it “prominence allocation”. The ad is in the generated content.
(Thanks @… for the hint!)

Beloved Ex-Browns Star Tabbed to Sign With NFC Contender https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/nick-chubb-nfc-contender/

With the death of the Belgian theoretical physicist François #Englert on 18 June at the age of 93 - https://home.cern/francois-englert-1932-2026/ - all three 'fathers' of the Brout-Englert-Higgs field have passed away: Englert's associate Robert Brout had died in 2011, its independent proposer Peter Higgs in 2024. Particles thus no longer have mass: hold them tight ...

"which emojis are used the least often?" - Great question, and we rarely find data on this! But luckily, we studied this at least for two corpora with German users (and admittedly only for face emojis). So: Many object or symbol emojis (from the "tail end" of the emoji list) are very, very rarely used. Overall, faces and hearts are the most frequent. Among the face emojis, we compiled the full list of usages from a huge Twitter corpus (semi-public communication, 2014-2022) and a much small WhatsApp chat corpus (private or group communication). You can find the frequencies in this table linked below (and sort by frequency by clicking on the column). The least frequent face emoji in the large corpus was the "frowning face with open mouth" 😦, which most people have never seen before. Personally, I think it's pretty ambiguous and not very useful, as there are better emojis for anything it might express. #emojis #linguistics #WorldEmojiDay
https://tscheffler.github.io/2024-Face-Emoji-Norming/ratings.html

I should probably toss the unopened mayonnaise in my fridge huh

Designing single-layer PDMS devices for micron to millimeter-scale deformations
Leon Valentin Gebhard, Alexandre S. Avaro, Gabriel Amselem, Charles N. Baroud
https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.17402 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2605.17402 https://arxiv.org/html/2605.17402
arXiv:2605.17402v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: The elasticity of PDMS has played a central role in advancing important microfluidic technologies, ranging from early valves to sophisticated organ-on-a-chip systems. However, most deformable microfluidic devices are based on geometries that require complex multi-layer PDMS architectures and include thin membranes, leading to difficult microfabrication and poor stability. Recently, Jain, Belkadi et al. (Biofabrication 16.3 (2024): 035010) introduced a single-layer device in which a wide and long microfluidic channel was deformed by controlling the pressure in two independent and adjacent air chambers. While they demonstrated the ability to deform the channel ceiling to compress biological materials, the design parameters remain unexplored. Here, we perform a numerical study on 14,336 variants of this device and identify the height of the PDMS layer, the width of the microchannel and the width of the air chamber as the main features that determine the ceiling deformation. Three deformation modes are observed as the geometrical parameters are varied: A U shape with a central minimum, a W shape with two minima and a central maximum, or an inverse U shape with an upward-bulging single maximum. The numerical results are validated in experiments that reproduce the three shapes for the predicted geometries and demonstrate vertical ceiling deformations ranging from a few microns to the millimeter scale. The generality of this approach is demonstrated for two example applications: A fully closing single-layer microfluidic valve and an optical lens of controllable anisotropy. This work leverages the rapid prototyping enabled by 3D printing or micro-milling to open new perspectives in microfluidic actuation.
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Is it too much to check that the dates of events occurred *after* July 2024 before blaming them on the policies of the current UK government?

Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau der #Windenergieleistung in #Deutschland. Stand: 30.06.2026.
Summen der Inbetriebnahmen und Stilllegungen pro Jahr.
Der Datenbestand enthält ggf. unplausible Datensätze.
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Brandon Aiyuk delivers message in video post, calls 49ers 'little-a-- boys,' tells them to 'stop running from the bill' https://www.nfl.com/news/brandon-aiyuk-delivers-message-in-video-post-cal…

But first, needed to walk to nearby grocery store to buy a malbec. Opted for the San Uberto 2024 because it was the cheapest. But also got a bottle of Cordero Con Piel De Lobo 2025 for me, not the flies, because I liked the label. #wine #swarthmore #alcohol

from my link log —
Why writing correct software is hard.
https://pron.github.io/posts/correctness-and-complexity
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Why Writing Correct Software Is Hard
We try to understand the relationship between programs and correctness, and in particular, why writing correct programs must be hard. We will review results from computability theory and complexity theory, and see that programs and complete understanding – which is required for correctness – are fundamentally at odds.

Remember the disastrous way Columbus handled its breach two years ago? The city's IT director, who is partially responsible for the mess, is retiring and will be lauded by the city council.
https://www.wosu.org/politics-g…

Columbus' IT director retiring nearly two years after major cyber attack exposed citizens' data
Soon after the city first noticed something was wrong on July 18, 2024, officials shut down systems to thwart the attack. The action shut down the city's systems for months, leaving some systems not fully operational until 2025.

Filing: TKO Group CEO Ari Emanuel's pay package in 2025 was $67.3M, up from $18.1M in 2024, and President Mark Shapiro's compensation hit $42.6M, up from $31.9M (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business

Ari Emanuel’s TKO Pay Rises to $67.3 Million
The owner of UFC and WWE released its annual proxy filing Thursday, with Dwayne Johnson also receiving $900,000 for the use of his 'Rock' IP.

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MJ Lenderman:
🎵 Wristwatch (6 Music Session, 10 Dec 2024)
#MJLenderman
https://mjlenderman.bandcamp.com/track/wristwatch
https://open.spotify.com/track/4j2DQgFAyVuKOBFpq4vEPR