
2025-07-01 04:02:00
Russian logistics hub burning in occupied Luhansk Oblast amid reported drone attack, explosions: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/01/russian-logistics-hub-burning-in.html
The US Army awards Palantir a contract worth up to $10B over the next decade, creating a "comprehensive framework for the Army's future software and data needs" (Elizabeth Dwoskin/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/…
No shit, Sherlock: "Israel’s War on Iran Backfired".
#iran
Oliver North being invited to Fox News as a “military analyst” talking about how Iran shouldn't have missiles and is a threat to peace in the middle east, as if it wasn't him who sold missiles to Iran in order to create untraceable funds through which to support the Contras in Nicaragua when congress cut funding (which was high treason).
You're a threat to peace everywhere.
Someone is not happy. Needs more #gravy
And finally...
Back home from Greenland, the final #FieldworkDiary - what did we learn?
http://sternaparadisaea.net/2025/05/24/field-diary-2025/
@… :ore:
これはリアクションに便乗する機能によるもので、こちらに登録はされてないんです。
自由に使えるわけじゃなくて、投稿に既についてる時にだけ 1 できる機能です。
»Pay up or stop scraping – Cloudflare program charges bots for each crawl:
Cloudflare now beta testing pay-per-crawl feature to stop endless AI scraping.
Cloudflare is now experimenting with tools that will allow content creators to charge a fee to AI crawlers to scrape their websites.«
This is certainly a good idea, but on the other hand, the competition is trying to eliminate each other. I'm curious… 🍿😎
Is it antisemitic to identify a violent state institution with the religion/ethnicity of the (majority of the) people who happen to inhabit the territory controlled by that state?
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2025/jul/01/bbc-b…
I've been remiss in posting Toy Camera photos but I've added some new ones!
➡️ http://photos.rasterweb.net/index.php?/category/33
#ShittyCameraChallenge…
US government takes down major North Korean ‘remote IT workers’ operation
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/30/us-government-takes-down-major-north-korean-remote-it-workers-operation/
Bernd: "Linus Thorvalds Tochter ist im College und schrieb ihm, dass ihn dort alle kennen, weil er Git erfunden hat."
Mela: *Stöhnt* "Linus Thorvalds Tochter ist im College?"
Bernd: "Sind wir alt?"
Mela: "Ich erinnere mich noch an die Ankündigung ihrer Geburt."
#SzenenEinerEhe
The Python-based data-exfiltration utility used by the Cl0p ransomware group (commonly distributed as part of the toolset during the 2023 – 2024 MoveIt campaigns) constructs operating-system commands by directly concatenating attacker-supplied strings without input sanitization. An authenticated endpoint on the Cl0p operators’ staging/collection host passes file-or directory-names received from compromised machines straight into a shell-escape sequence. No official patch or cooperation from …
This giving circle has apparently stalled out, and could use a boost if you have a few bucks to spare:
https://chuffed.org/project/hope-giving-circle
«Ein permanentes Opt-Out bei deinem Internetanbieter sei nicht vorgesehen und notwendig, erklärt die Deutsche Telekom auf Anfrage von netzpolitik.org.»
https://netzpolitik.org/2025/utiq-tracking-jetzt-auch-am-internetanschluss-zu-hause/
'Russian bombers are burning en masse' — Ukraine's SBU drones hit 'more than 40' aircraft in mass attack, source claims.
Fantastic operation by Ukraine's security service, launching drones from trucks parked inside Russia!
https://
“Check / Uncheck all in a Table”
https://adrianroselli.com/2025/07/check-uncheck-all-in-a-table.html
TL;DR: Unless you have user testing results saying otherwise, maybe put a check-all checkbox outside the table.
The rest of this thread ha…
#birdsOfMastodon #birds #naturePhotography
A cormorant standing on rocks at the edge of a pond. June 2025
yes. Donny. It was. You've been had and you're too dumb to see it coming.
#TheAmericanFascist https://sharkey.world/notes/a8gl1cr92e2u008v
'Clinton Plan' Emails Were Likely Made by Russian Spies, Declassified Report Shows (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/31/us/politics/trump-clinton-emails-russia-investigation.html?unlocked_article_code=1.a08.WmHr.TWoZEuTvFEKm&smid=url-share
http://www.memeorandum.com/250731/p144#a250731p144
Watch The Hidden Lives of Pigs Now on Unchained TV https://veganfta.com/news/2025/06/02/watch-the-hidden-lives-of-pigs-now-on-unchained-tv/?utm_source=Mastodon
There are many parallels between the changes happening in academia and those in tech laid out by @….
https://pluralistic.net/2025/04/27/some-animals/#are-more-equal-than-others
Join your faculty union. If you don't have a local union (or even if you do) join the AAUP. Together we can work to make academia what it should be.
#NowPlaying - saturday night party with the faces on a john peel sunday broadcast from may '71, via trade mark of quality. @…
I joined Jake Broe for a conversation about the war in #Ukraine and the constitutional crisis in the United States. It's always great to talt with Jake, and I think it turned out really well. You can listen to it here.
https://www.
Who has ridden the California Zephyr recently? It’s been many years for me. I know there is no Wi-Fi but curious if there’s decent cell service, particularly interested between Emeryville and Grand Junction. Or if there are particular zones that are no service at all. Not interested in being on my phone but like to give a heads up to a couple of family members when I will not be reachable at all so they don’t worry.
Some time ago I predicted that the US would "go kinetic" in July 2025, i.e. that violence would break out because of the oppression coming from maga nazis, white christian nationalists, and the we-never-have-enough ultra wealthy.
Well, tomorrow is July 1, 2025 and signs are beginning to suggest that my prediction may be accurate.
I noticed that I neglected my peertube instance for a while instead of just uploading some short clips that I record on my hikes ...
#hiking
These: #ChatGPT und Co beziehen ihren eigentlichen Wert nicht aus den LLMs, sondern aus ihrem UI/UX-Design: Ein Eingabefeld, das "alles" oftmals "gut genug" kann.
Die Weiterentwicklung scheint mir daher logisch: Eine Mischung aus klassischem NLP und LLM nimmt meinen Prompt auf, analysiert ihn und "beauftragt" dann spezifische klassische Tools mit der eigentli…
#Kundenglücklichmachungsposteinlieferungsgeräusch wartet heute auf der Mitfahrerbank auf den Abholservice. .
Everyone thinks #AI can do someone else's job. Designers want to get rid of PMs. PMs think they no longer need devs. Devs can't wait to generate designs. And managers are anticipating getting rid of us all.
Alas, in the few cases the tools work at all, they get you no more than 80% of the way there. Without experts to identify where that 20-100% gap is, you have nothing.
I've …
Paxton Loses Appeal In Musk/Media Matters Lawsuit - Joe.My.God.
https://www.joemygod.com/2025/05/paxton-loses-appeal-in-musk-media-matters-lawsuit/
Dubai is emerging as a global hub for AI talent, attracting workers with its Golden Visa program, no taxes, attractive salaries, and ease of setting up business (Amar Diwakar/Rest of World)
https://restofworld.org/2025/golden-visa-ai-jobs-uae/
Zelensky signs ratification of Special Tribunal on Russian aggression: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/01/zelensky-signs-ratification-of-special.html
george takei isn't a national treasure, he's a global treasure. the united states doesn't deserve him or his books, some states banning them only proves that
@… 前々回のCOMITIA 150がたまたま40周年記念回だったので、その時が最大で、6,909サークルです。普段は3,000〜4,500ぐらいです。
Jumping on the Hype Train
Every member of the board of #OpenSource #Science can flawlessly name the #IT hype's of the last 35 years, and tell the tale. In this blog we want to explain how huge and import…
So eine Überraschung! Schon wieder Dienstag! Und damit #DNIPBriefing-Tag.
1️⃣ Archive und Bibliotheken sind sich gewohnt, in Jahrhunderten zu denken. Denn Teile ihres Datenschatzes werden auch für zukünftige Generationen relevant sein, auch wenn jetzt noch nicht klar ist, was das sein wird.
Gefährdet ist durch die erratische US-Politik auch die Plattform arXiv.org, die demnächs…
Robert is back.
Iran-linked hackers threaten to release Trump aides' emails
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/iran-linked-hackers-threaten-release-trump-aides-emails-2025-06-30/
My daughter told me she is getting a third job. (Yes, she two right now!) And then mentioned (jokingly) that she is a DEI hire.
It's at a climbing gym, where her partner has been working for a few years, and she hang out there (works out, climbs) all the time.
I said, "It's all duded there, right?" and she confirmed it's almost all male employees...
1/2
Exclusive: US plans to fund deportations from Costa Rica, document shows (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/us-plans-fund-deportations-costa-rica-document-shows-2025-08-01/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250801/p21#a250801p21
I forgot I did this on July 1 last year! 🤣
This was a good day.
Happy Canada Day! 🇨🇦
#climateEmergency #bclngburns #endfossilfuels
Mela:"Aber wegen Linux kennen Sie ihn nicht?"
Bernd: "Er schrieb, dass er Git in 4 Monaten programmiert, dann an andere Maintainer abgegeben und seit 20 Jahren nichts mehr damit zu tun hat."
#SzenenEinerEhe
'No other option'
— Russian state media article demands
no Ukrainians 'be left alive'
https://kyivindependent.com/russian-state-media-article-demands-no-ukrainians-be-left-alive/
If you are part of a book club, like maybe an accessibility book club, remember that there are far better choices than Amazon for your book.
For example, this book can come from your local independent seller or benefit a support fund:
https://bookshop.org/p/books/…
Nearly half of Israelis support army killing all Palestinians in Gaza, poll finds.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/majority-israelis-support-expulsion-palestinians-gaza-poll
Ukraine seems to have kicked one of the legs of russia’s nuclear triad pretty hard.
“Ukraine says it has hit more than 40 ‘enemy bombers’ in a drone attack deep inside Russia - which could cost the Russian air force $2bn. Last night, two bridges also collapsed in separate Russian regions - which authorities blamed on ‘explosions’.”
Thousands march in Rome against security clampdown law
https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2025/05/31/thousands-march-in-rome-against-security-clampdown-law_6741874_4.html
Cline, which offers an open-source AI coding tool with transparent billing, raised a $27M Series A led by Emergence at a $110M valuation (Rashi Shrivastava/Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/rashishrivastava/20…
Ukraine receives $500 million in IMF funding, maintaining growth forecasts: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/01/ukraine-receives-million-in-imf.html
私も昔はお前のような小さい村のリーダーだったんだが、膝に矢を受けてしまってな……
Four ways to build a zero-trust program for the AI world:
Think of AI as just another identity.
🤔 https://www.scworld.com/perspective/four-ways-to-build-a-zero-trust-program-for-the-ai-world
Saw a computer (desktop tower PC) on the side of the road today and stopped to see if there were any useful parts I could pull from it because I thought it would be hilarious to have parts in my NAS from a literal garbage PC on the side of the road.
Trump administration is launching a new private health tracking system with Big Tech’s help
The system
-- spearheaded by an administration that has already freely shared highly personal data about Americans in ways that have tested legal bounds
-- could put patients’ desires for more convenience at their doctor’s office on a collision course with their expectations that their medical information be kept private.
“There are enormous ethical and legal concerns,”
…
A Trio of US Treasury Hacks Exposes a Pattern Making Banks Nervous
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2025-06-30/us-treasury-hacks-exposes-pattern-of-federal-security-missteps-report-finds
From the cuckoo's nest in the White House:
Donald Trump Shares Unhinged Conspiracy Theory That Joe Biden Is a Robot Clone
https://www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump-shares-bonkers-conspiracy-theory-abou…
Ukraine's allies invest in drone production, while Russia loses its war machine: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/01/ukraines-allies-invest-in-drone.html
Space weather is bad, air quality is bad, mood is bad.
☹️
Senate GOP scrambles to save Alaska SNAP carveout (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/06/30/congress/senate-gop-scrambles-to-save-alaska-snap-carveout-00434310
http://www.memeorandum.com/250630/p159#a250630p159
Jamie Dimon Says China Unlikely to Fold on Tariffs: 'They're Not Scared' - Business Insider
https://www.businessinsider.com/jamie-dimon-china-tariffs-trump-trade-war-2025-5
A look at Apple's AI plans for WWDC; sources: macOS 26 will be named Tahoe and Apple is testing its 3B, 7B, 33B, and 150B AI models via internal tool Playground (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/new…
@… このぐらいファボっておけば、たぶん落ちなくなるっしょ。
Leading Ukrainian historian Plokhii steps down from top Harvard post after 12 years: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/01/leading-ukrainian-historian-plokhii-steps.html
Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wisconsin),
👉one of the richest people in the Senate,
said on Wednesday that Congress shouldn’t be banned from trading stocks
-- because the basic anti-corruption rule would make it
“unattractive” to run for office.
During debate on a congressional stock ban introduced by Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Missouri) on Wednesday,
Johnson said that he was concerned about “unintended consequences” stemming from the legislation.
He called the bill…
"With any part you play, there is a certain amount of yourself in it. There has to be, otherwise it's just not acting. It's lying."
-Johnny Depp
#acting #coaching #inspiration
Blackburn yanks support for AI moratorium (Anthony Adragna/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/06/30/congress/blackburn-yanks-support-for-ai-moratorium-00434635
http://www.memeorandum.com/250630/p157#a250630p157
Detecting, intercepting, and ejecting adversaries is getting harder as cybercriminals move faster and smarter.
Check out my latest CSO piece on how CISOs need to rethink their digital playbooks in light of these trends.
Thanks to Matt Immler of Okta, Tom Etheridge of CrowdStrike and Pierre Cadieux of Cisco Talos for their insight.
"Isaacman was not politically loyal enough to the Trump Administration."
Trump pulls Isaacman nomination for space. Source: “NASA is f***ed” - Ars Technica
https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/05/trump-pulls-isaacman-nomination-for-space-source-nasa-is-fed/
:ippantekinikaimononiikutotukaretesimaimasu:
Ukraine shows footage of Bober drones hiitting Russian air defenses, fighter jet in Crimea: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/01/ukraine-shows-footage-of-bober.html
Since announcing our plan to launch Liberty Vans
-- equipped with chaplains, lawyers, veterans, and camera crews
-- to follow ICE raids in real time and expose them to the world,
we’ve seen an outpouring of support from ALL 50 STATES.
People are ready to fight back and shine a light on the Trump administration's abuse of our country.
We need to fund the vans,
the crews, the tech, and the training to hold these agents accountable.
And thanks to…
Amazon says it has deployed over 1M robots in its warehouses, its most ever and close to its human workforce, with 75% of global deliveries aided by robotics (Sebastian Herrera/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/amazon-warehouse-
California Rolls Back Its Landmark Environmental Law (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/30/us/california-environment-newsom-ceqa.html?unlocked_article_code=1.TE8.B0UZ.zKi4gTibOf4R&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
http://www.memeorandum.com/250630/p161#a250630p161
As we head off to a brief publishing break, don't miss today's Metacurity for a string of blockbuster cybersecurity developments you should know, including
--Feds raid 29 North Korean laptop farms used to infiltrate US companies
--US feds re-up Iranian hacking warning,
--Europol busts $540m fraud ring,
--Iranian-linked Robert threatens to release Trump emails,
--ICC hit by 'sophisticated' cyberattack,
--Treasury Dept. hit by three big hacks…
Ukrainian woman, baby daughter found murdered in Germany, 16-year-old arrested, police say: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/01/ukrainian-woman-baby-daughter-found.html
@… 今回、サークルは東123ホールを使って、ギリギリまで詰めて約5450サークルとなったようです。(当初は4,500の募集だったが、6,200ぐらい集まっちゃって、頑張った。落選したサークルも多数、という状況)
ICE says its officers use a “minimum amount of force” when making arrests.
You can judge for yourself.
WHAT WE’RE SEEING
🆘Agents break car windows even when sobbing children or pregnant women
https://projects.propublica.org/trump-ice-smashed-w…
After Trump cut support, US lawmakers press for action on Russian abductions of Ukrainian children: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/01/after-trump-cut-support-us.html
The Senate megabill is on a collision course with House fiscal hawks (Benjamin Guggenheim/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/06/30/house-fiscal-hawks-arent-liking-the-senate-gops-megabill-math-00434256
http://www.memeorandum.com/250630/p158#a250630p158
International Criminal Court hit with cyber security attack
https://apnews.com/article/international-court-cyberattack-hague-netherlands-50ac8b2f53928fc1f05163c67b09c4bf
@… コミックマーケット準備会により「販売停止」扱い(修正が甘い、など)になった場合、スペースに赤い紙が張り出されるのですが、その通称が『赤紙』です。
持ち込み本、該当箇所、全数、マジックで局部修正して対応したりします……
The fate of Trump’s megabill could come down to a fight over clean energy tax credits,
as a handful of Senate Republicans stage a last-minute rally to preserve wind and solar incentives from Democrats’ 2022 climate law.
Conservatives thought they secured a major win ahead of floor action on their megabill when Trump convinced Senate Majority Leader John Thune to crack down on tax credits for wind and solar energy from the Inflation Reduction Act.
Sens. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.),…
Russia attacked Zaporizhzhia with drones: CONSEQUENCES of the strike #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/01/russia-attacked-zaporizhzhia-with-drones.html
いい一日が過ごせたかね、しゅまい [参照]
As Florida’s Republican government moves to construct a sprawling new immigration detention center in the heart of the Everglades, environmental groups and a wide range of other activists have begun to mobilize against "Gater Gitmo"
Florida’s Republican attorney general, James Uthmeier, announced last week that construction of the jail,
at the site of a disused airbase in the Big Cypress National Preserve, had begun.
According to Fox 4 Now, an affiliate in Southw…
One week ago MAGA threw me in jail
for speaking out against their gerrymandering plan
to hand Trump more control.
Gov. Gavin Newsome, Joy-Ann Reid, and even People.com told the world to pay attention.
The time for strongly worded letters is over.
We must meet this moment,
and that means electing leaders who are willing to get arrested to stop Trump's tyranny.
I'd do it again for the people of Texas.
I'm running for congress in a…
24 Senators Vote for Sanders Resolution to Stop Bombs Sale to Israel
Forty Democrats signed a letter expressing alarm over starvation in Gaza this week
— but only 27 voted to withhold arms.
https://truthout.org/articles/24-senato…
Hello – my name is Nathan Sage, and I am the Democrat running for Senate against Republican Joni Ernst here in Iowa.
I was raised in a trailer park. Growing up, that got me called a lot of names. After enough times, it’s easy to start to believe it yourself.
We were poor. I never imagined a better life until a military recruiter said that I could maybe one day graduate college.
After I got home from Iraq, I worked nights to support my family while the GI Bill paid for colle…