
2025-07-03 22:55:47
Counterpoint Research: Apple's iPhone sales in China grew 8% YoY in Q2 2025, the first time Apple has recorded growth in China since Q2 2023 (Arjun Kharpal/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/03/apple-china-iphone-sales-grew-fo…
Counterpoint Research: Apple's iPhone sales in China grew 8% YoY in Q2 2025, the first time Apple has recorded growth in China since Q2 2023 (Arjun Kharpal/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/03/apple-china-iphone-sales-grew-fo…
'Oreshnik will be on Belarusian soil,' Lukashenko says of Russian missile deployment by year-end: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/02/oreshnik-will-be-on-belarusian.html
Republicans Are Cutting Medicare.
Not Only Medicaid, Medicare.
Passage of the Big Beautiful Bill will force mandatory sequestration that will mean half a trillion dollars in Medicare cuts.
https://prospect.org/politics/2025-07-0…
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/australias-qantas-confirms-cyber-incident-one-its-contact-centres-2025-07-01/
Australia's Qantas says 6 million customer accounts accessed in cyber hack
Trump is a fascist scumbag whose regime, backed by a complicit Roberts Court, is dismantling democracy, enforcing ethnic cleansing, and crowning himself dictator while trampling the Constitution and human rights.
https://www.ninaillingworth.com/2025/07/01
Stream should be here:
https://stream.udk-berlin.de/w/p/xqqYT1VKfzFtUojF7CRquU?playlistPosition=1
Journalist Mario Guevara's lawyer says ICE has not allowed Guevara's family to post bond, leaving Guevara in custody despite a federal judge's order (Committee to Protect Journalists)
https://cpj.org/2025/07/cpj-outraged-a
So the betrayal of Ukraine by the US continues, delivering less desperately needed air defence missiles to protect civilian areas.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/07/01/pentagon-munitions-ukraine-halt-00436048
Paramount betrays '60 Minutes' and the rest of us (Erik Wemple/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/07/02/paramount-settlement-trump-betrayal/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250702/p133#a250702p133
Hah, RNZ Jesse Mulligan is interviewing another scientist I know, former colleague Steve Pawson - the second in a week (last week it was Nicola Sullivan re spiders)... That's Aotearoa for ya.
Over 100 people convicted of LGBTQ 'extremism' in Russia
https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/07/01/more-than-100-people-have-been-convicted-of-lgbtq-extremism-in-russia/
Mali : attaques djihadistes d’envergure dans l’ouest du pays
https://www.lemonde.fr/afrique/article/2025/07/01/mali-attaques-djihadistes-d-envergure-dans-l-ouest-du-pays_6617302_3212.html
"Google’s data center energy use doubled in 4 years"
#Google #Emissions #Technology
from my link log —
Is Wasm Memory64 actually worth using?
https://spidermonkey.dev/blog/2025/01/15/is-memory64-actually-worth-using.html
saved 2025-01-16
"While crop seed vaults are common around the world, nurseries for wild and native plants are rare, and many plant species quietly become extinct. This marks #Gurukula out as a Noah’s ark for endangered plant species."
‘Even if we stop drinking we will be exposed’: A French region has banned tap water. Is it a warning for the rest of Europe? https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jul/01/pfas-forever-chemicals-water-contamination-saint-lo…
Well it took @… to get me going on this after months of thinking about it... This is a handle to hold an Apple Pencil so I can try to emulate carving lino for doing digital illustrations that will be used for printmaking.
#illustration
40 years ago this evening, the #GratefulDead finish their eastern summer tour in #pittsburgh. early summer ’85, show #12
soundboard:
今週末、6月8日に『新潟コミティア60』が開催されます。会場は朱鷺メッセの4階です。
https://gataket.com/comitia/
コミティアは、コミティア実行委員会が主催する『自主制作漫画誌展示即売会』のことですが、
その趣旨に賛同した地方の有志が自分達の土地でもコミティアを行いたいと考え、そのコミティア名を借りて独自に主催する、地方コミティアが存在します。
その中でも、一番古い地方コミティアが『新潟コミティア』です。
他に『名古屋コミティア』『関西コミティア』『みちのくコミティア』『九州コミティア』『北海道コミティア』などがあります。
すべて独…
How can you support artists? Buy art.
#SupportArt #BuyArt
https://muz4now.com/2017/support-artis
What’s in Trump’s major tax bill? Extended cuts, deportations and more
Donald Trump’s sweeping legislation boosts the wealthy, funds a border wall and risks $3tn deficit before his term ends
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/01/what-is-in-bi…
Gerüchte zu kommenden iPhones: Mit und ohne Kamera-Lochung?
Frische iPhone-Leaks lassen darüber spekulieren, wie genau iPhone 18 und 19 ausschauen werden. Auch zum 17 Air gibt es neue Details.
https://…
Datadog is joining the S&P 500, replacing Juniper Networks after HPE acquired Juniper, before trading on July 9; DDOG jumps 10% after hours (Jordan Novet/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/02/datadog-stock-jumps-sp-500-index-inclusion.html
General Staff: Russia has lost 1,022,090 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/02/general-staff-russia-has-lost.html
Loser: U.S. factories
When Democrats in 2022 created and expanded a slew of federal tax breaks for electric vehicles, solar panels, wind turbines, batteries,
they designed them to encourage companies to use components made in the United States.
That spurred a manufacturing boom, including solar-panel glass recyclers in Georgia and electric-vehicle assembly lines in Kentucky.
The new law could derail many of those factories.
The old tax credit for solar power, for…
I was chased out of MIT -- and it was all because I'm Jewish (Will Sussman/New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2025/07/01/opinion/i-was-chased-out-of-mit-and-it-was-all-because-im-jewish/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250702/p138#a250702p138
Paramount agrees to pay Trump $16M to settle his 60 Minutes lawsuit, stating the money will go to his future presidential library, without offering an apology (Meg James/Los Angeles Times)
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts
Abrego Garcia Was Beaten and Tortured in El Salvador Prison, Lawyers Say - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/02/us/politics/kilmar-abrego-garcia-el-salvador-trump-deportation.html
At first I was annoyed that the CBC published this first-person story from an Alberta separatist.
But he said: “I studied political science at the University of Northern British Columbia in Prince George and learned we've never had true proportional representation…”
Once again, Justin Trudeau's betrayal of “the last FPTP election” and rejection of Proportional Representation in 2015 led to the alienation felt today.
#CanPoli #CdnPoli #ProportionalRepresentation
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/gord-larson-first-person-1.7563659
Google rolls out its Veo 3 video generation model to Google's AI Pro subscribers in more than 159 countries, with a cap of three videos per day (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/03/google-rolls-out-its-new-…
Ukraine's Constitutional Court appointments: A test of EU commitment: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/02/ukraines-constitutional-court-appointments-a.html
The giant policy bill muscled through Congress by Republicans is poised to
remake American energy
by slashing tax breaks for wind and solar power and electric cars
while maintaining some federal support for sources like nuclear reactors and geothermal plants.
The legislation, which carries Trump’s domestic policy agenda, provides a boost to fossil fuels
and dismantles many of the biggest actions the federal government has ever taken to fight climate change,
Für "Doing Digital Utopia" habe ich einen kurzen Essay dazu geschrieben, wie man "Maintenance" als konstruktive Perspektive jenseits von halbseidenen Innovationserzählungen nutzen kann.
"Und genau hier kommen wir zum Begriff der Wartung zurück. Diese ist nämlich keineswegs nur ein lästiger Kostenfaktor, ein verlorener Kampf, sondern aktive Care-Arbeit (nicht nur) an unserer Gegenwart und die Basis, wenn nicht gar ein Motor für echten Fortschritt. Ein Modus die …
How Trump's One Big, Beautiful Bill, which was approved by Congress, could cost the US the AI race by handicapping efforts to meet data center power demands (Jordan Blum/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2025/07/03/trump-big-beauti…
The Disaster That Just Passed the Senate (Ezra Klein/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/01/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-matthew-yglesias.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250702/p15#a250702p15
WGA East, which represents CBS News writers, says the Paramount settlement is a "transparent attempt to curry favors" with Trump to get Skydance merger approved (Brian Steinberg/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/param
Siemens & Co. dürfen in China wieder EDA-Tools anbieten
Die USA heben Restriktionen bei der Chipfertigung auf. China gelangt damit wieder an Design-Tools von Siemens, Cadence und Synopsys.
https://www.
Trump team threatens to prosecute CNN over reporting on Ice-tracking app | Donald Trump | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/01/trump-kristi-noem-cnn-threat
The end of Russian oil in the EU and the Danish presidency: a blow to Russia's finances?: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/02/the-end-of-russian-oil.html
FOIA docs: the Trump administration claimed broad authority to nullify laws in letters to tech firms releasing them of legal liability related to the TikTok ban (Charlie Savage/New York Times)
https://www.nyt…
US won't send some weapons pledged to Ukraine following a Pentagon review of military aid
A Pentagon review determined that stocks were too low on some weapons previously pledged to Ukraine,
so pending shipments of some items won’t be sent,
according to a U.S. official who spoke on condition of anonymity to provide information that has not yet been made public.
The Defense Department did not provide details on what specific weapons were being held back.
The…
The Tragedy of Halting Weapons to Ukraine (Jake Sullivan/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/02/opinion/trump-ukraine-weapons.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250702/p125#a250702p125
Strategic pain point: why Russia is trying to capture Pokrovsk #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/02/strategic-pain-point-why-russia.html
London-based Hived, which offers an AI-based logistics and parcel delivery service, raised a $42M Series B led by NordicNinja (Kyt Dotson/SiliconANGLE)
https://siliconangle.com/2025/07/03/uk-based-ai-driven-parcel-delivery-startup-…
Whereas Leibniz’s task was to find the sum of infinitely many known terms, Hounsfield wondered:
Could the process be run in reverse?
With enough total dimmings, from enough directions, could we work backward to deduce the unknown absorption at each point along the many beams
— and use that to see inside the brain?
Most radiologists thought the idea was crazy. -- But one doctor was willing to listen.
He handed Hounsfield a jar containing a human brain with a t…
Vibe shift in House as Trump, GOP leaders begin to flip votes (Roll Call)
https://rollcall.com/2025/07/02/vibe-shift-in-house-as-trump-gop-leaders-begin-to-flip-votes/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250702/p132#a250702p132
Google ends its Recipe Quick View pilot, which showed full recipes directly in search results, after some bloggers feared it would reduce traffic to their sites (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
Congress has approved the first national school voucher plan,
which will help all but the wealthiest families pay for private school and other educational expenses.
The plan, passed on Thursday as part of Republicans’ all-encompassing domestic policy bill,
now heads to the desk of President Trump, who is expected to sign it into law.
Families who earn up to 300 percent of their area’s median income, equivalent to more than $300,000 in some parts of the country,
…
Illegal Border Crossings Plunge to Lowest Level in Decades (Hamed Aleaziz/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/02/us/politics/border-crossings-trump.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250702/p129#a250702p129
Daniel Gross is leaving Safe Superintelligence, the AI startup he co-founded with Ilya Sutskever, to join Meta's new superintelligence lab (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-07-03/meta-hi…
Paramount said late Tuesday that it had agreed to pay Trump $16 million to settle his lawsuit over the editing of an interview on the CBS News program “60 Minutes,” an extraordinary bribe to a sitting president by a major media organization.
Paramount said its payment included Trump’s legal fees and costs and that the money, minus the legal fees, would be paid to Mr. Trump’s future presidential library. (wink, wink)
The deal is the clearest sign yet that Trump’s ability to intimi…
Tax Cuts Now, Benefit Cuts Later: The Timeline in the Republican Megabill (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/02/us/politics/tax-cuts-benefit-cuts.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250702/p117#a250702p117
Siemens says it has restored full access to its chip design software for its Chinese clients after the Trump admin lifted export curbs, initially imposed in May (Mackenzie Hawkins/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
The U.S. military B-2 Spirit bomber pilots and crew involved with the coordinated strikes on Iran's nuclear facilities last month have been invited to attend a July 4 celebration at the White House
-- but it's not clear what measures have been taken to protect their identities.
The White House confirmed to Military.com that those involved in the mission, dubbed Operation Midnight Hammer, were invited to the White House's July 4 celebration.
It follows comments mad…
Andrew Cuomo is trying to hang on to support for a general election bid (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/07/02/andrew-cuomo-new-york-sharpton-00437927
http://www.memeorandum.com/250702/p122#a250702p122
Trump's Immigration Enforcement: Free The Criminals, Jail The Innocent (Mike Masnick/Techdirt)
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/07/02/trumps-immigration-enforcement-free-the-criminals-jail-the-innocent/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250702/p130#a250702p130
How Los Angeles police officers broke protocols and injured protesters
https://www.nytimes.com/video/world/americas/100000010259036/los-angeles-protests-lapd-violence.html…
Sources: Meta offers to buy ~49% of Nat Friedman and Daniel Gross's VC fund NFDG; about half of NFDG's first fund of ~$1.1B, raised in 2023, has been invested (Yuliya Chernova/Wall Street Journal)
https:/…
The $3 Trillion Question at the Capitol: Will Conservatives Cave (Again)? (Catie Edmondson/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/02/us/politics/trump-conservatives-bill.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250702/p124#a250702p124
America’s democratic collapse has been coming for years, always just over the horizon.
But when everything that happened during Trump’s first three months in office happened and
(here’s the important part)
shockingly little was done by the few groups
(Congress, the Supreme Court, the Democratic Party, American corporations & other large institutions, media companies)
who had the power to counter it,
I knew it was over.
And over in a way that is…
Xbox says Arrowhead's Helldivers 2 will arrive on the Xbox Series X and S on August 26 for $40, the first PlayStation-published title to launch on Xbox (Cameron Faulkner/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/697430/helldivers-2-xbox…
Oz works to assuage GOP members on Medicaid relief fund (Meredith Lee Hill/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/07/02/congress/oz-medicaid-relief-hospitals-00437647
http://www.memeorandum.com/250702/p121#a250702p121
I’m going to be very honest and clear.
I am fully preparing myself to die under this new American regime.
That’s not to say that it’s the end of the world. It isn’t.
But I am almost 50 years old. It will take so long to do anything with this mess that this is the new normal for *me*.
I do hope a lot of you run. I hope you vote, sure.
Maybe do a general strike or rent strike.
All great!
But I spent the last week reading things and this is not, for ME…
Samsung's One UI 8 build animation files show its future tri-fold phone, with three rear panels and two inward-folding hinges, rumored to be the Galaxy G Fold (Aamir Siddiqui/Android Authority)
https://www.androidauthority.com/samsung-g…
Kilmar Abrego Garcia describes 'severe beatings' and 'psychological torture' in Salvadoran prison (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/07/02/kilmar-abrego-garcia-salvadoran-prison-account-00438153
http://www.memeorandum.com/250702/p131#a250702p131
A long outage of Columbia University servers last week was due to a hacker,
seemingly with a pro-Trump agenda of stealing data to show the guilty nature of
“woke” university policies.
In particular this hacker gave the data for 2.5 million applications to Columbia over many years to Bloomberg News.
Not sure what this would show of significance other than the already heavily litigated fact that Columbia and most other universities have been practicing affirmative act…
Australia cancels rapper Ye's visa over 'Heil Hitler' song (Christine Chen/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/australia-says-it-cancelled-kanye-wests-visa-over-heil-hitler-song-2025-07-02/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250702/p123#a250702p123
Orange County congresswoman targeted by protests over Trump megabill, cuts to healthcare
Protesters railed on Tuesday against Orange County GOP Rep Young Kim
who could be a critical vote on Trump’s proposal to cut more than $1 trillion in federal dollars
that helped pay for healthcare for those in need and extend tax cuts for millions of Americans.
Trump’s proposed Megabill narrowly passed the U.S. Senate hours before hundreds of people gathered in a cul-de-sac outsi…
Under Trump pressure, UC says student governments are banned from boycotting Israel (Jaweed Kaleem/Los Angeles Times)
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-07-02/uc-bans-israel-boycotts-bds-student-governement-trump-pressure
http://www.memeorandum.com/250702/p127#a250702p127
Two-time Georgia gubernatorial candidate and voting rights activist Stacey Abrams spoke at the event,
denouncing efforts by the Trump administration to strip the names of activists from Navy vessels, including possibly Medgar Evers.
“They want to take his name off a boat because they don’t want us to have a reminder of how far he sailed us forward,” Abrams told the conference crowd.
U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has undertaken an effort to change the names of ships a…
Powell confirmed Fed would have cut interest rates by now were it not for Trump's tariffs
Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell said earlier this morning that the central bank would likely have already cut interest rates this year had it not been for the economic shock caused by Donald Trump’s tariff policies.
When asked if Trump’s tariffs on imported goods held up the Fed’s plan to cut interest rates, Powell replied:
"I think that’s right."
Speaking at a c…
Penn Agrees to Limit Participation of Transgender Athletes (Alan Blinder/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/01/us/penn-title-ix-transgender-swimmer-trump.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250702/p3#a250702p3
Trump Withholds Nearly $7 Billion for Schools, With Little Explanation (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/01/us/trump-education-funds.html?unlocked_article_code=1.TU8.RehK.-U2C3eIqvrZt&smid=url-share
http://www.memeorandum.com/250701/p172#a250701p172
While it may not feel like it since January,
the rule of law still matters.
The U.S. remains a signatory to dozens of international agreements related to the use of force,
which ultimately protect our national security interests.
We have a raft of U.S. laws, including a Constitution and Bill of Rights,
that determine how and when our nation may legally engage in conflict abroad.
We are ill-served as a public when the most crucial decision a government can …
House members scramble to return to DC for megabill vote (Aaron Pellish/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/07/01/congress/rushing-back-to-the-capitol-00436824
http://www.memeorandum.com/250702/p13#a250702p13
The US is preparing to authorize giving Israel B-2 stealth bombers
and 30,000-pound, 20-foot-long “bunker buster” bombs
if Iran resumes its nuclear weapons program,
under a new bill proposed by a bipartisan pair of lawmakers.
The Bunker Buster Act would allow Trump to “take actions to ensure Israel is prepared for all contingencies if Iran seeks to develop a nuclear weapon,”
according to Reps. Josh Gottheimer, (D-NJ), and Mike Lawler, (R-NY), who proposed the le…
Trump Falsely Claims Mamdani Is an Illegal Immigrant and Threatens to Arrest Him (Chris Cameron/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/01/us/politics/trump-zohran-mamdani.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250702/p14#a250702p14
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered the Navy to rename the
USNS Harvey Milk,
a highly rare move that will strip the ship of the moniker of a slain gay rights activist who served as a sailor during the Korean War.
The change was laid out in an internal memo that officials said defended the action as a move to align with Trump and Hegseth’s objectives to
“re-establish the warrior culture
Johnson stares down hard-liners on megabill procedural vote (Meredith Lee Hill/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/07/02/congress/megabill-rule-standoff-00438161
http://www.memeorandum.com/250702/p137#a250702p137
Trump's Task as He Heads to Iowa: Selling His Bill to the American Public (Tyler Pager/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/03/us/politics/trump-policy-bill.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250703/p44#a250703p44
GOP leaders look to White House to sway Freedom Caucus on megabill (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/07/02/congress/gop-megabill-freedom-caucus-00437113
http://www.memeorandum.com/250702/p67#a250702p67
Republicans Are Cutting Medicare. Not Only Medicaid, Medicare. (David Dayen/American Prospect)
https://prospect.org/politics/2025-07-03-republicans-cutting-medicare-not-only-medicaid/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250703/p63#a250703p63
Paramount agrees to pay $16 million to settle Trump's CBS '60 Minutes' lawsuit (Meg James/Los Angeles Times)
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/business/story/2025-07-01/paramount-settles-trump-cbs-60-minutes-lawsuit
http://www.memeorandum.com/250702/p68#a250702p68
Former Treasury Secretary Jack Lew: Mamdani's policies are not good for New York (CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/video/2025/07/02/former-treasury-secretary-jack-lew-mamdanis-policies-are-not-good-for-new-york.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250702/p139#a250702p139
Trump administration targets CNN coverage of migration app (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/homeland-security-secretary-noem-says-cnn-may-be-prosecuted-over-report-2025-07-01/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250702/p6#a250702p6
Assaults On ICE Officers Are Up 700%... Which Just Means There Have Been 69 More Assaults Than Last Year (Tim Cushing/Techdirt)
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/07/02/assaults-on-ice-officers-are-up-700-which-just-means-there-have-been-69-more-assaults-than-last-year/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250702/p111#a250702p111
Supreme Court to review scope of states' immunity after a pair of bus accidents (Ry Rivard/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/07/03/supreme-court-nj-transit-accidents-00439417
http://www.memeorandum.com/250703/p102#a250703p102
Israeli military used 500lb bomb in strike on Gaza cafe, fragments reveal (Jason Burke/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jul/02/israeli-military-bomb-fragments-gaza-al-baqa-cafe
http://www.memeorandum.com/250702/p119#a250702p119
Huge Setback for Trump With Alligator Alcatraz Already Flooding (Josh Fiallo/The Daily Beast)
https://www.thedailybeast.com/huge-setback-for-trump-with-alligator-alcatraz-already-flooding/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250702/p136#a250702p136
Biden, in Rare Remarks Since Presidency, Warns His Accomplishments Are Coming Undone (Lindsay Ellis/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/biden-in-rare-remarks-since-presidency-warns-his-accomplishments-are-coming-undone-18c58c50
http://www.memeorandum.com/250702/p135#a250702p135
Trump's Lawfare Against the Free Press (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/donald-trump-lawfare-media-kristi-noem-cnn-iceblock-cbs-paramount-2ce75c5e
http://www.memeorandum.com/250702/p134#a250702p134