
2025-06-22 16:02:30
“US signals a willingness to renew talks with Iran and avoid a prolonged war”
https://www.bostonherald.com/2025/06/22/us-signals-a-willingness-to-renew-talks-with-iran-and-avoid-a-prolonged-war/
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“US signals a willingness to renew talks with Iran and avoid a prolonged war”
https://www.bostonherald.com/2025/06/22/us-signals-a-willingness-to-renew-talks-with-iran-and-avoid-a-prolonged-war/
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Digital Asset, which builds Canton Network, an open-source public blockchain for regulated financial institutions, raised $135M co-led by DRW and Tradeweb (Ryan Browne/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/24/goldman-sachs-citadel-digital-asset.html
ELIZA Reanimated: Restoring the Mother of All Chatbots to One of the World’s First Time-Sharing Systems
https://www.computer.org/csdl/magazine/an/2025/02/11030922/27sQDLuL7Uc
One of only a few games I vividly played on my Commodore C64 back in the times was Boulder Dash. Here is an interview for you with Peter Liepa, creator of the game. Enjoy: https://spillhistorie.no/2025/06/06/how-boulder-dash-was-created/
Three House Democratic committee leaders have introduced a
⭐️War Powers Resolution
that would limit Donald Trump from escalating a conflict with Iran without congressional approval.
The Democratic resolution
— led by Reps. Gregory W. Meeks (D-New York), ranking Democrat of the House Foreign Affairs,
Adam Smith (D-Washington) of House Armed Services
and Jim Himes (D-Connecticut) of the House Select Committee on Intelligence
— would direct the preside…
Why Young Men Care Less About Music and Why It Matters (A Lot)
https://www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2025/06/why-young-men-care-less-about-music-and-why-…
Russia frees Ukrainian journalist Vladislav Yesypenko, detained since March 2021, and Belarus frees Belarusian journalist Ihar Karnei, detained since July 2023 (Lauren Wolfe/Committee to Protect Journalists)
https://cpj.org/2025/06/russia-and-bel
おはようございます。
もう少し寝ていたいよね……
#chacha_cat #cat
“Was Mailadressen über Parlamentarierinnen alles verraten (viel!) #dnip https://dnip.ch/2025/06/24/was-mailadressen-ueber-parlamentarierinnen-alles-verraten-…
Trump Administration to End Protections for 58 Million Acres of National Forests (Lisa Friedman/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/23/climate/trump-end-protections-for-58-million-acres-of-national-forests.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250623/p160#a250623p160
Calming? Exciting? Hypnotizing? Suspenseful? Appetizing? Amusing? Gross?
Whatever it is, is sure is an experience!
From @…:
https://tech.lgbt/@Natasha_Jay/114731506455211101
enjoyed lewis porter's close look at #JohnColtrane's practice routines & how he consistently drafted different practice buddies over his career. https://lewisporter.substack.com/p/joh
UK FCDO decision to cut back aid to education and to gender initiatives is devastating.
'In an open letter [to UK PM Keir Starmer] published today, several high-profile are joined by entrepreneurs, respected academics and concerned citizens from across the UK in warning that proposed cuts to the UK aid budget could have devastating consequences for millions of girls worldwide whose futures depend on access to education.'
DONAKD is a portmanteau of Donald and Awkward.
#USpol
Ukraine loses French-made Mirage 2000 fighter jet to reported technical failure: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/23/ukraine-loses-frenchmade-mirage-fighter.html
A crazy picture of the #occultation of the #Pleiades by the #Moon right now ... shot with a handheld camera through a window and a hole in the clouds from Bochum, Germany. See https://www.facebook.com/dan.fischer.393/posts/pfbid0VgrVTvLkmkn7SjUGXRKTYTNsxUFs8kyPZXN9TbHsLiuUeb2xCY5p7SDQ6QzBsiWVl for more pictures: the cluster stars came and went and were never all at once in the clear. But hey, I kinda got it. ;-)
Rioter Ordered To Pay $500,000 To Widow Of Late Cop - Joe.My.God.
https://www.joemygod.com/2025/06/rioter-ordered-to-pay-500000-to-widow-of-late-cop/
What one fool can do, another can.
-- Ancient Simian Proverb
»Kein WhatsApp mehr–US-Kongressmitarbeiter müssen den Messenger wechseln:
Zu intransparent, zu wenig Verschlüsselung und unsicher - Das Urteil der Cybersecurity-Abteilung fällt hart aus. Jetzt gilt ein WhatsApp-Verbot für Mitarbeiter«
Ein weiterer Punkt um WhatsApp zu vermeiden, auch wenn mensch die USA kritisiert. Seit jahren kritisiere ich die WhatsApp Unsicherheit, da anhand deren gesammelten Metadaten sehr viel erläutern lässt.
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Wow, Substack signup is painful.
Today my overly-optimistic cousin said "This is the absolute best time to be alive" and I said "Well, I would argue that 2024 was much better than right now..."
#USPOL
Talkshows aren't called listenshows. For a reason.
Welp, it's frozen water bottle time again!
I use an insulated Camelbak half-filled with water with a full dose of Skratch powder. Then freeze it. Before leaving for my ride, I top it with water. Start using it half-way through. Stays cold, and level of salts increases. Perfect!
No death, no wounded, no damage it seems from Iran latest missile attacks, it seems almost a de-escalation this attack...🤔
Je viens de découvrir l'excellente série d'articles "Nouvelles de l'IA" de @…
https://notes.sklein.xyz/2025-06-22_1502/
Our chapter on Urban #mobility is finally published, in the great Compendium of Urban Complexity!
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-82666-5_4…
Filme in der #ARD: Die Büffel sind los!
https://www.ardmediathek.de/video/filme-in
Die ePetition 182101 an den Bundestag aus dem Bereich Arbeitsrecht mit dem Titel
Gesetzliche Regelung zur verpflichtenden Kommunikation von Arbeitgeber und Arbeitnehmer vor der Kündigung während der Probezeit
kann bis zum Montag 04. August 2025 01:00 UTC mitgezeichnet werden und lautet
Mit der Petition wird eine ges…
Die ePetition 182101 an den Bundestag aus dem Bereich Arbeitsrecht mit dem Titel
Gesetzliche Regelung zur verpflichtenden Kommunikation von Arbeitgeber und Arbeitnehmer vor der Kündigung während der Probezeit
kann bis zum Montag 04. August 2025 01:00 UTC mitgezeichnet werden und lautet
Mit der Petition wird eine ges…
«DOGE has provided a template for complete political and cultural rollback, exploiting AI's brittle affordances to trash any pretence at social contract. What the so-called educational offers from AI companies are actually doing is a form of cyberattack, building in the pathways for the hacker tactic of 'privilege escalation' to be used by future threat actors, especially those from a hostile administration.»
"The role of the University is to resist" by @…
https://danmcquillan.org/cpct_seminar.html
Anyone else rooting for YouTuber Tristan Jass to make it as a pro baller?
▶️My First Week As A Pro Basketball Player!
https:// youtube.com/watch?v=HI2AQyzjITw&si=T5k3wcemoa1Yl4Iw
#tristanjass #vancouver
This sickening disgrace showcased all that is vile about Trump - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/raw-investigates/tru…
Always have lawn ornaments and decor out for one of the two seasons: Halloween (after Xmas) and Xmas (after Halloween)
#HowToMessWithNeighbors
#HashTagGames
Xenoblade Chronicles 2 - Hard to Love, Harder to Hate by Nam’s Compendium
#videogames
Ich habe keine Worte mehr für das, was Frauen und Queers angetan wird. Wenn ich etwas Negatives über cis Männer poste, kommt immer jemand gelaufen, häufig auch cis Frauen, und sagt "not all men" oder "nicht gleich den Krieg zwischen den Geschlechtern erklären" usw. Ich bin es so leid. Was ist das anderes als ein Feldzug gegen Frauen?
Source: the US House's CAO informed congressional staffers that WhatsApp is now banned on their government devices as the app is deemed "a high-risk to users" (Andrew Solender/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/06/23/whatsapp-house-cong…
I like cats :3
Stop the season in the sun
Turns out life doesn’t just imitate art
— sometimes it borrows the script, reboots it with National Guard checkpoints and streams it live from Los Angeles.
Case in point:
A Day Without a Mexican,
the cheeky 2004 sci-fi satire from Mexican filmmakers Sergio Arau and Yareli Arizmendi,
in which California wakes up to find every person of Latino descent has vanished into a mysterious haze,
leaving Angelenos panicking over who’s going to mow the lawns and run …
50 years ago tonight, #JerryGarcia & merl saunders in #berkeley, billed as legion of mary but with sly & the family stone’s greg errico on drums, the 1st of a handful of sub gigs before joining the garcia band on/off in the early ‘80s. sweet audience tape:
'We know how to stand up for our rights' — Ukrainians protest law threatening anti-corruption institutions: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/23/we-know-how-to-stand.html
Buckingham Palace <--> UK cable campaign
-- anagrama
Leavitt: Trump Coined "Peace Through Strength" Motto - Joe.My.God.
https://www.joemygod.com/2025/06/leavitt-trump-coined-peace-through-strength-motto/
Garcia on precipice of powerful Oversight post (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/06/23/congress/oversight-garcia-mfume-lynch-crockett-00419618
http://www.memeorandum.com/250623/p150#a250623p150
»Telegram Purged Chinese Crypto Scam Markets—Then Watched as They Rebuilt:
Last month, Telegram banned black markets that sold tens of billions of dollars in crypto-scam-related services. Now, as those markets rebrand and bounce back, it’s done nothing to stop them.«
Is anyone of you surprised? But the real question is, how do I convince people to stop using Telegram?
🤷
A friend of mine was lamenting that they felt my partner and I do a lot for them and they don't evenly reciprocate so all I can really do is reply to them:
"From each according to their abilities, to each according to their needs."
And hope that sparks something.
NASA's #EZIE Mission - Exploring the Northern Lights - Intrepid Museum Astro Live: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91PmG7x84Ng (that's the Electrojet Zeeman Imaging Explorer mission, the first to study electric currents in Earth’s upper atmosphere known as auroral electrojets).
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US base in Qatar under missile attack from Iran.
#iran #escalation
Don McLean Thinks Weird Al’s ‘Star Wars’ Parody of ‘American Pie’ Is ‘Better Than the Original’ #MusicNews
A senior US official says DeepSeek is aiding China's military and intel operations, going beyond open-source AI model access, and evading US export controls (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/deepse
「どう思います?」っていう人を駆逐するまでが大変なんだよ。
'He sees Trump as emotional and susceptible to influence' — Putin not worried about 50-day ceasefire deadline, Guardian reports: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/23/he-sees-trump-as-emotional.html
Murkowski leaves door open to scenario of caucusing with Democrats (Stef W. Kight/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/06/24/murkowski-book-democrats-alaska-senate
http://www.memeorandum.com/250623/p152#a250623p152
Most fed-targeting provisions in Senate reconciliation bill don’t pass Byrd muster - Government Executive
https://www.govexec.com/workforce/2025/06/most-fed-targeting-provisions-senate-reconciliation-bill-dont-pass-byrd-muster/406252/
Strong link between Earth’s oxygen level and #geomagnetic dipole revealed since the last 540 million years: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adu8826 -> NASA Scientists Find Ties Between Earth’s Oxygen and Magnetic Field: https://science.nasa.gov/earth/earth-oxygen-magnetic-field-linked/
In the current times we see that the theoretical framework of realism in world politics is getting more important. Ofcourse people are disappointed about the rule and principal based world order becoming less important. But at the same time states have to defend the interests of their citizens.
https://en.…
what's become of the bebey. https://social.lol/@thetonearm/114699125522454551
To the systems programmer, users and applications serve only to provide a
test load.
Of Dead Computers and Really Living
#BeBetter #creativity
https://muz4now.com/2015/of-dead-compu…
パスワードに使っているキーだけ、文字が摩耗してかすれ、艶消しのハズだったのにツヤツヤになっているアレ(だいなし)
CISPE files a legal complaint in the EU, arguing that the bloc's approval of Broadcom's VMware buyout failed to impose conditions to prevent market power abuse (Samuel Stolton/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
On Truth Social, Trump Narrated U.S. Attacks in Real Time (Jess Bidgood/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/23/us/politics/trump-truth-social-iran-war.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250623/p149#a250623p149
Trump Administration To End Protections for 58 Million Acres of National Forests | Portside
https://portside.org/2025-06-23/trump-administration-end-protections-58-million-acres-national-forests
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.
何か冴えた解決方法があって、すべて魔法のようにうまくいくといいんだけど、
実際は、どんなに迂遠でも、基本から積み上げていかなければなんの解決にもならない。
そういうことが世の中にはたくさんある。つくづく。
Efficient NIRCam Selection of Quiescent #Galaxies at 3 < z < 6 in CEERS: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ad4cea -> interview with the first author: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BtAbtQudz4
Beauty is one of the rare things which does not lead to doubt of God.
-- Jean Anouilh
The MTV Reality Star in Trump's Cabinet Who Wants You to Have More Kids (Caroline Kitchener/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/23/us/politics/sean-duffy-reality-television.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250623/p158#a250623p158
Total denial of due process. Shame on #SCOTUS
#SupremeCourt lets Trump resume deportations to third countries
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/23/trump-deportation-supreme-court.html
A journalist recounts shipping code as a vibe coding engineer during a two-day stint at Notion, working alongside engineers using AI tools like Cursor (Lauren Goode/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/why-did-a-10-billion-dollar…
Trump rages: Iran and Israel
‘don’t know what the f**k they’re doing’
after ceasefire halting 12-day war appears to immediately break down, with each side accusing the other of violating its terms
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/worl…
All new #Rubin visuals - images, videos, viewers - are linked from the press release https://noirlab.edu/public/news/noirlab2521/
Senate GOP to include rural hospital fund amid Medicaid pushback (Jordain Carney/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/06/23/congress/senate-hospital-fund-medicaid-00418648
http://www.memeorandum.com/250623/p155#a250623p155
AOC and Republican Tim Burchett introduced a bill to stop members of congress from enriching themselves
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D) agrees:
it's "time to ban Congressional Stock trading"
Sign the petition to ban corrupt congressional stock trading
>> https://bantt.us
AFGE | Major AFGE Victory: Senate Parliamentarian Drops GOP Plans Gutting Civil Service in Reconciliation Bill
https://www.afge.org/article/major-afge-victory-senate-parliamentarian-drops-gop-plans-gutting-civil-service-in-reconciliation-bill/
In 45 minutes - at 15:00 UTC - the big #Rubin "reveal" event at https://www.youtube.com/live/Zv22_Amsreo - although teaser versions of the two images were already released at midnight Eastern they will then go public in full resolution together with lots of other visuals which will then all appear on one website at 15:20 UTC.
Judge chastises Trump administration in Voice of America hearing (Scott Nover/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/media/2025/06/23/voa-lamberth-judge-staff-cuts-injunction/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250623/p144#a250623p144
AFGE | OPM’s New Performance Management Rules Are Illegal, Violate Labor Contracts
https://www.afge.org/article/opms-new-performance-management-rules-are-illegal-violate-labor-contracts/
A Far-Infrared Search for Planet Nine Using AKARI All-Sky Survey: #PlanetNine candidates whose positions and flux are within the theoretical prediction ranges. These candidates warrant further investigation through follow-up observations to confirm the existence and properties of Planet Nine."
US judge blocks Trump plan to close Harvard's doors to international students (Nate Raymond/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-judge-blocks-trump-plan-close-harvards-doors-international-students-2025-06-24/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250623/p151#a250623p151
Shocking claim accuses Trump of helping stage Iran retaliation: 'Coordinated' - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-iran-2672418689/
Ionospheric Analysis With Martian Mutual Radio Occultation: #Mars orbiters, rather than between an orbiter and an Earth-based receive, capture new insights into atmospheric dynamics
US Vice President Vance says Iran is now incapable of building a nuclear weapon -Fox (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/us-vice-president-vance-says-iran-is-now-incapable-building-nuclear-weapon-fox-2025-06-23/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250623/p142#a250623p142
Solar Cycle Variations in Meridional Flows and Rotational Shear within the Sun's Near-surface Shear Layer: #solar rotation: https://www.nature.com/articles/d44151-025-00101-6 - scientists uncover how deep plasma flows reshape the Sun’s rotation and hint at mysteries below its surface.
Security Alert - U. S. Embassy Stockholm (June 23, 2025) (U.S. Embassy in Sweden)
https://se.usembassy.gov/security-alert-u-s-embassy-stockholm-june-23-2025/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250623/p156#a250623p156
The First Photos from the BIGGEST Camera Ever Made: #Rubin
Tesla Robotaxi Incidents Draw Scrutiny From US Safety Agency (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-06-23/tesla-robotaxi-videos-show-speeding-driving-into-wrong-lane
http://www.memeorandum.com/250623/p157#a250623p157
Halogen abundance evidence for the formation and metasomatism of the primary lunar crust: #moon –> new clues about formation.
BREAKING: Trump Announces Iran-Israel Cease Fire As Explosions Rock Tehran (Ed Morrissey/HotAir)
https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2025/06/23/breaking-trump-announces-iran-israel-cease-fire-as-explosions-rock-tehran-n3804103
http://www.memeorandum.com/250623/p141#a250623p141
Here's how Iran could retaliate against the US if diplomacy fails (Ellen Mitchell/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/policy/defense/5365222-iran-israel-war-tensions-iran-us/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250623/p159#a250623p159
Trump says he'll fire Fed governor Cook if she doesn't resign (Courtenay Brown/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/08/22/trump-pulte-cook-fed-mortgage
http://www.memeorandum.com/250822/p140#a250822p140
Cuomo transfers old funds for mayoral run as Mamdani raises $1M (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/08/22/cuomo-mamdani-new-york-00521116
http://www.memeorandum.com/250822/p138#a250822p138