Tootfinder

Salt Lake City, which faces a staffing shortfall, plans to implement AI-assisted 911 call triaging to handle ~30% of about 450K non-emergency calls per year (Salt Lake Tribune)
https://www.sltrib.com/news/2025/06/14/slc-eyes-letting-ai-handle-some/…

To the genocide-loving German from mastodon.social who reported @… for being antisemitic:
Fuck you, you genocide-loving piece of shit, opposing genocide isn’t antisemitism. What you’re doing – conflating being anti-genocide with being antisemitic – is the greatest antisemitism as you’re de facto stating that all Jews are pro-genocide.

Das Bundesamt für Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik (BSI) warnt vor der weiteren Nutzung von Windows 10 nach dem Support-Ende im Oktober 2025. Millionen Nutzer müssen jetzt handeln.
Zum Artikel: https://heise.de/-10486622?wt_mc=sm.re

This dungeon cube is kind of cute! :beholderpeek:

Heartbreaking.
“This essentially says the United States is no longer your ally, that the United States doesn’t see clearly beyond the rhetoric of your regime,”
https://www.

Trump Has a New Definition of Human Rights
State Department reports portray Germany as more oppressive than El Salvador.

The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist
https://sonicstate.com/news/2025/06/10/the-rise-of-spotify-and-the-costs-of-the-perfect-playlis…

The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist - 'Mood Machine' by Liz Pelly
Mood Machine' by Liz Pelly

Seen David Attenborough's film Ocean? Track countries' progress in signing and ratifying the High Seas Treaty, needed to protect 30% of the oceans.
https://highseasalliance.org/treaty-ratification/map/
Here's Europe:
orange = signed only,

High Seas Treaty Ratification Map
At least 60 countries must sign and ratify the High Seas Treaty for it to become international law. Follow progress and see who has signed and ratify the treaty on the world map.

May 2025 second warmest on record: EU climate monitor #EU

May 2025 second warmest on record: EU climate monitor
Global heating persisted as the new norm, with last month the second warmest May on record on land and in the oceans, according to the European Union's climate monitoring service.

In 300BC, Zeno proved that it's impossible to code an app using #LLM tools.
Imagine a vibe coder who generates an app. The LLM can only provide working code for half of the features requested.
So he has to ask the #AI to generate the other half. Once again, the AI can only fulfill half of the…

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/14/us/elmo-x-hack-antisemitism.html
Hacker Impersonating Elmo Makes Antisemitic X Posts

Hacker Makes Antisemitic Posts on Elmo’s X Account
The owner of “Sesame Street” said it was working to restore control of Elmo’s social media account after the cyberattack on the fuzzy red monster, a beloved character on the children’s show.

🔥 DARKK LIVE 2025 🔥
Fünf Chancen, uns #live zu sehen – mit voller Lichtshow, neuen Songs und ordentlich Wumms.
Wir bringen Metalcore mit Emotion, Energie und Haltung.
Sehen wir uns?
#darkkband #metalcore

Death toll mounts in Israel and Iran as both countries threaten further response after trading strikes overnight
https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/202

A Measurement of the Largest-scale #CMB E-mode Polarization with CLASS: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/adc723 -> Small telescopes in Chile are first on Earth to cut through the cosmic noise, peering back more than 13 billion years to the universe's first light: https://hub.jhu.edu/2025/06/11/telescopes-look-at-cosmic-dawn/

Interesantísima reflexión que usa el marco de transmodernidad, por Enrique Dussel, para navigar entre el dualismo falso de ciencia/tecnología por un lado, y la valoración del ecosistema y los limites que impone el planeta.
Crisis energética y la urgencia de una transmodernidad prefigurativa – 15/15\15

Crisis energética y la urgencia de una transmodernidad prefigurativa
(Carlos Tornel) La energía de los pueblos que resisten es la que hace falta para reforestar la imaginación política.

Har har.
Though actually…this joke might not be too far from the real number. I am looking forward to a credible specific estimate so we can make a list of individual No Kings rallies that were larger. Yes, I am in favor that kind of pettiness. Get inside his head and under his skin. https://mstdn.social/@DemocracyMattersALot/114688500643263408

Starting to think about GPU acceleration of protocol decodes (rather than just basic math blocks) in ngscopeclient.
Here's the filter graph I'm thinking of using as a benchmark: dual lane QSGMII, 20M points per channel.
The filter graph takes 944 ms end to end to run on my box (2x Xeon 6144 2080 Ti).
Major time consumers:
* Eye pattern (~345 ms)
* QSGMII (~337 ms)
* CDR PLL (~310 ms)
* 8B10B (~160 ms)
* SGMII (~120 ms)
Note that the …

from my link log —
Using LXCFS together with Podman.
https://www.die-welt.net/2025/06/using-lxcfs-together-with-podman/
saved 2025-06-25

Liebe Wettermenschen, muss ich mir Sorgen machen?

Apple researchers maybe disprove ‘reasoning’ (vs. well-specified conventional algorithms):
https://machinelearning.apple.com/research/illusion-of-thinking
Analyses:
•

The Illusion of Thinking: Understanding the Strengths and Limitations of Reasoning Models via the Lens of Problem Complexity
Recent generations of frontier language models have introduced Large Reasoning Models (LRMs) that generate detailed thinking processes…

Hörtipp: Klassik–Pop–et cetera samstags 10:05 Uhr im DLF
Das ist kein besonders origineller Tipp – die Sendung ist ungefähr so alt wie ich und hat rund eine halbe Million Hörende.
Aber ich war ihr vor einigen Jahren untreu geworden. Das Prinzip der Sendung ist ja, dass Nichtradiomenschen ohne journalistische Betreuung ihre Lieblingsmusi…

Yo creo que esa es una muy buena razón para migrar a plataformas que sean verdaderamente democršticas, transparentes y libres que no censuren o promuevan contenidos según los criterios de conveniencia de sus dueños.
¡Saludos desde el #Fediverso!
Re:

He'll keep it up until Americans won't be allowed to travel.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-administration-weighs-adding-36-countries-travel-ban-memo-says-2025-06-15/

#hnom #LetsGoOilers

Critical Damage Dealt to Key Iranian Nuclear Site, IAEA Says (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-06-14/critical-damage-dealt-to-key-iranian-nuclear-sites-iaea-reports
http://www.memeorandum.com/250614/p61#a250614p61

So, wo sind denn jetzt die Checks-and-balances?
Die USA erscheinen mir mitten in einem Staatsstreich von der Spitze zu sein, der nach der Blaupause der Nazis von 1933 abläuft und alle nur verwundert zuschauen oder zögerlich protestieren, aber dabei unter Repressalien und Drohungen immer weiter zurück ziehen.
Was lernen wir in Europa daraus? Dass unsere Bemühungen, die Demokratie zu festigen, nicht ausreichen und wir nicht genügend handeln.

Judge Blocks ICE Plans for Rikers Island Office Indefinitely - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/nyregion/ice-rikers-island-judge-mayor-adams.html

Ich mache ein #Festival. Die Auftretenden haben eine Meinung zu Gaza, Israel, Hamas, BDS, usw.
Ich verbiete auf dem Festival Bilder von Melonen und roten Dreiecken. Warum? Nicht alle, die diese Symbole verwenden, sind wütende Hamas-Terroristen. Aber die, die wegen dieses Verbots nicht auf meinem Festival auftreten, sind genau die intoleranten Schreihälse, die ich nicht auf dem Festival haben will. Umgekehrt habe ich nie erlebt, dass Menschen mit einer Israel- oder IDF-Fahne nicht bereit gewe…

Macron (and thus France) will show dupport for Greenland.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-06-15/macron-offers-to-aide-in-greenland-s-security-amid-trump-threats

Nicolas Sarkozy finalement exclu de la Légion d’honneur en raison de sa condamnation dans l’affaire des écoutes
https://www.lemonde.fr/societe/article/202

Nicolas Sarkozy finalement exclu de la Légion d’honneur en raison de sa condamnation dans l’affaire des écoutes
L’ancien président de la République (2007-2012) devient ainsi le deuxième chef de l’Etat français privé de décoration, après le maréchal Pétain. La justice administrative avait été saisie début mai après le refus d’Emmanuel Macron de le déchoir de sa décoration.

A sleepy #Caturday

#silentSunday
#Rainbow and #baseball

Sooo... I was in town and this guy looked at me funny. I'm pretty sure he was planning something.
So I shot him dead.
What do you mean I was the aggressor? What do you mean 'murder is illegal, you striking first is not self defence?'
He was blatantly shifty.
^ THE ENTIRE WESTERN MEDIA TODAY

@… @… @… @…

Over 12,000 people at San Jose #NoKings march!

Ich will ja o2 nichts unterstellen. Aber ich bin die Vertragspartnerin für unseren (inzwischen) gemeinsam genutzten Mobilfunkvertrag. Mein Vertrag war der Hauptvertrag, @… kam dann als Partnervertrag dazu. Inzwischen ist meiner aber die „Partnerkarte“.
Ich hoffe, das hat einen anderen Grund als männlicher vs. weiblicher Vorname. *knöchel knack*

Let me explain what I did today… no, there is too much, let me sum up:

Extremely rare fillet steak from one of my own bulls, served with pasta in a sauce made of onions, garlic, chilli, pepper, tomato, red wine and cream.
We know how to eat well in this house.
Thank you, Goblin!

Auditory gamma-frequency entrainment abolishes working memory deficits in a rodent model of autism #40Hz sensory entra…

Auditory Gamma-Frequency Entrainment Abolishes Working Memory Deficits in a Rodent Model of Autism
Individuals on the autism spectrum often exhibit atypical responses to sensory stimuli and difficulties with behavioral regulation, reflecting altered functional patterns in core sensory-motor circuits. These sensory processing differences suggest the potential for using patterned auditory stimulation to modulate neural activity and mitigate symptoms. While impairments in higher cognitive functions are a hallmark of autism, they remain underexplored in rodent models compared to basic sensory-mo…

(Bicycle) Speed and safety
For years I've heard people talking about how motor-assisted bicycles "are safer" because they can "match traffic speed", but I think this is mistaken.  Here's three reasons why. For me the most compelling reason comes from a 2007 paper by Laurie F. Beck, Ann M. Dellinger, and Mary E. O’Neil in the American Journal of Epidemiology, "Motor Vehicle Crash Injury Rates by Mode of Travel, United States: Using Exposure-Based Methods…

(Bicycle) Speed and safety
For years I’ve heard people talking about how motor-assisted bicycles “are safer” because they can “match traffic speed”, but I think this is mistaken.  Here’s t…

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Minnesota --
home of the blonde hair and blue ears.
mosquito supplier to the free world.
come fall in love with a loon.
where visitors turn blue with envy.
one day it's warm, the rest of the year it's cold.
land of many cultures -- mostly throat.
where the elite meet sleet.
glove it or leave it.
many are cold, but few are frozen.
land of the ski and home of the crazed.
land of 10,000 Petersons.

Pactum, which helps companies automate supplier negotiations with AI and secure more favorable contractual terms, raised a $54M Series C led by Insight Partners (Maria Deutscher/SiliconANGLE)
https://siliconangle.com/2025/06/09/pactum-raises-…

Pactum raises $54M for its procurement automation platform - SiliconANGLE
Pactum raises $54M for its procurement automation platform - SiliconANGLE

Okay chat, this video has baffled me for far too long. What in deconstructed cottage pie heck is going on here? :neocat_confused:
#AskFedi

In the Netherlands, we just experienced the warmest night on record, for this early in the year. With a low temperature of 19.1°C in De Bilt, it was just shy of the warmest June night, 24-25 June 2019 (low 19.5°C).

Top adviser to supreme leader dies in hospital following Israeli attack
Ali Shamkhani, Iran’s top adviser to its supreme leader, Ayatollah Khamenei,
has died in the hospital a day after Israel launched airstrikes across the country.
Shamkhani had previously served as Iran’s top national security official for a decade and had represented Iran in the China-facilitated rapprochement talks with Saudi Arabia

And yes, please, please, please view anyone raising money to expose some theoretical 2024 election tampering as a Steinesque grifter. They are conning you. And they are more likely than not conning you to fund some right-wing benefactor holding their puppet strings — or at best they’re just an old-fashioned charlatan. Ignore.
/end
https://federate.social/@mattblaze/114684153991038814

Is anyone aware of case law / settlements (in the USA or elsewhere, just curious) about copyright/trademark infringing tattoos?
People get fan-art tattoos all the time and most of the time the rights owner doesn't care... but under some circumstances, they might.
Obviously they could try to go after the artist, that's a "standard" copyright/trademark infringement case.
But what about the infringing work that is now part of your body?
The three plausi…

Greenland and Iceland saw record heat in May. What does that mean for the world? https://phys.org/news/2025-06-greenland-iceland-world.html
Record-breaking heat wave due to climate change hits Iceland & Greenland: Scientists

Greenland and Iceland saw record heat in May. What does that mean for the world?
Human-caused climate change boosted Iceland and Greenland 's temperatures by several degrees during a record-setting May heat wave, raising concerns about the far-reaching implications melting Arctic ice has for weather around the world, scientists said in an analysis released Wednesday.

Metacurity is pleased to offer our free and premium subscribers a weekly digest of the best long-form (and longish) infosec-related pieces we couldn't properly fit into our daily news crush.
This week's selection covers
--How the SEC missed the likely culprits in its 2017 hack,
--How a quiet engineer controls Telegram,
--When a Canadian teen spied for Russia,
--Cybercrime group document shows that Russia doubts China,
--Modern militaries rely on li…

Best infosec-related long reads for the week of 6/7/25
How the SEC missed the likely culprits in its 2017 hack, How a quiet engineer controls Telegram, When a Canadian teen spied for Russia, Cybercrime group document shows that Russia doubts China, Modern militaries rely on lightweight tools and superior spycraft, AI's delusional rabbit holes

I don't know if I have lost my voice or if it changed and I don't like that.
Do I need to be vulnerable in public or is it enough (for me) to be in conversations with friends.

At military parade, Trump praises Army's legacy and fireworks light D.C. skies (MaríaLuisa Paúl/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2025/06/14/trump-military-parade-live-updates-dc-army-birthday/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250614/p94#a250614p94

«Wir waren immer stolz, nicht solche Bilder wie die Sowjetunion oder Nordkorea zu produzieren. Deshalb hätte ich diese Parade nicht abgehalten.»
«Ich glaube, die Leute werden es nach dieser Woche schwer haben, diese Machtdemonstration und die Machtdemonstration auf den Strassen von Los Angeles auseinanderzuhalten.»

Genndy Tartakovsky's developing a new show 'Heist Safari' that looks pretty great. Loved what he did with Dexter's Lab. This one's about three estranged frog brothers who meet up at their dad's funeral, have to rob a bank to inherit their late dad's fortune, and have issues when they cut side deals with mobsters. Every episode will be executed as just one shot, the events won't be in chronological order, and it'll have an EDM score. Looks & sounds prom…

Genndy Tartakovsky Developing 'Heist Safari' Animated Series for Adult Swim
Celebrated animator Genndy Tartakovsky — the tooned-up brain behind the adult-comedy movie Fixed (coming to Netflix on August 13), Sony's Hotel Transylvania

London-based Noah, which is developing API-focused stablecoin infrastructure to enable real-time cross-border payments, raised a $22M seed led by LocalGlobe (Ben Weiss/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/crypto/2025/06/10/noah-thijn-lamers-stable…

Exclusive: Stablecoin startup Noah raises $22 million, adds Adyen vet as cofounder
“I feel like I have the energy of [when I was] 25,” said Thijn Lamers, who is 66 years old.

from my link log —
Postgres extensions in Rust.
https://depth-first.com/articles/2021/08/25/postgres-extensions-in-rust/
saved 2021-08-29

Postgres Extensions in Rust
Opening a new path to high-performance, domain-specific database applications.

Just so we're clear:
PRE-EMPTIVE ATTACKS ARE ILLEGAL
ISRAEL IS AN APARTHEID ETHNOSTATE
Israel knows it has lost any popular support it once had. So now it has to drag the whole fucking world into a war with Iran to legitimate Western governmental backing, including enabling the genocide.

#NoKings march in San Jose, Ca. Over 12,000 people showed up

I’ll be at 3 No Kings events tomorrow — they’re all in Mointain View & Palo Alto, CA. The last one is a democracy fair. Joan Baez will be there & there will be songs. And cake.
https://bsky.app/profile/indivisiblepaplus.bsky.social/post/3lrjvqzruyc23

Indivisible Palo Alto Plus (@indivisiblepaplus.bsky.social)
REMINDER: Our TWO No Kings "We The People" events kick off tomorrow 2pm, with the Democracy Parade at the corner of Embarcadero and El Camino in Palo Alto. At the end of the parade, the "We the People" Democracy Fair begins in Rinconada Park. Register: indivisiblepaloaltoplus.org/no-kings-day

Mela und Bernd reden über Melas Entscheidung für ein de-google-tes Fairphone — nach über 10 Jahren Samsung-Kundschaft:
Mela: "Ich hatte ja auch kurz darüber nachgedacht, ob ein iPhone nicht doch sinnvoll wäre. Aber dann dachte ich, ich will mich nicht noch stärker an Apple binden."
Bernd: "Apple hat Trump gerade mit einer goldenen Statue beschenkt."
*grillenzirpen*
Mela: "Good Riddance."

IBM Says It's Cracked Quantum Error Correction - Slashdot
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/06/13/218205/ibm-says-its-cracked-quantum-error-correction?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed

... one of the main causes of the fall of the Roman Empire was that,
lacking zero, they had no way to indicate successful termination of
their C programs.
-- Robert Firth

Aaa^{aaaa⁠‼️}

None of that is to downplay the danger of electronic voting machines. Turn that junk into scrap. Paper ballots all the way.
There’s no contradiction in saying that the risks of manipulation / mishap are real •and• that the actual results don’t show that it already happened.
3/

Thread on today's 'red line' demonstration in The Hague. It's called the International city of peace and justice, but our government there has been extremely reluctant to criticize Israel for the genocide it is committing in Gaza. Let alone to take action: long overdue!
https://mastod…

Test fitting boards in a STEP export of the current rack chassis using Dune3D for the first time.
It's definitely got some rough edges but I think it has potential. Doesn't feel as polished as SolveSpace but the STEP import is a key feature I've found missing in other tools.
But I can't figure out how to do boolean operations on imported step geometry, even if I say it's part of a solid body I'm not able to e.g. do an extrusion to cut off the lid of the ch…

NYC-based Zorro, whose AI-powered software helps clients' workers navigate health insurance and benefits options, raised a $20M Series A led by Entrée Capital (Erin Brodwin/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/health-tech-deals/2…

Exclusive: Zorro clinches $20M Series A for ICHRA health plans
As employers wrestle with rising costs, the group plan alternative is gaining steam.

Wollte ein paar Sachen erledigen, habe es aber nur geschafft die Hängematte zu schmieren.

U.S. could lose more immigrants than it gains for first time in 50 years (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/06/15/trump-immigration-impact-economy-inflation/?pwapi_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJyZWFzb24iOiJnaWZ0IiwibmJmIjoxNzQ5OTYwMDAwLCJpc3MiOiJzdWJzY3JpcHRpb25zIiwiZXhwIjoxNzUxMzQyMzk5LCJpYXQiOjE3NDk5NjAwMDAsImp0aSI6IjJkMGNmNTFjLWFjZGYtNDM4Mi1iZTM4LTkyYWQ1YjZiZTUwNSIsInVybCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3Lndhc2hpbmd0b25wb3N0LmNvbS9idXNpbmVzcy8yMDI1LzA2LzE1L3RydW1wLWltbWlncmF0aW9uLWltcGFjdC1lY29ub215LWluZmxhdGlvbi8ifQ.rHKCwHE0llmadbqDjsSp6yVpLBym8nQ_ne4Nbn5aQ7k&itid=gfta
http://www.memeorandum.com/250615/p52#a250615p52

Do not use or store near heat or open flame.

It’s especially frustrating because there •is• election manipulation happening in plain sight: voter suppression, gerrymandering, a vast media empire of right-wing falsehood, microtargeted disinformation from billionaires and hostile foreign states alike, GOP- and Putin-backed grifters posing as left-leaning third party candidates and then just pocketing the donations and disappearing —
•none• of that even in doubt. We do not need to search for a shadowy conspiracy. Democracy’s being strangled in broad daylight.
2/

Amazon plans to invest ~$13B in Australia from 2025 to 2029 to develop its data center infrastructure, as demand for cloud computing and AI grows in the country (Ainslie Chandler/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

People in other countries see what America is becoming (Philip Bump/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/06/13/trump-noem-padilla-democracy-polling/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250614/p15#a250614p15

(1) A sheet of paper is an ink-lined plane.
(2) An inclined plane is a slope up.
(3) A slow pup is a lazy dog.
QED: A sheet of paper is a lazy dog.
-- Willard Espy, "An Almanac of Words at Play"

Statista: the global influencer marketing industry is projected to grow 36% between 2024 and 2025, reaching $33B, as brands tighten overall ad budgets (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-06-14/i…

As much as I’d love to believe that the 2024 election results were the result of covert ballot tampering, I land in @…’s camp here. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence, and the evidence here isn’t extraordinary. It isn’t even passing.
Sorry. I’d love to believe it. But I don’t.
1/ https://federate.social/@mattblaze/114684093459547741

Randomly reminded of the pet mice my family had when I was a kid.
We'd always get them in pairs and they had the weirdest names.
I've probably forgot a few but...
Breyah and Ghibou (named by me as a toddler, they asked me to name them and used the next two bits of babbling i made)
Rosie and Sarah (nothing super weird there)
Davina (feminized form of David) and Bextra (banned COX-2 inhibitor, a close cousin of Vioxx)
Ammonium Nitrate or Annie for sh…

Dealogic: tech deals accounted for $421B of the $1.67T in global deals announced in the first five months of 2025, with 75% of tech M&A involving AI software (Milana Vinn/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/unglamoro

Trump reports over $600 million in income in latest financial disclosure (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/06/14/trump-income-assets/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250614/p93#a250614p93

You should never bet against anything in science at odds of more than
about 10^12 to 1.
-- Ernest Rutherford

A look at Apple's upgrades to CarPlay, iPadOS, and visionOS, and the new Liquid Glass redesign of its operating systems announced at WWDC (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters

Tanks, troops and flyovers in D.C. as Trump gets his military parade (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2025/06/14/army-parade-dc-trump-birthday-national-mall/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250614/p89#a250614p89

Will this never-ending series of PLEASURABLE EVENTS never cease?

America250, the nonprofit organizing the US Semiquincentennial celebration, says it received sponsorship commitments from Oracle, Amazon, Coinbase, and Palantir (Meridith McGraw/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.

Minnesota shootings spotlight growing safety risks facing lawmakers (Kyle Stokes/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/local/twin-cities/2025/06/15/minnesota-melissa-hortman-shootings-political-threats
http://www.memeorandum.com/250615/p77#a250615p77

The connection between the language in which we think/program and the problems
and solutions we can imagine is very close. For this reason restricting
language features with the intent of eliminating programmer errors is at best
dangerous.
-- Bjarne Stroustrup in "The C Programming Language"

Macron Offers Aid For Greenland Security Amid Trump Threats (Ania Nussbaum/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-06-15/macron-offers-to-aide-in-greenland-s-security-amid-trump-threats
http://www.memeorandum.com/250615/p66#a250615p66

Vaccinated Time Travel:
To fantasize about traveling backward in time, but only
with proper vaccinations.
-- Douglas Coupland, "Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated
Culture"

BT Group CEO Allison Kirkby says AI could deepen job cuts at the telco, whose plan to cut over 40,000 jobs by 2030 "did not reflect the full potential of AI" (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/c8d41424-f2d9-418e-8da2-55823f1c22ca

BT chief eyes deeper job cuts as AI becomes more powerful
Allison Kirkby says telecoms group could be ‘even smaller’ by 2030

Big turnout for Democrats in Virginia's early primary voting gives party hope (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2025/06/15/virginia-primary-elections-democrats-trump/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250615/p34#a250615p34

All true wisdom is found on T-shirts.

Apple seems to be working on adding CUDA support to open-source ML framework MLX, which may mean that code developed using MLX would work with CUDA (Malcolm Owen/AppleInsider)
https://appleinsider.com/articles/25/0

Apple Silicon machine learning code may become more easily portable to Nvidia hardware
A project is trying to cut the cost of making machine learning applications for Nvidia hardware, by developing on an Apple Silicon Mac and exporting it to CUDA.

Yesterday upon the stair
I met a man who wasn't there.
He wasn't there again today --
I think he's from the CIA.

OpenEvidence, whose free AI search tool has signed up 40% of doctors in the US, raised $210M led by GV at a $3.5B valuation, up from $1B in February (Amy Feldman/Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/amyfeldman/2025/07/1…

OpenEvidence Cofounder Daniel Nadler Is Now A Billionaire.
Daniel Nadler started OpenEvidence to help physicians sort through a deluge of medical research. Now, he’s raised $210 million at a $3.5 billion valuation.

Carlyle agrees to sell Amsterdam-based HSO, a Microsoft solutions integrator that serves 1,400 clients worldwide, to Bain Capital, sources say for $1B (Swetha Gopinath/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-08…