Sen. Mike Lee is trying to shoehorn a provision into Trump’s Tax Bill that would bring back large-scale federal public land sales for hundreds of thousands of acres.
If passed, this bill would give radicals in the Trump administration the power to declare our land “excess”
and sell it to private developers and fossil fuel interests.
Public Lands Warriors is trying to bring attention to Mike Lee and his billionaire buddies trying to sneak this crap into the Senate bill.
Today, I learned that the founder of the #SimpleX messenger is a #ClimateChange-denying #Covid conspiracy-theorist, anti-vaxxer and
New survey data out Friday shows that Republicans are wrong if they remain unconcerned about public sentiment as it relates to the evisceration of Medicaid or healthcare support systems that would result from passage of their colossal legislation now making its way through Congress
— a bill that, if passed, would see coverage stripped from an estimated 11-16 million people in the coming years.
MOSQUITOS ON SALE!!
Buy your own mosquitos.
Only males.
Only sterile males.
Only sterile males for companies that work in the field of pest control.
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Canal signs a distribution deal to carry Netflix content in 24 Francophone sub-Saharan countries; Netflix is estimated to have <5M subscribers in Africa (Scott Roxborough/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business…
This week’s edition of my @… newsletter shines a light on the impact of the Model Context Protocol (MCP) across multiple computing eras—leading right up to today.
We’ve arrived at a moment where loose coupling principles are cool (and super useful) again.
Naturally, there are some live demo nuggets in the post to help bring it all to life:
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Understanding Mental Models of Generative Conversational Search and The Effect of Interface Transparency
Chadha Degachi, Samuel Kernan Freire, Evangelos Niforatos, Gerd Kortuem
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.03807
Good article on some of the UK developments enabling aggregators (virtual lead parties) to unlock more demand side flexibility, including residential (heat pumps, batteries, EVs).
https://www.greenexecutives.com/post/unlocking-th…
🎉 perfSONAR turns 20! 🎉
What started with a single line of code in 2001 has grown into a worldwide network performance monitoring infrastructure, spanning all 7 continents with:
✅ 20 years of continuous operation
✅ 6 leading R&E networks driving its development
✅ over 2,000 registered instances deployed across 1,000 organizations
Learn more about perfSONAR’s journey and impact over the past 20 years:
Strengthening Cybersecurity Resilience in Agriculture Through Educational Interventions: A Case Study of the Ponca Tribe of Nebraska
George Grispos, Logan Mears, Larry Loucks
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.23800