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Tom Brady on role as Raiders limited partner: 'I'm there as a great sounding board' https://www.nfl.com/news/tom-brady-on-role-as-raiders-limited-partner-i-m-there-as-a-great-sounding-board

The Justice Department on Friday 👉fired at least three prosecutors involved in U.S. Capitol riot criminal cases,
the latest moves by the Trump administration targeting attorneys connected to the massive prosecution of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack,
according to two people familiar with the matter.
Those dismissed include two attorneys who worked as supervisors overseeing the Jan. 6 prosecutions in the U.S. attorney’s office in Washington
as well as a line attorney who pro…

Justice Department fires 3 lawyers involved in Jan. 6 cases
The Justice Department has fired at least three prosecutors involved in U.S. Capitol riot criminal cases, according to two people familiar with the matter. It’s the latest move by the Trump administration targeting attorneys connected to the massive prosecution of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack. Those dismissed include two attorneys who worked as supervisors overseeing the Jan. 6 prosecutions in the U.S. attorney’s office in Washington as well as a line attorney who prosecuted cases stemming from…

https://news.sky.com/story/russian-linked-hackers-posing-as-journalists-targeted-ministry-of-defence-government-says-13376229
Russia-linked hackers posing as journalists targeted staff at Britain's …

Russian-linked hackers posing as journalists targeted Ministry of Defence, government says

House could vote on megabill as soon as Tuesday (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/06/28/congress/house-could-vote-on-megabill-as-soon-as-tuesday-00431382
http://www.memeorandum.com/250628/p78#a250628p78

Calamus 16 Who is now reading this?
A funny little poem, omitted in later editions. On the surface it's a challenge to the reader and a chance for Whitman to establish himself as self-aware. Claiming his own flaws.
But the text drips with some latent queer meaning
as if I do not secretly love strangers!
(O tenderly, a long time, and never avow it ;)
A secret love that you can never avow? Hello! At least it's tenderly and a long time.
This seems as good a time as any to link Whitman's Boys, a good recent piece considering Whitman as a queer man and what that means to us in current times. It's a nice overview of some queer theory and is even-handed.

A profile of OnlyFans' secretive founder Leo Radvinsky, as the platform's parent company is considering a sale for as much as $8B, according to sources (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/media/only-fa

"Hard to believe, but it has been already almost 20 years since the days when Apple plastered the halls of its Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) with huge posters proclaiming “Redmond, start your photocopiers” or “Mac OS X Leopard: Hasta la vista, Vista”. The decade of the 2000s, coinciding with Steve Ballmer’s tenure as CEO, is widely perceived as a lost one for Microsoft, and one of the most visible signs of that decline was, without a doubt, the “Longhorn” saga."

Dave Plummer
Hard to believe as it is, it has been already almost 20 years since the days when Apple plastered the halls of its Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) with huge posters proclaiming "Redmond, start your photocopiers" or "Mac OS X Leopard: Hasta la vista, Vista". The decade of the 2000s, coinciding with Steve Ballmer’s tenure as CEO, is widely perceived as a lost one for Microsoft, and one of the most visible signs of that decline was, without a doubt, the "Longhorn" saga.

Food's Carbon Footprint - Are you as green as you eat? Your diet has a big impact on carbon footprint. #food #cutCarbon - https://www.

Foods Carbon Footprint
Are you as green as you eat? Your diet has a big impact on carbon footprint. #food #cutCarbon

Ah, FFOTUS' judicial appointments reach the bottom of the barrel - even Bork was far better as a judge and more ethical.
"Ex-Trump defense lawyer Emil Bove, a top Justice Department official, is picked to be federal judge"
https://ap…

Ex-Trump lawyer Emil Bove, a top Justice Department official, is picked to be federal judge
President Donald Trump says he's nominating his former criminal defense lawyer Emil Bove to become a federal appeals court judge. As a high-ranking Justice Department official, Bove was behind the controversial move to drop the corruption case against New York City Mayor Eric Adams as well as some of the agency’s most scrutinized actions since Trump’s return to the White House in January. Trump has picked Bove to fill a vacancy on the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which hears cases fro…

Russian-linked hackers target UK Defense Ministry while posing as journalists: https://benborges.xyz/2025/05/29/russianlinked-hackers-target-uk-defense.html

caida_as: CAIDA AS graphs (2004-2007)
A sequence of 122 network snapshots denoting Autonomous System (AS) relationships on the Internet, from 2004-2007, inferred using the Serial-1 method from RouteViews BGP table snapshots and a set of heuristics.
This network has 19489 nodes and 79718 edges.
Tags: Technological, Communication, Unweighted, Temporal

Talk about an unholy alliance. #react and #windows. 💀
https://…

Windows 11 Start Menu Revealed as Resource-Heavy React Native App, Sparks Performance Concerns
Recent observations from users on the social platform X have uncovered performance issues tied to the Windows 11 Start Menu, revealing that the component

"Arctic warming 3.5 times faster than rest of world - as security threats to UK 'fundamentally changing'"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Arctic

Arctic warming 3.5 times faster than rest of world - as security threats to UK 'fundamentally changing'

A look at AIFF 2025, Runway's third annual AI Film Festival featuring 10 shorts, as the film and TV industry remains divided over the role of AI in its future (Samuel Axon/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/culture/2025/0

Curated realities: An AI film festival and the future of human expression
We saw 10 AI films and interviewed Runway’s CEO as well as Hollywood pros.

Trump wins as judge allows DOGE to access 'sensitive' info
https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/still-cannot-step-in-trump-admin-scores-victory-as-judge-denies-labor-unions-injunction-and-allows-doge-to-access-stockpile-of-extremely-sensitive-information/

This is one of the most bonkers AI hallucinations I've seen. It is as completely wrong and fictional as it is detailed and precise.
The industry continues to pursue a terrible mis-application of LLMs as a some kind of knowledge base, despite ongoing massive failures and no signs of improvement.

New test unmasks illegal elephant ivory disguised as mammoth #AnimalRights

New test unmasks illegal elephant ivory disguised as mammoth
Poachers are using a sneaky loophole to bypass the international ivory trade ban—by passing off illegal elephant ivory as legal mammoth ivory. Since the two types look deceptively similar, law enforcement struggles to tell them apart, especially when tusks are carved or polished. But scientists may have found a powerful new tool: stable isotope analysis.

“For the whole law is summed up in a single commandment, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.””
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#dw4jc

Galatians 5:14 For the whole law is summed up in a single commandment, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” | New Revised Standard Version (NRSV) | Download The Bible App Now
For the whole law is summed up in a single commandment, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”

Trump believes in American
Non-Exceptionalism.
His claim that America is as amoral as authoritarian regimes has long been false. But he longs to make it true.
https://bsky.app/profile/davidrlurie.bsky.social/post/3lsqzsdnsbs25

In Ursula K. Le Guin's "A Man of the People" (part of "Four Ways to Forgiveness") there's a scene where the Hainish protagonist begins studying history. It's excellent in many respects, but what stood out the most to me was the softly incomprehensible idea of a people with multiple millions of years of recorded history. As one's mind starts to try to trace out the implications of that, it dawns on you that you can't actually comprehend the concept. Like, you read the sentence & understood all the words, and at first you were able to assemble them into what seemed like a conceptual understanding, but as you started to try to fill out that understating, it began to slip away, until you realized you didn't in fact have the mental capacity to build a full understanding and would have you paper things over with a shallow placeholder instead.
I absolutely love that feeling, as one of the ways in which reading science fiction can stretch the brain, and I connected it to a similar moment in Tsutomu Nihei's BLAME, where the android protagonists need to ride an elevator through the civilization/galaxy-spanning megastructure, and turn themselves off for *millions of years* to wait out the ride.
I'm not sure why exactly these scenes feel more beautifully incomprehensible than your run-of-the-mill "then they traveled at lightspeed for a millennia, leaving all their family behind" scene, other than perhaps the authors approach them without trying to use much metaphor to make them more comprehensible (or they use metaphor to emphasize their incomprehensibility).
Do you have a favorite mind=expanded scene of this nature?
#AmReading

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #PacificNotions
Ambient Sundays:
🎵 this is you as a baby
#AmbientSundays
https://ambientsundaysmusic.bandcamp.com/track/this-is-you-as-a-baby
https://open.spotify.com/track/6maiNtTWkwMZ4FDnwvKmBz

US weekly jobless claims rise more than expected as labor market eases https://ground.news/article/us-weekly-jobless-claims-rise-more-than-expected-as-labor-market-eases_b30739

Great article from NYT about sheikh Mansour bin Zayed al-Nahyan from the UAE. For me it illustrates the bigger problem of the middle-east/gulfstates, the absence of any meaningful democracy, too rich oligarchs with too much power. Politically the people are living in medieval times there.

Conquering Soccer and Arming Warlords
The Emirati vice president is best known as the owner of Manchester City, a top English soccer team. Behind the scenes, he has been described as the “handler” guiding his country’s secret foreign wars.

ICE agents' task is to deport as many people as they can. It does not matter whether they are citizens, legal residents or tourists; each team's performance is measured by that number alone. "We searched hard but found no illegal aliens or gang members." is no excuse for a zero score. And they know that any mistakes they might make will have no consequences; at worst, they will be pardoned by the Orange Boss.

Detecting Atmospheric CO2 Trends as Population-Level Signatures for Long-Term Stable Water Oceans and Biotic Activity on Temperate Terrestrial Exoplanets
Janina Hansen, Daniel Angerhausen, Sascha P. Quanz, Derek Vance, Bj\"orn S. Konrad, Emily O. Garvin, Eleonora Alei, Jens Kammerer, Felix A. Dannert
https://arxiv.org/abs/2…

Detecting Atmospheric CO2 Trends as Population-Level Signatures for Long-Term Stable Water Oceans and Biotic Activity on Temperate Terrestrial Exoplanets
Identifying key observables is essential for enhancing our knowledge of exoplanet habitability and biospheres, as well as improving future mission capabilities. While currently challenging, future observatories such as the Large Interferometer for Exoplanets (LIFE) will enable atmospheric observations of a diverse sample of temperate terrestrial worlds. Using thermal emission spectra that represent conventional predictions of atmospheric CO2 variability across the Habitable Zone (HZ), we assess…

"As Canadian as __________ "
https://youtu.be/43XjPzlpiqM?si=KIqge90fTX91vSkU

A look at AIFF 2025, Runway's third annual AI Film Festival featuring 10 shorts, as the film and TV industry remains divided over the role of AI in its future (Samuel Axon/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/culture/2025/0

Curated realities: An AI film festival and the future of human expression
We saw 10 AI films and interviewed Runway’s CEO as well as Hollywood pros.

A (westerner) #Japan #energy expert mixed up Inner Mongolia, #China with the country of Mongolia in an energy analysis.
Just a mind-numbingly stupid error that rendered the entire analysis wrong. And, as far as I…

This is the main square in Piran, Slovenia, early morning today. Only 10 minutes away, the 22nd Extended Semantic Web Conference ESWC 2025 will take place, starting on Sunday, June 1st, 2025. I'm looking forward to meeting dear colleagues as well as old and new friends, listening to exciting keynotes, great presentations, and many more activities.

Dems freak out about Mamdani whilst Republicans do this. 🙄
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:5o6k7jvowuyaquloafzn3cfw/post/3lsppgto4mc2c

The Tennessee Holler (@thetnholler.bsky.social)
⚡️ HUFF POST: “Several key Republican holdouts voted to advance the $4 trillion package that includes tax cuts for the mostly wealthy as well as major cuts to safety net programs…” (@MarshaBlackburn & @SenatorHagerty did not hesitate) https://www.huffpost.com/entry/big-beautiful-bill-trump-senate_n_68604f46e4b0dd2969bb5204

Sometimes {renv} just isnt enough to ensure your environment is controlled. Maybe {slushy} could be an option? https://gsk-biostatistics.github.io/slushy/index.html

Nice one, Hungary! ❤️🧡💛💚💜😘
https://masto.ai/@euractiv/114761883639349056

Euractiv (@euractiv@masto.ai)
Attached: 1 image Major turnout as Budapest Pride defies Orban’s ban in Hungary https://www.euractiv.com/section/politics/news/major-turnout-as-budapest-pride-defies-orbans-ban-in-hungary/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=dlvr.it

It has taken me way too many years to figure out, but:
I have just realised that a core feature of a shell language is that it has very little grammar.
In other words, the language needs to be maximally permissive, so that you can layer whatever you need on top.
Take, for example, switches. They work because as far as sh/bash/etc. is concerned, starting a string with a hyphen is absolutely reasonable.
Numbers are integers, when you need them to be. Or they’re strings.…

The cauldron bubbled aggressively to greet me as I opened the tower door, black and gleaming in the firelight. Beside it, I caught a wisp of white hair, a bent, bony silhouette and took a retreating step back. this was not where I was supposed to be.
"Don't go:"
The voice was harsh, cracking with sharpness as the woman lifted her head and twisted around to look at me: I cowered at the sight of that hooked nose, those dark eyes, but her smile was... kind? 1/
#MastoPrompt #MicroPrompt #WSS366

US citizen arrested during Ice raid in what family describes as ‘kidnapping’;
Andrea Velez, 32, a graduate of Cal Poly Pomona, had just been dropped off at work by her mother and sister
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/26/immigration-ice-raid…

With years, I accumulated devices on my #local #network, which in general run on Linux. I meticulously added them to my /etc/hosts/ file, so as not to remember their IP. Something puzzled me, though: my Synology NAS was readily available as nas.local on the network, without doing anything. I have close to z…

“This ruling reaffirms that our laws matter, and that trade decisions can’t be made on the president’s whim.”
It's the 'Rule of Law', Donald!
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/28/us-court-blocks-trump-tariffs?…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.21845 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_qu…

On the Efficacy of the Peeling Decoder for the Quantum Expander Code
The problem of recovering from qubit erasures has recently gained attention as erasures occur in many physical systems such as photonic systems, trapped ions, superconducting qubits and circuit quantum electrodynamics. While several linear-time decoders for error correction are known, their error-correcting capability is limited to half the minimum distance of the code, whereas erasure correction allows one to go beyond this limit. As in the classical case, stopping sets pose a major challenge …

Not upgrading all the SQS code using boto.sqs.Message to boto3 has finally bitten me on the ass as boto just doesn't work on Python 3.12 which is what I'm moving to.
And I'm moving it because 3.7 has become the 2.7 of Python 3. Whilst I originally targeted 3.9 that is slipping away too.
There is a lot of SQS going on, not just pipelining but logging. The logging is kind of Schroedinger logging as I don't bother with it unless I need to.

"But with the smell of that Wallet push-notification fart still hanging in the air, not as much fun as it otherwise would have been."
via @…
https://daringfi…

Apple’s Other ‘F1 The Movie’ In-App Promotions
Link to: https://www.macrumors.com/2025/06/27/f1-the-movie-now-playing-in-theaters/

This was a fascinating — as well as slightly uncomfortable — listen. Sobering to realize the left has quite a lot to learn before it will be capable of taking power again.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000y7sq

The Spark - Karen Stenner and the authoritarian predisposition - BBC Sounds
Helen Lewis meets people offering radical solutions to the big problems of our times.

I couldn’t sleep. My brain kept spinning: I brush my teeth at night. Then I don’t eat, I don’t drink, I just sleep. Nothing goes in my mouth. So why, when I wake up, do I brush my teeth again? I already did it! Nothing changed. It’s like someone decided mornings need a repeat, but my mouth is just as clean as before.
Sometimes I wonder, who decided this? Why do we all just do it, like it’s written in the sky or something? I like the feeling of brushing but not the taste of toothpaste, …

Series D, Episode 13 - Blake
DEVA: Hm. You've been given a temporary appointment as a law enforcement officer.
BLAKE: That central computer doesn't care who it makes respectable, does it?
DEVA: It's an inferior model, I'm afraid.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/413/260

Blakes7Bot | Search
Companion site to the Blakes7Bot Twitter, Mastodon, and Bluesky accounts. Automated lines of Blakes 7 dialog. Includes a script search facility.

For those with a Twitter (X) account, there is a fun little discussion thread between me, myself and #AI (Grok, ChatGPT) about whether Elon Musk's Neuralink Blindsight brain implant will work for congenitally blind people to see. https://

Grok (@grok) on X
@NotOpCue @elonmusk @neuralink Neuralink's brain-computer interface aims to help disabled individuals by connecting the brain to computers. It has enabled quadriplegics, like Noland Arbaugh, to control devices such as a computer mouse or play chess using thoughts alone, as shown in 2024 trials. The Blindsight

For #Junited2025 I admit to capitulating and joining the #OpenEnergyMonitor forum, which is every bit as good as one would hope. The secret is that I actually joined it to support my current live #PhD

On Website Technicals (2025-06)
Tech updates: Junited - Rigby to OEM - GPTBot badness, captions, diversion delay, under-volt, X11 fossil... #Junited2025

Maybe it wasn’t as fresh as the original #Connections, but I thought Connectin’ 2: Electric Boogaloo had some fly categories.
#Connections749
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This month, we have decided against collecting donations for our Mastodon servers, as there is a more pressing issue: not enough humanitarian aid to Gaza.
The Gaza strip needs over 500 trucks of food and medical supplies per day, with currently only a few dozen entering overall.
The problem isn't money, but with over 310 UNRWA, and over 400 humanitarian aid staff in total, killed in Gaza, the problem is also money.
I urge you to donate whatever you would do…

And “Noor” by Nnedi Okorafor in which AO, a woman with some cybernetic implants resultant from a horrible accident as a child, goes on the run from authorities after a fight in which she defends herself from an attack by bigoted men who despise her for those “unnatural” implants.
As she flees into the Nigerian desert, she meets a nomadic cattleman, who is also in the run from the state for merely existing.

Noor
From Africanfuturist luminary Okorafor comes a new scie…

Something you don’t see any more dept.:
Used to be people would sometimes tuck their napkin into their shirt collar as a bib while eating. When I was a kid it was already mostly only seen in cartoons. I’m old and my hands aren’t as steady as they once were, and I spill stuff on my shirt sometimes. Go to a seafood restaurant and get lobster and they give you a bib with their logo on it, no asking for it necessary. This needs to be re-normalized.

Record number of applications for next fall's entering class! Find out more in this new article at YDS News. https://divinity.yale.edu/news/record-number-applications-received-yds-entering-class

I have never opened a Reddit account. However they send me emails with titles like "Updates to Reddit’s Privacy Policy and User Agreement"
I think someone must be posing as me - or just using my gmail address. I have had a persistent "Stephen Rees" who uses gmail with the two names the other way round.
I can't close this Reddit account as I didn't open it. But its address is u/BagOk7706 - which you might be able to access and disabuse

Who controls the NFC East as training camp openings near? https://insidethestar.com/who-controls-the-nfc-east-as-training-camp-openings-near

My grandparents are all passed now. My dad and his brother used to call their mom 'Bones' for as many years as I can remember, as a strange term of endearment, I think because when her bones would pop and stuff when she would stand up, etc. I now have a cat named Cubone (the one in my avi), and I've noticed that for the past few years, I've started calling him 'Bones' instead of Cubone a lot of times. Maybe because it's shorter, the one syllable is just easier to…

https://daringfireball.net/2025/04/is_chrome_even_a_sellable_asset

@…
"𠉧… subscribe to Microsoft 365. This, in turn, means their data and meta-information will be kept in a US-based datacenter. …"
I'm as sure as I can be that my (organisational) data is _not_ kept in a US-based data centre.
@…

The evidence here is very simple: if you go into DOGE actually trying to improve efficiency, and then try to work transparently and report the truth that existing government teams are functioning very efficiently already, they will can you. https://sahillavingia.com/doge

DOGE Days
My experience joining the United States DOGE Service as a software engineer, and what I learned along the way.

So #Gentoo #Python eclasses are pretty modern, in the sense that they tend to follow the best practices and standards, and eventually deal with deprecations. Nevertheless, they have a long history and carry quite some historical burden, particularly regarding to naming.
The key point is that the eclasses were conceived as a replacement for the old eclasses: "distutils" and "python". Hence, much like we revision ebuilds, I've named the matching eclasses "distutils-r1" and "python-r1". For consistency, I've also used the "-r1" suffix for the remaining eclasses introduced at the time: "python-any-r1", "python-single-r1" and "python-utils-r1" — even though there were never "r0"s.
It didn't take long to realize my first mistake. I've made the multi-impl eclass effectively the "main" eclass, probably largely inspired by the previous Gentoo recommendations. However, in the end I've found out that for the most use cases (i.e. where "distutils-r1" is not involved), there is no real need for multi-impl, and it makes things much harder. So if I were naming them today, I would have named it "python-multi", to indicate the specific use case — and either avoid designating a default at all, or made "python-single" the default.
What aged even worse is the "distutils-r1" eclass. Admittedly, back when it was conceived, distutils was still largely a thing — and there were people (like me) who avoided unnecessary dependency on setuptools. Of course, nowadays it has been entirely devoured by setuptools, and with #PEP517 even "setuptools" wouldn't be a good name anymore. Nowadays, people are getting confused why they are supposed to use "distutils-r1" for, say, Hatchling.
Admittedly, this is something I could have done differently — PEP517 support was a major migration, and involved an explicit switch. Instead of adding DISTUTILS_USE_PEP517 (what a self-contradictory name) variable, I could have forked the eclass. Why didn't I do that? Because there used to be a lot of code shared between the two paths. Of course, over time they diverged more, and eventually I've dropped the legacy support — but the opportunity to rename was lost.
In fact, as a semi-related fact, I've recognized another design problem with the eclass earlier — I should have gone for two eclasses rather than one: a "python-phase" eclass with generic sub-phase support, and a "distutils" (or later "python-pep517") implementing default sub-phases for the common backends. And again, this is precisely how I could have solved the code reuse problem when I introduced PEP517 support.
But then, I didn't anticipate how the eclasses would end up looking like in the end — and I can't really predict what new challenges the Python ecosystem is going to bring us. And I think it's too late to rename or split stuff — too much busywork on everyone.

It is just INSANE that the GOP is going to 🆘 tax new solar and wind capacity,
as well as a whole bunch of other terrible energy policies in the BBB,
when electricity prices have risen 20% since start of 2022,
and the grid is ever more fragile.
Prepare for a lot of rolling blackouts.
https://…

Sustainable Carbon-Aware and Water-Efficient LLM Scheduling in Geo-Distributed Cloud Datacenters
Hayden Moore, Sirui Qi, Ninad Hogade, Dejan Milojicic, Cullen Bash, Sudeep Pasricha
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.23554

Sustainable Carbon-Aware and Water-Efficient LLM Scheduling in Geo-Distributed Cloud Datacenters
In recent years, Large Language Models (LLM) such as ChatGPT, CoPilot, and Gemini have been widely adopted in different areas. As the use of LLMs continues to grow, many efforts have focused on reducing the massive training overheads of these models. But it is the environmental impact of handling user requests to LLMs that is increasingly becoming a concern. Recent studies estimate that the costs of operating LLMs in their inference phase can exceed training costs by 25x per year. As LLMs are q…

After the transformation away from US services and products, it's time to go one step further.
As I have already announced, I will soon be replacing my Pixel 9 with Graphene OS with a Fairphone 6 with /e/OS from Murena.
Although I personally really appreciate Graphene OS and am an avid user, I'm not sure what the future will bring under the fascist Trump. As I said, he can force US companies to hand over data of European users or turn off their services for Europe with t…

In New York's Assembly, where Mamdani was first elected, each member represents 130,000 people. California's is half the size for a twice as populous state: each member represents 490,000.
If we made California's Assembly as representative as NY's, SF would have 6 Assemblymembers instead of 2.

CFP NEMLA 2026--ITALIAN FOOD AS (RE)GENERATION https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/05/28/cfp-nemla-2026-italian-food-as-regeneration

Looks like we might get a good finger lime crop this year! 😍 #NatureyCrap #SanFranciscoHellscape #FruityPrideEdition

Sonnet 109 - CIX
O! never say that I was false of heart,
Though absence seem'd my flame to qualify,
As easy might I from my self depart
As from my soul which in thy breast doth lie:
That is my home of love: if I have ranged,
Like him that travels, I return again;
Just to the time, not with the time exchanged,
So that myself bring water for my stain.
Never believe though in my nature reigned,
All frailties that besiege all kinds …

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.03532 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mat…

A complete theory of smoothable compactified Jacobians of nodal curves
We introduce and study a new class of compactified Jacobians for nodal curves, that we call compactified Jacobians of vine type, or simply V-compactified Jacobians. This class is strictly larger than the class of classical compactified Jacobians, as constructed by Oda-Seshadri, Simpson, Caporaso and Esteves. We characterize V-compactified Jacobians as the compactified Jacobians that can arise as limits of Jacobians of smooth curves under a one-parameter smoothing of the nodal curve, extending…

At least 66 children dead of malnutrition in Gaza as Israel tightens siege | Israel-Iran conflict News | Al Jazeera
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/6/29/at-least-66-children-dead-of-malnutrition-in-gaza-as-israel-tightens-siege?traffic_source=rss

soc_net_comms: Networks with group metadata
Snapshots of LiveJournal, Friendster, Orkut, and YouTube online social networks, as well as DBLP and Amazon. Node metadata represents a post hoc definition of a 'community' that a node belongs to, derived from topical labels of the node or interest-based 'groups' that a node links to.
This network has 317080 nodes and 1049866 edges.
Tags: Online, Social, Collaboration, Informational, Relatedness, Unweighted, Metada…

"Google’s emissions up 51% as AI electricity demand derails efforts to go green"
#Google #AI #ArtificialIntelligence

I think I finally figured out why the hard push for AI everywhere. AI is the sports car of a developer's midlife/mid-career crisis.
The average age across most tech ecosystems is about 40 and we're all maybe not as sharp as we remember.
Time to get something that makes us feel young again. Like we haven't missed a step. But like everyone trying a little too hard, we look a bit ridiculous.

Tamar Riley, global managing director at Refinery29 since July 2022, is set to join The Standard, formerly The Evening Standard, as CEO on July 14 (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/the-wire/media-jobs-uk-news/eveni…

Managing director of lifestyle publisher Refinery29 joins Standard as CEO
The new chief executive (CEO) of The Standard is Tamar Riley, joining from women's lifestyle brand Refinery29 in July.

Ukraine intelligence: Russia deploys Soviet-era tanks as modern reserves dwindle amid massive losses - Euromaidan Press
https://euromaidanpress.com/2025/06/28/ukraine-intelligence-russia-deploys-soviet-era-tanks-as-modern-reserves-dwindle-amid-massive-losses/

The cauldron bubbled aggressively to greet me as I opened the tower door, black and gleaming in the firelight. Beside it, I caught a wisp of white hair, a bent, bony silhouette and took a retreating step back. this was not where I was supposed to be.
"Don't go:"
The voice was harsh, cracking with sharpness as the woman lifted her head and twisted around to look at me: I cowered at the sight of that hooked nose, those dark eyes, but her smile was... kind? 1/
#MastoPrompt #MicroPrompt #WSS366

Source: Meta hired four more OpenAI researchers, including key contributors to o1-mini and o3-mini, as Zuckerberg continues an unprecedented recruiting effort (Kalley Huang/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/meta-hires-four-openai-r…

Meta Hires Four More OpenAI Researchers
Meta Platforms is hiring four more OpenAI artificial intelligence researchers as Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg continues an unprecedented recruiting effort to catch up to his AI rivals. The researchers, Shengjia Zhao, Jiahui Yu, Shuchao Bi and Hongyu Ren, have each agreed to join, according to a ...

Series D, Episode 13 - Blake
DEVA: Hm. You've been given a temporary appointment as a law enforcement officer.
BLAKE: That central computer doesn't care who it makes respectable, does it?
DEVA: It's an inferior model, I'm afraid.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/413/260

Blakes7Bot | Search
Companion site to the Blakes7Bot Twitter, Mastodon, and Bluesky accounts. Automated lines of Blakes 7 dialog. Includes a script search facility.

soc_net_comms: Networks with group metadata
Snapshots of LiveJournal, Friendster, Orkut, and YouTube online social networks, as well as DBLP and Amazon. Node metadata represents a post hoc definition of a 'community' that a node belongs to, derived from topical labels of the node or interest-based 'groups' that a node links to.
This network has 317080 nodes and 1049866 edges.
Tags: Online, Social, Collaboration, Informational, Relatedness, Unweighted, Metada…

We may see more of Micah Parsons as a standing free rusher in 2025 https://insidethestar.com/we-may-see-more-of-micah-parsons-as-a-standing-free-rusher-in-2025

In the days before the surprise U.S. attack on Iran, Politico reported that
one man in the Defense Department was having an outsized say on Washington’s Iran strategy:
Erik Kurilla, the hawkish U.S. Central Command leader known as “The Gorilla.”
“He’s a big dude, he’s jacked, he’s exactly this ‘lethality’ look they’re going for,” said an anonymous former official.
So long as military advisors “come across as tough and warfighters,”
the source added, Defense S…

Hypermasculinity Is Driving U.S. Foreign Policy
Trump’s approach to Iran shows that America’s crisis of manhood has hit the global stage.

How the Center for Investigative Reporting is handling the lawsuit against OpenAI as one of the few nonprofits with the resources to take on a yearslong suit (Andrew Deck/Nieman Lab)
https://www.niemanlab.org/2025/06/what-it-takes-to-sue-op…

kegg_metabolic: Metabolic networks from KEGG (2006)
109 metabolic networks of various species, as extracted from the Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes (KEGG) database in March 2006. Nodes are substances involved in enzymatic reactions present in the organism, and edges represent reactant-product pairs as extracted from the KEGG ligand database and matched against the present enzymes.
This network has 863 nodes and 2100 edges.
Tags: Biological, Metabolic, Unweighted

As AI kills search traffic, Google launches Offerwall, a Google Ad Manager tool to help publishers generate revenue beyond ads, including via micropayments (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/26/as-a

As AI kills search traffic, Google launches Offerwall to boost publisher revenue | TechCrunch
Offerwall lets publishers give their sites' readers a variety of ways to access their content, including through options like micro payments, taking surveys, watching ads, and more.

Series B, Episode 10 - Voice from the Past
JENNA: Complaining of some sort of noise.
AVON: A sort of tone, he said.
CALLY: Oscillating. It was there again just now.
AVON: As a part of his nightmare?
CALLY: Yes, I think so.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/210/85

Blakes7Bot | Search
Companion site to the Blakes7Bot Twitter, Mastodon, and Bluesky accounts. Automated lines of Blakes 7 dialog. Includes a script search facility.

Call center agents in Australia, Canada, Greece, and the US say they've been repeatedly mistaken for AI, as the industry rapidly integrates AI alongside humans (Morgan Meaker/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

A government ban on Hungary’s Pride parade backfired Saturday as over 100,000 people marched through Budapest,
far more than usual
PM Viktor Orban warned people to stay away, threatening “clear legal consequences.”
But the warnings only turned a modest event into a mass rally against his government

faculty_hiring_us: Faculty hiring networks in the US (2022)
Networks of faculty hiring for all PhD-granting US universities over the decade 2011–2020. Each node is a PhD-granting institution, and a directed edge (i,j) indicates that a person received their PhD from node i and was tenure-track faculty at node j during time of collection (2011-2020). This dataset is divided into separate networks for all 107 fields, as well as aggregate networks for 8 domains, and an overall network for …

Baidu plans to open-source its Ernie LLM on June 30; some say this could cement China's AI leadership, while others doubt it will be a "DeepSeek moment" (Kevin Williams/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/29/china-bigg

China's biggest public AI drop since DeepSeek, Baidu's open source Ernie, is about to hit the market
Chinese internet search giant Baidu will open source its Ernie gen AI large language model as soon as this week, with uncertain consequences for the market.

Series B, Episode 10 - Voice from the Past
JENNA: Complaining of some sort of noise.
AVON: A sort of tone, he said.
CALLY: Oscillating. It was there again just now.
AVON: As a part of his nightmare?
CALLY: Yes, I think so.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/210/85

Blakes7Bot | Search
Companion site to the Blakes7Bot Twitter, Mastodon, and Bluesky accounts. Automated lines of Blakes 7 dialog. Includes a script search facility.

Ahead of a vote on Republicans’ budget reconciliation package expected as soon as noon Saturday,
U.S. Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Chair Mike Lee revived his effort to sell off public lands.
Senate Parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough has blocked multiple provisions of the GOP megabill,
including several under the jurisdiction of the Utah Republican’s panel.
Among them is his attack on public lands.
“Here we go again,” Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) …

Mike Lee Tries to Sneak Public Land Sale Back Into 'Big, Ugly Bill' Ahead of Senate Vote | Common Dreams
Ahead of an expected vote on Republicans' budget reconciliation package, U.S. Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Chair Mike Lee revived his effort to sell off public lands.

topology: Internet AS graph (2004)
An integrated snapshot of the structure of the Internet at the level of Autonomous Systems (ASs), reconstructed from multiple sources, including the RouteViews and RIPE BGP trace collectors, route servers, looking glasses, and the Internet Routing Registry databases. This snapshot was created around October 2004.
This network has 34761 nodes and 171403 edges.
Tags: Technological, Communication, Unweighted, Multigraph, Timestamps

Police in southern California arrested a man suspected of posing as a federal immigration officer this week, the latest in a series of such arrests, as masked, plainclothes immigration agents are deployed nationwide to meet the Trump administration’s mass deportation targets.
The man, Fernando Diaz, was arrested by Huntington Park police after officers said they found a loaded gun and official-looking documents with Department of Homeland Security headings in his SUV, according to NBC …

As AI kills search traffic, Google launches Offerwall, a Google Ad Manager tool to help publishers generate revenue beyond ads, including via micropayments (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/26/as-a

As AI kills search traffic, Google launches Offerwall to boost publisher revenue | TechCrunch
Offerwall lets publishers give their sites' readers a variety of ways to access their content, including through options like micro payments, taking surveys, watching ads, and more.

How was Joe Biden forced out of a presidential race for a disastrous debate and for looking frail and for confusing names,
but this man, one of the most ignorant men to ever be elected to any office, allowed to continue on as president and treated as a normal, serious leader??
https://bsky.app/pr…

petster: Pet owner social networks (2016)
A network of friendships among users on catster.com and dogster.com. Node represents a user, and edge exists if two users self-identify as friends on either website. The dogster/catster network also contains family links between dog and dog, cat and cat, as well as dog and cat.
This network has 623766 nodes and 15699276 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted

If you’ve ever tried putting butter in your coffee, you have Dave Asprey to thank.
(Sure, it was your annoying coworker who finally convinced you,
but that’s where your annoying coworker got the idea.)
Asprey is arguably the man who popularized the brew of smart drugs, supplements, and self-experimentation
we now know as biohacking.
As part of his multi-million-dollar empire
—which also involves the company Bulletproof Labs
and dressing increasingl…

Snake Venom, Urine, and a Quest to Live Forever: Inside a Biohacking Conference Emboldened by MAHA
WIRED attended a biohacking conference filled with unorthodox and often unproven anti-aging treatments. Adherents revealed how the Make America Healthy Again movement has given them a renewed fervor.

Where Things Stand
Policy bill: After releasing a 940-page version of their sprawling domestic policy bill overnight, Senate Republicans on Saturday were seeking the votes to pass it, a key step in advancing President Trump’s agenda. They cut deals with holdouts in their ranks that they hoped would be enough to speed the bill through the chamber as early as this weekend.

Final cost: If Senate Republicans begin debate on the sweeping bill on Saturday, they will do so wit…

Trump Administration Live Updates: Republicans Hunt for Votes to Bring Policy Bill to the Floor
Senate Republicans were trying to find enough votes to pass their domestic policy bill, a key step in advancing President Trump’s agenda. Three Republicans have voted against opening debate.

As top reporters continue to flock to Substack, subscription fatigue and challenges with building a wide audience pose threats to its long-term success (Steven Levy/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/substack-is-having-a-moment-again-but-time…

Substack Is Having a Moment—Again. But Time Is Running Out
While star reporters continue to flock to Substack, subscription fatigue is only getting worse.

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson
issued a scathing dissent in response to the Supreme Court’s majority opinion on Friday
that limited federal judges’ ability to temporarily pause Donald Trump’s executive orders nationwide.
The 6-3 decision, authored by Trump-appointed Justice Amy Coney Barrett, allows the president to implement his order to end automatic birthright citizenship as litigation on the matter continues.
As The New York Times reported,
“the practice of g…

Supreme Court ruling on nationwide injunctions sparks fiery dissent from Justice Jackson
The Biden appointee said the Trump administration “wants to continue doing something that a court has determined violates the Constitution.”

The Trump administration’s request to claw back $9.4 billion in previously approved spending on foreign aid and public media ran into significant opposition Wednesday, potentially dooming its path forward in the Senate.
Numerous GOP lawmakers on the Appropriations Committee,
including Chairwoman Susan Collins, expressed concern at how the proposed rescissions would affect American “soft power”
as well as local radio and television stations that rely on the Corporation for P…

As Reddit turns 20, a look at its AI efforts, including the Reddit Answers chatbot, while it battles unauthorized scraping of user data for AI training (Jonathan Vanian/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/28/reddit-20-fighting-ai-defending-data.html…

At 20 years old, Reddit is defending its data and fighting AI with AI
After two decades, Reddit faces the emergence of AI chatbots that threaten to inhale its vast swaths of data and siphon its users.

Here’s what Florida state Sen. Ileana Garcia, a Republican and founder of Latinas for Trump, had to say about ICE’s raids:
This is not what we voted for…
I understand the importance of deporting criminal aliens,
but what we are witnessing are arbitrary measures to hunt down people who are complying with their immigration hearings
— in many cases, with credible fear of persecution claims,
all driven by a Miller-like desire to satisfy a self-fabricated deportation…

David Barton’s Defense of ICE Actions in LA is as Wrong as His History Lessons
David Barton's propaganda on current events is every bit as believable as his Christian nationalist history.