@david@boles.xyzNotes on Tomorrow as Tribute
The book is out. The title is Tomorrow as Tribute: The Politics of the Burnt Future. It is available in paperback, in Kindle, and as a free web edition through David Boles Books. The audiobook is in production with narrator selection underway. The web edition is free because I want the argument to circulate as widely as possible.
@Techmeme@techhub.socialWaymo suspends operations in Atlanta and San Antonio as its robotaxis struggle with flooded roads and says it has yet to develop a "final remedy" for flooding (Sean O'Kane/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/21/waym
@cdarwin@c.imKeir Starmer has announced his resignation as the United Kingdom’s prime minister and leader of the Labour Party
following growing pressure from within his own party to step down.
During his time in office, Starmer faced mounting opposition over his embrace of austerity measures
amid a cost-of-living crisis in Britain,
as well as his brutal crackdown on Palestine solidarity protesters.
Former Manchester Mayor
Andy Burnham is widely expected to become the…
@metacurity@infosec.exchangeOpenAI Launches Full-Scale Effort to Patch Open-Source Bugs as It Takes on Anthropic’s MythoOpenAI Launches Full-Scale Effort to Patch Open-Source Bugs as It Takes on Anthropic’s Mythos
https://www.wired.com/story/openai-launche
@fanf@mendeddrum.orgfrom my link log —
Tech ain't that deep - and that's a problem.
https://deadsimpletech.com/blog/tech-aint-deep
saved 2026-07-20 https://…
@memeorandum@universeodon.comHouse to accelerate housing bill consideration, final passage as soon as Tuesday (Katherine Hapgood/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2026/06/22/congress/house-to-accelerate-housing-bill-consideration-final-passage-as-soon-as-tuesday-00970321
http://www.memeorandum.com/260622/p123#a260622p123
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialA look at the history of US radio and how it grew with the idea that media should serve the public interest, as CBS Radio News goes silent on Friday night (Matthew Jordan/The Conversation)
https://theconversation.com/as-goes-cb
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioIT WAS IN THE TRAINING DATA. Your test gave the machine a pile of correct answers and free license to plagiarize.
I remember people being wowed that Claude Code could implement a complete C compiler. But somehow it doesn’t sound quite as impressive when you phrase it as “given every existing C compiler as input, the LLM can produce a C compiler as output.”
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@burger_jaap@mastodon.socialOn the face of it, a technical detail – but aren’t details like that what make Europe a superpower? A single market for V2G, for example, absolutely requires these harmonised network codes - technical specifications for electricity - as a prerequisite.
https://www.e…
@cowboys@darktundra.xyz8 Cowboys free agents remain unsigned as OTAs begin, including 3 starters https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2026/05/21/3-cowboys-starters-still-unsigned-as-nfl-clubs-kick…
@NFL@darktundra.xyzDaniel Jones expects Tyler Warren to be 'big part' of Colts offense as TE makes jump from rookie year https://www.nfl.com/news/daniel-jones-expects-tyler-warren-to-be-big-part-of-colts-offense-as-te-makes-jump-fro…
@tiotasram@kolektiva.socialJust finished "My Perfectly Imperfect Body" by Debbie Tung, a graphic memoir about dealing with disordered eating as a teenage girl. Similar themes to Hungry Ghost, except without as much of a family factor, and it's more direct. We get to hear the author's perspective as an adult at the end, including some good body-positive messages and thought patterns, even as she acknowledges the struggle necessary to climb out of body despair.
#AmReading #ReadingNow #Bookstodon
@clongclongmoo@social.bau-ha.usAndy Nechaevsky – Vu iz dos gesele (as an echo)
https://andynechaevsky.bandcamp.com/track/vu-iz-dos-gesele-as-an-echo-single
@hex@kolektiva.socialIt seems as though I'm always too involved with my life to remember solstice. This, even as my body remembers by waking up to bright morning sun and my kids remember by not wanting to sleep while the sun is still out. I feel as though life would be so much easier if we didn't live in a society that disconnects us from the rhythms of life.
@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyzEarth as a potential source of life for Europa’s subsurface ocean: #panspermia
@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot
@neverpanic@chaos.socialAre you in the US and want to work on Smartcards? My employer has a position available: https://redhat.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/jobs/job/Senior-Software-Engineer-in-Crypto--Smart-Cards-_R-056859
(It says Raleigh, but…
@markhburton@mstdn.socialEven more reason to stand aside now.
Makerfield by-election LIVE as Green Party candidate apologises for social media posts as he's dropped after 9 hours - Manchester Evening News
https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/ne
@datascience@genomic.social
@raiders@darktundra.xyzBandero Premium Tequila joins Raider Nation as the Official Tequila Partner of the Las Vegas Raiders https://www.raiders.com/news/bandero-premium-tequila-joins-raider-nation-as-the-official-tequila-partner-of-the-las…
@aral@mastodon.ar.alRE: #EU
@seeingwithsound@mas.toU.S. lead in science is shrinking fast as China, India and even Iran catch up https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2026-06-03/united-states-science-investment-china-india-iran Easy under the current Trump-led US administration.
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioNote, these are all super-heavy-ish launch vehicles.
(The cargo capacity of the Space Shuttle was a lot lower than “super heavy” because it has to lift itself up into orbit as well; but all these vehicles are in about the same ballpark as for their total power.)
@grahamperrin@bsd.cafe@… for me, it seems that fastfetch works as a normal user (almost) immediately after a single run as root in the same Konsole tab.
I can then quit and reopen Konsole, fastfetch works as a normal user.
@crell@phpc.socialMoving as a metaphor for software management.
https://www.garfieldtech.com/blog/moving-metaphor
@Techmeme@techhub.socialA study conducted in the Phoenix metro area finds that waste heat from data centers can raise air temperatures in downwind neighborhoods by as much as 4°F (Tech Xplore)
https://techxplore.com/news/2026-05-centers-nearby-temperatures-degrees-phoenix.html…
@kubikpixel@chaos.socialcssQuake 👹
A port of id Software's Quake that renders BSP worlds as real HTML/CSS 3D geometry through PolyCSS, without a WebGL or canvas renderer. cssQuake preprocesses original Quake data into browser-ready JSON, image assets, and PolyCSS render bundles, then runs the game in TypeScript.
🕹️ https://cssquake.com
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.decaida_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 21157 nodes and 85468 edges.
Tags: Technological, Communication, Unweighted, Temporal
@cdarwin@c.imThe United Nations reported this week that
more than 117.8 million people were forcibly displaced due to conflict and violence worldwide in 2025.
One in every 70 people in the world are now forcibly displaced..
Disaster relief agency ShelterBox USA is delivering vital supplies across the globe as the United Nations recognizes refugees forced to flee due to conflict, persecution and violence on
World Refugee Day, Saturday June 20.
“On World Refugee Day, we hon…
@ingo@social.stuetzle.ccNot even Sigmund Freud saw that coming. https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-delivers-bitter-snub-to-donald-trump-jr-and-bettina-andersons-wedding-invite/
@yaxu@post.lurk.orgOne of the things thing I noticed at an academic music tech event I attended recently is that 'culture' is used as a pejorative term, as in 'cultural baggage'. When you create a new interface in the 90s it's wonderful and Utopian because there's no cultural baggage, people don't know what to expect! Then wii remotes etc came along and it was a disaster because there's now a cultural reference for a performer waving a sensor around to make noises. Collectively,…
@jake4480@c.imLast.fm users, give this one a vote (upper left) - https://support.last.fm/t/limit-the-number-of-artist-photo-uploads/118521
@…@…
@metacurity@infosec.exchangeThere's a signing event today. The EO reportedly calls for only voluntary government testing of frontier AI systems and no mandatory oversight, which is pretty much what we have today.
Trump Set to Sign AI Cybersecurity Directive as Soon as Thursday
htt…
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MidnightInAPerfectWorld
Kasper BjŸrke Quartet:
🎵 Passage IX (As the Snow Melted, the Sorrow Felt Overwhelming)
#KasperBjørkeQuartet
https://kasperbjorke.bandcamp.com/track/passage-ix-as-the-snow-melted-the-sorrow-felt-overwhelming
@kurtsh@mastodon.socialEvery bit as good as "Stop Making Sense". And f*ck CBS/Paramount.
▶️ "Burning Down The House" - David Byrne feat. Stephen Colbert (LIVE on Th...
https://youtube.com/watch?v=EtvKvmTIaQU&si=47TJpO_7crzfGo0e
@hippyjo@c.imUkraine update from Giorgio Provincialli.
A common theme and observation I notice in all reports about Ukraine, is the incredible disconnect the rest of the world has with the conflict - as if it weren't creeping up to their own back door.
As this summer heats up in every way, I expect a lot of people to suddenly learn how connected we all are, as the fires burning in Ukraine and the Middle East spread around the world.
Friend link bypasses the paywall and breathes life…
@frankel@mastodon.top#ProgrammingLanguages, targets, and platforms
I started as a #Java developer, but for some time now, I have broadened my horizons. Recently, I thought about how early languages were dedicated to a single target and platform, and now they are broadening their focus. In this post, I want to …
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialHow major publishers in the UK are pivoting away from quantity of content towards quality as Google AI changes lead to falling traffic referrals (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/hearst-starts-w…
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioThe reasons we consider plagiarism to be cheating in school and malpractice in professional contexts are many of the same reasons that LLMs are not going to replace all knowledge-based human labor. (Details left as an exercise for the reader.)
And yes, a whole lot of what LLMs do •would• count as plagiarism if one of my students did it manually, and •should• count as plagiarism just the same if they use a machine to do it — not just in a “that’s cheating!!” sense, but more importantly in a “that’s not really doing the work” sense.
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@fanf@mendeddrum.orgfrom my link log —
Argdown: A simple syntax for complex argumentation.
https://argdown.org/
saved 2020-06-30 https://dotat.at/:/TFC5Q.html
@clongclongmoo@social.bau-ha.usAndy Nechaevsky – Vu iz dos gesele (as an echo)
https://andynechaevsky.bandcamp.com/track/vu-iz-dos-gesele-as-an-echo-single
@cowboys@darktundra.xyzThe biggest issue for Dallas heading into training camp is clear as day https://insidethestar.com/the-biggest-issue-for-dallas-heading-into-training-camp-is-clear-as-day
@neverpanic@chaos.socialMy team is looking for a US-based person to work on making #PQC #SmartCards work with open source software. Says Raleigh, but remote will be considered when nobody can be found locally, which is likely:
@memeorandum@universeodon.comAlmost as good as a pardon (Joyce Vance/Civil Discourse with Joyce Vance)
https://joycevance.substack.com/p/almost-as-good-as-a-pardon
http://www.memeorandum.com/260520/p66#a260520p66
@cdarwin@c.im23-time Grand Slam champion
Serina Williams will be the most anticipated factor in the women’s draw
as she makes her return to Wimbledon as a
44-year-old wildcard.
Williams last played competitive singles at the 2022 U.S. Open, when she lost to Ajla Tomljanović in the third round, and said she was “evolving” away from tennis.
When she takes the court at Wimbledon,
which runs June 29-July 12,
it will have been over 1,400 days since she last competed i…
@hex@kolektiva.socialThe first record of the parable commonly known as the "Blind Men and the Elephant" showed up around 2500 years ago, in a Buddhist text from India. At this point it's pretty commonly known. I assume that most folks reading this will be familiar with some variation of it.
If not, it's essentially a story about people who have limited information making assertions about something: one man grabs a tail and says, "it's like a rope," another the trunk and says, "it's like a snake," a third the leg saying, "it's like a tree," and so on. Later variations are less kind to the men, having them not simply report their findings, but fight over them. The first English translation draws a parallel to religion.
This comes to mind for me, because social media has a tendency to incentivize us to make those hard assertions, to dig in, to argue our perspective as part of a spectacle. Free and federated social media isn't structurally that different from corporate media, so the incentive models built to maximize engagement by maximizing conflict tend to leak through the similarities in the user experience and the conditioning of other platforms.
I didn't really come here to critique the fediverse, but rather to remind everyone, "no one sees the whole fucking elephant." We are limited and there are necessarily some things so big they will never be individually comprehensible. Any system that relies on us all agreeing cannot possibly respond to those big things.
We can see that concretely if we look at the difference between "democratic unity" and "diversity of tactics." In the first model, everyone either agrees or gets forced to behave as though they agree (at least on some issues). That's how liberal democracy works. Diversity of tactics (which systematically described, for example, in the "St Paul Principles"), on the other hand, let's people align on goals without needing to agree on exactly how to achieve them. The reality being that often there are multiple "correct" paths, and sometimes those paths can only work if multiple paths are taken in unison.
No one sees the whole elephant. We won't even see the elephant later. People will still be arguing about the elephant long after it's gone. But if you want to get rid of the elephant, you're gonna need to accept that you can't comprehend it all and you're gonna have to figure out a way to work together that doesn't require a unified approach.
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: ByteDance shares are trading at a $600B valuation in gray markets; an IPO is unlikely and its growth continues to benefit its Chinese and US backers (Henny Sender/Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/opinion/bytedance-sideline…
@cdarwin@c.imThe Trump administration is advancing plans to resettle an additional 10,000 white South Africans in the United States as refugees.
Under Trump’s proposal, which was submitted to Congress on Monday, the U.S. would lift its record-low refugee admissions figure from 7,500 to 17,500,
with the additional openings reserved for Afrikaners.
This comes as the administration continues to block the entry of refugees from other countries.
The U.S. has resettled just over 6,000 …
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialNetflix names Hannah Minghella as head of its Animation Studios, as it streamlines its animation efforts; VP Kira Goldberg will lead live-action family division (Rebecca Rubin/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/film/news/netflix-hannah-minghella…
@fanf@mendeddrum.orgfrom my link log —
Weld: accelerating numpy, scikit and pandas as much as 100x with Rust and LLVM.
https://notamonadtutorial.com/weld-accelerating-numpy-scikit-and-pandas-as-much-as-100x-with-rust-and-llvm-12ec1c630…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialOpenAI unveils an updated GPT-5.5-Cyber model, launches the Patch the Planet initiative in partnership with Trail of Bits to fix open source bugs, and more (Lily Hay Newman/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/openai-launche
@memeorandum@universeodon.comUS Authorizes Sale of Iranian Oil as Part of Peace Deal (Magdalena Del Valle/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-06-22/us-allows-sale-of-some-iranian-oil-as-part-of-deal-to-end-war
http://www.memeorandum.com/260622/p45#a260622p45
@hex@kolektiva.socialThe security industry is somewhat unique. It's probably the only industry created by the worker as a threat. If you talk to hackers who were in the scene before Operation Sundevil, you'll realize that it's always been a Bullshit Job.
Folks in L0ft and cDc were hacking companies and basically blackmailing them into paying for their services. Operation Sundevil "straightened up" the industry. Some people went to prison, some people build security services companies. Pretty much anyone who actually believed in the manifesto was locked up or edged out.
Using the Graeber framework here, hackers are partially duct tapers and partially goons. The critical thing here is that the industry was basically created to give money to people who would otherwise destroy the system.
Neuroatypical folks have always been forced to the margins of society, but computers gave us a super power. Now we were extremely dangerous. Tech, especially hackers, have always been paid a lot to minimize the risk of developing a class consciousness.
Graeber talked about this. Kings and nobles would often find some job or title that they could bestow on potential enemies in order to keep them close, to defang them. What better role than sheriff, a type of goon, for a rebel?
We turned it in to a whole thing. Not only did hackers make their own industry and force everyone else to accept it, we even created a whole parallel box ticker industry of "compliance" as a side effect.
The Hacker's Manifesto was decontectualized and made a fun artifact of the past. We were sold a story of "good hackers" who "protected grandma from the bad hackers." But the whole industry always existed to keep us on a leash. The funny thing is that it was a leash that we made ourselves.
But now we're seeing massive layoffs in tech, even in security. Now that we're this far in, everyone has forgotten the history. Leadership doesn't understand what security people do, so they think that LLMs can replace us. But the people in the industry now, the ones who came to it as a career, don't understand the history.
There was always a split for these weird outsiders, these people who couldn't fit in to the system but now had power over it. Some wanted in and they were willing to use extortion to get in, and others wanted to destroy the system to set everyone free.
Operation Sundevil, and the industry that evolved out of it, existed to neutralize those revolutionary elements by offering extortionists a safe entry. Extortionists trusted the capitalists to not stab them in the back the same way capitalists have stabbed everyone in the back through all of history. Now my LinkedIn feed is full of Meta layoffs, and I wonder if that class consciousness is starting to click for anyone yet.
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialReach reports H1 revenue down 9% YoY to £232.9M, pre-tax profit down 5% to £40.3M, and says it will move "away from volume" to focus on original content (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/news/reach-mo…
@metacurity@infosec.exchangeFrom a Chinese state-sponsored news outlet. Can you say pot-kettle-black?
"Investigations found that the foreign intelligence agency had taken control of multiple routers within China and used them as platforms to send phishing emails disguised as invitations to participate in review work or traffic violation payment notices, targeting staff at key institutions."
@cdarwin@c.imGreeting Andy Burnham after he was sworn in as an MP were a slew of cabinet ministers
- including the chief whip Jonathan Reynolds and the energy secretary Ed Miliband
- who came in flanked by two Treasury ministers, Torsten Bell and Dan Tomlinson.
Around 200 MPs were in the hall to greet Burnham, now officially the MP for Makerfield.
He arrived with Lucy Powell, the deputy Labour leader and the MP Jo Platt
- who holds Burnham’s old constituency of Leigh.
…
@memeorandum@universeodon.comTulsi Gabbard is Preparing to Resign as U.S. Intelligence Chief (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/tulsi-gabbard-is-preparing-to-resign-as-u-s-intelligence-chief-2d6b2951
http://www.memeorandum.com/260522/p23#a260522p23
@hex@kolektiva.socialPopular Front recently did a piece on the current conflicts in Ethiopia:
https://popularfront.substack.com/p/everything-you-didnt-know-about-the
It's a good primer for anyone who's unfamiliar, but is definitely lacking if you know any Ethiopian folks or pay attention to much news out of the Horn of Africa.
The interplay between authoritarian liberal nationalism, as represented by Abiy Ahmed and his government, and tribal federalism , represented by various tribal factions, reads to me very similarly to the liberalization of Europe (enclosure of the commons, a push to sacrifice ethnic identities for nationalist ones, etc). Like the liberalization of, say, France, it's a lot more complicated than "old thing bad, new thing good."
Liberalism was violent and authoritarian. It often sacrificed leftists. Liberalism's focus on borders and national identity led directly to pogroms and Nazism. Similarly, liberalization of Ethiopia has led to genocide and ethnic cleansing.
People think of "the terror" in France as a leftist thing, but it wasn't. It was a Liberal thing, centrist extremism, carried out against right and left.
I understand that tribal federalism is also not a good system, but I don't have a ton of depth so I'm not going to try to explain it. During the European Liberal revolutionary period of 1848, ethnic minorities would often side with some monarch or emperor against liberalism out of fear of liberal nationalism. It makes sense to support a system that's bad if your other option is a nationalism that erases your identity.
But even in Europe at that time, anarchism offered an alternative but that alternative often also drew from simply a different branch of liberalism that also suppressed culture and identity. Today the world is different. Democratic Confederalism offers a solution to *exactly* this problem, tested for more than a decade in Syria and developing now in Myanmar.
But the cross pollination between Syria and Myanmar in terms of fighters really made the ideological cross pollination possible. I don't think anything like that is happening now in Ethiopia.
Eurocentrism makes it easy to ignore what's happening now, but Addis Ababa is the seat of the African Union Commission. Ethiopia is a major military power in the region, so these developments carry a lot of weight. Especially as the US collapses and the world becomes more multipolar, the development of regional powers like Ethiopia will have a big impact on how that part of the continent develops.
If any folks are more familiar with Ethiopia than I am (which shouldn't be hard since I'm basically not), please correct me or add context if anything is missing or wrong.
@cdarwin@c.imAs Iran braced for conflict with the U.S., a key regime financier built a secret payment network to keep money flowing to its military forces.
At its core was Binance.
Until as recently as December, the network, run by Babak Zanjani, an Iranian who is a self-described “antisanction” operator made
$850 million in transactions over two years on the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange
@Techmeme@techhub.socialAlphabet stock fell as much as 7.2%, the most intraday since February, after Google DeepMind VP John Jumper became its second top AI exec to leave in a week (Felice Maranz/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026…
@memeorandum@universeodon.comKeir Starmer expected to announce departure as prime minister on Monday (The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/jun/21/keir-starmer-expected-to-announce-departure-as-prime-minister-on-monday
http://www.memeorandum.com/260621/p22#a260621p22
@cdarwin@c.imAs part of the Trump administration’s continuing attack on left-leaning groups,
the US state department has listed several activists and organizations as
“front groups and fellow travelers” for Cuba,
including Hasan Piker and Amazon Labor Union founder Chris Smalls.
In a 100-page report released on Monday, the state department denounces Cuba as the
“capital of 21st-century communism”,
accusing the Cuban government of carrying out a “campaign of subversion”…
@memeorandum@universeodon.comRussian-occupied Crimea completely suspends gas sales to civilians as Ukrainian drone strikes squeeze peninsula (Luca Léry Moffat/The Kyiv Independent)
https://kyivindependent.com/crimea-completely-suspends-gas-sales-as-ukrainian-drone-strikes-squeeze-occupied-peninsula/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260621/p10#a260621p10
@Techmeme@techhub.socialFiling: SpaceX set aside $530M for potential litigation losses, including lawsuits involving Grok's "Spicy" mode, which it described as a "heightened risk" (Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/spacex-ipo-grok-spicy-mode-risks/
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialThe DOD hasn't held a press briefing in more than two months, as part of a larger effort to control information and avoid difficult questions about the Iran war (Brian Stelter/CNN)
http://www.cnn.com/2026/07/20/media/pentagon-trump-hegseth-iran-press-brief…
@cdarwin@c.imTrump prepares fresh tariffs on dozens of countries, FT reports
Donald Trump is poised to unleash fresh tariffs on dozens of countries
as soon as this week, the Financial Times reported on Tuesday,
with his temporary 10% global tariff scheduled to expire on Friday.
The FT said the most immediate new duties are expected to be on a par with the 10% tariffs currently in place,
but the administration was also working on other investigations that could gran…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialAnalysis: Samsung could distribute ~$26.6B to chip employees, or ~$340K each for its 78,000 staff, as a bonus in early 2027 as part of a last-minute union deal (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-05-21/samsu…
@cdarwin@c.imA lot of the attention to changes in higher education has focused on cultural issues, such as debates over free speech.
“But there’s also a real economic and geopolitical dimension to what’s happening, in terms of the shifting away from the scientific enterprise and the leading global role that the United States has played for decades.”
Federal funding isn’t flowing to MIT as it typically has, Kornbluth said.
Some federal agencies are talking about taking geography — not …
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social @cdarwin@c.imUnder acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, the pace of investigations against Mr. Trump’s perceived enemies has accelerated
— most strikingly, the indictment of the former F.B.I. director, James B. Comey, for posting on social media an image of seashells that prosecutors cast as threatening.
Blanche has used his new perch to boost debunked election conspiracy theories promoted by the president.
But the moves that most starkly illustrated Blanche’s evolving approach came th…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialFrance becomes the first European country to pass a law banning social media access for users under 15, potentially going into effect as soon as September 1 (Mark Landler/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/21/world/e…
@cdarwin@c.imMandatory evacuation orders have been reissued for communities bordering Garden Grove and Stanton California
as emergency crews confront secondary mechanical setbacks at a local industrial facility.
Following an initially successful cooling process yesterday, changing conditions and a damaged tank valve have prompted local agencies to reinstate the evacuation mandate purely as a precautionary measure.
@memeorandum@universeodon.comKeir Starmer resigns, as Andy Burnham confirms he will run to replace him as Labour leader and PM (BBC)
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/ckger03mrl0t
http://www.memeorandum.com/260622/p4#a260622p4
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialThe UK's new Prime Minister Andy Burnham keeps Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy in post; Nandy is currently overseeing the BBC's royal charter renewal (K.J. Yossman/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/politics/global/uk-culture-secretary-lis…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialJapan's top five chip equipment makers posted their first-ever fall in combined China sales, down 10% in the year ended March 31, as China boosts local players (Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/business/tech/semi…
@cdarwin@c.imNo person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a grand jury …
— Amendment V, United States Constitution
Two hundred and fifty years since the nation’s founding, and almost as many since the adoption of the Bill of Rights,
the role of the grand jury in the American criminal justice system continues to spark debate.
Recently, scrutiny of the grand jury and renewed calls to strengthen it as a bulwark…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialMeta invests $900M into Indian fintech startup Cred, and plans to appoint Cred founder Kunal Shah as the new leader of WhatsApp, replacing Will Cathcart (Kurt Wagner/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-06-22…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialHearst names Chris Berend, most recently chief digital officer at NBC News, as its first chief content and experience officer, starting August 3 (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/digital/news/chris-berend-hearst-magazines-nbc-news-12368…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialFrance becomes the first European country to pass a law banning social media access for users under 15, which could go into effect as soon as September 1 (Mark Landler/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/21/world/e
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: Anthropic is in talks to rent servers powered by Microsoft-designed chips; source: Anthropic has steadily increased its Azure usage since November 2025 (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/anthropic-talks-use-microsofts-ai-chips…
@cdarwin@c.imIn Iran, at least 3,468 people were killed over several weeks of U.S.-Israeli strikes.
Recovery for Iran is expected to be costly after the strikes hit critical infrastructure like bridges, manufacturing, and oil depots, as well as civilian infrastructure like hospitals and schools.
As part of the agreement signed this week, the U.S. has said it would work with regional partners create a $300 billion reconstruction fund.
Meanwhile, in the U.S.:
as Trump seeks nearly $1.…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialKara Swisher says she'll leave CNN as soon as she can if the Ellisons acquire WBD, the network's parent company; she's under contract until the end of 2026 (Zoe Engels/Mediaite)
https://www.mediaite.com/media/im-just-not
@cdarwin@c.imExecutive director of the International Energy Agency
Fatih Birol warned that while oil stocks were eroding, no new oil was coming from the Middle East and the demand was increasing, mainly caused by the travel season.
“This may be difficult and we may be entering the red zone in July-August if we don’t see some improvements,” Birol said.
Adding that he had “never seen the dark and long shadow of geopolitics so dominant in the energy sector”,
Birol also said he feared…
@cdarwin@c.imIf I was as bad at my job as Lindsey Graham is – I would be fired and children would die.
I’m Dr. Annie Andrews – a mom of 3, a pediatrician, and I’m running for US Senate in South Carolina to send far-right Trump apologist Lindsey Graham packing.
If you’re with me, chip in here: https://secure.actblue.c…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: the EU Parliament plans to launch EPGenAI Hub as early as September, giving MEPs and staff access to Meta, OpenAI, Anthropic, and Mistral models (Max Griera/Politico)
https://www.politico.eu/article/the-european-parliaments-answer-to-its-ai…
@cdarwin@c.imAs the Trump administration conducted heavy-handed raids in Los Angeles and sent national guard troops and marines to respond to the ensuing protests,
two of the city’s soccer teams had put out statements of solidarity with immigrant families
– but not the Dodgers.
Juan also knew that Guggenheim Partners,
the multibillion-dollar ownership group behind the Dodgers franchise,
had a stake in the Geo Group,
a major private operator of immigration detention cen…
@cdarwin@c.imAs calls mount for accountability over the ICE killing of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston,
we speak with Democratic Congressmember Al Green,
who represents Texas’s 9th Congressional District.
He demands an independent investigation into the shooting to stop
“an attempt to cover up” the killing by the Trump administration.
Democratic lawmakers led by the Congressional Hispanic Caucus will hold a public hearing in Houston on Friday
to gather testimony from…
@cdarwin@c.im @cdarwin@c.imAs of Friday, CBS News will no longer provide a syndicated radio news service
-- after almost a century on the air.
My grandfather built the CBS News Radio network and then the CBS Television networks.
The enterprise blossomed into the empire that CBS would become.
News had always been a primary focus of the Tiffany Network, as embodied by the work of Edward R Murrow, Walter Cronkite and programs like 60 Minutes.
@cdarwin@c.imAround a Third of Santa Rosa Island Has Burned
The fire on Santa Rosa Island has “burned 17,554 acres and was 44% contained as of Wednesday night.
https://www.noozhawk.com/crews-increase-containment-santa-rosa-island-fire/
@cdarwin@c.im @cdarwin@c.imRivers across the European continent,
including some of its most important waterways,
are drying up as an unrelenting heatwave refuses to go away.
The Danube, Rhine, Elbe and Loire have all dried up
as the continent has baked through this summer,
leaving a question mark on drinking water supplies, trade via navigation and even recreational activities.
The Danube, the second-longest river in Europe after the Volga, has fallen to its lowest level in 30 years…
@cdarwin@c.imDemocrats have seized on the deaths of three US troops killed in Iranian strikes to urge Donald Trump to urgently reverse his resumption of the war with Iran amid widespread anxiety over climbing casualties.
Even as US forces launched a 10th consecutive wave of attacks against Iranian targets,
concern over the deaths of American service personnel threatened to complicate moves to escalate the conflict,
which has reignited after he last week walked away from a memorandum of …
@cdarwin@c.imDonald Trump and Republican senators are dividing over politics, personal dynamics, and policy
— drama that’s built up for weeks before culminating in a public flop on Thursday.
A party-line vote on $72 billion in immigration enforcement money that should have been easy for the GOP Congress got pulled from consideration as lawmakers left Washington until June.
Trump and Republican lawmakers agreed on a June 1 deadline for passing the immigration bill that they will now mis…
@cdarwin@c.imIn its first year under Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth,
the Pentagon dramatically slashed its teams responsible for taking efforts to reduce civilian harm in military conflicts, new reporting finds
— an undertaking that continued until as little as months before the U.S. bombed an elementary school in Minab, Iran, in one of the worst single incidents of a civilian massacre committed by the US
@cdarwin@c.imU.S. Ambassador to France,
Charles Kushner,
whose son Jared is married to Trump’s daughter Ivanka,
clashed with his French hosts weeks after arriving last July
when he accused them of not doing enough to combat antisemitism.
Nearly a year later, he contends the problem has gotten worse
— so much so that he has suggested the Trump administration grant refugee status to French Jews, even as it otherwise scales back asylum provision.
“It would be an obje…
@cdarwin@c.im'Broadview Six' case will be dropped after closed-door hearing about grand jury transcripts
The case is one of the most highly publicized prosecutions to result from last fall’s Operation Midway Blitz deportation campaign.
That’s because it began as a conspiracy case against six people who protested outside the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Chicago's Broadview suburb
The remaining four members of the so-called “Broadview Six" are Br…
@cdarwin@c.imThe reputation of supremacy’s story rises and falls,
which suggests to me that when supremacy loses reputation,
it has been very good at finding new stories to give its adherents to tell itself,
which allows supremacy to remain popular even while its systems are disreputable,
to maintain its sway over hearts and minds and its grip on power
even as it engages in the most unpopular and disreputable actions,
while casting as disreputable those who would engag…
@cdarwin@c.imFor more than a year, the Pentagon has deployed about 9,000 active-duty troops along nearly 2,000 miles of the southwest border to confront illegal migrants, smugglers and drug cartels.
The troops are still there
— at a cost of tens of millions of dollars each week
— even though the Trump administration months ago largely achieved its goal of slashing illegal crossings.
The military patrols, working closely with Customs and Border Protection as well as the Mexican mili…
@cdarwin@c.imThe Trump administration’s cuts to the largest global H.I.V. program last year resulted in sharp drops in both prevention efforts and treatment for the people most at risk from the disease, according to the first large survey of organizations that had received the funds.
The findings show a grimmer picture of the impact of the cuts than the State Department’s data, released in April,
which seemed to suggest that the program had helped to treat about as many people last year as it…
