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Dallas Cowboys star going viral for forced handshake with huge rival on TikTok https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/dallas-cowboys-star-going-viral-forced-handshake-huge-rival-tiktok

GB News launches a bureau in Washington, DC, and hires its first US political editor, with plans to broadcast two hours of daily live programming from September (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/news/gb-new

GB News to broadcast nightly from US in 'huge moment' for channel
GB News is launching a bureau in Washington DC and hiring its first US political editor in a "huge moment" for the broadcaster.

Interesting numbers about US top websites.
https://pressgazette.co.uk/media-audience-and-business-data/media_metrics/most-popular-websites-news-us-monthly-3/

Top 50 news websites in the US: AP shrugs off Trump row with huge traffic boost
Press Gazette lists the top 50 biggest websites for news in the US. Monthly updated top 50 listing based on data from Similarweb.

Bozo is the Brotherhood of Zips and Others. Bozos are people who band
together for fun and profit. They have no jobs. Anybody who goes on a
tour is a Bozo. Why does a Bozo cross the street? Because there's a Bozo
on the other side. It comes from the phrase vos otros, meaning others.
They're the huge, fat, middle waist. The archetype is an Irish drunk
clown with red hair and nose, and pale skin. Fields, William Bendix.
Everybody tends to drift towar…

Because essentially no one who has done conscientious online moderation before ever wants to do it again.
It’s been 24 years since I did any of it and I never miss it. https://hachyderm.io/@dalias/114608973862859551

Peyton Manning details nephew Arch's 'huge advantage' entering first season as Texas starter https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6465537/2025/07/01/peyton-arch-manning-texas-college-football/

South Korea becomes Asia's best-performing stock market in H1 2025, as shares rise following President Lee Jae-myung's pledge to allow won-based stablecoins (Song Jung-a/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/4b19bf90-4202-4fe7-8caf-d7db6deeb768…

Crypto-crazy investors make South Korea the best-performing market in Asia
New president’s pledge to allow won-based stablecoins has led to huge gains in related shares this month

"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.

I‘m afraid I won’t be able to make it to this year’s #CSSDay. 😔 And, looking at the stellar lineup and all the lovely people who will be there, FOMO is already huge! 🥲
Watching the talks remotely might help a bit, but just can’t replace the onsite experience …
ht…

CSS Day 2025, 5th & 6th of June, Amsterdam
CSS Day is the conference for CSS designers, developers, spec writers, and browser vendors.

An amazing read- 'You are both the poison and the antidote' (and huge thanks to @… for tipping me off to it): https://www.printmag.co…

A Broad View: You are both the poison and the antidote – PRINT Magazine
Monica Danielle on discovering wholeness in the American countryside.

Electing Zohran Mamdani NYC mayor would spur huge cop exodus, rising crime straight out of 'Gotham City': cops (New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2025/06/28/us-news/electing-socialist-zohran-mamdani-nyc-mayor-would-spur-cop-exodus-rising-crime-experts/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250628/p70#a250628p70

Cowboys predicted to pull off huge trade with Bengals for disgruntled star https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/cincinnati-bengals/news/cowboys-predicted-huge-trade-bengals-disgruntled-star/452ce13…

Google's emissions are up over 50%, Amazon builds huge data centers powered by 75% natural gas.
Remember all those posts telling us that "AIs climate impact isn't that bad" supported by some really funky math/perspective and/or numbers Sam Altman invented?
Here's the actual impact.
"AI" is a fossil fuel technology.

At Amazon’s Biggest Data Center, Everything Is Supersized for A.I.
On 1,200 acres of cornfield in Indiana, Amazon is building one of the largest computers ever for work with Anthropic, an artificial intelligence start-up.

Folks at EPA and NOAA are still keeping critical services alive.
#fire #WildFire maps can be found here:
https://fire.airnow.gov/
Today: a huge smoke plume over central Canada/ with attendant low air quality over Manitoba and Saskatchewan. Most of the US is good to moderate (until those plumes head south).

Swapped the nVidia RTX 4070Ti with a nice, regular-sized AMD Radeon 9070 XT. Everything is running perfectly though I did have to reinstall Linux because I couldn't undo the futzing I did to clear up a few issues with Wayland with the 4070Ti. Not a huge deal, but still annoying. However, everything is fine and now just enjoying some gaming.
#linux

"I think it is a huge mistake for people to assume that they can trust AI when they do not trust each other. The safest way to develop superintelligence is to first strengthen trust between humans, and then cooperate with each other to develop superintelligence in a safe manner. But what we are doing now is exactly the opposite. Instead, all efforts are being directed toward developing a superintelligence."
#AGI #AI
https://www.wired.com/story/questions-answered-by-yuval-noah-harari-for-wired-ai-artificial-intelligence-singularity/

Interested in how you food gets to your table - read it and weep. #FoodSecurity
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06-29/foo

Food supply chain system costs farmers and regions millions of dollars
Most "fresh" food travels thousands of kilometres to be sorted, divvied up and, in some cases, sent back to the place it came from — at huge cost to farmers and shoppers. But some new options are starting to sprout.

> "AI" is a fossil fuel technology.
https://tldr.nettime.org/@tante/114760351207463338

MemAscend: System Memory Optimization for SSD-Offloaded LLM Fine-Tuning
Yong-Cheng Liaw, Shuo-Han Chen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.23254 https://

MemAscend: System Memory Optimization for SSD-Offloaded LLM Fine-Tuning
Owing to the huge success of generative artificial intelligence (AI), large language models (LLMs) have emerged as a core subclass, underpinning applications such as question answering, text generation, and code completion. While fine-tuning these models on domain-specific data can yield significant performance gains, it also poses daunting computational challenges, especially for researchers and small organizations with limited hardware resources. Although SSD offloading (i.e., ZeRO-Infinity) …

So @… announced an upgrade for #ActionText with "No #Trix".

Jorge Manrubia
A huge editor upgrade is in the works for Action Text. No Trix, no House, no Tiptap, no ProseMirror. A drop-in replacement that will take rich text editing to the next level in Rails, and lay a foundation far better than anything we ever had with Trix. We will start using it internally in the new product this week. We’ll test, we’ll polish, and we’ll ship. (Yes, I’m shamelessly teasing here. And yes, I am VERY excited about this one)

Tansu Çiller, and the corruption of her neoliberal government, was one of the primary drivers of the neoliberalism-to-fascism pipeline* in Turkey that exacerbated inequality, alienated and marginalised huge swaths of the population, and eventually led to Erdoğan’s fascist/Islamist takeover.
Carve her name, indeed; right next to Margaret Thatcher’s.
* Sound familiar, Americans?
#tansuCiller

CarveHerName (@CarveHerName@mstdn.social)
Attached: 1 image #OnThisDay, 25 June 1993, Tansu Çiller wins a vote of confidence to become prime minister of Turkey. She was the first woman to hold the post. #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory

Essential me:
1. Earn your salary in USD.
2. Don't exchange them since you don't need more money yet.
3. Don't exchange them because the exchange rate is bad.
4. You're left with 30 PLN, expect huge payments in the next days and USD keeps going down like crazy.

"Bitcoin boom comes with huge intensifying environmental footprint"
#Bitcoin #Environment #Crypto #Climate

Bitcoin boom comes with huge intensifying environmental footprint
While much has been written about bitcoin, many people still find it a hard topic to comprehend, even as promoters like U.S. President Donald Trump rave about it being a revolutionary digital currency that will rapidly replace hard currency. However, unlike money, there’s currently no bank or government to back up, insure and regulate bitcoin, […]

On Reconfigurable Bisimulation, with an Application to the Distributed Synthesis Problem
Yehia Abd Alrahman, Nir Piterman
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.21672 …

On Reconfigurable Bisimulation, with an Application to the Distributed Synthesis Problem
We consider the problem of distributing a centralised transition system to a set of asynchronous agents recognising the same language. Existing solutions are either manual or involve a huge explosion in the number of states from the centralised system. The difficulty arises from the need to keep a rigid communication scheme, specifying a fixed mapping from events to those who can participate in them. Thus, individual agents need to memorise seen events and their order to dynamically compare the…

Tonight, Diego offers a tip on how to deal with authoritarian figures like Trump.
▶️ Guest Host Diego Luna on Fighting Authoritarianism
https://youtube.com/watch?v=CCJuvGta5G0&si=hEkhjGsnNQCzY27_
✅ Diego Luna Hits Trump With Frank Reminder Of 1 Huge …

lmao omg

Cowboys trade acquisition baseline for 8 young players whose development could alter NFL https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/06/01/cowboys-wr-george-pickens-development-nfl/83977098007…

Belgium is the third largest market for electric cars in Europe after Germany and France, which are much larger. The tax regime for company cars, which are a standard employee benefit alongside meal vouchers, has made this huge rise possible.
https://www.

With the 4th #AAS246 press conference come the press releases #PUNCH and #CODEX sitting on the ISS. While the corona shape predictions for the 2024 total solar eclipse were published in https://www.predsci.com/corona/apr2024eclipse/home.php

In between other stuff I've been running sims to dial in the ARC6 connector launch to back-side diff pairs.
After sweeping lots of variations I've concluded it's impossible to get it matched using 0.45 / 0.25mm ViP. You can't get above about 90 ohm Zdiff no matter how far you pull back the ground planes, just because of coupling between the vias themselves.
Orange trace is a first test using 0.35 / 0.15mm ViP which seems much happier. Slightly overshot so I need a…

Why UUIDs are bad, and why you should consider the alternative
TL;DR: Use Cuid2 instead of UUID.
🧑‍💻 #code

Why UUIDs are bad, and why you should consider the alternative
Universally Unique Identifier, or UUID for short, is widely used as a unique identifier across systems. Their appeal lies in their simplicity and universality. But they come with costs (and they are huge).

Dear old Violet.
She'll be turning 13 in October, so she's kind of on borrowed time for a greyhound. She seems to have lost most of her vision now and is underweight, though her appetite is still huge and she still loves her walks.
She was once a terror for the local cats and squirrels but now if they remain still she doesn't spot them. She still sniffs every place that she remembers them to have been.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.02252 has been replaced.
link: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=a

Parametric/direct CAD integration
In the history of computer-aided design (CAD), feature-based parametric modeling and boundary representation-based direct modeling are two of the most important CAD paradigms, developed respectively in the late 1980s and the late 2000s. They have complementary advantages and limitations, thereby offering huge potential for improvement towards an integrated CAD modeling scheme. Some believe that their integration will be the key characteristic of next generation CAD software. This paper provides…

Spotted this tiny praying mantis peeping in our window. I think just under 2 centimeters long. I tried to get my index finger in for scale.
#prayingmantis #Insects #WildLife

Stoller: “Private Equity, UnitedHealth Take a Huge Loss as Oregon Bans Corporate Control of Doctors”.
Here in Canada, the home of single-payer free-for-residents healthcare, we’ve also had financiers rolling up a variety of healthcare operations and we should do like Oregon.
https://www.

Private Equity, UnitedHealth Take a Huge Loss as Oregon Bans Corporate Control of Doctors
Oregon passes SB 951, a bill that prohibits private equity and corporate decision-making in health care. UnitedHealth Group, Amazon, and private equity lobbied fiercely, but lost. Is it a trend?

📉 Private Equity, UnitedHealth Take a Huge Loss as Oregon Bans Corporate Control of Doctors
#business

Berlin Buzzwords 2025 in pictures!
We've uploaded all photos to our Flickr account. Check out the full gallery here: https://flic.kr/s/aHBqjCihoH
Once again, a huge thank you to our incredible photographer, Jan Michalko, for capturing these amazing memories!

Crowd shot of the protest in Milwaukee yesterday. (Photos from JSOnline)
#noKings #protest

A bit baffled by my colleagues' and students' helplessness regarding "new" digital tools - considering that my grandpa, who is turning 97 in a week and is almost blind, is reading a lot of online news and tutorials ("TV is boring"), still sends e-cards for all our birthdays, recalculates all his care bills with a huge Excel table, and apparently has a LinkedIn account (he hasn't worked since 1990) 🤷‍♀️
(edit: typo)

hmm, what do you think the tariffs are on this $26 100mm party diamond? https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256806863849173.html

Trump Is Headed to War With the Federalist Society—and It’s Gonna Be Huge | Portside
https://portside.org/2025-06-08/trump-headed-war-federalist-society-and-its-gonna-be-huge

Meta's AI Model 'Memorized' Huge Chunks of Books, Including 'Harry Potter' and '1984' https://www.404media.co/meta-ai-model-memorized-harry-potter-books/

The Protesters' Guide to #Smartphone #Security
https://www.

"I didn't hear anything."
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy8nk279ydyo

Raiders' Addition of Geno Smith Significantly Impacts the AFC West https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/las-vegas-geno-smith-brian-hoyer-derek-carr-pete-carroll

MongoDB reports Q1 revenue up 22% YoY to $549M, vs. $527.5M est., net loss down 54% to $37.6M, and increases its full-year guidance; MDB up 14% after hours (Mike Wheatley/SiliconANGLE)
https://siliconangle.com/2025/06/04/mongodb-crus…

A huge outbreak has made Ontario the measles centre of the western hemisphere
Three-quarters of cases are in unvaccinated children, and this week saw the first fatality:
a premature baby
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun

Senate Parliamentarian Deals Huge Blow To Critical Part Of GOP's 'Big Beautiful Bill' (HuffPost)
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/parliamentarian-medicaid-cuts-provider-tax_n_685d4229e4b0f78c573833aa
http://www.memeorandum.com/250626/p78#a250626p78

Just think how gaming might have been if Halo hadn't been such a huge Mac hit? What if Bungie hadn't been a Mac-based company? What if Myth or Marathon had ended up on that thing M$ nearly made, that Direct X crate?
Crazy, innit?
Anyway, neither could have beaten the Nintendo Playstation, eh?

Struggling with generic or off-target AI outputs? 🤔 Mastering how you ask – known as Prompt Engineering – is key to unlocking truly useful responses from tools like Gemini and ChatGPT.
Simple shifts, like providing examples or guiding the AI's reasoning, make a huge difference. ✨ I've put together a straightforward video guide covering these foundational techniques (think few-shot, chain of thought, setting context & more) to help elevate your AI interactions.
🎥:

Subtooting since people in the original thread wanted it to be over, but selfishly tagging @… and @… whose opinions I value...
I think that saying "we are not a supply chain" is exactly what open-source maintainers should be doing right now in response to "open source supply chain security" threads.
I can't claim to be an expert and don't maintain any important FOSS stuff, but I do release almost all of my code under open licenses, and I do use many open source libraries, and I have felt the pain of needing to replace an unmaintained library.
There's a certain small-to-mid-scale class of program, including many open-source libraries, which can be built/maintained by a single person, and which to my mind best operate on a "snake growth" model: incremental changes/fixes, punctuated by periodic "skin-shedding" phases where make rewrites or version updates happen. These projects aren't immortal either: as the whole tech landscape around them changes, they become unnecessary and/or people lose interest, so they go unmaintained and eventually break. Each time one of their dependencies breaks (or has a skin-shedding moment) there's a higher probability that they break or shed too, as maintenance needs shoot up at these junctures. Unless you're a company trying to make money from a single long-lived app, it's actually okay that software churns like this, and if you're a company trying to make money, your priorities absolutely should not factor into any decisions people making FOSS software make: we're trying (and to a huge extent succeeding) to make a better world (and/or just have fun with our own hobbies share that fun with others) that leaves behind the corrosive & planet-destroying plague which is capitalism, and you're trying to personally enrich yourself by embracing that plague. The fact that capitalism is *evil* is not an incidental thing in this discussion.
To make an imperfect analogy, imagine that the peasants of some domain have set up a really-free-market, where they provide each other with free stuff to help each other survive, sometimes doing some barter perhaps but mostly just everyone bringing their surplus. Now imagine the lord of the domain, who is the source of these peasants' immiseration, goes to this market secretly & takes some berries, which he uses as one ingredient in delicious tarts that he then sells for profit. But then the berry-bringer stops showing up to the free market, or starts bringing a different kind of fruit, or even ends up bringing rotten berries by accident. And the lord complains "I have a supply chain problem!" Like, fuck off dude! Your problem is that you *didn't* want to build a supply chain and instead thought you would build your profit-focused business in other people's free stuff. If you were paying the berry-picker, you'd have a supply chain problem, but you weren't, so you really have an "I want more free stuff" problem when you can't be arsed to give away your own stuff for free.
There can be all sorts of problems in the really-free-market, like maybe not enough people bring socks, so the peasants who can't afford socks are going barefoot, and having foot problems, and the peasants put their heads together and see if they can convince someone to start bringing socks, and maybe they can't and things are a bit sad, but the really-free-market was never supposed to solve everyone's problems 100% when they're all still being squeezed dry by their taxes: until they are able to get free of the lord & start building a lovely anarchist society, the really-free-market is a best-effort kind of deal that aims to make things better, and sometimes will fall short. When it becomes the main way goods in society are distributed, and when the people who contribute aren't constantly drained by the feudal yoke, at that point the availability of particular goods is a real problem that needs to be solved, but at that point, it's also much easier to solve. And at *no* point does someone coming into the market to take stuff only to turn around and sell it deserve anything from the market or those contributing to it. They are not a supply chain. They're trying to help each other out, but even then they're doing so freely and without obligation. They might discuss amongst themselves how to better coordinate their mutual aid, but they're not going to end up forcing anyone to bring anything or even expecting that a certain person contribute a certain amount, since the whole point is that the thing is voluntary & free, and they've all got changing life circumstances that affect their contributions. Celebrate whatever shows up at the market, express your desire for things that would be useful, but don't impose a burden on anyone else to bring a specific thing, because otherwise it's fair for them to oppose such a burden on you, and now you two are doing your own barter thing that's outside the parameters of the really-free-market.

Zuckerberg's Meta Just Made a Huge Investment in a Very Dark AI Company
"This is like the AI equivalent of the Marshall Plan."
https://futurism.com/meta-scaleai-superintelligence

Zuckerberg's Meta Just Made a Huge Investment in a Very Dark AI Company
Zuckerberg is said to be hand picking a team of nearly 50 AI researchers to launch a shadowy "superintelligence group."

Top picks of NBA Draft's second round; Previewing huge UFC 317 card

https://www.cbssports.com/

I only read this to see if it was David Mitchell (author) or David Mitchell (comedian).
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/david-mitchell-convicted-for-covering-road-with-potatoes-and-silt

David Mitchell convicted for covering road with potatoes and silt
Huge loss of soil from potato field costs farmer over £40,000 for polluting river, with potatoes and silt escaping into the road.

Truck in Ontario CA “Rolls Coal” (blows burning oil/fuel out of an illegal modification to their exhaust system)
A saga in 48 seconds, watch to the end
#California #LosAngelesProtests

Took the new #nightjet yesterday from Vienna > Amersfoort. Very new train, but still with a number of teething issues. An on-board technician tried to solve e.g. sliding doors that wouldn’t open. Some problems couldn’t be fixed (one cabin’s keycard didn’t work, person was moved to a free cabin, my neighbour’s cabin wouldn’t properly lock).
Huge delay (170 minutes) - that I partly expect…

I don't mind that they moved to 3d for Moonlighter 2, but not testing the demo for performance on the #SteamDeck seems like a huge miss
Really chugging. Apparently it's not great performance-wise on PC either. I'm not sure they understand their fan base.

Logarithmic resilience risk metrics that address the huge variations in blackout cost
Arslan Ahmad, Ian Dobson
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.12016 https://

Logarithmic resilience risk metrics that address the huge variations in blackout cost
Resilience risk metrics must address the customer cost of the largest blackouts of greatest impact. However, there are huge variations in blackout cost in observed distribution utility data that make it impractical to properly estimate the mean large blackout cost and the corresponding risk. These problems are caused by the heavy tail observed in the distribution of customer costs. To solve these problems, we propose resilience metrics that describe large blackout risk using the mean of the log…

Just came here to say I'm a huge believer in the message behind the song "All you need is love"

Robotics & AI, a lot of progress is being made.
#AI

Google’s new robotics AI can run without the cloud and still tie your shoes
Google’s Carolina Parada says Gemini has enabled huge robotics breakthroughs, like the new on-device AI.

Lawyers Just Discovered Something About Meta's AI That Could Cost Zuckerberg Untold Billions of Dollars https://futurism.com/lawyer-zuckerberg-ai?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_content=topic/artificial…

Lawyers Just Discovered Something About Meta's AI That Could Cost Zuckerberg Untold Billions of Dollars
A legal expert found that Meta's AI is able to spit out entire portions of books verbatim — and if he's right, Meta is in huge trouble.

Good Morning Karlsruhe! Day 02 of the Effekte Science Festival with our booth presenting the Wiedergutmachung project, a huge digitalisation effort on historical archival documents on the recompensation processes of nationalsocialist injustice
@… @…

Been working from public libraries this week and it's made a huge difference to my mental well-being and focus.
5 years of working from home sure made it hard to see how much of a difference a neutral space can make. I just couldn't see how the environment was affecting me anymore..

We all understand that Hochul's announcement is complete bullshit, right? Like, they haven't even picked a spot for the nuclear plant yet, and that will be a huge battle all by itself. Wind and solar (combined with batteries) will cost less and be rolled out far sooner. Hochul is announcing a project that will never happen.

If your name ends with son/sen/cent, you sound like a God to #Cantonese people.

My random PR of the day https://stefanbohacek.online/@stefan/114673699086891556
"Auto/light/dark mode" for jointhefediverse.net …

Stefan Bohacek (@stefan@stefanbohacek.online)
Attached: 1 image Huge thanks to @cheeaun@mastodon.social for his amazing work on adding automatic dark/light mode to https://jointhefediverse.net!! #fediverse #JoinTheFediverse

"Turning closed coal mines into solar farms could power a country the size of Germany, report finds"
#Germany #CoalMine #SolarPower

Report reveals huge solar power potential of abandoned coal mines
“The same ground that powered the industrial era can help power the climate solutions we now urgently need,” analysts say of the 300 GW solution.

Y'all that have been following me for a bit know that I'm slowly adding customizable colors to #Jellyfin for #Roku.
This has been a HUGE undertaking!
So will someone explain to me why on top of that I'm now adding the ability to import the colors from the custom CSS setti…

"Activists from the UK action group Everyone hates Elon and Greenpeace Italy unfolded a giant 20x20m banner reading “If you can rent Venice for your wedding, you can pay more tax” on Piazza San Marco, as Jeff Bezos is due to celebrate his reportedly multi-million wedding in the lagoon city this week."
https://m…

Nemo’s outfit and song “Unexplainable” were killer though, huge props to them!

Q&A with comedian Andrew Schulz about becoming America's "foremost political journalist", interviewing Donald Trump and others, "podcast bros", and more (David Marchese/New York Times)
https://www.

Andrew Schulz, ‘Podcast Bro,’ Might Be America’s Foremost Political Journalist
The comedian and host has a huge audience and many thoughts on what podcasters like him are responsible for now.

Google releases a new Gemini Robotics On-Device model with an SDK and says the vision language action model can adapt to new tasks in 50 to 100 demonstrations (Ryan Whitwam/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/google/2025/06/google-relea…

Google’s new robotics AI can run without the cloud and still tie your shoes
Google’s Carolina Parada says Gemini has enabled huge robotics breakthroughs, like the new on-device AI.

If you look at the organizations standing up for students being targeted by US immigration, the unions are really leading the way. A huge thanks to the AAUP for it's leadership in this:
https://www.aaup.org/sites/default/files/2025.04.07-AAUP-Letter-to-GCs-corrected.pdf
https://www.aaup.org/sites/default/files/Faculty_Association_Amicus_Brief.pdf

"Dr. Dobb’s would cover every month some programming topic with an excellent series of monographs and a wide array of sample code, interviews, and even excellent humor. In the latter case, an honorary mention goes to Verity Stob, because of their uncanny description of the daily life of a software developer in the Microsoft galaxy of the late 1990s. Those who witnessed the good old days of `On Error Resume Next` are now nodding their heads in despair. I hear you."

Huge respect for Andrea Sella. He's returned his Faraday prize to the Royal Society as protest against the Society's inaction over #ElonMusk. He joins Dorothy Bishop and Andrew Miller who resigned from the society.
https:/…

Royal Society prize winner returns award in protest over Elon Musk
Andrea Sella is latest scientist to express dismay over UK science academy’s refusal to criticise tech billionaire

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New lab acquisition: MinusK 50BM-4 passive vibration isolator.
Going to have to get a more permanent weight to balance it right (there's currently a random steel chisel under the microscope in one corner and a CPU heatsink on top) but it's a huge improvement over the random aluminum plate with sorbothane feet.
Huge improvement in stability. The biggest problem is that changing objectives is now a two hand job, the microscope is floated so well that if i grab the turret th…

We’re on a terrible path that we aren’t even aware exists: collapsing the marine food chain.
The End Permian event did that. It was ugly. Lots of fungal spores in the fossil record, not a lot of bones. Barely anything survived.
We’re having issues with phytoplankton in the #GreatLakes too. Invasive mussels have done huge damage to how the food chain (Esp. in

Phytoplankton, key to ocean life, falling 2% per year in North Atlantic
Two main types of phytoplankton have been decreasing in biomass in the North Atlantic by two per cent each year for the past 60 years, a new study …

Detection of pure warm-hot #IntergalacticMedium emission from a 7.2 Mpc long filament in the Shapley supercluster using X-ray spectroscopy: https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2025/06/aa54944-25/aa54944-25.html -> Astronomers have discovered a huge filament of hot gas bridging four galaxy clusters: https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/XMM-Newton/The_models_were_right_astronomers_find_missing_matter - at 10 times as massive as our galaxy, the thread could contain some of the Universe’s ‘missing’ matter, addressing a decades-long mystery.

With Military Strike His Predecessors Avoided, Trump Takes a Huge Gamble (David E. Sanger/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/21/us/politics/trump-iran-risks.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250622/p4#a250622p4

Robert Reich here, with breaking news:
The House of Representatives has voted to take back a whopping $1.1 billion in federal funding for public broadcasting.
These are huge, crippling cuts,
and if passed by the Senate, they'll be a fatal blow to public radio and television stations around the country.
It's all part of Donald Trump's ongoing war on the free press.
He knows that independent journalism is one of the biggest obstacles to his authorita…

Help Robert Reich get the truth out.
Anything you can give will help us spread the truth, keep you informed, and stop our slide towards fascism.

⚠️ Please BE AWARE that there is a chance that if you transfer your save file from Switch to Switch 2, you may lose it. This person lost 20 years of data that they'd had since their Game Boy Advance. Totally brutal. It's a huge gamble, and to me, might not be worth it if you really value your save data.

'There's nothing I can do. I don't even know if I wanna play anymore' — Pokémon fan left devastated after '20 years worth of data' lost in Switch to Switch 2 transfer
‘My Scarlet save file is gone,’ sobs gamer. They say no error messages popped up during their Friday the 13th transfer attempt.

Cowboys address Jalen Ramsey trade rumors, give injury update on Trevon Diggs as CB remains huge question mark

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl…

Here’s a person, Baldur Bjarnason, @…, who thinks I’m really wrong about LLMs and coding. I mostly don’t agree but the argument is well-presented: https://www.baldurbjarna…

Trusting your own judgement on 'AI' is a huge risk
Web dev at the end of the world, from Hveragerði, Iceland

This essay by @… on why individual experiments on the usefulness of "AI" (or similar stuff) don't teach us anything useful and might actually harm us is brilliant.
Go read it. Too many insights to pull a quote TBH:

Trusting your own judgement on 'AI' is a huge risk
Web dev at the end of the world, from Hveragerði, Iceland

Raider Nation's Optimism For the Raiders in 2025 https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/las-vegas-rich-eisen-ashton-jeanty-brock-bowers-pete-carroll

That's a wrap: Berlin Buzzwords 2025!
What an incredible three days it's been! A huge thank you to everyone who joined us for the 16th edition of #bbuzz.
For a summary of the conference, dive into our recap blog post: …

I hit 80 miles on my bike this month (yay!) but this morning was weird! I'm typically very careful, but three cars came way too close to me, or made bad turns near me.
I got home and realized I forgot to turn on my lights before I rode! Maybe lights really do make a huge difference.
#bikeTooter #bike

Last chance for $82 million Cowboys investment to prove he isn't sunken cost https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/06/25/dallas-cowboys-player-profile-terence-steele/84351716007/

QB Russell Wilson says he chose Giants to play with 'special' WR Malik Nabers https://www.nfl.com/news/qb-russell-wilson-says-he-chose-giants-to-play-with-special-wr-malik-nabers

Florida Dem who posted huge special election fundraising set for Senate run (Kimberly Leonard/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/06/18/florida-midterms-senate-weil-democrats-moody-00410667
http://www.memeorandum.com/250618/p69#a250618p69

That's a wrap: Berlin Buzzwords 2025!
What an incredible three days it's been! A huge thank you to everyone who joined us for the 16th edition of #bbuzz.
For a summary of the conference, dive into our recap blog post: …

That’s a wrap! Recap of Berlin Buzzwords 2025
That's a wrap on Berlin Buzzwords 2025! We want to express our sincere gratitude to everyone who joined us for our 16th edition. It was three incredible days filled with exciting talks, insightful workshops, and valuable networking opportunities. We kicked off #bbuzz with our Barcamp on Sunday, which truly is a cherished tradition. Nick Burch [...]

The WNBA and E.W. Scripps renew their media rights deal, ensuring Friday night WNBA matchups will continue on Ion, along with a new weekly studio show (CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/13/wnba-scripps-media-rights-deal.html

WNBA renews media rights deal with Scripps
The new agreement comes after Ion has seen huge growth with the WNBA and as the league gains in popularity thanks to stars like Caitlin Clark and Angel Reese.

Cowboys Headlines: Lakers sale good news for Jerry Jones; cheerleaders get huge pay raise https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/06/20/news-headlines-los-angeles-laker…

AIM Intelligent Machines, which retrofits heavy construction equipment to operate autonomously, raised $50M from Khosla Ventures, General Catalyst, and others (Rachyl Jones/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/06/10/2025/co…

Construction tech startup AIM raises $50M to fuel expansion
The firm that retrofits heavy equipment into autonomous machines, backed by Khosla Ventures and General Catalyst, can help fill the construction industry’s huge labor gap and growing infrastructure demand.

TSMC opens a joint research lab with the University of Tokyo, the company's first with a university outside Taiwan, expanding a relationship that began in 2019 (Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Technology…

Taiwan chip titan TSMC opens joint lab with University of Tokyo
Chipmaker 'definitely' committed to Japan despite huge US investment, says executive

'No Kings' rallies draw huge crowds to protest Trump and his policies (Annie Gowen/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/06/14/no-kings-protests-anti-trump-rallies-us/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250614/p86#a250614p86

2nd-year UDFA with huge bonus may be shaking up Cowboys starting lineup during minicamp https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/06/…