Trump wanted ‘90 deals in 90 days.’ Instead, he’s finding wins where he can. - POLITICO
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/06/12/trump-wanted-90-deals-in-90-days-instead-hes-finding-wins-where-he-can-00403638
Permaculture Instructor Andrew Millison visits a site in Oregon that has installed an series of built ponds that have renewed the water supply in a dry valley. Thinking systemically to use the water falling from the sky to enrich land (instead of just quick runoff wasting all the water).
https://www.youtube.com/wat…
"The damage isn't theoretical. It's active. It's live. And it's reshaping the world. Trade routes are shifting. Investment is diversifying. Global power is rebalancing. China, Korea, and Japan are shaking hands. All of it is premised on a hard-earned truth: the United States cannot be trusted to lead. Not because of one man but because of what half the country has chosen to normalize. Not because of Trump alone but because every institution built to restrain him failed and then got in line."
#USPolitics
https://www.theindex.media/trust-is-dead-trump-keeps-selling-the-corpse/?ref=dispatches-newsletter
Sigh, user interfaces can be so stupid.
Software we use has 'S' to start and 'D' to delete their login options. Semi-regular requests from the clients that the their option doesn't exist any more. How hard would it to make it 'R' for remove instead?
🎉 perfSONAR turns 20! 🎉
What started with a single line of code in 2001 has grown into a worldwide network performance monitoring infrastructure, spanning all 7 continents with:
✅ 20 years of continuous operation
✅ 6 leading R&E networks driving its development
✅ over 2,000 registered instances deployed across 1,000 organizations
Learn more about perfSONAR’s journey and impact over the past 20 years:
Want to use {pak} as backend for {renv} actions? Set the variable RENV_CONFIG_PAK_ENABLED = TRUE #renv
Analysis of Server Throughput For Managed Big Data Analytics Frameworks
Emmanouil Anagnostakis, Polyvios Pratikakis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.03854 https:…
Today I had a 1h meeting followed by 2h of code reading and DB forensics which resulted in a rather simple SQL query that, when run daily via cron, should remove the need for a manual step that an operator had to do regularily (and maybe did not do properly, but instread wasted an hour on dumb clicking instead).