Tootfinder

We can breathe easy, for there is absolutely nothing to worry about.
#USpol

Nothing to Worry About
The 15 protestors arrested by the federal government in Minneapolis this week are, according to the Justice Department’s own account of things, responsible for denting a government F-150 (by kicking it), and tipping a trailer (said to be owned by the accused) onto its side. Kicked a car

Apple's planned move of Hide My Email aliases to private.icloud.com will let services easily distinguish them from normal iCloud email addresses and block them (Arseniy Shestakov)
https://arseniyshestakov.com/2026/06/16/apple-is-about-to-make-hide-my…

"Understanding the library experience of postgraduate researchers" @ York University Library
https://www.york.ac.uk/library/about/news/2026/pgexperience/
"We recently conducted a research project with postgraduate researchers to find out more about …

"It's actually that men tend to decrease their concern about climate change as countries become wealthier," Clayton said. "The growing gender gap is actually men's growing skepticism."
https://www.dw.com/en/who-says-caring-abou

Is caring about the climate unmanly?
The answer is complex — and says a lot about how masculinity works in the modern world.

Cardinals coach Mike LaFleur not worried about Jacoby Brissett's absence from voluntary OTAs https://www.nfl.com/news/cardinals-coach-mike-lafleur-not-worried-about-jacoby-brissett-s-absence-from-voluntary-otas

(Grin)
‘Adversarial clothing’: are garments designed to confuse facial recognition systems about to go mainstream?
https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/2026/j

‘Adversarial clothing’: are garments designed to confuse facial recognition systems about to go mainstream?
Designers say that as well as offering a degree of protection from surveillance, their clothes make a powerful fashion statement about the importance of privacy

(Grin)
‘Adversarial clothing’: are garments designed to confuse facial recognition systems about to go mainstream?
https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/2026/j

‘Adversarial clothing’: are garments designed to confuse facial recognition systems about to go mainstream?
Designers say that as well as offering a degree of protection from surveillance, their clothes make a powerful fashion statement about the importance of privacy

from my link log —
PostgreSQL text search: balancing query time and relevancy.
https://about.sourcegraph.com/blog/postgres-text-search-balancing-query-time-and-relevancy/
saved 2021-10-21

What Cowboys Owner Jerry Jones Said About Brendan Sorsby and Supplemental Draft https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/what-dallas-cowboys-owner-jerry-jones-said-about-brendan-sorsby-supplemental-draft

A Lot To Talk About
Untold stories, life lessons and growth hacks from high performers and thought leaders across the globe...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/a-lot-to-talk-about/

The irony in seeing, within the space of a few days:
A post telling younger folks not to worry about what older folks think about what you enjoy and to just enjoy it.
Another post telling older folks not to worry about what younger folks think about what you enjoy and to just enjoy it.
Just enjoy
https://…

Stephanie Burgis (@stephanieburgis.bsky.social)
This message is evergreen. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

Just Be Normal About Things by JA Westenberg
Most people don’t need a complete ideological conversion. They need to read more than one source, stop confusing vibes with facts, and admit that complicated problems are - in fact - complicated.
https://www.joanwestenberg.com/p/just-be-n

Just Be Normal About Things
On sleepmaxxing, beef-only diets, political hysteria, and the lost art of being reasonable

The thesis I was reading spent the majority of it's time focused on John Boyd's OODA loop as a tool for critical analysis in high pressure or constrained situations. Table top exercises could also benefit from using these steps to slow down the thought process, expose what's actually happening, and sharpen these tools.
So each step could start by observing (which is generally what the GM will tell you, but you may ask additional questions to refine observational thinking). What do you look for in any given situation? How do you gather data? What sources do you use?
Next you would orient. Talk through this out loud. What does that data mean? How this fit what you already know, or does it challenge your assumptions? Are you observing something related to a previous action? What does that tell you about your previous action or actions? How do you turn the data you observed into intelligence you can act on? How do your observations narrow the options for the next possible action?
Then you decide your action. But you're not simply deciding, you're coming up with a hypothesis that your action will test. Anything you do is an opportunity to learn something about the world, about your situation, about the accuracy of the model you're using to make decisions. What belief does your next action imply? How will you know if that action was correct or incorrect? What observations would challenge your hypothesis? What observations would confirm it? Are those mutually exclusive, or are there additional observations or actions you must make to clarify things?
Then act. Finish your turn by choosing your action or actions (individually or collectively). Perhaps take a moment to write down notes, like what your observations, your hypothesis, and if you think your previous hypothesis was confirmed or refuted. You can review these all later to refine your thinking.
By exploring these ideas in a safe environment, you can train your brain to run through the process at high speed when under pressure. This helps you avoid panic. It's a lot like slowly practicing marshal arts moves until they become muscle memory, which then just happen without thought when needed.

#StackOverflow for Agents
#LLM

/me puts on ARIA WG hat, cracks knuckles, sits down in front of new CSS-Tricks article about ARIA.
Oh. Ok then. This is pretty good.
“The Siren Song of `ariaNotify()`”
https://css-tricks.com/the-siren-song-of-arianotify/

Look, I’m as nostalgic as any other 80s kid about Commodore but what is this recent trend about not having a web browser on phones? I mean, congrats on throwing the baby (Small Web) out with the bathwater (Big Web).
🤷‍♂️

New Study Challenges What We Know About Consciousness and the Brain
https://scitechdaily.com/new-study-challenges-what-we-know-about-consciousness-and-the-brain/

Stephen Capus, president and CEO of RFE/RL since 2024, announces his resignation, effective September 15, and will be succeeded by Lisa Curtis (Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty)
https://about.rferl.org/article/rfe-rl-launches-leadership-transition/

RFE/RL Launches Leadership Transition
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) President and CEO Stephen Capus has announced his resignation, effective September 15, 2026. Mr. Capus has led RFE/RL since January 1, 2024.

Some Republican lawmakers raise concerns about U.S.-Iran deal (NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/video/some-republican-lawmakers-raise-concerns-about-u-s-iran-deal-265337413746
http://www.memeorandum.com/260619/p3#a260619p3

8 years ago my (now 14yo) added me into the running for Father Of The Year with this document. #parenting

A supplemental draft gamble: What to know about Brendan Sorsby's bid to go from NCAA ban to the NFL https://www.foxsports.com/articles/nfl/a-supplemental-draft-gamble-what-to-know-about-brendan-sorsbys-bid…

Trump struggles to breathe while he reads off lies about his fake Iran deal.
The end is nigh.
https://newsusa.live/DrewRamsey/post/zlfZD612WKJsR5r

Post by Drew Ramsey, MD on READ MORE ….
BREAKING: Trump struggles to breathe while he reads off lies about his fake Iran deal. The end is very near.

This is a statement World Central Kitchen made a month ago about their operations in #Gaza. Since then, they've cut their Gaza operation by half, and laid off a lot of staff; and many people I'm in touch with in Gaza who were depending on food from them are no longer getting it.
/Continued

Your Gaza Questions Answered | Updated May 2026
WCK answers your questions about our efforts in Gaza. Your Gaza Questions Answered | Updated May 2026 Gaza

What's been interesting about watching Cloudflare do what it is doing against AI scraping is that, in an attempt to protect sites from crawlers, we are centralizing internet traffic through a single vendor bottleneck.
It's a real struggle between ideal and pragmatic solutions, and I don't know how to feel about it.
Cloud providers might need to acknowledge this issue sooner rather than later, but they are incentivized to charge customers for *any* traffic, including f…

Just randomly stumbled onto a web site that gave a shout out to Bigtext 🤯 https://github.com/zachleat/BigText
https://hiphopquoted.com/about/

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Ween:
🎵 What Deaner Was Talkin’ About
#Ween
https://mollybang.bandcamp.com/track/what-deaner-was-talkin-about-ween-song
https://open.spotify.com/track/0oNwqVJ9oSJ0lgTK2ZCNyi

#Neuroscientists of the world - do you sometimes have questions about a new technique you're trying to setup in the lab? Or getting too much noise in your system and wondering why? Not sure why your rats / flies / humans are not learning? Which virus to get for your optogenetic experiment? How to stain brain slices? Whether an expensive piece of kit is worth buying? ...
The

NeuroMethods
A space to ask and answer questions about methods in Neuroscience (this replaces our previous Slack workspace). Prospective users: you should be able to join with an academic email :) | Cheers to Zulip for sponsoring our workspace!

Spending my day at the #IETF126 Hackathon, talking to people about the Open Fibre Data Standard, #OFDS, https//ofds.info/ a specification for describing the *physical* infrastructure of the #Internet. It&…

I’ve now written two essays this year on the U.K. Labour Party’s errors of strategy, which is not a lot, but is still more than I’d have expected.
The one from yesterday is about why their policies lost them stacks of votes.
The other one was about why they picked those policies in the first place
https://www.

The Gist: Britain, the Ungoverned Country
The Labour Party's problem since Kier Starmer was elected was that it fed itself disinformation and pooped disaffection. This is the Gist.

"Why climate scientists need to talk more about the very worst‑case scenarios"
#Climate #ClimateChange
https://

Why climate scientists need to talk more about the very worst‑case scenarios
London is underwater. The Houses of Parliament, Buckingham Palace, St Paul's Cathedral and the Bank of England are all submerged. Far away, the West Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets have collapsed, triggering accelerated sea-level rise which, combined with a storm surge in the North Sea and a high spring tide, has led to water flooding over the Thames Barrier. Thousands of shops, offices, schools and houses are several feet deep in effluent-rich water.

At Third Place Books while my kid practices with his "Midwest Emo" band up the hill.
Two SF books and two non-fiction books, for a total of four antifascist, decolonizing books about how to live in a society that is trying to kill you and the people you care about

Sharing stats from the UK's #InternationalMuseumDay #IMD2026 @icomuk.b…

Sources: Kalshi is generating $2B in annualized revenue, up about three times from November, and has held informal talks with banks about an eventual IPO (Yueqi Yang/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/kalshi-passes-2-b…

Kalshi Passes $2 Billion in Annualized Revenue, Holds Informal IPO Talks
Prediction market Kalshi is generating more than $2 billion in annualized revenue, up about three times from November, as traders betting on NBA and World Cup games drove a surge in trading volume, according to people familiar with the company’s financials. Kalshi’s fast growth has led its top ...

Folks outside of Minneapolis / St. Paul, you can help by talking about this, making noise about this, letting your circles know that you’re angry about this. Don’t let this slide away quietly.

Titans' Robert Saleh dismisses questions about Cam Ward's accuracy issues https://www.nfl.com/news/titans-robert-saleh-dismisses-questions-about-cam-ward-s-accuracy-issues

Another way to see data centers aren’t just about AI: even by EPRI’s most generous forecast, AI accounts for less than half of the load added since ChatGPT. You may not like what the rest of the buildout is being used for.
https://blog.still-water.net/what-if-data-centers-ar…

On Spacetherm Aerogel Thermal Insulation - Learn about the highest-performing robust wall insulation for where space is at a premium: small homes in expensive cities. #aerogel #IWI #insulation -

On Spacetherm Aerogel Thermal Insulation
Learn about the highest-performing robust wall insulation for where space is at a premium: small homes in expensive cities. #aerogel #IWI #insulation

There's a certain amount of Schadenfreude (in addition to the absolute terror it invokes) in reading about what Mythos can supposedly do, after having made a career of complaining about how literally all software (including my own, because of circumstance) is inadequate, for the past 15 years.
A real reckoning is coming for software that is “good enough" but also never-finished and horribly vulnerable, if Anthropic's model can really chain together a series of exploits lik…

@… if a person is sufficiently rude about a pull request, or about me whilst I work on a PR:
― I'll simply close the PR.
The rudeness need not be in the PR; it could be anywhere.

Just finished "Landing in Place" written by Sherine Hamdy and illustrated by Myra El Mir. A beautiful and emotional story that has a lot of great complicated perspective on wearing hijab, plus a lot of Egyptian historical and cultural details that I didn't know anything about. Some really interesting discussions about protest and revolution too.
#AmReading #ReadingNow #Bookstodon

Here's a short video of me using fisk-ai to make a local RAG based knowledge base using the Puppet documentation.
You can go from zero to fully built knowledge base in about a minute. No services to run, no databases to run etc.
You can optionally expose this as a local MCP server so you can teach other AI harnesses about your local documentation. But the aim is to build a all-local capable system for your private docs.
This is the main feature added in version 0.0.2.…

TIL: Some of the estimates that are being passed around about the water consumption of (AI) data centers seem to be highly overstated.
Things I did not know about the high-end estimates being thrown around:
- Many of the most popular / graphic ones include not just the water used by the data center itself, but also the water used by the energy infrastructure used to power them. (Which is fair, but I did not know this, and it is often not framed that way).
- This includes stuf…

Empire of AI is wildly misleading on AI water use
And the media environment that didn't catch this is getting this issue wrong

"Do you know of any unexpected pattern of emoji usage? For example I'd expect younger folks to use emoji more than older folks and private communication to use it more than business... But maybe my assumptions are wrong or there is something else interesting?" - Yes generally our studies show that younger ppl use emojis more than older (and women a bit more than men). But in class with my undergraduates, they recently often tell me "I don't use emojis at all". I must say I don't fully believe them (maybe they don't even notice all the little hearts anymore?) and I haven't been able to show this in studies, but it's an interesting anecdotal data point I'd like to know more about!
Also, a student of mine recently asked teenagers (13 and 16yos) about their emoji interpretations. And surprisingly to us, these almost entirely match the data we already have for adults. Even for some like 🙃 and 😉 that I thought were changing (and just told you that younger people see them differently 😬). So that was a bit weird to me 😅 #emojis #WorldEmojiDay #linguistics

"OpenAI and Malta partner to bring ChatGPT Plus to all citizens"
We keep repeating the same mistake: allowing corporations into the education system. Remember how Microsoft effectively pushed the entire educational world toward its products? This time, however, it’s not only about software, it’s about textbooks, content, and everything around them.
#opensource

From the Barn to the Litter-Robot: Seven Things Nobody Tells You About Cats Anymore
When I was a boy in Lincoln, the contract with a cat was short enough to fit on a matchbook....
https://bolesblogs.com/2026/07/17/from

This will be shadowbanned.
Bauhaus's 'In the Flat Field' is about being trapped in a barren landscape that simulates life but offers nothing. But what about our own world of the dead Internet, shadowbanning, streaming, dead publics, and only AIs to chat to ? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8a2hGhamVwA

I emailed this to a friend but I want to share it publicly. I am a mathematician and a citizen and as such, I care deeply about the quantitative and geometric aspects of democracy. The nakedly partisan redistricting efforts in the US right now are appalling.
I've done some reading on interesting, innovative, and fair ways to vote and set up districts...and these politicians are not putting up the slightest pretense at fairness. They're not even talking about democracy. From top…

Hey folx! You probably see a lot of stuff from other social networks mirrored to Mastodon, how about we do it the other way around?
Recently, I've starred to mirror my posts to Instagram, Reddit, and other platforms, and I've had quite the success. My biggest post on Instagram, which is just one screenshot of a Mastodon post, has 44.5k likes and 256k views. My

Erik Uden on Instagram: "Babe, wake up. New man-made horrors beyond comprehension dropped!! In the end of the day, these companies probably realized that, just like with AI, they can somehow use scare tactics to attract venture capital. It's still a horrifying thing to think of, but possibly overblown to get money. The headline of the Science article reads: Not alive, but not dead: disembodied human brains used for drug testing By restoring some functions to intact brains from deceased donors, the startup Bexorg hopes to create a better drug development test bed for neurodegenerative diseases, written by Sara Reardon, published on the 20th of May 2026. Though, reading this Science article made me think: aren't we the brain? Am I missing something here? Now, of course the devil lies in the detail and the article makes it clear that this startup only restores “some functions”, which is certainly more complex in action than it is in theory written here, but certain language of the article makes me question the author's understanding of what is a human. The article writes: “Just a day ago, the brain was in a living person. Now, hours after its owner died, it sits on a cart draped in tubes [...]” What do you mean “it's owner” — isn't the brain it's owner? Isn't that where it's owner is? I mean, certainly the brain had no more activity, the person must've been declared brain dead by all standards before being sent to this startup, still it's odd hearing someone donated their brain instead of saying they've donated... themselves? Also “using a set of proprietary brain-sustaining machines” is a terrible sentence I always thought the people who don't donate their full body to hospitals are religious lunatics, but this is the first time I wrote something on my organ donor card. They can take my brain, but not as one piece."
45K likes, 971 comments - erik.uden on May 21, 2026: "Babe, wake up. New man-made horrors beyond comprehension dropped!! In the end of the day, these companies probably realized that, just like with AI, they can somehow use scare tactics to attract venture capital. It's still a horrifying thing to think of, but possibly overblown to get money. The headline of the Science article reads: Not alive, but not dead: disembodied human brains used for drug testing By restoring some functions to inta…

In all honesty, it is almost always difficult for me to post my music. In the end I make myself do it, not just in case someone derives an interesting [something] from it, but because practicing the decision is an investment into a feeling about world where people read such sharing charitably.
Even harder than sharing it is sharing *about* it. “Who wants to know?” But because I got so much from @…

Why is everyone talking about L Social

Putin's new Transnistria citizenship decree is about finding more soldiers for war against Ukraine — Moldova's president - Euromaidan Press
https://euromaidanpress.com/2026/05/17/putins-new-transnistria-citizenship-decree-is-about-finding-more-soldiers-for-war-against-ukraine-moldovas-president/

The new study “found that being in good shape during middle age was associated with about a 2 to 3 percent improvement in both health span and lifespan, translating to about a year and a half to two years of longer, healthier living.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/2026/05/17/exercise-middle-age-linked-longer-healthier-life-study-shows/

Seen on my afternoon walk

The administration has detained 400,000 immigrants: What do we know about their children? (Maria Cancian/Brookings)
https://www.brookings.edu/articles/the-administration-has-detained-400000-immigrants-what-do-we-know-about-their-children/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260518/p81#a260518p81

Valheim on the Linux rig. At this point, the Greydwarfs aren't even mad about the combat—they're just deeply concerned about my local logging practices. Come watch me clear-cut the Meadows and try to survive the Swamp: https://www.twitch.tv/tuxramus 🌲🪵🪓

Umm, about that deal that Trump announced?

I keep seeing the "cars replaced horses" thing related to "AI."
People keep comparing "AI" to cars (positively) without thinking about the fact that cars were forced on people (AAA bought up and destroyed tram lines, there were massive protests, etc), and are the primary driver of climate change that is currently on track to make complex human society impossible. Meanwhile, cities that weren't destroyed for cars, or that have reversed most of the damage, are some of the most desirable places to live.
Maybe we could take the car analogy as a warning. Maybe it could be a reminder to think about how forcing technology on people against their will can reshape society in a profoundly negative way.
The answer for cities has been to right-size transit. Eliminate cars wherever possible, maintain emergency vehicles and mobility aids, and find more efficient alternatives (bikes, trams, metros, and trains) where possible. I feel as though we can extrapolate from the metaphor.
We do not have to repeat the mistake of reshaping society around a single, oversimplified, solution in order to benefit a tiny minority. Perhaps we can actually choose the right technologies based on use cases, rather than hype or dogma.
Cars didn't replace horses. Cars replaced walkable cities, tram lines and mass transit, and children playing in the streets.
"Cars replaced horses" to the benefit of a small group of elite men, at tremendous cost to literally everyone else. When people say, "AI is the new 'cars replacing horses'" they are saying something very specific about their privilege and intentions.

A southward differentiated impactor forms the tapered shape of the South Pole–Aitken impact basin on the #Moon: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.aea1984 -> SwRI team uncovers clues about what future astronauts may find on the Moon: https://www.swri.org/newsroom/press-releases/swri-team-uncovers-clues-about-what-future-astronauts-may-find-the-moon

When you are a SwiftUI developer, every day is Xmas!
Tinkerble by https://edwardsanchez.design/
https://github.com/edwardsanchez/Tinke

Edward Sanchez – Medium
Read writing from Edward Sanchez on Medium. I’m a UI designer and developer with 25+ years of experience, including 9 years at Apple. I’m passionate about iconography, animation, and Swift development.

AI sales automation startup Monaco raised a $50M Series B led by Benchmark, bringing its total funding to $85M after raising a $25M Series A in February 2026 (Ben Bergman/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/jack-altman-talks-about-his-fir…

Jack Altman's first Benchmark deal is an AI sales startup growing its revenue by 'seven figures' every month
The raise is the latest example of how quickly capital is moving into AI startups that are demonstrating strong revenue growth.

Mitch McConnell Is Hospitalized, His Spokesman Says
No details were given about the 84-year-old former majority leader’s condition,
but he has had a string of health issues in recent years
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/14/us/poli

Mitch McConnell Is Hospitalized, His Spokesman Says
No details were given about the 84-year-old former majority leader’s condition, but he has had a string of health issues in recent years.

A UK MP reported a constituent to the police for the 'crime' of writing to him about #Gaza
What's worse, she was arrested at 04:33 -- which presumably means they went into her house in the middle of the night to arrest her. I've had this happen to me fifty years ago -- over a plan to ship schoolbooks to

Brighton woman acquitted on charge of persistent emails to cause annoyance to Prime Minister, Foreign Minister and local MP about Israel’s conduct in Gaza | Doughty Street Chambers
A Brighton woman, CK, was charged with a single offence under s.

"May and June heatwaves killed about 2,700 people in England and Wales, data suggests"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Heatwave #Climate

May and June heatwaves killed about 2,700 people in England and Wales, data suggests
Extreme heat led to 440 deaths a day during June peak, say scientists, with climate crisis ramping up temperatures

I just got a spam email about "$350k LOC" and I was immediately like, "who's going to pay *$350k* per line of [computer programming] code that someone writes??"
Turns out it was about a $350k line of *credit*.

from my link log —
Let's Encrypt prepared to issue 200 million certificates in 24 hours.
https://letsencrypt.org/2021/02/10/200m-certs-24hrs.html
saved 2021-02-10

Preparing to Issue 200 Million Certificates in 24 Hours
On a normal day Let’s Encrypt issues nearly two million certificates. When we think about what essential infrastructure for the Internet needs to be prepared for though, we’re not thinking about normal days. We want to be prepared to respond as best we can to the most difficult situations that might arise. In some of the worst scenarios, we might want to re-issue all of our certificates in a 24 hour period in order to avoid widespread disruptions. That means being prepared to issue 200 mill…

‘He 300 Pounds’: Trump Tried to Look Powerful — Until Viewers Zoomed In on What Was Different About His Chair and Became Convinced It Was No Accident
https://atlantablackstar.com/2026/05/17/he-300-pounds-trump-tried-to-look-powerful-until-viewers-zoomed-in-on-what-was-different-about-his-chair-and-became-convinced-it-was-no-accident/

What Cowboys Owner Jerry Jones Said About Brendan Sorsby and Supplemental Draft https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/what-dallas-cowboys-owner-jerry-jones-said-about-brendan-sorsby-supplemental-draft

The Long Game
Every episode explores the little moments that quietly change who we become, reminding us that growth isn't about quick fixes or overnight success—it's about playing the long game...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/the-lo

On the Zanussi ZDS2010 freestanding slimline dishwasher: Review - Read all about how it worked for us and lasted longer than expected (with some TLC), but is sadly barely more efficient than the old model. - https://www.earth.org.uk/note-on-Zanussi-ZDS…

On the Zanussi ZDS2010 freestanding slimline dishwasher: Review
Read all about how it worked for us and lasted longer than expected (with some TLC), but is sadly barely more efficient than the old model.

Eurovision is all about inclusion: it doesn’t see colour, gender, or genocide.
❤️
#eurovision

Three things to know about Aaron Rodgers' return to the Steelers, plus breaking down the 2026 NFL schedule

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/aaron-rodgers-steelers-ret…

Apparently 47 is the age when you start not caring about spelling errors in your social media posts anymor

Although a whole lot of Americans increasingly use AI in their daily lives,
most of them have neutral to negative views about it, new research reveals.
Only 16% of Americans think that AI’s impact on society during the next 20 years will be positive, Pew says,
while around 40% say that it will have a negative impact.
A vast majority of people (67%) don’t believe that the U.S. government will do anything to meaningfully regulate AI.
A similarly skeptical cohor…

Only 16 percent of Americans think AI will have a positive impact on society, a new study shows | TechCrunch
Although Wall Street loves AI, every day Americans are significantly less optimistic about the industry, a new report from Pew Research shows.

“It turns out blaming the blackout on “too many renewables” was like blaming a loss by Real Madrid on having too many non-Spanish players on the pitch.”
https://www.raponline.org/blog/remembering-the-28th-of-a…

Remembering the 28th of April: What You Think You Know About the Iberian Blackout is Probably Wrong
One year ago, shortly after noon on a mild spring day across the Iberian Peninsula, the electric grid collapsed. There were no dramatic satellite photos Michael Hogan explores the complex causes of last April's widespread blackout on the Iberian Peninsula, and what we can learn from them.

the nice thing about deleting a post on mastodon is that you get to watch people interact with it long after you delete it

To be clear, I make no representations about the accuracy or quality of the linked article, which clearly is selling something too.
The OP is just me saying “huh.”

For anyone in the Salish Sea region and thinking about disaster prep, the "Puget Sound: Regional Catastrophic Disaster Coordination Plan and Annexes" is probably worth reading also:
https://mil.wa.gov/asset/5ba4211ba3e85
That one is from 2012.
The Puyallup tribe also created a climate change adaptation report, which is also useful for thinking about how climate change will impact the region (in this case, Tacoma):
https://www.puyalluptribe-nsn.gov/wp-content/uploads/Puyallup-Climate-Change-Impact-Assessment_2016_July-13-v3-pagesV2.pdf

On 16WW Mains Inlet Water Temperature - Domestic mains water temperature data for 16WW on tap; seasonal min/max about 10C/20C in winter/summer. #dataset #water #temperature -

On 16WW Mains Inlet Water Temperature
Domestic mains water temperature data for 16WW on tap; seasonal min/max about 10C/20C in winter/summer. #dataset #water #temperature

Documents Trump released to support his claims — and previous assessments from the intelligence community — do not back up his most aggressive statements about election security.
In fact, some of the documents reach the opposite conclusion.
They also do not contain significant new revelations about vulnerabilities in election systems.
One of the documents posted on the White House website was blunt:
“We assess that vote tabulation systems would be difficult to manipu…

Takeaways From Trump’s Speech Claiming Election Vulnerabilities and China Interference
Documents released by the Trump administration to support the president’s claims did not back up his most aggressive statements.

Folks posting enthusiastically about #eurovision must be sad for having missed the 1936 olympics.
Do you ever wonder what you’d be during back then? Guess what? You’re doing it right now.

Schottenheimer 'fired up' about George Pickens to begin minicamp https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/schottenheimer-fired-up-about-george-pickens-to-begin-minicamp

Two-thirds of Fox segments about James Talarico included anti-LGBTQ attacks (Harrison Ray/Media Matters for America)
https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/two-thirds-fox-segments-about-james-talarico-included-anti-lgbtq-attacks
http://www.memeorandum.com/260616/p83#a260616p83

Table top exercises (basically TTRPGs for government and business) can be used to test plans and refine plans without needing to actually experience a natural disaster, security event, etc. They're used by militaries to practice war. I've been part of such exercises to test incident response runbooks I've written.
I've been reading a friend's thesis about Operational Art and Critical Philosophy in relation to revolutionary praxis. I wonder if anyone has ever run a table top exercise for an action (or for higher level strategy), and, if so, has anything they could share about it?
While organizing with the Seattle GDC, our disaster prep group ran a table to exercise. We chose scenarios from a set of county exercises for local disaster preparedness. Our GM (who worked in public health at the time) had to modify it a lot to fit our use case, but it still gave us a lot of insight.
Unfortunately, it was a number of years ago so I don't really remember the specific scenario or what came out of it.
I did look back at some notes that I found, and we did suggest creating a D&D committee (partially just for conviviality). Reflecting on this in light of reading this thesis, I feel like we we're really on the mark.

Donald Trump has offered few details about the “really big news” he plans to announce
during a primetime address Thursday,
beyond saying the speech will focus on voting machines and what he considers “free and fair elections.”
But the timing of the address and leaks to the media
— as well as the Trump administration’s recent actions
— offer clues about what he may try to accomplish.
The White House is considering releasing intelligence about foreign access…

Five ways Trump could use his primetime speech to undermine our elections
The timing of the address and leaks to the media — as well as the Trump administration’s recent actions — offer clues about what the president may try to accomplish.

Schottenheimer 'fired up' about George Pickens to begin minicamp https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/schottenheimer-fired-up-about-george-pickens-to-begin-minicamp

When you block everyone who has posted enthusiastically about Eurovision, the #eurovision tag becomes a steam of decent people who oppose genocide.
My work here is done.

Roger Goodell eyeing an NFL game in Japan: Commissioner has 'about 10' countries on radar

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/roger-goodell-nfl-game-japan/

Sources: about 200 companies accessing Mythos Preview through Project Glasswing have preserved their access despite a recent US government shutdown order (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-06-19/early-u…

Arguably the most telling section of the White House report relates to its defense of the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882.
The report’s authors bristle at any suggestion that this famously racist law may have been motivated by any kind of racial animus.
After all, such an acknowledgment might raise uncomfortable questions about the policies of Donald Trump and Stephen Miller
—policies that are explicitly modeled on laws like this one.
FOR THOSE UNFAMILIAR:
The Ch…

Racist Law From 1882 Is Not That Racist, Trump Says
Buried in the White House’s broadside against the Smithsonian is a bizarre—and revealing—claim about the Chinese Exclusion Act.

Trump says he 'never cared' about Iran regime change, claims new leaders are 'not radicalized' (Emily Goodin/New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2026/06/16/us-news/trump-says-he-never-cared-about-iran-regime-change-claims-new-leaders-are-not-radicalized/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260616/p73#a260616p73

Wait, how old is Sauce Gardner? Colts CB clears up confusion about his age https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7367046/2026/06/18/sauce-gardner-colts-age-birthdate-mystery/

Kimi K3 hype shouldn't alarm the US about "losing the AI race" to China as K3 is strong but not frontier-level and likely lacks dangerous cyber capabilities (Transformer)
https://www.transformernews.ai/p/kimi-k3-is-no-reason-for…

Open-source Kimi K3 model is no reason for China panic
Transformer Weekly: NY data center moratorium, NDAA export controls and Amodei’s $1m to safety super PAC

Amid war, Trump says he doesn’t ‘think about Americans’ financial situation’

The president said he is only concerned about Iran not having a nuclear weapon. “I don’t think about anybody,” he added.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/20

Amid war, Trump says he doesn’t ‘think about Americans’ financial situation’
Trump said he is only concerned about Iran not having a nuclear weapon. “I don’t think about anybody,” he added.

What leaders (usually) get wrong about motivation https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7275978/2026/05/15/what-leaders-usually-get-wrong-about-motivation/

Sources: SpaceX is in talks with the DOD about providing the agency with access to data-center capacity worth billions of dollars for running AI models (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/spacex-in-talk

Sources: Apple and the DOJ are in early discussions about settling a 2024 antitrust lawsuit alleging that Apple violated antitrust laws (Bloomberg)

A profile of Anthropic researcher Nicholas Carlini, who warned about Mythos in March and is now part of an Anthropic team briefing the White House on safeguards (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/anthropic-myth

A profile of Anthropic researcher Nicholas Carlini, who warned about Mythos in March and is now part of an Anthropic team briefing the White House on safeguards (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/anthropic-myth

An interview with SBF about life in prison, his serialized prison memoir titled Manfred, and more, as he praises Trump, becomes a Republican, and seeks a pardon (Simon van Zuylen-Wood/New York Magazine)
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/…

Sam Bankman-Fried’s Desperate Campaign to Get Free
Sam Bankman-Fried speaks from prison about his life behind bars and his desperate campaign to get free. Donald Trump is the victim of politically motivated prosecution, he tells Simon van Zuylen-Wood, and ‘he’s not the only one.’

Ofcom launches a probe into TikTok over Online Safety Act compliance, citing doubts about the effectiveness of using age inference to determine users' ages (Mizy Clifton/Politico)
https://www.politico.eu/article/ofcom-investigates-tiktok-over-child-s…

Ofcom investigates TikTok over child safety measures
The online safety watchdog is worried about TikTok’s use of “age inference” to guess users’ ages.