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Is Trump about to attack Cuba? - by Christina Pagel
https://christinapagel.substack.com/p/is-trump-about-to-attack-cuba

Is Trump about to attack Cuba?
A recent spate of actions, including sanctions and military build up feels ominous

Verizon's famed DBIR is out for 2026.
https://www.verizon.com/about/news/breach-industry-wide-dbir-finds

Breach entry point, 2026 DBIR finds | About Verizon
The 2026 DBIR reveals that vulnerability exploitation has surpassed stolen credentials as the top breach entry point.

Toronto cops keep showing up to arts events about Palestine.
What can organizers do?
https://www.thegrindmag.ca/cops-keep-showing-up-to-arts-events-about-palestine-what-can-organizers-do/

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

A Forbes story about a Louisiana man killing 8 children contained a ForbesPredict box asking readers to predict whether Congress would pass new gun safety laws (Matthew Gault/404 Media)
https://www.404media.co/forbes-prediction-market-gamefi…

Forbes Prediction Market Gamefies Story About Mass Shooting of 8 Children
Forbes launched ForbesPredict in January as part of an effort to reverse declining traffic from search engines and keep users on its website longer.

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 ...

Forbes Prediction Market Gamefies Story About Mass Shooting of 8 Children https://www.404media.co/forbes-prediction-market-gamefies-story-about-mass-shooting-of-8-children/

In New York social circles, he was known as the “Jewish James Bond”:
a refugee from Nazi Germany whose gratitude to his American hosts was such that he volunteered to join the US army and became the CIA’s first station chief in Berlin as a mere twentysomething,
filing early warnings about Soviet activity that have been credited with ringing in the cold war.
Like 007, Peter Sichel also appreciated a fine tipple, and after leaving the US foreign intelligence service it was h…

Rashan Gary should be worried about Cowboys rookie in hopes for 'dominant' season https://fansided.com/nfl/rashan-gary-should-be-worried-about-cowboys-rookie-in-hopes-for-dominant-season-01kxxvwrjph9

Memos Show John Roberts Became The Activist He Warned About
https://www.levernews.com/memos-show-john-roberts-became-the-activist-he-warned-about/

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

Google has re-engineered its search engine to keep users inside its own ecosystem with AI-powered interactive experiences. If your task is to find and critically assess information on the open web, you're fresh out of luck.
https://www.

Google Search is no longer about searching
Google has re-engineered its search engine to keep users inside its own ecosystem with AI-powered interactive experiences. If your task is to find and critically ...

What We Know So Far About 2026 ACA Marketplace Enrollment, Premiums, and Deductibles (KFF)
https://www.kff.org/affordable-care-act/what-we-know-so-far-about-2026-aca-marketplace-enrollment-premiums-and-deductibles/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260519/p67#a260519p67

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

This is tragic, the fall of Bitwarden: https://blog.ppb1701.com/the-quiet-renovation-at-bitwarden

The Quiet Renovation at Bitwarden - ByteHaven - Where I ramble about bytes
Back in March, I wrote about Bitwarden doubling their Premium price — and specifically how they did it. Buried in a feature announcement. Priced in fake...

O&C – ownership and control – *that’s* the lens by which we should be evaluating data and technology.
Who owns and controls data and technology?
If we want a fair, just world with human rights, freedom, and democracy, the answer to that question must be twofold:
1. Data about and technology for the commons must be owned and controlled by the commons.
2. Data about and technology for people must be owned and controlled by individuals.
That’s it.
Notice …

I’m getting really tired of AI magnifying all the worst aspects of humanity. It’s happening in every sector, and the examples are plentiful. This is why I’m becoming more anti-AI by the day. While I know there are people and organsations using the technology for amazing things, the net effect it has on us is negative as it enables far too many of us to display the worst parts of ourselves at an increasingly rapid rate.
Accentism for profit? What Telus is getting wrong about accents

Accentism for profit? What Telus is getting wrong about accents
An AI accent manipulation tool may be “cool” technology, but it is arguably also a form of discrimination against workers whose voices are being altered.

How Gary Kubiak’s lessons shaped Klint Kubiak’s coaching identity https://www.raiders.com/news/how-gary-kubiak-s-lessons-shaped-klint-kubiak-s-coaching-identity-nfl-fathers-day

"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.

Logistics in the technical sense (part of supply chain management) is a subset of logistics in the vernacular sense ("the handling of the details of an operation"). You can explore this second and more general sense, and thereby build an understanding of the first and more technical sense, by iteratively asking the question, "how does one make that happen" and follow questions from there.
A big part of organizing is figuring out the (vernacular) logistics (and helping others figure it out). You want to organize a seed swap? Ok. How does one make that happen? Well, you need seeds, people, a place, and perhaps a time. How does one make that happen? You can forage seeds or you can buy seeds for a garden and swap extras. How do you get people to come? Well, figure out where you want people to come from and choose an accessible place. What's the easiest thing to do? Get people from your neighborhood. How does one make that happen? Well, maybe put up flyers. How does one make that happen? Well, print them on your printer if you have one, or at a library, then go post them up. Etc.
Keep asking questions until you either find a roadblock that you can't find a way around, or you find things you can do yourself (one of those things you can do yourself is asking friends to help).
If you practice the exercise of thinking about how things happen, you can start to find things that you can do yourself. You can start to understand what exists now, and you can imagine what's possible. By thinking about logistics, you can figure out how to replace things when they collapse or are dismantled. You can also identify things that can't easily be replaced, and try to figure out alternatives.
This practice is good for figuring out how to build, but it can also be a valuable practice for figuring out how to resist. Concentration camps and ethnic cleansing also require logistics. Mass displacement means moving people. How does one do that? People are generally going to be moved in planes or buses. How does one do that? Well, people get loaded on to planes or buses in specific places. Planes and buses need fuel. Planes are fueled at their airports, which may well be the same places where people are loaded on to them. There is a fuel depo and a fuel truck that makes flying people out of a specific place possible. How does the fuel get to that fuel depo? Well, that fuel is probably also delivered by truck. Someone drives those trucks. Someone fuels those planes. Someone clears the planes for takeoff. Someone fuels those busses. Someone drives those busses. And so on.
Logistics networks can be highly complex. The more complex the operation, the more possible points of failure and more possible points where pressure can be applied, where operations can be disrupted. Ethnic cleansing is a complicated operation. The logistics of disrupting complicated things tend to be much less complicated than the logistics of the complicated things themselves.
The Right has exploited this fact for a long time. Centralized social services are logistically complex. Public infrastructure is logistically complex. By destroying these things, they can loot public resources by privatizing the infrastructure and functionality.
But the things that support the Right are even more logistically complex. Oil, cars, AI data centers, internal paramilitary, these are extremely complicated and fragile. There are numerous pressure points, all of which can respond to numerous strategies.
If we want to win, we should reduce the influence of politics over the things we care about. We should focus on building distributed mutual aid networks that don't rely on state funding and aren't subject to the whims of politicians. This is also known as "dual power." That is, creating counter-institutions outside of the dominant political system. The Right already does this in the form of churches and corporations.
As we reduce our complexity, we can then press our complexity advantage against the things for which the Right *needs* the state: the apparatus of violence needed to maintain capital and enforce the dominant order.

I just learned about the Laguna Garzón Bridge in Uruguay and it's pretty cool!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laguna_Garzón_Bridge
(Also, one of my neighbors is from Uruguay so I'm sort of interested in learning more about it.)

Laguna Garzón Bridge - Wikipedia

Have questions about crafting your comments about the #OMB proposed regulations? #DefendResearch is maintaining a set of resources to help folks make submissions (

To be clear, sports have never been and never will be about the effort people put in. It's a show of prowess, but at peak performance it's about showing off bodies that are exceptional for some reason. And we have a long list of which kinds of exceptional are okay, and the list is not actually terribly coherent, and has NEVER made sense in terms of 'fairness'.

Hot take: DKIM signatures with ed25519 are largely useless🔥🔑
I know what you're thinking. RSA is bad. You read that blogpost with the "f" word. (It's not good.) This isn't about ed25519 vs. RSA, but about how DKIM works
Here's the problem: if you introduce a new crypto algorithm into a protocol, you need to know if the other side" supports it. But in DKIM, you don't. You're sending e-mails to arbitrary receivers. DKIM has no mechanism to tel…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
The dB’s:
🎵 What About That Cat
#ThedBs
https://thedbs.bandcamp.com/track/what-about-that-cat-new-york-rocker-session

DJ on the radio - in Canada - talking about Canadian "one dollar bills." If only it'd been about history.

Every now and again I recall the best pun I’ve ever made in my life. I was in grade 12 about 60 years ago writing an essay on #Macbeth. I think. (Not 100% sure about that part.) The title of my essay was, Men’ll Pause, or The Chains of Life. I was sure I’d get at least a nod from Mr. Andrews, the teacher, but got crickets instead.

Enjoying MillMint today, and thinking about the way a world built by one person inevitably winds up uncannily unified in aesthetic to the point it undermines the project's credibility with regards to what it tries to express about ours
https://millmint.net

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

I did not know about ggplot_build() before. It can come in handy in situations where you want to access computed metrics of a #ggplot. https://ggplot2.tidyverse.org/reference/ggplot_build.html…

Build ggplot for rendering. — ggplot_build
build_ggplot() takes the plot object, and performs all steps necessary to produce an object that can be rendered. This function outputs two pieces: a list of data frames (one for each layer), and a panel object, which contain all information about axis limits, breaks etc. The ggplot_build() function is vestigial and build_ggplot() should be used instead.

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Alice Boman:
🎵 Don't Forget About Me
#NowPlaying #AliceBoman
https://aliceboman.bandcamp.com/track/dont-forget-about-me-3
https://open.spotify.com/track/5qUujOsbcVq8oo3ndNET6e

Trump 'science' versus climate science.
A modern Vatican versus Galileo.
Factcheck: Trump’s false claims about the IPCC and ‘RCP8.5’ climate scenario - Carbon Brief https://www.carbonbrief.org/factcheck-trumps-false-claims-ab…

Factcheck: Trump’s false claims about the IPCC and ‘RCP8.5’ climate scenario - Carbon Brief
In this factcheck, Carbon Brief looks at Trump’s comments, the debate around RCP8.5 and the “good” and “bad” news within the latest scenarios.

The Founders Fire
I sit down with founders to talk about the things we all go through, but no one talks about. The pressure, the doubt, the times they nearly gave up and how they turned it all around...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/the-fo

Sources: Polymarket is in talks to raise $400M at a ~$15B post-money valuation, up from $9B in October 2025, but below Kalshi's $22B valuation from March 2026 (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/polymarket-talks-raise-money-…

Polymarket in Talks to Raise Money at About $15 Billion Valuation
The predictions site Polymarket is talking to investors about raising $400 million in funding at a valuation of about $15 billion including the new money, according to two people familiar with the talks. The financing would add to the $600 million already invested in the funding round by ...

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

"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 …

I donated to the EFF today. They do great work to protect the rights of people in the digital age.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation is the leading nonprofit organization defending civil liberties in the digital world. EFF's mission is to ensure that technology supports freedom, justice, and innovation for all people of the world.
https://www.

About EFF
The Electronic Frontier Foundation is the leading nonprofit organization defending civil liberties in the digital world. Founded in 1990, EFF champions user privacy, free expression, and innovation through impact litigation, policy analysis, grassroots activism, and technology development. EFF's...

I miss college

A starter pack of questions to help think about "discovery" and "knowledge":
1. When was X discovered?
2. Once it was discovered, who knew X?
3. 1000 years later, who knew/knows/will know X?
4. Is X true?
5. Which groups of people would say it's true vs. false?
When X is "a² b² = c² in a right triangle" we think there are nice clean answers to these questions. But when X is "COVID-19 transmits via small airborne aerosols and a mask is needed to reduce the risk of infection" things get more interesting, particularly the answer to question 1. Does something count as "discovered" if many/most people would say it's false?
People love to answer this question by appeal to "scientific consensus" but the scientific consensus on aerosol transmission is still shaky if you consider certain big institutions, and even if it's mostly settled now, there was definitely a period between "experts on transmission know it" and "there's a scientific consensus." So which counts as discovery? What if knowledge is held secret, like many military technologies? What about historical facts that become censored?

@…
<https://freebsdfoundation.org/about-us/our-team/> – there's a Marketing Coordinator.
From one of the Foundation's pr…

LOL, f’kin Woz
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DYfgIwoRbYp/?igsh=MTQ1aHV2NzRzYnkwcQ==
ht…

Grand Valley State University on Instagram: "How long does it take to build a brain? 🧠💭 Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak spoke about the importance of human intelligence and innovation during his GVSU Commencement address on May 2."
6,764 likes, 92 comments - gvsu on May 18, 2026: "How long does it take to build a brain? 🧠💭 Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak spoke about the importance of human intelligence and innovation during his GVSU Commencement address on May 2.".

#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/

@… I don't know about whatever artist you're dealing with, but for a portfolio they should at least be able to tell you things like the medium, year, dimensions, even if they don't have a title or story about it.

The GGNRA Superintendent, David Smith, is having one of his public Office Hours at the Presidio Visitor Center tomorrow to talk about the NPS commemoration of America's 250th birthday. (And answer other park related questions,).
11am - noon, Sat, June 19
Presidio Visitors Center, 210 Lincoln Blvd, San Francisco,
If you're a fan of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area, this is a good chance to meet the Superintendent, hear about what's happening, and ask qu…

The GGNRA Superintendent, David Smith, is having one of his public Office Hours at the Presidio Visitor Center tomorrow to talk about the NPS commemoration of America's 250th birthday. (And answer other park related questions,).
11am - noon, Sat, June 19
Presidio Visitors Center, 210 Lincoln Blvd, San Francisco,
If you're a fan of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area, this is a good chance to meet the Superintendent, hear about what's happening, and ask qu…

Well TACO, how about we talk about your forest fires...
https://currentwildfires.com/en/wildfires-united-states/

Tomorrow marks 10 years since Prince passed. For the first time, I gathered nearly two decades of my writing, podcasts, talks & more into one curated resource, including playlists, rarities, a review of every video he ever made, and collaborations I did with his estate. I close it out with a talk I gave in Minneapolis on Prince’s birthday just after he passed – one of my most personal ever, and one I’m most proud of. I hope you’ll check it out.

Discovering Prince, Ten Years Later
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

Inverse hybrid search has a balancing problem, and it's messier than it looks. Ravindra Harige is at #bbuzz26 to break down why, and what you can do about it.
Catch up on everything about this session: https://2026.berlinbuzzwords.de/session/the-three-body-problem-of-inverse-hybrid-search/

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

Video talking about how UK city planning works (in the context of Sim City) which pairs well with all the announcements about AI tools for planning.
(jumpscare at 13:11)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hgJ2gKE09s

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

This is the most detailed picture of a human cell ever made 🧪
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DX1CGIZMKJs/?igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ

Sam Bousaba on Instagram: "This is a single human cell. The white filament-like structures are microtubules, and the small colored particles are ribosomes. Your body contains on the order of ~37 trillion cells. Each cell functions like a highly organized, self-regulating factory operating continuously. There is no central “supervisor”—yet thousands of processes run in parallel with remarkable coordination. Every ribosome is constantly building proteins by linking amino acids together. In eukaryotic (human) cells, a ribosome typically adds about 5–10 amino acids per second (not ~20). Since a single cell can contain millions of ribosomes, protein production is massive—resulting in millions to tens of millions of peptide bonds formed per second per cell. The microtubules act as an internal transport network. Motor proteins such as kinesin move along these tracks, carrying cellular cargo. They “walk” step by step using ATP, at speeds of roughly 500–1000 nanometers per second. Each cell contains a dense network of these filaments, with many motor proteins moving simultaneously. Just beneath the cell membrane lies the actin cortex, a dynamic meshwork that helps maintain cell shape and resist mechanical stress. This structure is continuously remodeled—assembled and disassembled—allowing the cell to adapt to its environment. Now scale this up. Across ~37 trillion cells, each containing millions of ribosomes and hundreds to thousands of mitochondria, your body is constantly producing energy in the form of ATP. Total ATP turnover is enormous—roughly equivalent to your body weight in ATP recycled every day. The DNA in a single human cell, if stretched out, measures about 2 meters. Across all your cells, this would span distances comparable to traveling from Earth to the Sun and back many times (the exact multiple depends on assumptions about cell count and DNA packing). None of these processes are under conscious control. They began when you were a single cell and have continued uninterrupted ever since."
62K likes, 2,387 comments - scienceoftheuniverse on May 2, 2026: "This is a single human cell. The white filament-like structures are microtubules, and the small colored particles are ribosomes. Your body contains on the order of ~37 trillion cells. Each cell functions like a highly organized, self-regulating factory operating continuously. There is no central “supervisor”—yet thousands of processes run in parallel with remarkable coordination. Every ribosome is constantly building prot…

How Gary Kubiak’s lessons shaped Klint Kubiak’s coaching identity https://www.raiders.com/news/how-gary-kubiak-s-lessons-shaped-klint-kubiak-s-coaching-identity-nfl-fathers-day

A speculative scenario titled "Europe 2031" projects economic and political instability in the EU if it fails to keep pace with the US and China in the AI race (Aisha Down/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jun/20/e…

A viral doomsday scenario aims to shake Europe out of its AI complacency
Does a thought-experiment about US ascendancy in the technology say as much about AI jitters as it does about the reality?

Eight Leading U.S. Communications Firms Form C2 ISAC to Strengthen Cybersecurity Collaboration
https://about.att.com/story/2026/c2-isac.html

Jefferson blunt on McCarthy with Kyler a Viking https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/48543398/jefferson-blunt-mccarthy-future-murray-viking

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*.

When Im in hell it will be just like right now except literally everybody says everything i want to hear said about myself about everyone but me

Steven Rosenbaum acknowledges that The Future of Truth, his book about truth in the AI age, released this month to great fanfare, contains quotes made up by AI (Benjamin Mullin/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/…

‘The Future of Truth’ Contains Quotes Made Up by A.I.
Steven Rosenbaum, author of “The Future of Truth,” said he had started his own investigation after The New York Times asked about the fake quotes.

Jerry Jones Has Clear Message for Those Complaining About NFL’s International Games https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/jerry-jones-cowboys-nfl-international-schedule/

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

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.

when covid happened Grey's Anatomy had a whole season about how terrible it was for medical staff... i think that's exactly what Inside Job would've been like when the Epstein files released

Lack of transparency on who manages Trump’s investments adds to questions about possible conflicts of interests that have followed Trump throughout his time in the Oval Office.
"The confusion from the White House as to who manages the president's stock portfolios is deeply troubling,”
Dylan Hedtler-Gaudette, acting vice president of policy and government affairs at the Project On Government Oversight, told NOTUS in a statement.
“It would raise serious ethical quest…

What Donald Trump Knows About His Stock Investments
The president is playing the market again as Congress weighs banning elected officials from trading stocks.

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/

You know what they say about hitting the translate button on a tweet written in Hebrew:

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…

(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

Q&A with Steven Soderbergh about using AI to visualize 10% of his John Lennon documentary after running out of "time and money", facing a backlash, and more (Jake Coyle/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/john-lennon

Steven Soderbergh on John Lennon and AI
The day John Lennon was shot in 1980, he and Yoko Ono gave an interview to a San Francisco radio crew from their home in New York’s Dakota Apartments. In “John Lennon: The Last Interview,” Steven Soderbergh pp those surviving tapes into a new documentary that debuted Saturday at the Cannes Film Festival. But his decision to fill in some visuals using Meta's AI software has prompted an outcry. One of America’s leading filmmakers was using AI? In a film about a Beatle, no less? Soderbergh…

Metacast 2: Podcast Specs and Workflow (2020-04) - Another podcast episode about podcasting - documenting for consistency. - https://www.earth.org.uk/metacast-2.html

Metacast 2: Podcast Specs and Workflow (2020-04)
Another podcast episode about podcasting - documenting for consistency.

Rep. Becca Balint (D-VT) thinks there’s something queer about Secretary Pete Hegseth’s fixation on masculinity.
The congresswoman weighed in on the U.S. military’s plans to test male service members’ testosterone levels,
telling journalist Scott MacFarlane there’s something odd about being so obsessed with manliness while villainizing the LGBTQ community at the same time.
“I think it’s indicative of the fact that there are so many people in this administration that have s…

Congresswoman Says 'Homoerotic' Side Of GOP's Masculinity Mania Can't Be Ignored
Rep. Becca Balint had a list of reasons why Secretary Pete Hegseth’s fixation with making the military more manly looked like a full-on fetish.

The Biggest Question Nobody Is Asking About The Raiders https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-biggest-question-nobody-asking-about

Internal memo: Intuit is laying off about 17% of its workforce, or about 3,000 employees worldwide, to streamline operations and focus on its key bets (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/world-at-work/intuit-cut-17-…

Joe Burrow raves about Bengals' 'most talented roster' in his career https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7294661/2026/05/20/joe-burrow-bengals-offseason-2026/

The same people who want historical accuracy when they really mean they don't want to see black people are now saying they don't care about Odyssey not being accurate. Curious.

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/

Reuters' staff union files an unfair labor practices complaint with the NLRB, saying a producer's contract ended after he discussed Reuters' ICE ties internally (Angela Fu/Poynter)
https://www.poynter.org/business-work/2026/reuters-ret…

Reuters retaliated against a journalist for raising concerns about the company’s ties to ICE, union alleges - Poynter
The union says the contractor was investigated after participating in internal chats about Thomson Reuters’ DHS contracts

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

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.

Today, I’m talking with Harvard professor and New Yorker staff writer Dr. Jill Lepore about her new book, The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State, which comes out on August 25.
Jill is one of the best writers there is at identifying institutional patterns in history, and Decoder is a show about systems, so this book could not possibly be more in our zone.
You build systems by measuring things — gathering information, quantifying it as data, and taking action on it. And Jill’s big…

Dr. Jill Lepore on why AI backlash is vital for the future
Harvard law and history professor and New Yorker writer Dr. Jill Lepore discusses her forthcoming book, ‘The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State’

Q&A with Google SVP James Manyika on AI's ability to automate tasks versus occupations, his optimism about the labor market despite AI-driven layoffs, and more (Casey Newton/Platformer)
https://www.platformer.news/james-manyika-google-ai-jobs-io-2026/

Google's James Manyika is betting that doomers are wrong about AI and jobs
Tasks are getting easier to automate — jobs aren't. What now?

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

The Biggest Question Nobody Is Asking About The Raiders https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-biggest-question-nobody-asking-about

Colts star Sauce Gardner clears up confusion about his date of birth: Why almost everyone got his age wrong

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/sauce-gardner-age-nfl-colts/

One difference between Hegseth Evangelicals & Leonard Leo Catholics.
Evangelicals shout from the rooftops.
Catholics in Leo's circle rarely say what they want outloud.
They just go about undermining democracy, quietly, in the dark. Like termites.
From 2018 - out loud.
-- Tom Carter
https://www.

In Defence of Catholic Integralism
States that do not recognize both natural law and the transformation of law and public reason brought about by the raising of religion to a supernatural good will become confessors of false belief opposed to Christianity, and their great power will turn from supporting Christianity to opposing or ev

The fact the United States is currently creating facts claiming that Cuba isn't being starved by them, but that the Cuban government is actually at fault and using all the resources which would otherwise help the population (somehow), really makes me think about all the other times I've heard this rhetoric in history.

‘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/

“We are a nation of laws.
You can't just make up things whole piece,”
said Senator Bill Cassidy,
following his primary loss.
“People are concerned about making ends meet, not about putting a slush fund together without a legal precedent.”
It’s not clear yet what approach Cassidy will take in his final months in office,
but he’s got plenty of opportunities to make his voice heard,
including on the effort to limit U.S. hostilities against Iran wi…

Bill Cassidy Is Done Holding Back What He Thinks
The Louisiana Republican is already speaking out against the president's “weaponization” fund and money for a White House ballroom.

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.

"I strongly believe there are entire companies right now under heavy AI psychosis and it’s impossible to have rational conversations with them about it.
I can’t name any specific people because they include personal friends I deeply respect, but I worry about how this plays out."
-- Mitchell Hashimoto, of HashiCorp and Ghostty fame

AI Mania Is Eviscerating Global Decisionmaking
The reality of how much damage AI mania is doing to our ability to run institutions effectively.

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…

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.

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…

An interview with Smartbird CEO Nadia Carlsten about the shoe company Allbirds becoming an AI infrastructure company, plans to deploy compute clusters, and more (Tim Fernholz/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/19/the-ceo-of-allbirds-new-a…

The CEO of Allbirds' new AI biz has a plan, but no employees | TechCrunch
Call it a startup with a sole founder and a very large seed round, but what's next is less clear.

An interview with Match Group CEO Spencer Rascoff about plans for Tinder, including a redesign, AI features, live events, and group dating to win over Gen Z (Samantha Kelly/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/20

Sources: PC makers, including HP, are in talks with their supply-chain partners about using CXMT's memory chips in products bound for Asia as DRAM prices soar (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/why-the-memory-cr

Chinese open models like Kimi K3 and Qwen3.8 Max shift the industry's focus back to marginal costs and cost of goods sold, as inference costs scale with revenue (Ben Thompson/Stratechery)
https://stratechery.com/2026/whos-afraid-of-chinese-models/

Who’s Afraid of Chinese Models?
Everyone is worried about Chinese models, but the frontier labs will be fine; we need to enable open U.S. alternatives.