
2025-07-24 10:11:48
INSIDIOUS attack after negotiations: Russia strikes Ukraine with DRONES and MISSILES #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/24/insidious-attack-after-negotiations-russia.htm…
INSIDIOUS attack after negotiations: Russia strikes Ukraine with DRONES and MISSILES #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/24/insidious-attack-after-negotiations-russia.htm…
Sri Lanka hit by plastic pollution after cargo ship sinks off Indian coast https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2025/07/sri-lanka-hit-by-plastic-pollution-after-cargo-ship-sinks-off-indian-coast/
After 70 years, twisted gothic thriller The Night of the Hunter remains as disturbing and beguiling as ever https://theconversation.com/after-70-years-twisted-gothic-thriller-the-night-of-the-h…
Cowboys’ Dak Prescott Turns Heads at Camp After Injury https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/dak-prescott-turns-heads-camp-after-injury/?adt_ei=[email]
this is probably the one and only time you’ll ever hear me say how much I appreciate AI
#MLB
Trump rages: Iran and Israel
‘don’t know what the f**k they’re doing’
after ceasefire halting 12-day war appears to immediately break down, with each side accusing the other of violating its terms
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/worl…
Yet another bad decision from the Planning Inspectorate.
Huge development to go ahead after £5m demand thrown out - Manchester Evening News
https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/huge-development…
"Writing is one of the most disruptive technologies ever invented after agriculture. Before writing, people could pass information in the current moment, to those who were close enough to hear noises made by other people. Writing allows people to communicate across space, passing written information to readers without the physical presence of the author. And it allows them to communicate across time, leaving evidence of thoughts long after the thinker had died."
Raiders players to speak with media after 1st day of training camp https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/raiders/raiders-players-to-speak-with-media-after-1st-day-of-training-camp-3399663/
Community rallies in protest after local church calls for killing LGBTQ people - LGBTQ Nation
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/07/community-rallies-in-after-local-church-calls-for-lgbtq-people/
Vance Hints Uranium Was Moved After Trump Tipped Off Tehran (David Gardner/The Daily Beast)
https://www.thedailybeast.com/vance-hints-uranium-was-moved-after-trump-tipped-off-tehran/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250623/p107#a250623p107
Waymo launches robotaxis in Atlanta via Uber's app, covering a 65-square-mile area, after launching in Austin on March 4; its vehicles don't drive on highways (Andrew J. Hawkins/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/691101/waymo-uber-robotaxi-atl…
Mr. President, is the ceasefire in the room with us?
“The launches came after 4 a.m. local time in Tehran, the time Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said Iran would stop its attacks if Israel ended their airstrikes.”
https://apnews.com/live/iran-israel-war-updates-6-2…
STOCK ANALYSTS: Ignore Musk’s behavior, geniuses are just eccentric sometimes, it’s OK, his repeated failures will soon give way to 10000x growth
MUSK: After listening to Ace of Base on repeat for 72 hours straight while huffing jet fuel, I now understand that I am destined to merge with the AI resurrection of Hitler to become Machine Jesus who saves the white race after 1000 years of continuous stock market crashes, which are of course necessary and a good idea. Libturds have hidden this truth from your mind
One day after signing a $1.5B deal with Paramount, South Park satirizes Paramount's settlement with Trump, pro-Trump PSAs, and the cancellation of The Late Show (Jenna Amatulli/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2025/jul/24/south-park-t…
Check out today's Metacurity for the most critical infosec developments you should know, including
--US House of Representatives bans WhatsApp on security grounds
--US Cybercom played a role in Iran attack,
--Crypto scam services return after Telegram beheading,
--NoName DDoS'ed Dutch cities ahead of NATO summit,
--REvil members released in Russia,
--Coinbase poseur stole millions from crypto holders,
--Critical infrastructure defense project …
How Robust is Model Editing after Fine-Tuning? An Empirical Study on Text-to-Image Diffusion Models
Feng He, Zhenyang Liu, Marco Valentino, Zhixue Zhao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.18428
✊ Bangladesh struggles to balance reform efforts and calls for elections after the revolution
https://globalvoices.org/2025/06/29/bangladesh-struggles-to-balance-reform-efforts-and-calls-for-elections-after-the-…
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Arrests in France after scores report being attacked with syringes at street music festival | France | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/23/france-syringe-attacks-street-music-festival-fet…
Jaguars' Louis Rees-Zammit likely headed back to rugby after 'one to two more years' trying to make it in NFL https://www.nfl.com/news/jaguars-louis-rees-zammit-likely-headed-back-to-rugby-af…
And in a strange parallel with what we’re doing to the _living_ world…
Maybe AI Slop Is Killing the Internet, After All - Bloomberg Businessweek https://apple.news/AntpOpqOKQMeKlRgY0qfq1A
How is it that my right ankle has never fully healed after 43 years?
I sprained it BAD when I was 17. On my first date. Was "all good" after ~2 months & my gf’s guilt over it bound us through 5 years of dating 10 of marriage (or something…) That ankle was never 100% again. Not always painful but always subject to being hurt and a little sloppy. It crunched.
In the past few years it has started to fall apart, needs more shoe room. Always uncomfortable.
I can…
Creatively Disrupting Capitalism
Richard Muscat* In the series Prospects for Degrowth I am a degrowth activist. It’s not a career path I ever envisaged for myself. I arrived here after a couple of decades working, for want of better phrasing, on “capitalism’s side”. First for a range of high-growth Silicon Valley software companies and their ilk; latterly directly in venture capital focused on climate change technology startups, aka “Climate Tech” or “Impact Investing.”
After months of coding with an #LLM I'm going back to using my brain
https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/20/after-months-of-coding-with-llms/#ato…
Deaf President Now! review – passion and energy in stirring record of student protest;
Documentary follows the 1988 anti-audism revolt in the US after the world’s first deaf university appointed a hearing person to head it
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/…
A United States Army veteran who was forced to self-deport to South Korea has told Newsweek he will only return once President Donald Trump leaves office.
Purple Heart veteran Sae Joon Park, who has lived in the U.S. for 48 years, was told by immigration authorities that he had three weeks to leave the country.
"President Trump sucks. I will try to come back after Trump leaves," Park told Newsweek in a statement.
50 days to CEASEFIRE: 1 week after TRUMP’s ultimatum to PUTIN – what’s changed? #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/22/days-to-ceasefire-week-after.html
Cowboys Star Left With ‘Hurt Feelings’ After Jerry Jones Move https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/cowboys-star-left-with-hurt-feelings-after-jerry-jones-move/?adt_ei=[email]
Har efter ca 2 timmars forskande och experimenterande fått min telefon att fungera hjälpligt efter uppdateringen till ios 18.5 Resultatet av uppdateringen var att den inte visade notiser, inte spelade upp ljud, inte visade push-notiser och mute'ade alarmet. Även haptiken la ner. Precis allt en användare kan önska av en uppdatering ! B E S V I K E N
After about 2 hours of research and experimentation, I got my phone to work properly after updating to iOS 18.5. The result of the upd…
Stop calling this a bloody war. This is not war. It’s genocide. Palestinians are not starving, they are BEING STARVED BY ISRAEL.
#israel #genocide #ethnicCleansing
‘A good day’: Detained U.S. citizen said agents bragged after arresting dozens at Home Depot.
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-06-20/border-patrol-agents-brag-in-front-of-detained
Candace Owens doubles down after she's sued for claiming French first lady is trans: "You're sick" - LGBTQ Nation
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/07/candace-owens-doubles-down-after-shes-sued-for-claiming-french-first-lady-is-trans-youre-sick/
Russia releases REvil members after convictions for payment card fraud https://therecord.media/revil-cybercrime-gang-members-released-russia
Dolphins breathing huge sigh of relief after Raiders move on https://fansided.com/nfl/dolphins-breathing-huge-sigh-of-relief-after-shocking-christian-wilkins-news
I used the acronym "LLMs" after the word "AI" in a school parents' meeting today and only one other parent ( my husband) knew what it was.
Is it just a bit of jargon? Completely unknown? Or am I out of touch?
Some mining today on Albion Asia when Albion EU was offline for maintenance.
As of this moment the guild "Mastodon Fediverse 100 Tax" got 8 members and 3 are online including me.
#AlbionOnline #MastodonFediAsia
Columbia University to pay out more than $220M after violating Jewish students' civil rights in massive win for Trump admin (New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2025/07/23/us-news/columbia-university-to-pay-out-more-than-220m-after-violating-jewish-students-civil-rights-in-massive-win-for-trump-admin/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250723/p170#a250723p170
Russia releases four REvil members who were convicted for payment card fraud; the Kremlin's 2022 crackdown on REvil followed a call between Biden and Putin (Daryna Antoniuk/The Record)
https://therecord.media/revil-cybercrime-gang-members-released-russia
Justin Fields injury update: New York Jets announce prognosis for QB after he suffered dislocated toe
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/justin-
It's only Tuesday so stay ahead of the curve by checking out today's Metacurity for the most critical infosec developments you should know, including
--Three Chinese threat groups exploited SharePoint flaws, Microsoft,
--Businesses will have to report ransom payments in UK,
--AZ election officials blast CISA after Iran site defacement,
--Dutch public prosecutors disconnected after suspected hack,
--SoCal engineer pleads guilty to missile-related blueprint…
F1 owner Liberty Media completes its €4.3B acquisition of MotoGP owner Dorna after EU approval, and says growing in the US is its main goal for MotoGP (Samuel Agini/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/12f49b54-b269-4e99-a301-9eaf3a11bef2
Newest Cowboys DE makes huge impression as 'last man on field' after practice https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/newest-dallas-cowboys-de-makes-huge-impression-last-man-on-field-after-practice
Skydance promises to eliminate DEI, review CBS after merger
https://thehill.com/opinion/lindseys-lens/5417901-skydance-promises-to-eliminate-dei-review-cbs-after-merger/
4 teams that should take a chance on Christian Wilkins after Raiders move on https://fansided.com/nfl/4-teams-that-should-take-a-chance-on-christian-wilkins-after-raiders-move-on
UN Nuclear Watchdog Chief: 'Night and Day' Difference Between Iran's Nuclear Capabilities Before and After US Strikes (Adam Kredo/The Washington Free Beacon)
https://freebeacon.com/national-security/un-nuclear-watchdog-chief-night-and-day-difference-between-irans-nuclear-capabilities-before-and-after-us-strikes/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250624/p177#a250624p177
Browns WR Diontae Johnson believes Kenny Pickett will emerge as starting QB after camp competition https://www.nfl.com/news/browns-wr-diontae-johnson-believes-kenny-pickett-will-emerge-as-starting-qb-after-competitio…
Figma makes its prompt-to-app coding tool Figma Make available to all users, after initially launching it in beta for Full Seat users earlier in 2025 (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/712995/figma-make-ai-general-availability-annou…
Kyiv Independent suffers DDoS attack after publishing criticism of anti-corruption rollback: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/23/kyiv-independent-suffers-ddos-attack.html
Six people have died and two others were missing
after a boat capsized Saturday on California’s Lake Tahoe.
A 27ft-long boat overturned in the afternoon after apparently being hit by a large swell near DL Bliss State Park, according to the Coast Guard.
Lake Tahoe and its surrounding wilderness region is a hugely popular spot with tourists.
Emergency services responded to the incident and reported six people dead, two more missing, and took two survivors to a local hospi…
Donald is unhappy.
Now he knows how the rest of the world feels.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/202
Russia tests new UMPB-5 guided bomb on Kharkiv civilians day after Ukraine's ceasefire proposal - Euromaidan Press
https://euromaidanpress.com/2025/07/24/russia-tests-new-umpb-5-guided-bomb-on-kharkiv-civilians-day-after-ukraines-ceasefire-proposal/
Will Payne, The Sun's director of digital (editorial), is leaving after almost 11 years to become deputy editor-in-chief of News Corp's New York Post Group (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/the-wire/me
Russian Gazprom wins asset release in Dutch court after claims by Ukrainian companies, Reuters reports: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/23/russian-gazprom-wins-asset-release.html
Details on Justin Fields' injury after QB gets carted off, plus training camp takeaways from around the league
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/de…
A Walmart outlet in Shrewsbury, Missouri, saw a substantial decline in thefts and police calls
after opting to get rid of all its self-checkout kiosks.
https://bsky.app/profile/irishstar.com/post/3lscaslfxgw2c
An Australian court finds ABC unlawfully terminated journalist Antoinette Lattouf in December 2023 for her social media posts opposing Israel's campaign in Gaza (The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2025/jun
Aaron Rodgers alludes to retirement after 2025: Travis Kelce among 10 stars who could also be in final season
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/n…
A London judge rules that HPE lost ~£730M after acquiring Mike Lynch's Autonomy, after a 2022 fraud finding against Lynch, who died in 2024; HPE was seeking $4B (Jonathan Browning/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
Cassidy calls to delay meeting of CDC's vaccine panel in challenge to RFK Jr. (Chelsea Cirruzzo/STAT)
https://www.statnews.com/2025/06/23/bill-cassidy-calls-for-acip-vaccine-panel-delay-after-rfk-jr-purge/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250623/p161#a250623p161
As he departed Washington for the NATO summit in The Hague on Tuesday, Trump said both Israel and Iran had violated the cease-fire.
This was just hours after Trump had announced that the cease-fire had gone into effect.
Trump was enraged that the truce was seemingly crumbling so quickly.
“We basically have two countries that have been fighting so long and so hard that they don’t know what the fuck they’re doing.
Do you understand that?” Trump told reporters.
…
Predicting Eagles 53-man roster, depth chart after first two days of training camp
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/predicting-eagles-53-man-roste…
Breaking: The Raiders have released DT Christian Wilkins year after huge free agent deal https://raiderswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/raiders/2025/07/24/breaking-raiders-release-dt-christian-wilkins/85366500007/…
South Park dedicated the kickoff to its new season entirely to ridiculing Donald Trump, two days after securing a $1.5 billion deal with Paramount. This comes after Paramount cancelled Stephen Colbert's show, seemingly over fears of legal punishment by Trump. : r/usa
https://www.reddit.com/r/usa/comments/1m86fo8/south_park_dedicated_the_kickoff_to_its_new/
Tyrann Mathieu addresses possibility of NFL comeback after retirement
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/tyrann-mathieu-addresses-possibility-of-nfl-comeback-af…
A Qantas Airlines flight that left from Perth, Australia, on Monday night
returned to the same city the next morning after more than 15 consecutive hours in the air
— thanks to turmoil in the Middle East.
The flight, QF33, which was supposed to land in Paris,
was among a number of airplane journeys that were disrupted
after attacks in the region involving the United States, Israel and Iran prompted officials to temporarily close air space in the region.
Ravens' Mark Andrews says returning to Buffalo after infamous playoff drop will be 'great story'
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/ravens-
UK legislation to allow foreign states to own up to 15% in British newspapers passes, clearing the way for the Telegraph's sale to a RedBird Capital-led group (Mark Sweney/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2025/jul
Steelers LB Patrick Queen striving to get back to 'old self' after disappointing first season in Pittsburgh https://www.nfl.com/news/steelers-lb-patrick-queen-striving-to-get-back-to-old-self-afte…
Louisville mayor shifts city's immigration policy after legal threat from DOJ (Fox News)
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/louisville-mayor-shifts-citys-immigration-policy-after-legal-threat-from-doj
http://www.memeorandum.com/250722/p79#a250722p79
Apple sparks a backlash from iPhone owners after pushing a notification from the Apple Wallet app that promoted a Fandango deal for Apple's F1 movie (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/24/iphone-customers-upset-…
Justin Fields injury: Jets QB carted off field after suffering lower leg injury in training camp, per report
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/justin-
Sen. Padilla claps back after JD Vance calls him ‘Jose’:
‘ He knows my name'
Sen. Alex Padilla blasted the Trump administration Saturday,
-- calling it “petty and unserious”
after Vice President JD Vance referred to him as “Jose” during a news conference in Los Angeles the previous day.
“He knows my name,” Padilla said in an appearance on MSNBC on Saturday morning.
Vance visited Los Angeles on Friday for less than five hours
after several weeks o…
Eagles QB Jalen Hurts explains refusal to wear Super Bowl ring after MVP performance
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/eagles-qb-jalen-hurts-exp…
Mahmoud Khalil Lashes Out After CNN Asks If He Condemns Hamas: 'Disingenuous and Absurd To Ask Such Questions' (Meghan Blonder/The Washington Free Beacon)
https://freebeacon.com/democrats/mahmoud-khalil-lashes-out-after-cnn-asks-if-he-condemns-hamas-disingenuous-and-absurd-to-ask-such-questions/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250722/p144#a250722p144
Filing: Elon Musk's lawyers say he "does not use a computer" after OpenAI accused Musk of not complying with the discovery process in his lawsuit against OpenAI (Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-computer-sam-altman/
Dolphins' Bayron Matos transported by helicopter to hospital after suffering injury in training camp
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/dolphin
How Marvin Harrison Jr. can explode in Year 2 for the Cardinals after failing to meet expectations as a rookie
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/how-m…
Microsoft and Meta unveil the $399 Meta Quest 3S Xbox Edition, offering few updates to the $299 Meta Quest 3S, available in "extremely limited" quantities (Jez Corden/Windows Central)
https://www.windowscentral.com/gaming/xbox/meta-q…
Bengals training camp surprise: Defense outshines Joe Burrow on Day 1 after getting valuable feedback from QB
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/bengals…
Anthony Richardson injury update: Colts QB optimistic about training camp return after missing minicamp
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/anthony
Ranking top 25 players in NFL history: Tom Brady takes top spot, Patrick Mahomes slips after Super Bowl loss
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news…
Reich: Happy for Young after 'terrible' NFL start https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45803398/frank-reich-happy-bryce-young-terrible-start-nfl
Jerry Jeudy eyeing more after breakout 2024 https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45508573/browns-wr-jerry-jeudy-aiming-more-breakout-season
Pat McAfee apologizes to Ole Miss student months after amplifying false rumor https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6511700/2025/07/23/pat-mcafee-apology-ole-miss-student-false-rumor/
Cowboys' Trevon Diggs has 'hurt' feelings after Dallas uses contract clause to dock its Pro Bowl CB $500,000
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/c…
Raiders release defensive tackle Christian Wilkins after short stint with team https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6514570/2025/07/24/raiders-release-christian-wilkins-foot-injury-nfl-news/
With record deal signed, Watt focused on football https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45806555/tj-watt-focused-steelers-season-signing-record-deal
Saints sign former Colts safety Julian Blackmon after Tyrann Mathieu announces retirement, per report
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/saints-
Cards' Russell taken to hospital following collision https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45818158/cardinals-lb-jj-russell-carted-practice-field-collision