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France Salutes America, Flying Over Statue of Liberty–Launching Month of Celebrations for 250 Years of Friendship https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/france-salutes-america-flying-over-statue-of-liberty-for-250th-anniv/

France Salutes America Flying Over Statue of Liberty–Launching Month of Celebrations for 250 Years of Friendship
Skies over NYC turn red, white, and blue with French flyover for #Liberté250 to celebrate America's 250th anniversary.

An analysis based on current valuations of OpenAI and Anthropic suggests ~$370B of philanthropic assets tied to the two AI companies are poised to become liquid (Nan Ransohoff/Nan's Substack)
https://nanransohoff.substack.com/p/the-third-wave-of-american-phila…

The third wave of American philanthropy
AI is about to generate hundreds of billions in new philanthropic funding. We have real work to do to make the most of it.

A federal judge slows Voice of America return-to-work order and eliminates the March 23 deadline, now ordering 70 people due back each week (Chris Geidner/Law Dork)
https://www.lawdork.com/p/judge-slows-voice-of-america-return-to-work

Federal judge slows Voice of America return-to-work order
Judge Royce Lamberth issued the order Friday night, eliminating the Monday morning deadline he had set for the Trump admin to bring all affected employees back to work.

The Dutch government entrusted a company called Solvinity with hosting our digital ID system DigiD. Now that's in the process of being sold to an American company, Kyndryl, handing the Trump regime a unique tool to apply pressure. Parliament wants the contract to be dissolved when that happens.

Bij overname van bedrijf achter DigiD wil Tweede Kamer af van contract
Als het bedrijf dat achter DigiD zit, Solvinity, inderdaad in Amerikaanse handen komt, moet het contract met dat bedrijf zo snel mogelijk worden opgezegd. Dat vindt de Tweede Kamer. Kamerleden zijn bang dat gevoelige gegevens anders in verkeerde handen vallen.

World leaders want American AI. They just don’t want America to be able to turn it off
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/17/world-leaders-want-american-ai-they-just-dont-want-america-to-be-able-to-turn-it-off/

World leaders want American AI. They just don't want America to be able to turn it off. | TechCrunch
French President Macron and Indian PM Modi raised alarms at the G7 summit that the U.S. could cut off access to American AI overnight — a fear the Anthropic blackout just made real.

from my link log —
Uber's path of destruction.
https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2019/05/ubers-path-of-destruction/
saved 2019-09-10

Uber’s Path of Destruction - American Affairs Journal
Since it began operations in 2010, Uber has grown to the point where it now collects over $45 billion in gross passenger revenue, and it has seized a major share of the urban car service market. But the widespread belief that it is a highly innovative and successful company has no basis in economic reality. An examination of Uber’s economics suggests that it has no hope of ever earning sustainable urban car service profits in competitive markets...

Meanwhile, in the US of A :floofSad:
https://aflegal.org/press-release/america-first-legal-files-formal-complaints-with-the-tr…

America First Legal Files Formal Complaints with the Trump Administration Demanding Investigations Into Three School Districts Ahead of Superintendents’ Testimony Before Congress
America First Legal (AFL) has sent formal complaints to the U.S. Department of Justice and the U.S. Department of Education detailing serious violations of federal law by Chicago Public Schools, San Francisco Unified School District, […]

Tweede Kamer wil af van DigiD-contract bij Amerikaanse overname
#Solvinity #DigiD

The Dutch tax authority, after advice by McKinsey, is in the process of outsourcing the collection of VAT (€1.5 billion per week) - a core activity - to a US company called Fast Enterprises, handing the Trump regime another unique tool to apply pressure.
https://www.

Eerenberg drukt Amerikaanse aanbesteding btw-systeem door, ondanks waarschuwingen experts
Het kabinet wil de uitbesteding van de software achter de btw-inning aan een Amerikaans bedrijf doorzetten. Dat schrijft staatssecretaris van Financiën Eelco Eerenberg (D66) in een brief aan de Kamer. Eerder uitten techexperts kritiek op de aanbesteding, omdat hiermee het innen van miljarden euro’s aan belasting in gevaar zou kunnen komen.

Brazil takes its National Civil Defense warning platform offline after suspected hackers send an unauthorized alert to mobile phones in several states (Mariana Catacci/CNN)
https://www.cnn.com/2026/06/20/americas/brazil-hackers-unauthorized-alert-latam

Hackers suspected to be behind unauthorized alert sent to cell phones across Brazil
An unauthorized alert bearing a mysterious message that was sent to cell phones in several states across Brazil on Saturday morning is suspected to be the work of hackers, the Brazilian government said.