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NFL suspends Cardinals personnel executive Ryan Gold indefinitely for violating league's gambling policy https://www.nfl.com/news/nfl-suspends-cardinals-personnel-executive-ryan-gold-indefinitely-for-violating-le…

Read about my one-time home, #Jakarta, and how it’s transformed from the world’s most congested city into a transit success that provides nearly 90% of its residents with mass transit access.
But, as my recent reporting points out, there’s still a long way to go.

Jakarta’s Remarkable Urban Transit Transformation – In Development
evidence and argument for a developing world

Immortal life, it turns out, is utterly devoid of meaning.
And, besides: isn’t it a bit arrogant to presume that your particular life, your individual identity, is worth extending forever? Shouldn’t we make space, when our time comes, for those who come after?
https://plus.flux.community/p/the-myth

The myth of mind uploading
Minds are what bodies do

Rarefaction-induced inflation and similarity breakdown of hypersonic bow shocks over a circular cylinder
Ehsan Roohi, Ahmad Shoja-Sani
https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.17099 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2605.17099 https://arxiv.org/html/2605.17099
arXiv:2605.17099v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Rarefied hypersonic bow shocks over blunt bodies inflate as the Knudsen number increases, but it remains unclear whether this inflation is a simple shift and broadening of one common shock layer or a multi-scale change of the macroscopic and internal-energy fields. We address this question using direct simulation Monte Carlo (DSMC) data for Mach-10 flow over a circular cylinder in argon and nitrogen over \(Kn_\infty \approx 0.01\)--\(1\), together with a Mach-number sweep at \(Kn_\infty=0.01\). At low rarefaction, a ray-based density-gradient ridge gives a reproducible bow-shock location and agrees with an independent schlieren-based shock-wave-detection method. As \(Kn_\infty\) increases, this ridge is replaced by a broad kinetic compression layer, so the high-Knudsen cases are analysed using profile-based standoff and thickness metrics rather than by imposing a visual shock line. The Knudsen- and Mach-number sweeps separate two mechanisms. At fixed \(M_\infty\), the continuum normal-shock density ratio provides a useful low-rarefaction reference compression scale, whereas the measured standoff growth is governed primarily by the kinetic mean free path; the effective density thickness shows an intermediate minimum before increasing in the diffuse regime. At fixed low \(Kn_\infty\), changing \(M_\infty\) mainly changes compression strength and curvature, preserving a coherent attached-layer structure. Density-registered profiles and shock-attached proper orthogonal decomposition (POD) show that, within the present maximum-density-gradient registration, density becomes nearly rank one, whereas Mach number and thermal variables retain independent modal content. Rarefied bow-shock inflation is therefore a coupled compression--relaxation process, not a single-scale rescaling of a continuum-like shock.
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This week, Reform UK leader Nigel Forage set out his plans
to resign as the MP for Clacton and stand again for his seat,
following a scandal over undeclared gifts, including £5m from the cryptocurrency billionaire Christopher Harborne,
which is being investigated by the parliamentary standards commissioner.
His intention, he has said, is to be judged by his constituents rather than “the establishment”,
arguing that he has done no wrong and that the probe is a “p…

Kemi Badenoch | The Independent
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The underside of the US independence struggle.
There was a "growing conviction among American colonists that as a British colony they would eventually be compelled to emancipate enslaved people – and that this prospect became one of the drivers behind the American war of independence."
Baptism record at Manchester Cathedral offers insight into Black Mancunian life in Georgian-era England | Manchester | The Guardian

Baptism record at Manchester Cathedral offers insight into Black Mancunian life in Georgian-era England
A parish entry reveals an argument that proved pivotal to the abolitionist cause, at a time when an estimated 20,000 Black people were living in the country

Twelve years ago, #Jakarta was crowned the most congested city in the world. Today, nearly 90% of the residents have access to mass transit.
I dive into this remarkable #urban turnaround and look at the political will, international investment & local execution that drove this progress.

Jakarta’s Remarkable Urban Transit Transformation – In Development
evidence and argument for a developing world

The Justice Department is running out of attorneys.
The nation’s largest law office has repeatedly asked for delays in arguing its myriad cases,
and in doing so has accidentally divulged a massive staffing crisis raging underneath the surface.
In an obscure civil lawsuit dug up by independent journalist Scott MacFarlane, a Justice Department attorney revealed that
“the Appellate Section has lost over 40 percent of its attorneys since February 2025, due to retirement, r…

Trump’s Justice Department in Crisis as Thousands of Lawyers Quit
The massive exodus has caused a huge backlog in work.

Rare that I get a chance to dig into a passion of mine - #urban transit development!
Read about my one-time home, #Jakarta & how its transformed from the world's most congested city to a model for the global south - but there's still a long way to go.

Jakarta’s Remarkable Urban Transit Transformation – In Development
evidence and argument for a developing world

A Russian drone strike damaged part of the Centralized Spent Nuclear Fuel Storage Facilityin the Chornobyl Exclusion Zone overnight on June 7,
Ukraine's state nuclear operator Energoatom reported.
The attack comes amid growing concerns about nuclear safety in Ukraine,
as Russia continues to strike infrastructure tied to the country's energy system and nuclear sector

Ukraine war latest: Chornobyl's spent nuclear fuel depot hit by Russian drone
Editor's note: Got an opinion on anything you've read in the Kyiv Independent so far? Send it to letters@kyivindependent.com, and it may appear in our Letters section. Key developments on June 6-7: * 'Sky-high arrogance' — Russian drone strikes spent nuclear fuel depot in Chornobyl * Zelensky confirms another drone strike on St. Petersburg Oblast ahead of Putin's economic forum finale * Bridge linking Crimea to southern Ukraine damaged in drone strike, Russian occupation official says *…