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Early in his second term, Trump wanted Canada so entwined with the United States that he even set out to make it the 51st state.
Instead, he has driven Canada into the arms of the European Union,
after antagonizing the Canadians for months, taunting the country’s prime minister and waging a relentless trade war.
The invitation by the European Unionon Wednesday for Canada to become an “associate member” is a sign of the knock-on effects of Trump’s brand of diplomacy,
…

Trump Wanted Canada as the 51st State. He Ended Up Pushing It Toward the European Union.
The invitation by the E.U. for Canada to become an “associate member” is a sign of Mr. Trump’s brand of diplomacy, which often involves threatening America’s closest friends.

Marine heat waves are cooking our ocean ecosystems—and will only become more common #ocean

Marine heat waves are cooking our ocean ecosystems—and will only become more common
You may have heard reports of fish die-offs or seen photos of hauntingly bleached coral.

Andy Burnham’s ‘Manchesterism’, a degrowth perspective
Tomorrow, Andy Burnham will become the next UK Prime Minister.  He has set out his vision for his premiership, under the title 'Manchesterism'.  Much ink has already been spilled in scrutinising it.  Our sister site, Steady State Manchester, carried this article following his speech at the city's People's History Museum.  Steady State Manchester has been witness to the emergence of the supposed 'Manchester model…

Andy Burnham’s ‘Manchesterism’, a degrowth perspective
Tomorrow, Andy Burnham will become the next UK Prime Minister.  He has set out his vision for his premiership, under the title ‘Manchesterism’.  Much ink has already been spilled in scr…

Study: social networks drove 5.7M visits to nudify sites between December 2025 and March 2026, with YouTube accounting for 1.82M and X for 1.3M visits (Ej Dickson/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/youtube-and-x-have-become-gateways-to-nudify-apps/

YouTube and X Have Become ‘Gateways’ to Nudify Apps
A new study found that social media platforms are referring people to sites where they can create nonconsensual, sexually explicit deepfakes for as little as $1 an image.

This headline
https://metro.co.uk/2026/07/14/man-dressed-fox-pulls-clacton-election-become-a-circus-29131323/

Man dressed as fox pulls out of Clacton election because it's become a 'circus'
Campaigner Rob Pownall, who announced last week he was planning to run against Nigel Farage at the Clacton by-election, has quit the race.

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Elon Musk's SpaceX has become only the fifth, and by far the fastest company to ever lose more than one trillion dollars in market capitalization.
#spcx #musk #spacex

“Do you think emojis will ever become part of formal language? Are we going to see emojis in laws or letters from the pension fund?” - Emojis are mainly used in informal language, because (or that’s why?) one of their main functions is to signal closeness, familiarity and a lack of hierarchy between the conversation participants. This is also the reason why a lack of emojis from a personal chat message may trigger questions like “what have I done?!”, because it could signal that the friendly relationship is disturbed. So I think emojis wouldn’t be used in legal code. But in official letters, maybe! I once received an email from a university administrator with a ☺️ and I appreciated it a lot.
#emojis #linguistics #WorldEmojiDay

What seems as dead as the grass in England this year is the summertime ideal
— lazy days, warm nights and escape, however temporary, from classes or parents or work or rules.
During the Summer of ’26, people are grieving that freedom. And perhaps, the versions of ourselves we become when our senses tell us that we are safe

How the promise of carefree 'summertime' is fading in sweaty 2026
Summertime, the dreamy ideal of lazy days, is fading. Extreme heat is setting records worldwide, melting Arctic ice and intensifying wildfires. Japan has even coined a new term for dangerously hot days. This summer, many are grieving the loss of that leisurely state of mind. A new poll shows Americans are increasingly affected by extreme heat in their daily lives. Globally, intense heat is altering behaviors in countries like Brazil, France, and India. Experts warn 2026 could become the hottest…

Prediction markets are expanding into mainstream media, with integrations in Dow Jones, Substack, CNN, CNBC, and more, as they become an informational channel (Kate Knibbs/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/prediction-markets-polymarket-media-company-kalshi/…

Polymarket’s Next Bet? It Can Also Be a Media Company
The legal battle over whether prediction markets are a form of gambling has overshadowed something else entirely: They’re already a new form of media.

"Wasps are disappearing this summer, and scientists are worried"
#Wasps #Insects
https://www.sciencedail…

Wasps are disappearing this summer, and scientists are worried
Britain’s wasps have become mysteriously scarce this summer, and scientists suspect an unusual combination of temperature swings, heatwaves, and food shortages may be responsible. Even the wasps that remain appear unusually small, potentially offering a glimpse of how extreme heat could reshape insect populations.

"The world is fast approaching temperature levels where insurers will no longer be able to offer cover for many climate risks, said Günther Thallinger, on the board of Allianz SE, one of the world’s biggest insurance companies. He said that without insurance, which is already being pulled in some places, many other financial services become unviable, from mortgages to investments."
#ClimateEmergency

Climate crisis on track to destroy capitalism, warns top insurer
Action urgently needed to save the conditions under which markets – and civilisation itself – can operate, says senior Allianz figure

RE: https://eldritch.cafe/@miranda_blue/116935608086213327
This is showing one thing that I think should become general principle: Using an LLM for someone else _is rude and bad_. Presenting something untranslated that _they_ can have an LLM translate is better than doing it yourself, and not showing that input — the prompt here is not included and is a key piece of context, and the results are also bad _with no recourse_.
Information has been destroyed. Trust has been broken (or in the case of commerce, failed to be established). Even if the total amount of LLM-use were the same, this is worse than the reader using it.
PROMPTING AN LLM FOR SOMEONE ELSE IS RUDE.

All the backstage work cast members do that you never get to see...
Disney Unscripted has become my favorite YouTube series.
▶️ Transforming Cars Land From Halloween To Holidays Before Sunrise | #Disney Unscripted
https://

After the text watermarking thing Claude written language has totally become unbearable (it was already pretty fucking terribad)
So when told to note some bad patterns this is what it writes, whats this hellscape.

I sat near a student on the train into Toronto last night who went on an expletive-ridden, 10-minute tear about the government of Ontario and its massive transfer of student grants to loans. Condensed to its essence: this is a bait and switch and students like her, who began their studies in the expectation that education would remain affordable (or at least wouldn't become massively more expensive over night), are "so cooked."

"How many listens?
Our database dumps have become too big for us to process.
We went from 0 to 1 billion listens in 7 years – then to 2.5 billion in the next one and a half years."
@… #music

From The Stranger
Hat tip to Cascadia Today
https://www.thestranger.com/news/denny-blaine-park-stays-open-and-naked-judge-rules/?ref=cascadia-journal.com
If you find nudity offensive, read no more.
Den…

RE: https://mastodon.online/@sarahtaber/116937468287678393
This is an interesting conversation, full of facts.
Like: Cyclospora has no other host but humans. And we don’t know why it needs time in the environment to become infectious.

#NowPlaying I know very little about this album except Walter Sons was a professor of musicology in Germany who organized ensembles (of students?) to perform his compositions called “Glasmusik”. Over the years, I’ve collected a few albums of drones made from rubbing, bowing, or scraping glass and I guess you could say it’s become an obsession. Came across this during the heyday of music blogs in…

🚨Job Alert! 🚨 postdoc: amino acid geochronology at Northern Arizona University #geology #geochemistry

Postdoctoral Scholar - Flagstaff, Arizona, United States
Special Information This position is an on-site position which requires the incumbent to complete their work primarily at an NAU site, campus, or facility with or without accommodation. Opportunities for remote work are rare. This position is subject to the availability of funding.  Driving a vehicle on behalf of the university is anticipated to be a regular part of this position. Arizona Administrative Code Fleet Safety Policy requires all employees who drive on university business become au…

Join us next Thursday for our next #phpugmrn event!
Our speaker, @… will take us back to the fundamentals of Domain Driven Design (DDD). and argue that these principles are far more important than any specific architecture.
According to Sebastian, b…

PHPUGMRN 03/26, Thu, Jun 25, 2026, 7:00 PM | Meetup
**Agenda:** 19:00 CET - Doors open 19:30 CET - Intro 19:45 CET - How to become a DDD essentialist, Sebastian Feldmann 20:30 CET - Break 20:45 CET - tbd. **How to contact u

Mailbag: Next special teams captain? https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/mailbag-next-special-teams-captain

The EU accepts X's plan to meet DSA transparency obligations and give researchers access to data, giving X six months to implement it, following a €120M fine (Foo Yun Chee/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/eu-accepts-act…

Raiders Safeties: Pre-Training Camp Position Preview https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-safeties-pre-training-camp-position-preview

Is emoji interpretation just a "fun" summer topic, or does emoji misinterpretation ever become serious, like in court discussions? - In face there have been several cases both in North America and Europe where emoji meanings were negotiated in court! I keep a collection of them because it's a nice intersection with my alter ego, the "forensic" linguist. For example, in cases from Canada and Bavaria, judges had to decide whether a thumbs-up 👍 in a chat was meant as a signal of agreement (to a contract or contract amendment), or whether (like the senders argued) it constituted only an acknowledgement of receipt of the message. In both cases, the context was super important - how did the parties interact before, what else was said in the chat, etc. Interesting! #emojis #linguistics #WorldEmojiDay

YouTube and X Have Become ‘Gateways’ to Nudify Apps
A new study found that social media platforms are referring people to sites where they can create nonconsensual, sexually explicit deepfakes for as little as $1 an image.

YouTube and X Have Become ‘Gateways’ to Nudify Apps
A new study found that social media platforms are referring people to sites where they can create nonconsensual, sexually explicit deepfakes for as little as $1 an image.

@… … and which has since become even more questionable.

@… … and which has since become even more questionable.

Forest Restoration Solutions #environment

Forest Restoration Solutions
Tree growing has become one of the most widely promoted responses to climate change and ecosystem degradation, with governments, companies and nonprofits pledging to restore hundreds of millions of hectares of forests worldwide. But restoring ecosystems is far more complex than putting seedlings in the ground. This Special examines what it takes to rebuild forest […]

The EU accepts X's plan to meet DSA transparency obligations and give researchers access to data, giving X six months to implement it, following a €120M fine (Foo Yun Chee/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/eu-accepts-act…

The hallway started the day this meh grey-lilac colour, which had become very grubby and marked, and has ended it a nice invisible shade of mangolia. Next step is the stairwell and upstairs landing, maybe tomorrow otherwise next weekend. We'll be changing the pictures to show a few that have been in storage for years. All this because we needed to make good after having the new radiators fitted as part of the #HeatPump

"Microplastics fall across rural Switzerland, adding over 200 tons yearly to land and water"
#Switzerland #Plastic #Plastics

Microplastics fall across rural Switzerland, adding over 200 tons yearly to land and water
Loose fibers from functional clothing, discarded PET bottles or abandoned packaging: When such plastic materials enter the environment, they often persist there for a long time. UV radiation, precipitation and ozone cause them to become brittle—and over time, mechanical forces break them down into increasingly smaller particles. Swirled up by the wind, they are carried farther through the atmosphere. Until now, it was unclear how much microplastic ends up back in Swiss soil and water bodies t…

MOM’s Organic Market bans employees from wearing face masks while working;
The "customer experience" may become "sickness"
https://www.thebanner.com/community/public-health/moms-organic-market-face-mask-b…

MOM’s Organic Market bans employees from wearing face masks while working
Employees at MOM’s Organic Market locations across the state are demanding answers after the Rockville-based grocery chain instituted a policy prohibiting them from wearing medical face masks on the job.

What a total sorry mess CMMC has become. Mind-numbingly boring too.
Pentagon announces ‘immediate suspension’ of CMMC Phase II mandates
https://breakingdefense.com/2026/07/pentagon-announces-immediate-suspension-of-cmmc-mandates/

Pentagon announces ‘immediate suspension’ of CMMC Phase II mandates
Top Pentagon officials said as currently executed, CMMC is too prohibitively burdensome on the Defense Industrial Base.

From the Green Party of Vancouver
New polling has just confirmed what we've been feeling on the doors: Pete Fry is tied for second place among decided voters in the race to become Vancouver's next mayor, with the highest favourability rating of any mayoral candidate at 45%.
And here's the opportunity: 26% of likely voters are still undecided.
This race is wide open.
The same poll found that the Vancouver Greens have the highest favourability of any municip…

New preprint:
Auditable and Transparent Fully Authenticated Disk Encryption via USB Storage Interposition
(Codename: cryptocondom)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.12716

🛠️ What shipped: two meta-tools, search_tools and execute_tools. Declare a catalog via ToolSearch::class in the server's $tools. Frequently used tools stay advertised, the rest become discoverable on demand.
Search is deterministic lexical scoring over tool names, descriptions and input schemas, no embeddings. Each batched call runs as a real JsonRpcRequest through ToolInvoker, and conditional registration is re-checked at execution.

The Texans defense could become legendary. How they'll do it is their real magic https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7582062/2026/09/11/houston-texans-defense-history-will-anderson-matt-burke/

Heavy Burden (Multi, XPd on PC) Become Sisyphus. Can you carry the load?
So, this was 1 of 16 games I got in a Whale Rock Games bundle, pretty much because I wanted "We Are The Dwarves", and when it went on sale, they had the bundle of "all" their games (wasn't quite, but most) for $18, lol.
This is a functional FP platformer where you (after the first level) carry a block of stone up 8 more levels, to an altar at the top of each stage. You will get tired…

ICE has become a killing machine. We cannot let this feel normal. It isn't."
-Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT)
Video Source:
#ice

@… has achieved this one thing that C and C could not (yet):
It has become a language that is extremely powerful, yet accessible to everyone, not just an elitist circle.
How did that happen?
Well, lots of dedication to #documentation and a car…

[Leiden University has become notorious in the past few years for cutting down on humanities, btw]
https://mas.to/@Fanua/117098144593207746

Whatever you think about the chance that 'small' nuclear reactors (SMRs) will become a viable part of our future energy system, the idea that they will is definitely being used at the local and regional level in the Netherlands to slow down the buildout of renewables.

Veel onderzoek naar kleine kerncentrales, maar gaan die echt helpen klimaatdoelen te halen?
Nederland heeft als doel in 2050 klimaatneutraal te zijn. Om dat te halen wordt steeds meer gekeken naar kernenergie. En niet alleen naar grote kerncentrales...

Mailbag: Next special teams captain? https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/mailbag-next-special-teams-captain

A recurring topic of Wild West movies is some poor lonesome cowboys experiencing the arrival of “civilization“ with all his rules and regulations and retreating further to the “free west” to keep their perceived independence.¹
And with the “civilization” came the oil, casinos, mafia, cars, and insurance companies. And some of the former farmers managed to become fat, rich, old white men.
Then the Internet was invented, and nerds started to explore this new world – until compani…

Over 5,500 species found living and thriving in a proposed deep-sea mining zone #sea

Over 5,500 species found living and thriving in a proposed deep-sea mining zone
Rich in battery-metal nodules, the Pacific's vast Clarion-Clipperton Zone has become a deep-sea mining hotspot, holding 17 international exploration contracts.

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Congo’s fast-moving Ebola outbreak has now killed over 2,300 people
and become the deadliest outbreak of the disease on record in the Central African nation.
The outbreak unfolding in one of Congo’s most vulnerable regions is the fastest-growing Ebola outbreak ever,
with 4,945 cases including 2,325 deaths, according to government data released overnight into Monday.
It’s Congo’s 17th outbreak,
with a toll that has eclipsed that of the country’s 2018-2020 outbreak …

Congo’s fast-moving Ebola outbreak becomes the country's deadliest
Congo’s fast-moving Ebola outbreak has now killed over 2,300 people. That toll released overnight makes it the deadliest outbreak of the disease ever recorded in the Central African nation. The outbreak has recorded 4,945 cases including 2,325 deaths. It is unfolding in one of Congo’s most vulnerable regions, and the virus causing it has no approved vaccines or treatments. The World Health Organization has warned that the outbreak now spreading across six provinces in the conflict-battered …

Dunno, my experience of the UK is that high streets have become more like the betting hearts of local communities…

Even the systems that survive the slop onslaught are going to become a whole lot more costly, because review and verification become so costly. FOSS is buckling under this weight. So is academic publishing. So is web search and electronic messaging (bc farming and phishing).
Productivity boost? Turbo speed?? 10x??? Feh. What I'm seeing right now is a massive hit to efficiency.
/end

@… "Can emojis be removed from Unicode? Or are they there forever once they are in?" - As of now, once they're in, they're in. The code point in Unicode is then reserved for this symbol. This can be a problem because emojis are kind of open-ended (other than alphabets and many other symbol lists). And it's possible that some emojis turn out to be rarely used. I could imagine that eventually some platforms just stop supporting a certain emoji - but it's really useful to have an international encoding standard which is fully supported by most technology (as anyone who has programmed or written online text in the early 2000s can attest). That's why getting a new emoji approved has become so hard - we're basically creating a kind of tech debt for a potentially long time.
Funny story - you could try creating a post now with a Unicode character from an "empty" code point in the emoji range, in the hope that it will get assigned in a later round. I've seen such a post on the old Twitter, which later was filled with all kinds of random emojis, when you look at it in a few years. #linguistics #emojis #WorldEmojiDay

What motivates human behavior isn’t who we are, but the vivid mental image of who we could become. They called these ‘possible selves.’
https://saranpaixao.substack.com/p/people-dont-buy-who-they-are-they

People don't buy who they are. They buy who they want to become.
Why the most successful brands build against a muse, not a demographic

The state of #Python ecosystem right now: almost everything is slop. Some projects are complete vibe-coded slop (autobahn, chardet, cryptography). Some projects are disguised slop ("Coding agents shouldn't co-author themselves.")
There is only a handful of human projects left (Flask being one bright example). And they're being killed. They're being killed by the neverending slew of slop pull requests. They're being killed by all their dependencies becoming slop. They're being killed because this whole ecosystem has became such a complete cesspit that you have zero motivation to do anything.
EDIT: and honestly, this is only going to get worse. When you kill the incentive to work on projects, you only get more slop. Maintainers give in, and more projects become slop. Or they give up, and projects get forked unto slop.
#NoAI #NoLLM

Raiders Safeties: Pre-Training Camp Position Preview https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-safeties-pre-training-camp-position-preview

from my link log —
If multicast is the answer, what was the question?
https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.09029
saved 2022-11-23 https://dotat.at/:/K9DVS.html…

If Multicast is the Answer -- What was the Question?
Multicast is (almost) as old as the Internet, having become a tool for increasing network efficiency but also enabling destination discovery in a number of key use cases, although misaligned economic interests have limited its deployment to domain-local usages. But recent advances in multicast technologies as well as the identification of new use cases for which IP multicast may be ill fitted yet network-level support may be desirable motivate to re-think old perceptions of multicast and its us…

Welp, here’s the big news: our director for the past three years is moving on to become the director and CEO of the Honolulu Museum of Art. We can’t even blame him! It’s literally the museum where he grew up and the one that made him want to work in museums. We wish him all the best there as he returns to his hometown.

But I would warn anyone circumventing anti-LLM protections that, as the tide turns against #LLM usage and "#AI" as a whole, that it may become politically useful for some state AGs to score political points. Those political points may come by putting you in prison, or, at the very least, dumping lawyers on you and ruining your life. An AG doesn't need to win to score points for their political party or to virtue signal. All they need to do is build a case against you. Because the CFAA is *so vague* it's easy to make something plausible enough that it won't get thrown out immediately.
So if the gentile "please don't do that" isn't enough, maybe consider this.

Charges Against Man Who Destroyed 3D-Printed ‘Decoy’ Flock Camera Drastically Reduced After State Admits It Was Not Very Valuable https://www.404media.co/charges-against-man-who-destroyed-3d-pr…

Dangerous heat days are expanding beyond summer, with regional spring-fall shifts #environment

Dangerous heat days are expanding beyond summer, with regional spring-fall shifts
Extreme heat has become more common—both research and lived experience document this—but when it arrives is a different question. A new study finds that, rather than occurring only during warm seasons, extreme heat events have become more frequent in the months before and after, too.

MOM’s Organic Market bans employees from wearing face masks while working;
The "customer experience" may become "sickness"
https://www.thebanner.com/community/public-health/moms-organic-market-face-mask-b…

CXMT overtakes Tencent to become the most valuable Chinese company, with a ~$524B market cap, above Tencent's $510B; CXMT's Shanghai shares jumped 460% at IPO (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-0…

Do non-language regions become language regions? The case of deprived sensory cortices https://academic.oup.com/brain/advance-article/doi/10.1093/brain/awag242/8728959 "Deprived sensory cortices, contrary to many claims, do not become language regio…

Trump to become first sitting president on US currency with new $1 coin (Scripps News)
https://www.scrippsnews.com/politics/the-president/trump-to-become-first-sitting-president-on-us-currency-with-new-1-coin
http://www.memeorandum.com/260715/p70#a260715p70

I love Fable, but Anthropic has really become a clown show now.

DJ Withers faces uphill battle to crack loaded Cowboys interior D-line https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2026/07/17/cowboys-dj-withers-scouting-report/90937506007/

ICE has shot and killed 10 people since Trump came back into office.
2 more in the last week.
In addition, 50 people have died in ICE detention.
ICE has become a killing machine.
We cannot let this feel normal.
It isn't.
https://bsky.app/profile/chrismurphyct

Chris Murphy (@chrismurphyct.bsky.social)
ICE has shot and killed 10 people since Trump came back into office. 2 more in the last week. In addition, 50 people have died in ICE detention. ICE has become a killing machine. We cannot let this feel normal. It isn't.

Microplastics fall across rural Switzerland, adding over 200 tons yearly to land and water https://phys.org/news/2026-09-microplastics-fall-rural-switzerland-adding.html

Microplastics fall across rural Switzerland, adding over 200 tons yearly to land and water
Loose fibers from functional clothing, discarded PET bottles or abandoned packaging: When such plastic materials enter the environment, they often persist there for a long time. UV radiation, precipitation and ozone cause them to become brittle—and over time, mechanical forces break them down into increasingly smaller particles. Swirled up by the wind, they are carried farther through the atmosphere. Until now, it was unclear how much microplastic ends up back in Swiss soil and water bodies t…

Georgia State University has rescinded a job offer given to a high profile activist
who is currently fighting a case in which he allegedly wiped a security-focused Android phone
before Customs and Border Protection (CBP) could search it.
The case, which 404 Media first covered and has now received widespread and national attention,
has important ramifications for privacy
and when someone can still be charged with an offense even if authorities don’t have suspic…

University Rescinds Job Offer to Activist Who Allegedly Wiped Phone Before DHS Could Search It
Samuel Tunick allegedly wiped his GrapheneOS phone before CBP officials could search it, in what has become a high profile civil liberties case. Now Georgia State University has rescinded a job offer to him.

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Super.com, which offers a savings app for lower-income consumers, raised a $65M Series D led by TPG at a $1.2B valuation and says it is profitable (Lily Mae Lazarus/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2026/07/07/the-1-2-billion-startup-become-amazon-prime-for…

The $1.2 billion startup that wants to become Amazon Prime for savings
Super.com raised $65 million after betting that understanding financially stretched Americans was its biggest competitive advantage.

Alisa Bowen, president of Disney since late 2022, is leaving to become CEO of Disney-controlled Fubo, succeeding David Gandler, who led Fubo for over a decade (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/alisa-bowen-ceo-fubo-disney-plus-1236806015/

Alisa Bowen Exits Disney+ to Become CEO of Disney-Controlled Fubo
Alisa Bowen, who has served as president of Disney+ since 2022, is leaving that role to become CEO of Fubo, the internet TV streaming service that is majority owned by Disney.

Free game alert: State Of Mind on GoG.
When mind and machine become one – what will remain of humanity?
Berlin, 2048 – The world is on the brink. Lack of resources, illnesses caused by polluted air and water, crime on the rise, war. Governments and companies promise remedies through technological progress. Drones and humanoid robots replace humans in the public sector, everything is interconnected, surveillance has become omnipresent.

Why the Cowboys pass rush must become a full rotation effort https://insidethestar.com/why-the-cowboys-pass-rush-must-become-a-full-rotation-effort

Amazon will invest in a gas-burning power plant in Texas, which will power a new data center. That one plant will produce more carbon dioxide than countries such as Switzerland, Ireland or Bulgaria.
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligen…

Amazon's New AI Data Center Is So Enormous That It Appears It Will Become the Largest Single Source of Pollution in the United States
Amazon's planned data center for Pecos County, Texas would come with a gas plant capable of emitting 33 million tons of CO2 every year.

Source: Kraken is pursuing a full banking license in Europe, with a focus on Lithuania as the jurisdiction to secure it (Ian Allison/CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/business/2026/07/07/crypto-exchange-kraken-is-trying-to-become-a-ba…

Crypto exchange Kraken is trying to become a bank in Europe
The focus is on Lithuania as the jurisdiction to secure the license, according to a person familiar with the plans.

How Raiders Could Become NFL's New Version of Jaguars https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-how-could-become-nfl-new-version-jaguars

Standards Not Force
may be useful for residents who want to become more involved in local government, public oversight, peaceful protest, corporate accountability, or community organizing.
It may also support journalists, researchers, democracy advocates, neighborhood groups, students, nonprofit organizations, and volunteers seeking a structured approach to lawful civic engagement.
The organization presents an advocacy framework rather than a neutral government or academic…

Standards Not Force - Resistance Directory
Standards Not Force promotes lawful nonviolent civic action, public accountability, community safety, transparency, and grassroots organizing.

How Raiders Could Become NFL's New Version of Jaguars https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-how-could-become-nfl-new-version-jaguars

The UAE gained broader US AI chip access after aiding the US in the Iran war, letting G42 buy freely for at least nine months; G42 plans to become a US company (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/uae-

"When wind turbines become visible, support for renewable energy can decline"
#Energy #Renewables
https://

When wind turbines become visible, support for renewable energy can decline
The expansion of renewable energy is a cornerstone of climate policy. While wind energy is widely supported in principle, people living near wind turbines often experience the local consequences of the energy transition directly. A new study by researchers at Leipzig University now shows that the visibility of wind turbines can reduce support for renewable energy policies under certain circumstances. Published in the Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, the study examines how visi…

A hurricane warning was issued for the Big Island,
and a tropical storm warning was in effect for Maui County, which includes the islands of Maui, Molokai, Lanai and Kahoolawe
Tropical Storm Lala is expected to strengthen to a hurricane before reaching Hawaii’s Big Island this weekend, forecasters said Friday,
bringing heavy rains that can cause destructive flooding and strong winds that can fuel wildfires.
The National Hurricane Center said Lala should be at hurrica…

Tropical Storm Lala expected to become hurricane near Hawaii
Tropical Storm Lala is expected to strengthen into a hurricane as it approaches Hawaii's Big Island. The National Hurricane Center predicts that it could be at hurricane status by early Saturday. If it makes landfall as a hurricane, it would be the first to do so since 1871. Forecasters issued a hurricane warning for the island on Friday. Officials and residents prepared for potential impacts including heavy rain and strong winds. Some areas could see up to 25 inches of rain. Shelters have been…

On Monday, two days before the Senate hearing to consider Todd Blanche’s nomination to become the nation’s chief law enforcement official,
a federal judge strongly suggested that he may not even be fit to practice law.
Of all the powers Americans give their government,
none can curtail personal liberty like those of the Department of Justice,
and this editorial board has listed the ways Mr. Blanche has abused that authority.
He has celebrated the Jan. 6 rioters…

Opinion | We’re About to Find Out Whether Republican Senators Can Still Say No
Republicans should have the decency, patriotism and self-respect to vote against Mr. Blanche.

The Guardian's tech team share their shoe-leather experiences covering AI data centers, as field investigation becomes increasingly important in tech coverage (Gautam Malkani/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/membership/202

‘These are some of the most complex structures ever created’: how tech reporting moved into the physical world
The Guardian’s global tech reporting team are investigating the impact of the vast datacentres being built to power the AI revolution. We spoke to them about how their beat has become increasingly offline

Why Klint Kubiak is throwing the Raiders into the fire in Houston https://raiderramble.com/2026/08/15/why-klint-kubiak-is-throwing-the-raiders-into-the-fire-in-houston/

Chimeric Antigen Receptor (CAR) T cell therapy is an immunotherapy technique that involves taking a patient's immune cells and genetically engineering them to become potent cancer-hunting predators.
The treatment has shown huge promise in helping patients treat cancer, although its effectiveness has mostly been limited to treating blood cancers, not solid tumors.
But an inspirational real-life success story involving a three-year-old patient shows scientists are making big prog…

A 3-Year-Old's Metastatic Cancer Disappeared After Two Doses of Experimental Therapy
A powerful advance in cancer-fighting medicine has achieved an extraordinary new milestone.

Jay Clayton, the US attorney for the southern district of New York,
refused to say that Joe Biden won the 2020 election during his Wednesday confirmation hearing to become the country’s next intelligence chief.
Clayton opted instead to say that Biden was “certified” as president.
Clayton also skirted questions about his previous election integrity claims and whether or not a White House official asked him to subpoena a group of New York Times journalists as part of an alleg…

Trump intelligence pick Jay Clayton refuses to say Biden won 2020 election
Clayton, if confirmed, would replace Bill Pulte, and is facing senators for confirmation as the US’s top spy

Chime agrees to acquire longtime banking partner Stride Bank for $590M; Stride will become Chime Bank, a wholly owned subsidiary; CHYM jumps 8.5% after hours (Paige Smith/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026…

Congress’ marquee housing legislation
aimed at increasing the country’s housing supply
is set to become law at midnight
— without Donald Trump’s signature.
“I will not sign the Housing Bill, which has been fully approved by Congress and sent to the White House,
in PROTEST over the fact that the United States Senate is not capable of passing THE SAVE AMERICA ACT,”
Trump, who could still change his mind and sign the legislation, posted on Friday.
The b…

The Housing Bill Trump Refused to Sign Is Set to Become Law Without Him
The bipartisan legislation is aimed at speeding up housing development across the country.

Could Alex Guerrero become the most polarizing figure inside the Raiders? https://raiderramble.com/2026/07/04/could-alex-guerrero-become-the-most-polarizing-figure-inside-the-raiders/

Tech Goliaths are scrambling to build as much AI computing capacity as they possibly can, come hell or low water.
One of the dominant players in the space, Amazon Web Services, has its heart set on an AI data center so enormous that it could easily become 💥the largest source of carbon dioxide emissions in the United States.
According to the New York Times, Amazon has confirmed its investment in a massive gas-burning power plant in Texas, meant to supply up to 7.65 gigawatts of ene…

Amazon's New AI Data Center Is So Enormous That It Appears It Will Become the Largest Single Source of Pollution in the United States
Amazon's planned data center for Pecos County, Texas would come with a gas plant capable of emitting 33 million tons of CO2 every year.

PG&E’s plans to surrender and decommission the Potter Valley Project
— a defunct hydroelectric system that diverts water from the Upper Eel River to the headwaters of the Russian River
— have become something of a political football in recent months.
U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins seems determined to blow up the
“Two-Basin Solution”
developed under U.S. Congressman Jared Huffman.
The prospects for that historic agreement have been threat…

FERC Will Hold Public Scoping Sessions in Eureka Next Month on the Proposed Decommissioning of PG&E's Dams on
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"More and more people are dying.
So the question arises:
wouldn't it be better to shoot down Russian missiles over Ukraine
rather than, perhaps later, over Poland?
This is a subject for a very serious discussion,
one that should not become a hostage to party-political rivalry,"
Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski said.

The Polish Foreign Ministry reiterated the idea of shooting down missiles over Ukraine.
Radosław Sikorski responded to the former Polish prime minister's accusations regarding Patriot missiles.

With most of the votes counted, Sweden’s national election remained too close to call on Sunday night,
with left-wing parties holding a lead of just a single seat according to a partial tally by the election authority.
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Swedish election: centre-left parties lead by just a single seat with most votes counted
Race too close to call and may take days to become clear despite early exit polls suggesting left bloc win

Some students are directing AI agents to “take” entire online courses for them,
letting the software run in the background while they focus on better uses of their time,
--like doomscrolling on their phone or gaming.
The New York Times unpacked the trend in a recent story,
and it’s a testament to how extreme AI-enabled cheating has become,
but also of the perils of getting an education in a virtual environment instead of a physical one.
Professors can’t re…

A.I. Agents Are Taking Entire Online Courses for Cheating Students
As colleges and students embrace virtual classes, the ease of A.I. cheating is raising questions about the value of an online degree.

A civically minded voter in Houston, Texas, may already have voted six times this year.
When voters in California cast their ballots in November, they will weigh in on a wealth tax from three different angles.
In Idaho, home to just 2m people, voters will elect 49 judges, a slew of county coroners and decide which of six firearms should become the state’s official gun.
No other rich democracy hands as many decisions directly to its voters

Samsung passes Nvidia to become most profitable company in the world
— racks up 19x quarterly increase in profit
Samsung chip division's single-year profits beat its past 40 years of profits, combined,
due to increased memory and storage prices
https://www.…

Samsung chip division's single-year profits beat its past 40 years of profits, combined — Samsung passes Nvidia to become most profitable company in the world
DS president Kim Yong-Kwan told staff the unit's 2026 operating profit will top everything it has earned since Samsung entered the memory business.