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Just finished "Fustuk" by Robert Mgrdich Apelian. Without exaggeration, it is a true masterpiece, an absolutely stunning graphic novel about food, family, and magical contracts that reminds me of both Witch Hat Atelier and Young Bride's Stories. The truly impressive part is that Apelian is every bit as good an illustrator and storyteller as both Kamome Shirahama and Kaoru Mori.
In the author's note, Apelian says "So I asked to make the story I always craved growing up: a tale of Middle Eastern joy and magic that speaks to diasporic culture and how those of us within it relate to our two worlds." He succeeded at that goal abundantly, as far as I can tell, and has produced a truly impressive work.
Images are rough pictures of a few example pages showing very cool panel construction, lots of detail, and both dynamic action and expressive faces. I'm not going to spoil anything, but the second image here is one of the most powerful pages I've read in a while and the way it uses gutters demonstrates a beautiful mastery of the comics medium.
#AmReading #ReadingNow #Bookstodon

Troy Jackson is ready to flip Maine's Senate seat
and unseat Susan Collins once and for all.
He's a fifth-generation logger from Allagash,
a lifelong labor champion,
and former Maine Senate President,
who's proven he can win
— by 20 points
— in a district carried by both Susan Collins and Donald Trump.
https://w…

Troy Jackson for U.S. Senate
Troy Jackson is ready to flip Maine's Senate seat and unseat Susan Collins once and for all. He's a fifth-generation logger from Allagash, a lifelong labor champion, and former Maine Senate President, who's proven he can win — by 20 points — in a district carried by both Susan Collins and Donald Trump.

yes trump this or trump that but i can't stop telling people how much i HATE gusanos marco rubio and ted cruz with a burning passion.
both (!!) fled cuba under BATISTA, ted cruz's father was even tortured in prison by batista's regime, marco rubio arrived in the US years before the communist revolution took place.
batista was the puppet dictator installed by the US, and his regime's slave based society is what the likes of fidel castro and che guevara fought against, yet these u…

Shedeur Sanders on QB battle with Deshaun Watson: 'We're both trying to be the best version of ourselves'

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/shedeur-sanders-speaks-qb-bat…

Immensely satisfying to get both tasks 2 and 3, which have stubbornly remained on my to-do list, both ticked off today.

Tim Cook had an extraordinary run and impeccable timing in stepping down, with Apple in a better place than it has ever been as AI becomes its next big test (Ben Thompson/Stratechery)
https://stratechery.com/2026/tim-cooks-impeccable-timing/

Tim Cook’s Impeccable Timing
Tim Cook had an extraordinary run — and impeccable timing, both in terms of when he became CEO, and when he is stepping down.

Both `caret-color` and `caret-shape` getting some attention:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2DSNiSKd-Y
In my role as CSS buzzkill, however, I try to give more context on use, risks, user prefs, CSSWG dismissiveness, etc:

In the coming years, I expect to hear a whole lot of “Don’t blame me!! Gen AI did it! The AI dog ate my homework!!”
One of my biggest wishes right now is that we get crystal clarity, both legally and culturally, that if a computer system screws up (AI or otherwise) then that’s the responsibility of the people who •chose to use• the system.

Both sides in the antitrust lawsuit over Nexstar's Tegna acquisition have asked a federal judge to schedule the case for a jury trial in July 2027 (Matthew Keys/TheDesk.net)
https://thedesk.net/2026/06/nexstar-tegna-july-2027-trial-date-request/

Parties in Nexstar-TEGNA merger lawsuit propose July 2027 trial date
Expert witness lists and discovery evidence would be exchange by the parties and disclosed to the court between August 2026 and February 2027, per court records.

It's worth nothing that oil, the dominant funder of both political parties, the industry that ultimately maintains veto power over both parties political platforms, is not profitable without massive state investment. Roads, parking, and infrastructure grants, all put money in the pockets of the industry that is destroying the planet. That money then comes right back into the political sphere to control the frame of debate around climate change and how to address it.

Birthday Morning, Mountain Spring (Early May 2026)
#SilentSunday #LandscapePhotography #Photography

RE: https://zpravobot.news/@Rainmaker1973/116947607420994226
Do both!
PVs on the ground create a microclimate under them, which supports bees and other insects, animals can be grazed under them out of the sun and rain, and there are even some cr…

I did all of my original SI simulations for the SFP28 front side launches using only layer 1 signal and layer 2 ground plane, ignoring everything deeper in the board.
Some of you asked if the ground plane voids needed to extrude all the way into the board. Does it matter?
For the BGA launch, at least, the answer is in: there is a measurable effect in simulation, but it's minimal. Return loss of the launch is better than -20 dB in both configurations so I'm not going to bo…

"Egyptian teens use robots for ‘smarter and more responsive’ way to protect Earth"
#Egypt #Animals

Egyptian teens use robots for ‘smarter and more responsive’ way to protect Earth
Mudskippers are amphibious fish that can live both in water and on land. Usually found in muddy landscapes, the big-eyed creatures dig tunnels through the mud with their mouths, wrapping themselves in air pockets to maintain healthy levels of oxygen. A group of Egyptian boarding school students from Giza in the Greater Cairo region found […]

RE: https://gardenstate.social/@stefan/116948738982813935
apparently this post works both for people who don't care for sports AND people who wanted someone to score a goal.

"Alone together"
#silentSunday

#silentsunday

Orchard orbweavers have eyelash-like setae (trichobothria) on their hind legs that assist in sensing nearby wing beats. It would be interesting to know what frequency they are tuned to. Pure speculation on my part, but would be cool if they are early-warning system for the parasitic wasps (Hymenoepimecis argyraphaga) that turn these spiders into zombies. Both males and females have them.

Bumblebees collect up to 7 times more toxic metals than honeybees #environment

Bumblebees collect up to 7 times more toxic metals than honeybees
Bumblebees are picking up dramatically more toxic heavy metals than honeybees, even when both species forage in the same places. Researchers warn that this hidden pollution could quietly reduce their ability to find food, reproduce, and keep colonies healthy.

E-bike regulation and what bikes are actually for
A big problem in talking about about bicycle safety and making safety-related laws is the pervasive opinion that "bicycles are toys, bicycle rides are recreational, that means their use is optional, their riders are frivolous, irresponsible, and unaware of laws and safety issues".  This means both that people think bicycles need more heavy-handed regulation, and it is also that it is perfectly okay if that regulation is…

E-bike regulation and what bikes are actually for
A big problem in talking about about bicycle safety and making safety-related laws is the pervasive opinion that “bicycles are toys, bicycle rides are recreational, that means their use is op…

www.maptap.gg July 19
98🔥 100🎯 93🏆 93🏆 91👑
Final score: 936
1. x: 4,967 pts, 9.9 km, 2 min, 42 sec, 0 steps
2. x: 4,022 pts, 325 km, 18 sec, 0 steps
3. x: 1,062 pts, 2,311 km, 27 sec, 0 steps
4. x: 2,806 pts, 862 km, 1 min, 58 sec, 0 steps
5. x: 804 pts, 2,726 km, 1 min, 8 sec, 0 steps
Total: 13,661 pts, 6,234 km, 6 min, 33 sec, 0 steps
TimeGuessr #1145 — 41,621/50,000
1️⃣ 🏆8,146 · 📅 5y · 🌍 157.6mi
2️⃣ 🏆9,289 · 📅 4y · 🌍 565m
3️⃣ …

#spain holds both the women's and men's
#worldcup

Goals (Freeman and OG) notwithstanding, McKinnie or Richards are my MOTM candidates for total contributions. Both were stellar.
Qualified for the knockout round and look likely to win group D. 👏
#USMNT #usaaus #worldcup

the programme de la soirée is to make a few mix tapes, listen to music that i love, and maybe dance with that ladder over there if i manage to drink enough of this cheap (i mean cheap!) italian wine to confuse a ladder for my wife

Arriving from Europe at Newark was fast and efficient. 20 minutes from landing, immigration, to getting both carry on bags and going out the door. Such a contrast with Frankfurt which is an unmitigated disaster. How times have changed.

🔐 Encryption uses PAKE: a shared code phrase generates the secret key on both sides, so the relay passing the bytes never gets to read them.
⚡ Transfers run in parallel over multiple TCP ports. No dependencies, just a single binary.

Just for the record: Spain is a great team. Argentina is a great team. Both coaches are incredible. Can’t ask for a more perfect match. Whoever wins is a worthy world champion!
I want to see the little Magic Man from Rosario take home another trophy with his mates *a bit more*.
So I will cry if Argentina wins and I will cry if Argentina loses. Overall big sob fest whatever happens.
Extremely hyped for the game! 3 hours left in waiting mode.

We want Berlin Buzzwords 2026 to be accessible to everyone, which is why we're excited to announce our fully sponsored Diversity Tickets. This is for anyone who wouldn't be able to participate at #bbuzz26 otherwise.
Choose between an onsite ticket at Kulturbrauerei or an online ticket - both completely free!
Learn more and get a diversity ticket: https://2026.berlinbuzzwords.de/diversity-inclusion/

celegans_2019: Complete C. elegans neurons (2019)
Networks among neurons of both the adult male and adult hermaphrodite worms C. elegans, constructed from electron microscopy series, to include directed edges (chemical) and undirected (gap junction), and spanning including nodes for muscle and non-muscle end organs.
This network has 514 nodes and 2363 edges.
Tags: Biological, Connectome, Weighted

Sam Williams found a way both stay

Two research papers describe how Google's Co-Scientist and nonprofit FutureHouse's AI tools can succeed at drug-retargeting tasks by forming hypotheses (John Timmer/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/05/two-…

Two AI-based science assistants succeed with drug-retargeting tasks
Both tools generate hypotheses; one goes on to analyze some of the data.

Finally got off my ass and listed my ThinkPad P14s and RAM for sale. Following neighbor's advice, listed for more money than I actually want for it. ("This isn't England or America!", he said.) Apparently in Ireland you're expected to do a little dance where you ask an absurd price and then the prospect offers you a sub-reasonable price and then you both settle on market price; and if you do indeed list for market price, you'll still be expected to give a 15% discou…

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

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

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"In the entire federal regulatory landscape governing the privacy of personal health information, there are two main frameworks. Crisis pregnancy centers are exempt from both."
Not good.
https://kimmienicole.substack.com/p/what-they-take-when-you-walk-in…

What They Take When You Walk In
The HIPAA blind spot, the database at the center of it, and the women whose names ended up on the open internet.

The Case for Possibility — https://www.brichapman.com/p/the-case-for-possibility?utm_source=bri-mastodon&utm_medium=social&src=mstdn

Beyond Optimism and Pessimism: Choosing Possibility in Uncertain Times
We can’t predict the future—but we can participate in it. This essay explores why optimism and pessimism both rely on false certainty, and how embracing possibility opens space for courage, creativity, and truth.

As a small trial, I’m giving a joint timeline and posting app for Bluesky and mastodon a go. This means I will see both places and post in both places in the one feed. But it also means I may say a thing prompted by something I saw on one platform without context on the other. My apologies in advance for any confusion.

So, I'm still experimenting with locally run LLMs (powered by solar cells!) for writing some inconsequential data mangling stuff for my "vintage cameras" hobby; it's quite interesting how the development cycle with these LLMs sort of drives home that LLMs are completely useless for almost anything they're advertised for, like writing (for humans).
The thing is: coding is the use case that LLMs are by far most suitable for and they still largely suck at it.
There's immense amounts of training data of correctly functioning code, there's tons of documentation, a lot of code is in repositories that include the full history of its development including why stuff was changed in small bits, code itself is the simplest of "human" languages and mathematically non-ambiguous, code can be checked in small bits for correctness by just running it, in many languages simple code snippets can be written to introspect on the code (e.g. find out what methods an object supports, so an LLM can query the language or libraries themselves in addition to the user) and perhaps most importantly: code is always and has always been very similar to other, existing code as most software serves the ever same repetitive use cases, both in detail and on a high level.
YET… using LLMs to code requires countless iterations to get there, both internally in the LLM (to get the code even running in the first place) and together with the user to make it do the right thing. And even when it's "there" the code is mediocre at best, and often veering into appalling.
And this is expected to just work on the first try on much more complex issues like writing for humans? Transcribing doctors? Having legal opinions? Identifying fraud? lol, sure

new EP by glenn mercer & dave weckerman from the feelies with mike watt?! the mercer & weckerman songs are both deliciously noisy & fun. https://bigcirclemusic.bandcamp.com/album/big-circle-ep

"Dynamic electric vehicle charging incentives induce large shifts in both the timing and location of charging.
Incentives designed to shift charging toward peak solar generation periods result in a 34% increase in midday charging."
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti

Last boost: I disagree with Connie Chan on transportation issues, but in a federal race where our new Congressperson will vote on foreign wars, I'm going to amplify both of the non–Scott Wiener candidates. Wiener spent years denying the genocide in Gaza and attacking people calling for peace as antisemites. He falsely maintains the problem is just Netanyahu, ignoring that Israeli "opposition" leaders make constant genocidal statements too. Wiener would be an enabler of unspeaka…

Here are the #Animal and #Environmental days coming up in the next three months.
https://

Eco Awareness Days: 3-Month Calendar (July to September 2025)
Here are some of the bigger and lesser known environmental consciousness, days, weeks, and months celebrated in both the UK and around the globe between January and March 2026.  Many of these days serve to raise awareness about significant environmental concerns, while the international animal days also highlight the dire

www.maptap.gg July 20
85🎓 98🎯 94🏅 94🏅 17🤬
Final score: 704
1. x: 2,536 pts, 1,013 km, 1 min, 8 sec, 0 steps
2. x: 4,587 pts, 129 km, 35 sec, 0 steps
3. x: 4,693 pts, 94 km, 19 sec, 0 steps
4. x: 4,212 pts, 256 km, 1 min, 48 sec, 0 steps
5. x: 2,305 pts, 1,155 km, 1 min, 9 sec, 0 steps
Total: 18,333 pts, 2,647 km, 4 min, 59 sec, 0 steps
TimeGuessr #1146 — 38,355/50,000
1️⃣ 🏆10,000 · 📅 0y · 🌍 15m
2️⃣ 🏆8,399 · 📅 6y · 🌍 71m
3️⃣ 🏆7,21…

Evidence of the pain I felt of not being able to vote Green on the constituency ballot (the new boundaries moved me from Glasgow Kelvin to Glasgow Central).
"One thing really worth pointing out is that Glasgow Central constituency vote figure....What happened there? Well, by regional list vote result, that was the third best Green constituency in the country. In other words, it’s the best constituency they didn’t stand a local candidate in."

SP26: Patterns of Party Popularity
It’s all well and good looking at the headline figures, but you’ve got to get right down into the thick of support and swings – in both votes – across constituencies to rea…

It must be galling to him that we no longer have the pre-Reagan pre-cable FCC regs and station norms that empowered the POTUS to monopolize the media in primetime.
I expect that many non-olds don’t even realize that was a thing. Once upon a time all TV was broadcast and most was network-affiliated or network-owned, and those all took the feed from the White House when it was offered. There was no escape... @…

Scott MacFarlane on Twitter
Brutal response from FCC Commissioner Anna Gomez to Trump's call for ABC and NBC to be stripped of licenses "It is ridiculous to call for broadcasters to lose their license simply for making the same editorial decisions they've made under presidents of both parties. Those editorial decisions are protected by the First Amendment, and the FCC has no authority to punish a station for refusing to air a blatantly political speech. This is a naked attempt to bully broadcasters, and the FCC should ha…

Docs: OpenAI burned through $3.7B in Q1, on revenue of $5.7B, and ended the quarter with $73B in cash and marketable securities vs. $40B at the end of December (Erin Woo/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-burned-3-7-bill…

OpenAI Burned $3.7 Billion in First Three Months of 2026
OpenAI burned through $3.7 billion in the first quarter, more than half its $5.7 billion in revenue, according to documents the company shared with shareholders. Both cash burn and revenue tripled from the same period the previous year, signaling how even with strong AI demand, making money from ...

I suppose no matter what the outcome was, I was bound to be disappointed since I wanted them both to lose in equal measure.
#ElonVsAltman #AltmanLawsuit

Finally finished Hardspace: Shipbreaker just now, and while it's a really great game, the ending is, as expected, disappointing. Not the gameplay part of it, that was great, but the failure to gesture towards anything beyond capitalism in these kinds of games/stories is especially galling when they set themselves up to tackle the issue head on. The high doses of rugged individualism in the ending cinematic are especially jarring. Like, isn't the whole point of the game that the workers deserve rights and freedom? But then you let us know that we specifically have earned our freedom through hard work... It can't be both.
Still a very good game overall, with a completely novel set of mechanics and overall world setup that doesn't center violent conflict as the main mechanic (even though violent conflict does play a part), which is a rarity these days.

#Shitpost #Shitposting #ShamelesslyStolenFromSomewhereElseOnTheInternetHonestlyICantKeepTrackOfThisStuffAnymore

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Liim:
🎵 For The Both Of Us
#Liim
https://open.spotify.com/track/3LoZzlKzoQWeWgOkzAwygl

SpaceX can be defined in many ways.
SpaceX is a financial instrument for Musk.
Before the IPO, SpaceX acquired xAI, Musk’s artificial-intelligence company, which itself acquired X, the social-media site, back in 2025.
The maneuver allowed SpaceX to claim that it believed it had “the largest actionable total addressable market in human history”:
$28.5 trillion, to be precise.
$26.5 trillion of that, according to the filing, would come from AI infrastructure and a…

What Has SpaceX Become?
The company has mutated into something that defies both comparison and logic.

@… I'm driving pretty good so far with 100$ Claude 100$ codex, both together, a dream team... Not using any claw (or similar), only cli and only for DevOps and coding.... Both inside tmux and talking with each other, always fun to watch 😊 codex = reviewer/coder, opus = coder

gemini 3.5 flash "extended thinking" gets the geometry correctt in 4 of 4 tries, but the controls still have weird labels. what baffles me is the "thinking steps" all have weird hallucinations
- one claims I requested a chrome toaster with crumbs; no I didn't.
- one claims the image will include a dish towel and a spice rack; no it doesn't.
the image generator in both standard and extended thinking is nano banana 2. I'm unclear how the "th…

The new study “found that being in good shape during middle age was associated with about a 2 to 3 percent improvement in both health span and lifespan, translating to about a year and a half to two years of longer, healthier living.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/2026/05/17/exercise-middle-age-linked-longer-healthier-life-study-shows/

So amazing.
"Dr. Neumann died on Sunday at the Santa Clara Medical Center in Santa Clara, Calif. He was still working full time on a Pentagon-supported advanced computer security design, which is being adopted by companies such as Google and Microsoft. He was 93."

Peter G. Neumann, Who Warned of Computer Security Risks, Dies at 93
For decades, he criticized the industry’s lax attitudes toward both computer security and individual digital privacy. And he developed solutions.

Are there any Canadian computer assemblers?
I’m looking for something like System76 or Framework (both US) or StarLabs (UK).
#canada #elbowsuptech

Agent's Take: How will Colts handle contract decisions regarding stars Jonathan Taylor and Quenton Nelson?

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/agents-take-colts-contrac…

@… Actually, when you wrote this I was too but both @… and I are happy now as Slackware updated shortly after.
What distro as you and do you have an update yet?

@… … or both?

@… … or both?

Sam Williams found a way both stay

webkb: WebKB graphs (1998)
Web graphs crawled from four Computer Science departments in 1998, with each page manually classified into one of 7 categories: course, department, faculty, project, staff, student, or other. All graphs included in a single .zip; also included are 'co-citation' graphs, which links i and j if they both point to some k. Edge weights count the number of links from i to j.
This network has 300 nodes and 1155 edges.
Tags: Informational, Web gra…

Sam Altman says OpenAI offered to invest $2M in tokens in each startup in the current YC batch; a source says the offer is in exchange for equity via SAFE (Jemima McEvoy/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/sam-altman…

Sam Altman Offers YC Founders $2 Million in OpenAI Tokens For Equity
OpenAI cofounder and CEO Sam Altman late Tuesday offered to invest $2 million in every startup currently in the Y Combinator startup accelerator program—not in cash, but in OpenAI tokens. “I am excited to see what will happen with tokenmaxxing startups, both for how they work internally and the products they can build,” Altman posted on X after unveiling the offer in a talk to YC founders

There is both where you draw a line on spectrum and how you judge people on either side of the line.
If where you draw the line is much stricter then where other draw it then folks who do better then average but worse then what you expect become a group of people you have to make a decision about.
do you treat them the same as those who are below everyone's line? Or do you address them separately?

www.maptap.gg June 20
98🎯 99🎯 94🏅 80👏 97🔥
Final score: 916
1. x: 41 pts, 7,183 km, 39 sec, 0 steps
2. x: 1,027 pts, 2,361 km, 30 sec, 0 steps
3. x: 4,385 pts, 196 km, 27 sec, 0 steps
4. x: 4,904 pts, 29 km, 20 sec, 0 steps
5. xxico: 538 pts, 3,326 km, 1 min, 13 sec, 0 steps
Total: 10,895 pts, 13,095 km, 3 min, 9 sec, 0 steps
TimeGuessr #1116 — 38,805/50,000
1️⃣ 🏆2512 - 📅10y - 🌍7744.9 km
2️⃣ 🏆7447 - 📅5y - 🌍952.8 km
3️⃣ 🏆10000 - 📅0…

Prior to 1865, many Afro-Texans reclaimed their sovereignty and autonomy
-- well before the federal government acknowledged their basic humanity,
though there’s a dearth of centralized information about Black placemaking in Texas from this time.
This reclamation was called “marronage”
—a term borrowed from French for this act of antebellum self-emancipation.
The word most often refers specifically to runaway slaves, or “maroons,”
who broke free to set up…

From the Plantation to the Thicket: Juneteenth, Black Freedom, and 'Marronage' in Texas
Freedom in Texas was achieved both after—and before—formal emancipation. 

Full video with narration and a lot more field solver eye candy coming soon but here's a quick animation showing a 35 GHz wavefront moving through a curved differential pair, accumulating a phase shift due to the unequal path lengths, then being re-aligned by a meander.
Transmission line behavior is so much easier to understand and debug when you can see it like this.

There, I fixed the study title:
“[White Guy] Self-preferencing in Algorithmic Hiring: Empirical Evidence and Insights”
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.00462
PDF:
https://…

AI Self-preferencing in Algorithmic Hiring: Empirical Evidence and Insights
As artificial intelligence (AI) tools become widely adopted, large language models (LLMs) are increasingly involved on both sides of decision-making processes, ranging from hiring to content moderation. This dual adoption raises a critical question: do LLMs systematically favor content that resembles their own outputs? Prior research in computer science has identified self-preference bias -- the tendency of LLMs to favor their own generated content -- but its real-world implications have not be…

RE: https://beige.party/@adub/116941550050728086
Ontario and Alberta, both have fascist premiers. The rot spreads from the top.

vibe based politics spans across the entire spectrum

Trump has offered shifting accounts of the status of talks with Iran and of the Strait of Hormuz that have been contradicted by the Iranians
-- and sometimes himself.

He has contradicted himself,
as well his energy secretary,
about prospects for lower gasoline prices.

And he has offered conflicting accounts on one of the key issues in the conflict
— the fate of Iran’s highly enriched uranium.

Ahead of the first meeting in Pakistan on April 11, Trump …

Trump’s statements on Iran increasingly contradict each other
The president has made conflicting comments on questions both large and small related to the war.

Sam Williams found a way to both stay

Watching the France v England match in a roadhouse in Ossineke

Threading weirdly broken for me somehow…?! But here’s a story in two parts from @…, and I want to share both parts:
Part 1: https://weatherishappening.network/@ColesStreetPothole/116592563454301257
Part 2: https://weatherishappening.network/@ColesStreetPothole/116592580435945108

both will hart & bill doss are gone, but miraculously the 3rd olivia tremor control album is coming out this fall. i don't know which of those facts is the most unlikely, but i know there's only one that i want to believe. apparently there's going to be a CD longbox edition, too. https://

Support local people to protect world's nature, new report urges, as deadline for global conservation target looms https://phys.org/news/2026-05-local-people-world-nature-urges.html

Support local people to protect world's nature, new report urges, as deadline for global conservation target looms
For better or worse, a huge number of people will be affected by efforts to achieve "30x30"—the internationally-agreed conservation goal to protect and conserve at least 30% of the world's land and seas by 2030. How many people, and who they are, will depend on which aspects of nature are prioritized for protection—but in all scenarios, this human context must be a key consideration if plans are to succeed for both people and nature.

Manchester United are playing extremely well under Carrick. Fernandes is deservedly the player of the season and he’s lifted them to a top 3 finish. Transcendent season from him.
But it’s also true that in their last three results (W-D-W), both wins were by a single goal and both game winning goals were handballs waved away by VAR. The goal against LFC I could understand. You could see the spin change, but it was less definitive. Today’s decision? Smells bad. Really bad.

malaria_genes: Malaria var DBLa HVR networks
Networks of recombinant antigen genes from the human malaria parasite P. falciparum. Each of the 9 networks shares the same set of vertices but has different edges, corresponding to the 9 highly variable regions (HVRs) in the DBLa domain of the var protein. Nodes are var genes, and two genes are connected if they share a substring whose length is statistically significant. Metadata includes two types of node labels, both based on sequence st…

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Actually, should the plural be "emoji" or "emojis" ?? 😵‍💫 - Both are used frequently! I think "emoji" reminds us of other loan words that end in "-i" in the plural, like "celli" or "radii" or "tori" or all the pastas. That's why many people feel that "emoji" is plural enough 😅 . But the word is from Japanese, and is called "emoji" in the singular, from "e" = picture and "moji" = character. (In contrast to "emot-icon", the word "emoji" doesn't have anything to do with emotion!) So my vote is for the regular English plural "-s", yielding "emojis" ✅ #emojis #linguistics #WorldEmojiDay

At least within the Republican party, Trump approval rating remains at 82%, according to a New York Times newspaper/ Siena poll released on Monday.
But the same poll showed Trump’s overall approval rating down to 37%, the lowest of either term. Nearly two in three voters disapprove both of his handling of the economy and decision to wage war on Iran. Democrats lead Republicans 50%-39% on the generic congressional ballot.
This suggests the Republican party is ever more out of whack …

Surfing Ability Summit page at 200% with my keyboard (as one does) and came across this weird control.
Turns out it’s a roled-up button that launches Microsoft Immersive reader. Which is crap at 200%, it turns out.
Anyway, use native HTML buttons and let users rely on their browser’s reader mode.

Sam Williams found a way to both stay

The costs of the war to the United States, estimated at $132 billion overall, are still being tallied as a 60-day period for further negotiations begins. Here is what we know.
About 3,500 Iranians have been killed in the war, according to an Iranian government agency. Israel says 26 Israelis have been killed. Thousands of people in both countries have been injured.
The U.S. military says 13 of its members have been killed.
Israel renewed attacks on Lebanon on March 18 as pa…

The Costs of the Iran War: Thousands of Lives and Billions of Dollars
The human toll and economic costs mounted rapidly after the United States and Israel attacked Iran on Feb. 28.

National parks are deteriorating. There’s a fix Congress isn’t making.
The national park system faces a maintenance backlog of $24 billion in crumbling roads, aging water systems, washed-out trails and dilapidated visitor facilities.
That is more than seven times the National Park Service’s annual budget.

Last month, committees in both the House and Senate advanced bipartisan bills to dedicate roughly $1.3 billion annually for park maintenance over the next five years. …

America’s national parks are falling apart. Congress can fix them.
Legislators should fund routine maintenance to prevent bigger problems.

Which one of these BGA fanouts is better?
Both are the same nominal trace/space, both are skew matched by the time you get to the vertical "home run" area heading towards the connector.
But TDR of the first one wasn't that great. Let's see if the second one is any better when the simulation finishes...

Vitalik Buterin says AI-assisted "formal verification" could help secure blockchain networks, smart contracts, and cryptographic systems against software flaws (Jason Nelson/Decrypt)
https://decrypt.co/368226/ethereum-founder-vitali…

Ethereum Founder Vitalik Buterin Says AI Verification Could Help Secure Crypto Networks
Vitalik Buterin said mathematically verified software may help protect cryptographic infrastructures as AI improves both code generation and vulnerability discovery.

Dallas Cowboys Players Can Now Live Vicariously Through FIFA World Cup https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/dallas-cowboys-players-can-now-live-vicariously-through-fifa-world-cup

www.maptap.gg June 19
95🏅 98🔥 95🏆 95🏅 95🏆
Final score: 953
1. x: 2,453 pts, 1,062 km, 45 sec, 0 steps
2. x: 2,647 pts, 949 km, 1 min, 44 sec, 0 steps
3. x: 2,828 pts, 850 km, 41 sec, 0 steps
4. x: 4,588 pts, 128 km, 54 sec, 0 steps
5. x 2,075 pts, 1,312 km, 2 min, 45 sec, 0 steps
Total: 14,591 pts, 4,301 km, 6 min, 49 sec, 0 steps
TimeGuessr #1115 — 45,188/50,000
1️⃣ 🏆9585 - 📅3y - 🌍738.8 m
2️⃣ 🏆8887 - 📅5y - 🌍648.7 m
3️⃣ 🏆8832 - 📅…

Cowboys Starting Lineup Projection From PFF Misses Mark at Multiple Positions https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/dallas-cowboys-starting-lineup-projection-pff-misses-mark-multiple-positions

A US judge cancels a Mississippi trial and disqualifies and fines lawyers on both sides after finding their filings were filled with hallucinated case citations (Jason Koebler/404 Media)
https://www.404media.co/judge-learns-lawye

Judge Learns Lawyers on Both Sides of Case Used AI, Cancels Trial, Kicks Everyone Off the Case
When two AIs argue against each other, the legal system loses.

According to Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif.
a peace deal between the US and Iran has been reached,
with both sides declaring
“the immediate and permanent termination of military operations on all fronts, including in Lebanon”,
The agreement was struck despite ⁠an Israeli strike on Lebanon on Sunday that drew criticism from both Iran and US President Donald Trump.
The precise terms of the deal were not immediately known.
Sharif said ⁠the pact call…

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…

According to Xin Zhi Yuan reports,
the list of 2026 Fields Medal winners has been unexpectedly leaked.
Two Peking University alumni, Wang Hong and Deng Yu, are both on the list
— marking the first time Chinese mathematicians will claim the highest honor in mathematics in the same edition.
Someone discovered four Fields Medal laureate lecture fields marked “HIDDEN” in the front-end code of the ICM 2026 official schedule.
A single curl command generated by Codex c…

2026 Fields Medal List Accidentally Leaked: Peking University Alumni Hong Wang and Yu Deng on the List
PANews July 14 news, according to Xinzhiyuan reports, the 2026 Fields Medal list has been accidentally leaked. Two Peking University alumni Hong Wang and Yu Deng are both on the list, marking the…

Security researcher Peter G. Neumann, who criticized lax industry attitudes toward computer security and digital privacy, died on May 17 at the age of 93 (John Markoff/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/17/obituar

Peter G. Neumann, Who Warned of Computer Security Risks, Dies at 93
For decades, he criticized the industry’s lax attitudes toward both computer security and individual digital privacy. And he developed solutions.

Video footage of two Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents tackling a man at the airport in Las Vegas drew public outrage and criticism from elected officials.
One video posted on social media showed a man yelling and crying on the ground in Terminal 3 at Harry Reid International Airport on Monday
when a man and a masked woman, both in plainclothes, tried to control, handcuff and detain him.
When the pair realized they were being filmed, they walked away, leaving the ma…

Immigration arrest at Las Vegas airport drew outrage
Video footage of ICE agents tackling a man at Las Vegas Airport has sparked public outrage and criticism from officials. The video shows a man on the ground Monday as two plainclothes agents try to detain him. When they noticed they were being filmed, they walked away, leaving him partially handcuffed. Las Vegas police identified the pair as ICE agents and found no warrants for the man. ICE later arrested Phu Nguyen, an Australian citizen who overstayed his visa, at Los Angeles Airport. Nevada …

It’s been described as “the mother of all earthquake faults,”
the source of both our geological birth and, perhaps, our ultimate undoing.
But the most unnerving thing about the San Andreas fault these days may be its silence.
It’s a mystery scientists are still trying to unlock.
The San Andreas is central to any discussion of California.
It’s the massive 800-mile spine of the state,
trundling up the Coachella Valley to the San Gabriel Mountains,
and p…

Democrats have slammed Donald Trump’s Thursday night speech
where he repeated conspiracies and unfounded claims that both the 2020 election was stolen,
and the current state of election integrity is compromised.
Chuck Schumer, the Senate minority leader, said the address was
a “pathetic attempt” by the president to cast doubt on the fact that he lost the 2020 election.
The Senate minority leader said that Trump is evading discussing contentious policy issues,

DHS chief threatens states that refuse Trump’s election demands after president’s widely condemned speech – live
Markwayne Mullin follows up on president’s unproven claims as Democrats accuse Trump of ‘working to rig the midterms’ in advance