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Amendments to the Montana Consumer Data Privacy Act Bring Big Changes to Big Sky Country
https://fpf.org/blog/amendments-to-the-montana-consumer-data-privacy-act-bring-big-changes-to-big-sky-country/

OH: bring out the bedroom roll of parafilm

Geomagnetic Storms and Satellite Orbital Decay: #GeomagneticStorms Bring Satellites Down Faster: https://www.universetoday.com/articles/geomagnetic-storms-bring-satellites-down-faster

As the world moves toward digital artificiality, Airbnb's redesign and Apple's Liquid Glass UI bring back skeuomorphism and dimensionality to digital interfaces (Austin Carr/Bloomberg)

@… did you bring enough to share with the class

Star-studded nuptials between Amazon founder, billionaire Jeff Bezos, and Lauren Sšnchez, a former TV journalist.
The days-long shindig,
expected to begin from 24 June,
will be the biggest wedding held in Venice California since George Clooney married Amal Alamuddin in 2014.
While Venice residents mostly embraced the Clooneys’ fairytale big day,
the Bezos wedding has been met with much more antipathy.
As soon as Venice’s millionaire mayor, Luigi Brugnaro…

US scrambles to bring back VOA's Persian service amid Iran-Israel conflict (Ben Johansen/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/06/13/voa-persian-service-iran-israel-00406092
http://www.memeorandum.com/250614/p24#a250614p24

Are gray skies trying to bring us down? #inspiration https://muz4now.com/2024/are-gray-skies-trying-to-bring-us-down-inspiration/

Are gray skies trying to bring us down? #inspiration
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Did my first #AmateurRadio bike race support today as a family activity. My oldest and I ran separate ham SAG vehicles, and my wife ran net control some of the time.
I had borrowed a mobile U/VHF rig from my club so that we could have one rig in each vehicle, but then my coax was apparently damaged for the antenna in the other car which disabled its mobile rig, so "bring your …

The tulips are done
Time for the green leaves above
To bring needed shade.
#dailyhaikuprompt - green leaves
#haiku
#poem

Everything is #virtiomsg. Spent most of this morning's #linaroconnect2025 discussing how helpful #qemu is for pre-silicon bring up followed by back to back presentations on the new proposed…

Hundreds of CDC staff rehired by HHS after earlier layoffs from DOGE | Fox News
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/hhs-brings-back-hundreds-staff-following-force-reduction-latest-rehiring-move

' “How do we afford public ownership?” You squeeze the water companies hard. If they’re no longer making a profit, their so-called “market value” (based on ripping you off) will fall. As they collapse, like Thames Water, they can be taken into public ownership for a song, and their debt can be refinanced more cheaply in the public sector – with the savings going to reduce bills, invest in stopping sewage, or both." '

Bring Thames Water into public ownership | We Own It

Too little sleep, too hot, stagnant air with no breeze, and definitely rudely humid. When it became clear what a struggle this would be, I opted to run for HR zones instead. This included several walking breaks to bring my HR back down. My fitness needs the work.
#Running

Aaron Rodgers wants to retire with this player on his team: 'It's always been something A-Rod would bring up'

https://www.cbssports.…

Cowboys should pounce as soon as 2x Pro Bowler owed $36 million hits open market https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/06/09/cowboys-should-bring-cb-jaire-alex…

Tubi announces plans to distribute 20 films funded on Kickstarter, starting in the fall, and to invest in Kickstarter's FilmStream Collective Fund (Charles Pulliam-Moore/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/684374/tubi-kickstarter-initiative

Kickstarter-funded films are coming to Tubi
Tubi and Kickstarter are partnering to bring a selection of crowdfunded movies to the upstart streamer.

With CrowdStrike's help, United Natural Foods is working to bring systems back online by June 15 and resume product deliveries after a cyberattack disrupted its operations.
Sounds like they were in good cyber shape before they were hit.

Here's some ideas, #Starbucks:
1️⃣ Overhaul the coffee. It's hot garbage.
2️⃣ Provide better chairs, faster Internet.
3️⃣ Bring back the secret menu items.
#coffeebean #alfred

Howard Schultz says he's a fan of Brian Niccol's plan for Starbucks
Schultz said he did a "cartwheel in my living room" when he heard Niccol's turnaround plan for the coffee chain.

Estimating the Joint Probability of Scenario Parameters with Gaussian Mixture Copula Models
Christian Reichenb\"acher, Philipp Rank, Jochen Hipp, Oliver Bringmann
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10098

Estimating the Joint Probability of Scenario Parameters with Gaussian Mixture Copula Models
This paper presents the first application of Gaussian Mixture Copula Models to the statistical modeling of driving scenarios for the safety validation of automated driving systems. Knowledge of the joint probability distribution of scenario parameters is essential for scenario-based safety assessment, where risk quantification depends on the likelihood of concrete parameter combinations. Gaussian Mixture Copula Models bring together the multimodal expressivity of Gaussian Mixture Models and the…

I’m Brigadier General Shawn Harris.
I served this nation for decades in the US Army and now I’m answering the call to serve again
— this time, to defeat Marjorie Taylor Greene and bring sanity back to Congress.
This week, Donald Trump said has sent U.S. Marines into Los Angeles.
As someone who led troops in combat, I can tell you:
our troops don’t serve to be used as political weapons against Americans.
Marjorie Taylor Greene stood by that reckless idea

I just gave to Shawn Harris!
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"Drain the swamp" my ass! All these assholes have done is poison the alligators and bring in a herd of crocodiles...

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Playbook: Trump: 'BRING IN THE TROOPS' (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/playbook/2025/06/09/trump-bring-in-the-troops-00394140
http://www.memeorandum.com/250609/p12#a250609p12

"‘We don’t need a disaster to justify resilience’: Climate projects can bring big economic benefits"
#Climate #ClimateChange #Finance

How climate resilience projects are paying off around the world
The 320 climate projects analysed were found to have potential yields of about €1 trillion in projected returns over a decade.

Just stumbled across a great App of @geodepartment.mastodon.online
Have you encountered changes in the alpine environment: glacier retreat, land slides, vegetation change etc.? Bring them into context to uncover historical changes and report them at #Alps #GlobalChange #CitizenScience

For those who never had a Mac who are put off by / bemused by / disdainful of all the praise for Bill Atkinson’s work:
Don’t think of this as admiration for Apple and Apple history. Think of it as admiration for a more humane view of computing:
one where software’s job is to bring delight and foster creativity,
one where our devices are not hermetically sealed gifts from the tech gods with which we make a Faustian bargain, but rather a bucket of art supplies for us to play with, reshape, make our own. https://mastodon.social/@arroz/114643547519909731

"What I'm optimizing for isn't growth... reach, or influence. I'm chasing connection[...]spending my days on things that bring me alive."
"It's about...signals that something genuinely MATTERED to one or more humans...private replies saying they've never felt so seen or understood." Rob Hardy
To fellow #writers

Bruh even menu bar, folders on dock and preview. JUST BRING AMCOS TO IPAD ALREADY COWARDS
#WWDC

Wildfire smoke could bring hazy skies to Massachusetts, possible air quality issues https://phys.org/news/2025-06-wildfire-hazy-skies-massachusetts-air.html
Air quality worsens in eastern US as Canadian wildfire smoke hangs over Midwest

Wildfire smoke could bring hazy skies to Massachusetts, possible air quality issues
When the heat arrives this week, air quality may be dropping.

https://modal.com
https://www.cerebrium.ai
這兩間雲服務商每個月有 30 美金的免費額度給我被免費仔使用

The dollar sank to its lowest level in more than three years on Thursday
and the FTSE 100 closed at a record high as Donald Trump’s latest trade threats and the weakening economy appeared to bring forward interest rate cuts by the Federal Reserve.
Foreign exchange traders sold the dollar in favour of the yen and the euro,
which both climbed by about 1% against the US currency to leave it almost 10% down on its value against a basket of currencies since the beginning of the …

DOJ Discovers It CAN Actually Bring Abrego Garcia Back… To Face Sketchy, Trumped Up Criminal Charges | Techdirt
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/06/06/doj-discovers-it-can-actually-bring-abrego-garcia-back-to-face-sketchy-trumped-up-criminal-charges/

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Electric Light Orchestra:
🎵 Don’t Bring Me Down
#ElectricLightOrchestra
https://tributefestpgh.bandcamp.com/track/dont-bring-me-down
https://open.spotify.com/track/72ahyckBJfTigJCFCviVN7

Aaron Rodgers wants to retire with this player on his team: 'It's always been something A-Rod would bring up'

https://www.cbssports.…

Comment on "Electric conductivity of graphene: Kubo model versus a nonlocal quantum field theory model (arXiv:2403.02279v3)"
M. Bordag, N. Khusnutdinov, G. L. Klimchitskaya, V. M. Mostepanenko
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10792

Comment on "Electric conductivity of graphene: Kubo model versus a nonlocal quantum field theory model (arXiv:2403.02279v3)"
Recently, Rodriguez-Lopez, Wang, and Antezza [arXiv:2403.02279v3; Phys. Rev. B v.111, 115428 (2025)] compared the theoretical descriptions of electric conductivity of graphene given by the Kubo model and quantum field theory in terms of the polarizationtensor. According to these authors, in the spatially nonlocal case, the quantum field theoretical description contains ``hard inconsistencies". To bring the predictions of quantum field theory in agreement with those following from the Kubo model…

You should #protest this Saturday. If ever there was a time to do it, it's now. Do it while you still can!
Making a sign is kind of fun the first time, but honestly the protests are tedious. So just show up. Bring a book. Stay near the edges. But show up!
It really can makea difference:

The '3.5% rule': How a small minority can change the world
Nonviolent protests are twice as likely to succeed as armed conflicts – and those engaging a threshold of 3.5% of the population have never failed to bring about change.

High-precision Beam Optics Calculation of the HIAF-BRing Using Measured Fields
Ke Wang, Li-Na Sheng, Geng Wang, Wei-Ping Chai, You-Jin Yuan, Jian-Cheng Yang, Guo-Dong Shen, Liang Lu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08421

High-precision Beam Optics Calculation of the HIAF-BRing Using Measured Fields
The construction of the High Intensity heavy ion Accelerator Facility (HIAF) has been completed, with current efforts focused on subsystem commissioning. Beam commissioning is scheduled for autumn 2025, marking a critical milestone in HIAF's operational readiness. This paper presents high-precision optics calculations for the Booster Ring (BRing) of HIAF, a key component for achieving stable heavy-ion beam acceleration. Leveraging high-precision magnetic field data, each magnet is divided into …

people tell you to believe in your dreams, but when you bring your imaginary friends they SOMEHOW don't like it

Stop Misusing t-SNE and UMAP for Visual Analytics
Hyeon Jeon, Jeongin Park, Sungbok Shin, Jinwook Seo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08725 https://

Stop Misusing t-SNE and UMAP for Visual Analytics
Misuses of t-SNE and UMAP in visual analytics have become increasingly common. For example, although t-SNE and UMAP projections often do not faithfully reflect true distances between clusters, practitioners frequently use them to investigate inter-cluster relationships. In this paper, we bring this issue to the surface and comprehensively investigate why such misuse occurs and how to prevent it. We conduct a literature review of 114 papers to verify the prevalence of the misuse and analyze the …

Apple unveils Xcode 26, which will integrate ChatGPT for coding, doc generation, and more, and says devs can use API keys to add AI models from other providers (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/09/apple-brings-chatgpt-and-o…

Apple brings ChatGPT and other AI models to Xcode | TechCrunch
At WWDC 2025, Apple released a new version of Xcode, its app development suite, that integrates OpenAI's ChatGPT for coding, doc generation, and more. The company also announced that developers can use API keys to bring AI models from other providers to Xcode for AI-powered programming suggestions.

Elandon Roberts: 'We have to bring it every day' https://www.raiders.com/video/defense-elandon-roberts-patrick-graham-raiders-presser-nfl-offseason-2025

It is not AI that is driving tech layoffs. It’s the massive change in R&D writeoff rules that kicked in for TY2022, from the 2017 Trump tax bill.
The ability to “expense” R&D costs was in place for decades and arguably drove US innovation by making it cheap. Now R&D is amortized over 5 years for US work, 15 years for non-US work. The current reconciliation bill would bring back expensing of domestic R&D costs.

All this brings me back to some text I was writing yesterday for my students, on which I’d appreciate any thoughtful feedback:
❝You can let the computer do the typing for you, but never let it do the thinking for you.
This is doubly true in the current era of AI hype. If the AI optimists are correct (the credible ones, anyway), software development will consist of humans critically evaluating, shaping, and correcting the output of LLMs. If the AI skeptics are correct, then the future will bring mountains of AI slop to decode, disentangle, fix, and/or rewrite. Either way, it is •understanding• and •critically evaluating• code — not merely •generating• it — that will be the truly essential ability. Always has been; will be even more so. •That• is what you are learning here.❞
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I don't want to write spoilers or need content warnings here, so:
It's popcorn 🍿 time in the US 🇺🇸! Bring out your best bullshit bingo sheets for billionaire battles!
#uspol #spacekaren #drump

@… I’m hoping to bring this up with people who know what they’re talking about at ZuriHac this weekend.

Series A, Episode 02 - Space Fall
LEYLAN: We might save the other three.
RAIKER: Right. At least we'll have tried.
LEYLAN: Right. Get them equipped and bring 'em down here...
[Artix studies the controls, and heads for the communicator.]
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/102/565

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This week’s edition of my @… newsletter shines a light on the impact of the Model Context Protocol (MCP) across multiple computing eras—leading right up to today.
We’ve arrived at a moment where loose coupling principles are cool (and super useful) again.
Naturally, there are some live demo nuggets in the post to help bring it all to life:
🔗

The Model Context Protocol: Bridging Generational Computing Experiences
The Model Context Protocol (MCP) is emerging as a transformative force in computing, with its significance uniquely appreciated across generational lines. This new protocol serves as crucial middleware for LLM-powered productivity tools, addressing needs that previous computing paradigms couldn't fu

Sonnet 035 - XXXV
No more be grieved at that which thou hast done:
Roses have thorns, and silver fountains mud:
Clouds and eclipses stain both moon and sun,
And loathsome canker lives in sweetest bud.
All men make faults, and even I in this,
Authorizing thy trespass with compare,
Myself corrupting, salving thy amiss,
Excusing thy sins more than thy sins are;
For to thy sensual fault I bring in sense,
Thy adverse party is thy advocat…

#WritersCoffeeClub 5/29: Tell us about an epiphany that changed your writing.
There's power in words. Incredible power. It's the closest thing to magic we come, I'd say. The words you select will bring images to life in another person's mind. You can bring smells into their life, touch, feelings. You can enrich or you can scare. Make people laugh, cry, learn.
D…

Cowboys' secret weapon bringing 'energy' to practice is unlikely source https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/dallas-cowboys-secret-weapon-bringing-energy-practice-unlikely-source

"Climate change could bring insect-borne tropical diseases to UK, scientists warn"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Climate #ClimateChange

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Sen. Mike Lee is trying to shoehorn a provision into Trump’s Tax Bill that would bring back large-scale federal public land sales for hundreds of thousands of acres.
If passed, this bill would give radicals in the Trump administration the power to declare our land “excess” 
and sell it to private developers and fossil fuel interests.
Public Lands Warriors is trying to bring attention to Mike Lee and his billionaire buddies trying to sneak this crap into the Senate bill.

Let Congress know you OPPOSE the MAGA land grab »

President Trump has pledged to bring more factory work back to the U.S., but many manufacturing jobs are already going unfilled
https://www.wsj.com/economy/jobs/will-anyone-take-the-factory-jobs-trump-wants…

From SPEC
Repair Cafés
Next up:
📍 West End Community Centre
870 Denman Street
📅 Saturday, June 21, 2025
🕤 9:30am–1:30pm PT
Bring your small appliances, clothing, bikes, and more — our team of volunteer fixers is ready to help you repair, learn, and connect with your community. Full schedule available and registration for the June Café available at

Imma bring back rofl

We visited my parents yesterday and I decided to bring along my PS5/VR2 to see if my Dad would be interested in checking it out.
He was, so I hooked it up to their (20 year old and about to quit) TV and got it set up and tested for a minute with No Man's Sky to make sure everything was working as intended.
Dropped the hat on his head and set him up a custom save, all settings tuned to "easy mode", no combat or damage, all slots unlocked etc so he would be able to j…

"as dense urban neighborhoods grow more costly, lower- and moderate-income renters, the very people most likely to ride the bus, are pushed out and replaced by a more affluent set who, on the whole, tend to favor getting around by car."
This finding should temper expectations that building lots of market-rate, i.e., expensive, housing will automagically bring about some kind of transit renaissance.

Why can't all refugees in the UK be welcomed and celebrated like this?
(Rhetorical question, of course.)
#Ukraine #PutinsWar #refugeesWelcome

Two US representatives launch the bipartisan Congressional Creators Caucus to "bring the perspectives of online content creators into the public policy arena" (Amanda Silberling/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/06/crea

Creator Caucus launches in Congress with support from Patreon, YouTube | TechCrunch
The Congressional Creator Caucus will work to support the creator economy, which is estimated to be worth half-a-trillion dollars by 2027.

Did Pope Francis bring about any lasting change to the Church?
https://ffrf.org/news/releases/pope-francis-death-leaves-a-legacy-of-unanswered-abuse-and-religious-oppression/

Pope Francis’ death leaves a legacy of unanswered abuse and religious oppression
The Freedom From Religion Foundation acknowledges the death of Pope Francis, a leader revered by many but whose tenure failed to bring meaningful change to a deeply flawed institution. 

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.23337 has been replaced.
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Matryoshka Model Learning for Improved Elastic Student Models
Industry-grade ML models are carefully designed to meet rapidly evolving serving constraints, which requires significant resources for model development. In this paper, we propose MatTA, a framework for training multiple accurate Student models using a novel Teacher-TA-Student recipe. TA models are larger versions of the Student models with higher capacity, and thus allow Student models to better relate to the Teacher model and also bring in more domain-specific expertise. Furthermore, multiple…

🎧 The latest episode of 'My Pocket Psych' is all about how to bring your #values to life in simple ways to support your #wellbeing.

Shifting our thinking from "I have to" to "How can I?" allows us to seek out the 'towards moves' in each con…

Anyone want to buy my #FlipperZero ? I haven't used it in a while and it's just too cool to gather dust. I can bring it to #GPN23 if you want to have a look.

Good - a court slaps down FFOTUS tariffs...
"Court says Trump doesn't have the authority to set tariffs"
https://www.axios.com/2025/05/28/trump-tariffs-trade-court-ruling

Court says Trump doesn't have the authority to set tariffs
The U.S. Court of International Trade's ruling could bring the trade war to a screeching halt.

I've spent little to no time on Mastodon in the last few weeks, let alone posting...
The reason has been the illness and then death of my beloved dog “Sam”, aka “Unixdog”, which has left me pretty broken up.
The grief is still not out of my heart, and it doesn't look like things are getting better at the moment, but I will try to bring normality back into my life and thus post Linux and Open Source related topics here again.
And I hope that Sam is doing well in dog…

We need to bring back “sap” in its mid century meaning. Trump supporter? You poor sap.

Cavity QED with molecular defects coupled to to a photonic crystal cavity
Christian M. Lange, Arya D. Keni, Ishita Agarwal, Emma Daggett, Adhyyan S. Mansukhani, Ankit Kundu, Benjamin Cerjan, Libai Huang, Jonathan D. Hood
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01917

Cavity QED with molecular defects coupled to to a photonic crystal cavity
We implement permanent spectral tuning to bring lifetime-limited emitters into collective resonance within an integrated photonic cavity. This addresses a fundamental challenge in solid-state cavity QED: combining multiple coherent quantum emitters with scalable nanophotonics. Our hybrid approach decouples emitter synthesis from nanophotonic fabrication using straightforward techniques that make cavity QED broadly accessible. High doping densities allow us to couple several coherent emitters to…

The deadline for FProper (SIGPLAN Workshop on Functional Programming for Productivity and Performance) full-paper abstracts has been extended to June 14th. (Which is also when the papers themselves are due.)
Send us your paper!
https://conf.researchr.org/home/icfp-s

FProPer 2025 - ICFP/SPLASH 2025
FProPer aims to bring together researchers and practitioners that strive to use or develop declarative languages for combining programmer productivity with the highest levels of runtime performance. The performance aspects are not limited to sequential or parallel runtime performance but encompass all kinds of performance aspects, such as memory footprint or energy consumption as well. Application areas of interest include, but are not limited to, high-performance scientific computing and numer…

Walmart expands its partnership with Alphabet-owned Wing to bring drone delivery services to Atlanta, Charlotte, Houston, Orlando, and Tampa, adding 100 stores (Andrew J. Hawkins/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/680723/walmart-wing…

Wing and Walmart are bringing drone delivery to 100 new stores
Walmart and Wing announced an expansion of their drone delivery partnership to include 100 additional stores in five new cities.

This video is about the tendency for people to quite easily bring the mood down: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDQWmuAaEs8

Portugal incluído. Nice.
https://flipboard.com/@euronews/green-news-8pjijreoz/-/a-mxqHnas_TPiVM9JgFxN9Ug:a:89340020-/0

EU and six member states take ‘historic step’ by ratifying UN treaty to protect the high seas
The High Seas Treaty has the potential to bring about a significant shift in global ocean conservation efforts. The European Union and six of its …

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Bring sie alle her.
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"Nigel Farage’s pitch for Welsh elections: bring back coalmining"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Wales #FossilFuels

I will sit here.
And there.
And any.
And every where.
Destabilizing work site be d’m’d- I will devote myself to serving the American people.
By continuing my work on sorting out and prepping for extreme weather across the continental USA
Every single one of my colleagues is just as dedicated.
Why am I doing research ‘in exile’?
If it’s a test of my commitment to my mission: bring it.
https://bsky.app/profile/drkatemarvel.bsky.social/post/3lpbwem2yvk2o

CrowdStrike and Microsoft Unite to Harmonize Cyber Threat Attribution
https://www.crowdstrike.com/en-us/blog/crowdstrike-and-microsoft-unite-to-deconflict-cyber-threat-attribution/

CrowdStrike and Microsoft Unite to Deconflict Cyber Threat Attribution
A CrowdStrike and Microsoft collaboration aims to eliminate ambiguity in adversary naming to bring clarity. Learn more!

RFK (Sr) said of Athens, "greatness does not require size [and] size does not necessarily bring greatness". Ditto Florence. I walked between the two poles of power—Palazzo Vecchio and Palazzo Medici—and it was < 900 steps (and that includes dodging meandering tourists). #Italy25

Corbyn calling out the 'Labour' warmongers.
#warmongering

Studentenvisum für die #USA ? Geh' zur Botschaft und bring' Dein digitales Leben mit: "Under the screening process, consular officers would examine applicants’ posts, shares, and comments across platforms such as Instagram, X, and TikTok for content they deem to be threatening to national security, ..."

“Today Canada is tabling Supplementary Estimates.... this will bring Canadian spending in line with NATO commitments this year.”
"They deserve better"
"Salary Increase"
"Military Equipment”
"Technology"
"Drones”
.....
He also said, in French, that it was time to assert its sovereignty, its values, with allies that share those values.
He's now taking questions.
#Canada #CanPoli #NATO #RussiaUkraine #USA

Solar storm has reached Earth, could bring auroras to U.S. South
A severe” solar storm
— rated a level 4 out of 5
— arrived on Earth earlier than NOAA’s Space Weather Prediction Center had forecast on Saturday.
Northern lights were visible as far south as New Mexico, and vivid displays were photographed in Wyoming, Utah and Washington state.

Before dawn, the aurora could even be detected in the Mid-Atlantic with a camera
— which is more sensitive to ligh…

Solar storm has reached Earth, could bring auroras to U.S. South
A “severe” solar storm is expected to reach Earth any time from late morning to Sunday evening Eastern time, according to NOAA.

Canal signs a distribution deal to carry Netflix content in 24 Francophone sub-Saharan countries; Netflix is estimated to have <5M subscribers in Africa (Scott Roxborough/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business…

Canal+ to Distribute Netflix in Francophone Africa in Landmark Pact
The French pay-TV player inked a first-of-its-kind deal with the streaming giant to bring Netflix content to 24 French-speaking countries across Sub-Saharan Africa.

Series C, Episode 12 - Death-Watch
VILA: [V.O., over comm] That's what he said. And let's face it: any friend of Avon's got to be sick, right? Are you going to bring us up, Cally?
CALLY: Have a little patience, Vila.
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Bring Back Racist Mascots or New York’s Education Funding Gets It | The Nation
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/linda-mcmahon-trump-massapequa-chiefs/

Skip the usual warmongering posturing from the various indentured 'experts', to
“Luck and misperception played a significant role in near misses in the Cold War conflict between the US & Soviet Union, especially the Cuban missile crisis in 1962,”
“What is claimed in this SDR, and has been the rhetoric under successive governments, is that the UK’s nuclear weapons are an ‘ultimate guarantee’ against attack. But… there is no basis for claiming this level of certainty.”…

Will Britain’s nuclear strategy bring catastrophe? Experts on UK's 'dangerous gamble'
Former defence minister Tobias Ellwood said the UK must expand its nuclear arsenal with tactical bombs to prepare for Putin

What Makes Raiders DL Coach Rob Leonard Special? https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/las-vegas-rob-leonard-maxx-crosby-patrick-graham-pete-carroll

On Friday, Trump’s border czar,
Tom Homan, said he plans to send the National Guard to Los Angeles
to combat protests against ICE that began this weekend following immigration raids in the city.
“We are making Los Angeles safer. Mayor Bass should be thanking us. She says they are going to mobilize—guess what?
We are already mobilizing.
We are going to bring the National Guard in tonight,”
Homan told Fox News.
California Governor Gavin Newsom respo…

LA protests live: National Guard to arrive within 24 hours after being deployed by Trump over immigration demos
Demonstrators clash with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials in hours-long stand-off

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.15962 has been replaced.
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Blimp-based Crime Scene Analysis
Crime is a critical problem -- which often takes place behind closed doors, posing additional difficulties for investigators. To bring hidden truths to light, evidence at indoor crime scenes must be documented before any contamination or degradation occurs. Here, we address this challenge from the perspective of artificial intelligence (AI), computer vision, and robotics: Specifically, we explore the use of a blimp as a "floating camera" to drift over and record evidence with minimal disturbanc…

Sonnet 109 - CIX
O! never say that I was false of heart,
Though absence seem'd my flame to qualify,
As easy might I from my self depart
As from my soul which in thy breast doth lie:
That is my home of love: if I have ranged,
Like him that travels, I return again;
Just to the time, not with the time exchanged,
So that myself bring water for my stain.
Never believe though in my nature reigned,
All frailties that besiege all kinds …

Lesson learned. When paint matching, even the fancy color matching devices don’t work very well. Success rate of 0.25 for us. Apps are also wildly inconsistent.
Instead, cut a square inch out of your wall with a utility knife and bring it into the hardware store. They’ll scan it and match it exactly. I went from thinking it was ridiculous to knowing it’s really the only way to go.
#DIY

#PennedPossibilities 682 — MC POV: Tell us about one of your bad habits.
MC: “Old habits die hard, bad habits can get you killed. One thing I'm getting constant flack for from my brother is pushing people away when I need them. Hell, I suppose he'd love that I bring that up as a bad habit, but I try to protect people from the fallout from my meltdowns, that's all. Anywa…

NYT and Amazon agree to a content licensing deal for use in Amazon's AI platforms and to bring the NYT's "content to a variety of Amazon customer experiences" (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/29/business/m…

The Times and Amazon Announce an A.I. Licensing Deal
In 2023, The Times sued OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement. Now its editorial content will appear across Amazon platforms.

One Raiders Defender Who No One is Talking About https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/las-vegas-pete-carroll-patrick-graham-leki-fotu-arizona-cardinals

All eyes on Cowboys' explosive playmaker in intriguing training camp battle https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/all-eyes-dallas-cowboys-explosive-playmaker-most-important-training-camp-battle

#PennedPossibilities 682 — MC POV: Tell us about one of your bad habits.
MC: “Old habits die hard, bad habits can get you killed. One thing I'm getting constant flack for from my brother is pushing people away when I need them. Hell, I suppose he'd love that I bring that up as a bad habit, but I try to protect people from the fallout from my meltdowns, that's all. Anywa…

The rise of China, along with regional powers such as Turkey, Indonesia and Saudi Arabia, has disrupted the unipolar dominance of the U.S.
These would-be regional hegemons bring with them their own means of imposing influence through economic incentives and coercion.
In China’s case, infrastructure and trade development through the Belt and Road Initiative is counterbalanced with shows of military strength in the South China Sea.
As the global order becomes increasingly fragm…

Are hegemonies a relic of the past? The role of coercion and consent in global domination
From Athens to the British Empire and on to the US – dominant powers have used might and consent to exert influence.

Staff of the Federal Emergency Management Agency were left baffled on Monday after the head of the US disaster agency said during a briefing that he had not been aware the country has a hurricane season, according to four sources familiar with the situation.
The US hurricane season officially began on Sunday and lasts through November.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration forecast last week that this year’s season is expected to bring as many as 10 hurricanes.