Commission preliminarily finds Meta in breach of Digital Services Act for failing to prevent minors under 13 from using Instagram and Facebook (European Commission)
https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_26_920
http://www.memeorandum.com/260429/p103#a260429p103
consensual pinging
@… #VOTV #VoicesOfTheVoid
The US supreme court ruled that Donald Trump can fire leaders of independent agencies or commissions,
-- ending 90 years of court precedent that curbs executive power.
The vote in the case of
"Trump v Slaughter" is 6-3,
with dissents from Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Ketanji Brown Jackson and Elena Kagan.
The case was focused on the White House’s March 2025 firing of Federal Trade Commission member Rebecca Slaughter.
Trump fired Slaughter over email…
DESNZ has published a follow-up study on data centre energy consumption.
(The report has some interesting estimates on things like "streaming a 2hr movie vs watching a broadcast movie", "manual email vs AI assisted email" etc.)
https://www.gov.uk…
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Chinese American Bear:
🎵 All the People (所有人)
#ChineseAmericanBear
https://chineseamericanbear.bandcamp.com/track/all-the-people
https://open.spotify.com/track/4P1jRNtwsrEx72UfiZnlIv
Abo-Apps: 95 Prozent der kündigenden Jahreskunden kommen nie zurück
Laut RevenueCat-Report kündigen über die Hälfte der Probe-Nutzer in Apps am ersten Tag. Jahresabos haben zudem kaum Rückkehr-Chancen.
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Subsurface structural changes associated with successive 11-yr solar activity cycles have been progressively more confined near the surface - new helioseismic results on Cycles 22–25 from BiSON: #Sun
RE: https://mastodon.social/@cmconseils/116488001647766797
This is me on vacation:
As always, if you're demanding consent, it is probably a good idea to be able to articulate why consent is the right model for what is happening.
With time running out, Trump digs in on changing midterm election rules (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/06/28/with-time-running-out-trump-digs-changing-midterm-election-rules/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260628/p4#a260628p4