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✨ SIG-Marcomms Meeting Recap ✨
Our communications community gathered in Helsinki right before #TNC26 for a day of discussions and shared learning. One question was on everyone's mind: how do we move from communications as a reactive function to communications as a strategic force?
What followed were discussions on crisis communications, strategic influence and a round of Lightning…

Retiring YDS Director of Communications, Tom Krattenmaker, reflects on religion, writing, and the natural world. https://divinity.yale.edu/news/2026-05-26-connection-and-community-retiring-communications-director-masters-the-ar…

Trump has previewed a Republican strategy for the midterm elections,
seizing on a progressive sweep in New York to portray Democrats as
“godless communists” who pose an existential threat to the nation.
The president, who was a child during the “red scare”, seized on wins by democratic socialists backed by the mayor of New York City, Zohran Mamdani, to stoke fears that the Democratic party has embraced extremism that could lead to the violent persecution of Christians.

Trump attacks Democrats as ‘godless communists’ in test of midterms message
President seizes on wins by Mamdani-backed candidates to warn darkly of threat to ‘traditional American way of life’

Trump tries out midterms message that focuses on 'communists' (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/06/26/trump-tries-out-midterms-message-that-focuses-communists/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260626/p98#a260626p98

Communication directors of 12 Dutch ministries: government should leave X, to stop exposing citizens to desinformation, racism, discrimination, misogyny, and antisemitism.
https://www.volkskrant.nl/politiek/topambtenaren-in-intern…

Topambtenaren in intern memo aan kabinet: Rijksoverheid moet van X
De Rijksoverheid moet zich grotendeels terugtrekken van het socialemediaplatform X. Dat adviseert de Voorlichtingsraad, die bestaat uit de directeuren communicatie van alle twaalf departementen, aan het kabinet-Jetten.

And actually we gave up a LOT of the things that work to manage a commons — preventing extraction, particularly — by yielding to such distant structures. Good management requires a lot more immediate engagement.
But also what a commons _is_ is a bit weird with information.

"The Madrid Deep Space Communications Complex (MDSCC) in Robledo de Chavela was evacuated on July 24 due to the wildfires. All personnel are safe following the passage of the fire through the area. [...] Mission operations have been transferred seamlessly to the Goldstone Complex (California). This ensures service continuity and uninterrupted support for spacecraft communications." From the thread #DeepSpaceNetwork

Triff mich an der Ladesäule, wie ich mich per SSH in den Charger einlogge. 🥳
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The Hidden CCS2 Attack Surface on EV Chargers
https://www.saiflow.com/blog/the-hidden-ccs2-attack-surface-on-ev-chargers

It would be nice if people writing on AI helped distinguish between the various types of AI - They are related, but the LLMs that scrape the web are very different from models carefully trained on well curated data. Which AI are we talking about?
The AI jobs apocalypse probably isn’t coming anytime soon

The AI jobs apocalypse probably isn’t coming anytime soon
Artificial intelligence may not deliver on its promise of vast economic opportunity at a price that humanity is willing to pay

Trump rips Mayor Zohran Mamdani, DSA -- proclaims he'd be 'the greatest Communist in history' (Ally Goelz/New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2026/06/26/us-news/prez-rips-mayor-zohran-mamdani-dsa-proclaims-hed-be-the-greatest-communist-in-history/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260626/p91#a260626p91