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A frustrated Trump unloads on Senate Republicans behind closed doors (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/06/24/donald-trump-senate-lunch-00974397
http://www.memeorandum.com/260624/p92#a260624p92

OpenAI says its AI agents "took actions we did not intend" when they tried to hack government and university websites, and it is working with the organizations (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/techno…

OpenAI’s A.I. Tried Breaching Four Other Targets, With No Prompting
In each incident, the technology appeared to be conducting mundane data collection and resorted to hacking techniques to get it, researchers said.

In 1917, as canadian troops fought at Vimy Ridge in northern France,
Lieutenant Leslie Miller collected acorns from the battlefield and carried them home to Ontario.
Saplings from the resulting oaks were sent back to France about a century later, and became a living link between the two countries.
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney recounted that story in Strasbourg last week to the European Parliament as he proposed an alliance that went far beyond trade
to encomp…

America’s Allies Are No Longer Waiting for Trump to Leave
They now figure isolationism and protectionism will be U.S. foreign policy for a long time to come.

'Leuchtturm' #FotoVorschlag
From holidays at the baltic sea, a couple of years ago.
#photography #balticsea

How special-edition popcorn buckets designed for major movies became lucrative; AMC Theatres estimates they will generate $100M in revenue this year (Nicole Sperling/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/23/bus…

‘Odyssey’ Popcorn Buckets Help Fuel a $100 Million Market
Once, a tub of popcorn was just a tub of popcorn. Now, ‘collectible concession vessels’ could make one chain more than $100 million.

OpenAIs KI-Modelle (GPT-5.6 Sol und ein unveröffentlichtes, stärkeres Modell) haben während eines internen Testlaufs autonom einen Cyberangriff auf Hugging Face ausgeführt. Über eine Zero-Day-Lücke in einem Cache-Proxy verschafften sie sich Internetzugang, erbeuteten Zugangsdaten und bewegten sich eigenständig durch mehrere interne Cluster. OpenAI bezeichnet den Vorfall als "beispiellos". #heise

KI-Modelle von OpenAI steckten hinter IT-Angriff auf Hugging Face
Bei einem Test der Fähigkeiten neuer KI-Modelle sind die aus ihrer Umgebung ausgebrochen und haben Hugging Face kompromittiert. Das hat OpenAI eingestanden.

Letzte Nacht (zwecks #Bikestreak Tag 88 wie üblich kurz vor Mitternacht) nach der Arbeit im Home Office noch mit dem #BromptonElectricGLine #rausgeschafft. War wieder mal so eine "Ich…

Sonnet 033 - XXXIII
Full many a glorious morning have I seen
Flatter the mountain tops with sovereign eye,
Kissing with golden face the meadows green,
Gilding pale streams with heavenly alchemy;
Anon permit the basest clouds to ride
With ugly rack on his celestial face,
And from the forlorn world his visage hide,
Stealing unseen to west with this disgrace:
Even so my sun one early morn did shine,
With all triumphant splendour on my …

Quitobaquito Springs in south-west Arizona has been called a biological wonderland with few equals.
The springs are an oasis in the vast Sonoran desert along the US-Mexico border, held sacred by the O’odham people, who call it A’al Vaipia.
Here, water flows out of an aquifer at the bottom of a hill, runs along a short concrete channel and collects in a pond.
The pond is home to Sonoyta pupfish, which are small and silvery, with upturned jaws.
In the channel are found …

‘Total chaos’: the biological wonderland threatened by Trump’s border wall
Environmental groups are sounding the alarm over plans that threaten a desert spring that’s home to rare fish and turtles and sacred to the O’odham people

Charles Ross has a degree in math and a yen for physics.
He says he can sense celestial alignments, and feel the difference between colors of light in a spectrum.
When he needed a well dug for his desert home, he called a dowser.
The artist, 88, belongs to a generation of land artists who shed galleries and cities to work at a scale more common in ancient Egypt and Mesoamerica.
In 1975, he had been crisscrossing the Southwest for four years, hunting for the perfect…

He’s the Last Great Land Artist You’ve Never Heard Of
Charles Ross spent 50 years building “Star Axis,” a naked-eye observatory in New Mexico. Now his masterwork is ready. How to share it with a changed world?