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When Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick met with Kazakhstan’s president at the St. Regis Hotel last September in New York,
Donald Trump jumped in by phone as the men sealed a deal on a top priority for Washington.
During the call, Mr. Trump and his team won an agreement from the Kazakh leader to give a little-known American company access to one of the world’s largest untapped reserves of tungsten,
a metal that the United States desperately needs for the production of missil…

Trump Cut a Billion-Dollar Mining Deal. His Sons Stand to Profit.
An agreement between the U.S. and Kazakhstan has given a group of American investors with ties to the president and the commerce secretary access to one of the world’s largest untapped reserves of tungsten.

Trump administration has received $13Bn from Venezuela's oil this year already. What they are doing with it is obscure.
Oil receipts up 25% but country is in recession.
Rubio gives instructions directly to the Venezuelan interim president who maintains a show of independence.
It's a de facto colony (article says 'protectorate'.
Trump ha convertido Venezuela en un protectorado 'de facto' y la comunidad internacional prefiere mirar hacia otro lado

Trump ha convertido Venezuela en un protectorado 'de facto' y la comunidad internacional prefiere mirar hacia otro lado
La presidenta interina de Venezuela, Delcy Rodríguez, tiene condicionada su política exterior, comercial, económica e interior por los designios de EEUU

US moves to allow commercial fishing in Pacific marine protected areas https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2026/06/us-moves-to-allow-commercial-fishing-in-pacific-marine-protected-areas/

US moves to allow commercial fishing in Pacific marine protected areas
On June 11, U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive proclamation to open additional commercial fishing grounds in remote areas of the Pacific. The proclamation says restoring access to these areas “will promote economic opportunity.” However, local groups warn it will open the door to overfishing in a crucial marine habitat and sacred cultural site. […]

Verbraucherschutz im Netz: Minister fordern härteres Vorgehen gegen Fake-Shops
Die Verbraucherschutzministerkonferenz nimmt E-Commerce, KI-Agenten, Online-Lebensmittelüberwachung und mangelnde Preistransparenz an E-Ladesäulen ins Visier.

Verbraucherschutz im Netz: Minister fordern härteres Vorgehen gegen Fake-Shops
Die Verbraucherschutzministerkonferenz nimmt E-Commerce, KI-Agenten, Online-Lebensmittelüberwachung und mangelnde Preistransparenz an E-Ladesäulen ins Visier.

Memo: Yusuf Mehdi, a 35-year Microsoft veteran who has been its commercial chief marketing officer since 2023, will leave the company after the next fiscal year (Ashley Stewart/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-yusu…

Microsoft veteran executive Yusuf Mehdi is leaving after the next fiscal year, an internal memo shows
Microsoft executive vice president Yusuf Mehdi is leaving after 35 years. He wrote that he plans to help "reimagine Windows for the agentic era."

Good blog by @… which gives an insight in the amazing capabilities and risks (!) of Fable 5, Anthropic's latest model, at the same time the costs are also enormous if you use this seriously i think.
Commercially the question is how quickly can much cheaper models get closer to these capabilities.

Claude Fable is relentlessly proactive
After two days of experience with Claude Fable 5 I think the best way to describe it is relentlessly proactive. It knows a whole lot of tricks and it will …

"US moves to allow commercial fishing in Pacific marine protected areas"
#US #USA #America #Oceans

US moves to allow commercial fishing in Pacific marine protected areas
On June 11, U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive proclamation to open additional commercial fishing grounds in remote areas of the Pacific. The proclamation says restoring access to these areas “will promote economic opportunity.” However, local groups warn it will open the door to overfishing in a crucial marine habitat and sacred cultural site. […]

Enjoying MillMint today, and thinking about the way a world built by one person inevitably winds up uncannily unified in aesthetic to the point it undermines the project's credibility with regards to what it tries to express about ours
https://millmint.net

I have been slowly moving away from US controlled tech, the remaining bits are ones I can't control really: banking payments, DK state ITs love affair with microsoft, apps needed to access state services.
And if someone can come up with a way to persuade teenagers this is cool. That would be nice.
Of course what the piece misses is the huge commercial reliance on the back end stack.
We desperately need #Eurostack.
https://fediscience.org/@Ruth_Mottram/116554305782688437
Ruth_Mottram - Life without US tech - https://giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/actions/redeem/e6d8cec7-b20c-4707-b963-88348726215a

Admin Officials in the Epstein Files:
Donald J. Trump (President)
Melania Trump (1st Lady)
Howard Lutnick (Sec. Commerce)
John Phelan (Sec. Navy)
Paolo Zampolli (Kennedy Center)
RFK Jr. (Sec. HHS)
Kevin Warsh (Fed Nominee)
Mehmet Oz (Admin. for CMS)
Elon Musk (Fmr DOGE Appointee)
Steve Bannon (Fmr Senior Advisor)
Alex Acosta (Fmr Sec. Labor)
Bill Barr (Fmr AG)
Brett Ratner (Film Director "Melania")