Wird super.
Mattel and OpenAI Announce Strategic Collaboration
https://corporate.mattel.com/news/mattel-and-openai-announce-strategic-collaboration
Cynthia Santiago, an attorney in Southern California, won her high school presidential class race the same year Stephen Miller,
the current White House Deputy Chief of Staff,
lost the class speaker race.
More than 20 years later, Santiago is trying to fight Miller’s mass deportation efforts.
Santiago, the daughter of immigrants, has been working to defend immigrants’ rights since 2012.
But having gone to school with Miller, watching his rise to prominence in P…
Hmm… maybe I should pickup a watch with a "California Dial". 🤔
P.S. For those unfamiliar with this dial layout or even those who have seen it but wondered WTF is going on, this is a nice summary:
https://revolutionwatch.com/california-love/
Metacurity is pleased to offer our free and premium subscribers a weekly digest of the best long-form (and longish) infosec-related pieces we couldn't properly fit into our daily news crush.
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--How the SEC missed the likely culprits in its 2017 hack,
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Huh, so the American "No Kings Day" is happening on the same day as the Commonwealth's "Kings Official Summer Birthday".
Strange coincidence.
I think there should be no kings and no king's birthday celebrations FWIW. Power passed down the genetic line like a mutation is ridiculous, and anyway no power should be concentrated in one person like that in the first place.
Have a happy holiday, whichever you are celebrating/protesting.
#kingsBirthday #noKingsDay
Wow. Yes. From a California district court:
“At this early stage of the proceedings, the Court must determine whether the President followed the congressionally mandated procedure for his actions. He did not. His actions were illegal—both exceeding the scope of his statutory authority and violating the Tenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. He must therefore return control of the California National Guard to the Governor of the State of California forthwith.” https://journa.host/@chrisgeidner/114673375048335011
Acquired sits down with #SteveBallmer, former #Microsoft CEO & owner of the LA #Clippers, for an epic conversation covering his 34yrs @ Microsoft.
▶️ The Steve Ballmer Interview
arxiv_collab: Scientific collaborations in physics (1995-2005)
Collaboration graphs for scientists, extracted from the Los Alamos e-Print arXiv (physics), for 1995-1999 for three categories, and additionally for 1995-2003 and 1995-2005 for one category. For copyright reasons, the MEDLINE (biomedical research) and NCSTRL (computer science) collaboration graphs from this paper are not publicly available.
This network has 16726 nodes and 47594 edges.
Tags: Social, Collaboratio…
Trump ordered to return control of California National Guard to governor
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/12/trump-guard-california-newsom602riya.html
U.S. Sen. Alex Padilla on Thursday was handcuffed by officers and forcefully removed from Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s news conference in Los Angeles
as he tried to speak up about immigration raids that have led to protests in California and around the country.
Video shows a Secret Service agent on Noem’s security detail grabbing the California senator by his jacket and shoving him from the room
as he tried to speak up during the DHS secretary’s event.
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