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Prince and The Revolution:
🎵 When Doves Cry
#PrinceandTheRevolution
https://desdesxofficial.bandcamp.com/track/prince-the-revolution-when-doves-cry-desdesx-edit
https://open.spotify.com/track/2UOGmejRXbAkgUmSPaTt5L

Folks in NZ are starting to realise the implications of the impending EOL of Microsoft Windows 10 for our education system. In its finite wisdom, our MinOfEd has effectively locked all schools into either the use of MS Windows or Google ChromeOS. Both have fundamental issues like endless license hassles, EOLing OSs, ending support for Window or ChromeOS on specific computer models, etc. And that doesn't even start to talk about digital colonisation & sovereignty (see

Knowledge Graphs for Digitized Manuscripts in Jagiellonian Digital Library Application
Jan Ignatowicz, Krzysztof Kutt, Grzegorz J. Nalepa
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.03180

Knowledge Graphs for Digitized Manuscripts in Jagiellonian Digital Library Application
Digitizing cultural heritage collections has become crucial for preservation of historical artifacts and enhancing their availability to the wider public. Galleries, libraries, archives and museums (GLAM institutions) are actively digitizing their holdings and creates extensive digital collections. Those collections are often enriched with metadata describing items but not exactly their contents. The Jagiellonian Digital Library, standing as a good example of such an effort, offers datasets acc…

currently in a situation where `./configure` tells me to call `make distclean`, but running `make distclean` just runs `./configure` again

Eine Messe-Erwerbung: "Der Teufelsfisch" von Susumu Katsumata. Eine Sammlung kurzer Geschichten des bisher in Deutschland unveröffentlichten Mangaka, über Arbeiter in einem Atomkraftwerk, über japanische Fabelwesen und autobiografisch geprägte tragische Kurzgeschichten. Eine etwas wilde Mischung mit wenig Zusammenhang - ich weiß auch nicht, was ich eigentlich erwartet habe. Aber zumindest ein interessanter Blick in das Schaffen des Künstlers.
Das sehr ausführliche Nachwort ver…

Insurer Blue Shield of California's new parent company alarms consumer advocates
Blue Shield of California accrued a surplus of more than $4 billion over the decades as it benefited from its former tax-exempt status, according to a regulatory filing.
Last year, regulators approved a request by 💥Blue Shield of California,
the state's third-largest health insurer, to restructure and establish a new parent corporation in Delaware.
The Oakland-based nonprofit go…

Insurer Blue Shield of California's new parent company alarms consumer advocates
Whistleblower demands California regulators rescind restructuring of Blue Shield of California, which established a new corporate parent in Delaware. He...

Mali : attaques djihadistes d’envergure dans l’ouest du pays
https://www.lemonde.fr/afrique/article/2025/07/01/mali-attaques-djihadistes-d-envergure-dans-l-ouest-du-pays_6617302_3212.html

Mali : attaques djihadistes d’envergure dans l’ouest du pays
Le Groupe de soutien à l’islam et aux musulmans a attaqué sept localités, notamment Kayes, la capitale régionale. Cette région frontalière avec le Sénégal est vitale pour l’économie malienne.

Cybercom’s defensive arm elevated to sub-unified command
https://defensescoop.com/2025/05/30/cybercom-jfhq-dodin-dcdc-designated-sub-unified-command/

Cybercom’s defensive arm elevated to sub-unified command
Joint Force Headquarters-DOD Information Network will now be known as the Department of Defense Cyber Defense Command (DCDC).

In a finding that will surely rock (eheh) the scientific community, I can now confirm that an electric guitar, even a good one, strung and mostly ignored in its case for a couple of decades will fail to remain in tune like it did when seeing more active use.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Curtis Mayfield:
🎵 Superfly
#CurtisMayfield
https://djskitjointz1.bandcamp.com/track/superfly-skitz-og-mix-ft-curtis-mayfield
https://open.spotify.com/track/4XsH9zBWPOCdXoH9ZDdS8r