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One of the biggest election stories no one's talking about: the US Democratic primaries are becoming a proxy war between rival AI factions, with candidates tuning their strategies accordingly. My latest Substack digs into how that happened.
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Judge blocks Trump national parks order -- calling it ‘censorship’
A federal judge has barred the Trump administration from continuing to remove information about slavery, civil rights, climate change and other topics from national parks.

Angel Kelley, a U.S. District Judge for Massachusetts, on Friday issued a preliminary injunction
directing the National Park Service to stop taking further action to implement an executive order issued by Donald Trump aimed at
scrub…

Judge blocks Trump national parks order, calling it ‘censorship’
A federal court barred the Trump administration from continuing to remove information about civil rights, climate change and other topics from national parks, directing the government to restore what it changed within the coming weeks.

40 years ago this weekend, jerry garcia falls into a diabetic coma & nearly dies. in the hospital, his heart stops following an allergic reaction when doctors give him valium. the dead will cancel 30 dates through fall. he relearns to play guitar & is performing again by october.

Billionaire Elon Musk likely broke the law when he handed out $1 million checks to voters just days before Wisconsin’s Supreme Court election,
a state election board found.
The Wisconsin Elections Commission, currently split evenly between Democrats and Republicans,
voted 5-1 in a closed session last week to refer the complaints to the Brown County district attorney’s office,
the commission's spokesperson Emilee Miklas told the Associated Press.
The panel r…

Elon Musk’s $1 Million Voter Checks Likely Illegal, Wisconsin Board Says
The Wisconsin Elections Commission referred complaints against Musk to the Brown County district attorney’s office.

I've just signed a petition calling on the richest governments to tax the profits of oil and gas companies. It’s completely unfair that those who did the most to cause the climate crisis stand to profit from more destruction and war while we pay the price. You can sign it here:
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Tax polluters' profits now!
The war in the Middle East is taking hundreds of lives while also causing oil and gas prices to surge – and fossil fuel companies are cashing in, while families struggle with rising bills. The richest countries must tax these polluters' profits now! Let’s make them pay!

I've just signed a petition calling on the richest governments to tax the profits of oil and gas companies. It’s completely unfair that those who did the most to cause the climate crisis stand to profit from more destruction and war while we pay the price. You can sign it here:
https://

Tax polluters' profits now!
The war in the Middle East is taking hundreds of lives while also causing oil and gas prices to surge – and fossil fuel companies are cashing in, while families struggle with rising bills. The richest countries must tax these polluters' profits now! Let’s make them pay!

Sources: new Doctor Who episodes are likely to remain off TV until at least 2028; the BBC says it will use a competitive process to find producers for Season 16 (Jake Kanter/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2026/06/doctor-who-off-air-for-years-creati…

‘Doctor Who’ Set To Be Off Air For Years Amid A Creative Regeneration That’s Failing To Spark Early Enthusiasm Among Producers
Doctor Who' is famed for having powers of regeneration, but the Time Lord's next transformation for the BBC could well be the most challenging yet.

from my link log —
RNG: flat datacenter networks at Amazon.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.15261
saved 2026-06-09 https://dotat.at/:/UUHIR.html

RNG: Flat Datacenter Networks at Scale
We design and deploy in production the first flat datacenter networks. Our design, called RNG, is based on quasi-random graphs. While the cost and fault-tolerance benefits of such topologies have been long known, their practical realization has been hampered by a lack of scalable routing and cabling approaches. RNG has a new distributed routing protocol that exploits the properties of random graphs to find a large number of edge disjoint paths between pairs of endpoints. It uses a novel passive…

Trump-Backed David Flippo Wins Republican Primary In Nevada's 2nd Congressional District (Associated Press)
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/david-flippo-wins-nevada-gop-primary_n_6a297b1ce4b01046d715d98f
http://www.memeorandum.com/260610/p58#a260610p58

Partitioned Iterative Quantum Scheduling of Satellites for Urgent Disaster Response: Case study of Wildfire
Lucas T. Braydwood, Taejin Park, Hirofumi Hashimoto, Zoe Gonzalez Izquierdo, Andrew Michaelis, Eleanor Rieffel, Shon Grabbe
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.12310 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2606.12310 https://arxiv.org/html/2606.12310
arXiv:2606.12310v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: The standard in Earth-observation tasks today is having near real-time access to surface images in response to changing conditions. For instance, as urban environments interface more with wildlands and wildfires become less predictable, their tracking with satellite resources becomes essential. This requires the coordination of increasingly large constellations of satellites, giving rise to challenging computational problems. With wildfire detection and tracking as a backdrop, we investigate the power of special purpose and novel computing paradigms to tackle the ensuing satellite scheduling problems, making a compelling case for quantum algorithms. We bring quantum scheduling algorithms closer to implementation by examining both the emerging iterative quantum algorithm framework, which comes with analytic guarantees compared to some classical algorithms, and distributed quantum computing methods whose relevance is on the rise as utility-scale problems begin to get solved with quantum computers. Drawing strength from several computing fronts, we develop a distributed/parallelization scheme in conjunction with the quantum algorithm design and apply these techniques to real-world datasets for wildfire detection. While our quantum subprocesses are currently too small to see significant quantum advantage, our results validate the utility of these techniques, and continue forging the path toward distributed quantum computing.
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