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Introducing FAIR: A federated approach to strengthen the WordPress ecosystem;
A new community-led initiative to extend WordPress distribution beyond a single point of control. @…

Introducing FAIR: A federated approach to strengthen the WordPress ecosystem | We Love Open Source - All Things Open
Last week, at AltCtrl.org, a community gathering focused on the open web, a large group of contributors from the WordPress Ecosystem introduced FAIR, a new federated approach to plugin and... Read More

'‘Ticking timebomb’: sea acidity has reached critical levels, threatening entire ecosystems – study"
#Oceans #Environment

TollBit: from Q4 2024 to Q1 2025, traffic from AI retrieval bots to 266 websites, including national and local news organizations, grew 49%, as AI usage jumps (Nitasha Tiku/Washington Post)

‘This is coming for everyone’: A new kind of AI bot takes over the web
As consumers switch from Google search to ChatGPT, a new kind of bot is scraping data for AI chatbots.

Profiles of three employees at VOA's fact-checking unit, who fled Russia and are now among the many journalists losing their jobs under President Trump's orders (Scott Nover/Washington Post)

The U.S. granted these journalists asylum. Then it fired them.
Three employees at Voice of America’s fact-checking unit fled Putin’s wrath and are now among the many journalists losing their jobs under Trump’s orders.

With FFOTUS now actively using the military against US citizens and legal residents we have entered a new phase.
It is pretty clear that "protesting" via symbolic acts and gatherings are largely ineffective and, indeed, often serve to create excuses - poor excuses, but plausible in the maga-klan kommunity - for more repression.
In other words we are moving past protest to a more confrontational time.
And for which I remind people of song found appropriate around t…

The secret police descending on Small Town, U.S.A. (Catherine Rampell/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/06/11/immigration-arrests-ice-raid-masks/?pwapi_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJyZWFzb24iOiJnaWZ0IiwibmJmIjoxNzQ5NjE0NDAwLCJpc3MiOiJzdWJzY3JpcHRpb25zIiwiZXhwIjoxNzUwOTk2Nzk5LCJpYXQiOjE3NDk2MTQ0MDAsImp0aSI6ImIzYzNkZmY2LTM3OGUtNDE2OS05MzdjLTVlNWQwOTUyNGU5NyIsInVybCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3Lndhc2hpbmd0b25wb3N0LmNvbS9vcGluaW9ucy8yMDI1LzA2LzExL2ltbWlncmF0aW9uLWFycmVzdHMtaWNlLXJhaWQtbWFza3MvIn0.Y_FWR99bU09JQCwbWczWWN_YEnrAegE-dLLpuSmilqM&itid=gfta
http://www.memeorandum.com/250611/p86#a250611p86

‘Ticking Time Bomb’ of Ocean Acidification Has Already Crossed Planetary Boundary, Threatening Marine Ecosystems: Study https://www.ecowatch.com/ocean-acidification-planetary-boundary.html

‘Ticking Time Bomb’ of Ocean Acidification Has Already Crossed Planetary Boundary, Threatening Marine Ecosystems: Study
A new study has found that ocean acidification is not only getting worse, but crossed its “planetary boundary” roughly five years ago.

TollBit: from Q4 2024 to Q1 2025, traffic from AI retrieval bots to 266 websites, half run by national and local news organizations, grew 49%, as AI usage jumps (Nitasha Tiku/Washington Post)

‘This is coming for everyone’: A new kind of AI bot takes over the web
As consumers switch from Google search to ChatGPT, a new kind of bot is scraping data for AI chatbots.

Vance, Rubio peddle fiction that 88 percent of foreign aid doesn't go overseas (Glenn Kessler/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/06/11/usaid-vance-rubio-fact-checker/?pwapi_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJyZWFzb24iOiJnaWZ0IiwibmJmIjoxNzQ5NjE0NDAwLCJpc3MiOiJzdWJzY3JpcHRpb25zIiwiZXhwIjoxNzUwOTk2Nzk5LCJpYXQiOjE3NDk2MTQ0MDAsImp0aSI6ImJiMmMyN2Y0LTAyNzgtNDU0MS1hMWYwLTAzMTQ0ZDI3NjU1MCIsInVybCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3Lndhc2hpbmd0b25wb3N0LmNvbS9wb2xpdGljcy8yMDI1LzA2LzExL3VzYWlkLXZhbmNlLXJ1YmlvLWZhY3QtY2hlY2tlci8ifQ.qzfLi0ibDVUF_GBMHlIrtgSA6uw1SZiw7cmfICayapw&itid=gfta
http://www.memeorandum.com/250611/p20#a250611p20

Analysis: Nvidia's $500B US spending plan has accelerated the US AI server ecosystem development, with at least eight suppliers unveiling new investment plans (Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Technol…

Trump's first 'Made in the USA' triumph won't be the iPhone
AI data center suppliers flock to the US to serve Nvidia, Microsoft and others