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A US federal judge orders the USAGM to immediately disburse RFE/RL's May funding of ~$12M, following a similar order last month for its April funding (Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty)
https://www.rferl.org/a/rfe-rl-order-lamberth-court-funding-/33429…

US Court Orders Agency Overseeing RFE/RL To Pay May Funding
A US district judge on May 30 granted Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty’s (RFE/RL)’s third request for a temporary restraining order (TRO) in its lawsuit against the US Agency for Global Media (USAGM) and ordered the agency to immediately disburse RFE/RL's May funding.

PBS and one of its local affiliates sue the Trump administration, saying his executive order to cut federal funding violated PBS' First Amendment rights (Sara Fischer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/05/30/pbs-funding-sue-trump

PBS sues Trump administration over funding cuts
The filing argues the president's executive order violates PBS' First Amendment rights.

PBS station WNET removed at least three educational TV episodes that discuss transgender identity and drag expression, following a DOGE subcommittee hearing (Nikita Mazurov/The Intercept)
https://theintercept.com/2025/05/29/drag-trans-pbs-wnet-censorship-d…

PBS Station Wipes Drag and Trans Content After DOGE Outcry
PBS producer WNET quietly erased episodes containing a drag queen and a trans character from its platforms.

Will do a proper #FieldDiary tomorrow but suffice to say, today went even better than hoped. Instruments behaved, weather cooperated our local hunter friend got us smoothly into the field. Looking forward to seeing what it all means now...
(Background: http://sternaparadisaea.net/2025/05/20/falling-apart/)

Food52 co-founder Amanda Hesser is stepping down after 16 years; she launched a Substack newsletter in March that has 705K subscribers (Mark Stenberg/Adweek)
https://www.adweek.com/media/food52-cofounder-amanda-hesser-steps-down/

Food52 Cofounder Amanda Hesser Steps Down
The influential lifestyle publisher has struggled following its pandemic heyday.

A bad #Python bump morning in #Gentoo:
1. A project that couldn't be bothered to make a release with a security fix for 4 years finally made a release. Of course, if you make one release in 7 years, it is definitely a good idea to replace your build system with a broken #PythonPoetry #setuptools hybrid.
2. Another project made a release with a bunch of test failures — that were fixed in "master" branch already at the time, but I guess nobody bothered testing the release branch.
3. Just discovered that a bunch of projects are using pkg_resources namespaces again — and we were supposed to have gotten rid of them years ago! Of course it's #Google. And on top of that, since pkg_resources are now throwing deprecation warnings, they are indirectly breaking random other test suites.
On the positive side, test_lolwut is failing for me in redis-py.

This is Audiodump! https://audiodump.de/live

Following up on the post about old #Windows installations, we have this one about floppy disks. Or as some people know them, the "Save" icon.
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Obsolete, but not gone: The people who won't give up floppy disks
The last floppy disk was made over a decade ago and doesn't even have enough capacity to store a modern smart phone picture, so why do some people still love using them?

Geiger von Müller – Origins #5 (Pelso Remix)
#alternative

USC professor Allison Marsh writes this delightful short article for IEEE Spectrum about Marvin Minsky and Seymour Papert's British counterparts in Cambridge and how, in their case, a document (the Lighthill Report) precipitated cuts in British AI research funding in ways similar to how funding was temporarily cut in the U.S. following MIT's publishing of Minsky and Papert's "Perceptrons" in 1969.
"Freddy the Robot Was the Fall Guy for British AI"

Freddy the Robot Was the Fall Guy for British AI

Its creator lost a power struggle that led to an AI winter in the 1970s