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Wut? A campaign aimed at UK Boots shoppers involved infrastructure in Romania with phishing content hosted on a compromised Bolivian gov't site, with emails sent using a legit bulk mailing app that attackers installed on a compromised UK business terminal server.

Got a Boots email offering 'free gift beauty sample pack'? Well, 8.8 million of us got the same thing from Romanian hackers looking to steal our credit cards (and more)
A fake Boots giveaway reached nearly 9 million inboxes as hackers turned compromised systems into phishing machines

Nieuwe socialmedium "W" lijkt overbodig en een stuk slechter dan Mastodon en BlueSky, ik laat het voorlopig links liggen.

Hoe het ‘nieuwe sociale medium’ W Social de Europese Commissie wist te verleiden
De wereld van alternatieve sociale media werd in januari tijdens het World Economic Forum in Davos nogal verrast. Een Zweedse ondernemer, Ingmar Rentzhog, kondigde daar op een podium de oprichting van een nieuw sociaal medium aan. Nu gebeurt dat wel vaker. Er zijn allerlei pogingen om de volgende Instagram / X / TikTok te bouwen en daar rijk mee te worden. Maar deze was een beetje anders, ontdekte…

The Newest Oldest President (Jonathan Lemire/The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/2026/05/aging-president-trump-health/687194/?gift=SCYx-5scVta3-cr_IlgTyUZWNowyhYf-_uTOMGsFd1w
http://www.memeorandum.com/260518/p8#a260518p8

A review of Microsoft's 13-inch Surface Laptop shows 8GB of RAM is not enough for a good Windows 11 experience; PC makers have unveiled upcoming 8GB laptops (Antonio G. Di Benedetto/The Verge)

Even Microsoft couldn’t make Windows 11 work well on 8GB of RAM
Microsoft’s new entry-level 13-inch Surface Laptop pairs last year’s  great hardware with a higher price and just 8GB of RAM. Thanks, RAMageddon.

This headline made me freak the fuck out but then I saw it was Lynde Bradley Uihlein and not that complete piece of shit Richard Uihlein (from ULINE/"Funding Fascism" fame) who is her cousin.
https://urbanmilwaukee.com/2026/05/15/

Uihlein Makes $10 Million “Game Changer” Gift To UWM Freshwater School
Endowment supports students, faculty, water policy center and research vessels on the Great Lakes.

❝Criminalizing dissent isn’t a sideshow. It’s central to the plan. They want to stop you from taking to the streets in massive numbers if and when they take illegal actions to keep the Republican Party in power. They are using these bogus indictments to lay the foundation for the solution that Vice President JD Vance proposed for Minneapolis back in January — to invoke the Insurrection Act and send in tanks.❞
EDIT: Updated with gift link
https://share.inquirer.com/dCg3tG

Here's somebody's blog post about grackles' fondness for dropping feces in water, written from the perspective of an annoyed koi-pond owner. The author gives the usual explanation that behavior reduces nest predation (presumably because fecal smell is attractant). I couldn't find support for this hypothesis in the primary literature, however. Nor could I find support for the idea that a clean nest reduces parasites such as flesh-eating flies. But I'm not a birdologist so I could have missed the definitive paper. https://www.pondtrademag.com/blackbird-gift-sacs-the-airmail-no-pond-keeper-wants/

Te regalo 30 segundos para disfrutar de la naturaleza.
En un mundo tan ruidoso, parar el scroll y ver cada detalle del león, las moscas en la cara, la herida... Te hace volver al mundo.
Vídeo capturado con el Vivo X300 Ultra en Ol Pejeta. 4K 120fps y de safari con @…

#worldcup2026
My prediction seems to be panning out of plenty of goals for both sides.
Croatia are just as skilled and smart. But falling asleep is just a gift.

moreno_taro: Papuan gift-giving (1970)
A network of gift-giving relationships (taro exchange) among households in a Papuan village. Data collected by survey c.1970.
This network has 22 nodes and 78 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/moreno_ta…

I would simply *not* have eaten the faecally contaminated food causing the outbreak of explosive diarrhoea in the USA.
Except you can't purely caveat emptor / market solution your way out of contamination in the modern food supply chain.
It's such a gift to Trump's critics to tie uncontrollable shitting, at least philosophically if not practically, to his second term budget cuts at CDC/FDA.

Nou, fijn hoor: Wouter blijft nog een poosje.
https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2026/…

Wouter Koolmees gaat nog vier jaar door als topman NS
Wouter Koolmees is voor een periode van vier jaar herbenoemd als president-directeur van de NS. Dat maken de Nederlandse Spoorwegen woensdagochtend bekend. Koolmees was eerder minister van Sociale Zaken namens D66 in het kabinet Rutte-III. Sinds november 2022 is hij topman van de NS. Onder leiding van Koolmees verdienden de Nederlandse Spoorwegen voor het eerst sinds 2019 meer geld dan het…

Barret Zoph leaves OpenAI again five months after rejoining in January; Zoph initially left OpenAI in 2024 to serve as Thinking Machines Lab co-founder and CTO (Hayden Field/The Verge)

Barret Zoph is out at OpenAI again after just five months
He rejoined the company in January after a stint as co-founder of Mira Murati’s competitor, Thinking Machines Lab.

Farmer donates land for a park
— city sells it for data center development
— $10 gift became $10M for city government,
with $30M tax expected over next decade
https://www.

Farmer donates land for a park, city sells it for data center development — $10 gift became $10M for city government, with $30M tax expected over next decade
A solemn Texas deed ignored for profit.

Xi Jinping Was Only Humoring Trump (Franklin Foer/The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/05/trump-lame-duck-superpower/687189/?gift=47TjPNd1fvywdLyCkprj-K7vU3Iwmzj24xyINbEslNw&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
http://www.memeorandum.com/260517/p2#a260517p2

A profile of Meta President Dina Powell McCormick, who has become one of Silicon Valley's top power brokers as she helps oversee Meta's AI infrastructure push (Financial Times)

Herstel van het toeslagenschandaal ontspoorde.
https://…

Hoe het herstel van het Toeslagenschandaal ontspoorde: zeker 20.000 ouders kregen ten onrechte compensatie
Kinderopvangtoeslag: Ambtenaren waarschuwden al vroeg dat het ministerie van Financiën veel te ruimhartig ouders 30.000 euro of meer schadecompensatie gaf bij de afwikkeling van het Toeslagenschandaal. Dit ging ,,ten koste van het tijdig kunnen helpen van de echt gedupeerden”.

An interview with Brendan Carr about making the FCC "aggressive", why he is just "applying the law and the facts", how Trump's attacks on media worked, more (Financial Times)

Studies: Mira, an AI medical tool developed by researchers in Germany, and Google's Amie matched or surpassed doctors on diagnostic and treatment decisions (Michael Peel/Financial Times)

States are pushing back on the Paramount/Warner Bros. merger:
Gift Article 1: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/12/business/state-ag-lawsuit-paramount-warner-bros.html?unlocked_article_code=1.xFA.xuKk.Romfzc…

States Prepare Lawsuit to Block Paramount’s Merger With Warner Bros.
State attorneys general are said to be getting ready to file a lawsuit as soon as this week to halt the $111 billion deal, a potential major obstacle.

EU-plannen om ook CO2-uitstoot van burgers te beprijzen kunnen #energiearmoede vergroten, ziet PBL. En in tegenstelling Zwitserland en Duitsland heeft Nederland nog nauwelijks plannen om de meest kwetsbare huishoudens (laag inkomen i.c.m. hoge energierekening en/of afhankelijk van auto voor werk) daarvoor te compenseren. https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2026/05/11/eu-plannen-om-ook-co2-uitstoot-van-burgers-te-beprijzen-kunnen-energiearmoede-vergroten-ziet-pbl-a4927553?gift_token=4927553~1779174279~8461zGC_TN2dSsAGxzbXqQ~oP_V4jQuCcWqvvRQLEd5uJq4iZKfayGf9A4w1fVOJ44

Studies: Mira, an AI medical tool developed by researchers in Germany, and Google's Amie matched or surpassed doctors on diagnostic and treatment decisions (Michael Peel/Financial Times)

This Is the Truth About Trump's Shameful 80th Birthday Gift to Himself (David Rothkopf/The Daily Beast)
https://www.thedailybeast.com/this-is-the-truth-about-trumps-shameful-80th-birthday-gift-to-himself/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260614/p70#a260614p70

Brought to you by the Suede-Denim Secret Police. 😉 https://tomkahe.com/@GiftArticles/116569073472366746

Trump has announced that the United States and Iran have reached a deal to end their war.
“Congratulations to all!” he said in a posting on his Truth Social site this evening.
He then headed off to oversee the garish public spectacle he’d arranged for his birthday on the South Lawn of the White House.
The United States, however, has little to celebrate:
Trump and his team, in record time, just lost a war to a militarily mediocre
—but nonetheless extremely dang…

Trump Parties While America Surrenders
The peace deal with Tehran is an Iranian victory.

An example of the "miracle of the marketplace" - the realityof the #NeoliberalMyth is destruction of the commons, which had been communally and sustainably managed for hundreds of years
Who is ‘stealing’ Bali’s water? How tourism siphoned off a prized resource

Who is ‘stealing’ Bali’s water? How tourism siphoned off a prized resource
Along with the rice fields, a centuries-old infrastructure that treated water as a gift to be shared is disappearing

An example of the "miracle of the marketplace" - the realityof the #NeoliberalMyth is destruction of the commons, which had been communally and sustainably managed for hundreds of years
Who is ‘stealing’ Bali’s water? How tourism siphoned off a prized resource

Who is ‘stealing’ Bali’s water? How tourism siphoned off a prized resource
Along with the rice fields, a centuries-old infrastructure that treated water as a gift to be shared is disappearing

Analysis: mass adoption of smartphones and social media may be a primary driver of declining birthrates globally, in part by reducing in-person socializing (John Burn-Murdoch/Financial Times)

Hipp-Erpressung - Neues Gutachten: Es war dasselbe Gift in Gläsern! #News #Nachrichten

moreno_taro: Papuan gift-giving (1970)
A network of gift-giving relationships (taro exchange) among households in a Papuan village. Data collected by survey c.1970.
This network has 22 nodes and 78 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/moreno_ta…

Tech has given us anti-brand-praxis habit folks a gift. If your habit is to say brands maximally wrong, let me suggest that "AI" is pronounced "eye"

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #RoundMidnight
Floating Points:
🎵 Her Gift (feat. Miriam Adefris)
#FloatingPoints
https://open.spotify.com/track/3BUr7z3FQb3StCNkrvbpfa
Please 🔁 BOOST to share what you like
- your followers don't see if you ⭐ favourite a post

Stephen Miller's New Recusals (The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/2026/05/katie-miller-paramount-cbs-ellison/687172/?gift=nHf7iWmpOKBdlkwz68mfUDeUErSq2YhZBXMH1D7UZBQ
http://www.memeorandum.com/260515/p113#a260515p113

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Kevin Morby:
🎵 Gift Horse
#NowPlaying #KevinMorby

"Je stelt geweldloos protest waarmee een overheid wordt opgeroepen zich aan de eigen wetten te houden gelijk aan geweld en intimidatie tegen specifieke lokale overheden om ze zo te dwingen zich niet aan wetten te houden. "

"Beide Parteien sollten verbal abrüsten in Amerika. Die Linke darf es mit ihren Faschismusvorwürfen nicht übertreiben."
Bei der FAZ sind sie auch etwas von der Realität entrückt, oder?
Wenn überhaupt, dann müsste die "Linke" in den USA wesentlich härter und konsequenter agieren, statt ständig umzukippen und klein bei zu geben ...

In Amerika ist zu viel Gift in der Debatte
Beide Parteien sollten verbal abrüsten in Amerika. Die Linke darf es mit ihren Faschismusvorwürfen nicht übertreiben.

Sonnet 087 - LXXXVII
Farewell! thou art too dear for my possessing,
And like enough thou know'st thy estimate,
The charter of thy worth gives thee releasing;
My bonds in thee are all determinate.
For how do I hold thee but by thy granting?
And for that riches where is my deserving?
The cause of this fair gift in me is wanting,
And so my patent back again is swerving.
Thy self thou gavest, thy own worth then not knowing,
Or me to…

Bucky Brooks 2026 NFL mock draft 4.0: Giants gift Jaxson Dart top-10 picks at running back, receiver https://www.nfl.com/news/bucky-brooks-2026-nfl-mock-draft-4-0-giants-gift-jaxson-dart-top-10-picks-at-running-back-receiv…

Bengals Almost Handed Cowboys NFL Draft Gift But Dexter Lawrence Trade Ruined It https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/cincinnati-bengals-almost-handed-dallas-cowboys-nfl-draft-gift-dexter-lawrence-trade-ruined-it

As other department stores fall, Simons is booming. CEO Bernard Leblanc opens up about how they did it
https://www.thestar.com/gift-redeem?t=d7000365-3f29-4ae2-bd01-728ef4f5c393

For a Time, the U.S. Protected Democracy - The Atlantic
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/05/requiem-voting-rights-act/687037/?gift=Je3D9AQS-C17lUTOnl2W8HfVT62VNyCzC6swe_2uVmU

So Much for Leaving Abortion Up to the States (Adam Serwer/The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/06/mifepristone-abortion-pill-access-impossible/687519/?gift=Je3D9AQS-C17lUTOnl2W8EH1wJ4cZuVapmtWbrVQKiE&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
http://www.memeorandum.com/260615/p21#a260615p21

As the 2026 FIFA World Cup begins, there is still no clear replacement for "Sports Twitter", which was a perfect second-screen experience during live events (Andrew Webster/The Verge)

With the World Cup looming, there’s still no clear replacement for sports Twitter
The FIFA World Cup 2026 is about to kick-off, but social networks like X, Threads, and Bluesky aren’t the same as Twitter at its peak.

Interessanter Artikel über die Entscheidung von Chicagos ehemaligem Bürgermeister Rahm Emanuel nicht Austragungsort der FIFA-Männer-WM zu werden. Die FIFA fordert viele Einnahmen für sich, die Vergesellschaftung von Risiken und bietet "Ruhm" an. Welcher Bürgermeister plaudert mal über die Vertragsbedingungen für die Olympischen Spiele?

The Chicago mayor who said ‘no’ to the World Cup – a dome on Soldier Field was the last straw
Rahm Emanuel thought the proposed deal left 'Chicago taxpayers as the dumb money at the table'. Eight years on, he hasn't changed his mind

You Rock
Ein bisschen Werbung für #tinyview und natürlich #itchyfeet
This is a gift link https://social.tinyview.com/Qzap141hI4b

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
SAULT:
🎵 Jack’s Gift
#SAULT
https://saultglobal.bandcamp.com/track/jacks-gift
https://open.spotify.com/track/7zjdgDKRKYdthebHKUPULe

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/14b7c81744dec3c2004d786cb55b9c254dc44a5f2b88a069c6c65f50db63e6e9/MCUKVKXUNJDXXFMLKC7RSMTF5Y/

Ottawa plans amendments to lawful access bill amid backlash
Public Safety Minister commits to strengthening Bill C-22 to protect encryption and users’ privacy

YDS needs 350 alumni donors to unlock $100,000 for student support! Gifts of any size count!
Make your gift here: https://givetoday.yale.edu/campaigns/67184/donations/new?designation_id=00009

moreno_taro: Papuan gift-giving (1970)
A network of gift-giving relationships (taro exchange) among households in a Papuan village. Data collected by survey c.1970.
This network has 22 nodes and 78 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/moreno_ta…

Russia and the United States projected their own centralized views onto Ukraine and Iran, analysts said.
As a result, the smaller countries trapped larger ones in a costly confrontation.
[gift article]
Trump and his Russian counterpart, Vladimir V. Putin, both resist the idea that ostensibly weaker powers fought them to a stalemate,
with the two leaders leaning on negotiations to win the capitulation that they failed to secure in battle.
Iran and Ukraine have p…

Deadlocked Wars: How Major Powers Misread the Regions They Attacked
Russia and the United States projected their own centralized views onto Ukraine and Iran, analysts said. As a result, the smaller countries trapped larger ones in a costly confrontation.

Acting AG Todd Blanche has shown he's willing to stifle the free press, through subpoenas of WSJ, NYT, and WaPo reporters and a search of a WaPo reporter's home (David A. Graham/The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.co…

Het 50-jarige Almere door de ogen van vier jonge fotografen. ‘Ik voel me hier gezien’
https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2026/07/02/het-5

Het 50-jarige Almere door de ogen van vier jonge fotografen. ‘Ik voel me hier gezien’
Als jong iemand moet je het in Almere zelf leuk maken, zeggen de fotografen die voor NRC Magazine hun stad fotografeerden.

Goed artikel van @… over Mastodon, BlueSky en de Fediverse.

De technologie achter Mastodon versus Bluesky: welke past beter bij het sociale medium van NRC
Sociale media: Sommige sociale media zijn fundamenteel anders dan de grote namen uit de Big Techwereld, zoals Instagram en TikTok. Hoe werken die? Een deel van het antwoord gaat over het ‘protocol’. Uitvogelen wat dat moet worden, is de eerste stap op weg naar een sociaal medium van NRC.

Venezuelans sour on Donald Trump (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/f121babc-838d-4da1-8fa6-a9e97c75fa64?accessToken=zwAAAZ7IC1FlkdPxIbq8g41NodOPpqnpfHX6ZA.MEYCIQDXXY2KLorO5zvKSL40t6oxmi8BcQ__QpWLCx5ydNf52QIhAPPjorcr6TDpkjvsiGu84fGxXChswZ-JvGU6ZkaXZcJy&sharetype=gift&token=78708f8c-efc2-43e8-8a34-2e423c29d2b6
http://www.memeorandum.com/260614/p56#a260614p56

Did Caleb Williams leak the Bears' new alternate uniform with gift to Pope Leo XIV? Here's what we know

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/caleb-williams-pope-leo-bears-jersey/…

"Discriminating against Black voters is okay because they vote for Democrats."
The Perversion of the Voting Rights Act - The Atlantic
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/04/vra-supreme-court-callais-decision/686997/?gift=SCYx-5scVta3-cr_IlgTyZdSdSqSnGW1D1xPpBPntmU

Nielsen: preliminary figures show 44.8M people in the US watched Mexico vs. England across Fox and Telemundo, beyond an estimated 42M for the US-Belgium game (Dan Shanoff/The Athletic)
https…

Mexico vs. England sets new record for most-watched soccer game in U.S. history
More than 44 million people in the U.S. watched Mexico vs. England — with a staggering 23.2 million on Telemundo.

Interesting article in the Economist, don't necessarily agree,
https://www.…

Opinie | If you thought the global financial crisis was bad…
When the crash comes, stabilising markets will be easy compared with reordering society for AI, writes short-seller Carson Block.

Psychologist Peter Gray argues that school stress, not smartphone use, is the main driver of the teen mental health crisis, challenging Jonathan Haidt's thesis (Kaitlyn Tiffany/The Atlantic)
https://w…

What if It’s Not the Phones?
An evolutionary psychologist is challenging the popular understanding of kids and technology.

moreno_taro: Papuan gift-giving (1970)
A network of gift-giving relationships (taro exchange) among households in a Papuan village. Data collected by survey c.1970.
This network has 22 nodes and 78 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/moreno_ta…

Op dit WK was iederéén welkom, beloofde de FIFA. Die toezegging blijkt nu al niets waard.

Op dit WK was iederéén welkom, beloofde de FIFA. Die toezegging blijkt nu al niets waard
Grenscontroles: Vrijwel de hele week verschijnen er al verhalen over buitenlandse WK-reizigers die niet worden toegelaten tot de Verenigde Staten. Het toont hoe beperkt de invloed van de FIFA is bij het toernooi dat de voetbalbond zelf organiseert.

What Did Jamaica Do to Deserve This? -- Kari Lake, Trump's pick for ambassador, has a disastrous record. (Anne Applebaum/The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/05/kari-lake-jamaica-record/687141/?gift=hVZeG3M9DnxL4CekrWGK3-1vsMnfSfrdlcSxy7U2uvw&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
http://www.memeorandum.com/260512/p118#a260512p118

Kamagurka
https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2026/06/03/kamagurka-a4929219?gift_token=4929219~1781079842~Wxt5IeCzQJi7_Qi8ZoOGWw~CakjKnkWmFxFPQfXmFvu-pokNzCvYRPmXotdEolMA3Q…

As the 2026 FIFA World Cup begins, there is still no clear replacement for "Sports Twitter", which was a perfect second-screen experience during live events (Andrew Webster/The Verge)

With the World Cup looming, there’s still no clear replacement for sports Twitter
The FIFA World Cup 2026 is about to kick-off, but social networks like X, Threads, and Bluesky aren’t the same as Twitter at its peak.

The Assassin's Delusion -- Violence serves an authoritarian agenda. -- People keep trying to kill the president. (Adam Serwer/The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/05/assassins-delusion-backfiring-violence/687135/?gift=S1WMti8oXyTPzPp134rTM3GQncePZ3iVR-Yk19CQ7uk
http://www.memeorandum.com/260512/p88#a260512p88

The Trump administration wants to give white South African “refugees”
an arrival gift bag with an American flag, an Android tablet, the Constitution, the Declaration of Independence,
and hagiographic literature from PragerU minimizing the history of slavery and apartheid in the country and falsely accusing the South African government of “favoring the Black population.”
This is the latest effort to woo the Afrikaner population, descended from 17th-century Dutch, German, and…

Trump Is Giving White South African Refugees a Gift Bag for Racists
It includes some questionable literature on apartheid and American slavery.

"The large contribution from the billionaire collector Mitchell P. Rales is enabling long-term loans to smaller museums in perpetuity."
With $116 Million Gift, National Gallery Will Send Its Art Around Nation - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/arts/design/national-gallery-art-gift-mitchell-rales.html

How the internet, smartphones, social media, and now generative AI are accelerating a drop in the reading of longer works like books (Rose Horowitch/The Atlantic)
https://www.

The End of Reading Is Here
Optimists once believed that universal literacy was inevitable. Now it seems that the age of reading might be a short anomaly in human history.

Mooi artikel
https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2026/05/08/wij-zijn-misschien-niet-in-poetin-geinteresseerd-hij-wel-in-ons-a4926745?gift…

Opinie | Wij zijn misschien niet in Poetin geïnteresseerd – hij wel in ons
Oorlogsdreiging: Botweg negeren wat er in de rest van de wereld gebeurt, is voor ons West-Europeanen geen optie meer, vindt Joris Luyendijk. De vijand staat al lang binnen de poorten. Zelf leverde hij zijn perskaart in om Oekraïne te kunnen helpen.

The 'Presumption of Regularity' Is Evaporating (Quinta Jurecic/The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/06/trump-doj-judges-lawfare/687501/?gift=mTq34Ny-ZVr996jdTJS9TvapTam0C-052RpqwcndmXI
http://www.memeorandum.com/260611/p66#a260611p66

[Gift Article]
https://wapo.st/43SQW6q

In photos — How the Sagrada Famiila, Gaudi’s iconic church in Barcelona, was built
The basilica, designed by Antoni Gaudí, becomes the world's tallest church with the inauguration of its central spire — the 566-foot-high Tower of Jesus Christ.

Respect! "Als ik zou buigen voor de verzetsgroepen zou ik de hele opvangplannen terugtrekken, maar dat doe ik niet.” De burgemeester van IJsselstein heeft gezegd de asielplannen ondanks het verzet gewoon door te voeren."

Tekort aan opvangplekken nu echt nijpend, COA vreest ‘niet te kunnen voldoen aan wettelijke taak voor opvang’
Asielopvang: De waarschuwing komt terwijl het tekort aan opvangplaatsen ondanks nieuwe noodmaatregelen groot blijft. De nood is momenteel zo hoog, dat het risico groot is dat mensen weer buiten moeten slapen.

Imagine if a beloved global coffee brand launched a "911 Promotion" on the exact anniversary of the Twin Towers attack.
That is essentially what just happened to Starbucks in South Korea.
On May 18th, Starbucks Korea released what appeared to be an innocent merchandise promotion called
"Tank Day."
To an outsider, the name might sound like a bold, edgy marketing gimmick
— the kind of quirky campaign that performs well on social media and moves …

From National Gift to National Insult: How Starbucks Korea Destroyed a Legacy in a Single Day
When a Cup of Coffee Becomes a National Insult Imagine if a beloved global coffee brand launched a "911 Promotion" on the exact anniversary of the Twin Towers attack. That is essentially what just happened to Starbucks in South Korea.

A profile of David Sacks, appointed as White House AI adviser in December 2024, who has a ruthless devotion to self-interest and helped pass the GENIUS Act (George Packer/The Atlantic)
https:…

The Venture-Capital Populist
How David Sacks and the new tech right went full MAGA and captured Washington

'She's a gift': How Epstein exploited his fashion world connections to reach young women (CNN)
https://www.cnn.com/2026/06/13/us/epstein-victims-model-scouts-fashion-invs-vis
http://www.memeorandum.com/260613/p27#a260613p27

moreno_taro: Papuan gift-giving (1970)
A network of gift-giving relationships (taro exchange) among households in a Papuan village. Data collected by survey c.1970.
This network has 22 nodes and 78 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/moreno_ta…

US inflation jumped to 4.2% in May amid Middle East energy shock (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/f27a9e1b-891f-41b5-b78c-6bc729b1cfd4?accessToken=zwAAAZ6xyMSgkdPyep4biR9BtdO3jGvHKbHP1A.MEUCIQC7TXUvsPkvozmEYbO_ajJfNKnCRJWos-Qpu4KJp-SK3AIgKPLTqOeVzq38uuZt0oiQmGQtSARxsA4DSIYiagrrsm0&sharetype=gift&token=bf7d80eb-3cd0-48bd-af24-afc5f423025f
http://www.memeorandum.com/260610/p34#a260610p34

A profile of Asha Sharma, an outsider elevated by Satya Nadella to lead Xbox, where she made sweeping job cuts and shed game studios within her first few months (Financial Times)

Go ahead and slam journalists when they deserve it. I certainly do.
But also realize that New York Times journalists Declan Walsh and Arlette Bashizi willingly traveled to an Ebola ward in the Democratic Republic of Congo in order to inform the world.
Many journalists are heroes.
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Mark Jacob (@markjacob.bsky.social)
Go ahead and slam journalists when they deserve it. I certainly do. But also realize that New York Times journalists Declan Walsh and Arlette Bashizi willingly traveled to an Ebola ward in the Democratic Republic of Congo in order to inform the world. Many journalists are heroes. (NYT gift link) https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/30/world/africa/ebola-epicenter-congo.html?unlocked_article_code=1.mVA.C8Iz.J6vIlQvN1_bV&smid=url-share

How "emotion AI", the use of facial and sentiment analysis tools to track workers' moods, is seeping into white-collar jobs amid concerns over privacy and bias (Ellen Cushing/The Atlantic)

The Rise of Emotional Surveillance
Companies are monitoring workers not just for productivity but for agreeability.

How America Gave Up on Its Own History (Yoni Appelbaum/The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/2026/07/american-history-common-narrative/687301/?gift=Xg2N2HYq4co-2-uQvP_P53USscDlFiEJ2PpvkcBoZt4
http://www.memeorandum.com/260608/p19#a260608p19

Israël gijzelt de hele wereld met haar optreden in Libanon, ook Trump heeft er geen grip op.

Israël blijft dodelijke aanvallen op Libanon voortzetten, negeert internationale oproepen om wapens neer te leggen
Met droneaanvallen op het zuiden van Libanon heeft Israël dinsdag weer acht mensen gedood, onder wie twee kinderen en hun vader. Dat melden internationale persbureaus. Deze dodelijke aanval volgt een dag nadat de Amerikaanse president Donald Trump aankondigde dat Israël en Hezbollah aan hem zouden hebben toegezegd de wapens neer te leggen. Maar Israël blijft dodelijke aanvallen uitvoeren op…

A look at debates over AI consciousness; LLM conversations are cleverly disguised examples of sentence continuation, without denying how impressive LLMs can be (Ted Chiang/The Atlantic)

No, Artificial Intelligence Is Not Conscious
Taken to its logical conclusion, this line of thinking is absurd—and damning.

Trump Is 'Bored' With the War He Started (Jonathan Lemire/The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/national-security/2026/05/iran-war-trump-deal/687100/?gift=SCYx-5scVta3-cr_IlgTyQfIlgjKoXZhMWhZje4dkA8
http://www.memeorandum.com/260508/p63#a260508p63

Heel goed dit.
https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2026/05/01/raad-

Raad van Kerken spreekt zich uit tegen radicaal rechts, wil ‘optreden’ tegen ‘kerkleden die zich hardnekkig racistisch uiten of participeren in geweld’
Geert van Dartel | voorzitter Raad van Kerken: De Raad van Kerken spreekt zich met een unieke verklaring uit tegen radicaal-rechts gedachtegoed, dat tegen de leer van Jezus ingaat. Voorzitter Van Dartel wil in gesprek blijven met jonge mensen in de kerk met dergelijke ideeën, maar wil niet „te naïef zijn met hoop op dialoog”.

A look at Pangram, considered the gold standard for detecting AI writing, and the dangers of its claimed 1 in 10,000 false-positive rate when used at scale (Matteo Wong/The Atlantic)
https://www.…

America Has a Pangram Problem
AI-detection tools are getting better. But they still aren’t good enough.

Sources: Microsoft is restricting employees from using Claude Fable 5 because of Anthropic's new 30-day data retention requirements (Tom Warren/The Verge)

Microsoft restricts Claude Fable for employees over data retention concerns
Microsoft’s legal teams are evaluating Anthropic’s new data retention changes.

The Supreme Court Has Invented a Right to Discriminate (Adam Serwer/The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/06/alabama-racial-discrimination-voting/687448/?gift=Je3D9AQS-C17lUTOnl2W8PXx3PqdVJDy2VNT4oMQvd0&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
http://www.memeorandum.com/260605/p78#a260605p78

FOIA docs: White House officials used auto-deleting Signal chats even after Trump advised against its use in April 2025, raising federal recordkeeping concerns (The Atlantic)
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The Trump Administration Just Can’t Quit Signal
New records reveal that officials kept using the app, even after the president suggested they stop.

Global oil reserves plunge at record pace as Middle East war strains supplies (Malcolm Moore/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/3beeb26f-6c35-46a9-b116-42edbe6552fd?accessToken=zwAAAZ36ow43kc877rJvbDVGqdOxFkLtvmVS_Q.MEUCIHlo_xZAk6l_eO_-VcwK7_htFuEi_Knmj_u3B2dVhat5AiEA-rbfJPEXqeU3aTORc1AAbl0-5Tb3pL2fZDEtI0CXEIE&sharetype=gift&token=df29658d-e97c-474f-bebc-7d253cc3fd51
http://www.memeorandum.com/260505/p104#a260505p104

DOJ Enters a New, Even More Aggressive Phase (Quinta Jurecic/The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/05/justice-department-blanche-ballroom-prosecutions/687036/?gift=mTq34Ny-ZVr996jdTJS9Ti_aC4FdOB0eXlvDBH817LM&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
http://www.memeorandum.com/260503/p19#a260503p19

Palantir insiders and investors fear the company's enthusiastic embrace of President Trump's policies could drive away corporate clients and engineering talent (Financial Times)

Sources: Russia paused parts of a surveillance system protecting Putin after Israel used AI on footage from Iran's traffic cameras to locate Ayatollah Khamenei (Financial Times)

A look at "Stanford inside Stanford", where VCs pursue 18- and 19-year-old students, offering mentorship and funding in a bid to convert promise into profit (Theo Baker/The Atlantic)
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The Stanford Freshmen Who Think They Rule the World
Silicon Valley venture capitalists are wining and dining 18-year-olds.

Meta announces that it will be updating its glasses with a new feature that disables the camera if someone tampers with the glasses' privacy LED light (Victoria Song/The Verge)

Meta’s glasses will turn off the camera if you tamper with the privacy light
Meta announced that it will be updating its glasses with a new feature that will disable the camera when it detects that someone has tampered with or destroyed the glasses’ privacy LED light.

Memo: Microsoft is laying off ~4,800 employees, or ~2.1% of its workforce; most layoffs are in Xbox, where ~8% are being cut, rising to 15% in this fiscal year (Tom Warren/The Verge)

Microsoft is laying off 4,800 employees
Most of the job losses are in Microsoft’s Xbox and commercial sales organizations.

A look at JD Vance's "AI doctrine", which combines pro-innovation VC principles, worker protections, and concerns about power concentration in dominant AI labs (Vivian Salama/The Atlantic)

What Does J. D. Vance Think of AI
The vice president is making a case that is part Silicon Valley, part MAGA.