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UK and partners unite to sanction ministers inciting West Bank violence - GOV.UK https://www.gov.uk/government/news/uk-and-partners-unite-to-sanction-ministers-inciting-west-bank-violence

UK and partners unite to sanction ministers inciting West Bank violence
UK sanctions Israeli government ministers Itamar Ben-Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich in response to their repeated incitements of violence against Palestinian communities, alongside partners Australia, Canada, New Zealand and Norway

⏰ Government ‘With’ The People
#politics

Government ‘With’ The People | NOEMA
Closing the gap between citizens’ deliberation and binding action.

«GitHub is Leaking Trump’s Plans to 'Accelerate' AI Across Government»
Don't tell the UK government, otherwise Starmer and his AI lackies will just copy and paste that playbook 😂
https://www.404media.co/github-is-leaking-trumps-plans-to-accelerate-ai-across-government/

Spyware maker cuts ties with Italy after government refused audit into hack of journalist’s phone https://therecord.media/paragon-spyware-maker-cuts-ties-italy-government

Just read "This isn’t just a coup of the government; it’s a coup of the mind." via @…:
https://50501chicago.substack.com/p/opi…

Opinion: This isn’t just a coup of the government; it’s a coup of the mind.
Here are tips to hack your mind, protect your peace in these tumultuous times and the science behind it all.

us_agencies: U.S. government agency websites (2018)
50 networks, one for each U.S. state, representing the web-based links between their associated government agencies websites. A node is an entire agency website and a directed edge (i,j) represents the existence of a hyperlink from any webpage in website i to some webpage in website j. Data was collected with a crawler. Nodes are annotated with the number of webpages per website, website name (related to its government function) and U…

Unprecedented wealth concentration
– and the unbridled power that comes with such wealth
– has distorted our democracy and is driving societal and economic tensions.
Musk, the world’s richest man, wields power no one person should have.
He has used this power to elect candidates that will enact policies to protect his interests and he even bought his way into government.
While at the helm of Doge, Musk dramatically reshaped the government in ways that benefit him…

proving the Alberta UCP Government are the traitors, not the good and proud Canadian citizens of Alberta.
#abpoli #canpoli #never51
https://flipboard.com/@cbcnews/top-stories-01r3k2ttz/-/a-KKVGHntITfiQ1wIggxcMhw:a:107108217-/0

The leadership of the Unites States has made clear that they will imprison and deport lawful residents who publicly disagree with the government.
This man lives in the US legally, is married to a US citizen who is carrying his child, and is set to be deported because in exercising his free speech rights he said something the government didn’t like.
The emergency is now.
#MahmoudKhalil

ICE arrests Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil
A prominent Palestinian activist who helped lead last spring's protests at Columbia University has been arrested by federal immigration agents. Mahmoud Khalil's lawyer says he was arrested at his apartment near the university by agents who claimed they were acting on a State Department order to revoke his green card. Khalil, who graduated in December, was taken into custody by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents and was being held at an immigration detention center in New Jersey. His wif…

This is the first I've heard of this:
“They’re finding backdoors in Barbie dolls,” said Antani, now CEO of Horizon3.ai, a cybersecurity firm, referring to concerns from researchers who successfully hacked the microphone of a digitally connected version of the toy."
https://

Smartphones have become an intelligence treasure trove
Hackers tied to China's government have tried repeatedly to access the phones of prominent Americans, part of Beijing's sprawling cyberespionage efforts. Smartphones and other mobile devices present significant national security and cybersecurity risks, as foreign government hackers exploit vulnerabilities in mobile networks and apps to spy on people and steal secrets. And people's careless use of mobile devices to share sensitive information is another concern. National security experts say th…

Trump says Elon Musk "went CRAZY" and that canceling his government contracts is "the easiest way to save money", as their One Big Beautiful bill feud escalates (Kevin Breuninger/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/05/trump-musk-crazy-…

Trump says Musk went 'CRAZY,' suggests cutting government contracts for his companies
Musk is the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX and founded The Boring Company, xAI and Neuralink. He also owns the social media platform X.

This headline is a *bit* deceptive. Only visa holders from two countries in #Asia are impacted - #China and #NorthKorea
Of course, North Koreans can't get visas, so it really only applies to

Trump says he thinks the government has a 'very easy case' against Kilmar Abrego Garcia (NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-thinks-government-easy-case-kilmar-abrego-garcia-rcna211606
http://www.memeorandum.com/250607/p43#a250607p43

I expect the people who have guns to defend themselves from a tyrannical government will be keeping the people of Los Angeles safe.
Unless they were lying this whole time.

Mayor Bass is right, here. Her local police forces are also breaking laws, tho. CA state police forces are also breaking laws. Local protesters are also breaking laws. They're all feeding into federal intervention.
#LAPD #FederalGovernment excuses.

Good news. It looks like Flamingo Land will not now be built on the banks of Loch Lomond.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c23mxr2vg0ko

Ministers stall plans for Loch Lomond Flamingo Land resort
The Scottish government had been set to give permission for the park after overturning the decision of the national park authority.

Some statistics about all robotic #LunarLanding attempts so far from 1965 to 2025 compiled from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_missions_to_the_Moon and https://scicomm.xyz/@AkaSci@fosstodon.org/114636519291241321 in which I only count those for which descent to the surface had been initiated, not missions lost at launch or on the way - in a nutshell ~70% of all landings by government agencies went well (essentially the same rate 60 years ago and now!) but only ~30% by private companies. Here goes ...
There have been two separate periods of soft lunar landing attempts of ca. a dozen years each, from 1965 to 1976 and 2013 to 2025 (ongoing) with a huge gap between them.
In the first interval there were 20 attempts with 13 successes (Luna 9, 13, 16, 17, 19, 20, 21 and 24 and Surveyor 1, 3, 5, 6 and 7), one partial success (Luna 23, counting as 50%) and 6 failures (Luna 5, 7, 8, 15 and 18 and Surveyor 4), so the success rate was 13.5/20 = 68 %. All missions were by - the Soviet and U.S. - governments.
In the second interval there were so far 14 attempts with 6 full successes (Chang'e-3, 4, 5 and 6, Vikram 2 and Blue Ghost), three partial successes (SLIM, IM-1 and 2, counting as 75%, 50% and 25%, respectively) and 5 failures (Beresheet, Vikram 1, Hakuto-R 1 and 2 and Luna 25) so the success rate was 7.5 / 14 = 54%.
But looking only at the government missions it was 72%, slighly up from 50 years ago. While for the commercial attempts it was only 29%. In total the success rate was 19 (18 government-run) missions out of 34 (28) attempts or 62% but 69% for governments only. And if you throw in the 6 Apollo landings, the total success rate rises to 68% and the government-only rate goes even up to 75%.

DOGE vowed to make government more ‘efficient’ — but it’s doing the opposite - The Washington Post #USA #Trump

DOGE vowed to make government more ‘efficient’ — but it’s doing the opposite
New procedures and requirements — some implemented in the name of improving operations — are slowing down federal agencies.

When Trump encounters a demographic he doesn’t care for, he “disappears” them–in many cases, the very record of their existence.
Meet America’s new “missing persons," and the govt campaign to delete statistical evidence of anyone who doesn't fit Trump’s idea of our new golden age... including Jackie Robinson & Rosa Parks.
(taken from Catherine Rampell on BlueSky)
☑️ The people Trump is trying to delete from government records - Washington Post

The Freedom Flotilla „Madleen” is projected to arrive in just a few hours at a coast in Gaza. If anything happens to @… or the other activists, the international community will never forgive the current Israeli government for it.
I wish and pray for your best, keep being the voice of our generation…

Freiheit für Greta Thunberg, Yasemin Acar und alle Aktivist*innen der Freedom Flotilla - Online-Petition
Humanitäre Hilfe ist kein Verbrechen! Am 1. Juni 2025 wurde das zivile Hilfsschiff Madleen der Freedom Flotilla Coalition auf dem Weg nach Gaza in internationalen Gewässern gewaltsam von der israelischen Armee gestoppt, geentert und seine Besatzung verschleppt. An Bord befanden sich ausschließlich unbewaffnete Freiwillige und dringend für den Gazastreifen benötigte humanitäre Hilfsgüter wie Babynahrung, Medizin und Prothesen für verletzte Kinder. Unter den Festgehaltenen ist neben Greta…

Financial Times editorial: ”European states must show Israel that its actions bear consequences. They should ban trade with settlements and sanction extremist settler entities. They should halve offensive weapons sales to Israel and sanction ultranationalists in the government …
Finally, they should lead the way in formally recognising a Palestinian state, before there is nothing left to recognise.” #Gaza

Israel is destroying the foundations of a Palestinian state
The Netanyahu government must be held to account over Gaza and the West Bank

History shows that once a vanguard of rogues and lawless individuals gets a hold on government, it is difficult to eject them.
Rather, the changes in government applied with force by this vanguard become normalized.
And that is what is happening here.
https://

“The Whole Government is DOGE Now”: The Coup's Second Wave Begins
A lawless vanguard infiltrated the U.S. government; now they are being institutionalized and will work with Project 2025's own democracy destroyers

Alderaan was credibly linked to a violent insurrectionist movement and the government was absolutely justified in bombing it.

Congratulations to all the "Elon's reign of terror is over" article writers from last week, great jorb
https://www.wired.com/story/big-balls-young-doge-converted-into-full-time-government-employees/

‘Big Balls’ Is Officially a Full-Time Government Employee
The first wave of DOGE staffers was supposed to be gone after 130 days. Instead, core members of the team have signed on for the long haul.

Public Service Announcement: If you've worked in the UK, and you've changed the UK number that you use for accessing Gov.UK services, it is impossible to restore access because the default recovery workflow requires UK-issued photo ids: either a UK passport, or a UK driving license, are mandatory, even if you never had one or provided one in the first place.
Happily enough, as long as you keep your National Insurance Number, you can create a new Gateway ID, but this time follow…

the3million | Proving identity on Government websites with a non-UK passport | Giving a voice to EU citizens in the UK
HMRC, DWP and other government services have changed the way in which people sign in to access these services. This is a step-by-step guide for EU citizens and other non-UK passport holders to be able to access the Government Gateway, to see your tax records, pension records and other finance information, even if you do not have a British passport.

Heute vor 59 Jahren: Am 10. Juni 1966 zündeten die USA im Rahmen von Operation #Flintlock die 45. #Atombombe "Puce". Flintlock war eine Serie von Tests zwischen 65/66 bei der insgesamt 47 #Kernwaffentests

Once again, where are all the 2A fuckwads caressing their guns for when they’ll need to protect the citizenry from a tyrannical government? Haven’t they read that poem? Somebody should maybe post it on Truth. I expect it’s been on X multiple times. What are the chances anybody there will twig?

So, it seems that the Israel government is so afraid of Greta Thunberg and a shipment of humanitarian aid reaching Gaza that they are jamming GPS signals in order to lead the boat into harm and destruction.
Talk about state sponsored terrorism!!!
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0r1dvlk

Madleen: Israel warns it will stop aid yacht reaching Gaza
Israel's defence minister says climate protester Greta Thunberg and others onboard are "Hamas propaganda spokespeople".

‘Big Balls’ Is Officially a Full-Time Government Employee | WIRED
https://www.wired.com/story/big-balls-young-doge-converted-into-full-time-government-employees/

Proud Boys Freed by Trump Sue the Government for $100 Million (Tim Dickinson/Rolling Stone)
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/proud-boys-freed-trump-sue-government-1235358123/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250607/p16#a250607p16

There are days on which the news is a relief.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/03/netherlands-government-collapse-geert-wilders?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Understanding the Error Sensitivity of Privacy-Aware Computing
Mat\'ias Mazzanti (University of Buenos Aires), Esteban Mocskos (University of Buenos Aires), Augusto Vega (IBM T. J. Watson Research Center), Pradip Bose (IBM T. J. Watson Research Center)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.07957

Understanding the Error Sensitivity of Privacy-Aware Computing
Homomorphic Encryption (HE) enables secure computation on encrypted data without decryption, allowing a great opportunity for privacy-preserving computation. In particular, domains such as healthcare, finance, and government, where data privacy and security are of utmost importance, can benefit from HE by enabling third-party computation and services on sensitive data. In other words, HE constitutes the "Holy Grail" of cryptography: data remains encrypted all the time, being protected while in …

Data privacy experts are calling on the government to urgently tighten regulation around facial recognition technology, amid growing concerns over its unregulated use by police forces and private companies across the UK.
https://www.computing.co.uk/news/202…

Government urged to tighten regulation around facial recognition technology
Data privacy experts are calling on the government to urgently tighten regulation around facial recognition technology, amid growing concerns over its unregulated use by police ...

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.03475 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csGT_…

Fair Division with Allocator's Preference
We study the fair allocation of indivisible resources among agents. Most prior work focuses on fairness and/or efficiency among agents. However, the allocator, as the resource owner, may also be involved in many scenarios (e.g., government resource allocation, heritage division, company personnel assignment, etc). The allocator inclines to obtain a fair or efficient allocation based on her preference over the items and to whom each item is allocated. We propose a model and study two problems: 1…

@… @… The Nazis who are running the US government.

Happy & Glorious: Coronation art exhibition goes on show https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/about/news/happy-glorious-coronation-art-exhibition-goes-on-show/

Happy & Glorious: Coronation art exhibition goes on show - The National Archives
Stunning new artwork commissioned by the Government Art Collection to mark the Coronation of Their Majesties King Charles III and Queen Camilla has gone on show in our Happy & Glorious exhibition. The free exhibition includes work by artists from across the UK created in response to the Coronation on 6 May 2023. For the […]

We are now at the point where our government is literally terrorizing tens of millions of hard working Americans as a matter of strategy.
What can we do?
Call your Senators and Rep and demand they fight Trump’s insane and illegal escalation of the past few days.
Contact your local party and Dems and encourage them to hold solidarity press conferences defending the State of California
as this escalation/attack is not just on California and Los Angeles
- it is …

"Fossil Fuels and Fake LTNs: Reform’s Five Biggest Climate Clangers Since Local Elections"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #FossilFuels

Fossil Fuels and Fake LTNs: Reform’s Five Biggest Climate Clangers Since Local Elections
In the local elections on 1 May, Nigel Farage’s Reform UK took control of 10 councils and two regional mayoralties. The party vowed to scrap climate initiatives in the authorities, and has reportedly already set up an Elon Musk-inspired “DOGE” (Department of Government Efficiency) at Kent County Council in order to identify potential cuts to […]

From @… - False UFO stories created by military... sometimes intentionally terrorizing their own soldiers https://n…

How False UFO Stories Were Created - Sometimes Deliberately - by the US Military - Slashdot
Last year's Pentagon report reviewing UFO reports "left out the truth behind some of the foundational myths about UFOs," reports the Wall Street Journal. "The Pentagon itself sometimes deliberately fanned the flames, in what amounted to the U.S. government targeting its own citizens with disinforma...

Mongolian Prime Minister Luvsannamsrain Oyun-Erdene resigned this Wednesday after weeks of anti-corruption protests in Ulaanbaatar.
The anti-government demonstrations had begun following reports of extravagant spending by the son of the former Prime Minister. The protests, primarily led by young Mongolians, centered on broader concerns about government corruption, inequality, and the influence of political elites and their families.

Mongolia PM resigns after weeks of anti-corruption protests
Mr Oyun-Erdene will remain as caretaker PM until his successor is appointed within 30 days. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

I think it ranks low on a list of priorities, but as a long-term effect of #DOGE, it's natural that this will make working for US Government much less appealing. I expect US Government workforce management to be much more difficult (less effective & more expensive) in the coming decades.
The implications are:
1. spending more on advertising and recruiting
2. spending more on sa…

"Two final considerations include (1) the necessity of being both deliberate and strategic and (2) the importance of being flexible and even whimsical about your future."
https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.…

I think that by not even commenting on the interception of the Madleen (Barcarole), the UK government may have damaged the value of the UK Ship Register.
https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/details/ships/shipid:9599795/mmsi:232057367/i…

Watching Trump and Musk turn off the NOAA data centres, threatening irreplaceable archives of weather and climate data and analyses. Remembering when Stephen Harper’s government shut down a bunch of government libraries and archives, including literally throwing irreplaceable records in the trash.

The Harper Government Has Trashed and Destroyed Environmental Books and Documents
In the first few days of 2014, scientists, journalists, and environmentalists were horrified to discover that the Harper government had begun a process to close seven of the 11 of Canada's world-renowned Department of Fisheries and Oceans libraries...

us_agencies: U.S. government agency websites (2018)
50 networks, one for each U.S. state, representing the web-based links between their associated government agencies websites. A node is an entire agency website and a directed edge (i,j) represents the existence of a hyperlink from any webpage in website i to some webpage in website j. Data was collected with a crawler. Nodes are annotated with the number of webpages per website, website name (related to its government function) and U…

France Becomes First Government to Endorse UN #OpenSource Principles, Joined by 19 Organizations
https://unite.un.org/fr/news/france-be

Some core #urbanism from an unlikely source … 7 News Australia
They've had a slight reputation for "announcing" policies that are not from the government but just from think tanks. But this news report is all good stuff (like the last time, when Parramatta Road was proposed for light rail)
This is completing a "ring road" or circle line of

#Musk 's record at DOGE seen from French newspaper #LeMonde - pretty good summary..
Musk's questionable record at DOGE
Some quote…

Musk's questionable record at DOGE
Inexperience and a lack of understanding of how government operates led the teams at the Department of Government Efficiency to implement a cost-cutting drive that was primarily ideological and produced only superficial results.

Amend Investigatory Powers Act: bar Govt from protected, private customer data
Amend the Act to specifically and completely bar any Government from attempting to compel any company to give them access to customers' data, which we think undermines privacy. We don't want any companies to pull privacy features from the UK market, potentially as a result of the Act and its use.

Elon Musk announces exit from US government role: https://benborges.xyz/2025/05/29/elon-musk-announces-exit-from.html

President Trump is the first to ask federal job applicants to describe their allegiance to administration policy in an essay
or to mandate training for senior government officials on White House executive orders, experts said.
Senior agency officials, who are often political appointees, are to be directly involved in the hiring process, which has not previously been the case.
The guidelines, released last month, arrived at a time when the Trump administration was beginning …

In Trump’s ‘Patriotic’ Hiring Plan, Experts See a Politicized Federal Work Force
Political appointments inherently take into consideration loyalty to the president or the party. But expanding those types of questions to the career civil service is a significant departure.

#Anarchism #Syndicalism #AnarchoSyndicalism #Anarchy

Another of the supposed "defence experts" (aka #warmongers) advising Labour. The article identifies 2 others, "Lord Robertson, a former Nato secretary general, and the retired general Sir Richard Barrons".
Any experts on #peace,

Bonuses banned for 10 English water bosses over sewage pollution https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/jun/05/bonuses-banned-for-10-english-water-bosses-over-sewage-pollution

50 years of reunification, the end of the second Indochina war, #Vietnam had a blast with a mammoth celebration. The nationalism is troubled but it goes strong. An entire day of a parade in Saigon and on TV, and we had a tank in the newspaper 🤷
Interesting, since it’s the final days abroad for us

Even if the $180bn claim isn’t bullshit (I’m reasonably confident it’s bullshit), why aren't we acknowledging this makes Musk’s failure rate in government 91%?
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5yg98rl717o

Trump 'disappointed' with Elon Musk's attacks on budget bill
In response, Musk accused the president of "Such ingratitude", adding: "Without me, Trump would have lost the election".

With most apps, "[feature] enable push notifications" is just a line in the changelog, not a segment on BBC News.
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/patients-to-receive-reminders-and-test-results-via-the-nhs-app

Patients to receive reminders and test results via the NHS App
Millions more patients will receive appointments, screening invitations and other important information via the NHS App, as part of £50million upgrade.

Kazakhstan detains over 140 for allegedly selling citizens’ data via Telegram channels https://therecord.media/kazakhstan-arrests-suspects-stolen-data-network

Check out my latest CSO piece, which examines how Trump’s nominees for national cyber director and CISA director will face shared challenges but different prospects in coping with unprecedented reductions in cyber personnel across the federal government.
Many thanks to Michael Daniel of the Cyber Threat Alliance and Mark Montgomery of FDD for their help and insight.
Daniel made a point about Trump's cutbacks on cyber spending, a situation that most cyber folks haven't see…

Top US cyber officials face divergent paths after Senate confirmation
Following their Senate confirmations, Sean Cairncross and Sean Plankey — Trump’s nominees for national cyber director and CISA director — will face shared challenges but different prospects in coping with unprecedented reductions in cyber personnel across the federal government.

Foreboding only intensified Monday,
when Trump applauded the idea of arresting California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D),
followed by the mobilization of hundreds of active-duty Marines to augment the Guard members already in Los Angeles.

In a city that has increasingly found itself in the crosshairs of the federal government, turmoil can feel personal.
Local leaders accuse the Trump administration of ginning up a crisis for political gain,
and Angelenos from across …

‘He’s waging a war on us’: As Trump escalates, Angelenos defend their city
Across this vast metropolis, residents denounce what they consider an attack on the very fabric of their city — on their neighbors, co-workers, family members.

Israel arms ISIS-jihadists to fight against Hamas just like they armed Hamas to fight against the PFLP.
You may ask yourself “when will they ever learn?” but that's assuming the Israeli government's goal is to live in peace. Why should they need to learn, when arming terrorist groups that destabilize and escalate this conflict isn't a mistake?
Considering how much genocide, ethnic cleansing, settler colonialism and hence the expansion of their borders they have been a…

An Indian government official says Starlink has secured a license from the telecom ministry to launch services in the country and now must apply for spectrum (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-06-…

I think it ranks low on a list of priorities, but as a long-term effect of #DOGE, it's natural that this will make working for US Government much less appealing. I expect US Government workforce management to be much more difficult (less effective & more expensive) in the coming decades.
The implications are:
1. spending more on advertising and recruiting
2. spending more on sa…

Trump's Feud With Musk Highlights His View of Government Power: It's Personal (Peter Baker/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/08/us/politics/trump-elon-musk-fight-power.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250608/p63#a250608p63

Harvard now offers free online courses on how the government is *supposed* to work.
https://pll.harvard.edu/subject/government

⛓️‍💥 The ‘chain of favors’ that keeps Cubans afloat in the face of state abandonment
https://english.elpais.com/international/2025-04-20/the-chain-of-favors-that-keeps-cubans-afloat-in-the-face-of-state-ab…

The ‘chain of favors’ that keeps Cubans afloat in the face of state abandonment
Tired of waiting for a government that has turned its back on them, millions of people suffering from hunger, homelessness and a lack of medicine in Cuba are relying on solidarity to survive

"term-limited Trump would run roughshod on the Constitution with little to no interference from the other two branches of government."
'We knew': Analyst who predicted worst Trump abuses says they're 'all coming to pass' - Alternet.org
https://www.alternet.org/trump-abuses-washington-post/

'Big Balls' Is Officially a Full-Time Government Employee (Makena Kelly/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/big-balls-young-doge-converted-into-full-time-government-employees/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250604/p61#a250604p61

https://news.sky.com/story/russian-linked-hackers-posing-as-journalists-targeted-ministry-of-defence-government-says-13376229
Russia-linked hackers posing as journalists targeted staff at Britain's …

Russian-linked hackers posing as journalists targeted Ministry of Defence, government says

A UK government trial with 20K civil servants using Microsoft's Copilot AI for three months found a 26 minute average daily time saving, or two weeks per year (Melissa Heikkilä/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/7c2aa19d-4c92-490d-bb35-f329a246fe5b

UK civil servants who used AI saved two weeks a year, government study finds
Staff used Microsoft’s Copilot to help draft documents and summarise meetings

Man pleads guilty to swatting spree impacting scores of government officials https://therecord.media/man-pleads-guilty-swatting-spree-government-officials

And this is deeply disappointing from #Unite's Sharon Graham
“Given the global challenges we face it is right that defence spending is increasing."
‘If government cared about security, it would end child poverty and pursue peace’ | Morning Star

Elon Musk’s goons at the Department of Government Efficiency
transmitted a large amount of data
—all of it undetected
—using a Starlink Wi-Fi terminal they installed on top of the White House, according to a new report.
Starlink is a satellite Wi-Fi service owned and operated by Musk’s SpaceX.
The DOGE goons installed it in mid-March with the sign-off of Donald Trump’s administration,
but against concerns raised by security officials, according to The Washing…

Musk’s DOGE Goons Surreptitiously Transmitted Reams of White House Data
Musk’s team installed a Starlink Wi-Fi terminal on top of the White House, allowing them to bypass data-tracking security measures.

https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/05/doge-reportedly-planning-a-hackathon-to-build-mega-api-for-irs-data/

The UK government should publish the full underground map of cables etc (NUAR) below Royal Mint Court (OS grid TQ338806)

The US Treasury sanctions Philippines-based Funnull Technology for allegedly facilitating "pig butchering" crypto scams that stole over $200M from US victims (Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/29/us-g

US government sanctions tech company involved in cyber scams | TechCrunch
The Treasury said FUNNULL was involved in providing infrastructure for pig butchering crypto scams.

Musk tried and failed to enact systemic change across the entire government.
Many tech executives and investors who support Trump have narrower goals that focus on creating a regulatory climate favorable to themselves.
While Trump and Musk traded barbs on their respective social networks,
a cryptocurrency company whose business had been hamstrung by the Biden administration went public on the New York Stock Exchange,
its share price popping 200 percent.
An art…

Musk and Trump are over. Silicon Valley is just getting started.
The Tech-Trump alliance has always had tensions. But its lucrative nature has outweighed the ideological differences.

Small Business Administration would have to relocate field offices from ‘sanctuary jurisdictions’ under House-passed bill - Government Executive
https://www.govexec.com/federal-news/2025/06/small-business-administration-would-have-relocate-field-offices-sanctuary-jurisdictions-under-house-passed-bill/405884/

New evidence links long-running hacking group to Indian government https://therecord.media/india-cyber-espionage-bitter-ta397

Boulder, CO-based quantum computing startup Infleqtion raised a $100M Series C and partnered with US government services contractor SAIC to pursue defense deals (Stephen Nellis/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/technology/quantum

 
A climate of fear is perceptible in the United States today,
and it must be resisted no matter what,
CBS News correspondent Scott Pelley says.
“People are silencing themselves for fear that the government will retaliate against them,
and that’s not the America that we all love,”
Pelley told Anderson Cooper in an exclusive interview after CNN’s Saturday telecast of
“Good Night, and Good Luck.”
The Broadway play, which recounts CBS newsman Edwar…

‘If you fall silent, the country is doomed’: CBS News’ Scott Pelley stresses courage as network faces pressure campaign
A climate of fear is perceptible in the United States today, and it must be resisted no matter what, CBS News correspondent Scott Pelley says.

#GiftLink
Opinion | The people Trump is trying to delete from government records - Washington Post
https://wapo.st/3Hs6XZb

My question about the PTSN switch-off campaign is: can BT not already *detect* (over the course of a year) which customers are using alarms or telecare devices likely to be impacted?
https://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.php/2025

Government Hails Start of National Campaign for UK Digital Phone Switch
The UK government has today hailed the start of a new national campaign, funded by broadband giants BT and Virgin Media, which aims to help support and encourag

VA used a DOGE AI tool by Gumroad founder Sahil Lavingia that hallucinated contract sizes to cancel 24 deals; Lavingia says "mistakes were made" (ProPublica)
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-doge-veterans-affairs-ai-contra…

DOGE Developed Error-Prone AI Tool to “Munch” Veterans Affairs Contracts
We obtained records showing how a Department of Government Efficiency staffer with no medical experience used artificial intelligence to identify which VA contracts to kill. “AI is absolutely the wrong tool for this,” one expert said.

Dutch far-right leader Geert Wilders pulls party out of coalition over migration plan (Euronews)
https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2025/06/03/dutch-far-right-leader-geert-wilders-pulls-party-out-of-government-over-migration-plan
http://www.memeorandum.com/250603/p28#a250603p28

US military IT specialist arrested for allegedly trying to leak secrets to foreign government https://therecord.media/defense-intelligence-agency-it-specialist-suspected-leak-foreign-government

The IRS open sourced much of its incredibly popular Direct File software as the future of the free tax filing program is at risk of being killed by Intuit’s lobbyists and Donald Trump’s megabill.
Meanwhile, several top developers who worked on the software have left the government and joined a project to explore the “future of tax filing” in the private sector

The IRS Tax Filing Software TurboTax Is Trying to Kill Just Got Open Sourced
Direct File has been open sourced, and its creators have left government to continue working on the "future of tax filing."

The Trump administration deported a 31-year-old Salvadoran man minutes after a federal appeals court barred his removal while his case proceeded, the government admitted in a court filing this week.
In its filing, the government denied that it had violated the order from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, in New York, instead blaming “a confluence of administrative errors.”
The government had previously given the court what the judges called “express assurance” that…

Trump Officials Deported Another Man Despite Court Order
A federal appeals panel ordered officials not to deport a 31-year-old to El Salvador. Minutes later, it happened anyway. The government blamed “administrative errors.”

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Sources: Palantir's Foundry is now deployed in at least four federal agencies, after Trump signed an EO calling for the government to share data across agencies (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/…

Trump Taps Palantir to Compile Data on Americans
The Trump administration has expanded Palantir’s work with the government, spreading the company’s technology — which could easily merge data on Americans — throughout agencies.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth Threatens Mobilization of Active-Duty Marines Against Protesters in Los Angeles

Such language is unprecedented in response to immigration protests.
The escalation comes just three days after the anniversary of the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre,
when Chinese troops crushed a pro-democracy movement with tanks and live ammunition
—a grim reminder of what can happen when a government turns its military on its own people.

The Trump administration has expanded #Palantir’s work with the government,
spreading the company’s technology
— which could easily merge data on Americans
— throughout more agencies.
The company has received more than $113 million in federal government spending since Trump took office, including additional funds from existing contracts as well as new contracts with the Department …

Trump Taps Palantir to Compile Data on Americans
The Trump administration has expanded Palantir’s work with the government, spreading the company’s technology — which could easily merge data on Americans — throughout agencies.

The US supreme court on Friday permitted DOGE, the so-called ‘department of government efficiency’, broad access to personal information on millions of Americans in Social Security Administration data systems while a legal challenge plays out.
At the request of the Justice Department, the justices put on hold US district judge Ellen Hollander’s order that had largely blocked Doge’s access to “personally identifiable information”
in data such as medical and financial records while …

Fiona Hill’s argument is that
in a time of profound uncertainty,
Britain needs greater internal cohesion if it is to protect itself.
“We can’t rely exclusively on anyone any more,” she said,
arguing that Britain needed to have “a different mindset” based as much on traditional defence as on social resilience.
Some of that, Hill said, was about a greater recognition of the level of external threat and initiatives for greater integration,
by teaching first a…

Elon Musk, JD Vance, and Peter Thiel are executing a long-planned agenda to take over the government.
Donald Trump is a dementia-addled old man along for the ride.
Hopefully, the chaos makes a little more sense now.
I told you you weren't gonna like it.

Democracy Is Done: The Rise of Corporate Monarchy
The Real Agenda Behind Elon's Coup & Trump's Chaotic First Weeks

BREAKING: Judge Boasberg GRANTS class certification for the people held at CECOT
and gives the government ONE WEEK to explain how they're going to facilitate due process
for EVERYONE sent there under the Alien Enemies Act.
https://storage.court…

Last week, billionaire and onetime unofficial co-president Elon Musk ended his tenure as a special government employee after four months of spreading chaos, misery, and death throughout the federal government and world.
Much reporting has attributed his departure to philosophical differences with Trump.
Musk has criticized various Trump policies,
most recently the House GOP spending bill for adding trillions to the federal deficit.
But a crucial factor in Musk’s dep…

Tesla Takedown takes down Musk
Protest works.

There’s no rain in the forecast for Flin Flon, Manitoba over the next week as crews there fight a wildfire that’s raging nearby.
Temperatures throughout the weekend are expecting to range from the low to high 20s, before cooling off.
Thousands have evacuated the northwestern Manitoba city, including municipal government officials and health-care professionals.

No rain forecast as crews battle Flin Flon wildfire
Thousands have evacuated the northwestern Manitoba city, including municipal government officials and healthcare professionals. So far, the wildfires have displaced over 17,000.

With the federal hiring freeze lifting in mid-July, the Trump administration has rolled out a humiliating federal hiring plan that critics warn will politicize and likely slow down the process rather than increase government efficiency.
De-emphasizing degree requirements and banning DEI initiatives
—as well as any census tracking of gender, race, ethnicity, or religion to assess the composition of government
—the plan requires every new hire to submit essays explaining which e…

New federal employees must praise Trump EOs, submit to continuous vetting
Trump will continuously monitor all federal workers for “trustworthiness.”…

“Being in the United States is a great risk for anyone -- not just for Venezuelans,”
Diosdado Cabello, the interior minister in Caracas, said after the announcement
“They persecute our countrymen, our people, for no reason.”
https://www.