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Two groups file a petition to deny FCC review of ABC's TV station licenses; they say they will seek revocations if stations restrict speech in trade for FCC OK (Matthew Keys/TheDesk.net)
https://thedesk.net/2026/06/frequency-forward-media-action…

Groups file formal petition to deny over FCC's probes into Disney, ABC
The filing makes the organizations formal parties to the proceeding, granting them standing to participate in the case and appeal future FCC decisions.

CodePink co-founder Medea Benjamin calls the State Department’s report
“an incredible piece of garbage”
for attempting to link U.S. peace movements to Cuba
and for “paint[ing] this picture of a tiny island nation that is trying to overthrow the United States"
http://www.democrac…

“We Can’t Be Intimidated”: CodePink Slams Rubio-Led Campaign Against Cuba Solidarity Groups
As the Trump administration threatens to intensify its “global campaign to crush radical left terrorism,” we look at a new 100-page report issued by the State Department last week accusing the Cuban government of waging a “sustained campaign of subversion against the United States.” The report claims Cuba has backed a number of groups in the United States, including the National Lawyers Guild, Pastors for Peace, the National Network on Cuba and the feminist antiwar organization CodePink…

revolution: American Revolutionary groups (1765-1783)
A bipartite network of the memberships of notable people and organizations, from the American Revolution (1765-1783) between users and groups on YouTube, extracted from a larger YouTube network in 2007.
This network has 141 nodes and 160 edges.
Tags: Social, Affiliation, Unweighted
http…

Ranking all 32 NFL edge rusher groups: Myles Garrett puts Rams at No. 1

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/nfl-edge-rushers-2026-ranked-myles-garrett-rams/

Meta releases Forum, a Reddit-like standalone app for Facebook Groups, with a feed showing Group conversations and an AI-powered "Ask" feature, on iOS (Mariella Moon/Engadget)
https://www.engadget.com/2179165/meta-forum-groups-app/

Meta quietly released a new Reddit-like app called Forum - Engadget
Meta is testing a new dedicated app for Facebook Groups called Forum.

At least five #sunspot groups are visible in this #sunset snapshot from #Bochum, Germany, today (note the newly visible big one at the limb at 11 o'clock) - see https://bsky.app/profile/cosmos4u.bsky.social/post/3mmugamvd422a for several other timesteps!

revolution: American Revolutionary groups (1765-1783)
A bipartite network of the memberships of notable people and organizations, from the American Revolution (1765-1783) between users and groups on YouTube, extracted from a larger YouTube network in 2007.
This network has 141 nodes and 160 edges.
Tags: Social, Affiliation, Unweighted
http…

Raiders' Revamp of Several Position Groups Just Getting Started https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-revamp-several-position-groups-just-getting-started

Wouldn't "Israel’s defence minister says large-scale Palestinian #EVICTION from Gaza will go ahead" be more accurate?
Israel’s defence minister says large-scale Palestinian migration from Gaza will go ahead

Wouldn't "Israel’s defence minister says large-scale Palestinian #EVICTION from Gaza will go ahead" be more accurate?
Israel’s defence minister says large-scale Palestinian migration from Gaza will go ahead

OH! I forgot the whole "out of band" thing. Let me get into that.
When you put all this together you have a business owned by a church (or, in the Dutch case, an FFI) to interface with capitalism and then a community that's collectively controlled via the legal entity of a "church." (Again, I like the word "coven," but I'm trying to use the legal definition here.)
This gives you a community that exists partially outside of the dominant system. If this seems like a new idea, it is absolutely not. There are very insular religious communities all over. Many are really oppressive cults (go watch Wild Wild Country), others are insular religious communities (for which there is a lot of legitimate criticism, but I'm only talking about decipherability here) such as Haredim or Mennonites. In some ways Tribes match this also, with various tribal governments organizing things for members.
In all of these cases, there exists an element that is outside of the dominant system. This becomes somewhat "invisible." How well do you understand the inner workings of an Amish community? How much do you think a CEO cares or thinks about them?
There are many hidden worlds that only become revealed when they become a problem (such as when a cult leader tries to take over a county by spraying e. coli on a bunch of salad bars.) This can be good if you're trying to build a new society without attracting the attention, but insular communities can also permit abusive dynamics that could otherwise be identified by the larger society. So keep the risks in mind, and be active about preventing them. Hierarchy is dangerous, but hierarchy in hidden groups can be especially dangerous.

So little time, so many cybersecurity developments to cover. Check out today's Metacurity for the most important infosec news stories today, including
--Frontier AI Beat: AI security becomes a geopolitical arms race,
--Microsoft uses AI to link malware groups in RICO case,
--Ukraine exposes Russian messenger hacking,
--Nation-state hackers mapped CI for sabotage,
--DPRK-linked election attacks surge 68-fold,
--DraftKings hacker 'Snoopy' gets 18 m…

Frontier AI Beat: AI security becomes a geopolitical arms race
Microsoft uses AI to link malware groups in RICO case, Ukraine exposes Russian messenger hacking, Nation-state hackers mapped CI for sabotage, DPRK-linked election attacks surge 68-fold, DraftKings hacker 'Snoopy' gets 18 months, ICE surveillance spending hits record high, much more

'The View' is 'overtly partisan,' GOP groups tell Brendan Carr (John Hendel/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/06/23/gop-groups-the-view-talk-show-brendan-carr-00972580
http://www.memeorandum.com/260623/p133#a260623p133

I recently got contacted by someone who had connection issues with Microsoft MX servers. I could reassure him: "It's not you, it's Microsoft's fault."
https://groups.google.com/a/mozilla.org/g/dev-security-policy/c/kJ5qysLlo2I

Cowboys' WR, TE, RB Group Gets Top-10 Ranking That Still Isn't Good Enough https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/cowboys-wr-te-rb-group-gets-top-10-ranking-that-still-isn-t-good-enough

Advocacy groups including WGA West and The Tech Oversight Project have written a letter urging the FTC and DOJ to probe Netflix for antitrust issues (Sara Fischer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-media-trends-d19eb230-4263-11f1-8a96-47c…

Axios Media Trends

As Donald Trump’s former defense lawyer
Todd Blanche appears poised for confirmation as attorney general,
numerous Jeffrey Epstein survivors have sounded the alarm that
a US justice department helmed by him would derail their pursuit of justice.
In a letter urging Republican senators Thom Tillis and John Cornyn to reject his nomination,
these survivors said that Blanche’s handling of the Epstein case as acting attorney general was characterized by misstep after …

Blanche-led DoJ likely to derail Epstein survivors’ pursuit of justice, experts say
Lawyers predict ‘more suppression and no active investigations’ but victims’ groups determined to continue fight

Today's #sunset in Bochum, Germany, with the spot groups - https://spaceweather.com/images2026/28jun26/hmi1898.gif - 4478 and 4479 (and a swift) pretty prominent: see https://bsky.app/profile/cosmos4u.bsky.social/post/3mpertcqcyk24 for four other time steps! Had thought the Sun was lost for good behind a cloud bank, but then it had reappeared just above the horizon - in a fiery deep red color impossible to capture on camera.

Raiders' Revamp of Several Position Groups Just Getting Started https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-revamp-several-position-groups-just-getting-started

@…
"… the need for groups of people who detest one another to ally if they want to fend off the slopware."
In recent months, I think of the people who love to write "AI slop" (the two-word comment) as collectively ineffective, in the same way that the "fuck u/spez" trend was noisy and popular but ultimately ineffectiv…

Pulp and paper giant APRIL adds major deforesters as suppliers after revising sustainability policy https://news.mongabay.com/2026/06/pulp-and-paper-giant-april-adds-major-deforesters-as-suppliers-after-revising…

Pulp and paper giant APRIL adds major deforesters as suppliers after revising sustainability policy
JAKARTA — Pulp and paper giant APRIL made recent changes that are concerning to environmental groups. These changes include suspending and reviewing its flagship sustainability policy, lowering its deforestation commitments, and sourcing wood from two companies responsible for some of Indonesia’s largest recent forest losses. The company, part of the Singapore-headquartered Royal Golden Eagle (RGE) […]

Interesting look at who pays what amount of taxes.
#wisconsin

Data Wonk: Who Pays Wisconsin’s Taxes?
Which income groups pay the most in state and local taxes? And how Wisconsin compares to other states.

flickr_groups: OSN user groups (2007)
Bipartite networks of the affiliations between users and groups on several online social network sites, including Flickr, YouTube, LiveJournal, and Orkut, extracted in 2007.
This network has 499610 nodes and 8545307 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted
https://networ…

Top five tight end groups in the NFL: Which teams are most loaded at a hot position heading into 2026? https://www.nfl.com/news/top-five-tight-end-groups-in-the-nfl-which-teams-are-most-loaded-at-a-hot-position-heading-i…

Learn all about “the most moral army in the world” (currently committing genocide, but, hey, no one’s perfect):
How three terrorist groups formed the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) [aka Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF)]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=OCGtHMxNr…

Tens of thousands of people gathered in soaring temperatures in Hungary's capital on Saturday
to celebrate the 31st annual
Budapest Pride,
-- the first such LGBTQ march since former Prime Minister Viktor Orbšn
(who had sought to ban the event)
was ousted in an April election.

Tens of thousands march in the first Budapest Pride since Viktor Orbán was voted out
Saturday's Pride march came a little more than a year after Orbán's nationalist-populist government passed legislation and a constitutional amendment to outlaw the event, drawing criticism from human rights groups and politicians across the European Union.

"Different sperm whale ‘dialects’ detected on separate sides of the Mediterranean"
#Mediterranean #Whales #Animals

Different sperm whale ‘dialects’ detected on separate sides of the Mediterranean
Matriarchal groups in east and west exhibit distinct click patterns, used to form social structures

Bounded Priority-Aware Locking for Real-Time Kernels
Shriram Raja, Richard West
https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.27620 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2605.27620 https://arxiv.org/html/2605.27620
arXiv:2605.27620v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: A real-time multicore system requires delay bounds on access to shared resources. These resources include the kernel, which has potentially many non-preemptible critical sections guarded by one or more different synchronization primitives. While primitives such as FIFO locks bound the waiting time to enter a critical section, they do not distinguish the importance of individual tasks competing for shared resource access. To address this, we consider a priority-aware spinlock, which reduces the average delay of more important tasks while maintaining a worst-case bound on lock waiting time. We propose a Batched Priority Lock (BPL) that first groups waiting tasks based on the order of their lock requests, and then determines the next lock holder according to priority within the waiting group. We compare BPL to alternative lock approaches, showing that the average waiting time is reduced for higher priority tasks, in simulations up to 64 cores, and for a working implementation on an 8-core machine with a real RTOS. BPL is a compromise between strict priority and FIFO ordering. While strict priorities may lead to starvation and, hence, unbounded lock acquisition delays, BPL has the same waiting bound as FIFO, but with benefits to higher priority tasks. Although its complexity is greater than that of a simple spinlock, its common case execution overhead is shown to be inexpensive in a working system. We believe this is an acceptable cost in systems that require predictability.
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Different #meteorites, same birthplace: The parent bodies of
different groups of #CarbonaceousChondrites may have formed in the same region of the #SolarSystem…

flickr_groups: OSN user groups (2007)
Bipartite networks of the affiliations between users and groups on several online social network sites, including Flickr, YouTube, LiveJournal, and Orkut, extracted in 2007.
This network has 499610 nodes and 8545307 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted
https://networ…

AI groups spend $20 million going head-to-head in New York race pitting Bores, Lasher, Schlossberg (Emily Wilkins/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/23/ai-groups-spend-20-million-in-new-york-race-pitting-bores-lasher-schlossberg.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260623/p11#a260623p11

Maintenance request: #AudioScreen add-on after 2026 https://nvda-addons.groups.io/g/nvda-addons/topic/maintenance_request/120314464?dir=asc Add-on for the…

The No Kings movement has announced a nationwide event
on 14 June,
directly counter-programming Donald Trump’s 80th birthday celebrations and a Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) bout on the south lawn of the White House.
The centerpiece is a 90-minute concert at New York’s Town Hall featuring entertainer Bette Midler,
songwriter Patti Smith, actor Jane Fonda, musician Rufus Wainwright and commentator Joy Reid
– streaming free nationwide, while local groups ho…

Belfast unrest: 'Racists and groups allied to the far right are now unified across Europe' - Spotlight - France 24
https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/spotlight/20260612-belfast-unrest-racists-and-groups-allied-to-the-far-right-are-now-unified-across-europe

I have a theory that MAGA Republicans adore & worship #Trump just like diehard sports fans root for a bad football team. (Jets, Cardinals, Raiders, take your pick.)
Both are self-defeating & irrational. Both are notoriously poorly run organizations that consistently make bad decisions... but both fan groups passionately & blindly JUST. DON'T. CARE.
The problem is one is…

US moves to allow commercial fishing in Pacific marine protected areas https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2026/06/us-moves-to-allow-commercial-fishing-in-pacific-marine-protected-areas/

US moves to allow commercial fishing in Pacific marine protected areas
On June 11, U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive proclamation to open additional commercial fishing grounds in remote areas of the Pacific. The proclamation says restoring access to these areas “will promote economic opportunity.” However, local groups warn it will open the door to overfishing in a crucial marine habitat and sacred cultural site. […]

Britain’s Largest Iron Age Hoard on Display for the First Time Includes Evidence of First 4-Horse Carriage https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/britains-largest-iron-age-hoard-on-display-for-the-first-time-includ…

Britain's Largest Iron Age Hoard on Display for the First Time Includes Evidence of First 4-Horse Carriage
The Melsonby hoard consists of two groups of items, the first was almost entirely horse carriage components, and the other was 'The Block.

Discretisation and independent resolutions of ample groupoids
Xin Li, Alistair Miller
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.21761 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2606.21761 https://arxiv.org/html/2606.21761
arXiv:2606.21761v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: We develop a general framework for understanding and computing both the groupoid homology of an ample groupoid and the topological K-theory of its reduced C*-algebra, based on two main ideas: discretisation and independent resolutions. Discretisation shows that a special class of ample groupoids we term independent groupoids are homologically and K-theoretically equivalent to discrete groupoids. We introduce the notion of a resolution by independent groupoids and provide a recipe for building a controlled independent resolution of a given ample groupoid of interest, leading to a systematic way of studying its homology and K-theory. In order to illustrate our general ideas and methods, we work out several concrete examples and applications. Garside categories provide a wide range of examples, including higher rank graphs, self-similar groups and spherical Artin-Tits groups. We also present an application to the homology of Stein's groups.
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Flush with AI cash, South Korean groups are making their biggest US investment push in years, with their Q1 US foreign direct investment up 100% YoY to $10.2B (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/8ebab4c1-f36a-455e-a3d1-b36247296669

In other news, my first 15x11" (roughly DIN A3) print came out with only minor issues, none of them show stoppers and I know what needs to be done to improve. So this is just a test print and it's a bit hard to capture, but the overall presence & level of detail is so amazing at this size! Hard to go back to smaller sizes now :)
To get here, I've been doing countless tests of different recipes and hardware (e.g. I had to disassemble my UV light to create a more uniform/unfocused li…

Added a link to the #AntiRacist Anaka Women's Collective in #Belfast to this week's episode of @… radio
They're doing good work to build commun…

Support people and groups impacted by racist attacks
We are raising funds to support people who have been attacked, displaced and traumatised in racist attacks in Belfast.

Once you have this you've covered most of the world's major delicious food groups. Sheer genius lurking here in Braga PT.

People need to talk more about the destruction of buildings funded by the EU and other countries/organisations. Demand reparations!
https://euobserver.com/222661/israel-has-bombed-and-bulldozed-e150m-…

Israel has bombed and bulldozed €150m of EU-funded buildings in Gaza and West Bank – but never paid back a cent
Israel has damaged at least €150m of European taxpayer-funded structures in Gaza and the West Bank, but not paid back one euro, according to an EUobserver investigation compiling data from the EU and third-party aid groups, amid Brussels' wall of silence.

🤔 Are #emojis a universal language? - No, for two reasons. 1) They are not a language, as they do not show the properties that human languages have: grammatical structure and free combinatorics, enabling us to express complex thoughts. 2) They are not really universal. While many emojis are interpreted similarly all over the world (I guess it's pretty clear what one could mean by 🍕 ), some emoji meanings are closely tied to cultural assumptions (e.g., some of the gestures 👍 , buildings ⛩️ , food), and others are very context-dependent and might follow different conventions in various groups, including linguistic or regional groups (e.g., 🙃 for which we found strong differences between populations in Norway/US vs. Germany/Bulgaria). #WorldEmojiDay #linguistics

Ranking Raiders’ Offensive Position Groups Entering Training Camp https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-ranking-offensive-position-groups-entering-training-camp

Ranking all 32 NFL teams based on their offensive ... https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/49154825/ranking-nfl-teams-offensive-groups-wr-rb-te-2026-season-best-playmakers

Cowboys' WR, TE, RB Group Gets Top-10 Ranking That Still Isn't Good Enough https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/cowboys-wr-te-rb-group-gets-top-10-ranking-that-still-isn-t-good-enough

Much to like in the @… 8 update!
Much clearer what's going on with my tabs now - the ones with the dark border are sets of tabs - real handy that.

GLAAD and more than 40 advocacy groups submit a public comment calling the FCC's proposed LGBTQ TV warning label "unnecessary, unhelpful and discriminatory" (Corbin Bolies/The Wrap)
https://www.thewrap.com/industry-news/publ

GLAAD, Human Rights Campaign Oppose FCC's Potential New LGBTQ ‘Warning Label’
More than 40 advocacy groups warn that the FCC's latest LGBTQ+ TV proposal would be "unnecessary, unhelpful and discriminatory"

revolution: American Revolutionary groups (1765-1783)
A bipartite network of the memberships of notable people and organizations, from the American Revolution (1765-1783) between users and groups on YouTube, extracted from a larger YouTube network in 2007.
This network has 141 nodes and 160 edges.
Tags: Social, Affiliation, Unweighted
http…

‘A public health emergency waiting to occur’: how US industry groups spent years fighting who gets to measure toxic air
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jul/20/louisiana-toxic-air-floodlight?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other…

‘A public health emergency waiting to occur’: how US industry groups spent years fighting who gets to measure toxic air
Air polluters try to ensure toxic emissions happen far from monitors – but the people who live nearby still feel it

‘A public health emergency waiting to occur’: how US industry groups spent years fighting who gets to measure toxic air
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jul/20/louisiana-toxic-air-floodlight?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other…

‘A public health emergency waiting to occur’: how US industry groups spent years fighting who gets to measure toxic air
Air polluters try to ensure toxic emissions happen far from monitors – but the people who live nearby still feel it

Ranking Raiders’ Offensive Position Groups Entering Training Camp https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-ranking-offensive-position-groups-entering-training-camp

Finally another fun #sunset from Bochum, Germany, today: with the sunspot groups (1)4446 in the upper left, 4444 and 4447 below and 4443 just above the trees - see https://spaceweather.com/images2026/25may26/hmi1898.gif for orientation - easily visible. Bridgecam near max. optical digital zoom.

The telecoms groups have deployed technology that will render devices unusable the moment they are reported stolen from their shops, according to people familiar with the matter, in an attempt to curb the market for stolen phones.
https://www.ft.com/content/786de887-a970-4b43-…

Alex Bores, a NY congressional candidate at the center of a proxy war over AI regulation involving millions in AI PAC spending, was defeated by Micah Lasher (Ben Kamisar/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2026-electi…

New York Democrat Micah Lasher wins House primary that drew big spending from AI groups
NBC News projects that Lasher, who was backed by retiring Rep. Jerry Nadler, emerged from a crowded field in the Manhattan-based 12th District.

As part of the Trump administration’s continuing attack on left-leaning groups,
the US state department has listed several activists and organizations as
“front groups and fellow travelers” for Cuba,
including Hasan Piker and Amazon Labor Union founder Chris Smalls.
In a 100-page report released on Monday, the state department denounces Cuba as the
“capital of 21st-century communism”,
accusing the Cuban government of carrying out a “campaign of subversion”…

‘Front groups and fellow travelers’: state department attacks US left over Cuba
New report denounces Havana and claims ‘campaign of subversion’ has infiltrated highest levels of US government

flickr_groups: OSN user groups (2007)
Bipartite networks of the affiliations between users and groups on several online social network sites, including Flickr, YouTube, LiveJournal, and Orkut, extracted in 2007.
This network has 499610 nodes and 8545307 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted
https://networ…

New York Democrat Micah Lasher wins House primary that drew big spending from AI groups (Ben Kamisar/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2026-election/new-york-house-district-12-democrat-primary-winner-lasher-rcna351424
http://www.memeorandum.com/260624/p5#a260624p5

Ranking Raiders’ Defensive Position Groups Entering Training Camp https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-ranking-defensive-position-groups-entering-training-camp

Hard-right groups have expanded their influence across US government, report finds | Far right (US) | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/09/splc-report-far-right-groups-trump-administration

RE: #sunset today, with all four groups better visible. But no significant atmospherical optics today.

Taylor Farms Spent Big on MAGA and Anti-Regulatory Lobbying Before Diarrhea Outbreak
The company donated more than $3.6 million to conservative groups between 2020 and 2025,
including $1 million to the MAGA Inc. super PAC.
https://www.wired.com/story/diarrhea-outbr

Taylor Farms Spent Big on MAGA and Anti-Regulatory Lobbying Before Diarrhea Outbreak
The company donated more than $3.6 million to conservative groups between 2020 and 2025, including $1 million to the MAGA Inc. super PAC.

Dallas Cowboys Fall Short of Top Spot in Rankings of NFL Wide Receiver Groups https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/dallas-cowboys-fall-short-top-spot-rankings-nfl-wide-receiver-groups

RE: #Bochum #sunset on 25 June, with several #sunspot groups - AR 4478 at 10 o'clock: https://bsky.app/profile/vincentledvina.bsky.social/post/3mp4yl543zs2z

Groups tied to the artificial intelligence industry are flooding money into the midterms in hopes of shaping future AI regulation.
Around the country, groups associated with AI and tech are trying to influence elections from Senate races to local offices,
even as Americans register increasing discomfort with the technology's ramifications for jobs, energy bills and society.
💥AI-focused super PACs have already spent $43.3 million on congressional races this cycle, accordi…

US Attorney for Minnesota charges 15 anti-ICE protesters, alleging ties to antifa groups (Joseph Swanson/KSTP-TV)
https://kstp.com/kstp-news/top-news/us-attorney-for-minnesota-charging-anti-ice-protesters-alleging-ties-to-antifa-groups/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260616/p100#a260616p100

How social media influencers have become a magnet for political campaigns and groups in the US that want to push their priorities without disclosures (Ken Bensinger/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/202…

Political Money Is Flowing to Influencers. But From Whom?
Social media stars have become a magnet for campaigns and political groups that want to push priorities without disclosing where their money is going.

How the global memory chip crunch, driven by AI demand, is hurting China's car industry, squeezing automakers already hit by a price war and razor-thin margins (Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/business/automobiles/from-by…

From BYD to Xpeng, memory chip crunch squeezes China's automakers
AI-fueled shortages push up costs for groups already fighting brutal price war

There was another case Friday of a tiny (probably < 1 meter) #asteroid hitting the Earth and getting discovered a few hours before but no detection of its airburst near Papua New Guinea has been reported so far: https://www.minorplanetcenter.net/mpec/K26/K26JE3.html = the circumstances (with the designation 2026 JN4 for the has-been object), https://groups.io/g/mpml/topic/119328235 and https://groups.io/g/mpml/topic/119328368 = threads and https://bsky.app/profile/tony873004.bsky.social/post/3mlwb7bed3k2p = an animation.

flickr_groups: OSN user groups (2007)
Bipartite networks of the affiliations between users and groups on several online social network sites, including Flickr, YouTube, LiveJournal, and Orkut, extracted in 2007.
This network has 499610 nodes and 8545307 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted
https://networ…

Dallas Cowboys Fall Short of Top Spot in Rankings of NFL Wide Receiver Groups https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/dallas-cowboys-fall-short-top-spot-rankings-nfl-wide-receiver-groups

Which countries could actually feed themselves independently if all international food trade shut down?
Just one, according to a new study.
Researchers from the University of Göttingen in Germany and the University of Edinburgh analyzed food production data from 186 countries.
The findings revealed that Guyana is the only country that can be entirely self-sufficient in all seven key food groups that the study focused on.
China and Vietnam were the runners-up, producin…

Just One Nation Produces Enough Food For Itself, Scientists Reveal
Global politics don't feel particularly cooperative at the moment, but which countries could actually feed themselves independently if all international food trade shut down? Just one, according to a new study.

Reddit stock fell 5% on Friday after Meta launched a standalone app for online forums, called Forum; Reddit's stock is now down almost 40% this year (Jonathan Vanian/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/22/reddit-stock-drops-after-meta-launches-forum-…

Reddit stock drops 6% after Meta launches standalone app for online forums
Reddit shares fell after Meta released a standalone app for Facebook Groups called Forum.

Europol and international law enforcement agencies dismantle nine organized crime groups and arrest 29 in a crackdown on illegal streaming, removing 27K URLs (Sergiu Gatlan/BleepingComputer)
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/secu

Police dismantles 9 crime groups in illegal streaming crackdown
European and international law enforcement agencies have dismantled nine organized crime groups and arrested 29 suspects in a major crackdown on illegal streaming operations.

And more #NoctilucentClouds over Bochum Germany tonight: see https://www.facebook.com/groups/leuchtendenachtwolken/posts/4356493544573922 for more views! This time I placed the camera on a railing and exposed for 4 seconds at ISO 400.

Donald Trump’s state department intends to allocate $12m to organisations in the UK
founded by the prominent Conservatives Jacob Rees-Mogg and Toby Young, the Guardian can reveal.
The intended grants, revealed in US government documents, are part of a package of support for European groups viewed favourably by the Trump administration.
Former US officials have criticised the funding as a misuse of public money to seek influence over foreign politics.
The documents re…

Trump administration to grant $12m to groups founded by UK conservatives Jacob Rees-Mogg and Toby Young
Exclusive: Controversial grants are part of package criticised as misuse of public money to influence European politics

Nine media advocacy groups claim the Paramount-WBD merger is an "existential threat to the free press", suggesting CNN would face firings like 60 Minutes has (Josh Dickey/The Wrap)
https://www.thewrap.com/media-platforms/jo

Press Freedom Groups Warn CNN Is Next After '60 Minutes' Amid 'Existential Threat' of Paramount Merger
A group of nine press freedom advocacy groups on Tuesday warned that the impending Paramount merger with Warner Bros. represents an "existential threat to the free press, independent media, and free speech," warning that CNN will be the next to suffer the drastic firings and turmoil that "60 Minutes" has been going through in recent days.

flickr_groups: OSN user groups (2007)
Bipartite networks of the affiliations between users and groups on several online social network sites, including Flickr, YouTube, LiveJournal, and Orkut, extracted in 2007.
This network has 499610 nodes and 8545307 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted
https://networ…

The funny fuel dump in the video #methalox launch https://english.news.cn/20260514/5b14303359b34364888011f53b48ecf8/c.html as explained by https://spaceweather.com/archive.php?day=14&month=05&year=2026&view=view and https://www.facebook.com/astrobobking/posts/pfbid0HqzjuUSHyhwxLssf89zzNysNQGWMs3Y4X2o2takeyqyBZa4bLb7ok7vhQX9s14M2l

Quitobaquito Springs in south-west Arizona has been called a biological wonderland with few equals.
The springs are an oasis in the vast Sonoran desert along the US-Mexico border, held sacred by the O’odham people, who call it A’al Vaipia.
Here, water flows out of an aquifer at the bottom of a hill, runs along a short concrete channel and collects in a pond.
The pond is home to Sonoyta pupfish, which are small and silvery, with upturned jaws.
In the channel are found …

‘Total chaos’: the biological wonderland threatened by Trump’s border wall
Environmental groups are sounding the alarm over plans that threaten a desert spring that’s home to rare fish and turtles and sacred to the O’odham people

flickr_groups: OSN user groups (2007)
Bipartite networks of the affiliations between users and groups on several online social network sites, including Flickr, YouTube, LiveJournal, and Orkut, extracted in 2007.
This network has 499610 nodes and 8545307 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted
https://networ…

Sony Music Publishing completes its acquisition of the full music rights portfolio of Recognition Music Group, backed by Singapore's sovereign wealth fund GIC (Tim Ingham/Music Business Worldwide)
https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/d…

Done deal: Sony Music Publishing completes acquisition of Recognition Music Group’s catalog
Sony Music Publishing already administered the Recognition catalog before completing the acquisition.

Raiders Mailbag: What does cornerback depth look like right now? https://www.raiders.com/news/mailbag/raiders-mailbag-what-does-cornerback-depth-look-like-right-now

flickr_groups: OSN user groups (2007)
Bipartite networks of the affiliations between users and groups on several online social network sites, including Flickr, YouTube, LiveJournal, and Orkut, extracted in 2007.
This network has 499610 nodes and 8545307 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted
https://networ…

Space datacenters proposed by SpaceX, Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin and others would
release staggering levels of pollution that would probably alter the Earth’s atmosphere
and be “catastrophic” for the planet, space industry experts and environmental groups warn in a new petition demanding a review of their impacts.
Tech companies have collectively proposed millions of “orbital datacenters”
and are pressing forward with plans, which require Federal Communications Commissi…

Space datacenters proposed by Musk and Bezos ‘catastrophic’ for planet, experts warn
New US petition demands review of plans from tech companies amid fears of environmental destruction

flickr_groups: OSN user groups (2007)
Bipartite networks of the affiliations between users and groups on several online social network sites, including Flickr, YouTube, LiveJournal, and Orkut, extracted in 2007.
This network has 499610 nodes and 8545307 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted
https://networ…

Multiple Position Groups Set To Excel Under Raiders' Rob Leonard https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-multiple-position-groups-set-excel-under-rob-leonard

As reported by his wife in #AlanHale has passed away yesterday at 68: more in the thread https://groups.io/g/comets-ml/topic/119679184 and https://www.facebook.com/groups/227002358661288/posts/1786784712683037/. In this picture from an astronomy-minded fantastic trip to Iran in 2000 - see https://bsky.app/profile/cosmos4u.bsky.social/post/3lulglljezs2d - Hale ist on the far left (and yours truly in postion 5; it also includes comet personality Charles Morris at position 6 and on the far right astronaut Bruce McCandless II who was capcom on Apollo 11 and made the first untethered spacewalk - both also no longer with us).

Russian commanders still order small groups of soldiers to assault a battlefield saturated with drones,
in often deadly attempts to find gaps in Ukrainian lines.
But Kyiv’s advances in drone warfare have turned the tables on Moscow.
“Robotification has made troop numbers much less important,
which has changed the fortunes for the Kyiv regime,”
said a person involved in the war effort.
“You need 10 or 20 thousand drone operators, not hundreds of thousands…

flickr_groups: OSN user groups (2007)
Bipartite networks of the affiliations between users and groups on several online social network sites, including Flickr, YouTube, LiveJournal, and Orkut, extracted in 2007.
This network has 499610 nodes and 8545307 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted
https://networ…

Elon Musk became the world’s first trillionaire on Friday
with the largest initial public offering in stock market history for his rocket and AI company SpaceX.
The company is based in South Texas in a city controlled by Musk known as Starbase,
which SpaceX has operated from since 2014.
💥Environmental and conservation groups recently filed a federal lawsuit seeking to block a land swap approved by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service that would give SpaceX more than

“Land Grab”: Trillionaire Elon Musk Sued in South Texas to Block SpaceX’s Takeover of Wildlife Refuge
Elon Musk became the world’s first trillionaire on Friday with the largest initial public offering in stock market history for his rocket and AI company SpaceX. The company is based in South Texas in a city controlled by Musk known as Starbase, which SpaceX has operated from since 2014. Environmental and conservation groups recently filed a federal lawsuit seeking to block a land swap approved by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service that would give SpaceX more than 700 acres of a national wildl…

The Trump administration’s cancellation of more than $
100 million in humanities grants to scholars, writers, research groups and other organizations
was unconstitutional, and the Department of Government Efficiency had no authority to end the funding, a federal judge in New York ruled on Thursday.
U.S. District Judge Colleen McMahon in Manhattan sided with The Authors Guild, several other groups and several people who had their grants canceled and sued DOGE and the National…

Judge rules government illegally canceled more than $100 million in humanities grants
A federal judge in New York has ruled that the Trump administration's cancellation of over $100 million in humanities grants was unconstitutional. Judge Colleen McMahon on Thursday sided with The Authors Guild and others who sued DOGE and the National Endowment for the Humanities. She permanently barred the administration from terminating the grants. The judge also criticized DOGE's use of artificial intelligence to label and target projects as "diversity, equity and inclusion. Several groups t…

flickr_groups: OSN user groups (2007)
Bipartite networks of the affiliations between users and groups on several online social network sites, including Flickr, YouTube, LiveJournal, and Orkut, extracted in 2007.
This network has 499610 nodes and 8545307 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted
https://networ…

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis announced on July 1 his intent to designate certain Muslim and anti-fascist groups
—including U.S. groups
—as “terrorist organizations.”
Using authorities granted to him in a new Florida law, which took effect earlier that day,
DeSantis declared that he would seek designation of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR),
the Muslim Brotherhood, and “Antifa,” among others.
Within hours, the ACLU and Southern Poverty Law …

The Dangers of Florida’s New “Terrorist” Designations
Analysis of First Amendment implications of Florida's HB 1471, part of a growing trend of state-level terrorism designation laws.

Efforts to expose domestic spying under the Trump administration offer a preview of how Democrats could yield subpoena power next year if voters hand them the House majority in November.
Rep. Delia Ramirez, a Democrat from Illinois who was appointed ranking member of the cybersecurity subcommittee of the House Committee on Homeland Security this week, said emerging technologies are being used to violate civil rights and target Trump’s critics.
“The Trump-Miller regime is weaponiz…

More Details Emerge of Trump’s Secret Use of ICE to Spy on Critics
Privacy groups are pushing Big Tech to notify users about federal surveillance after anonymous ICE critics were exposed.

Rep. Harriet Hageman insists that there is no racism on the right
and that the Aryan Nation, Nazis, and KKK are all "far-left groups" 
https://www.peoplefor.org/rightwingwatch/rep-harriet-hageman-insists-there-no-racism-right…

Rep. Harriet Hageman Insists There Is No Racism On The Right
Rep. Harriet Hageman insists that there is no racism on the right and that the Aryan Nation, Nazis, and KKK are all "far-left groups"

Two press freedom groups are warning that Larry Ellison may “implement the CBS playbook” at CNN by getting rid of all the anchors President Donald Trump doesn’t like.
In a letter sent Thursday to Paramount Skydance, Freedom of the Press Foundation and Reporters Without Borders demanded to see internal documents, alleging that there was “credible concern that Paramount leadership has offered, solicited, or effectuated a corrupt exchange: more favorable coverage of the Trump administrati…

Larry Ellison Promised to Fire CNN Anchors If Trump Approved Takeover
Two press freedom groups allege Ellison agreed to a “corrupt exchange” with Donald Trump.