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Colts' Shane Steichen: Daniel Jones has been doing a 'hell of a job' https://www.nfl.com/news/colts-shane-steichen-daniel-jones-has-been-doing-a-hell-of-a-job

Newly daylighted Canyon Creek brings lost habitat back to Spanish Banks
A long-hidden urban stream in Spanish Banks Beach Park has been brought back to the surface thanks to efforts by the Vancouver Board of Parks and Recreation.
Local Nations, community members and elected officials gathered today to celebrate the public opening of Canyon Creek, a previously buried waterway that ran through Pacific Spirit Regional Park and under the western parking lot at Spanish Banks

Newly daylighted Canyon Creek brings lost habitat back to Spanish Banks
A long-hidden urban stream in Spanish Banks Beach Park has been brought back to the surface thanks to efforts by the Vancouver Board of Parks and Recreation.

Near-record #nitrate levels in Des Moines, #Iowa-area rivers threaten drinking #water... "But the officials declined to explain what they believe has caused the surge in nitrate levels, which has historically been …

River pollution threatens Des Moines, Iowa's drinking water
Local officials are warning more than half a million Iowans in the state's capital city and suburbs that near-record level of pollutants in its rivers could make drinking water dangerous if immediate steps are not taken to reduce demand. But the officials are declining to explain what they believe has caused the surge in nitrate levels, which has historically been tied to runoff from farmland draining into Des Moines-area rivers. The water utility is issuing a first-ever ban on lawn watering fo…

“Bray Air Display has dropped US defence and aerospace manufacturer Lockheed Martin as a sponsor for this year’s event over the company’s supply of arms support to Israel in the Gaza war.”
https://m.independent.ie/regionals/…

Bray Air Display drops US sponsor over Israel support in Gaza war
Bray Air Display has dropped US defence and aerospace manufacturer Lockheed Martin as a sponsor for this year’s event over the company's supply of arms support to Israel in the Gaza war.

When a radical performance artist has command of an army (The Economist)
https://www.economist.com/leaders/2025/06/12/when-a-radical-performance-artist-has-command-of-an-army
http://www.memeorandum.com/250613/p150#a250613p150

‘Defiance has not been subtle’: Trump admin’s ‘flagrant’ refusal to follow court orders ‘must be exposed for all to see,’ Abrego Garcia’s lawyers say
https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/defiance-has-not-been-subtle-trump-admins-flagrant-refusal-to-follow-court-orders-must-be-exposed-for-all-to-see-abrego-garcias-lawyers-say/

Sources: Apple has set an internal release target of spring 2026 for its delayed upgrade of Siri, as part of an iOS 26.4 software update (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-06-12/a…

Apple (AAPL) Targets Spring 2026 for Release of Delayed Siri AI Upgrade
Apple Inc. has set an internal release target of spring 2026 for its delayed upgrade of Siri, marking a key step in its artificial intelligence turnaround effort.

Mr. Abrego Garcia, speaking through an interpreter, has entered "not guilty" pleas to the two charges
@tennesseelookout.com
https://bsky.app/profile/anitawadhwani.bsky.social/post/3lripyl3g5s2q

New Gist: Not Mandatory, Not Compulsory, Not Legal
The DPC has fined the Department of Social Protection €550,000 for processing PSC card biometric data.
This is the Gist.
(at no point do I use the words "I told you so")
https://www.thegist.ie/the-gist-not-mand…

The Gist: Not Mandatory, Not Compulsory, Not Legal
The DPC has fined the Department of Social Protection €550,000. This is the Gist.

With militaries: amateurs focus on weapon systems like tanks & planes. Professionals focus on logistics.
kegseth is a drunk amateur misusing & abusing our soldiers.
“…snafu is…slapdash mission where…welfare of troops has not been…priority…service members described inadequate living conditions at…Naval Weapons Station Seal Beach, on…outskirts of Los Angeles…soldiers are sleeping outside on cots…Others cited intermittent issues with food & fuel supplies.”

Guard Soldiers Deployed in Trump's LA Crackdown Aren't Getting Paid Yet
According to more than a dozen Guardsmen across four units who spoke to Military.com, none has received formal activation orders, the critical paperwork that not only authorizes their duty status, but also unlocks pay and Tricare health benefits.

Seen David Attenborough's film Ocean? Track countries' progress in signing and ratifying the High Seas Treaty, needed to protect 30% of the oceans.
https://highseasalliance.org/treaty-ratification/map/
Here's Europe:
orange = signed only,

High Seas Treaty Ratification Map
At least 60 countries must sign and ratify the High Seas Treaty for it to become international law. Follow progress and see who has signed and ratify the treaty on the world map.

Series A, Episode 10 - Breakdown
BLAKE: We'll just have to take the chance.
JENNA: Thanks.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/110/431 B7B5

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Mark Zuckerberg has created the saddest place on the internet with Meta AI's public feed https://www.businessinsider.com/mark-zuckerber…

Mark Zuckerberg's Meta AI is one of the most depressing places online
Mark Zuckerberg's Meta AI app has become the saddest place on the internet with its public feed of personal overshares.

"Trump has to rig everything, from his birthday to political speeches at military bases. He’s a loser who has to fake support.
Go to a #NoKings protest. Show this Administration what democracy looks like and why we refuse to honor a king.
...Demand accountability."
⁠Original post from Katie Phang:

No worries people, the good news is Hegseth on Defense means it is the weakest departement ever. But shall we stop with the whole "NATO Act", it is clearly gone... Also a small detail, there is no need for a contingency plan because the US already has a large base and military in Greenland. But it fits with Hegseth's absolute stupidity.
"Hegseth says the Pentagon has contingency plans to invade Greenland if necessary"

Marina Hyde is a brilliant columnist:
Imagine owning the world’s premier shitposting platform – in fact, having spent $44bn on it, specifically so that your magic mirror would tell you each day that you were the fairest shitposter of all – and then shuffling sheepishly on to your own pixels to mumble something about having gone “too far” with your hurty words.

'The US has, however, not found that Iran is on the verge of acquiring nuclear weapons or attempting to do so. In March, US Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard said the US “continues to assess that Iran is not building nuclear weapons and Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has not authorised the nuclear weapons programme he suspended in 2003”.'
What is behind Israel’s decision to attack Iran? | Conflict News | Al Jazeera

What is behind Israel’s decision to attack Iran?
Israel believes Iran is a threat to its security despite Iran’s insistence that it doesn’t want nuclear weapons.

Proposed NFL Trade Has Cowboys Land Former 1200-Yard Pro Bowl Playmaker https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/nfl-trade-rumors-la-chargers-harris/?adt_ei=[email]

Cowboys QB Dak Prescott cares not for legacy, says he has to win a Super Bowl 'for my sanity'

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/cowboys

Urban Composition II 🫟
都市构图 II 🫟
📷 Nikon FE
🎞️Ilford FP4 Plus, expired 1995
buy me ☕️ ?/请我喝杯☕️？
#filmphotography

Yiding Cao Geld mit PayPal.Me senden
Folgen Sie dem Link PayPal.Me/dingsterdingster und geben Sie den Betrag ein. Es ist bequem und sicher. Sie haben noch kein PayPal-Konto? Kein Problem.

The story of my grandfather, Arthur Ward, has been published by the Society of Genealogists in the Genealogists’ Magazine. #WW1

Arthur Ward (1888-1948) - Miscellanea Edintone
The story of my grandfather, Arthur Ward, has been published by the Society of Genealogists in the Genealogists' Magazine.

How John Spytek Has Significantly Impacted the Las Vegas Raiders https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/las-vegas-devin-white-tom-brady-john-spytek-pete-carroll

GOLIATH: A Decentralized Framework for Data Collection in Intelligent Transportation Systems
Davide Maffiola, Stefano Longari, Michele Carminati, Mara Tanelli, Stefano Zanero
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10665

GOLIATH: A Decentralized Framework for Data Collection in Intelligent Transportation Systems
Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSs) technology has advanced during the past years, and it is now used for several applications that require vehicles to exchange real-time data, such as in traffic information management. Traditionally, road traffic information has been collected using on-site sensors. However, crowd-sourcing traffic information from onboard sensors or smartphones has become a viable alternative. State-of-the-art solutions currently follow a centralized model where only the…

The Rule of Idiots:
In the last days of all empires the idiots take over. They mirror the collective stupidity of a civilization that has detached itself from reality.
by Chris Hedges
https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/the-rule-of-idiots

The Rule of Idiots
In the last days of all empires the idiots take over. They mirror the collective stupidity of a civilization that has detached itself from reality.

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

RAG has revolutionised AI by merging search and generation. Agentic behaviour takes this search to the next level by enabling LLMs to make decisions and call tools. At this year's Berlin Buzzwords, Bilge Yücel will discuss how agentic behaviour enhances pipelines, what it means for a system to act as an 'agent', and core concepts such as routing, tool calling and reasoning, along with a live demo.
Learn more:

What has become of the International Criminal Court (#ICC)? Has it really succumbed to intimidation by the fabricated slander of the chief prosecutor?
We need international arrest warrants for #Netanyahu, #Gvir,

This session has a plot twist at the end that qualifies as a cinematic masterpiece of the year:
https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2025/308

Optimize CPU performance with Instruments - WWDC25 - Videos - Apple Developer
Learn how to optimize your app for Apple silicon with two new hardware-assisted tools in Instruments. We'll start by covering how to...

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

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

Windows 11 on Arm now has enough native apps that most users are spending the majority of their time in them, says Arm https://www.windowscentral.com/software-ap…

I’ve long been a fan of the Check My Ads people. Now they’re launching a really ambitious-looking “Policy Platform” aimed at cleaning up the online-advertising business. My belief is that anyone who’s had much exposure to that business or to “AdTech” probably agrees that cleanup is called for. Check it out: https://checkmyads.org/policy/

In case you haven't seen it yet, check out the analysis of the devastating state of [mostly] modern #OpenSSL by members of haproxy at https://www.haproxy.com/blog/state-of-ssl-stacks

Garmin unveils the $799 Venu X1 smartwatch with a 2" square AMOLED screen, a titanium body, an eight-day battery, and a blood oxygen monitor, coming on June 18 (Emma Roth/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/686325/garmin-venu-x1-smart…

Garmin’s Venu X1 smartwatch has its biggest display and smallest case yet
Garmin has revealed the Venu X1, a premium smartwatch that features a two-inch display and its thinnest case yet. The watch costs $799.99 and launches on June 18th, 2025.

As a Mass Effect aficionado It seems unfair to me that Shepard has a cabin full of cool ship models but I can't have any. Until now. Martin at printables.com posted an SR-1 3d model. My printer is single filament and low-resolution, so I had to do more work than him to pull it together. Plus painting PLA is a bit of a struggle. But now I have a model, however rough.
I'd still rather have what Shepard has.

Cowboys' Dak Prescott dismisses questions about George Pickens' reputation, says he has 'no concerns'

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/…

»L.A. Protests Live Updates: Senator Padilla Forcibly Removed After Confronting Noem«
The US has fallen and the Trump dictatorship hierarchy is final!
📰 https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06/12/us/la-protests-trump-marines-ice
📰

L.A. Protests Live Updates: Senator Padilla Forcibly Removed After Confronting Noem
A federal judge plans to rule soon on whether to limit the role of the military in the immigration raids that led Senator Alex Padilla to confront the homeland security secretary. He was removed and handcuffed.

Once again for the devs in the back…
If an image has a blank alt (`<img alt="">`), then `aria-hidden` is redundant and unnecessary and redundant.

"And what has it got us? You can now order any product made by stroking a pocket glass and have it next day or even quicker. What are you doing with all that time that is freed up?
Certainly not leisure. The average hours worked per week in developed countries has certainly dropped since the industrial revolution but remained roughly constant since 1980. Tracking all that work in Jira has not led to doing less of it."

Accelerating Newton-Schulz Iteration for Orthogonalization via Chebyshev-type Polynomials
Ekaterina Grishina, Matvey Smirnov, Maxim Rakhuba
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10935

Accelerating Newton-Schulz Iteration for Orthogonalization via Chebyshev-type Polynomials
The problem of computing optimal orthogonal approximation to a given matrix has attracted growing interest in machine learning. Notable applications include the recent Muon optimizer or Riemannian optimization on the Stiefel manifold. Among existing approaches, the Newton-Schulz iteration has emerged as a particularly effective solution, as it relies solely on matrix multiplications and thus achieves high computational efficiency on GPU hardware. Despite its efficiency, the method has inherent …

How to Protest Safely in the Age of Surveillance
No Paywall
https://www.wired.com/story/how-to-protest-safely-surveillance-digital-privacy/

How to Protest Safely in the Age of Surveillance
Law enforcement has more tools than ever to track your movements and access your communications. Here’s how to protect your privacy if you plan to protest.

Potrero Yard working group has an open seat for a representative of a senior-serving organization, if that’s you or someone you know.
The group advises SFMTA on the bus yard modernization housing development on the Mission/Potrero Hill border
https://www.sfmta.com/projects/potrero-yar

Potrero Yard Modernization Project
Rebuilding Potrero Yard to better serve you!

“The society said any judgments it issued that were potentially seen as political would do ‘more harm than good.’”
The Royal Society has already made a political announcement: that it is perfectly fine with fascism and having fascists as fellows. As far as political statements go, it doesn’t get any stronger than that. The only thing they could do to make their point clearer is if they hang a “Nazi Bar” sign above their headquarters.

Ordinarization numbers of numerical semigroups
Sogol Cyrusian, Nathan Kaplan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10222 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2…

Ordinarization numbers of numerical semigroups
There has been significant recent interest in studying how the number of numerical semigroups of genus $g$ behaves as a function of $g$. Bras-Amorós has shown how to organize the collection of numerical semigroups of genus $g$ into a rooted tree called the ordinarization tree. The ordinarization number of a numerical semigroup $S$ is the length of the path from $S$ back to the root of the tree. We study the problem of counting numerical semigroups of genus $g$ with a fixed ordinarization numbe…

lmao @ this aliexpress vendor complaining about supply chains
we've all been there mate

Your telling me this moon has 7 houses?

Vox Media Union says it has reached a tentative three-year agreement with Vox Media, averting a strike (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/digital/news/vox-media-union-agreement-contract-1236430370/

Vox Media Union Reaches Agreement on Three-Year Contract
Vox Media Union, affiliated with WGA East, announced a tentative agreement with the digital media company after an overnight bargaining session.

Jones' Second Law:
The man who smiles when things go wrong has thought of someone
to blame it on.

"the additional expenditure on the NHS is not about improving our living standards, but about correcting the physical consequences of the appalling food that the neoliberal food supply industry is delivering to us, which is grossly detrimental to our health. We are not, in other words, better off as a consequence of this additional expenditure" -- @…

Neoliberalism is consuming our well-being
As The Guardian has noted: Britain is on track to become a “National Health State” where half of all public spending is allocated to the NHS and social care by the end of the decade, according to a leading thinktank. They added: As the chancellor came under pressure on Thursday to defend her...

Under Randy Clarke, WMATA has cut the end-to-end travel time on the Metro Red Line by 8 minutes. This is a 68 minute trip, so it's a gain in efficiency of over 10% on top of faster trips for riders.
This is a combination of automated train operation (with doors closing sooner), raising the speed limit back to the original design of 75 mph, and I imagine other fixes.

WMATA | Metro to launch Automatic Train Operation on the Blue, Orange, and Silver lines on June 15
Metro news and service information for the Washington, DC, Maryland, and Virginia region.

has anyone been to Kubla Con? How is it?
#trrpg

The Swedish energy regulator has mapped out all network development plans for 2025-2034, including flexibility needs and implementation gaps.
https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/4d01ad1fa49e43c49538a50cbe22a24d

EU's Frontex has published a children's book for children who are about to be deported
😲
https://op.europa.eu/en/publication-detail/-/publication/6eea0e99-e464-11ef-be2a-01aa75ed71a1
Official PDFs availabl…

Toolbox for children in return - Publications Office of the EU
Addressing the return of unaccompanied minors or children within families is a delicate matter that demands a humane approach. This approach must not only respect fundamental rights but also prioritise the child's best interests. Additionally, clear and comprehensive information about the return procedures is essential for those involved, enabling them to prepare as effectively as possible. One of the primary objectives of Frontex is to assist MS throughout all stages of the return procedures. …

#NoKings

The crows are coming back for the season, but a local squirrel has found the peanut stash in the meantime

It's probably fine that we put like 3/4 of the internet behind cloudflare. Has having a single point of failure ever been a problem before? 🤔
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:cak4klqoj3bqgk5rj6b4f5do/post…

With moving my calendar away from Google I was looking for a Caldev solution, but ...
Interesting take on CalDev and encryption on Cryptpad's github page.
No chance that that will happen encrypted.
It's waiting for an solution in the Caldev protocol. 😇
[Feature request] Possibility to have CalDAV for the Calendar · Issue #823 · cryptpad/cryptpad

"Trump’s now dedicated to making America dumb and poor again, and the red hat brigade will cheer him on while punching themselves in the face to achieve his objectives. In what world would ANYONE vote for that? Please help me understand."

The cracks will now begin to appear. The question is, will the dam burst?
The problem with feeding the rich is, they have already emptied the main tank, so Trump has to now syphon the wealth from the reserve tank, Social Security and Medicaid.

HPCTransCompile: An AI Compiler Generated Dataset for High-Performance CUDA Transpilation and LLM Preliminary Exploration
Jiaqi Lv, Xufeng He, Yanchen Liu, Xu Dai, Yang Hu, Shouyi Yin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10401

HPCTransCompile: An AI Compiler Generated Dataset for High-Performance CUDA Transpilation and LLM Preliminary Exploration
The rapid growth of deep learning has driven exponential increases in model parameters and computational demands. NVIDIA GPUs and their CUDA-based software ecosystem provide robust support for parallel computing, significantly alleviating computational bottlenecks. Meanwhile, due to the cultivation of user programming habits and the high performance of GPUs, the CUDA ecosystem has established a dominant position in the field of parallel software. This dominance requires other hardware platforms…

Conditional diffusion models for guided anomaly detection in brain images using fluid-driven anomaly randomization
Ana Lawry Aguila, Peirong Liu, Oula Puonti, Juan Eugenio Iglesias
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10233

Conditional diffusion models for guided anomaly detection in brain images using fluid-driven anomaly randomization
Supervised machine learning has enabled accurate pathology detection in brain MRI, but requires training data from diseased subjects that may not be readily available in some scenarios, for example, in the case of rare diseases. Reconstruction-based unsupervised anomaly detection, in particular using diffusion models, has gained popularity in the medical field as it allows for training on healthy images alone, eliminating the need for large disease-specific cohorts. These methods assume that a …

DJ Glaze has won over his new coaches, looks to have locked down Raiders starting RT job https://raiderswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/raiders/2025/06/12/raiders-t-dj-glaze-wo…

Series A, Episode 01 - The Way Back
BLAKE: I have to think.
FOSTER: Of course. We'll talk after the meeting.
BLAKE: Hmm.
DEV TARRANT: What do you think?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/101/89 B7B4

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Bucs' WR room reloaded: With Evans, Godwin and new weapons, Tampa Bay has one of the NFL's deepest groups

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/…

What has Dak Prescott 'super excited' about the Cowboys' offense? https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6422952/2025/06/13/cowboys-offense-dak-prescott-george-pickens/

It has been 15 years since 𝘊𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘻𝘦𝘯𝘴 𝘜𝘯𝘪𝘵𝘦𝘥 began its reign of terror on our democracy.
𝟐𝐎𝐎%-𝐌𝐀𝐓𝐂𝐇 $𝟏𝟎 𝐍𝐎𝐖 𝐓𝐎 𝐄𝐍𝐃 𝐂𝐈𝐓𝐈𝐙𝐄𝐍𝐒 𝐔𝐍𝐈𝐓𝐄𝐃 − https://demsdefend.org
In the past 36 hours, our donations for a campaign to pass Amy Klobuchar and Adam Schiff's Constitutional Amendment to ban Dark Money have …

Democrats Defending Democracy

I'm happy that my talk on open source eSIM integration into embedded Linux devices has been accepted at Embedded Linux Conference Europe 2025, for details see https://osseu2025.sched.com/event/25Vlq/open-source-for-esim-integration…

Open Source Summit Europe 2025: Open Source for ESIM Integration - Haral...
View more about this event at Open Source Summit Europe 2025

LLMs Caught in the Crossfire: Malware Requests and Jailbreak Challenges
Haoyang Li, Huan Gao, Zhiyuan Zhao, Zhiyu Lin, Junyu Gao, Xuelong Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10022

LLMs Caught in the Crossfire: Malware Requests and Jailbreak Challenges
The widespread adoption of Large Language Models (LLMs) has heightened concerns about their security, particularly their vulnerability to jailbreak attacks that leverage crafted prompts to generate malicious outputs. While prior research has been conducted on general security capabilities of LLMs, their specific susceptibility to jailbreak attacks in code generation remains largely unexplored. To fill this gap, we propose MalwareBench, a benchmark dataset containing 3,520 jailbreaking prompts f…

israel has just announced that your own eyes are antisemitic. Please do not believe your own eyes.
#israel #genocide #ethnicCleansing

Arabic news channel Alhurra has replaced its programming with an image accusing the USAGM of illegally withholding Congress-approved funding for its parent MBN (Matthew Keys/The Desk)
https://thedesk.net/2025/06/alhurra-calls-out-usagm-funding-cuts/

Alhurra calls out U.S. Agency for Global Media over funding cuts
The Arabic-language satellite TV channel said the federal agency is "illegally withholding" Congressionally-approved funds for its broadcast operations.

Shareholders in his companies feared that Musk was closing the golden money faucet for them in the White House.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/elon

Elon Musk backs off from feud with Trump, saying he regrets social media posts that 'went too far'
Musk earlier deleted a post in which he claimed without evidence that the government was concealing information about the president's association with infamous pedophile Jeffrey Epstein. Trump has said he has no desire to repair their relationship.

Only the combination/simultaneous arrival of both drones and ballistic missiles will have any chance to break through Israel's missile defenses i would think. Unless Iran has some new smart technology up it's sleeve. Those Shahed drones alone are not that effective anymore. What i should worry about as Israel is more assymetric attacks/warfare in the world.
#iran

“Supreme Court win for girl with epilepsy expected to make disability lawsuits against schools easier”
https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-disabilities-schools-education-access-lawsuits-56f67cf12f1f9c4a7e…

Supreme Court rules for girl with epilepsy in case over access to education
A teenage girl with a rare form of epilepsy has won a unanimous Supreme Court ruling that’s expected to make it easier for families of children with disabilities to sue schools over access to education. Thursday's ruling comes after her family said her Minnesota school district didn’t do enough to get her the disability accommodations she needs to learn. The girl and her family appealed to the Supreme Court after lower courts ruled against their disability discrimination case. Some courts h…

Kennedy has caused irreparable harm to vaccines (Leana S. Wen/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/06/13/kennedy-vaccines-acip-committee/?pwapi_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJyZWFzb24iOiJnaWZ0IiwibmJmIjoxNzQ5Nzg3MjAwLCJpc3MiOiJzdWJzY3JpcHRpb25zIiwiZXhwIjoxNzUxMTY5NTk5LCJpYXQiOjE3NDk3ODcyMDAsImp0aSI6IjYwNjNjM2NlLTIwMzktNGJkOS05YWRiLTA5ZmM4ZGM1NWRkMiIsInVybCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3Lndhc2hpbmd0b25wb3N0LmNvbS9vcGluaW9ucy8yMDI1LzA2LzEzL2tlbm5lZHktdmFjY2luZXMtYWNpcC1jb21taXR0ZWUvIn0.lYX1c3fHBA0dbHfXPwt8AsmRK0A7w3tS0qLDlh2fgTc&itid=gfta
http://www.memeorandum.com/250613/p137#a250613p137

Microsoft has once again been named a Leader in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Data Science and Machine Learning (DSML) Platforms.
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog

Microsoft recognized for second consecutive year as a Leader in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Data Science and Machine Learning Platforms | Microsoft Azure Blog
Find out how Microsoft Azure Machine Learning can help you optimize business processes, improve customer experiences, and drive innovation.

"Judge Michael Wilner imposed $31,000 in sanctions against the law firms involved, saying 'no reasonably competent attorney should out-source research and writing' to AI" #aiethics
https://www.

Suns in triangle-free graphs of large chromatic number
Sepehr Hajebi, Sophie Spirkl
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10227 https://arxiv.or…

Suns in triangle-free graphs of large chromatic number
For an integer $t\geq 4$, a $t$-sun is a graph obtained from a $t$-vertex cycle $C$ by adding a degree-one neighbor for each vertex of $C$. Trotignon asked whether every triangle-free graph of sufficiently large chromatic number has an induced subgraph that is a $t$-sun for some $t\geq 4$. This remains open, but we show that every triangle-free graph of chromatic number at least $44$ has an induced subgraph that is either a $t$-sun for some $t\geq 5$, or a $4$-sun with a single degree-one verte…

Scott Horton: "Trump attempts to explain why he has proclaimed today "Russia Day" in a tribute to his mentor, Vladimir Putin." — Bluesky
https://bsky.app/profile/robertscotthorton.bsky.social/post/3lrghge5hps2f

Baltimore mayor & council members introduce comprehensive yimby package. Has backing of city's main business & community action organizations:
● Legalize 2-, 3- & 4-unit houses in 1-family districts
● Abolish minimum off-street parking requirements
● Legalize single-staircase structures with more than 3 stories
I don't think I've seen all this in one package anywhere up to now.

Baltimore’s top YIMBYs want to erase zoning rules blocking more housing
A package of five bills will attempt to make it easier to build and redevelop Baltimore City properties.

Google is working with the US National Hurricane Center to test an AI model that forecasts cyclones and launches Weather Lab to share its AI weather models (Justine Calma/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/685820/google-ai-forecast-ty…

Google has a new AI model and website for forecasting tropical storms
Google launched an interactive website called WeatherLab and unveiled a new AI-based model for forecasting tropical storms that it’s testing with the National Hurricane Center.

Third-year Cowboys lineman has golden opportunity to get it out the tar https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/06/12/cowboys-asim-richards-enters-year-3/84154872007/

Trump has ordered the US government to consolidate its wildland firefighting force into a single program,
despite warnings from former federal officials that it could be costly and increase the risk of catastrophic blazes in the middle of peak wildfire season.
The order aims to centralize firefighting efforts,
which are now split among five agencies and two cabinet departments.
Trump’s proposed budget for next year calls for the creation of a new Federal Wildland Fire…

Raheem Mostert: 'The focus has been on the details' https://www.raiders.com/video/raheem-mostert-offense-raiders-minicamp-presser-ashton-jeanty-nfl-offseason-061225

A Comprehensive Survey of Unmanned Aerial Systems' Risks and Mitigation Strategies
Sharad Shrestha, Mohammed Ababneh, Satyajayant Misra, Henry M. Cathey, Jr., Roopa Vishwanathan, Matt Jansen, Jinhong Choi, Rakesh Bobba, Yeongjin Jang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10327

A Comprehensive Survey of Unmanned Aerial Systems' Risks and Mitigation Strategies
In the last decade, the rapid growth of Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) and Unmanned Aircraft Vehicles (UAV) in communication, defense, and transportation has increased. The application of UAS will continue to increase rapidly. This has led researchers to examine security vulnerabilities in various facets of UAS infrastructure and UAVs, which form a part of the UAS system to reinforce these critical systems. This survey summarizes the cybersecurity vulnerabilities in several phases of UAV deplo…

ICE Says It Has No Immediate Plans to Release Mahmoud Khalil (Jonah E. Bromwich/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/nyregion/mahmoud-khalil-trump-detention.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250613/p91#a250613p91

The WNBA and E.W. Scripps renew their media rights deal, ensuring Friday night WNBA matchups will continue on Ion, along with a new weekly studio show (CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/13/wnba-scripps-media-rights-deal.html

WNBA renews media rights deal with Scripps
The new agreement comes after Ion has seen huge growth with the WNBA and as the league gains in popularity thanks to stars like Caitlin Clark and Angel Reese.

Sources: OpenAI talked with Saudi Arabia's PIF, India's Reliance, and the UAE's MGX about investing in the next installment of its $40B round led by SoftBank (Sri Muppidi/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/op

OpenAI Has Discussed Raising Money From Saudi Arabia, Indian Investors
OpenAI has talked to Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund, Indian conglomerate Reliance Industries and existing shareholder United Arab Emirates’ MGX about investing in the next installment of its $40 billion financing led by SoftBank, according to two people familiar with the fundraise. The ...

The Trump administration has shifted from bureaucratic threats to armed suppression of political opponents.
By beginning with vulnerable groups who have less legal standing and social capital to resist repression,
the Trump administration is making a strategic choice, hoping to provoke less public outcry
and then use these precedents of repression later against a broader population.
This is a textbook example of democratic backsliding, similar to what we have witnesse…

Military Crackdown on LA Protests Portends Further Erosion of Everyone’s Rights
Governments at all levels from both parties have paved the way to an authoritarian response to dissent.

Micah Parsons shows up for minicamp with Cowboys, has lengthy chat with Jerry Jones https://www.foxsports.com/articles/nfl/micah-parsons-shows-up-for-minicamp-with-cowboys-has-lengthy-chat-with-jerry-jones

Richard Grenell has talked with Trump as he weighs running for California governor (Aaron Pellish/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/06/13/richard-grenell-california-governor-00405067
http://www.memeorandum.com/250613/p83#a250613p83

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has said Floridians have a right to hit protesters with their car if they need to "flee for your safety."
DeSantis was speaking on The Rubin Report on Wednesday when he said:
"We also have a policy that if you're driving on one of those streets and a mob comes and surrounds your vehicle,
and threatens you, you have a right to flee for your safety.
"And so if you drive off and you hit one of these people,
tha…

Ron DeSantis Says Floridians Have Right to Hit Protesters With Cars
"That's their fault for impinging on you," Florida's governor said.

The Patriotic Rich -- DONALD TRUMP HAS HUGGED A FLAG more than once, and he's now adding flagpoles ... (Jill Lawrence/The Bulwark)
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/the-patriotic-rich-america-250
http://www.memeorandum.com/250613/p29#a250613p29

Celebrating the 250th anniversary of the United States Army is fitting.
But the Army doesn’t need to celebrate Donald Trump.
That’s what’s about to transpire in the shadow of the White House
— a ridiculous, self-aggrandizing display that would look right at home in Moscow or Tiananmen Square.
It should not happen here. Ever.

Parade Charade
Trump, who has long maligned the military, suddenly cozies up to it

Andrew Cuomo for Mayor? Bill de Blasio Has Thoughts, None of Them Good. (Emma G. Fitzsimmons/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/nyregion/de-blasio-cuomo-nyc-mayor.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250613/p139#a250613p139

China has suspended almost all exports since April 4 of seven kinds of #rare #earth metals,
as well as very powerful magnets made from three of them.
The halt has caused increasingly severe shortages that threaten to close many factories in the United States and Europe.

What to Know About China’s Halt of Rare Earth Exports
Since early April, China has stopped almost all shipments of critical minerals that are needed for cars, robots, wind turbines, jet fighters and other technologies.

Here's the latest. -- The Israeli government has been making preparations for weeks for an attack on Iran's nuclear facilities. (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06/12/world/israel-iran-us-nuclear?unlocked_article_code=1.Ok8.U3b4.WA988zCDEwXA&smid=url-share
http://www.memeorandum.com/250612/p147#a250612p147

The National Institutes of Health is responsible for more than 80% of the world’s grant investment in biomedical research.
Its funding has sparked countless medical breakthroughs
— on cancer, diabetes, strokes
— and plays a fundamental role in the development of pharmaceutical drugs.
Scientists compete vigorously for a slice of the more than $30 billion that the agency doles out annually;
they can spend years assembling grant applications that stretch thousand…

Science Shattered
The Trump administration cut research funding that sought cures for future pandemics, examined the causes of dementia and tried to prevent HIV transmission. More than 150 researchers shared with ProPublica what is being lost.

U.S. Sen. Alex Padilla on Thursday was handcuffed by officers and forcefully removed from Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s news conference in Los Angeles
as he tried to speak up about immigration raids that have led to protests in California and around the country.
Video shows a Secret Service agent on Noem’s security detail grabbing the California senator by his jacket and shoving him from the room
as he tried to speak up during the DHS secretary’s event.
…

Sen. Alex Padilla removed from Noem's press conference by security
Democratic California U.S. Sen. Alex Padilla has been forcefully removed Thursday by security officers from a news conference on immigration by Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem. Video shows a Secret Service special agent on Noem’s detail grabbing Padilla by his jacket and shoving him from the room as the senator struggles to catch his breath while identifying himself.“I’m Sen. Alex Padilla. I have questions for the secretary,” he shouted in a halting voice. He tries to push back …

The US taxpayer is going to be on the hook for all the soldiers, tanks, and planes that appear in Donald Trump’s military parade.
But several major tech companies are paying for the festivities along the parade route.
According to recent statements from America250, #Oracle, #Amazon,

Big Tech quietly sponsors Trump’s military parade party
Though big tech companies have downplayed their involvement in funding this weekend’s military parade, the event’s organizer, America250, has released statements confirming involvement from Amazon, Palantir and Oracle.

I’m Brigadier General Shawn Harris.
I served this nation for decades in the US Army and now I’m answering the call to serve again
— this time, to defeat Marjorie Taylor Greene and bring sanity back to Congress.
This week, Donald Trump said has sent U.S. Marines into Los Angeles.
As someone who led troops in combat, I can tell you:
our troops don’t serve to be used as political weapons against Americans.
Marjorie Taylor Greene stood by that reckless idea

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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth was quickly met with sharp questions and criticism Tuesday
by lawmakers who pressed him about his early moves to deploy troops to Los Angeles,
fire key military leaders
and purge diversity programs.
They expressed bipartisan frustration that Congress has not yet gotten a full defense budget from the Trump administration.
“Your tenure as secretary has been marked by endless chaos,”
Rep. Rosa DeLauro, D-Conn., told Hegseth.

Hegseth faces Democrats in Congress for first time since Signal leaks
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has been met with sharp questions and criticism by lawmakers who demanded details on his moves to deploy troops to Los Angeles. Lawmakers also expressed bipartisan frustration Tuesday that Congress doesn't yet have a full defense budget from the Trump administration. The hearing before the House Appropriations defense subcommittee was the first time lawmakers have been able to challenge Trump’s defense chief directly. After persistent questioning about the cost …