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"Adolescence has sparked fears over teen slang – but #emoji don’t cause radicalisation" https://theconversation.com/adolescenc

Global ocean acidification has passed safe planetary boundary threshold: Study https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2025/06/global-ocean-acidification-has-passed-safe-planetary-boundary-threshold-study/

Global ocean acidification has passed safe planetary boundary threshold: Study
A new assessment finds that the world’s oceans crossed the safe threshold for acidification in 2020, breaching a key planetary boundary and posing serious threats to marine life. Ocean acidification is caused when excess atmospheric carbon dioxide, resulting from human activities like burning fossil fuels, dissolves in seawater, forming carbonic acid that increases the water’s […]

“Are we the baddies?” is not a question anyone in the West has to ask themselves. There’s no question about it. You were. You are. Will you continue to be? That’s the only question that matters and the answer is entirely up to you.
Silence is complicity.
Inaction is complicity.
Apologism is complicity.
Do something!
#israel

End Israeli Apartheid (@EndIsraeliApartheid@mastodon.social)
Attached: 1 image More RAF jets are being sent to the Middle East, Keir Starmer has said after Iran threatened to target UK, French and US bases if the countries help stop strikes on Israel. Additional refuelling aircraft have been deployed from UK bases and more fast jets will be sent over, it is understood. The UK already has RAF jets in the Middle East as part of Operation Shader. https://www.thenational.scot/news/25239897.uk-jets-sent-middle-east-despite-calls-de-escalation/ 🕎 �…

Okay chat, this video has baffled me for far too long. What in deconstructed cottage pie heck is going on here? :neocat_confused:
#AskFedi

I think it’s pretty notable that Greta Thunberg has openly blamed capitalism for the climate crisis we’re in.
She argues that the current system, driven by fossil fuel interests, colonialism, imperialism, and exploitation, is fundamentally responsible for environmental destruction and social injustice.
While she has been a prominent figure for several years, her media presence has fluctuated. Recently, she has received renewed attention, particularly after high-profile events lik…

Hill: Former Raiders cornerback vows he has changed, wants new job https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/sports-columns/adam-hill/hill-former-raiders-cornerback-vows-he-has-changed-wants-new-job-33854…

Trump's FAA pick has claimed 'commercial' pilot license he doesn't have (Oriana Pawlyk/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/06/15/trumps-faa-pick-has-claimed-commercial-pilot-license-he-doesnt-have-00406090
http://www.memeorandum.com/250615/p37#a250615p37

Try not to laugh reading #Trump's words about #ElonMusk:
"I'm amazed that he's endorsing me because that can't be good for him. I'm abolishing the EV mandate."
"He got a little bit strange."
✅ Puzzled Trump Says He Has No Idea Why Musk Support…

Puzzled Trump Says He Has No Idea Why Musk Supported Him in the First Place
Fresh off his feud with former ally Elon Musk, president Donald Trump has once again said the quiet part out loud. 

This man has been a legal permanent resident of the United States for 10 years. He was at his interview to finalize his US citizenship when he was instead carried away in handcuffs to an unknown location.
None of his friends or family knows where he has been taken.
He has been charged with no crime.
#MohsenMahdawi

Palestinian Columbia University student arrested by ICE in Vt., attorneys say
Mohsen Mahdawi, a legal permanent resident who has held a green card since 2015, was detained at the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services office in…

Trump has promoted his private businesses in unprecedented ways for a sitting president, presenting conflicts of interest.
His ventures into crypto, in particular, have drawn scrutiny because he has simultaneously moved to create a more friendly regulatory environment for the industry. 
The $57 million from his stake in the crypto firm World Liberty Financial came from the sale of digital tokens.
That provides a glimpse into Trump’s earnings from cryptocurrency ventures t…

Steelers RB Jaylen Warren has 'no doubt' he can shoulder larger workload: 'That's the way I'm training' https://www.nfl.com/news/steelers-rb-jaylen-warren-has-no-doubt-he-can-shoulder-lar…

Just so we're clear:
PRE-EMPTIVE ATTACKS ARE ILLEGAL
ISRAEL IS AN APARTHEID ETHNOSTATE
Israel knows it has lost any popular support it once had. So now it has to drag the whole fucking world into a war with Iran to legitimate Western governmental backing, including enabling the genocide.

Der #Säuregehalt der #Ozeane hat laut neuer Analyse bereits die sichere planetare Grenze überschritten.
Besonders in 200 Meter Tiefe sind 60 Prozent des Wassers zu stark #versauert. Das…

Mediahuis Ireland, which owns the Belfast Telegraph, Irish Independent, and others, says it has 100K digital subscribers after launching paywalls in 2020 (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/paywalls/mediah…

Mediahuis Ireland reaches 100,000 digital subscriber milestone
Mediahuis Ireland has crossed the 100,000 digital subscriber mark, just over five years after first launching its paywalls.

🥳 Hooray – the CVE Foundation has been set up to secure the future of the CVE programme: #ITSecurity

CVE Foundation
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 16, 2025 CVE Foundation Launched to Secure the Future of the CVE Program [Bremerton, Washington] – The CVE Foundation has been formally established to ensure the long-term viability, stability, and independence of the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) Program, a

FC Barcelona, La Liga champions again. There has been no discussion, it has been the best team by far and, on top of that, with players from the youth academy as a fundamental part of the title. Bravo.

Yale Divinity School has received a record number of applications for next fall’s entering class, reflecting the School’s outstanding reputation and advances in financial aid as well as society’s renewed interest in theological education and religious/spiritual formation.
https://

67,000 homes in Ireland still use peat for heating. However, Bord Na Mona stopped extracting peat last year and closed its last peat power station. Now restoring peatlands which in a dried out, denatured state are carbon emitters. Big wind farms now on former extraction sites too. A great deal of historical damage has been done.
#peat

Bedrock Ocean, which has developed an autonomous underwater vehicle to map the ocean floor using sonar and magnetic sensors, raised a $25M Series A-2 (Tim De Chant/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/10/bedrock-ocean-dredges-u…

Exclusive: Bedrock Ocean dredges up $25M to map the seafloor with robots | TechCrunch
Bedrock Ocean wants to use autonomous underwater vehicles to make mapping the seafloor faster and cheaper.

A small aside, during my vacation I finally started on writing a Metal backend for SwiftTerm.
It has a few missing features, so not worth comparing performance yet, but it is feeling great:
https://github.com/migueldeicaza/SwiftTerm/tree/metal-backend

GitHub - migueldeicaza/SwiftTerm at metal-backend
Xterm/VT100 Terminal emulator in Swift. Contribute to migueldeicaza/SwiftTerm development by creating an account on GitHub.

RFK Jr. says his new vaccine panel has a GW University professor. The school says he doesn't work there (Aimee Cho/NBC4 Washington)
https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/rfk-jr-says-his-new-vaccine-panel-has-a-gw-university-professor-the-school-says-he-doesnt-work-there/3935974/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250615/p72#a250615p72

that's... one way to describe it, royal mail

Thread on today's 'red line' demonstration in The Hague. It's called the International city of peace and justice, but our government there has been extremely reluctant to criticize Israel for the genocide it is committing in Gaza. Let alone to take action: long overdue!
https://mastod…

I don’t want to dwell •too• much on the shadenfreude of Trump’s pitiful parade, but I do think it’s worth just taking this in:
Trump’s political success has always hinged on him knowing how to be a reality TV star, knowing better than the news orgs themselves that political “news” is in fact reality TV, knowing how to manipulate that reality TV show.
And today, he failed at that completely. His reality show sucked. The news of the day just ran right over him. https://kolektiva.social/@Voline/114685755430626127

If the Iranian leadership has the feeling that Israel wants to completely destroy Iran's military capabilities, why wouldn't they do something extreme like attacking US bases in the region, destroy oil installations in the neighbourhood , close Hormuz etc, while they still have the capabilities... 🤔
There doesn't seem to be an opening for de-escalation for Iran?
#iran

Goth attire is dark & has spiderwebs because it goes with everything & we haven't had the energy to go out in years and the spiders made a mess

I wish this were ironic, but it's not. The article itself has intelligent-sounding sentences, which a Web search shows up on other sites. The publisher claims to have a "strict plagiarism policy"…which I'm realizing can be read two different ways.

Meeting has coffee and cookies \o/ #academicChatter

The gunman accused of shooting two Democratic lawmakers in Minnesota has been taken into custody. 
Vance Boelter, 57, was arrested late Sunday night for the murders of Democratic State Representative Melissa Hortman and her husband, and the attempted murder of Democratic State Senator John Hoffman and his wife. 

Minnesota shooting suspect Vance Boelter is arrested after Democrat lawmakers were gunned down
Vance Boelter, 57, the gunman accused of shooting two Democratic lawmakers in Minnesota has been taken into custody.

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.

A post from the archive 📫:
Homo sapiens 1.0
#musings

{purrr} has some lesser known functions that make handling of failing function calls easier: safely, quietly, possibly: #rstats…

Wrap a function to capture errors — safely
Creates a modified version of .f that always succeeds. It returns a list with components result and error. If the function succeeds, result contains the returned value and error is NULL. If an error occurred, error is an error object and result is either NULL or otherwise.

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…

The CEO of Renault, who has publicly criticised EU rules for making cars too expensive, is set to head the luxury group Kering (owner of Gucci and Yves Saint Laurent).
From: @…
https://

Arturia unveil Mix Drums https://www.soundonsound.com/news/arturia-unveil-mix-drums?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_content=muz4now/magazine/Indie Musician Tips&utm_…

Can't really say that the US has never had a monarch....
Doesn't anyone remember Emperor Norton?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emperor_Norton

Emperor Norton - Wikipedia

Stack overflow is nearly dead.
I am not a fan of this site and will not miss it in any way but it’s a shame as it helped many.
Worse that it’s dying not because something better exist.
https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/stack-overflow-is-almost-dea…

Oh snap! `YARR - Yet Another RSS Reader` has a new version and I missed it in March!
https://github.com/nkanaev/yarr/releases/tag/v2.5
YARR is like Feedly or NewsBlur, except more like TinyRSS or FreshRSS - you can self-host.
UNLIKE those, you can tell yarr…

Dan Snow has a voice I find incredibly annoying. I just can’t listen to anything he presents.

Very large rock formation near Wick that looks like a bear!
https://maps.app.goo.gl/xcbyx52hj6PHvaMn7

On generalised Pythagorean triples over number fields
Pedro-Jos\'e Cazorla Garc\'ia
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11636 https://…

On generalised Pythagorean triples over number fields
Generalised Pythagorean triples are integer tuples $(x,y,z)$ satisfying the equation $E_{a,b,c}: ax^2+by^2+cz^2=0$. A significant amount of research has been devoted towards understanding generalised Pythagorean triples and, in particular, we can now determine whether $E_{a,b,c}$ has solutions and find them in a computationally effective manner. In this paper, we consider an extension of generalised Pythagorean triples to number fields $K$. In particular, we survey and extend the existing res…

Has #mobilizon dropped support for ARM64?
https://packages.mobilizon.org/5.1.4/

'Know-Your-Customer' means 'Guarantee me a way to silence or destroy my political opponents'
"The ICC’s chief prosecutor has lost his email, and his bank accounts were frozen. American staffers told that if they travel to the U.S. they risk arrest."
https://

Trump's sanctions on ICC prosecutor have halted tribunal's work
Nearly three months ago, U.S. President Donald Trump slapped sanctions on the International Criminal Court's chief prosecutor, Karim Khan. He has lost access to his email and his bank accounts have been frozen. American staffers at The Hague-based court also have been told that if they travel to the U.S. they risk arrest. In addition, some nongovernmental organizations have stopped working with the ICC. Rights groups say these problems will prevent victims of war crimes from getting justice.

I must apologize for being critical of President Trump. I gather that he has been very good to my country. Brazil is now selling soybeans etc to China in record volumes and prices. Please keep the good work, Mr. Trump!

And yet more Masana slides about the 2026 Total #SolarEclipse - which largely hits a sparsely populated region of Spain. Which has a lot to offer besides the eclipse, of course. Also a helpful matrix comparing the five zones of the eclipse in Spain. 12/n

My partner asked for a last minute sign today. 3D printing to the rescue!
Made a sign for today… 3D printed letters, foam core, spray paint… then added a 3D printed handle.
#noKings #resist #resistFascism

I agree entirely with Rich.
BUT: there is a sound basis for not implementing mail functionality in systems that do not absolutely demand it. https://hachyderm.io/@dalias/114688068144011594

Did you know that the #UniversityOfGeorgia has TWO sets of Jean Charlot murals on its campus? Charlot hung out on the UGA campus for three years in the early 1940s, teaching and working with students. His murals that were inside what was once UGA's journalism building recently underwent some restoration thanks to our museum and the help of a lot of people from across campus.

Generative Representational Learning of Foundation Models for Recommendation
Zheli Zhou, Chenxu Zhu, Jianghao Lin, Bo Chen, Ruiming Tang, Weinan Zhang, Yong Yu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11999

Generative Representational Learning of Foundation Models for Recommendation
Developing a single foundation model with the capability to excel across diverse tasks has been a long-standing objective in the field of artificial intelligence. As the wave of general-purpose foundation models sweeps across various domains, their influence has significantly extended to the field of recommendation systems. While recent efforts have explored recommendation foundation models for various generative tasks, they often overlook crucial embedding tasks and struggle with the complexit…

All I do these days is delete posts about how bad teaching has become.

"For the first time, we architected every part of the rack as a unified system," Su explained, highlighting Helios as "really a rack that functions like a single, massive compute engine."
http://m.timesofindia.com/articleshow/121834703.cms
Why does th…

AMD unveils next-gen AI chips as it takes on Nvidia: 'For the first time, we...' CEO Lisa Su says - The Times of India
Tech News : AMD has revealed its Instinct MI400 series AI chips, designed for rack-scale systems and set to compete with Nvidia's Blackwell. CEO Lisa Su highlight

Wie lang bis “Discover Religion(s)”? Schon das MPDI-Journal “Religions” war ja ein unverfrorener Rip-Off des tatsächlich renommierten Journals “Religion”. via @…
https://openbibli…

Lambert Heller (@Lambo@openbiblio.social)
Attached: 1 image "Ambiguous one-word journal titles are a MDPI trademark (“Foods”, “Plants”). In the spirit of “if you can’t beat ’em, join ’em”, Springer Nature has launched a series of journals, the “Discover” series, with near-identical names (Discover Food, Discover Plants). (...) You can try it yourself in our “Guess Who Is Who” mini-game (...) Why? How? And let’s ask the most important question of all: who will this benefit? It’s certainly not the author…

Was die „Aber China … !“-Rufer jetzt wohl machen wenn über den Öl-Ausstieg diskutiert wird?
Clean Energy Just Put China's CO2 Emissions Into Reverse For First Time - Slashdot https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/05/

@… In het kader van muziek voor Bloomsday Hans Grunwald - Rain has Fallen by Samuel Barber, lyrics by James Joyce
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHIGs6T-i7

By Israel’s own metric, it has wounded over 2 million Palestinians in Gaza alone.
#israel #genocide #ethnicCleansing

Κάποιος Ταδόπουλος (@_Wiesenthal_S_@todon.nl)
Attached: 1 image "Israel includes those treated for anxiety in the injury count" 🙄

Turbulent relations between France and Israel are nothing new,
but even by those historical standards the crisis caused by President Emmanuel Macron’s apparently⭐️ imminent readiness to recognize a Palestinian state is acute.
https:…

France’s Macron Faces Dilemma With Intention to Recognize Palestinian State
The French-Israeli relationship has always been turbulent, but the prospect that President Emmanuel Macron may recognize a Palestinian state has brought tension to a new level.

A profile of Chess.com, which has popularized online chess among pro athletes, as CEO Erik Allebest says the site has over $100M in annual revenue and 35M MAUs (Ira Boudway/Bloomberg)

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

John Harbaugh Has Strong Words for Ex-Raiders Coach Jon Gruden https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/jon-gruden-john-harbaugh-ravens/?adt_ei=[email]

On my way to The Hague, to draw the red line for Dutch government with respect to Israel's continuing genocide in Gaza.
After last time's 100,000 participants, NS put in a lot of extra trains. My very early one already has a lot of passengers in red.
#rodelijn

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 governs today in the wake of the near-complete dismantling of checks and balances on the executive branch -- at least in the foreign policy and national security realm.
Since the 9/11 attacks, Congress has granted the presidency more and more power over foreign affairs
and declined to take any of it back,
and the Supreme Court has been reluctant to provide any meaningful restraints.
Trump inherited an ever-expanding national security apparatus that operates wi…

Imperial President at Home, Emperor Abroad
American foreign policy in an age of unrestrained executive power.

Sources: senior BBC executives are considering charging US consumers for access to its journalism to boost revenues amid falling UK license fee incomes (Michael Savage/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2025/jun

"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:

Has any one done a survey/count of the number of technical or other US-venue meetings or conventions are being cancelled because of the danger to foreign nationals who attend?
The US has become a police state much, much faster than Nazi Germany did in the 1930's.
I've already noticed a downturn - for instance I was able to book rooms at a fancy hotel (Four Seasons) for about 1/2 of the normal rate.

#Yorkshire ist offiziell von einer #Dürre betroffen. Nach einem extrem trockenen Frühling mit teils nur 40 % des üblichen Regens sind Flüsse und #Grundwasser stark abgesunken.
Auch die

Drought declared in Yorkshire after extremely dry spring
The UK has seen one of the driest springs on record this year

Social Darwinism has no Ecological Validity
#slogansidliketosee

We've got buried treasure on view in a new display at the museum. Thanks to a recent gift and the work of a consultant and a staff member, we're displaying mingqi, or "spirit goods," in two adjoining cases in the permanent collection. Read on to learn more about how this grouping of well-preserved objects came together.

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

New York State passes a bill mandating safety and transparency requirements for frontier AI models; it awaits Governor Hochul's decision (Maxwell Zeff/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/13/new-york-passes-a-bill-to-prevent-ai-fu…

New York passes a bill to prevent AI-fueled disasters | TechCrunch
New York has a new AI safety bill that tries to regulate frontier AI models from OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic.

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

How Pete Carroll's Arrival Has Helped the Raiders https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/las-vegas-pete-carroll-john-spytek-jeremy-chinn-patrick-graham

“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.

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.

WhatsApp rolls out ads in its Updates tab, a first for the app, and will collect some data to target the ads, but says it has no plans to put ads in chats (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/technology/whatsapp-ads.html

WhatsApp Introduces Ads in Its App
They will appear in only one part of the Meta-owned messaging service, it said. The move is potentially lucrative, while raising questions about user privacy.

Tesla is sitting on an inventory worth $800M of 10,000 unsold Cybertrucks.
Dealerships have resorted to dumping their glut of the unorthodox pickup trucks in deserted parking lots.
✅ Cybertruck Sales Are So Bad That We Gasped
https://futurism.com/cybertruck-sales-bad

Cybertruck Sales Are So Bad That We Gasped
In the entire first quarter of 2025, Tesla has managed to sell just 7,100 Cybertrucks in the US, according to data from S&P Global Mobility.

Berlin-based Knowunity, an AI-powered learning platform with 20M users in 15 countries, raised a €27M Series B led by XAnge, bringing its total funding to €45M (Tamara Djurickovic/Tech.eu)
https://tech.eu/2025/06/13/knowunity-raises-eur…

Knowunity raises €27M to scale its personalized AI tutor globally
The Berlin-based learning platform Knowunity, has raised €27 million in a Series B round to expand its personalised AI study companion globally. The new funding brings Knowunity’s total raised to €45 million and will be used to further develop its global AI learning companion. Built by and for students, Knowunity was founded in 2020 by Benedict Kurz (CEO), along with Gregor Weber (CPO), Lucas Hild (CTO), and Yannik Prigl (Backend). All were just 17 years old and still in school at the ti…

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

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/…

Trump has not called Walz following shooting of Minnesota lawmakers (Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/06/15/trump-walz-minnesota-shooting-lawmakers-call
http://www.memeorandum.com/250615/p68#a250615p68

The Raiders' Position Group Feeling Pete Carroll's Impact the Most https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/las-vegas-patrick-graham-pete-carroll-patrick-mahomes-justin-herbert

“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.

Berlin-based Payrails, whose platform helps enterprises accept payments, issue payouts, and more, raised a $32M Series A, taking its total funding to $52.8M (Tamara Djurickovic/Tech.eu)
https://tech.eu/2025/06/12/payrails-ra

Payrails raises $32M Series A to boost payment performance for global enterprises
A global payment software company Payrails, has raised $32 million in Series A funding to further its mission of enabling enterprises to take control of their payment operations.  Founded by former fintech leaders from Delivery Hero, Payrails’ founding team brings deep experience building global, scalable financial infrastructure. With the continued backing of leading technology investors, Payrails is strengthening its position as a category-defining payment platform for large enterprises. …

An interview with US Press Freedom Tracker Senior Reporter Stephanie Sugars on documenting nearly 62,000 anti-press social posts by Trump over the past 10 years (Liam Scott/Freedom of the Press Foundation)
http://freedom.press/issues/the-repor

The reporter documenting 10 years of Trump’s anti-media posts
Since Trump’s first term as president, Stephanie Sugars has managed an extensive database that documents each and every anti-media post from Trump.

Emmanuel Macron has criticised Donald Trump’s threats to take over Greenland
as he became the first foreign head of state to visit the vast, mineral-rich Arctic territory since the US president began making explicit threats to annex it.
“I don’t think that’s what allies do,”
Macron said as he arrived in the Danish autonomous territory for a highly symbolic visit aimed at conveying
“France’s and the EU’s solidarity” with Greenlandon his way to a summit of G7 leaders in …

Accused Minnesota assassin Vance Boelter has ties to Middle East and Africa, runs security company (Georgia Worrell/New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2025/06/14/us-news/accused-minnesota-assassin-vance-boelter-is-tied-to-middle-east-and-africa-runs-security-company/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250615/p6#a250615p6

"Anyone you’re talking to has had decreased funding, or lost almost all of their funding, or is having trouble continuing their funding...
That, along with the pretty pervasive and growing anti-science establishment narrative … have been strong motivators to look elsewhere,” Eric Schuster said.
Schuster is one of many budding academics reflecting what could become a significant American brain drain,
sending the brightest minds in the country to flee the US and take their…

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/…

Trump has ordered more troops to Los Angeles and Washington than he currently has stationed in Syria and Iraq combined.
He seems more willing to use the military against Americans than against Iranians.
He celebrates a show of force on U.S. soil even as he denounces “endless wars” outside its borders.

Trump Relishes Troops in American Streets While Shunning Conflict Overseas
The seemingly disparate postures of recent days speak to the president’s complicated relationship with the military.

Trump and his allies wasted little time in branding the people protesting against immigration enforcement raids in Los Angeles as “insurrectionists”.
Stephen Miller, the White House deputy chief of staff for policy
– particularly the vindictive kind
– spoke darkly of a “violent insurrection”.
JD Vance, the vice-president, inveighed against “insurrectionists carrying foreign flags” on the streets of the nation’s second-biggest city.
It didn’t escape notice that …

Robert Reich here, with breaking news:
The House of Representatives has voted to take back a whopping $1.1 billion in federal funding for public broadcasting.
These are huge, crippling cuts,
and if passed by the Senate, they'll be a fatal blow to public radio and television stations around the country.
It's all part of Donald Trump's ongoing war on the free press.
He knows that independent journalism is one of the biggest obstacles to his authorita…

Help Robert Reich get the truth out.
Anything you can give will help us spread the truth, keep you informed, and stop our slide towards fascism.

A demonstrator who was shot on Saturday during Salt Lake City’s “No Kings” protest has died, Utah police said on Sunday afternoon.
The man, Arthur Folasa Ah Loo, 39, had apparently been shot by a man who had been part of the event’s peacekeeping team.
“Our victim was not the intended target,” Brian Redd, the Salt Lake City police chief, said, “but rather an innocent bystander participating in the demonstration.”
Arturo Gamboa, 24, was taken into police custody on Saturday ev…

Randi Weingarten, the longtime leader of one of the nation’s most influential labor unions and a major voice in Democratic politics,
has resigned from the Democratic National Committee.
She pointed to disagreements with the party’s new chairman, Ken Martin.
Ms. Weingarten, the president of the American Federation of Teachers, had supported Mr. Martin’s rival in the chairmanship race early this year,
Ben Wikler, the chairman of the Wisconsin Democratic Party.
Mr. …

Randi Weingarten Quits D.N.C. Post in Dispute With Chairman
In a letter to the party’s chairman, Ken Martin, Ms. Weingarten wrote, “I appear to be out of step with the leadership you are forging.”

Donald Trump on Sunday directed federal immigration officials to prioritize deportations from Democratic-run cities,
a move that comes after large protests erupted in Los Angeles and other major cities against the Trump administration’s immigration policies.
Trump in a social media posting called on U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials
“to do all in their power to achieve the very important goal of delivering the single largest Mass Deportation Program in Hist…

Trump directs ICE to prioritize deportations from Democratic-run cities
President Donald Trump has directed federal immigration officials to prioritize deportations from Democratic-run cities after large protests have erupted in Los Angeles and other major cities against the Trump administration’s immigration policies. Trump in a social media posting Sunday called on ICE officials “to do all in their power to achieve the very important goal of delivering the single largest Mass Deportation Program in History.” He added that to reach the goal officials ”must…

Henry Clay Frick was a union buster

In 1892, he hired hundreds of Pinkerton detectives
— a private army of thugs with guns
— to quell a strike against a Pennsylvania steel mill.
Ten men were killed, dozens injured, and the situation became so inflamed that the state militia was called in to break the workers’ resistance.
Frick, who made a fortune supplying the coal derivative known as coke
to Andrew Carnegie’s steel company, where Frick later served…

At the Frick, a grand Gilded Age collection shows its intimate side
A five-year, $220-million expansions has transformed the Frick, without changing anything fundamental to the experience.

A heady throng of tech billionaires, ministers, corporate titans and the king of the Netherlands have convened in Sweden for the 71st Bilderberg meeting
– the publicity-shy annual policy conference that has long sustained conspiracy theorists
– hosted this year by the fabulously wealthy Wallenberg family.
The four days of transatlantic talks are taking place at the swanky Grand hotel,
which is owned, like so much else in Sweden, by the Wallenbergs.
The Swedis…

Santa Barbara's turnout was just one example of the historic nationwide mobilization.
The “No Kings” protest brought millions to the streets in over 2,100 cities and towns across the country.
Organizers stated this movement has exceeded expectations,
uniting citizens to reject authoritarian overreach, defend fundamental freedoms,
and protect vulnerable communities.

Thousands Show Up for 'No Kings' Protest in Santa Barbara
Over a thousand demonstrators lined Cabrillo Blvd Saturday to join the nationwide "No Kings" protest opposing the Trump administration and defending democracy.

In 2024, Vandenberg Space Force Base had 51 launches,
but proposed changes would increase that number to 100 launches per year at both the Space Launch Complex (SLC)-6 and SLC-4,
including both Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy launches. 
The Falcon Heavy, which according to the EIS, has not launched out of Vandenberg Space Force Base in the past, would launch a maximum of five times per year from the SLC-6.
Because of the Falcon Heavy’s two side boosters landing separately, …

“Using this tragedy to push your own political agenda is disgraceful, people are dead,” Democratic activist Nina Turner replied on X.
“Even for MikeLee, this is beyond disgusting,” political scientist Norman Ornstein wrote on X. “Disinformation, beneath contempt.”
“What the hell is Mike Lee doing? Has he completely lost it?” conservative journalist Brad Polumbo also wrote on X.
“It’s Father’s Day, and you’re spending your time tweeting lies about a tragedy to run cover for …

MAGA Sen. Mocked for Absurdly Calling Dem Assassin ‘Marxist’
Senator Mike Lee joined Elon Musk in portraying the suspect in attacks on Minnesota lawmakers as a leftist.

Fears of racial profiling rise as Border Patrol conducts ‘roving patrols,’ and detain U.S. citizens
video: “These guys, literally based off of skin color! My homie was born here!” The friend said Gavidia was being questioned “just because of the way he looks.”
U.S. Border Patrol Sector Chief Greg Bovino,
who oversaw raids that included picking people up at Home Depot
and stopping them on the highway,
has emerged as a key figure in L.A.
He stood alongside…

Fears of racial profiling rise as Border Patrol conducts 'roving patrols,' detains U.S. citizens
Border Patrol agents on 'roving patrol' arrest U.S. citizen on assault charges. Fear of widespread racial profiling gains momentum as Home Depots and car washes raided.

When Donald Trump last attended a Group of 7 meeting in Canada, he was in many ways the odd man out.
At that meeting, in 2018, Trump called for the alliance of Western countries to embrace Russia,
antagonized allies and
ultimately stormed out of the summit over a trade battle he began by imposing metals tariffs on Canada.
As he returns on Sunday for the Group of 7 meeting in Alberta, those fissures have only deepened.
Since retaking office, the president has sough…

As Trump Returns to G7, Rift With Allies Is Even Deeper
In 2018, the president called for the group to embrace Russia and stormed out of the summit. Now he is seeking to shrink America’s military role abroad and embarking on a more expansive trade war.