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Before you leave for the weekend, check out today's Metacurity for the most critical infosec developments you should know, including
--US tightens oversight as AI moves deeper into cyber, warfare, and media,
--Russia kept using Cellebrite after sales ban,
--$3m stolen in Polymarket phishing attack,
--Poland busts SIM-swapping gang behind crypto thefts,
--Suspected Iranian hacker arrested in Montenegro,
--AYA Bank confirms limited data leak,
--Cyb…

US tightens oversight as AI moves deeper into cyber, warfare and media
Russia kept using Cellebrite after sales ban, $3m stolen in Polymarket phishing attack, Poland busts SIM-swapping gang behind crypto thefts, Suspected Iranian hacker arrested in Montenegro, AYA Bank confirms limited data leak, Cyberattack knocks Ukrposhta mobile app offline, much more

#berlin

I had no idea that Stiff Little Fingers kept making music well into the 2000s (or even the 90s!). I have today’s playlist sorted. #punk #music

Tails about to investigate my dad's running bag of garden detritus for the tip. This is our winter seating area which at one point was valuable personal space but which has now been taken over by teenage boys and become a bit of a mess. I'll wave my magic wand and have it nice again by this winter. The vines are going great guns from the sickly plants I brought home from ASDA a couple of years ago.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@matt_birchler/116470623708806109
Don't know if this is weird, but I have literally never taken and kept one

"30 Years of Volunteering Has Kept This California Creek Pristine"
#US #USA #America #California

30 Years of Volunteering Has Kept This California Creek Pristine
Through the nonprofit's tireless weeding and planting, "extraordinary progress" has been achieved there.

Cowboys Headlines: Team laying low to ride high? Romo arrest news https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2026/07/25/cowboys-headlines-team-laying-low-to-ride-high-romo-arrest-news/9…

"...it is not just about sentencing. Proven sexual offences by children rose 47 per cent in 2023-24 and have kept rising: evidence from the Children’s Commissioner tying this to universal access to online pornography cannot be ignored.
/Cont'd.
Child rapes are on the rise — we must understand why to address that | Morning Star

I would have kept Mo on until stoppage time. He was fairly effective today.
Frimpong, for me, just doesn’t have anything better to offer. I can see his promise, but he’s sloppy in the end & plays slower than he should. With his pace, he should be driving to the touch line every time, even if he stops and pulls out a back pass. Wear out that LB and force the bend in the shape of the back line. Rio does this well, commanding the double team plus the gravity of pulling the CB further…

RE: https://climatejustice.global/@parents4future/115819295338773286
The USA would have been a better place if the trams had been kept. Riding together on trams fosters solidarity, whereas car culture fosters road rage.

Agent's Take: Brandon Aiyuk has only himself to blame for 49ers limbo chaos

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/agents-take-brandon-aiyuk-future-contract/

"…Every filthy stupid thing that happens is happening in the open, now: Captains of industry line up to shake Trump's hand at…big birthday party he threw for himself…every new blast of rank & ancient bigotry or proudly pig-stupid backwardness arrives w/o euphemism or qualification. Trump is not just figuratively walling himself off from…DC, & glowering down at its residents, he is literally doing all those things."

Promises Made, Promises Kept: The Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool Absolutely Looks Like Shit Now | Defector
If everyone in the United States weren’t living downstream from its consequences, it would be a pretty good tragic flaw that Donald Trump wants more than anything to be seen as a brilliant man who has always been right about everything when he is transparently a butterfingered dunce whose professional expertise more or less begins…

Madison Square Garden Kept a List of Gay Celebrities
Their database tracked and categorized hundreds of celebs, famous Knicks superfans, and even some of Taylor Swift’s wedding guests.
Labels included “LGBTQIA,” “DO NOT HOST,” and low to high “risk.”
https://www.wired.com/st…

Madison Square Garden Kept a List of Gay Celebrities
An MSG database tracked and categorized hundreds of celebs, famous Knicks superfans, and even some of Taylor Swift’s wedding guests. Labels included “LGBTQIA,” “DO NOT HOST,” and low to high “risk.”

Our 3yo boy Chase really enjoys watch Danny Go. He finds his videos super funny. ❤️
https://www.instagram.com/p/DYpAyjIEepY/?img_index=1&igsh=anByZGxvdzFvenZ1

Me, giving a Milk Bone treat to my dog: Promises kept.

Dallas Cowboys' "best-kept secret" will make-or-break 2026 season https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/dallas-cowboys/news/dallas-cowboys-best-kept-secret-will-make-or-break-2026-season/64b…

Surprise Player Revealed as Raiders’ ‘Best-Kept’ Secret https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/jonah-laulu-best-kept-secret/

[OT] Net benefit of #AI and the trillions of dollars being invested in it? Woke?
ECB's Lagarde says AI could trigger financial crises and calls for Cold War-style non-proliferation governance https://thene…

On a Civil War tour last week the guide kept pointing out damage caused by "mini balls" and I assumed they were something akin to buckshot. After a bit of internet searching I realized she meant, "Minié balls," which are hollow bullets named after a French inventor. It all makes a lot more sense now. Magnolia Cemetery, Baton Rouge, Louisiana. #CivilWar #rifles #bullets #war #guns #cemetery

Kept thinking about Fetty today, so some of that had to happen. His classic debut from 2015 #NowPlaying. His new one this year is great too.
Cmon, you know you love Trap Queen. This fucker got TWO Grammy noms! 😂
https://youtu.be/i_kF4zLNKio

Paris aims his shot perfectly, striking Achilles straight in the heel. But Achilles stands up unharmed — the arrow was deflected by the lucky cigarette case he kept stuffed in his sandal

After EV maker Fisker's collapse, ~4,000 car owners formed a nonprofit to keep their cars working by reverse-engineering software and building open-source tools (Fred Lambert/Electrek)
https://electrek.co/2026/05/16/fisker-ocean-open-source-ev-story-aft…

Fisker went bankrupt and owners built open source car company from the ashes
After Fisker's bankruptcy left 11,000 Ocean EVs orphaned, a 4,000-member community reverse-engineered software, hacked CAN buses, and kept their cars alive.

Cowboys 'Best-Kept Secret' Would Erase Ghost Of Micah Parsons Past https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/dallas-cowboys-best-kept-secret-would-erase-ghost-micah-parsons-past

I was trying to enjoy my lunch at a place in Glasgow, but Dr Who kept staring at me!
#FensterFreitag

The Escape From Politics
Somewhere in the source code of a website the public was never meant to see, a secret society for the people who run the world kept a list of its members in plain text, sitting in the page where anyone who thought to look could read it....
https://bolesblogs.com/2026/06/19/the-…

Madison Square Garden files a defamation suit against Wired over an article alleging MSG kept a list of gay celebrities; Wired says it stands by its reporting (Ariel Zilber/New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2026/07/16/media/ma

Madison Square Garden sues Wired over ‘defamatory’ article alleging creepy surveillance of gay celeb fans
Wired Magazine used stolen data to falsely accuse Madison Square Garden of creepily surveilling a “list” of gay celeb fans, the entertainment company said in a bombshell lawsuit. In the defamation …

Firefighters rescued a small dog that had been missing for weeks after finding it swimming into the San Francisco Bay.
The dog had gone missing over the Fourth of July weekend, according to the Menlo Park fire protection district.
But someone called 911 on 16 July to say they had seen a dog enter the bay near the Dumbarton Bridge in East Palo Alto.
The dog “just kept swimming”, according to a Menlo Park fire district Instagram post.
The Menlo Park fire protection distri…

Small dog missing for weeks rescued while swimming in San Francisco Bay
Team of firefighters saved the pup from the water near East Palo Alto in a mission that utilized boats, trucks and a drone

Something fun is growing inside a double-glazing panel near our washing machine; I guess it's loving being kept warm a lot of the time (and probably a bit damp). Couldn't say if it's fungal or bacterial or what but it certainly looks very fractal.

In her introduction to an event on climate communication, initiator Mare de Wit quoted a man in the movie La Haine.
While falling from a tall building, he kept saying "Jusqu'ici, tout va bien."
So far, so good. A metaphor for climate change, for those of us who weren't hit hard by it yet.

#Bohunk

How Eastern European laborers were kept out of early Anchorage
They were a major force in building the Alaska Railroad, but like other minorities, often faced discrimination.

Played Magic TG Commander for the first time yesterday. It was fun, I guess, but very complicated. Not something I'll go out of my way for, but wouldn't object to another casual friendly game.
And I kept thinking about @… through the whole game.

Advice to Mozilla, from an outgoing long-time employee:
❝Be boring for a while. There's blood when you live on the cutting edge, but a lot of it is yours. Mozilla has tried building everything from a shopping nexus to a phone's operating system, and kept discovering that they're not great at it. They are, however, really good at building browsers. They should do that.❞ @… https://mindof.jrconlin.com/@jrconlin/statuses/01KTYGJSYT1YJQJTVCQC4VVBC2

I totally understand why communities use Discord for hosting chat/announcements/etc., but when something goes wrong, it's a complete disaster and it seems there's nothing you can do about it except hope someone over there gets the error messages.
Just had to trick it into letting me use a public invitation (it complained about "invitation not valid" through the normal onboarding flow; had to use the app on my phone).
I wish IRC had just… kept up with demand. )-:…

Yesterday, I took my 20-year-old, non-functioning amplifier to the Repair Café. Tests didn’t seem to indicate any problem, so it looked like a very difficult job – not one that could be sorted out on the spot. But the question, ‘Have you looked up the problem online yourself?’, kept niggling at me.

Top Jon Husted Senate Aide Kept Working for Ohio Lobbying Firm (Tyler Spence/NOTUS)
https://www.notus.org/ohio/jon-husted-sean-dunn-lobbying-firm
http://www.memeorandum.com/260611/p13#a260611p13

I've been listening to the audiobook for "Station Eternity" by Mur Lafferty.
I remember Mur from our early podcasting days, especially her "I Should Be Writing" podcast... and I am glad she kept writing!
I'm only a quarter into the book but I am loving it so far. (No spoilers please!)
https://

Station Eternity - Wikipedia

The wee one was unwell today. He woke up and vomited immediately. Subdued and pale. I cancelled preschool and kept him at home. He wouldn't eat (not even an ice block) and barely took a sip of liquid until about 4pm whereupon he began to brighten up. We played cars on the floor and he managed to eat an ice block while we did so. He fell asleep in my bed clutching his bunny just after 7pm. You feel so useless when they're sick for no obvious reason and you can't make it better fo…

Well, thanks for the dreams I guess
#shortstory

I think it's time to get off the big “code forges” entirely (I say, having just migrated github -> gitlab, because github's quality is deeply wanting, among other factors)
Gitlab I am also finding wanting in quality, and given today's announcement, I expect that to be worse not better. The team restructuring they talk about is going to make user interface cohesivity, already a problem, far worse. (Conway's law!)
I'll probably be moving my stuff to a local forgejo, though not super happily. I'll be figuring out CI. Again.
And most importantly, I'll be submitting the forgejo instance to the Software Heritage Foundation for indexing.
This is the thing that had kept me on the big providers, and I realize is actually solved. I don't want what I create to evaporate if I get tired of ops or something happens to me. Too much software availability is fragile.

Bans of and challenges to reading material in K-12 schools have been on the rise since 2021,
when the American Library Association and PEN America noticed a sharp uptick in the number of books on the no-no list.
The classics of the banned-book genre remained
— “Brave New World,” “Animal Farm,”“Beloved”
— but those were joined by an escalating list of picture books of two-dad families, young-adult novels tackling race or suicide, graphic novels in which teens make inf…

Why not just ban all the books?
Keyword searches for "justice" and "pride" drive what ideas are being kept from kids.

This goes to the quilter tomorrow. The biggest one I've done and no way I could quilt it myself. Near impossible for me to even get it kinda square (Hint: Its not) Moss kept walking on it and it kept sliding on the floor. Pattern is Big Island Sky by Whole Circle Studios #quilting

Accenture is acquiring a majority stake in Dragos at a $3.25 billion valuation, and all of runZero and NetRise, bringing the combined enterprise value of $4.175B.
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/robmichaell

Meeting the Market and Mission Moment with a Multi-Billion Dollar xOT Cybersecurity Platform and Team | Robert M. Lee | 98 comments
Today we enhance OT cybersecurity forever Ten years ago, almost every investor I met told me that focusing on OT cybersecurity was a mistake. Not just unfundable. A mistake. Numerous told me it was "stupid" because OT would somehow go away. I understood the argument. OT was a small, specialized market even though it's the critical part of critical infrastructure. The problems were genuinely hard. And as a founder, I kept telling them I wanted to pursue this mission long term with no view…

From Licensing to Open Access: Designing a Sustainable Transition in Operational Weather Data
Emma Pidduck, Umberto Modigliani, Victoria L. Bennett, Fabio Venuti, Florian Pappenberger, Florence Rabier
https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.21673 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2605.21673 https://arxiv.org/html/2605.21673
arXiv:2605.21673v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: This translational article documents the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) transition from a restricted data licensing model to open access under CC BY 4.0, completed in October 2025. The policy context included EU open data requirements and alignment with international data exchange frameworks. The transition was implemented through a tiered service model that kept core forecast data open while offering operationally supported delivery as a cost-recovered service. Between 2020 and 2025, ECMWF executed an iterative planning cycle: setting an annual target for revenue reduction, specifying additions to the open tier under that target, provisioning infrastructure, and assessing outcomes to update assumptions. Drawing on internal administrative records (2014 - 2025), we describe design choices, operational constraints, and early outcomes. In the six months following the end of the transition, more than 93% of previously paying organisations retained a Service Agreement, while open endpoint download volumes increased substantially. We discuss trade-offs in defining the open tier (resolution, parameters, schedule), the reduction of compliance overheads formerly associated with redistribution restrictions, and the scalability implications of global distribution. We note an emerging sustainability question as AI-based forecast products become freely available. The early evidence is consistent with the view that a tiered service model can be designed to reconcile open-access obligations with operational sustainability, subject to monitoring over longer contract renewal cycles (typically annual).
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"By 1985, the world's rarest sea turtle had declined by 99%. Their comeback has been 30 years in the making"
#Turtles #Animals

By 1985, the world's rarest sea turtle had declined by 99%. Their comeback has been 30 years in the making
Kemp’s ridley sea turtles were nearly wiped off the planet. Here’s what kept them from going extinct.

duolingo been doing some wild worldbuilding lately

Something that I keep seeing frequently on the trains are young children addicted to cell phones and tablets. The parents have variety of responses. These today were critical to it; they kept asking them to put the phone down, pointing out that they're "playing games on the tablet for two hours already". However, nothing more happened. Perhaps the parents didn't want to cause hysteric cries. But the problem is deeper; they've let the children become addicts at such a crucial age.
That's one of the more important reasons I don't want to have children. How can you raise them well when the whole world is set on turning them into mindless consumerist zombies? I know that it's possible — but at what price? Will they then become completely alienated from their peers who have no interests other than the lowest form of consumption? This strikes too lose to my own childhood, even though I was alienated for different reasons entirely.
The other thing is that a lot of people in all the different age groups are addicts as well. I don't feel I could form a bond with the society. And on top of that, using the smartphone just to post this makes me feel more and more at odds with my own principles.

I input a lot of my posts on my phone using swipe typing, which means that I'm prone to making a lot of word-substitution mistakes when I don't check the results carefully enough. Inevitably, a few typos slide past me here and there. This used to bother me a bit and I kept thinking about how to get rid of them, but with the spread of AI slop, I've come to appreciate that they're useful markers that my text is human-authored, and I often don't bother to edit them even when I see one.

We watched a men's World Cup match the other day and Kid1 kept muttering "grown-ass men." In any other sport, the ref would've ejected every single player and the entire coaching staff on both teams before halftime.

The "AI Industry" (to the degree that it exists) has burned billions of dollars with no real hope of recuperating that. Models offered by services, charging huge amounts for inference, don't really offer much, if anything, above open source models run locally. Many of the claims made by these companies, and their supporters, have turned out to be lies. It seems as though the whole thing is a huge grift.
Investments will likely never be recovered. We've already seen a bail out in the form of military contracts. We will see much more public money dumped in to these technologies. In fact, threatening workers and suppressing labor strength is so strategically valuable that I expect LLMs to just be publicly funded (by being folded into the military industrial complex).
On these grounds, it can be easy to reject the technology outright. After all, how can anything useful not be profitable?
Even for radicals, capitalism can cloud our lens. The fact is, the dominant technologies of our age tend to not be profitable. Or rather, they are "publicly funded, privately profitable" (/hums in propagandhi/). Just like oil.
Outside of Saudi Arabia, oil is mostly not profitable to get out of the ground. Even there, it had only historically been profitable because of massive global military investments. The oil-centric world we have today is largely built on, and kept in place by, massive government subsidies. Roads, street parking, and direct subsidies to oil companies are all massive investments that tie populations to the resource at the heart of the military industrial complex: oil.
Oil was strategically important, because you can't run a modern military without it. The fossil fuel economy doesn't exist because fossil fuels are so cheap, but because modern militaries are only really possible by militarizing the population.
Unprofitable things *are made profitable* to serve the strategic interests of authoritarian systems. Though we have better alternatives to most oil-based products, it would be hard to argue that oil is not a useful resource. We can acknowledge it's strategic importance while also recognizing that the elimination of oil is essential to the survival of humanity.
Returning to "AI," we're seeing the same type of thing but it's more obvious. After the crypto grift, this seems to just be another way to transfer money into the pockets of the rich.
But crypto wasn't exactly a grift. It had a strategic function to power. It wasn't what we were told it was. It didn't free us from central banks. It wasn't a new way to invest. It wasn't anonymous. But it did create a new way to bribe politicians. It did make it easier to funnel public money into the pockets of the far right.
"AI" can similarly be mostly a grift. It can fail to do most, or all, of the things it claims, and it can still fulfill strategic functions. If we dismiss it as "just another grift," I think we miss a lot. "Just a grift" isn't something sustainable. It is something that will die out. It's something we don't need to resist because it is self limiting. But a strategy is something different. A strategy is more complex. A strategy will be sustained, at any cost. A strategy must be actively resisted.

Challenger, Gray & Christmas: out of ~398K US jobs cuts in 2026 through May, employers cited AI as the reason for ~88K of them, up from ~54K in all of 2025 (Hyunsoo Rim/Sherwood News)
https://sherwood.news/tech/ai-was-the-top-re…

AI was the top reason cited for US job cuts for the third straight month in May
Employers cited AI for nearly 40% of May’s cuts — a share that’s kept climbing since Challenger began tracking it in 2023.

Platner really crashed and burned, huh. Like, literally *right* after winning the primary.
And like, in interviews, he said stuff like "Nothing worse will come out about me, everything's out there now." And things still kept coming out.
He should step down because we should not tolerate rapists and abusers in our society and government. This should not be controversial.

Raiders’ Kolton Miller Issues Big Update Amid Return From Injury https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/kolton-miller-issues-big-update-injury/

Driving from Milwaukee to Johnson Creek yesterday, I rolled into the charging station with under five miles of range remaining. I kept asking myself why? Was it the new tires? Was it battery degradation? Was it the weather? I'm pretty sure that it was the wind. Driving from Johnson Creek to Milwaukee, I had absolutely no problem.

I'm now in "journal won't let me submit without having all data uploaded but data is 2Petabytes and zenodo won't let me" territory...
https://mastodon.social/@hvanleeuwen/116501179941239972
hvanleeuwen@mastodon.social - @neuronakaya the idea that scientists ‘don’t want you to know a fact’ is statistically incompatible with their behavior
they publish ~2.5m papers/yr, upload 200k preprints, make >3m figures, and generate so many supplements that journals added file‑size limits because people kept submitting appendices the size of small video games
i once heard of 14gb of raw data uploaded ‘in case someone might care.’

Remember back when building computers we burned a cd/dvd from a working machine and kept giant binders of install media? And then things changed and we could make a bootable USB device from whatever promotional 4GB stick people were handing out at tradeshows, but often it couldn't boot?
The working machines are now laptops which no longer have optical drives at all. Or USB A.
I found an old external dvd burner and have it running through a Thunderbolt3 hub that still has USB A ports.

RE: https://techhub.social/@infoq/116714448008024783
Happy anniversary and thanks to the team that kept developing and running it!
I was part of the team that managed the launch 20 years ago. It's one of the best memories. I cherish that moment.

I also think they missed badly on Marmadashvilli. I had kept an open mind for a while, but his unwillingness to come out and collect long balls and his panic booting the ball downfield have been concerns. Villa had great shot placement today, but many of those felt like other keepers (not just Alisson) would have reached them.
He was dreadful today.
#LFC

In Antwerp I was talking with a woman from the US. She'd just come from spending a week in Paris with an old French friend, who of course has no a/c. This person was utterly wilting; her friend just kept calling her (and broadly, Americans) "weak". She was starting to believe it!

RE: https://fosstodon.org/@mwb/116476124401887839
it's happening huh
I've kept silent for a long time b/c I hate throwing fellow maintainers under the bus, but the situation around httpx 2 (which is developed in private and has a focus on adding a …

Is the issue that he is dead but being kept hooked up to machines to block the legal process of an election to replace him in his Senate seat, or is the issue that the one person who has the legal standing to pull the plug is hanging out in CCP territory to block that process…
#USpol

this is what chilling dissent looks like
https://web.archive.org/web/20260429143906/https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/mahmoud-khalil-ice-arrest-one-year-later.html

Trump boils over after Tehran kept him waiting (Barak Ravid/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/06/10/trump-strikes-iran-wait-response-nuclear-deal
http://www.memeorandum.com/260610/p86#a260610p86

“If we didn’t do this deal, we could have dropped more bombs for another three weeks,
two weeks, four weeks,
two years, you years,
you would never have the Hormuz strait open,
you would never have success,”
Trump said.
He said he “didn’t want to see economic catastrophe.
If you kept this going, that could have happened.”
He added:
And by the way, if they don’t honor the agreement or some things aren’t even mentioned in the agreement,
…

Apple alleges that a former Apple engineer kept a work-issued Apple laptop and exploited a bug to access Apple's cloud file storage while employed by OpenAI (Megan Morrone/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/07/10/apple-sues-openai-trade-secret-theft

Apple sues OpenAI over trade secrets
Apple has lost significant talent to OpenAI as the frontier lab prepares to unveil its first hardware device.

This is hilarious so I had to look it up, and yes it’s true; Bumble kicked Sharon Stone off their site 😂
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:qakvaly2sy7dqeav7xcebrap/post/3mmosmuuibk2t

Robin Johnson (@robinjohnson.bsky.social)
Whenever I see someone being smugly sceptical on the internet I remember that Sharon Stone was banned from multiple dating sites because men SHE WAS INTERESTED IN kept reporting her profile as 'fake

Note for anyone using Certbot as the CA's start dropping the TTLs on their certs. The default for renew is 30 days. I just changed CAs and for the last 4 days couldn't figure out why it kept renewing the same cert every day when it was good for another 30. Oops. (Edit in /etc/letsencrypt/renewal/certname.conf)

Have you ever really looked at the blooms of horse chestnuts? Yeah me either. Until a month ago I nicked this one, and now I am confused why they are not a staple for florists at this time of the year. I mean look! It even kept quite decently in that makeshift vase. And it wasn't the most beautiful I'd seen, that was on another tree, with even darker red stems, and entirely out of reach for me...
#photography

The California city of Whittier swung to Democrats this spring,
spurred by ICE raids and by anger toward election rules that long dampened turnout among Latinos
and kept them out of city government.
https://boltsmag.org/california-immigrant-organiz…

How Immigrant Organizing Flipped Nixon’s Hometown - Bolts
The California city of Whittier swung to Democrats this spring, spurred by ICE raids and by anger toward election rules that long dampened turnout among Latinos and kept them out of city government.

A profile of Kaley Glenn-Mills, the plaintiff in K.G.M. v. Meta et al., who was awarded $6M in damages in a landmark LA jury trial over social media addiction (Olivia Carville/Bloomberg)

Well that was a #MastoAdmin problem if I ever saw one.
I just found some update involving libjemalloc and glibc somehow managed to break the Ruby installation my Mastodon instance uses so badly, Puma stopped working and then Bundler kept failing because of old gems that wouldn't work with the new glibc.

I've painted the utility room! And myself a bit. Gone is sickly peach and in is a startlingly bright and fresh green. It wasn't my first choice but it's turned out to be exactly right. It feels like it brings the outdoors green inside, which is exactly what I'd hoped to achieve. Tails is exhausted from making so much fecking fuss at being kept out of the way. Sparks had the right idea and slept through it all under our bed. Pics show the lobby between the kitchen and the util…

Ranking the Raiders' Top 30 2026 Players: No. 8 https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-ranking-top-30-2026-players-8

I just had a thought. I have talked to techies who kept their old shop on their resume despite being laid off because "you can't have a gap on your resume." Instead of doing that, just put that you are working for "a stealth-mode startup".
Who are they? I can't tell you. They are in stealth-mode.
Can I get the HR contact to verify employment? I can't. They are in stealth-mode.
What are you doing for them? I can't tell you.

The FTC settles with John Deere over a 2025 right-to-repair lawsuit, requiring the company to provide farmers and shops with equipment and software for 10 years (Boone Ashworth/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/the-ftc-settlemen…

The FTC Settlement With John Deere Is a Huge Win for the Right-to-Repair Movement
After more than a decade of pushback, farmers and repair advocates have won access to equipment and services John Deere had long kept under its control.

Cowboys RB Javonte Williams: 'I've still got a lot more to prove' https://www.nfl.com/news/cowboys-rb-javonte-williams-i-ve-still-got-a-lot-more-to-prove

Ranking the Raiders' Top 30 2026 Players: No. 8 https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-ranking-top-30-2026-players-8

Southern Poverty Law Center says its informant program was not kept secret from law enforcement (Collin Binkley/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/southern-poverty-law-center-criminal-investigation-ee19347179ebe7097532db21157eac10
http://www.memeorandum.com/260428/p28#a260428p28

Brokers representing Donald Trump purchased between $9.7 million and $24.3 million in stocks from a dozen arms manufacturers and other Pentagon contractors in 2025,
-- including Palantir, Lockheed Martin, and General Dynamics, according to an analysis of a new financial disclosure released by the president last week.
The disclosure comes as the Trump administration launches new strikes on Iran,
oversees a historic weapons stockpiling effort at home,
and calls for a $…

Trump acquired at least $10 million in defense stocks last year
The president's portfolio kept accumulating shares in companies — like Palantir and Lockheed Martin — that were benefiting directly from his global military escalations

A profile of Kaley Glenn-Mills, the plaintiff in K.G.M. v. Meta et al., who was awarded $6M in damages in a landmark LA jury trial over social media addiction (Olivia Carville/Bloomberg)

Oof, this is a gut punch of overflowing accuracy
"Each elimination looks rational in isolation. The second-order effects arrive six months later, and by then nobody connects the locust swarm to the dead sparrows."
"The Great Leap Forward’s famine didn’t arrive immediately. For a while, the numbers looked spectacular. Every province reported record harvests. Leadership was pleased. The requisitions increased.
The famine came when the real grain ran out but the reported grain kept flowing upward.
We’re still in the reporting phase. The dashboards are green. Adoption is up and to the right. Every team reports productivity gains that, if summed across the company, would imply engineers are shipping at 300% efficiency while somehow still missing the same deadlines."
https://leehanchung.github.io/blogs/2026/04/05/the-ai-great-leap-forward/

Cowboys’ $50 Million TE Jake Ferguson Singled Out as ‘Liability’ https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/tight-end-jake-ferguson-fumbling-problem/

Guy who spent years insisting that he was a true free speech champion has had his second speech-suppressing SLAPP suit against a critic dismissed.
https://bsky.app/profile/noupside.bsky.social/post/3mnur5mrhjk2d

Renee DiResta (@noupside.bsky.social)
Matt Taibbi's defamation case against Rep Kamager-Dove has been tossed. He sued her because she asked why the Republicans, in yet another hearing about the CeNsoRshIp iNDusTriAl cOmPlex (which doesn't exist) kept inviting a "serial sexual harasser". Here, relive and savor the moment:

Pats focused on football not Vrabel-Russini pics https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/48620091/patriots-players-support-vrabel-stay-focused-football

Best and worst NFL schedule release videos, from Chargers 'Halo' theme to Raiders 'Step Brothers' skit https://www.sportingnews.com/ca/nfl/news/best-worst-nfl-schedule-release-videos-chargers-raiders/8750ff96…

"Spain’s donkey brigade has kept Doñana fire-free for nine years"
#Spain #Donkeys #Animals #Environment

Spain’s donkey brigade has kept Doñana fire-free for nine years | The Optimist Daily
Spain burned nearly one million hectares in 2025. In one national park, the solution has been 18 rescued donkeys, working for nine years running.

FOIA docs: White House officials used auto-deleting Signal chats even after Trump advised against its use in April 2025, raising federal recordkeeping concerns (The Atlantic)
…

The Trump Administration Just Can’t Quit Signal
New records reveal that officials kept using the app, even after the president suggested they stop.

Power went out for a minute.
weirdly, my UPS kept my computer running but not the monitors/tv. I have my peripherals plugged into the ' follow master' outlet. (It's quite handy to just turn off/on the PC and everything else follows suit)
I assumed the UPS switching to battery would still keep those going but apparently not?

A spokesperson for Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D.,
said he had spoken with McConnell by phone on Monday
and that the two had a “lengthy and substantive conversation that covered a variety of topics,
including national security.”
As leader, Thune is generally kept up to date on illnesses and absences in his conference as he has to navigate vote counts and his narrow 53-47 majority.
Wyoming Sen. John Barrasso, the No. 2 Senate Republican,
had a …

McConnell speaks to Republican leaders as speculation swirls about his health, remains hospitalized
Share on Facebook Share on Twitter WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate’s top two Republicans have spoken individually to Kentucky Sen. Mitch McConnell, according to aides, as the former GOP leader remains in the hospital more than three

Progress pics, feat the two holes this caused in my table lmao
I kept them in the plastic holder thingy exactly to protect the table (and to make it easier to hold in place), didn’t think it’d go right through it without me even noticing lmao
(I stopped drilling as soon as it went through the CPUs, so this says something about the quality of my table lmao)
Make sure to wear a mask while doing this, wouldn’t want to breathe in PCB dust!

Donald Trump is dodging questions on his humiliating stalemate with Iran.
Speaking to reporters on the tarmac outside Air Force One in Chippewa, Wisconsin, on Friday, Trump kept his remarks about Iran brief.
“We’re doing quite well. The situation with Iran seems to be going quite well,” Trump announced, before turning to leave.
“When was the last time you had discussions?” a reporter asked after him, but Trump had already started walking off to his car

Trump Walks Away Rather Than Answer Key Question on Iran
Iran suspended peace talks with the U.S. earlier this week.

Simpson: Met secretly with McVay before draft https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/48613148/ty-simpson-had-secret-meeting-rams-mcvay-draft

So that was "interesting". Mrs LT was trying to use her phone to look at the Odeon website to check some film times, but kept getting blocked by Cloudflare.
We spent a good 15 minutes checking our network, DNS setup, all sort of things. Then she remembered that her Pixel phone had updated fairly recently and we discovered that Google had automatically switched on their own VPN.
And Cloudflare, for some reason, had classified any requests from Google's UK VPN exit nodes as being used by bots or scammers.
Anyway long story short: Google VPN off, Proton VPN on, all is well again.

"30 Years of Volunteering Has Kept This California Creek Pristine"
#US #USA #America #California

30 Years of Volunteering Has Kept This California Creek Pristine
Through the nonprofit's tireless weeding and planting, "extraordinary progress" has been achieved there.

The Costco dog, Wiger adds, “just kind of feels frozen in time, where it’s a bite of a memory. It tastes like I remember as a kid, even though it’s not exactly the same.” 
At $1.50, the combo is a steal.
If Costco kept up with inflation, the deal would cost about $5.
But the company has pointedly refused to raise the price.
In a speech he gave in 2018 at the chamber of commerce in the company’s hometown of Issaquah, Washington, then-CEO Craig Jelinek claimed that they …

America’s Greatest Hot Dog
The price and quality of the $1.50 Costco frank haven’t budged in 40 years. It’s the last—and best—deal in the country.

Just a reminder that Mosquito Dunks are sold in 20-packs for approximately $26. More economical than the 6-packs, which are usually in the $8-15 range. And definitely avoid the 2-packs. These things can last for years on the shelf as long as they are kept out of sunlight and high temperatures. #MosquitoDunks #bti #bacteria #mosquitoes

Millions of Americans are holding onto empty homes,
fearing the tax hit a sale would bring.
https://bsky.app/profile/nytimes.com/post/3mkpx5pw5o223

The New York Times (@nytimes.com)
Roughly 7.2 million single-family homes are sitting empty and being kept off the market, according to the real estate investment service Flock Homes, contributing to a nationwide housing shortage. But a closer look at these “zombie homes” shows that for many owners, selling just isn’t worth it. https://nyti.ms/4w2X7l9

Tom Kean Jr. kept his depression a secret. Colleagues are questioning that decision. (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/07/01/tom-kean-depression-transparency-privacy-00983228
http://www.memeorandum.com/260701/p6#a260701p6