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The Guardian expects AI licensing to account for roughly 40% of its licensing revenue for the current financial year (Paula Felps/International News Media Association)
https://www.inma.org/blogs/product-initiative/post.cfm/…

How The Guardian is taking charge of AI licensings
During a recent INMA Webinar, Robert Hahn, director of business affairs and licensing at The Guardian, explained how the company has taken a proactive deal-making position to ensure it has control over its future and how the content is used in the AI era.

Forest chief says losing 5,000 employees won’t impact fire season response. Many federal firefighters disagree - Government Executive
https://www.govexec.com/management/2025/06/forest-chief-says-losing-5000-employees-wont-impact-fire-season-response-many-federal-firefighters-disagree/406010/

I believe I have managed to prove my ID in order to comply with the new laws that say I have to prove my ID to own the business I own that I'm sure already asked me to prove my ID when I registered it.
First we tried the on-web version, but that apparently relies upon the corporates having managed to profile and track me, because it told me they had no questions upon which to base identification. Good I guess? My avoid-tracking systems must be working at least a bit?
Next we tried the android app, but apparently the phone I tried that with is too old and the app won't install.
So next option is turning up at a post office with a printed letter. I don't own a printer though, so had to have them post that to me.
Took the letter and a driving licence up to the post office today and "It's not going through" they said, pointing to a stalled progress bar on an android app on a tablet.
Um. Okay. So?
Just wait longer apparently. About ten minutes and it finally proceeded and the post office man took a photograph of me after asking me to disrobe of my robe, strip down to a teeshirt and jeans.
Not sure in what sense this has proven my ID any more than it was already proven to get the driving licence or company registration in the first place?
Apparently I now have government logins for "One Login" and for "government gateway" and they are not the same thing? But sort of are the same thing?
Can't say I really understand it. Expect they'll introduce a third government login when they do these Digital ID cards they're talking about.
God knows how I'm supposed to know which to use when the company tax records need updating in a few months.
#id #government #oneLogin

Sources: Palmer Luckey's stablecoin startup Atticus raised ~$250M at a $2.25B valuation, and will merge into Erebor, formed by Luckey to get a banking license (Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/fintech-deals/2025/06/13/palmer-luckey-er…

Scoop: New details on Palmer Luckey's crypto unicorn
Atticus will merge into Erebor, recently formed by Luckey with plans to get a banking license.

"White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller says President Donald Trump is looking for ways to expand its legal power to deport migrants who are in the United States illegally. To achieve that, he says the administration is “actively looking at” suspending habeas corpus, . ."

Trump team mulls suspending habeas corpus to speed deportations. Can it?
Top White House aide Stephen Miller says the Trump administration is looking for ways to expand its legal power to deport migrants who are in the United States illegally. To achieve that, he says President Donald Trump’s team is “actively looking at” suspending habeas corpus, the constitutional right for people to legally challenge their detention by the government. Such a move would be aimed at migrants as part of the Republican president’s broader crackdown at the U.S.-Mexico border. …

"Donald Trump’s trade war is fast turning into a fiasco."
That was to be expected!
#Trump
#TarifWar

Why Trump Is Losing His Trade War
He picked a stupid fight with the whole world. The bad results are all on him.

Tonight’s episode of @… radio will praise the protesters in #LosAngeles standing up (with an occasional #accordion) against abuses of power 🪧
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Licencias médicas, médicos y ética. Columna de Diana Aurenque.
#Columnistas

Profiles of three employees at VOA's fact-checking unit, who fled Russia and are now among the many journalists losing their jobs under President Trump's orders (Scott Nover/Washington Post)

The U.S. granted these journalists asylum. Then it fired them.
Three employees at Voice of America’s fact-checking unit fled Putin’s wrath and are now among the many journalists losing their jobs under Trump’s orders.

Opinion | Russia is bleeding for inches — and not winning its war - Washington Post
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/interactive/2025/russia-losing-casualties-ukraine-war/