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OK, Americans. Where will you be this Saturday?
I know you'll be at a No Kings march, because that's where anyone who cares about this country needs to be. But which one? There is almost certainly one near you, if not several.
Find one, sign up, march, make noise. America does not go down without a fight.
https://www.no…

No Kings
On June 14—Flag Day—Donald Trump wants tanks in the street and a made-for-TV display of dominance for his birthday. A spectacle meant to look like strength. But real power isn’t staged in Washington. It rises up everywhere else.

Sometimes you look at a graph and think that a particular value seems a bit odd. Then you look at the other numbers and they seem off, too. At that point, you realise that the graph is not intended to clarify, but to obscure. On German #EV charging prices, Quartets and diesel.

Sometimes you look at a graph and think that a particular value seems a… | Jaap Burger
Sometimes you look at a graph and think that a particular value seems a bit odd. Then you look at the other numbers and they seem off, too. At that point, you realise that the graph is not intended to clarify, but to obscure. Thank you, Felix Hamer, for drawing attention to this recent slide from BDEW Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft e.V. The title suggests that EV charging would only cost the same as filling up a diesel or petrol car for the same distance in an 'Extremszenario…

Why Senior Developers Google Basic Syntax
https://faun.pub/why-senior-developers-google-basic-syntax-fa56445e355f

Is there a tool to set up #GitAnnex to calculate archive unpackings yet? Something™ could look at a repo's .zip / .tar.gz files, check whether any file in the repo is also in there, and annotate it as computed / computable. (I'm not aiming to restore the zip files from the content –that'd be pristine-tar territory. I'd already be happy if the compute path would be there so that the…

Bookmark this for when you ask yourself why skepticism turns to hatred on the use of unconstrained LLMs.
https://infosec.exchange/@dvandal/114638324336575392

Star rookies? The best schematic fits from all 32 NFL Draft classes https://www.foxsports.com/stories/nfl/star-rookies-best-schematic-fits-from-all-32-nfl-draft-classes

In America, we don’t do kings
They’ve defied our courts, deported Americans, disappeared people off the streets, attacked our civil rights, and slashed our services. The corruption has gone too. far. No thrones. No crowns. No kings.
On June 14th, we rise up.
https://www.nokings.org/

No Kings
On June 14—Flag Day—Donald Trump wants tanks in the street and a made-for-TV display of dominance for his birthday. A spectacle meant to look like strength. But real power isn’t staged in Washington. It rises up everywhere else.

Star rookies? The best schematic fits from all 32 NFL Draft classes https://www.foxsports.com/stories/nfl/star-rookies-best-schematic-fits-from-all-32-nfl-draft-classes

Running cars on E-Fuels, made with CO2 from the air and green Hydrogen?🚗⛽🌿⚡
E-Fuels, so the story goes, could allow using existing cars and infrastructure like gas stations. However, E-Fuels are extremely inefficient.
In 2022, Siemens Energy, Porsche, and the Chilean company HIF inaugurated the Haru Oni pilot plant in Chile's windy Magallanes region, which turns CO2 and Hydrogen into Methanol and small amounts of Gasoline. How's it going? 🧵

What's up with the Production of E-Fuels in Chile?
In 2022, Siemens Energy, Porsche, and HIF inaugurated a pilot plant for the production of E-Methanol and E-Gasoline in southern Chile. The Haru Oni plant was intended to be just the beginning — with plans for large-scale production just a few years later. However, it does not look like that will ever happen.

Hello les gens !
Pour commencer la journée (qui est déjŠ bien avancée) rien de tel qu'une petite chanson sous-estimée d'un obscur groupe de Liverpool... Original, brillant et feel good, l'une de leurs meilleures chansons .
You Know My Name ? Look Up The Number !
https://youtu.be/9DkaRUtp3w8

["Overture" for Cats (2019) plays in the background]

Update on the minirack: it looks like the Minisforum MS-A2s have cleared customs maybe. UPS isn't 100% sure what's going on from the look of the tracking information considering they have them clearing customs two months ago before they were shipped. However, I'm thinking they'll be here in a week or so and I can finally get them installed and cabled up.
#minirack

Terrific response from BBC's Ros Atkins ‪@rosatkins.bsky.social €to Trump administration's unfounded criticisms of BBC coverage of Gaza. The piece of paper held up by press sec was a tweet from student activist -pathetic.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/c9wgq9vv51do…

Ros Atkins on... The White House claims on BBC Gaza coverage
On Tuesday White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt launched an attack on the BBC's coverage of reports that Israeli forces had killed Palestinians near an aid distribution centre in Gaza. She claimed that the BBC took down a story after reviewing footage. The BBC has said the claim is completely wrong and that it stands by its journalism. Ros Atkins from BBC Verify takes a look at the facts.

After Google's two antitrust losses in the past year, a look at critics' claims that its breakup might be better for investors, customers, and innovation (David Streitfeld/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com…

What if Google Just Broke Itself Up? A Tech Insider Makes the Case.
Prosecutors aren’t the only ones arguing for a smaller Google. Some critics say it might be better for investors, customers and innovation.

AI-generated political fanfiction videos that feature political stars and look like breaking news are proliferating in places like Mr. Noah's Stories on YouTube (David Weigel/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/05/28/2025/a…

AI-powered political fanfiction racks up views online
Fake stories about real politicians sometimes get more views than real-world reporting that’s not built for the algorithms.

Physics Will Cause the Economy to Shrink; a Look at the Next Ten Years
Our Finite World https://ourfiniteworld.com/2025/05/27/economic-contraction-coming-right-up/

Physics Will Cause the Economy to Shrink; a Look at the Next Ten Years
The world is hitting both energy and debt limits. Modeling and history show the expected results. Governments are particularly hit, as is higher education.

We saw some people zooming around on Ullswater today on things that can only be described as hover boards but on water.
They did look incredibly cool and great fun, so when we got back to our rental cottage we decided to look up how much they were. Maybe I could use one to commute up the Manchester Ship Canal to work every day!
Yeah, that's not gonna happen. These things start at just under £10k for the entry level model.
#Hoverboard

Ranking new QB-WR duos for 2025 NFL season: Steelers' new Aaron Rodgers-DK Metcalf tandem tops in AFC

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/ranking…

@… @… This is great to know! If I can set up SearXNG or something to proxy search a bunch of services, I will look into it.

Oh god, the picture invokes some very mousetrap-adjacent vibes, in the @… sense of the word. https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/114440131512138899

Political turmoil in Washington has dried up job opportunities in what Professor Ladher calls
“the best research ecosystem in the world.”
Some decided they would now rather take their skills elsewhere, including Austria, Japan and Australia,
while others opted to stay in India.
As the Trump administration moves with abandon to deny visas,
expel foreign students and slash spending on research,
scientists in the United States are becoming increasingly alarm…

World Scientists Look Elsewhere as U.S. Labs Stagger Under Trump Cuts
With the welcome mat withdrawn for promising researchers from around the world, America is at risk of losing its longstanding pre-eminence in the sciences.

Thanks to everyone for attending my #DevOpsDaysAustin presentation on osquery! Slides are here: https://ian.im/doda25

So my mother-in-law is making some Ukrainian "potatoes" (they're basically cocoa and rum and some kind of binder.. crackers? balled up) for the 7yo's bday party. My wife made these amazing signs for the attendees in case of allergies. 😂

Ok #Fediverse: if I was keen to bootstrap an Aotearoa-based tech services #cooperative, what coop models would people suggest I look at - looking for good descriptions of how they'd be set up, especially to recognise the contributions of those involved. All insights appreciated! I'…

I've spent little to no time on Mastodon in the last few weeks, let alone posting...
The reason has been the illness and then death of my beloved dog “Sam”, aka “Unixdog”, which has left me pretty broken up.
The grief is still not out of my heart, and it doesn't look like things are getting better at the moment, but I will try to bring normality back into my life and thus post Linux and Open Source related topics here again.
And I hope that Sam is doing well in dog…

This is the modus operandi of most anti-vaxx propaganda and a core characteristic that links it to authoritarianism and Fascism IMHO:
Lies are accepted. "Evidence" only has to look scientific, it doesn't has to be actual science.
No false statement will ever be corrected..
https://

What's up with the Production of #EFuels in #Chile?
In 2022, #Siemens #Energy,

What's up with the Production of E-Fuels in Chile?
In 2022, Siemens Energy, Porsche, and HIF inaugurated a pilot plant for the production of E-Methanol and E-Gasoline in southern Chile. The Haru Oni plant was intended to be just the beginning — with plans for large-scale production just a few years later. However, it does not look like that will ever happen.

«At this point, things are so ridiculous that I feel like I'm huffing paint fumes every time I read Techmeme. If you're a member of the media reading this, I implore you to look more critically on what's going on, to learn about the industries in question and begin asking yourselves why you continually and blandly write up whatever it is they say.»
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https://www.wheresyoured.at/measures/

$46 million lineman has been kryptonite to Cowboys, but can join them in 2026 https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/06/05/wyatt-teller-best-player-vs-cowboys/84048146007/

Indivisible And Partners Announce
'NO KINGS' Nationwide
DAY OF DEFIANCE!
Saturday, June 14th
STAND TOGETHER !!
with 3.5 % of the populace = 8 million
To find an event near you
Visit https://nokings.org

No Kings
On June 14—Flag Day—Donald Trump wants tanks in the street and a made-for-TV display of dominance for his birthday. A spectacle meant to look like strength. But real power isn’t staged in Washington. It rises up everywhere else.

Ranking new QB/WR duos: Dak Prescott and George Pickens fall behind other NFC tandem

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/ranking-new-qbwr…

If you look at the organizations standing up for students being targeted by US immigration, the unions are really leading the way. A huge thanks to the AAUP for it's leadership in this:
https://www.aaup.org/sites/default/files/2025.04.07-AAUP-Letter-to-GCs-corrected.pdf
https://www.aaup.org/sites/default/files/Faculty_Association_Amicus_Brief.pdf

What's coming up during #TNC25 - Part 3
Get a first look at the programme highlights in the carousel below 👇
📌 Explore the full programme − https://tnc25.geant.org/programme/

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«At this point, things are so ridiculous that I feel like I'm huffing paint fumes every time I read Techmeme. If you're a member of the media reading this, I implore you to look more critically on what's going on, to learn about the industries in question and begin asking yourselves why you continually and blandly write up whatever it is they say.»
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https://www.wheresyoured.at/measures/

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Rant about PHP
You know a technology is declining when the most basic questions about its most bizarre quirks are left completely unanswered for years.
#PHP is like that. Every day I have many of these questions. I look for them. No one asked them before, no one wrote about them before.
I'm baffled by the lack of curiosity and proactivity of its community.
I know it sounds like me piling up on people I don't know anything about, but I used to invest a lot of time programming in PHP. I went to conferences, I made some open source libraries for it, like a PHP kernel for Jupyter Notebooks, I even made a library to work with dataframes, tensors and matrices in PHP (although I lost this one because my laptop was stolen before I released... and I didn't had it in me to rewrite it again).
Then, the ones who I admired the most in that space, like Nikita Popov, started leaving it to work in more intellectually vibrant communities... and it shows.
I'm sure Nikita Popov would be much more gracious than me when talking about it. I can only speculate about his motivations, but at least I can tell you about mine: It was precisely about that same lack of curiosity and creativity that I mentioned before, it felt unbearably grey and sad.

Notable NFL players who retired early: Frank Ragnow latest Lions star to walk away from game still in prime

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/…

Broadway Joe? Cowboys free agent to make theatrical debut before lacing up for Dallas https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/06/01/cowboys-dl-solomon-thomas-to-appear-on…

TFW you've been in a hobby so long that when you look up something you've forgotten how to do, the twenty-four year old post you find the answer in... is your own.

I'm back at DumbTube to look up Keyoxide tutorials and I can do something about it this time because this video is Creative Commons Attribution 3!
Only problem is I would need PeerTube I think unless I want to really trash the resolution...
12 Megabytes...ok...no, it's fine...
Mastodon accepted my upload!
https://www.

Couple of notes, #DailyMail
1. Obviously the story's overblown scaremongering, used here purely as a stick to beat the gov with;
2. IDK the details, but it sounds very much like the standard NHS protocol for anonymised mass data, it's not "Let's look up Jonathan Harmsworth's doctors notes, so as to embarrass, understand & predict, blackmail or manipulate…

Good night!

What's coming up during #TNC25 - Part 2
Get a first look at the programme highlights in the carousel below 👇 From Community Hub sessions to beloved Lightning Talks—here’s what not to miss!
📌 Explore the full programme − https://t…

Survey: Q1 How big is your phone? What else would you carry in a belt bag? I made some that fit my iPhone 11 hard case (6.5”x5” x2”), but know other people carry bigger phones and more stuff...
Q2 These fit 32-43” waist (adjustable). In future bags what waist size range should I make? Maybe a 28” and up? (I’ll look at garment sizes too. I want to fit the widest range possible.) PS. The red sparkle bag has a glow in the dark stripe! Thanks infinitely in advance!

This is so hilarious. Antena 3 CNN got pissed off that Simion decided to skip on the debate and run away to #Poland, so they're letting Dan answer questions normally, and digging out the worst clips of Simion to answer their questions. It's making him look so incredibly bad.
Does he show up and get bulldozed by clear concise policy positions while blabbering about covid conspira…

What's coming up during #TNC25 - Part 1
Get a first look at the programme highlights in the carousel below 👇 From digital inclusion to quantum—here’s what not to miss!
💬 What sessions are you most excited about? Let us know via #TNC25
📌 Explore the full programme −

Survey: Q1 How big is your phone? What else would you carry in a belt bag? I made some that fit my iPhone 11 hard case (I made these 6.5”x5” x2”), but know other people carry bigger phones and more stuff...
Q2 These fit 32-43” waist (adjustable). In future bags what waist size range should I make? Maybe a 28” and up? (I’ll look at garment sizes too. I want to fit the widest range possible.) PS. The red sparkle bag has a glow in the dark stripe! Thanks infinitely in advance!
#vinylbags #bagmaker #handmade #glowinthedark