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T1 Phone: Trump Organization wirbt nicht mehr mit "Made in USA"
Die Trump Organization bewarb das Trump-Phone mit der Behauptung, "Made in USA". Davon ist nun nicht mehr die Rede – und es gibt weitere Änderungen.

That shithead Palmer Luckey is considering making fully US-made laptops and wants to know if people would spend 20% more for an American made laptop. Sure, Palmer. But not for your racist ass. I'd never give you a cent https…

Palmer Luckey considering entering laptop market with fully US-made model, wants to know if you'd spend 20% more for an American-made PC
It seems Luckey's military technology startup is considering a product slightly different from its current portfolio.

Trump Organization scrubs the Trump Mobile site of language indicating the T1 Phone phone is to be made in the US, now says it is "brought to life" in the US (Anthony Robledo/USA Today)
https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2025/06/25/trump-cel…

Trump Mobile reiterates claims that new phones are 'made in America'
President Donald Trump's newly launched cellular service is defending its claims that its T1 cellphones are made in the U.S.

3 most surprising cuts the Raiders made on Monday https://raiderswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/raiders/2025/08/26/raiders-53-man-roster-3-most-surprising-cuts-made-on-monday/85829541007/…

Russia has made 'significant concessions' amid Trump-led peace talks, Vance says: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/25/russia-has-made-significant-concessions.html

11 key allegations made in Erez Reuveni's whistleblower disclosure about DOJ (Chris Geidner/Law Dork)
https://www.lawdork.com/p/11-key-allegations-made-in-erez-reuvenis
http://www.memeorandum.com/250625/p154#a250625p154

I’ve generally disliked South Park — not because it is rude and raunchy, but because it made it seem like being a cynical asshole is somehow brave and countercultural. It made the case that it’s OK to be carelessly hurtful as long as you hurt •everyone•. It tried to make a virtue out of disaffection. Its compulsion never to be caught actually •caring• about anything or anyone robbed it of its capacity to have insights or a moral center. It flirted with satire, but always ended up just being trolling.
But who knows? It feels like trolling the fascists might be what we need right now. Maybe the show finally has its moment.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AfternoonShow
Stevie Wonder:
🎵 I Was Made to Love Her
#StevieWonder
https://motowngold.bandcamp.com/track/i-was-made-to-love-her
https://open.spotify.com/track/2aCKBrLn7rbhStk5k4FwnF

Happy SysAdmin Day everyone! Here is a head scratcher. Website kept serving the default new site page. Even when I made a new index.html file. So I made a test.html and got Forbidden. Error log says "client denied by server configuration: /var/www/newwebsite/test.html" Not directory permissions and not selinux. So I made /var/www/newweb2 and moved the files over. Voila, working. Both test.htnl and new index.html. I'm leaving it alone because it's working and it's Friday…

Gaza is suffering man-made mass starvation
caused by the blockade of aid into the territory,
the head of the World Health Organization has said,
as more than 100 agencies urged Israel to let supplies in to alleviate the crisis.
“I don’t know what you would call it other than mass starvation,
and it’s man-made,
and that’s very clear,”
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told a virtual press conference from Geneva.
“This is because of [the] blockade.”

Some personal news, I made Wiener Schnitzel vom Schwein and Austrian potato salad today

“If you ask people who study the topic, they will tell you that a modern famine is a man-made disaster. Natural disasters can play a part. For example, flooding and drought can destroy crops, but relief agencies and wealthy governments can now get aid where it needs to go. So it is ultimately war and political will that keeps enough food from being grown or delivered in places like Ethiopia and Somalia, Sudan and Yemen, Haiti and North Korea and, of course, now in Gaza.”

Jared Verse explains why working out with Rams legend Aaron Donald made him want to 'call the police'

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/jared-v

Sun Jingguo:
"The cost of driving a petrol car is too expensive. I save money driving an electric vehicle,"
Lu Yunfeng: "I drive an electric vehicle because I am poor,"
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c2d5ld8y8pwo

The Trump Phone no longer promises it’s made in America | The Verge
https://www.theverge.com/gadgets/693080/trump-mobile-t1-phone-made-usa

Corporate Deal Making Made Easy: Just Give Donald Trump Personal Power To Approve All Strategic Decisions (Mike Masnick/Techdirt)
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/06/25/corporate-deal-making-made-easy-just-give-donald-trump-personal-power-to-approve-all-strategic-decisions/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250626/p4#a250626p4

"Coldplay to re-issue albums on records made from recycled plastic bottles"
#Coldplay #Music #Vinyl

Coldplay to re-issue LPs on records made from recycled plastic bottles
Coldplay will re-issue nine of their previous albums on records made from recycled plastic bottles. The EcoRecords reduce carbon emissions during the manufacturing process by 85 per cent compared with traditional vinyl production.

Niemand sollte die @… Senior*innen unterschätzen. Zum Abschied gestern nach einer ziemlich breit gefächerten Diskussion über Verwaltungsdigitalisierung, Überwachung, IT-Sicherheit, Gesundheitsdigitalisierung und und und gab's nicht die üblichen Pralinen, sondern die Erstauflage des "Chaos Computer Buchs" von 1988. <3
Die Leute h…

Fortune laid off its European editorial team, including Executive Editor Alex Wood Morton; the layoffs took place before its 10% global workforce cut on July 21 (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/news/fortune-…

Fortune Europe editorial team made redundant but new roles being created
The London-based editorial team focused on Europe set up by Fortune last year has been made redundant amid a strategy pivot.

I made a file named Free Speech.rtf

Ukraine integrates U.S.-made ADM-160 MALD decoys on Su-27s to penetrate Russian air defenses: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/25/ukraine-integrates-usmade-adm-mald.html

“There are arguments to be made that if the intelligence services were being created from scratch now, we wouldn’t have a separate HUMINT versus SIGINT agency,” suggests Rory Cormac, an expert at the University of Nottingham.
https://www.economist.com/britain/2025/08/

The choices facing Britain’s next MI6 chief
Human espionage has never been harder, costlier—or more important

"They made a John Wick but for women?"
"All John Wick is for women, have you seen him??"

Made a quick RGMII test board for the T20 devkit so I can see how well my RGMII IP ports to the Trion platform.
Super quick and dirty design, copy pasted schematic except for adding an LDO to derive the 1.2V rail from the 3.3V devkit supply

email_enron: Email network (Enron corpus)
The Enron email corpus, containing all the email communication from the Enron corporation, which was made public as a result of legal action. Nodes are email addresses and node i links to node j if i sent at least one email to address j. Non-Enron email addresses are also present, but only their links to/from Enron addresses are observed.
This network has 36692 nodes and 367662 edges.
Tags: Social, Communication, Unweighted, Multigr…

Breaking Mews! :neocat_floof_cute:
🎨⁠@… (template by @…)

holy shit that disk utility icon looks like **I** made it 😳 https://mastodon.social/@BasicAppleGuy/115089810537348465

I had reason to break out my very brief tutorial on styling links and buttons today:
https://adrianroselli.com/2023/08/styling-links-and-buttons.html
I wrote it because I’ve encountered many devs who use the wrong element claiming they can’t style …

Styling Links and Buttons
I made a tutorial for styling links and buttons, something which many developers have struggled with (resulting in links used as buttons and buttons used as links). I have embedded it on this page, but if you are coming in with your RSS reader you can visit the tutorial directly…

Pleased to announce that the third edition of my PL book, PLAI, is finally available on paper! Same price as it's been for 20 years (-:. Also made it available on Kindle EPUB, and a few other options. (Always free options, of course.) Enjoy!
https://www.plai.org/

I made "Trending on Mastodon". I can die happy now. 🙂

Somehow, my Mr. Boots air freshener ended up with a flower monocle.

'Beneath the surface of external dominance lies an “invisible” European strength: a long-standing presence in open-source software (OSS) and open standards that form the backbone of critical digital infrastructures. From Linux and Python to core internet protocols, Europe has made significant
contributions to open source initiatives.'
3/n

As an OEM, I want to make my customers angry, so that they keep knocking on my RCE vulns.
https://mrbruh.com/asus_p2/

'Am Fluss' #FotoVorschlag
This is a #photo from a walk last winter in a moor nearby. The slowly lifting fog made a really cool atmosphere.
#landscape

Lovely business card my mom made for me back on the 80s when all of my musical efforts involved classical guitar.
Played some nice local solo recitals, was in an early music trio, and even got to play with chamber music groups a few times. And of course the inevitable wedding and restaurant work.
#classicalguitar

YouTube like it's 2009! Wild project.
https://github.com/ftde0/yt2009
Thanks to @… for tipping me off to it via his links page (

GitHub - ftde0/yt2009: 2009 youtube frontend.
2009 youtube frontend. Contribute to ftde0/yt2009 development by creating an account on GitHub.

In 2011, I posted to our forums to explain "Why not Windows?" Our goal is not to make the most money; it's to make the best software that we can make. There are other successful platforms, but I don' t think our software would be better on any of them.
Since 2011 we've moved to different forums and the hardware hosting our archived forums died. Maybe someday I'll revive it from backups, but in the meantime it's nice that the Internet Archive still has a co…

As a GenX'er who spent hundreds of hours practicing tricks on his ol' 10 speed, Supergirl is so good, she genuinely made me tear up. 🥲
▶️ NBA Halftimeshow Dallas Mavericks - Viola Brand - Supergirl on Bike
https://youtube.com/watch?v=EFD9BLgMVK8&si=Ebb1vXglIx…

After Houston's Astrodome sits empty two decades plus, support fades for preservation. Despite the better-than-most case for genuine landmark status that can be made for the first indoor baseball stadium. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/26/us/hous…

Houston’s Astrodome Was a Vision of the Future. It’s Past Its Prime.
Once a wonder of the world, the storied but moldering stadium has long been part of life in Houston. Is it worth saving?

A Deepfake Nightmare: Stalker Allegedly Made Sexual AI Images of Ex-Girlfriends and Their Families https://www.404media.co/deepfake-harassment-ohio-undress-clothoff-nudify-apps/

Spain wildfires: Decades of rural decline made the blazes worse, but local economies can prevent further destruction https://phys.org/news/2025-08-spain-wildfires-decades-rural-decline.html

Spain wildfires: Decades of rural decline made the blazes worse, but local economies can prevent further destruction
Every summer, forest fires sweep across Spain, dominating headlines and leaving a trail of destruction in their wake. This year's have been especially harsh, with devastating fires thus far in Tarifa, Zamora, the Madrid area, Galicia and Extremadura, while the UNESCO-listed natural park of Las Médulas, in León, has been completely wiped out.

Belgium is the third largest market for electric cars in Europe after Germany and France, which are much larger. The tax regime for company cars, which are a standard employee benefit alongside meal vouchers, has made this huge rise possible.
https://www.

its been 5 years and the illegal chinese fishing boat massacre article still doesnt have a movie based on it
https://wordswithoutborders.org/read/article/2019-12/december-2019-true-crime-massacre-in-the-pacific-p…

from my link log —
10 years of pomological watercolors.
https://parkerhiggins.net/2025/04/10-years-of-pomological-watercolors/
saved 2025-04-13

10 years of pomological watercolors
A decade ago today I published a blog post calling for the US government to release its paintings of fruits. The Pomological Watercolor Collection, as I had recently come to know, is a beautiful and remarkable corpus of over 7,000 pictures of fruits and other biological specimens, made between the 1880s and 1940s. Through a handful of FOIA requests I’d learned that the images had been meticulously digitized and put online for purchase, but that less than 100 pictures had been sold that way �…

@… Yeah, they got some cool features in there, such as const array sizes… why not push the boat a little?
But I can see why they shy away from them; it’s not like we *know* how to do dependent types well yet, and Rust has already made a couple of big type system bets.
(I found myself wishing for “shared xor mutable” in Haskell the other day.)…

There’s a wild moment when you realize you’ve been in the closet for over a decade. Then you stumble back onto the video that made your gender dysphoria skyrocket—Conchita Wurst’s “Rise Like a Phoenix” at Eurovision 2014. That performance wasn’t just a song, it was a spark.
My journey with gender started long before 2014, with photos and memories of a self I was just beginning to understand.
Today, I claim my space as bisexual and gender-fluid. I refuse to be silent. Fascism does…

So, the Gemini stuff pissed me off enough to disable updates on my phone, but now it looks like I'm overreacting
https://www.engadget.com/ai/what-do-googles-gemini-privacy-changes-actually-mean-200819778.html
Except I don…

What do Google's Gemini privacy changes actually mean?
An email sent to the AI chatbot users made waves in the tech press.

Of course they knew no local would go for it. So they would pick their targets, based in part on license plates which made it pretty obvious who was local, and who wasn’t.
My mother, living in Denmark at that point, despite being *from* the town, of course had a foreign car.
So the windshield wipers would always go to town on our car, in the hopes of making a fat tip I suppose.
And my mom would always roll down the window and curse them out in Polish for their little scam.

Western governments: Industrial policy doesn't work. The government is worse at picking winners than the market.
Chinese government: Our industrial policy is to create a native electric car industry that can beat Western petrol car makers.
Western governments: Hey, no fair!
BBC News - How China made electric vehicles mainstream

check out this 😳 update to my home insurance policy:
Allstate Indemnity Company
Policy effective date: August 9, 2025
Amendment Of Policy Provisions – AP4995
The following change is made to the provisions throughout your policy documents:
Any reference to gender, including but not limited to, his/her him or he/she also includes any preferred pronouns of identity including, but not limited to, they/them/theirs.

Series A, Episode 02 - Space Fall
BLAKE: Oh yes. He's also made it clear that summary execution's one of our options. We chose the other.
LEYLAN: Well if you're successful, I promise that I'll get your sentences quashed.
AVON: And if we're not?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/102/576

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Looking at AI generated bible art. Joshua double-fisting the circumcision knives, as is traditional practice.
https://bible.art/p/ZVmfknrm9NFqSjt1j2rq/joshua-5:3-and-joshua-made-him-sharp

Joshua 5:3 Artwork | Bible Art
Joshua 5:3 - "And Joshua made him sharp knives, and circumcised the children of Israel at the hill of the foreskins."

"The Seven Capital Sins of Open Science"
1. Worshiping the 'age factor'
2. Ignoring the value of data reuse and complexity
3. Disrespecting other disciplines
4. Publishing data without a supplementary paper
5. Creating and maintaining a nightmare for machines
6. Refusing to support investment in general infrastructure
7. Creating data without a FAIR and explicit data stewardship plan.

The Seven Capital Sins of Open Science
Years ago I made a set of cartoons depicting what I consider the seven major roadblocks to effectively realise an Open Science (rather FAIR science actually). These were distilled from my intensive work on the European Open Science Cloud, GO FAIR and also my presidency of CODATA.

Oof. #OpenStreetMap minutely replication is currently broken: https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/131884
For me this means that recent edits I made are not queryable via O…

Is OSM partially down? New data isn't able to be queried on the map, and new data isn't being rendered
I’m finding that I can pull data into JOSM and iD that I know exists (due to recently pushed edits), but a query on the map doesn’t list them (not to mention that they also aren’t being rendered; however, when something’s awaiting rendering, I always, at least by my experience, can still query it). For example, this query should list building=toilets, but it doesn’t. If I edit that location in iD I can see the aforementioned feature, and I can also pull it into JOSM, but it isn’t b…

Willkommen auf meiner Blockliste
From: @…
https://digitalcourage.social/@clemensg/114745468620387901

Raiders EDGE Andre Carter made valiant argument to make 53-man roster https://raiderswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/raiders/2025/08/25/raiders-edge-andre-carter-made-valiant-argument-to-make…

Row of townhouse apartments at the Maplewood complex on Veterans Place Rd, Ithaca NY
#photo #photography #buildings

High 5: Five players who made the team on Friday https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/high-5-five-players-who-made-the-team-on-friday

Bears, Raiders among non-playoff teams that have made biggest leap since 2024 NFL season https://www.nfl.com/news/bears-raiders-among-non-playoff-teams-that-have-made-biggest-leap-since-2024-nfl-season

Barclays will block crypto purchases made with credit cards starting June 27, citing volatility and lack of consumer protections, following other UK lenders (Naga Avan-Nomayo/The Block)
https://www.theblock.co/post/359619/barcl…

Little progress made so far on Ukraine peace deal, German Chancellor says: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/24/little-progress-made-so-far.html

I made two pizzas last night... I'm still a huge fan of making my own dough and baking in the home oven at 550˚F on a pizza steel.

Oops I made a typo and did some Weib Kochen

email_enron: Email network (Enron corpus)
The Enron email corpus, containing all the email communication from the Enron corporation, which was made public as a result of legal action. Nodes are email addresses and node i links to node j if i sent at least one email to address j. Non-Enron email addresses are also present, but only their links to/from Enron addresses are observed.
This network has 36692 nodes and 367662 edges.
Tags: Social, Communication, Unweighted, Multigr…

Catalina “Xochitl” Santiago had already made it past the security line at the El Paso airport
when two border patrol agents called her in for questioning
and whisked her away to an immigration detention center.
Nearly a month after her arrest, she and her family still aren’t clear why she is detained.
Santiago is a beneficiary of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (Daca) program
– which has allowed her to legally live and work in the US.
“They have …

We accidentally wore a matching outfit for the first session of a new campaign.
Paul is wearing the tee I made at the start of the last campaign and I’m wearing the tee I made at the end of the same campaign.

Frank Price, the writer-producer who presided over the TV and movie divisions at Universal and served two terms as the head of Columbia Pictures, dies at 95 (Mike Barnes/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/m

Frank Price, Studio Chief at Columbia (Twice) and Universal, Dies at 95
He first made his mark as a producer on NBC's 'The Virginian' and greenlighted films including 'Gandhi,' 'Tootsie,' 'Back to the Future' and 'Boyz n the Hood.

What Made the Democratic Party Go Crazy? (Victor Davis Hanson/American Greatness)
https://amgreatness.com/2025/08/25/what-made-the-democratic-party-go-crazy/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250825/p97#a250825p97

Vegan Banh Mi #plantbased #food

Vegan Banh Mi
Try this vegan banh mi made with soy curls and plant-based ingredients based on the classic Vietnamese baguette.

Mark Zuckerberg announces that former OpenAI researcher Shengjia Zhao will be chief scientist at Meta's new superintelligence lab (Ina Fried/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/07/25/mark-zuckerberg-details-metas-superintelligence-plans

Mark Zuckerberg details Meta's superintelligence plans
Mark Zuckerberg made the announcement on Threads.

Series C, Episode 01 - Aftermath
LAUREN: I wonder what's made them so determined suddenly.
AVON: Survivors, like me, probably.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/301/272 B7B4

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Whew! Mistakes were made, but I got the dashboard of the Beat Bike put together. I can now pedal to set the tempo while I live program the drum machine. (No video of programming yet because I had to hold the phone up high!)
#bikeTooter #diy

email_enron: Email network (Enron corpus)
The Enron email corpus, containing all the email communication from the Enron corporation, which was made public as a result of legal action. Nodes are email addresses and node i links to node j if i sent at least one email to address j. Non-Enron email addresses are also present, but only their links to/from Enron addresses are observed.
This network has 36692 nodes and 367662 edges.
Tags: Social, Communication, Unweighted, Multigr…

Rheinmetall und US-Ausrüster Anduril wollen Drohnen "made in Europe" bauen
Die Rüstungsfirma Rheinmetall hat mit Anduril eine Kooperation vereinbart, um europäische Varianten der autonomen Kampfsysteme Barracuda und Fury zu entwickeln.

even more famous!
https://english.elpais.com/people/2024-02-10/that-ferrari-isnt-going-to-pay-for-itself-the-controversial-rise-of-jeremy-fragrance-the-perfume-influencer.html

House Speaker Mike Johnson claimed in a post on X,
“JUST SIX MONTHS into President Trump’s second term, America is safer, stronger, and more prosperous”
—despite ample evidence to the contrary.
Meanwhile, the White House posted an absurd cartoon depicting a slimmed-down Trump with $100 bills and bald eagles flying in the air around him,
plus a nearly two-minute-long video that touted his alleged accomplishments.
But millions of Americans would disagree with those …

Six Months in, Trump Has Made American Life Immeasurably Worse
Dismantling the federal government, yanking support for poor and working-class Americans, and emboldening extremism have been among his accomplishments so far.

Ghislaine Maxwell just made Trump look even more guilty (Dean Obeidallah/The Dean's Report)
https://deanobeidallah.substack.com/p/ghislaine-maxwell-just-made-trump
http://www.memeorandum.com/250824/p41#a250824p41

The Raiders are bringing back 5-time Pro Bowl WR Amari Cooper on one-year deal https://raiderswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/raiders/2025/08/25/raiders-bringing-back-wr-amari-cooper-on-one-year-deal/858237…

Here's how much each NFL team made in national revenue in 2024 as revealed by Packers financial report

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/heres-h

US senators reintroduce the bipartisan Open App Markets Act to challenge Apple's and Google's grip on app stores; the 2021 version never made it to a floor vote (Amber Neely/AppleInsider)
https://appleinsider.com/articles/25/0

Bipartisan Open App Markets Act revived to challenge Apple's App Store control
Big Tech's grip on the app economy is under fire again as lawmakers reintroduce the bipartisan "Open App Markets Act" aimed at breaking Apple and Google's app store dominance.

I just saw like 30 kids riding bikes and it made me so fucking happy.

Hurricane Erin brings coastal flooding to N. Carolina, Virginia #NorthCarolina

Hurricane Erin brings coastal flooding to N. Carolina, Virginia
Hurricane Erin brought coastal flooding to parts of North Carolina and Virginia as it made its closest approach to the US mainland early Thursday.

NSF will be kicked out of their building.
Announcement will be made tomorrow by HUD Sec. and Governor of VA.
HUD will take over the NSF building over the next two years.
NSF staffer: "There is no planning for NSF, no identified future location, appropriation for a new building or a move."

reality_mining: Reality mining proximity network (2004)
A network of human proximities among students at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), as measured by personal mobile phones. Nodes represent people (students from the Media Lab and the Sloan Business School) and an edge connects a pair if the two devices made a Bluetooth handshake at the time. Edges are timestamped.
This network has 96 nodes and 1086404 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Timestamps

Series C, Episode 01 - Aftermath
LAUREN: I wonder what's made them so determined suddenly.
AVON: Survivors, like me, probably.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/301/272 B7B4

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Lithuania to allocate $32 million toward joint purchase of Patriot missile systems for Ukraine: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/26/lithuania-to-allocate-million-toward.html

Memo: Verily, Alphabet's life sciences unit, lays off staff and ends its medical devices program, shifting its focus instead to precision health, data, and AI (Hugh Langley/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/alphabets-verily-…

Alphabet's Verily lays off staff, cuts its devices program
Verily, Google's sister company, made cuts to staff as part of a big internal shakeup. Its CEO warned of "difficult decisions" ahead.

reality_mining: Reality mining proximity network (2004)
A network of human proximities among students at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), as measured by personal mobile phones. Nodes represent people (students from the Media Lab and the Sloan Business School) and an edge connects a pair if the two devices made a Bluetooth handshake at the time. Edges are timestamped.
This network has 96 nodes and 1086404 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Timestamps

The two battery packs are easy to pull out and swap, they are held into 3D printed mounts with hook & loop straps.
I should have made the control box more of a quick disconnect thing, as I still need to work on the code... it's held in place by four screws.
The RD-6 has two 3D printed mounts on the side, with felt glued to them to prevent plastic-on-plastic rubbing.
I do not have a spare battery for the amp yet... maybe later.

Geological resources may be able to provide billions—or even trillions—of metric tons of clean hydrogen,
according to estimates from US government researchers.
By tapping into existing hydrogen accumulations and stimulating underground rocks to make more of the electron-rich gas,
a new crop of energy entrepreneurs think they can put low-carbon hydrogen on the market for as little as $1 per kilogram.
The concept is proven at just one site today -- But if it works as w…

Trillions of tons of hydrogen may be waiting under our feet
A new energy industry is emerging around hydrogen made by rocks instead of renewables

2,000 species at high risk of extinction from natural disasters, study finds https://news.mongabay.com/2025/07/2000-species-at-high-risk-of-extinction-from-natural-disasters-study-finds/

2,000 species at high risk of extinction from natural disasters, study finds
In the aftermath of Hurricane Maria’s assault on the Caribbean island of Dominica in 2017, researchers made a heartbreaking discovery: dead and dying hummingbirds scattered across the forest floor. Among them were purple-throated caribs (Eulampis jugularis), the specialized pollinators of the island’s Heliconia plants. This single storm threatened an evolutionary partnership millions of years in […]

European Commission says Meta has proposed limited changes to its pay-or-consent ad model, and Meta faces daily fines if it determines they are not sufficient (Reuters)
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/t

Meta will only make limited changes to pay-or-consent model, EU says
Meta Platforms made only limited changes to its pay-or-consent model, and EU regulators cannot confirm compliance with an antitrust order. The European Commission may impose periodic penalties starting June 27, if Meta continues to fail meeting the required standards.

In a major step toward dictatorship
The Supreme Court on Friday limited the ability of federal judges to temporarily pause President Trump’s executive orders,
But the justices made no ruling on the constitutionality of Trump's move to end birthright citizenship,
and they stopped his order from taking effect for 30 days.
The court’s ruling upended the ability of single federal judges to freeze policies across the country,
-- a powerful tool that has been used…

Supreme Court Live Updates: Trump Hails Win on Birthright Citizenship
The court restricted the ability of federal judges to issue broad freezes on executive orders. The decision could reshape the way U.S. citizenship is granted, even temporarily.

Archaeologists found a 1,700-year-old chamber at the largest Mayan site in Belize,
still holding a rare mosaic death mask and jadeite jewelry, shells from the Pacific and elaborate designs on pottery and bone.
https://www.nytimes…

Maya Ruler’s Tomb Is Unearthed in Belize, With Clues to His Ancient World
A rare mosaic death mask made of jadeite and vessels in the shapes of an owl, a monkey and coatimundi were found with the ruler.

Trump appointed a loyalist who has already helped him escape accountability once to head the Department of Justice.
Now, she’s in a position to shut down a case that could potentially implicate him again.
She made public promises of revelations, then quietly reversed course and now claims they never existed in the first place.
And the administration is hoping the country will just move on.
But the story isn’t going away.
Because we’re not letting it.

AMD CEO Lisa Su says she expects TSMC's Arizona-made chips to cost "more than 5% but less than 20%" above TSMC's Taiwan-made chips, and to arrive by 2025's end (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Trump and his team are proclaiming that President Barack Obama and his team torqued the intelligence analysis process to deliberately discreditTrump’s 2016 election.
The administration has coupled that case with overheated and attention-grabbing claims.
Trump has accused Obama of treason,
and his top officials have made criminal referrals about national security officials under Obama
— all as the administration is trying to distract supporters who are angry about it…

New Reports on Russian Interference Show Trump’s Claims on Obama Are Overblown
The administration’s claims are overblown, but newly declassified information provides some messy details about a January 2017 intelligence assessment of Moscow’s election interference.

The Federal Communications Commission approved the $8 billion merger between Paramount and Skydance on Thursday -- after several changes at CBS that were widely seen as efforts to placate Donald Trump.
Part of the deal will require an internal monitor to check the media company’s supposed political biases.
FCC commissioner Brendan Carr has been doing the rounds to brag about how he’s getting people on TV to be nicer to the MAGA movement.
“They made commitments to address bia…

FCC to Appoint a Babysitter to Make Sure CBS Isn't Anti-Trump
FCC commissioner Brendan Carr says CBS will have a "bias monitor."