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Meta releases Forum, a Reddit-like standalone app for Facebook Groups, with a feed showing Group conversations and an AI-powered "Ask" feature, on iOS (Mariella Moon/Engadget)
https://www.engadget.com/2179165/meta-forum-groups-app/

Meta quietly released a new Reddit-like app called Forum - Engadget
Meta is testing a new dedicated app for Facebook Groups called Forum.

Dems slam Trump for making cybersecurity hold out the tin cup while splurging on ballroom and Jan. 6 'slush fund'
https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/05/22/dems-slam-trump-cyber-cuts-amid-ballroom-jan-6-slush-fun…

Dems slam Trump cyber cuts amid ballroom, Jan. 6 'slush fund'
Budgets are moral documents,' Rep. Delia Ramirez said

AI advice suppresses people’s willingness to say “I don’t know”, even when the advice is wrong and accuracy is incentivized.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.13562v1

AI advice suppresses people's willingness to say "I don't know", even when the advice is wrong and accuracy is incentivized
Knowing when to say "I don't know" is fundamental to human judgment, yet AI assistants offer a fluent answer to almost any question. In five experiments (N = 3,132; four preregistered, one direct replication), participants answered difficult questions and could always decline to respond. We engineered the questions so that AI advice was wrong, separating AI use from its accuracy. Merely having access to AI nearly eliminated participants' willingness to suspend judgment, and this held whether th…

Yeah, 8,000 layoffs & 7,000 internal transfers tend to piss people off.
✅ Meta AI Reshuffle Sparks Employee Morale Revolt
https://winbuzzer.com/2026/06/21/meta-ai-reshuffle-sparks-reported-employee-morale-revolt-xcxwbn/

Meta AI Reshuffle Sparks Employee Morale Revolt
Meta's AI reorganization has reportedly deepened morale problems after 8,000 layoffs and 7,000 internal transfers, testing control over AI-support work.

Ylikalastus uhkaa kansainvälisiä luonnon monimuotoisuuden tavoitteita https://www.sll.fi/ajankohtaista/ylikalastus-uhkaa-kansainvalisia-luonnon-monimuotoisuuden-tavoitteita/

Ylikalastus uhkaa kansainvälisiä luonnon monimuotoisuuden tavoitteita
Pohjoimaiset ympäristöjärjestöt kirjoittivat Biodiversiteettisopimukselle sekä meri- ja kalastuspolitiikasta EU:ssa ja jäsenmaissa päättäville ylikalastuksen lopettamiseksi sekä luonnon monimuotoisuutta koskevien sitoumusten toimeenpanosta myös merellä mm. jatkamalla vedenalaisten luontotyyppien kartoituksia.

#re:publica – Manchmal frage ich mich schon, wie heute bei Anne #Rabe, Yasmine #MBarek zum Thema: Ohne Moral keine Demokratie? Über Werte, Macht und gesellschaftlichen Zusammenhalt.
Das war leider Bubble-BlaBla, nichts wi…

Ohne Moral keine Demokratie? Über Werte, Macht und gesellschaftlichen Zusammenhalt | re:publica

"Until now, the record for most spending per vote was held by Mayor Daniel Lurie, who paid $156.14 for each of his first-choice votes in the 2024 mayoral race. But there’s a big difference: Lurie won."
(He had much worse opposition! It was a terrible field.)
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$211 per vote: How Saikat Chakrabarti spent $8.8M on his congressional run
Connie Chan spent $25.09 per vote. Scott Wiener spent $61.24. Saikat Chakrabarti spent...a lot more than that.

In case you needed one more reason for hating #FIFA. ⚽️
https://www.dallasobserver.com/news/dallas-covers-downtown-whale-wall-mural-for-world-cup-406…

‘This feels personal’: Beloved Dallas whale wall mural painted over for World Cup display
The life-sized whale mural was painted in 1999 as the 82nd installation of a nationwide campaign for marine conservation.

Software is inert without a human user, even though modern-day "agentic" apps are doing their best to squeeze human agency out of the loop. The focus on the tech and not how it is used has intensified an old phenomenon: interpassivity.
The vision tech has been pushing (software that "uses itself") has created a synthetic replacement for human agency. It is harder and harder to care, and that is by design.

The newest term in the AI lexicon is "interpassivity"
The industry is reorienting around software that uses itself. But giving ourselves permission to lean back and relax merely indulges an old and toxic tendency.

Kickstarter retracts stricter rules on mature content after creator backlash, and says it adopted the tougher rules because of its payment processor Stripe (Mariella Moon/Engadget)
https://www.engadget.com/2177414/kickstarter-mature-content-policy-stripe/

Kickstarter Rolls Back Its Mature Content Policy After Outcry
Kickstarter is going back to its previous rules around mature content after creators criticized the new policy it introduced last week.