Amazon says over 1M people now have access to Alexa , up from "hundreds of thousands" in May, and plans to "make it even more broadly available over the summer" (Jennifer Pattison Tuohy/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/684560/amazo
Series B, Episode 03 - Weapon
CLONE 2: Is there anything for us here?
RASHEL: Yes. We're free.
CLONE 2: Can we survive - alone?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/203/532 B7B5
‘Madleen’ Responds to Mayday for Refugees at Sea
https://freedomflotilla.org/2025/06/05/madleen-responds-to-mayday-for-refugees-at-sea/
One of the most important lessons I've learned in life / continue to learn / managed to forget is the importance of "stopping." It is so easy for life to become overwhelming with all the things I must do. Work, family, friends, volunteering, community, finances, chores, taking care of my health, the list goes on...
"Life is a very simple thing. We make it more complex." - Anonymous
"When we are making our life more complex, that is precisely the time when we are totally incapable of seeing what we are doing. The more complex our lives are, the more we need to be present to them and, surprisingly, this is exactly the time when we are most distracted. When we are distracted, we tend to have poor judgment and make more mistakes . . . usually adding to the confusion . . . and so it goes."
"....We usually respond by trying to become even more controlling and, eventually (or immediately!), this just makes things worse."
"It's time to stop, take stock, take some deep breaths, rest, listen to others, and regroup...We may miss something. We may even miss something we think is important. That's okay. We're more important."
"Taking time to stop may be just what I need to move ahead."
-- Anne Wilson Schaef, Meditations for People Who (May) Worry Too Much, Ballantine Books, 1996, entry for May 6th.
#life #quotes #health #productivity
LA was a dress rehearsal for what Trump really has planned - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/raw-investigates/trump-lo…
sp_kenyan_households: Kenyan households contacts (2012)
A network of proximity contacts measured between members of 5 households of rural Kenya, between April 24 and May 12, 2012.
This network has 47 nodes and 32643 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Temporal, Metadata
https://networks.skewed.…
In May, Microsoft launched Signal, a 120-page print magazine focused on its tech and distributed to business leaders every few months, to counter digital noise (Tom Warren/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/notepad-microsoft
Multi-band, Multi-epoch Photometry of the Spot-crossing System TOI-3884: Refined System Geometry and Spot Properties
Mayuko Mori, Akihiko Fukui, Teruyuki Hirano, Norio Narita, John H. Livingston, Khalid Barkaoui, Karen A. Collins, Jerome P. de Leon, Kai Ikuta, Yugo Kawai, Richard P. Schwarz, Avi Shporer, Gregor Srdoc
https://arx…
In May, Microsoft launched Signal, a 120-page print magazine focused on its tech and distributed to business leaders every few months, to counter digital noise (Tom Warren/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/notepad-microsoft