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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

Why Microsoft has created its own print magazine
Microsoft has created its own print magazine, named Signal. It’s a reaction to the digital noise and ephemeral content.

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

Why Microsoft has created its own print magazine
Microsoft has created its own print magazine, named Signal. It’s a reaction to the digital noise and ephemeral content.

Interesting that some who replied to my post on tax and GDP growth yesterday missed the point.
The point isn't to debate whether tax -> growth (it might, with a tail wind).
The point is that
1) Growth won't happen like it used to.
2) That is good because GDP growth is ecologically and socially lethal.
3) So our leaders (sic) had better adapt to the new reality and use taxation and other measures to build a better, fairer future.
More here:

Getting Real about the Crises Facing the UK | Stop the Damage! Build a Better Future!
Britain and the rest of the world face a set of almost intractable challenges, ecological (including climate), economic and social. Yet political leaders with few exceptions are failing to propose the actions and policies that could address the scale of this pancrisis. Here though is an alternative initiative, a kind of alternative manifesto with a portfolio of illustrative policies...

Survey: 47% of UK adults and 81% of UK "decision makers" say they use AI "as part of consuming news and staying up to date with current events" (Dominic Ponsford/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/media-audie

Where do UK 'decision makers' get their news? Publishers, social media and AI
Decision makers and news: Where do UK business and political leaders get informed about current affairs. Data on publishers, social media and AI.

Microsoft hires ex-Biden administration lawyer Lisa Monaco as president of global affairs and promotes ex-Trump official C.J. Mahoney to general counsel (Ina Fried/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/05/30/microsoft-policy-promotes-trump-official…

Exclusive: Microsoft promotes former Trump official, hires ex-Biden lawyer
C.J. Mahoney and Lisa Monaco join the company's policy and legal leadership.

I just love :vim: #vim for its macros 🤩
(vim macro in the #AltText)
#TexLaTeX

New Zealand prime minister Ardern was grappling with whether to go:
“Something had been loosened worldwide,” she says,
with rage everywhere,
public servants being followed and attacked,
as if they were “somehow distinct from being human”.
We all recognise this rage,
but Ardern was at the centre of it,
representing progressive politics, tough Covid measures, empathy, emotion, anti-racism, femaleness;
a symbol of a different time, more rational…

✒️ Scientists have found a way to 'tattoo' tardigrades
... I think there will be a lot of competition for Ig Nobels this year
https://phys.org/news/2025-04-scientists-tattoo-tardigrades.html

Scientists have found a way to 'tattoo' tardigrades
If you haven't heard of a tardigrade before, prepare to be wowed. These clumsy, eight-legged creatures, nicknamed water bears, are about half a millimeter long and can survive practically anything: freezing temperatures, near starvation, high pressure, radiation exposure, outer space and more. Researchers reporting in the journal Nano Letters took advantage of the tardigrade's nearly indestructible nature and gave the critters tiny "tattoos" to test a microfabrication technique to build microsc…

"Pupils in England face lost learning from flooding and extreme heat, study finds"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Climate #ClimateChange

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #EssentialClassics
Max Reger, Tanja Becker-Bender, Konzerthausorchester Berlin & Lothar Zagrosek:
🎵 Romance in G major, Op 50 No 1
#MaxReger #TanjaBeckerBender #KonzerthausorchesterBerlin #LotharZagrosek