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Read this shocking story about what the US has become and how ordinary travellers are treated.
https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/how-my-reporting-on-the-columbia-protests-led-to-my-deportation

How My Reporting on the Columbia Protests Led to My Deportation
Alistair Kitchen on being detained at Los Angeles International Airport and sent back to Australia because of his reporting on the protests at Columbia University criticizing Israel’s actions in Gaza.

ComiXology veterans David Steinberger and Chip Mosher unveil Neon Ichiban, a digital comic book store to rival Amazon, launching next month after raising $7M (George Gene Gustines/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/19/business/…

New Digital Comics Store Takes Aim at Amazon
Two veterans of Comixology, a site that the e-commerce colossus bought in 2014, are now starting a rival to compete with it.

Fascinating early internet stories
I’m not an Apple fan boy but, in the midst of reading Apple in China, reading the story of this video and watching it is really something. https://open.substack.com/pub/scottknaster/p/how-the-lost-mac-intro-video-was…

How the “lost” Mac intro video was found in my living room
2005

Seems a part of what @… warns of...
SLASHDOT: Silicon Valley Execs Join the Army As Officers
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/06/

Silicon Valley Execs Join the Army As Officers - Slashdot
The U.S. Army Reserve has directly commissioned four top Silicon Valley executives as lieutenant colonels under a new initiative, Detachment 201, aimed at accelerating tech integration into military operations. While these part-time roles are intended to bring private-sector innovation to defense mo...

Evolutionary models for the Very Massive Stars in the R136 cluster of 30 Doradus in the Large Magellanic Cloud
Z. Keszthelyi, S. A. Brands, A. de Koter, N. Langer, J. Puls
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.15230

Evolutionary models for the Very Massive Stars in the R136 cluster of 30 Doradus in the Large Magellanic Cloud
The cluster R136 in the LMC contains a population of stars in excess of 100 M$_\odot$, including R136a1, the most massive star known. Very Massive Stars (VMSs) play an influential role in feedback processes and may potentially produce exotic supernova types and black holes of tens of solar masses. The evolutionary history and final fate of the three most luminous stars, R136a1, R136a2, and R136a3, has been a puzzling issue. We aim to resolve this by rotating single-star MESA models. We produce …

Another shoe has dropped in the Michael Tait story.
There's always another shoe.
https://julieroys.com/woman-accuses-michael-tait-drugging-her-watching-newsboys-tour-manager-covered-up/

Woman Accuses Michael Tait of Drugging Her and Watching While She Was Raped; Says Newsboys Tour Manager Covered It Up
After singer Michael Tait admitted he has preyed on other men, a woman who worked with the Newsboys says she was raped while Tait watched.

I nearly missed the fact it's been a year since I translated @… Meta in Myanmar series to Polish.
A year later, I can confidently say that series radicalized me quite a bit.
I've hated Meta products for a while, so not much has changed in that department.
However, re-reading the story of Rohingya ethnic cleansing over and over again made me grow plenty of sheer anger within me.
Anger over general injustice in the world and stuff.
My third 'era' of photography, involving documenting local activism, with particular attention to oppressed or marginalized groups (tenants, Palestinians, Belarusians - to name just a few) wouldn't have happened if I hadn't had my moment of disillusionment about the whole system we live in.
All of that because I started noticing familiar patterns I haven't been aware before. All stories that involve oppression, genocide, ethnic cleansing or any other kind of systemic cruelty started rhyming to me. Only the context and the environment kept changing.
Literally everything about my current life has changed around April 2024 and only now I'm ready to take a look at that.
Anyway. To all of you who want to read that once again:
Full series in Polish:
https://blog.lukaszwojcik.net/pl/meta-w-mjanmie/
Web Archive copy of the above:
https://archive.org/details/meta-w-mjanmie-pl
Original in English:
https://erinkissane.com/meta-in-myanmar-full-series

The MUSE view of the Sculptor galaxy: survey overview and the planetary nebulae luminosity function
E. Congiu, F. Scheuermann, K. Kreckel, A. Leroy, E. Emsellem, F. Belfiore, J. Hartke, G. Anand, O. V. Egorov, B. Groves, T. Kravtsov, D. Thilker, C. Tovo, F. Bigiel, G. A. Blanc, A. D. Bolatto, S. A. Cronin, D. A. Dale, R. McClain, J. E. M\'endez-Delgado, E. K. Oakes, R. S. Klessen, E. Schinnerer, T. G. Williams

The MUSE view of the Sculptor galaxy: survey overview and the planetary nebulae luminosity function
NGC 253, the Sculptor galaxy, is the southern, massive, star-forming disk galaxy closest to the Milky Way. In this work, we present a new 103-pointing MUSE mosaic of this galaxy covering the majority of its star-forming disk up to 0.75xR25. With an area of ~20x5 arcmin2 (~20x5 kpc2, projected) and a physical resolution of ~15 pc, this mosaic constitutes one of the largest, highest physical resolution integral field spectroscopy surveys of any star-forming galaxy to date. Here, we exploit the mo…

Fears of racial profiling rise as Border Patrol conducts ‘roving patrols,’ and detain U.S. citizens
video: “These guys, literally based off of skin color! My homie was born here!” The friend said Gavidia was being questioned “just because of the way he looks.”
U.S. Border Patrol Sector Chief Greg Bovino,
who oversaw raids that included picking people up at Home Depot
and stopping them on the highway,
has emerged as a key figure in L.A.
He stood alongside…

Fears of racial profiling rise as Border Patrol conducts 'roving patrols,' detains U.S. citizens
Border Patrol agents on 'roving patrol' arrest U.S. citizen on assault charges. Fear of widespread racial profiling gains momentum as Home Depots and car washes raided.

Magnetic Fields in the Pillars of Creation
Adwitiya Sarkar, Leslie W. Looney, Marc W. Pound, Zhi-Yun Li, Ian W. Stephens, Manuel Fernandez Lopez, Simon Coude, Zhe-Yu Daniel Lin, Haifeng Yang, Reid Faistl
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14902

Magnetic Fields in the Pillars of Creation
Due to dust grain alignment with magnetic fields, dust polarization observations of far-infrared emission from cold molecular clouds are often used to trace magnetic fields, allowing a probe of the effects of magnetic fields on the star formation process. We present inferred magnetic field maps of the Pillars of Creation region within the larger M16 emission nebula, derived from dust polarization data in the 89 and 154 micron continuum using SOFIA/HAWC+. We derive magnetic field strength estima…