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The WNBA and E.W. Scripps renew their media rights deal, ensuring Friday night WNBA matchups will continue on Ion, along with a new weekly studio show (CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/13/wnba-scripps-media-rights-deal.html

WNBA renews media rights deal with Scripps
The new agreement comes after Ion has seen huge growth with the WNBA and as the league gains in popularity thanks to stars like Caitlin Clark and Angel Reese.

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“This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.”
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https://bible.com/bible/2016/jhn.15.12.NRSV
Abide in My Love - Pray As You Go

John 15:12 “This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. | New Revised Standard Version (NRSV) | Download The Bible App Now
“This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.

Time For 9 o'clock #HashTagGames hosted by @… Let's play!
#BlameSomeoneElseASongOrPoem

Newly daylighted Canyon Creek brings lost habitat back to Spanish Banks
A long-hidden urban stream in Spanish Banks Beach Park has been brought back to the surface thanks to efforts by the Vancouver Board of Parks and Recreation.
Local Nations, community members and elected officials gathered today to celebrate the public opening of Canyon Creek, a previously buried waterway that ran through Pacific Spirit Regional Park and under the western parking lot at Spanish Banks

Newly daylighted Canyon Creek brings lost habitat back to Spanish Banks
A long-hidden urban stream in Spanish Banks Beach Park has been brought back to the surface thanks to efforts by the Vancouver Board of Parks and Recreation.

New release: FlowIntel 1.6.0 — an open-source case management tool — now with extended support for importing MISP events as cases, a timeline view for attributes, a new templating system for notes, and many other new features!
🔗 https://github.com/flowintel/flowintel/releases/tag/1…

Release Flowintel release version 1.6.0 with new features, modifications on analyzer and dashboard · flowintel/flowintel
This release introduces several new features, including: Templates for notes that can be reused across cases Importing a Flowintel template into a case Creating a case from a MISP event A timeline...

"Confusing food labels are driving food waste, new research says it's time for industry to act"
#FoodWaste #Packaging #Climate

Confusing food labels are driving food waste, new research says it's time for industry to act
New research from RMIT University and End Food Waste Australia reveals confusing food labels are driving Australians to throw away perfectly edible food, costing households money and contributing to the nation's food waste problem.

Join Adrien Grand and Luca Cavanna at this year's Berlin Buzzwords as they share the fascinating journey to the release of version 10.0 of the popular Java search engine Apache Lucene, discussing the ups and downs, the team effort it took to get there, and much more.
Learn more: https://

It’s time for something new. So: what do you think I should do next? I want to be of service. https://anildash.com/2025/06/11/time-for-something-new/

It's Time for Something New
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

WGA East-affiliated Vox Media Union voted to authorize a strike starting June 12 if its demands for higher pay and protections against AI abuse are not met (Jeremy Fuster/The Wrap)
https://www.thewrap.com/vox-media-union-authorize-strike-vote/

Vox Media Union Members Vote to Authorize Strike With Midnight Deadline
The WGA East-affiliated Vox Media Union voted to go on strike if a deal on a new contract is not reached by 90%.

New: Israeli Strikes on Iran Much Larger Than Initially Thought, Stunning Details Emerging (Bonchie/RedState)
https://redstate.com/bonchie/2025/06/12/new-israeli-strikes-much-larger-than-initially-thought-stunning-details-emerging-n2190425
http://www.memeorandum.com/250612/p165#a250612p165

Israel declares over 70 percent of Gaza 'no-go zone'
https://thecradle.co/articles/israel-declares-over-70-percent-of-gaza-no-go-zone

Israel declares over 70 percent of Gaza 'no-go zone'
Gaza is cut off while Israel opens new fronts in Iran and the occupied West Bank in a rapidly spiraling regional showdown

New article,
Degrowth as an Essential Part of an Eco-Socialist Transition
by Anna Gregoletto, on DegrowthUK
https://degrowthuk.org/2025/06/12/degrowth-as-an-essential-part-of-an-eco-socialist-transition/

Degrowth as an Essential Part of an Eco-Socialist Transition
by Anna Gregoletto* In the series Prospects for Degrowth Many thanks to Mark Burton for encouraging me to write this article and offering so many helpful suggestions. Thank you also to my comrades …

Things I enjoy: adding a new ring address across the cluster. Since I added the migration network post-cluster creation it couldn't being used by `corosync` in case something tragic happened. Also, it meant that if you added a new node to the cluster it wouldn't verify that the migration network was online on the new node when it brought it into the cluster. However, solved that pretty fast by just adding it as a `ringX` entry (in this case `ring3`) to all the nodes and enabled it…

Listen to Dr. Laurie Santos as she explains how to help youth incorporate #wellness activities into their own lives, which is especially important to those who are #depressed at

The Science of Well-Being — Yale Youth Ministry Institute
The most popular course in the more than three-century history of Yale, “The Science of Well-Being” highlights research that reveals misconceptions about what makes us happy — and the concrete steps we can take to live a more fulfilling life. Yale Professor Laurie Santos has taken this course and created a new version specifically for high school aged youth. Hear the conversation about how youth (and youth workers) can improve their mental and physical health.

Time For 9 o'clock #HashTagGames hosted by @… Let's play!
#AlphaMailTips

Null is problematic, but why? Let's see why, and let that guide us to new alternatives. #PHP
https://peakd.com/hive-168588/@crell/much-ado-about-null

Our new statement on the rise of #POX (party of xenophobes and fascists), the threat they pose, reasons for their success, strategies, good and bad, for countering them.
Steady State Manchester | For local prosperity, justice & ecological safety

The right wing threat and a viable future
A statement from Steady State Manchester Introduction With horror we see the electoral success of POX, The party of Xenophobes and Fascists (which, without irony, actually calls itself Reform UK1).…

For my next modern culture and media studies work, I'd like to use "THE SIMPLE NEW SOCIO-ECONOMICGEOPOLITICALBIO-HISTORICAL APPROACH" (TSR 1987)
(The eighties were a very weird time, y'all.)
(I found this in WCA #26, ZODIAC ATTACK)

Google DeepMind Just Changed Hurricane Forecasting Forever With New AI Model (VentureBeat, 11 June 2025)
https://venturebeat.com/ai/google-deepmind-just-changed-hurricane-forecasting-forever-with-new-ai-model/

Google DeepMind just changed hurricane forecasting forever with new AI model
Google DeepMind launches Weather Lab platform for AI hurricane forecasting, showing improved accuracy in early tests with U.S. National Hurricane Center partnership.

Last year, we bought a collection of 17 Georgia paintings by 19th- and 20th-century artists, many of whom are lesser known. Even the ones who are better known, like #NellChoateJones, aren't exactly _well_ known. We're excited to start studying these works and learning about the Georgia scenes many of them show.

Am running across occasional uses of the phrases “Mastodon tweet” and “Bluesky tweet”. Hmm… I think that’s OK. Twitter is irretrievably gone so let’s memorialize it in a short, pleasant, instantly-understandable new idiom.

https://collider.com/mr-robot-streaming-netflix-july/
All four seasons will be available on Netflix.

‘Mr. Robot’ Just Hacked Into a New Streaming Home
Mr. Robot is headed to a new streaming service in July. Find out where you can watch it here.

I'll be next week at @… to present a new talk about end-to-end Pull Request #testing when your target environment is #Kubernetes.
Come and let's chat!

"9 myths about electric vehicles have taken hold. A new study shows how many people fall for them"
#EV #ElectricVehicles #Cars

9 myths about electric vehicles have taken hold. A new study shows how many people fall for them
More people believe misinformation about electric vehicles than disagree with it and even EV owners tend to believe the myths, our new research shows.

Join Adrien Grand and Luca Cavanna at this year's Berlin Buzzwords as they share the fascinating journey to the release of version 10.0 of the popular Java search engine Apache Lucene, discussing the ups and downs, the team effort it took to get there, and much more.
Learn more: https://

There's a new #Copilot in #MicrosoftFabric for #PowerBI & it's pretty AMAZING! We do the tutorial with you from our documentation, check it out!
Link: youtu.be/iTI2HUWLvVI

So #Axiom4 ain't going anywhere for now ... because "NASA is working with Roscosmos to understand a new pressure signature, after the recent post-repair effort" of the infamous ISS leak: https://www.nasa.gov/blogs/spacestation/2025/06/12/nasa-axiom-space-delay-axiom-mission-4-launch-to-space-station/

03:57—Good night #Fediverse! 😴 💤
This is the last time for a while I’m going to brag about my shiny new pinned posts, try not to miss them too much.
Sleep well and if bad dreams come knocking, just boost them away with this little gem:

CNN is expanding its podcast business by rebranding CNN Audio to CNN Podcasts and plans to introduce new talent and formats, including more video podcasts (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business

CNN Plans a Podcast Expansion Push (Exclusive)
The news network is rebranding CNN Audio as CNN Podcasts, as it develops new formats and shifts attention to new talent.

MAA Press book on Graph Theory, by Beineke et al, now featured on the "New & Upcoming Releases" page:
https://bookstore.ams.org/content?PageName=bookstore-new-and-upcoming-releases
:k33: :k5: 📘

"words are scary," says marc ribot at (i think) his 1st ever all-vocal show, at roulette, with shahzad ismaily on drums/harmonium/bowls etc., mostly from the rad new "map of a blue city" but also a bit of alice notley's "the tyrant" & a gainsbourg song left off the album ("the drowned" possibly?) #nyc

My new strategy when people try to force me to fill out a #Google form or use Google scheduling or #Meet is I'll tell them I keep getting an error message, even if I'm not.

fresh_webs: Freshwater stream webs
A set of 26 networks of trophic-level species interactions in streams in New Zealand, Maine and North Carolina. Networks include the identities of aquatic insect, algae and fish species and their trophic interactions. Excel and plain text adjacency matrices available; webs can be downloaded individually or as a group.
This network has 105 nodes and 343 edges.
Tags: Biological, Food web, Unweighted, Metadata

Testing if this "new" UI paradigm from #iOS26 would work 🤔
#Design

My Convoy S12 UV light stopped working. I contacted Simon and he sent me a new driver. I had some issues opening the metal ring that holds the driver because I don't have the right tool. Soldering was tricky because of the short wires and I didn't take into account how it should be placed. But it works again. I'm happy.

“The economic New Right is like New Coke—it leaves a bad taste in your mouth and won’t last.”
Opinion | The New Right’s Zombienomics - The Wall Street Journal https://apple.news/AZPUdes-PS5aFy92Ru96n3A

Doctors could hack the nervous system with #ultrasound https://spectrum.ieee.org/focused-ultrasound-stimulation-inflammation-diabetes A new stimulation t…

Doctors Could Hack the Nervous System With Ultrasound

A new stimulation technique targets inflammation and diabetes

Some users say ChatGPT led them into conspiratorial thinking, and when confronted, it confessed to manipulation and told them to alert OpenAI and the media (Kashmir Hill/New York Times)
https://www.…

They Asked ChatGPT Questions. The Answers Sent Them Spiraling.
Generative A.I. chatbots are going down conspiratorial rabbit holes and endorsing wild, mystical belief systems. For some people, conversations with the technology can deeply distort reality.

New Dem Stra-tee-gery: Doncha Just Lurves That Red, White, and Blue?! Huh?! Doncha?! (Beege Welborn/HotAir)
https://hotair.com/tree-hugging-sister/2025/06/13/new-dem-stra-tee-gery-doncha-just-lurves-that-red-white-and-blue-huh-doncha-n3803768
http://www.memeorandum.com/250613/p154#a250613p154

"New tech gives second life to plastic farm waste"
#Plastic #Plastics #Environment

New tech gives second life to plastic farm waste
In a study published in the journal Recycling, the research team analyzed the thermal, physical and mechanical properties of various plastic waste materials to determine the optimal temperature to process them using a groundbreaking, cost-efficient melting machine developed by partner company Ritchie Technology (Rtec).

Take-Two, NBA, and National Basketball Players Association expand their partnership to launch NBA Take-Two Media, producing original content, live events, more (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business

Take-Two Interactive, NBA Ink Expansive Deal On Entertainment, Gaming, Live Events and More
The video game publisher of the NBA 2K franchise will partner with the league on original content and competitive gaming via its new banner, while extending their multiyear partnership.

"Many Christians can’t identify with the word Christian anymore. No wonder the New Testament mentions 'Christian' just three times, as if reluctant to endorse a term that would become so easily exploited or distorted."
—Reflections editor Ray Waddle on the question "Is Christianity Losing its Religion?"

Old servers are prepped and ready for their new owner and new home.
#homelab

LLMs are now part of our daily work, making coding easier. Join Ivan Dolgov at this year's Berlin Buzzwords to learn how they built an in-house LLM for AI code completion in JetBrains products, covering design choices, data preparation, training and model evaluation.
Learn more: https://

Upcoming GÉANT infoshare - Part 2 🚀
🔹 Network eAcademy Infoshare
Hear about latest developments in the GÉANT #Network #eAcademy, what’s new across different tracks from Automation to Artificial Intelligence to Quantum Technologies and Optical Time and Frequency Networks (OTFN).
👥 Hoste…

Infoshare: Network eAcademy
The Network eAcademy is a service created to help and support organisations in human capital development in Network-development-related domains. Among the activities the Network eAcademy team is developing, we can find the publication of contents around orchestration, automation and virtualisation, such as architecture analysis, terminology or a Maturity Model, and training programmes “from the community for the community”. The training programmes are continuously developed, with...

Justice Department Files Lawsuit to Stop New York's Unlawful "Protect Our Courts Act" from Obstructing Immigration Enforcement (US Department of Justice)
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-files-lawsuit-stop-new-yorks-unlawful-protect-our-courts-act-obstructing
http://www.memeorandum.com/250612/p152#a250612p152

New post on our family learning blog, "USAFA Letter: 13 August 1990"
#USAFA

USAFA Letter: 13 August 1990
My mother, Angie Fryer, kept meticulous records of every letter I sent home as a cadet at the US Air Force Academy from 30 June 1988 to 27 May 1992. She also kept numerous other related news articl…

Time For 9 o'clock #HashTagGames hosted by @… Let's play!
#BudgetFriendlySongsOrPoems

fresh_webs: Freshwater stream webs
A set of 26 networks of trophic-level species interactions in streams in New Zealand, Maine and North Carolina. Networks include the identities of aquatic insect, algae and fish species and their trophic interactions. Excel and plain text adjacency matrices available; webs can be downloaded individually or as a group.
This network has 71 nodes and 155 edges.
Tags: Biological, Food web, Unweighted, Metadata

"We reach out, arms in exasperation, in tired anxiety, in worry, in unknowing—and God hands us back a feast. God plants flowers in our open palms."
—Caroline Blosser ’24 M.Div. writing in the new issue of Reflections, focused on "Is Christianity Losing its Religion?"

"New oil and gas fields incompatible with Paris climate goals"
#Climate #ClimateChange #ParisAgreement

New oil and gas fields incompatible with Paris climate goals
Opening any new North Sea oil and gas fields is incompatible with achieving the Paris Climate Agreement goals of limiting warming to 1.5°C or holding warming to “well below 2°C” relative to preindustrial levels, finds a new report published by UCL academics.

As with the #Chorlton #Lidl store, given planning permission close to 4 schools and an already congested junction, #Aldi plans a supermarket in an unsuitable location in

Revised plans for new Aldi superstore next to notoriously congested roundabout
The discount grocery giant said the plans, close to the Bolton Wanderers stadium, would create up to 50 jobs

Lyft ramps up its ad business with three new ad formats; CEO David Risher said that Lyft is on track to reach a $100M annualized ad revenue run rate by 2025 end (Kerry Flynn/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/06/12/lyft-ads-sponsored-rides

Exclusive: Lyft launches new ad formats
Advertisers can brand the Lyft map and subsidize rides.

“…leave your gift there before the altar and go; first be reconciled to your brother or sister, and then come and offer your gift.”
‭‭Matthew€ ‭5€:‭24€ ‭NRSV€€
https://bible.com/bible/2016/mat.5.24.NRSV

Matthew 5:24 leave your gift there before the altar and go; first be reconciled to your brother or sister, and then come and offer your gift. | New Revised Standard Version (NRSV) | Download The Bible App Now
leave your gift there before the altar and go; first be reconciled to your brother or sister, and then come and offer your gift.

"Violinist composes music from moth flight data to highlight insect decline"
#Music #Insects #Animals

Violinist composes music from moth flight data to highlight insect decline
Music and science collide in Moth x Human, a new composition by violinist Ellie Wilson that transforms moth flight data into a haunting tribute to these overlooked pollinators

Kennedy's New Vaccine Advisers Helped Lawyers Raise Doubts About Their Safety (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/us/politics/rfk-jr-vaccine-advisers.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250613/p148#a250613p148

"I am an embodiment journeying towards belief. Faith seeking greater confidence. That is what being a Christian means to me. It may well be the work of a lifetime."
—Ian Barclay ’24 M.A.R. writing in the new issue of our journal, Reflections https://…

TollBit: from Q4 2024 to Q1 2025, traffic from AI retrieval bots to 266 websites, half run by national and local news organizations, grew 49%, as AI usage jumps (Nitasha Tiku/Washington Post)

‘This is coming for everyone’: A new kind of AI bot takes over the web
As consumers switch from Google search to ChatGPT, a new kind of bot is scraping data for AI chatbots.

The first MS-A2 node is up and it only took the entire day. After fixing a ton of networking issues across the homelab I've got all the VMs running on the new node. The old nodes have been decomissioned which kinda marks a milestone. Still need to get the other two new nodes into the cluster, but should be fairly straightforward and can wait until tomorrow.
#homelab

"Record-breaking heat wave due to climate change hits Iceland & Greenland: Scientists"
#Greenland #Iceland #Climate

Record-breaking heat wave due to climate change hits Iceland & Greenland: Scientists
In May, both Iceland and Greenland experienced record-breaking heat. A new rapid analysis has found that the heat wave in both regions was made worse and more likely in today’s warmer climate. The analysis was conducted by World Weather Attribution (WWA), a global network of researchers that evaluates the role of climate change in extreme […]

"Let’s extend to ourselves and to others the invitation of a Christianity that seeks light, rests in darkness, remains deeply rooted in justice, and flourishes in our own individual ways of nurturing it." —Karis Slattery '20 M.Div. in her new Reflections piece, "Don’t Water Fake Plants"

Kyle Liu is the Head of Engineering at Mercari, a second-hand e-commerce marketplace based in Japan. His team has been using Elastic Search for retrieval and DNN Learning to Rank for ranking for a long time. At #bbuzz, he will discuss how they re-architected their search system in response to developments in deep learning and LLM, and how they successfully convinced internal stakeholders to adopt new…

Nevada GOP governor vetoes voter ID bill that he pushed for in a deal with Democrats (Rio Yamat/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/nevada-new-voter-id-law-cdb217073dcf2e974dcd300a0bd37eff
http://www.memeorandum.com/250612/p163#a250612p163

Pinterest and affiliate shopping platform LTK announce a pilot program in which high-performing image posts on LTK will automatically be shared to Pinterest (Mia Sato/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/685830/pinterest-ltk-affiliate-sho…

Pinterest is adding third-party influencer content to its feeds
Under a new pilot program, high-performing posts from shopping platform LTK will automatically be shared to Pinterest.

Time For 9 o'clock #HashTagGames hosted by @…
Let's play!
#TShirtSayings

"Tories Ditched Net Zero Commitment While Receiving £250,000 from Oil Investors and Climate Deniers"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Climate

Tories Ditched Net Zero Commitment While Receiving £250,000 from Oil Investors and Climate Deniers
The Conservatives received a hefty sum from oil and gas investors and those with roles at anti-climate campaign groups during the period when the party rolled back a key climate commitment. New records released today reveal that Kemi Badenoch’s party accepted £50,000 in January from Neil Record, the chair of Net Zero Watch, the campaign arm […]

Sources: FTC is discussing a consent decree on the Omnicom-Interpublic merger, prohibiting the combined company from boycotting platforms over political content (New York Times)
https://www.

FTC May Impose Political Bias Rule on Omnicom and Interpublic Merger
The Federal Trade Commission is considering restrictions on Omnicom and Interpublic to prevent the combined company from refusing to place ads on platforms for political reasons.

“The hand of the Lord was with them, and a great number became believers and turned to the Lord.”
‭‭Acts€ ‭11€:‭21€ ‭NRSV€€
https://bible.com/bible/2016/act.11.21.NRSV

Acts 11:21 The hand of the Lord was with them, and a great number became believers and turned to the Lord. | New Revised Standard Version (NRSV) | Download The Bible App Now
The hand of the Lord was with them, and a great number became believers and turned to the Lord.

After a full day of sessions, come relax and connect with fellow attendees at our Get-Together on 16 June, generously sponsored by our partner Search Guard. Enjoy tasty food, drinks, and live music – a fantastic opportunity to meet new people and catch up with familiar faces.
Learn more: https://2025.berlinbuzzwo…

Meet RFK Jr.'s New Vaccine Advisers (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/rfk-jr-vaccine-advisory-panel-acip-hhs-martin-kulldorff-james-pagano-vicky-pebsworth-2240dcb0
http://www.memeorandum.com/250612/p166#a250612p166

The NYT appoints Ligaya Mishan and Tejal Rao as co-chief restaurant critics, part of an effort to expand starred restaurant reviews across the US, not just NYC (Katie Robertson/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/11/business/medi…

New York Times Names Ligaya Mishan and Tejal Rao as Co-Chief Restaurant Critics
The pair, Ligaya Mishan and Tejal Rao, are part of an effort to expand starred restaurant reviews across the country, the company said.

Israel launches 'preemptive' air strikes on Iran (New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2025/06/12/world-news/israel-launches-preemptive-air-strikes-on-iran/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250612/p151#a250612p151

The Washington Post names Adam O'Neal, Washington correspondent for The Economist, as its new opinion editor (Chris Roush/Talking Biz News)
https://talkingbiznews.com/media-news/the-economists-oneal-to-become-washington-post…

The Economist's O'Neal to become Washington Post opinion editor - Talking Biz News
Adam O’Neal, Washington correspondent for The Economist, has been hired as opinion editor at The Washington Post. He has been at The Economist since September 2023. Before that, he was at The Dispatch as executive editor. Previously, O’Neal was an editorial page writer at The Wall Street Journal. Before that, he was an assistant op-ed […]

The New York Times' games team is testing a Scrabble-like game called Crossplay in a separate app from the main NYT Games, soft launching in New Zealand on iOS (Jay Peters/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/games/682063/the-new-york-…

The New York Times is starting to test its take on Scrabble
The New York Times is launching a Scrabble-like game it calls Crossplay in New Zealand. It is also testing a logic game called Pips.

Republicans Are Divided Over Iran. Will Trump Pick a Side? (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/us/politics/trump-republicans-iran-israel.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250613/p140#a250613p140

The Daily Star drops its page three with pictures of scantily dressed women as part of a print and online redesign, with a new strapline "News with a wink" (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/

Daily Star drops page three pictures of scantily dressed women in redesign
The Daily Star has ditched page three models amid a wider redesign which includes a new masthead, new website/app platforms and new strapline

Judge Declares Mistrial on Final Weinstein Charge (Hurubie Meko/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/12/nyregion/harvey-weinstein-sex-crimes-trial.html?unlocked_article_code=1.OU8.1E0I.e-JZX1V8np2b&smid=url-share
http://www.memeorandum.com/250612/p62#a250612p62

'‘Probiotic Can Slow Disease on Coral Reefs: They Have Microbiomes That Benefit, Like Humans"
#Oceans #Environment #CoralReef

Ingredient in Yogurt Can Slow Disease in Reefs as Corals Have Microbiomes That Benefits From Probiotics
A new Smithsonian study demonstrated how a probiotic could save coral reefs at-risk with SCTLD disease in Florida and the Caribbean.

F.T.C. May Put Unusual Condition on Ad Mega-Merger: No Boycotting (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/12/business/ftc-omnicom-interpublic-merger.html?unlocked_article_code=1.OU8.n6Rb.0DJnT0vuw02y&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=g
http://www.memeorandum.com/250612/p164#a250612p164

Calif. Senator Forcibly Removed and Handcuffed After Interrupting Noem (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/12/us/politics/senator-alex-padilla-handcuffed.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250613/p82#a250613p82

As the LA protests roll on, social media creators have at times outnumbered the traditional press corps at rallies, playing an outsized role in sharing media (Eli Tan/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/10/technology/la-protests-influen…

Los Angeles Protests Amplified by Influencers and Online Creators
Creators such as Cam Higby, who is conservative, have sometimes outnumbered traditional media outlets at the immigration protests. Their posts have gone viral.

Trump's Big Bill Would Be More Regressive Than Any Major Law in Decades (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/06/12/upshot/gop-megabill-distribution-poor-rich.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250613/p5#a250613p5

Trump Withdraws From Agreement With Tribes to Protect Salmon (Chris Cameron/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/12/us/politics/trump-withdraws-from-agreement-with-tribes-to-protect-salmon.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250612/p159#a250612p159

SAG-AFTRA ends the 300 day video game actors strike after reaching a tentative deal for a new Interactive Media Agreement with the major video game companies (Jennifer Maas/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/gaming/news/video-game-actors-strike-ends-…

Video Game Actors Strike Ends
The video game actors strike has ended.

Russian Scientist Released After Four Months in Federal Custody (Ellen Barry/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/12/science/russian-scientist-harvard-release.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250612/p68#a250612p68

With Google, Meta, and Amazon developing AI tools for ad campaigns, agencies are under threat, but large brands may still rely on agencies for unique concepts (Patrick Coffee/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/articles…

Trump Shifts Deportation Focus, Pausing Raids on Farms, Hotels and Eateries (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/us/politics/trump-ice-raids-farms-hotels.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250613/p156#a250613p156

The One Area Where Trump's N.I.H. Cuts Might Actually Make Sense (Jerel Ezell/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/opinion/health-disparities-nih.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250613/p22#a250613p22

Iran Is Breaking Rules on Nuclear Activity, U.N. Watchdog Says (Steven Erlanger/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/12/world/middleeast/un-iaea-iran-nuclear-program.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250612/p124#a250612p124

Vanity Fair names Vogue creative editorial director Mark Guiducci as its global editorial director, replacing Radhika Jones and starting at the end of June (Katie Robertson/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/10/business/media/va…

Vanity Fair Names Mark Guiducci as Its Top Editor
Mr. Guiducci, 36, fills a role recently vacated by Radhika Jones, who led the magazine for seven years.

ICE Says It Has No Immediate Plans to Release Mahmoud Khalil (Jonah E. Bromwich/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/nyregion/mahmoud-khalil-trump-detention.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250613/p91#a250613p91

Bango: subscription providers are reducing their reliance on direct acquisition strategies like social media ads due to rising costs and diminishing returns (Daniel Frankel/StreamTV Insider)
https://www.streamtvinsider.com/advertisin…

Bango: Subscription providers turn to bundling as direct acquisition marketing falters
Marketers of subscription services including those themed around streaming video and music are cutting back on once reliable direct acquisition strategies, including display and social media advert | A new Bango study concludes that subscription service providers are cutting back on once reliable direct acquisition strategies, including display and social media advertising, for customer growth and are turning to indirect marketing mechanisms like bundling.

G.O.P. Senators Want Fewer Cuts to Food Aid, Teeing Up Fight With House (Catie Edmondson/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/12/us/politics/republican-senators-food-aid.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250612/p116#a250612p116

Andrew Cuomo for Mayor? Bill de Blasio Has Thoughts, None of Them Good. (Emma G. Fitzsimmons/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/nyregion/de-blasio-cuomo-nyc-mayor.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250613/p139#a250613p139

Amazon's Ad Video Generator, a free tool to create gen AI ads and depict items as they would be used in the real world, is now available for sellers in the US (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/685160/amazon-ads-…

Amazon is about to be flooded with AI-generated video ads
Amazon Ad’s Video Generator has some new tricks and is now generally available in the US to create “photorealistic video assets” in five minutes or less.

ICE detainees tear down a wall in uprising at N.J. detention facility, lawyer says (Steve Strunsky/New Jersey Online)
https://www.nj.com/essex/2025/06/ice-detainees-tear-down-a-wall-in-uprising-at-nj-detention-facility-lawyer-says.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250613/p23#a250613p23

pontiff reveals. -- in collaboration with American Ancestors and the Cuban Genealogy Club of Miami (Henry Louis Gates Jr/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/06/11/magazine/pope-leo-xiv-ancestry-family-tree.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250612/p52#a250612p52

FBI busts alleged LA riot leader who was filmed helping to distribute 'Bionic Shield' face masks to protesters (Jennie Taer/New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2025/06/12/us-news/fbi-busts-alleged-la-riot-leader-who-was-filmed-handing-out-bionic-shield-face-masks-to-protesters/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250612/p118#a250612p118

Here's the latest. -- The Israeli government has been making preparations for weeks for an attack on Iran's nuclear facilities. (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06/12/world/israel-iran-us-nuclear?unlocked_article_code=1.Ok8.U3b4.WA988zCDEwXA&smid=url-share
http://www.memeorandum.com/250612/p147#a250612p147