
2025-06-13 12:39:07
Goodness, does this mean we can expect a strongly-worded letter next? https://mastodon.social/@EndIsraeliApartheid/114675920702558762
Goodness, does this mean we can expect a strongly-worded letter next? https://mastodon.social/@EndIsraeliApartheid/114675920702558762
Sources: AWS is launching a marketplace for AI agents, with Anthropic as one of its partners, at the AWS Summit in NYC next week (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/10/aws-is-launching-an-ai-ag…
Our series,
Prospects for Degrowth
Do add your thoughts, either picking up the overview in the first article, or raising further issues.
More to come next week.
https://degrowthuk.org/prospects-for-degrowth/
@… Do you want to catch the frisbee for #ListeningClub next week?
Engineering teams often get stuck striving for perfection, not out of laziness, but due to an insatiable desire to improve. Join Tim Schmolka next week at Berlin Buzzwords to discover how teams can overcome perfectionism. He will discuss the significance of setting clear boundaries, balancing quality with timely delivery, and focusing on what truly matters.
Learn more:
It's Robert Reich.
The final vote on the fate of public broadcasting is happening NEXT WEEK.
Donald Trump is demanding that Congress ❌ claw back a whopping $1.1 billion from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the agency that funds public radio and television.
Trump is hell-bent on taking away these funds as part of his authoritarian assault on the free press.
He can only afford to lose 3 Republican senators.
4 have publicly said they oppose the defun…
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!
I didn't expect a future where self-driving electric cars would spew nazi rants like somebody's crazy uncle.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/cars/2025/07/10/elon-musk-grok-tesla-vehicles/84535654007/
https://ko-fi.com/roseofregulus/goal?g=0
“This was a Last-minute discovery from my office. It turns out I am no longer approved to take over time on next week's holiday which would've netted me an extra $500. Money I was planning to use immediately to pay down a credit …
Sigh, the client wants to add more items to the release for next week and they don't even have it tested. This time around I am putting a flag on each and every program they want to add so when (not if) they pull it Friday afternoon a quick search & delete will nuke those modules. I am not going to be popular in a bit when I do the pre-release walkthrough for the release schedule in a few minutes.
Nine biggest questions hovering around NFL's first wave of mandatory minicamps https://www.nfl.com/news/nine-biggest-questions-hovering-around-nfl-s-first-wave-of-mandatory-minicamps
Trump cyber nominees expected to testify next week, people familiar say
https://www.nextgov.com/people/2025/05/trump-cyber-nominees-expected-testify-next-week-people-familiar-say/405644/
hi yall! weird and arty movies used to be a massive part of my psyche for a brief, intense time when i was younger. but then i had a particularly bad depressive slump that killed the habit. now i wanna get back into it. each day for the next week, im gonna watch one Andrei Tarkovsky film (i found a free collection on archive.org!) and post my initial reaction afterward. i saw one of his movies, Stalker, when i was about 15, and while i liked it, i know i was too young and stupid to actually …
It's only a week away until the moving truck arrives and puts an end to our 16 years in Caledon. Today, I'm taking some time to squeeze in 9 holes of golf with my brother, who has a cottage close to our new home. My car is packed with 11 different plants that we split from our current garden, over 70 individual plants for the new house. Two planters will have to wait for the next trip.
#Moving #Gardening
Been out today trying to get my phone battery replaced.
Three phone repair places said they couldn't do it today and would have to order the battery in, and the last made a call and said they'd have a battery this evening if I came back.
So I did come back and they did have the battery. Went to the pub for half an hour while they changed it only to come back and find them apologizing that their heat-plate is apparently broken since yesterday so they can't soften the glue to open the screen.
Annoying how sealed-in batteries are these days. Could change it myself if I had a heat plate to soften the glue and open the screen.
Oh well. They'll call me back when the heat plate is fixed next week.
Given how hot the battery gets now and how hot the weather is, it's a bit surprising the glue isn't softened all on it's own 😆
Trump promises 'major statement' on Russia, reveals new NATO weapons deal for Ukraine: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/11/trump-promises-major-statement-on.html
Sources: OpenAI plans to launch an open-weight model as soon as next week on Hugging Face and other platforms, its first open-weight release since GPT-2 in 2019 (Tom Warren/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/notepad-microsoft
Ah, yes. Just to add more swastika to the swastikars.
https://mstdn.social/@TechCrunch/114829392269534794
The House Rules Committee advances a bill that would claw back $1.1B in funding for public broadcasting, including $535M for CPB, over the next two fiscal years (Ted Johnson/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/06/pbs-npr-funding-rescinded-congress-12364…
Had a fun conversation on this week's Mac Power Users with @… and @…, ranging from punched card computing in the '70s through developing for NeXT in the '90s to considering how to tastefully use (and avoid overuse) Liquid …
Cool that @… got mentioned in the "Pick of the week!" section of this "Smashing Security" podcast https://www.smashingsecurity.com/423-opera
Katrina scoops LHVA award in Volunteers’ Week https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/about/news/katrina-scoops-lhva-award-in-volunteers-week/
Raiders mailbag: Will OL or DL be better unit next season? https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/raiders/raiders-mailbag-will-ol-or-dl-be-better-unit-next-season-3382127/
From Translink
Partial closures on Pattullo Bridge coming next week
Bridge closed northbound for one night and southbound for two nights
The Pattullo Bridge will be partially closed to traffic three nights in a row next week so crews can perform scheduled maintenance work.
Monday June 9 9pm to 5am closed Northbound
Tuesday June 10 9pm to 5am closed
Southbound
Wednesday June 11 9pm to 5am closed Southbound
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https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058419143/important-news
TL;DR - Boards.ie is losing traffic cause of Google’s algorithm and are now unsustainable.
They are re-enabling ads and will be launching paid membership next week. They need 2,000 paying members in order …
Senate Judiciary eyes next week for votes on two contentious nominees (Hailey Fuchs/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/07/08/congress/panel-sets-vote-for-two-contentious-judicial-noms-00443022
http://www.memeorandum.com/250708/p127#a250708p127
2025 Commanders game-by-game predictions: Next stop Super Bowl? https://www.foxsports.com/stories/nfl/predicting-washington-commanders-2025-season-game-by-game
Meta has completed a deal to acquire AI voice technology startup PlayAI, and the "entire PlayAI team" is set to join Meta next week, per an internal memo (Kurt Wagner/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
I will try to make it - it is today:
https://mas.wrong.tools/@crystalvisits/114593299739628516
Ok auf die Frage, "oh, so you're unavailable in the evenings next week?" im Online- Meeting zu antworten "no, I won't be available at all" war jetzt nicht besonders höflich, aber immerhin deutlich.
I wish it was coming. They will simply show it in a video.
https://mastodon.online/@9to5Mac/114627287109071234
Sam Altman announces another delay for OpenAI's open-weight model, for further safety testing; the model was slated to be released next week (Maxwell Zeff/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/11/openai-delays-the-release-of-its-open-m…
In three of the four weeks since WWDC, the conversion rate for OmniFocus on visionOS has been above 71%. (In the other week it was still above 62%, so the overall conversion rate for the full period is above 70%.)
I'm not suggesting everyone run out and make visionOS apps today: the total market size is still small. But it's a good sign for customer enthusiasm on the platform.
(As a company who specialized in building NeXT apps, we're no strangers to tiny markets with…
It looks like spring might finally be here permanently. The forecast for snow has fallen apart and no frost is expected for the next week. Leaves are also budding on the trees this week.
Well that was an hour. I'm not sure if they'll manage to squeeze any #TOTP in next week between showing the sportsball, the other sportsball, or possibly the other other sportsball, but let's see what happens.
For the past week, every day at about 4pm, my nose blocks up and gets itchy… and stays that way until the next day 🤔
next week
sleek peak
Aaron Rodgers to sign with Steelers, attend minicamp next week: Sources https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6231027/2025/06/05/aaron-rodgers-steelers-nfl-free-agency/
So @… announced an upgrade for #ActionText with "No #Trix".
2025 Commanders game-by-game predictions: Next stop Super Bowl? https://www.foxsports.com/stories/nfl/predicting-washington-commanders-2025-season-game-by-game
Jeffries to meet with Mamdani next week after withholding endorsement (David Zimmermann/Washington Examiner)
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/campaigns/state/3464453/hakeem-jeffries-meet-mamdani-withholding-endorsement/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250707/p98#a250707p98
A Hollywood producer calls a friend, another producer on the phone.
"Hello?" his friend answers.
"Hi!" says the man. "This is Bob, how are you doing?"
"Oh," says the friend, "I'm doing great! I just sold a screenplay
for two hundred thousand dollars. I've started a novel adaptation and the
studio advanced me fifty thousand dollars on it. I also have a television
series coming on next week, and everyone …
Nations urged to make UN summit a 'turning point' for oceans #environment
In the past week I have sent emails to and called 3 of my local (city & state) electeds regarding active legislation. I have not heard back from a single one of them.
I don't feel particularly represented right now. You're going to have to EARN my vote in the next election.
Father's day was a good reminder that the most important people in my life are my partner and my kids. My partner and I are doing a sugar fast next week, so I'm gonna throw on a dopamine fast as well.
See y'all next week. (Keep me honest ;)
Happy #FathersDay to all who celebrate.
OpenAI debuts o3-pro for ChatGPT Pro and Team users and in the API, costing $20/1M input and $80/1M output tokens; Enterprise and Edu will get access next week (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/10/open
Super well done fediverse! Will post my next Greenland video this evening ...
Onwards to the next goal then ...
#fediverse
If we get to the €35000 target this week, I promise to post a couple of new #Greenland #science vids on my @tilvids channel. @icesheets_climate
Who else is in? 8 days to go.
#bigTech derisory) amount of EUR 75,000 to develop the opensource #fediverse competitor app to Youtube. Maybe chuck 'em a few euros if you think it useful?
https://support.joinpeertube.org/en/
Jagmeet Singh deserved a lot better than he got from Canada considering what he endured.
"Singh told reporters in April that police had advised him in the winter of 2023 that his life could be in danger. They did not tell him who was behind the threat but he said the implication was that it was a foreign government.
He said he stayed in his basement, avoided windows and considered quitting politics over fears about his family’s safety. He decided to carry on but was forced to lead the NDP for a period under police protection.”
I hope Carney brings this up with Modi next week, but now with the tragedy of the air crash…
#canPoli #CdnPoli #elxn45 #NDP #India #Modi #G7
https://globalnews.ca/news/11229198/jagmeet-singh-indian-agent-surveillance/
It's only Thursday morning and I've already had what's probably the most intense and productive week of writing since the home-stretch of my dissertation almost 15 years ago.
I basically wrote the entire first draft - and not a super drafty draft, at that - of what I'm thinking will be the second chapter in my next book.
I'm feeling great.
#AmWriting
Momentan halte ich das für ein Gerücht, aber sollte es sich als wahr herausstellen, chapeau!
https://kyivindependent.com/ukraine-war-latest-ukraine-attacks-elite-russian-unit-base-nearly-7-000k…
we’ve been home for about six weeks and are getting the travel itch again so we’re looking at apartments in paris for a month or so next spring, maybe also finally get to puglia for a week or two, also need to spend a few weeks in stockholm with the grandkids and want to tuck a visit to helsinki (on the baltic queen!) into that, so … a couple months? i’m not sure i want to be away that long 🤔.
'Coalition of the willing' for Ukraine to meet in UK on July 10, Politico reports: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/05/coalition-of-the-willing-for.html
Had a meeting scheduled on Tuesday, been kicked to the next day all week. Sat down this morning expecting it at 10:30, now been moved to... 10am Saturday?
Dear reader, 10am on Saturdays is not a good time for me to do things.
@… @… Did I say next year I meant next week
Today we're taking an (unplanned) break from streaming, but we'll be back next week with a new guest and a really fun topic!
Stay tuned
Our movers come next week to collect our stuff, maybe we'll see it in 3 mo on the other side
#DIAMAS project final ouput before next week's conference:
DIAMOND OPEN ACCESS RECOMMENDATIONS AND GUIDELINES FOR INSTITUTIONS, FUNDERS, SPONSORS, DONORS, AND POLICYMAKERS. #DiamondOA
…
Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories: ‘Israel commits crimes like it breathes. It must be stopped’ | #ELPAÍS English
A potentially mutating bat virus has some scientists worried about the next pandemic | The Week
https://theweek.com/science/mutating-bat-virus-pandemic
Excited to be travelling to Paris next week (train obviously) to attend the Sunbelt conference of the International Network of Social Network Analysis
It's my first Sunbelt since 2019 and I'm really looking forward to connecting with people and learning about latest research
#Sunbelt2025
My adult daughter has moved back home for a while before she makes her next move. It's been great getting to know her and experience her life with both of us being adults.
And to see all the ways I've influenced her life. I remember her mentioning how I disliked DRM back when she was young and she gets it now.
Last week when I told her I was going to (another) protest she was concerned and told me "Not to die" so I had to respond...
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April 30th will be 3 years that I've been with @…. While the dating anniversary is superseded by the engagement anniversary, it is still quite amazing to look back on the last 3 years. What a wild ride and I am excited to celebrate the day with him in-person next week!
EXPOSURE THERAPY FOR INTERNET ADDICTED DEBATE PEOPLE
1. strap them to a chair, show them a mild take they disagree with by someone who's otherwise 99% aligned with their goals
2. watch them thrash angrily, unable to crash out on their socials, for the next 4 days
3. they settle, and think about this reaction after a week of being stuck there. they sheepishly set it aside in favor of teamwork
4. repeat with bigger and bigger issues until they have reasonable expec…
A wish granting god baby, granting Conrad's wishes in service of the Rani, turns London into a misogynist utopia and The Doctor into a good husband and insurance worker.
Hard to say why misogynists are so keen on the American 50s. Perhaps because it was before blacks had the vote and women could do banking.
And if anyone doubts this ridiculous tale, their table stops working and their family might call the doubt police, so they soon learn not to. All very oppressive and subversive.
Ruby manages to doubt anyway. And all the disabled people who simply never enter into Conrad's mind. Nice touch that. Great scene in the tent city filled with the dispossessed. They don't seem to have actually done anything so far but maybe they'll get more useful in part two.
Conrad is on TV telling a story about a man named Doctor Who.
Giant dinosaur skeletons walk the city, stepping over sky scrapers, and a bone palace towers above the city. Because I guess Conrad wishes for it to be so in order to give the Rani somewhere to live.
The palace is beautiful and Gothic.
But doubt is seeping in. Rogue is back, on the TV in hell, telling the Doctor that tables don't work like that. So he investigates. Gets himself reported to the doubt police who take him and Belinda to the bone palace.
The Rani's split from Miss Flood gives the pair of them a good chemistry. Queen and her maid of honour. Seems like Mrs Flood is likely to be the Rani's downfall. She doesn't like being told to make a sandwich.
A lot of exposition going on, but they at least put a hat on it: "Isn't just exposition, I need you to doubt"
So that's the reason for the strange wishes: To make the doctor have doubts so severe that the reality collapses, and Rani can rescue Omega. Omega is the dude in a Mask from the first 3 doctors episode, who gave the timelords time travel and got trapped in the underworld in the process. Timelords forgot him and never mounted a rescue, but presumably Rani is now hoping he'll bring back Galifrey.
And with London collapsing into the underworld and the doctor falling from the sky, we get the episode break and have to wait until next week.
That's not a cliff hanger, that an already-falling-from-the-cliff hanger.
Poppy really is his daughter he's shouting as he falls. And you know what that means?
🤨🤔
Back in Space Babies, the worst episode of the Nchuti seasons, that space baby asked if he was her parents and he said he wished that he was their parents.
That wish has been granted somehow?
Is this space baby Susan's mother? They have very different skin tones, but that doesn't matter much in a regenerating species.
Never have found out much about The Doctor's child. When he traveled with his granddaughter everyone assumed he'd met his own kid, the grandchild's parent.
But that doesn't have to be true for a time traveler. Maybe he met the granddaughter before he met his own kid, and maybe his own kid was just wished into his family line 60 years later (or billions of years in his timeline I guess).
Pretty fun episode but not sure it makes much sense. Why doesn't the Rani just wish for Omega to be back instead of all this doubt and underworld bollocks?
Last one next week. Super long episode. Hope it's all cleared up. Good chance we'll meet Susan again I think. And maybe see Omega's mask once more.
I gave in to temptation and decided to watch a couple of Murderbot episodes.
Being a responsible person I resolved to ration the rest out over the next 3 weeks. This would ensure that I could keep watching a couple of episodes every week as the final 3 episodes were released.
Great plan. In theory. But what did I do? I binged all of the 7 available episodes tonight!
☠️📺🤖🤦♀️
#Murderbot
Holy cow! Diego Luna of #StarWars #Andor is gonna guest host ABC's #JimmyKimmelLive all next week!
▶️ Trump Gives Iran “Ultimate Ultimatum,” White People Explain Juneteenth & Jimmy …
Today I cycled 25km (but 750 elevation difference uphill) from Rohrbach to Wenigzell, where I'll spend the next week on a fitness training program focusing on (against?) back pain, mostly paid for by my health insurance.
In the past week I have sent emails to and called 3 of my local (city & state) electeds regarding active legislation. I have not heard back from a single one of them.
I don't feel particularly represented right now. You're going to have to EARN my vote in the next election.
Friday Links 25-08
Pocket is a big part of how I collect the links for the Friday Links. Sadly, Mozilla has decided to shut Pocket down. My plan is to migrate to Readwise Reader, which seems to be a reasonable replacement. I am now migrating some of my helper scripts to make the change easier. You will see next week if I will be successful. :-)
Well that was glorious in places, and gruesome in others. Well done to everyone who stuck with #TOTP for the last 3½ hours.
It's Christmas 1997 next week. Get your crackers ready. In the meantime have a great bank holiday weekend and enjoy your week.
Former MSNBC host Joy Reid plans to launch The Joy Reid Show, a new video podcast, on June 9, streaming on YouTube and other major podcast platforms (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/…
There’s no rain in the forecast for Flin Flon, Manitoba over the next week as crews there fight a wildfire that’s raging nearby.
Temperatures throughout the weekend are expecting to range from the low to high 20s, before cooling off.
Thousands have evacuated the northwestern Manitoba city, including municipal government officials and health-care professionals.
U.S. plans nuclear talks with Iran in Oslo next week (Barak Ravid/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/07/03/iran-nuclear-talks-witkoff-meeting
http://www.memeorandum.com/250703/p59#a250703p59
Last week of this school term starts today for me. It feels good to be able to relax a little. All of the major assignments and projects are done and turned in. The best part is that I'm at the halfway point now, and almost completely done with GE requirements. Next term I get two computer science courses for the first time since starting on this journey.
#Wordle 1,465 4/6*
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WordleBot
Skill 84/99
Luck 50/99
It's interesting, the paths that lead you to the solution. Except for the bot, following an algorithm and knowing all the possible words as it goes, even those picking the same starting word follow different paths to the answer. I suspect I'd follow a different path next week from what I did today even if I used the same starting word.
So, I have been working on a video game for a while now, I will send random works from it around with the hashtag #GardenGame from now on, I will try to do so in as regular a basis as possible, so for today you get some plants. I will try to give something better next week
Pic 6: Takeaways from final Cowboys OTA practice https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/pic-6-takeaways-from-final-cowboys-ota-practice
Microsoft says it is testing a new aggregated gaming library in the Xbox PC app for Windows 11 with Xbox Insiders, integrating "leading PC storefronts" (Jez Corden/Windows Central)
https://www.windowscentral.com/gaming/pc-g
Colts QB Anthony Richardson to miss minicamp after suffering shoulder injury https://www.nfl.com/news/colts-qb-anthony-richardson-to-miss-minicamp-after-suffering-shoulder-injury
Happy , today I deployed a #Forgejo instance to manage my private code projects. I won't be using #Github anymore for my stuff, only to contribute to 3rd party projects.
I still have some pending work to configure the CI workers, but I'll leave that for next week.
Along the way I've learnt some stuff about #OpenTofu and networking. Enough to know that I still prefer to be on the dev side of the "devops" .
"Nations urged to make UN summit a 'turning point' for oceans"
#UN #UnitedNations #Oceans #Climate
The Fordham University
Tri-State Tick Risk Index for the week of June 27, is at the highest it can be:
a 10 out of 10.
What’s listed next to that score is the following:
"If you’re thinking of taking a hike, consider going to a movie instead."
h…
Pic 6: Takeaways from final Cowboys OTA practice https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/pic-6-takeaways-from-final-cowboys-ota-practice
Sorry, don't think I can take any more. See you next week! #TOTP
Filing: neobank Chime plans to sell 26M shares in its IPO at $24 to $26, giving it a valuation between $10.3B and $11.1B; its two co-founders own 4% to 5% each (Cory Weinberg/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/chime-sets-ipo-…
Raiders mailbag: Will team sign veteran wide receiver before camp? https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/raiders/raiders-mailbag-will-team-sign-veteran-wide-receiver-before-camp-3379463/
For the last four weeks north west England has been bathed in non-stop sunshine. It's been terrible for farmers, gardeners, and the countryside generally, but beautiful weather to just be out and about in.
Anyway, the rains have finally arrived and according to the forecast it's going to be pretty much non-stop rainfall for the next week or so.
Guess whose holiday in the Lake District starts today ...
(Pah, I have tons of wet weather clothes, it'll be fine!)
The House will vote next week on a resolution “condemning the violent June 2025 riots in Los Angeles, California,”
sponsored by California GOP Rep. Young Kim.
Protests against sweeping immigration raids, deportations and detentions swelled in the Democratic stronghold earlier this month amid Donald Trump’s broader immigration crackdown.
Trump deployed Marines and the National Guard in a move harshly criticized by Democrats and resulting in a lawsuit from the state of Calif…
The white flowers in the new “alt-grass” have started to pop up in the front of the driveway (bottom right) and middle. Still patchy bits but nbd. And the taller stuff is now shading/protecting/cooling the smaller.
The front (bottom) that we seeded a few weeks after the initial planting is growing in nicely.
In a few weeks maybe we will get some poppies in the oldest areas.
Love this stuff!
We can start to walk on the older now, gently. Feels nice barefoot. Down to watering once a day, morning, unless it is over 30°C.
Intending to get more slate slabs next week, so I’ll put in a fourth step stone and probably move the one on the left back a few inches. I’ll try to be careful so I can transplant the grass to some of the patchy areas.
That will also be a first try at backing the trailer over the hump onto the new paths with a lot of weight.
#yard #diy #grass #noconcrete #diy #bloomscrolling
Senate Democrats are increasingly concerned that President Donald Trump is considering striking Iran without seeking authorization from Congress
— or even filling them in on his plans.
Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Virginia) is mounting a last-ditch push to force a vote as soon as next week
to restrain Trump from attacking Iran without Congress’s approval.
Other Senate Democrats say the White House has not briefed them on its plans for a potential strike.
And some are warn…
The EU says Apple and Meta will not face sanctions immediately after their 60 day DMA grace period ends on June 26, following €500M and €200M fines in April (Peggy Corlin/Euronews)
https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2025/06…