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The C.B.O. estimate is all but certain to inflame debate within the G.O.P. about the spending bill.
The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office said Wednesday that the broad Republican bill to cut taxes and slash some federal programs
👉would add $2.4 trillion to the already soaring national debt over the next decade,
in an analysis that was all but certain to inflame concerns that President Trump’s domestic agenda would lead to excessive government borrowing.
The C.B.O…

Trump’s Policy Bill Would Add $2.4 Trillion to Debt, Budget Office Says
The estimate from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office is all but certain to inflame an already intense debate inside the G.O.P. about the fiscal consequences of its bill to enact President Trump’s agenda.

"2025 was the hottest spring on record and driest in over 50 years, Met Office says"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Climate

2025 was the hottest spring on record and driest in over 50 years, Met Office says
The remarkable season unfolded month by month, beginning with a record-breaking sunny March that set the tone

Military leaders aghast as Meta founder Zuckerberg crashes classified Oval Office meeting on fighter jets: report | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-oval-office-mark-zuckerberg-security-b2781215.html

GOP bill for Trump's agenda would add $2.4 trillion to the debt, budget office says (Sahil Kapur/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/gop-bill-trumps-agenda-add-24-trillion-debt-budget-office-says-rcna210749
http://www.memeorandum.com/250604/p52#a250604p52

Microsoft says LinkedIn CEO Ryan Roslansky will now manage its Office group, reporting to EVP of Experiences and Devices Rajesh Jha; he will remain LinkedIn CEO (Matt Day/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Russian strike on Poltava kills 2, injures 11, Ukrainian officials say, conscription office set on fire: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/03/russian-strike-on-poltava-kills.html

Exclusive: One-third of top U.S. cyber force has left since Trump took office
https://www.axios.com/2025/06/03/cisa-staff-layoffs-resignations-trump-cuts

Exclusive: One-third of top U.S. cyber force has left since Trump took office
Trump wanted to cut 1,000 people. They're already gone.

A Student/Worker’s Guide to European Google Docs / Office 365 Alternatives https://www.jesperjuul.net/ludologist/2025/05/20/docs-office-alternatives/

On Office Comfort and Energy Efficiency - Sweating or shivering 9 to 5 at work? Small business or home office? Get comfy, save money, cut carbon! #office #frugal #thermostatWars -

On Office Comfort and Energy Efficiency
Sweating or shivering 9 to 5 at work? Small business or home office? Get comfy, save money, cut carbon! #office #frugal #thermostatWars

Cowboys front office is going to cost themselves once again https://insidethestar.com/cowboys-front-office-is-going-to-cost-themselves-once-again

“Remigration”—a far-right European plan to expel minorities and immigrants from Western nations—may soon have a dedicated office following a Trump administration reorganization of the State Department.
https://www.wired.com/story/trump-office-r

The Trump Administration Wants to Create an ‘Office of Remigration’
"Remigration"—a far-right European plan to expel minorities and immigrants from Western nations—may soon have a dedicated office following a Trump administration reorganization of the State Department.

Idag är det ett längre inslag jag är med i på ett hörn i Ekonomiekot Extra om svårigheterna med hanteringen av data mellan EU och USA i en tid där Trumpregimen monterat ner de mekanismer satta att garantera skydd mot EU-medborgares data.
https://www.sverigesradio.se/avsni…

The benefits don't stop at bringing a five year old to the Oval Office …
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/06/trump-is-forcing-states-to-funnel-grant-money-to-starlink-senate-democrats-say/

The F1 movie gives Apple its first box office hit, opening to $144M worldwide and $55.6M in the US; it was pushed on Apple Music, Podcasts, Fitness , and Wallet (Anthony D'Alessandro/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/06/box-office-f1-megan-2-0-1236444277/

‘F1’ Zooms To $10M Previews, An Apple Original Films Record; ‘M3GAN 2.0’ $1.5M – Friday AM Box Office
F1' the Brad Pitt Apple Original Films is expected to deliver an opening north of $40M-$50M while Universal/Blumhouse's 'M3GAN 2.0' is expected to crash. Previews of $10M were a record for Apple Original Films.

I’m still working but can hear the Downtown Hoedown starting outside my office, I’m going to have to join this event one time, it sounds like a lot of fun.

Downtown Hoedown on Front St. July 3rd | 4-9pm
Every First Thursday: Line Dancing, Country Music, and More Country-Western Fun on Front St.

Budget Office: Trump's Spending Bill Raises Deficit By $2.4 Trillion, Will Cause 11M To Lose Health Insurance - Joe.My.God.
https://www.joemygod.com/2025/06/budget-office-trumps-spending-bill-raises-deficit-by-2-4-trillion-will-cause-11m-to-lose-health-insurance/

Having the roof of our Family Room/Office replaced today. It’s a ~55yo addition with a flat roof that we did not have re-roofed when we had the rest of the house done a dozen years ago. It desperately needed replacement. We had no interior leaks, but our latest vermin genocider pointed out that our refractory raccoon problem was enhanced by rotting roof wood that they can smell out and scratch holes through.
It’s very distracting to have all this noise above my head.

Today I met a thirtyish brother wearing a purple Billionaire Boys Club track suit in an office job. IN AN OFFICE JOB. Coolest guy ever. The GOAT of Cool.

Sanctions on Oil Smugglers Exporting Iranian Oil (United States Department of State)
https://www.state.gov/releases/office-of-the-spokesperson/2025/07/sanctions-on-oil-smugglers-exporting-iranian-oil/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250703/p97#a250703p97

How to use the internet badly:
- I did a search on opening hours for the Scotrail ticket office in my town, got 6 different answers, 2 of them from Scotrail sources
- I tweeted to their twitter acct, telling them abt the variety of answers online, and could they please tell me the correct opening hours
- They tweeted back with what turned out to be incorrect information
- I thanked them and said they should contact the other travel sites and update their info /1

My latest public writing addresses the German Constitutional Protection Office's finding of right-extremism in the AfD party. There is also a German version of my post.
#politics #AfD #Germany

Validating viewpoints by popularity
Response to supporters of Germany's AfD party

Astronomy as a strategic driver for sustainable development: #Astronomy for Development is to direct astronomy towards addressing urgent societal needs.

Low-Power Laptop/Server (2007) - Read how I slimmed Web-facing servers in my office from 670W to less than 20W... #frugal - https://www.earth.org.uk/low-power-laptop.html

Low-Power Laptop/Server (2007)
Read how I slimmed Web-facing servers in my office from 670W to less than 20W... #frugal

sp_office: Workplace contacts (2013)
A temporal network of contacts between individuals, measured in an office building in France, from June 24 to July 3, 2013.
This network has 92 nodes and 9827 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Weighted, Temporal, Metadata
https://networks.skewed.de/net/sp_offi

📣 Beim diesjährigen Culture Community Plenary 5
(24.–26.09.2025, Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur | Mainz) bieten wir erneut beim Markt der Möglichkeiten ein Austauschformat vor Ort an, bei dem sich Projekte, Services von NFDI4Culture, aber auch Participants und Partner:innen des Konsortiums vorstellen können.
📨 Bis zum 15.07.2025 können Interessierte eine kurze Beschreibung des Posters an uns senden: coordination-office@nfdi4culture.de

Companies House have just sent me an email telling me that because of new laws, I need to verify my identity. So I leapt into action. There follows an open letter.
Dear Companies House.
The questions "Do you have a passport?" and "Do you have your passport on you in the office right now?" are different fucking questions and you should clarify which you mean before you direct me down an irreversible cul-de-sac in your application's verification logic.

It is time to make use of solar panels. My office faces south so lots of sun. I hooked up the solar panels in the window. The bonus to charging the batteries is that I don't have to pay hydro for that!

16 AFC teams, 16 offseason awards: Sizing up each front office's moves with one superlative https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45164455/2025-nfl-offseason-afc-teams-best-worst-deals-contracts-draft-picks-…

Last call, back in the office, and tomorrow off to Brussels to talk @… with the EU commission. Slightly wishing I was back in Greenland..
https://sternaparadisaea.net/2025/05/24/field-diary-2025/

Source: ~1,000 people have left the CISA during the second Trump administration, including 750 taking a buyout, cutting CISA's workforce by nearly a third (Sam Sabin/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/06/03/cisa-staff-layoffs-resignations-trump-cuts…

Exclusive: One-third of top U.S. cyber force has left since Trump took office
Trump wanted to cut 1,000 people. They're already gone.

"Met Office should name storms after fossil fuel companies, say campaigners"
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/jun/26/met-office-should-name-storms-after-fossil-fuel-companies-say-campaigner…

Exploring Privacy and Security as Drivers for Environmental Sustainability in Cloud-Based Office Solutions
Jason Kayembe, Iness Ben Guirat, Jan Tobias M\"uhlberg
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.23866

Exploring Privacy and Security as Drivers for Environmental Sustainability in Cloud-Based Office Solutions
In this paper, we explore the intersection of privacy, security, and environmental sustainability in cloud-based office solutions, focusing on quantifying user- and network-side energy use and associated carbon emissions. We hypothesise that privacy-focused services are typically more energy-efficient than those funded through data collection and advertising. To evaluate this, we propose a framework that systematically measures environmental costs based on energy usage and network data traffic …

Internal Docs Raise Questions About Trump IRS Pick Billy Long’s ‘No-Show Jobs’ And ‘Strange’ Schedule
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/billy-long-office-of-personnel-management-irs

#lol

America’s democratic collapse has been coming for years, always just over the horizon.
But when everything that happened during Trump’s first three months in office happened and
(here’s the important part)
shockingly little was done by the few groups
(Congress, the Supreme Court, the Democratic Party, American corporations & other large institutions, media companies)
who had the power to counter it,
I knew it was over.
And over in a way that is…

Opinion | Operation Spiderweb’s drone attack on Russia exposes all air bases - The Washington Post
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/06/01/ukraine-drone-attack-russia-bombers/
Ukraines massage again to generals all…

"The National Audit Office warns that the cost to replace the UK’s nuclear arsenal will rise by more than £99 billion over the coming decade."
https://cnduk.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/ADR-digital.pdf
"The Resolution Foundation think t…

Bottled my cold brew coffee for the office today. Also a box of dried bananas. Now off to start heat survival game

I just updated the prints on my office door to reflect the kind of photos (particularly event photos) that I am taking now -- as well the the new system which supersedes "three sided cards" that attains better branding in every respect except that it doesn't have a name (yet) #photo #photography

My latest public writing addresses the German Constitutional Protection Office's finding of right-extremism in the AfD party. There is also a German version of my post.
#politics #AfD #Germany

Validating viewpoints by popularity
Response to supporters of Germany's AfD party

"My vision of a world with computers is a world in which people have a lot more time to do what they like. Playing tennis, jogging… they’ll have plenty of time to go to the shore. I’d go to the library. I could do my work at home. I could have a computer at home and talk to my office. I could live up on top of a nice mountain in New Hampshire and smell pine trees and it would be the same as if I were here in the sub-sub-subbasement of the Pentagon."
– Grace Hopper

Grace Hopper & David Letterman
Among the many documents available at the Computer History Museum website there is an interesting artifact: a commercial brochure published in 1957 by the Remington Rand UNIVAC, "a division of Sperry Rand Corporation", titled "introducing a new language for automatic programming". In it, we learn about the advantages of the new (at the time) FLOW-MATIC programming language, the brainchild of United States Navy Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper.

PSA: If you use OneDrive on Mac, and your company has changed how it identifies the OneDrive folder, you might get more than one OneDrive folder which you cannot remove, not even using sudo.
The way to reset things — assuming nothing is pending from uploading to OneDrive — is to follow the instructions in this Microsoft support page.
You're welcome!

The F1 movie gives Apple its first box office hit, opening to $144M worldwide and $55.6M in the US; it was pushed on Apple Music, Podcasts, Fitness , and Wallet (Anthony D'Alessandro/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/06/box-office-f1-megan-2-0-1236444277/

‘F1’ Zooms To $10M Previews, An Apple Original Films Record; ‘M3GAN 2.0’ $1.5M – Friday AM Box Office
F1' the Brad Pitt Apple Original Films is expected to deliver an opening north of $40M-$50M while Universal/Blumhouse's 'M3GAN 2.0' is expected to crash. Previews of $10M were a record for Apple Original Films.

Moving day 📦📦📦 Except most of our stuff is still in customs 😅 But at least the view to the mountains from the bedroom/office is already there!

Republican Policy Bill Would Add $2.4 Trillion to Debt, Budget Office Says (Andrew Duehren/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/04/us/politics/trump-policy-bill-deficit-estimate.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250604/p121#a250604p121

Earlier this month, the Copyright Office issued the third part of its report on on AI: this one covering how generative AI may infringe on copyright and whether that's fair use (short answer: maybe, maybe not). I have a new article up summarizing the report.
https://www.…

Copyright Office's report discusses whether generative AI use is fair use
Earlier this month, the Copyright Office issued the third part of its report on AI. As with the first two parts, the Copyright Office discusses arguments from people who responded to its call for comments and then provides its analysis. The three main sections in this part focus on infringement, fair use, and licensing regimes. Here, I’m going to cover what the report says about the first two items: whether using copyrighted material in generative AI infringes on owners’ rights and whether…

We're also listing some beautiful furniture. We haven't made much use of any of this since we started working remotely five years ago, so we figure it's time to let others have a chance to enjoy it!
https://mastodon.omnigroup.com/@OmniGroup/114592451404745568

from my link log —
How common is multiple invention?
https://www.construction-physics.com/p/how-often-do-inventions-have-multiple
saved 2025-06-06

How Common is Multiple Invention?
When Alexander Graham Bell filed a patent for the telephone on February 14th, 1876, he beat competing telephone developer Elisha Gray to the patent office by just a few hours.

The portable aircon unit is struggling to get the home office below 27°C this morning. I don't know why as the end of the hose that's out the window is belching out lots of hot air, and the front is blowing out cold.
I turned it on just before 7am and cranked it to full around 8.30 as it wasn't doing much.
Outside it's 33.6°C.

It's on days like today that @…'s rain radar really comes into it's own - I've been trying to clear some admin from home, but I need to bike to the office to print a poster for this week's @… meeting in Brussels - guess I'm going to wait an hour or so then..
https://www.dmi.dk/#radar

I called my congressional representative to urge a vote against the Let Them Die, I mean, Big Beautiful Bill. His main line's voicemail was full. Already. At 7:50pm.
I left a message on his district office line.
NY District 1 voters: let's see how many messages we can send @NickLalota.
#USPol

#tbt Years ago my school interviewed me for an alumni piece. The interviewer was so amused by my “filing system” that he insisted on a wider shot of the office. Funniest part is that I had actually tidied the place up for the interview. Never had a compulsive bone in my body.
😁😁😁

Is the Home Office so inhumane, or is it just some rogue, cynical (un)civil servant who made this judgement?
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/jun/18/uk-home-office-brazilian-family-children-return-alone?CMP…

You need to report results from your R analyeses in Word or powerpoint? Your organisation requires the use of very speccific formating? The packages in the officeverse might be of help: https://ardata-fr.github.io/officeverse/

* He exploits public office for private gain, enriching himself and the billionaire class while abandoning the poor and working people.
* He undermines justice, ignores the rule of law, and places himself above accountability.
* He disregards science, endangering lives in times of crisis and sacrificing the planet for profit.
* He fans division and incites violence to maintain power, wielding fear as a weapon against the people.

"Why Denmark is dumping Microsoft Office and Windows for LibreOffice and Linux"
https://www.zdnet.com/article/why-denmark-is-dumping-microsoft-office-and-windows-for-libreoffice-and-linux/

Why Denmark is dumping Microsoft Office and Windows for LibreOffice and Linux
Before the Danish government announced its move, Denmark's largest cities, Copenhagen and Aarhus, had already announced plans to phase out Microsoft software and cloud services. Here's why.

A website developed for the UK Home Office's 2022 "flop" anti-encryption campaign has seemingly been hijacked to push a payday loan scheme.
https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/25/home_office_antiencryption_campaign_website/?m…

UK govt dept website that campaigns against encryption hijacked to advertise ... payday loans
: Company at center of findings blamed SEO on outsourcer

Disney's live-action Lilo & Stitch grossed $610M globally in just 10 days, and could reach $950M; the film cost $100M and may make $300M in box office profit (Brooks Barnes/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/02/busines

How ‘Lilo & Stitch’ Became One of the Most Profitable Movies in Years
The film was originally aimed for Disney+. But it was rerouted to a theatrical release and is on pace for at least $950 million in ticket sales.

"Study reveals surge in illegal arachnid trade via Facebook in Philippines"
#Philippines #Spiders #Facebook

Study reveals surge in illegal arachnid trade via Facebook in Philippines
In 2019, customs officers at a post office in the Philippine capital Manila unwrapped what looked like an ordinary parcel from Poland. Inside, they found 757 live tarantulas stuffed inside plastic containers, neatly packed like a twisted birthday surprise. Far from an isolated incident, this seizure reflects a long-running issue. Between 2010 and 2019, arachnids […]

It's been 7 months since the D-party lost the easiest-to-win election the US has ever had. And it's been 4 months since FFOTUS took office and became a modern Caligula.
And what has the D-party done?
Nada. Nada. Nada. The old faction is spinning in useless circles defending Biden's inexcusable decision to continue to run until too late. The younger element still shows no sign of engaging in the voting part of politics. Our middle-age element still looks first at t…

People keep yapping to me at work while I wear my earplugs (them not realizing I have earplugs in) so I got earmuffs instead so people can more easily see that I might not hear them well (also means I can leave my house keys in my locker at the office).
Also some different filters (a bit less dampening and less damping on the higher-ends) for my earplugs (that I mostly use for driving my car n stuff).

Court suspends PM Paetongtarn from office in Hun Sen phone call case (Bangkok Post)
https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/politics/3061392/court-suspends-pm-paetongtarn-from-office-in-hun-sen-phone-call-case
http://www.memeorandum.com/250701/p143#a250701p143

sp_office: Workplace contacts (2013)
A temporal network of contacts between individuals, measured in an office building in France, from June 24 to July 3, 2013.
This network has 92 nodes and 9827 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Weighted, Temporal, Metadata
https://networks.skewed.de/net/sp_offi

Ich bedankte mich bei der Office-Managerin und dem Publikationskoordinator für die persönliche Besorgung von Getränken für die Buchpräsentation nächste Woche, regte jedoch an, in Hinkunft Getränke liefern zu lassen, denn die Office-Managerin hätte durchaus das Pouvoir eine Getränkelieferung zu beauftragen, die nicht die Muskelkraft des Publikationskoordinators erfordern würde.

Of lynxes and limetrees: New Insights into the Historical Ecology of the Bavarian Forest on the Threshold of Modernity
Bettina Haas, Markus Gerstmeier, Ricarda Huter, Malte Rehbein
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.02512

Of lynxes and limetrees: New Insights into the Historical Ecology of the Bavarian Forest on the Threshold of Modernity
This study explores the historical ecology of the Bavarian Forest at the threshold of modernity through the lens of a large-scale biodiversity survey conducted in 1845 across the Kingdom of Bavaria. Focusing on the Forestry Office of Zwiesel, the article analyses archival records that document the distribution of animal and tree species during a period of administrative rationalisation and early scientific systematisation. These sources include official correspondence, detailed species inventor…

Now I understand the reason why my neighbours wanted WiFi in the garage.
Maybe an idea worth exploring when I'm back home and we have 43°C.

Questions But Not Chaos at the USA #Copyright Office https://illusionofmore.com/questions-but-not-chaos-at-the-copyri…

Questions But Not Chaos at the Copyright Office - The Illusion of More
Yes, the details are hard to follow through the fog, but I would not describe the Copyright Office as being in a state of chaos.

The current holder of high office has shown himself to be unfit to lead a free and just society.
* He disrespects women, mocking survivors of violence and stripping away their rights.
* He fuels racism and white supremacy, scapegoating communities of color and denying their equality.
* He assaults free speech, attacking the press, punishing dissent, and spreading disinformation.

Towards a Real LZC Low/Zero-Carbon Office (2008) - Read how my home office became zero-carbon in 2008, and the whole building zero-carbon from 2010! #lowCarbon #office #microgen -

Towards a Real LZC Low/Zero-Carbon Office (2008)
Read how my home office became zero-carbon in 2008, and the whole building zero-carbon from 2010! #lowCarbon #office #microgen

A former leader of the Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights during the Obama and Biden administrations
called the Trump administration’s targeting of undefined diversity, equity and inclusion legally spurious
and urged colleges and universities to stand up for their values.
At a panel last week at the annual Education Writers Association conference here,
Catherine Lhamon said it’s “enormously frustrating to me to see the federal government use its voice to sa…

Biden Civil Rights Chief: Trump Anti-DEI Orders Aren’t Law
Catherine Lhamon joined the American Council on Education’s president and a student in criticizing the current federal administration’s targeting of universities over diversity, equity and inclusion.

US sanctions Russian IT company Aeza Group over ransomware operations: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/01/us-sanctions-russian-it-company.html

Germany's Federal Cartel Office warns Amazon that its price controls for marketplace retailers likely violate national and EU laws, in preliminary findings (Karin Matussek/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

The chief executive of the
United States Institute of Peace (USIP) says
Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency
left the nonprofit’s Washington, D.C., headquarters in disarray,
full of water damage, rats, and roaches, according to a new sworn statement first reported by Court Watch.
The statement from the executive, George Moose, comes just a few days after a federal judge ruled that DOGE’s takeover of the nonprofit was illegal.
And this week, Mu…

DOGE left United States Institute of Peace office with water damage, rats, and roaches | TechCrunch
The chief executive of the United States Institute of Peace (USIP) says Elon Musk's DOGE left the nonprofit's Washington, D.C., headquarters in disarray.

Hegseth gutted Pentagon office that said it would oversee testing of Golden Dome missile defense system (Natasha Bertrand/CNN)
https://cnn.com/2025/05/30/politics/hegseth-pentagon-office-gutted-golden-dome
http://www.memeorandum.com/250531/p36#a250531p36

First day in the office since 2 weeks. Really looking forward to see @… again.

Today I put Windows 10 LTSC on an old work desktop I wasn't using for anything. It's amazing how fast computers go when they don't have all the shit installed on them.
Tomorrow I will dig up an old graphics card from a drawer in the office to put in it, because the other thing I have learned today is that the number of games you can play with an Intel HD 4600 graphics chipset is zero.

Lyon ditching Microsoft.
#microsoft

French city of Lyon ditching Microsoft for open source office and collab tools
: Ingredients of future software salade Lyonnaise will include Linux, PostgreSQL, and OnlyOffice

Where the Cowboys' Front Office ranks in the NFC East https://insidethestar.com/where-the-cowboys-front-office-ranks-in-the-nfc-east

JD Vance is being lambasted for dismissing social safety net rollbacks under the Trump tax bill currently making its way through Congress.
On Monday night, Vance attempted to rally support for the bill in a post on X, writing,
“Everything else—the CBO score [the Congressional Budget Office cost estimate], the proper baseline, the minutiae of the Medicaid policy—is immaterial compared to the ICE money and immigration enforcement provisions.”
Many were rubbed the wrong way by…

Vance Says It Doesn’t Matter How Many People Lose Medicaid in Budget
JD Vance is being slammed after a twisted post on the costs of Republicans’ budget bill.

Republican senators propose slashing size of intel office led by Tulsi Gabbard
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/republican-senators-propose-slashing-size-intel-office-led-tulsi-gabba-rcna214330

sp_office: Workplace contacts (2013)
A temporal network of contacts between individuals, measured in an office building in France, from June 24 to July 3, 2013.
This network has 92 nodes and 9827 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Weighted, Temporal, Metadata
https://networks.skewed.de/net/sp_offi

Art house streaming service and distributor Mubi raised $100M led by Sequoia at a $1B valuation; Mubi has about 20M registered users worldwide (Christopher Grimes/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/1e0645d5-054e-4b00-a545-b95a1e2b261a

Sequoia bets on indie films with $100mn Mubi fundraising
Capital infusion led by Silicon Valley firm comes after box office success of ‘The Substance’

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"Hottest UK day of the year recorded as 33.6C reached in Kent"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Kent #Climate

Sources: in 2024, OpenAI considered document collaboration features but lacked the staff to create them, but has since made some unreleased collaboration tools (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-…

OpenAI Quietly Designed a Rival to Google Workspace, Microsoft Office
OpenAI has been gearing up to take on Google and Microsoftwith features that let people collaborate on documents and communicate via chat in ChatGPT, according to two people who have seen the designs. Launching these features would pit OpenAI more directly against Microsoft, its biggest ...

"The Office of Cybersecurity has deemed WhatsApp a high-risk to users due to the lack of transparency in how it protects user data, absence of stored data encryption, and potential security risks involved with its use."
This follows Iran's ban on WhatsApp.
https://www.axi…

Scoop: WhatsApp banned on House staffers' devices
The House's cybersecurity office deemed the messaging app "high risk" due to its treatment of user data.

Towards a Real LZC Low/Zero-Carbon Office (2008) - Read how my home office became zero-carbon in 2008, and the whole building zero-carbon from 2010! #lowCarbon #office #microgen -

Towards a Real LZC Low/Zero-Carbon Office (2008)
Read how my home office became zero-carbon in 2008, and the whole building zero-carbon from 2010! #lowCarbon #office #microgen

Congresswoman Nydia Velšzquez on Saturday held a rally outside a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement field office in New York City to promote her recently introduced "No Masks for ICE Act".
“We would never accept it if the NYPD operated in masks without names or badges
— and we shouldn’t accept it from ICE either,”
Velšzquez (D-N.Y.) said in a statement, referring to the New York Police Department.
“When agents hide their faces and identities they creat…

Velázquez Leads 'No Masks for ICE Act' Rally at NYC Field Office | Common Dreams
"When agents hide their faces and identities they create chaos, fear, and open the door to abuse. Immigrant communities are left wondering if they're being arrested or kidnapped."

Art house streaming service and distributor Mubi raised $100M led by Sequoia at a $1B valuation; Mubi has about 20M registered users worldwide (Christopher Grimes/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/1e0645d5-054e-4b00-a545-b95a1e2b261a

Sequoia bets on indie films with $100mn Mubi fundraising
Capital infusion led by Silicon Valley firm comes after box office success of ‘The Substance’

sp_office: Workplace contacts (2013)
A temporal network of contacts between individuals, measured in an office building in France, from June 24 to July 3, 2013.
This network has 92 nodes and 9827 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Weighted, Temporal, Metadata
https://networks.skewed.de/net/sp_offi

The Republican Majority on the Senate Banking Committee released a press release Friday confirming that they were intentionally eliminating
the “duplicative Office of Financial Research (OFR)”.
According to sources I’ve talked to in the Senate, Republican committee members have shown little concern with the elimination of the Office of Financial Research.
They also seem aware of the concerns over SOFR, because both their “one pager” and “section by section” documents clai…

The “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” Eliminates the Office of Financial Research—Threatening the Stability of the Treasury Market
Early last week I started working on a piece on why the Federal Reserve didn’t step in during the Trump Tariff Financial Panic. The basic idea of that piece is simply that “repo rates”- the interest rate at which you can, in essence, borrow funds with treasury securities

CDC to hire former head of anti-vaccine group founded by RFK Jr. (Alexander Tin/CBS News)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/cdc-vaccine-safety-office-hire-former-head-anti-vaccine-group-founded-rfk-jr/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250625/p145#a250625p145

The Justice Department on Friday 👉fired at least three prosecutors involved in U.S. Capitol riot criminal cases,
the latest moves by the Trump administration targeting attorneys connected to the massive prosecution of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack,
according to two people familiar with the matter.
Those dismissed include two attorneys who worked as supervisors overseeing the Jan. 6 prosecutions in the U.S. attorney’s office in Washington
as well as a line attorney who pro…

Justice Department fires 3 lawyers involved in Jan. 6 cases
The Justice Department has fired at least three prosecutors involved in U.S. Capitol riot criminal cases, according to two people familiar with the matter. It’s the latest move by the Trump administration targeting attorneys connected to the massive prosecution of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack. Those dismissed include two attorneys who worked as supervisors overseeing the Jan. 6 prosecutions in the U.S. attorney’s office in Washington as well as a line attorney who prosecuted cases stemming from…

Senate Bill Would Add at Least $3.3 Trillion to Debt, Budget Office Says (Andrew Duehren/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/29/us/politics/senate-bill-trump-cbo-score-debt.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250629/p49#a250629p49

How was Joe Biden forced out of a presidential race for a disastrous debate and for looking frail and for confusing names,
but this man, one of the most ignorant men to ever be elected to any office, allowed to continue on as president and treated as a normal, serious leader??
https://bsky.app/pr…

According to a report published late Saturday night, the Senate version of the GOP budget bill would leave 💥 11.8 million more Americans uninsured by 2034.
Federal spending on Medicaid, Medicare and Obamacare would be reduced by more than💥 $1.1 trillion over that period
— with more than $1 trillion of those cuts coming from Medicaid alone.
The fresh estimates make official what many analysts had already predicted -- and some Republican lawmakers had feared.
The size an…

Senate Version of Trump’s Policy Bill Would Slash Medicaid Spending Even More
Analysis from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office found that Republicans’ new version of the legislation would make far deeper cuts and lead to more people becoming uninsured than previous proposals.

I’ve treated kids with gunshot wounds, vaccine-preventable infections and chronic diseases..
I’m Democrat Dr. Annie Andrews and today I’m launching my campaign for U.S. Senate. 
I’ve been a doctor for almost 20 years. I’m no stranger to tough fights. 
But honestly, I never thought about running for office. But with MAGA chaos in the White House, I’m fed up and I’m taking a stand to stop the BS.
I’m taking on Senator Lindsey Graham, the posterboy for Washington corrupt…

Elect Annie Andrews
Donate to send Annie to the Senate!

The Trump administration has expanded #Palantir’s work with the government,
spreading the company’s technology
— which could easily merge data on Americans
— throughout more agencies.
The company has received more than $113 million in federal government spending since Trump took office, including additional funds from existing contracts as well as new contracts with the Department …

Trump Taps Palantir to Compile Data on Americans
The Trump administration has expanded Palantir’s work with the government, spreading the company’s technology — which could easily merge data on Americans — throughout agencies.