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The supreme court is expected to render at least one judgment today
as the term is set to come to an end later this month.
There are a series of cases yet to be decided that are relevant to Donald Trump,
including his attempt to limit #birthright citizenship
and plan to remove legal protection from Haitian and Syrian

@… "Can emojis be removed from Unicode? Or are they there forever once they are in?" - As of now, once they're in, they're in. The code point in Unicode is then reserved for this symbol. This can be a problem because emojis are kind of open-ended (other than alphabets and many other symbol lists). And it's possible that some emojis turn out to be rarely used. I could imagine that eventually some platforms just stop supporting a certain emoji - but it's really useful to have an international encoding standard which is fully supported by most technology (as anyone who has programmed or written online text in the early 2000s can attest). That's why getting a new emoji approved has become so hard - we're basically creating a kind of tech debt for a potentially long time.
Funny story - you could try creating a post now with a Unicode character from an "empty" code point in the emoji range, in the hope that it will get assigned in a later round. I've seen such a post on the old Twitter, which later was filled with all kinds of random emojis, when you look at it in a few years. #linguistics #emojis #WorldEmojiDay

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AfternoonShow
Pixies:
🎵 Letter to Memphis
#Pixies
https://open.spotify.com/track/2NOLOmiGsu9vlfyJSIcglu

King's Cross, where Google's new UK HQ is due to open later this year, has become London's new tech, VC, and AI hub, attracting OpenAI, Anthropic, and others (John Gapper/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/d0a7927d-3072-4bd5-b816-662f726b3699

Institutional Data. Open Knowledge. AI. How can we create better bridges between them and work together to solve some of our big issues around data and access to knowledge in the age of AI?
The coming AI-BRIDGES Symposium in London (May 28-29) looks at these questions.
If you care about Open Knowledge, Institutional Data and AI, join us!
Registration open till May 21st. It's free, but seats are limited. Link to full program and registration here:

Over 100 former ABC News journalists sign an open letter supporting the network and Disney as ABC pushes back against the FCC's investigation of The View (Ted Johnson/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2026/05/abc-news-journalists-letter-fcc-trump-1236901977/…

Former ABC News Journalists Sign Letter Supporting Network As It Pushes Back On FCC: “This Is Political Retaliation, Not Regulatory Enforcement”
Sam Donaldson and Chris Bury are among those who signed on to the letter.

Had to update yesterday's Substack after news broke later that day of Trump's teleprompter making $100k on Kalshi.
This administration has certainly set a new low bar for self-dealing, but prediction markets are supercharging anonymous corruption at the highest levels of government. https://

Sources: Sam Altman told staff that OpenAI is expected to go public "within the next year" and OpenAI plans a tender offer "very soon" at a $687.69 share price (Stephanie Palazzolo/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/…

Exclusive: OpenAI Preps New AI Model, Expects To Go Public ‘Within the Next Year’
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told staff in a Slack message on Monday that he expects OpenAI to go public “within the next year” and that “many things could cause it to be sooner or later in that range, but filing now gives us optionality if we want to go sooner.” Another OpenAI leader also teased an upcoming new AI model that the company is preparing to release. Altman sent the message at roughly the

Just over a week after Mosaic 1.0 was released, CERN gifted the Web to the world as open source software. As of 30 April 1993, the still relatively new Internet communications platform was suddenly free for anyone to use, with no strings attached.
https://cybercultural.com/p/1993-mosai

1993: Mosaic Launches and the Web Becomes Open Source
On 21 April 1993, Marc Andreessen announces NCSA Mosaic 1.0, the first version of its multimedia browser. Just over a week later, CERN gifts the World Wide Web to the world as open source software.

Letter: US cybersecurity leaders urge the White House to lift the ban on Anthropic's Mythos and Fable 5, arguing the move hurts defenders more than attackers (Sam Sabin/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/06/15/anthropic-fable-security-leaders-trump-admin

Cyber leaders defend Anthropic's banned model
Former Facebook cyber head defend Anthropic in an open letter.