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The pink tax is the extra price women pay for products that are also marketed to men
— think shampoo or clothing.
Back in 2015, the New York City Department of Consumer Affairs found that across five industries, women were paying more for everyday products than men:
7 percent more for toys and accessories
8 percent more for adult clothing
13 percent more for personal care products
Although recent evidence suggests that the pink tax doesn’t apply to every pro…

How the “pink tariff” hurts women
Trump's trade war makes being a woman, and especially a Black woman, much more expensive.

Series B, Episode 05 - Pressure Point
AVON: If I can fire at ground level, the beam radiation should be great enough to cut a narrow channel through the sensor mesh. That would give you eight seconds to get from here to the blockhouse. The mesh would start its repair cycle instantly. Take one step off the channel and you're dead. I know it's a slim chance, but it's the best I can come up with.
BLAKE: Let's try it.

Blakes7Bot | Search
Companion site to the Blakes7Bot Twitter, Mastodon, and Bluesky accounts. Automated lines of Blakes 7 dialog. Includes a script search facility.

Elon Musk will singlehandedly be responsible for the wholly unnecessary deaths & misery of millions worldwide. And he & Trump couldn't care less.
You did this, #Trump voter.
And anyone that didn't vote.
http…

Elon Musk’s Reign of Terror Is Only Just Beginning
His “departure” from the government is anything but.

I was playing Pup Champs and got totally stuck on level 2-12. I had an idea on how to solve it but I couldn't get it to work for days. Heck… this level IS IMPOSSIBLE AND NO WAY THAT IS SOLVABLE AT ALL. Then I did solve it and the solution is now clear as glass and straight forward even.
I love thinky games until I hate them until I love them again! That’s why they are great!

Pup Champs

Metacurity is pleased to offer our free and premium subscribers a weekly digest of the best long-form (and longish) infosec-related pieces we couldn't properly fit into our daily news crush.
This week's selection covers
--How regular Americans unwittingly aid DPRK job scams,
--Self-driving truck startup sent massive amounts of IP to China,
--The Com claims it's behind the Coinbase hack,
--It feels like Panetta's Cyber Pearl Harbor is nigh,
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Best infosec-related long reads for the week of 5/24/25
How regular Americans unwittingly aid DPRK job scams, Self-driving truck startup sent massive amounts of IP to China, The Com claims it's behind the Coinbase hack, It feels like Panetta's Cyber Pearl Harbor is nigh, Brazil's counterintel agents exposed Russian spy imposters

When Brooke Nichols plugged in the data, she couldn’t comprehend what she was seeing.
The mathematician and professor of infectious diseases at Boston University had created a model to predict the human cost of the Department of Government Efficiency’s (Doge) USAid funding cuts.
As Elon Musk, the head of Doge, arrived at the White House on Friday afternoon
to be congratulated by President Trump for his work slashing the federal budget,
the number of deaths on Nichols’…

Doge cuts to USAid blamed for 300,000 deaths — most of them children
Elon Musk’s tenure running Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency has, according to the academic Brooke Nichols, caused thousands of ‘preventable deaths’

Sampling Finite Unit Norm Tight Frames Using Symplectic Geometry
Mason Faldet, Clayton Shonkwiler
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.22847 https://

Sampling Finite Unit Norm Tight Frames Using Symplectic Geometry
Unit-norm tight frames in finite-dimensional Hilbert spaces (FUNTFs) are fundamental in signal processing, offering optimal robustness to noise and measurement loss. In this paper we introduce the Eigenlift algorithm for sampling random FUNTFs. Our approach exploits the symplectic geometry of the FUNTF space, which we characterize as a symplectic reduction of frame space by a symmetry group. We then define a Hamiltonian torus action on this reduced space whose momentum map induces a fiber bundl…

I was looking for this yesterday, and couldn’t find it —a TUI coding assistant for #Helix and #NeoVim
Because I still cannot bring myself to useto #vscode

GitHub - kamilmac/unibear: A lean TUI AI assistant.
A lean TUI AI assistant. Contribute to kamilmac/unibear development by creating an account on GitHub.

For all the German speakers in my network: my research on spatial layouts and communication has been featured in a lovely and detailed article in the weekly German newspaper Die Zeit discussing the manifold relations between architecture and social outcomes, ranging from political coalition negotiations to the mutiny on the Bounty, from team meetings in offices to places for living

Architektur: Wie Architekten Gespräche lenken – und Macht verteilen
Gute Architektur verbindet Menschen, schlechte trennt sie. Wer die Gesetze des Bauens kennt, kann Politiker zusammenbringen – und sogar den Lauf der Geschichte verändern.

This week’s edition of my @… newsletter shines a light on the impact of the Model Context Protocol (MCP) across multiple computing eras—leading right up to today.
We’ve arrived at a moment where loose coupling principles are cool (and super useful) again.
Naturally, there are some live demo nuggets in the post to help bring it all to life:
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The Model Context Protocol: Bridging Generational Computing Experiences
The Model Context Protocol (MCP) is emerging as a transformative force in computing, with its significance uniquely appreciated across generational lines. This new protocol serves as crucial middleware for LLM-powered productivity tools, addressing needs that previous computing paradigms couldn't fu