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The latest example of AI-hallucinated citations in court cases comes from... an Anthropic employee:
https://chatgptiseatingtheworld.com/2025/05/13/anthropics-own-data-scientist-submits-de…

creating your own booking agreement
#LiveMusic #MusicianTips
https://muz4now.com/2011/creat…

creating your own booking agreement
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

By Israel’s own metric, it has wounded over 2 million Palestinians in Gaza alone.
#israel #genocide #ethnicCleansing

Κάποιος Ταδόπουλος (@_Wiesenthal_S_@todon.nl)
Attached: 1 image "Israel includes those treated for anxiety in the injury count" 🙄

I believe I have managed to prove my ID in order to comply with the new laws that say I have to prove my ID to own the business I own that I'm sure already asked me to prove my ID when I registered it.
First we tried the on-web version, but that apparently relies upon the corporates having managed to profile and track me, because it told me they had no questions upon which to base identification. Good I guess? My avoid-tracking systems must be working at least a bit?
Next we tried the android app, but apparently the phone I tried that with is too old and the app won't install.
So next option is turning up at a post office with a printed letter. I don't own a printer though, so had to have them post that to me.
Took the letter and a driving licence up to the post office today and "It's not going through" they said, pointing to a stalled progress bar on an android app on a tablet.
Um. Okay. So?
Just wait longer apparently. About ten minutes and it finally proceeded and the post office man took a photograph of me after asking me to disrobe of my robe, strip down to a teeshirt and jeans.
Not sure in what sense this has proven my ID any more than it was already proven to get the driving licence or company registration in the first place?
Apparently I now have government logins for "One Login" and for "government gateway" and they are not the same thing? But sort of are the same thing?
Can't say I really understand it. Expect they'll introduce a third government login when they do these Digital ID cards they're talking about.
God knows how I'm supposed to know which to use when the company tax records need updating in a few months.
#id #government #oneLogin

Thanking my own self for backups... I accidentally deleted my Jellyfin media library yesterday!
Luckily the machine it lives on backs up to an external disk and there's also a backup that runs to a NAS in the house so it was an easy restore.

In an Oxford study, LLMs correctly identified medical conditions 94.9% of the time when given test scenarios directly, vs. 34.5% when prompted by human subjects (Nick Mokey/VentureBeat)
https://venturebeat.com/ai/just-add-hu

Just add humans: Oxford medical study underscores the missing link in chatbot testing
Patients using chatbots to assess their own medical conditions may end up with worse outcomes than conventional methods, according to a new Oxford study.

If you're fortunate enough to have discretionary income, the LA Tenants Union is helping those in LA targeted by LAPD, DHS, and ICE.
I can't give more details, but know that union members have spent their own money to provide food, water, and medical care to those who need it.
https://gofund.me/4f0c850f…

Gotta drive 50km with my own car (and fuel) in my (would have been) free time because one of my colleagues used an insurance form in the truck but never replaced it.
So when I needed one (hit a wall at a customer while backing truck into the tight ass space without mirrors - sun kept blinding me), there was none so I now have to go back there to get the paperwork sorted...
Lovely...

Donald Trump admitted on Truth Social that his mass deportations are hurting farmers and the economy.
Those removals are “taking very good, longtime workers away” from farms and hotels, Trump declared,
adding that those workers are proving “impossible to replace.”
To be clear, Trump was talking about his own immigration policies.
That’s a stunning acknowledgment that Trump’s forced mass removals are targeting hard-working folks and that those undocumented immigrants…

Trump Accidentally Reveals a Dark MAGA Truth—and Hands Dems an Opening
A little-noticed letter from vulnerable House Republicans acknowledges the flaw at the heart of Trump’s mass deportations. Democrats: Seize on this!

In this post "Consent-Based Computing", I think Heidi Waterhouse is articulating some my own feelings, reflections and choices about the tools around us today and the tradeoffs I'm prepared to make. #linkTuesday

"MediaMatters for America" is good to read. ALWAYS. Here's their story about how media is reporting on, and ignoring, our own governments plans to implement NAZI "ethnic cleansing" deportations.
https://www.mediamatt…

Mainstream media ignore Trump’s planned Office of Remigration, a term for ethnic cleansing
Mainstream media outlets almost entirely ignored news that the Trump administration is reportedly reorganizing the State Department to include a new “Office of Remigration.” “Remigration” is a term long used by far-right extremists to describe ethnic cleansing. 

Marina Hyde is a brilliant columnist:
Imagine owning the world’s premier shitposting platform – in fact, having spent $44bn on it, specifically so that your magic mirror would tell you each day that you were the fairest shitposter of all – and then shuffling sheepishly on to your own pixels to mumble something about having gone “too far” with your hurty words.

Is Christianity losing its religion? In the new issue of Reflections, YDS-related scholars and ministers take up this question and declare their own reasons for Christian faith. https://reflections.yale.edu/

Here’s a person, Baldur Bjarnason, @…, who thinks I’m really wrong about LLMs and coding. I mostly don’t agree but the argument is well-presented: https://www.baldurbjarna…

Trusting your own judgement on 'AI' is a huge risk
Web dev at the end of the world, from Hveragerði, Iceland

Ned Mamula nominated to lead the U.S. Geological Survey - GreenMet (note: corporate PR) #geology #USGS

nice coverage of new bus-stop benches kindly installed by some unidentified people!
https://sfist.com/2025/06/09/renegade-transit-activists-install-their-own-guerilla-benches-at-sf-bus-stops-that-do…

Renegade Transit Activists Install their Own ‘Guerilla Benches’ at SF Bus Stops That Don’t Have Benches
A rogue group of activists won’t stand for the lack of benches at many SF Muni stops, so they went and installed a bunch of their own unauthorized benches this past weekend. But we’ll see how this sits with SF Public Works.

I love communism because of its vision of a society based on equality, solidarity, and the abolition of class and state oppression. The idea of real communism, as envisioned by thinkers like Peter Kropotkin and Karl Marx, inspires me deeply. It’s a world where people freely associate, manage their own workplaces, and share resources according to need. This ideal has never truly been realized in history, which makes it all the more important to keep striving for it.
At the same time, I …

After all, they called Joe Biden, the former Senator from CapitalOne and a devout Catholic, a socialist and communist.
One of the differences between the Right and Left in the USA is that the Right is dedicated to the idea of political tribal solidarity and social binaries, while the Left puts an overriding emphasis on its own diversity, that of the Right, and that of society.
It is part of how they manage to maintain themselves in power.

Series C, Episode 05 - The Harvest of Kairos
[Space Command]
SERVALAN: How did that happen?
JARVIK: They fired through their own force shield.
SERVALAN: Don't be absurd.
JARVIK: You asked, I told you.
[Liberator flight deck]
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/305/294

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

This essay by @… on why individual experiments on the usefulness of "AI" (or similar stuff) don't teach us anything useful and might actually harm us is brilliant.
Go read it. Too many insights to pull a quote TBH:

Trusting your own judgement on 'AI' is a huge risk
Web dev at the end of the world, from Hveragerði, Iceland

"This is not, repeat not, a giant leap for womankind. This is an intergalactic episode of Real Housewives meets The Kardashians Go to The Moon. It’s a quick “getaway” for the billionaire set as six gal pals cosplay astronauts in tight blue Star Trek at their very own CosmicCon."

israel has just announced that your own eyes are antisemitic. Please do not believe your own eyes.
#israel #genocide #ethnicCleansing

These arguments by @… resonate with my own reasons for not using LLMs in my work, and I appreciate these being written up in a clear manner: https://benui.ca/why-i-refuse-ai/

From ⁨⁨⁨⁨⁨#AnnafromUkraine⁩⁩⁩⁩⁩ @AnnafromUkraine@youtube.com
🧵 👇
MORE #MOSCOW AND CRIMEA EXPLOSIONS: MILITARY TARGETS BURNED Vlog 1073: War in #Ukraine
Russians shot down their own

Home and dry now - there was a bigger turn out than you'd have thought, but at least we all got home in time to watch Le Mans 😃
A few photos at https://timfoster.smugmug.com/Events/Stormont-Car-Show-2025

Stormont Car Show 2025 - timfoster
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Vancouver BC is having its own No Kings rally right down by the US consulate on Pender. There is little space down there, so it's a pretty terrible spot for a gathering - ideally, the street would have been closed, particularly as bumping a vehicle up a curb and into the crowd would be simple - we had a deadly instance of that just last month.
Ironically, we do have a king here.

LOL, what?! Germany is now having its own 'Veterans Day'?! 🤦‍♀️
https://www.dw.com/es/alemania-celebra-el-primer-día-de-los-veteranos/a-72890966?maca=spa-rss-sp-inter-1008-rdf

I'm interested in making my own visualizations of weather radar data to display patterns in a region of the US (covered by multiple stations) over longish periods of time (e.g., a month).
Think something like this year of US radar, but smaller & shorter in my case: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPuDPxK88g0
I'm familiar with mapping and animation in Python/R, but not weather radar data. I've been looking for tutorials, but haven't been able to track any down yet. Pointers very much welcome

Walmart and Amazon Are Exploring Issuing Their Own Stablecoins (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/finance/banking/walmart-amazon-stablecoin-07de2fdd?st=ezVFpp&reflink=article_copyURL_share
http://www.memeorandum.com/250613/p123#a250613p123

There is little about Scott Jennings,
or the words that come out of his mouth,
that corresponds to reality.
A decade into Trump’s capture of the Republican Party, Jennings is the premier crossover enabler.
He is perhaps CNN’s most recognizable face alongside its primetime anchors,
and he is feted on jokey, tough-talk shows like Bill Maher. 
But Jennings is a representation of our own malady,
a projection of a country whose political culture is now…

Scott Jennings in the Hyperreal and the Myth of the Escape Hatch
Jennings is like a simulation of a Trump enabler.

Fuming! That's exactly the reason why we need to have our own media, run for #queer people BY queer people, the corporate overlords who run Meta and Xitter will happily be complici in our erasure if it only means that their quarterly report will get half a percent better or that they'll get some favour in the government

Trans Pride Week's Instagram account shut down
Meta has shut down Istanbul Trans Pride Week's Instagram account three days before the start. Events will be announced on the new account.

This fact is what inspired me to become part of a unique system to help people get up and running with their own successful business online, regardless of their background and experience. FYI, for those of you familiar with Robert Kiyosaki’s “𝐶𝑎𝑠ℎ 𝐹𝑙𝑜𝑤 𝑄𝑢𝑎𝑑𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑡𝑠”, this is in the B – Business Owner Quadrant.
Message me to learn more.

Scientists say your “mind” isn’t confined to your brain, or even your body
http://qz.com/866352/scientists-say-your-mind-isnt-confined-to-your-brain-or-even-your-bod…

Scientists say your “mind” isn’t confined to your brain, or even your body
You might wonder, at some point today, what’s going on in another person’s mind. You may compliment someone’s great mind, or say they are out of their mind. You may even try to expand or free your own mind.

#ai

Why Elon Musk Is Furious and Publicly Raging at His Own AI Chatbot, Grok
Elon Musk is mad that his AI chatbot, Grok, referred to The Atlantic and The BBC as credible news sources.

I can't tell you how weird it is as a manager to go through burnout blossoming and then sinking in to become a morass of emotional exhaustion and feelings of utter uselessness — while, in parallel, hearing feedback from my reports about how I've helped them struggle through and in most cases escape their own burgeoning burnout over the past few months
Just out here using my own body as a stick to pull my reports out of the quicksand of burnout

For various reasons I'm probably not going to be at any Saturday protests for long, but I'm thinking about buying & dropping off some supplies to support them:
- Bottled water and/or electrolyte drinks.
- Slats, posterboard, markers, and stapler to let people who show up without a sign make their own.
Anyone else got good ideas or planning on doing supply runs?
#Protests #NoKings

Double windows from inside the home office #Fensterfreitag

Sonnet 107 - CVII
Not mine own fears, nor the prophetic soul
Of the wide world dreaming on things to come,
Can yet the lease of my true love control,
Supposed as forfeit to a confined doom.
The mortal moon hath her eclipse endured,
And the sad augurs mock their own presage;
Incertainties now crown themselves assured,
And peace proclaims olives of endless age.
Now with the drops of this most balmy time,
My love looks fresh, and Death…

#Harvard continues to ignore reports of anti- Palestinian/Arabi/Muslim bias.
“Now, in the face of Trump, Harvard pretends that it is standing up, but you cannot stand up for freedom and silence members of your own community,”
h…

Harvard Affiliates Deliver Hundreds of Complaints Alleging Anti-Arab and Anti-Muslim Bias to President Garber’s Office | News | The Harvard Crimson
More than 30 Harvard affiliates delivered a box containing 452 discrimination complaints to Massachusetts Hall at a Monday rally, alleging that Harvard has fostered “pervasive bias against Muslims, Arabs and Palestinians.”

google: Google internal webpages (2007)
A directed network of webpages from Google's own sites, and the hyperlinks among them. Edge direction indicates that i hyperlinks to j.
This network has 15763 nodes and 171206 edges.
Tags: Informational, Web graph, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/google

This is tomorrow night (Wednesday 5/14) and I'm sure there are people on my feed who'd want to come 🗺️
https://detroitography.com/2025/04/23/event-detroit-regional-transit-fantasy-support-group-with-tru/

Okay, I tried not to make it overly complex. Just a very brief cut and some music.
Here's the clip of today's walk 🙂
https://video.franzgraf.de/w/vaEHJN15GYZ7BUtgVaT81m
(powered by my own Peertube instance :))

Tooting My Own Horn: Three Years And Counting
Why don't contractors stay in touch with potential customers? And I extended my blog streak to three years.
https://www.bobmuellerwriter.com/tooting-my-own-horn-three-years-and-counting/

Tooting My Own Horn: Three Years And Counting – Bob Mueller
I extended my weekly posting streak to three years this week. Still don't have the pool up. And I wonder about conspiracy theories.

New York judge allows Trump to sue his own niece while in office | Courthouse News Service
https://www.courthousenews.com/new-york-judge-allows-trump-to-sue-his-own-niece-while-in-office/

From Tool Calling to Symbolic Thinking: LLMs in a Persistent Lisp Metaprogramming Loop
Jordi de la Torre
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10021 https://

From Tool Calling to Symbolic Thinking: LLMs in a Persistent Lisp Metaprogramming Loop
We propose a novel architecture for integrating large language models (LLMs) with a persistent, interactive Lisp environment. This setup enables LLMs to define, invoke, and evolve their own tools through programmatic interaction with a live REPL. By embedding Lisp expressions within generation and intercepting them via a middleware layer, the system allows for stateful external memory, reflective programming, and dynamic tool creation. We present a design framework and architectural principles …

Solving Package Management via Hypergraph Dependency Resolution
Ryan Gibb, Patrick Ferris, David Allsopp, Michael Winston Dales, Mark Elvers, Thomas Gazagnaire, Sadiq Jaffer, Thomas Leonard, Jon Ludlam, Anil Madhavapeddy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10803

Solving Package Management via Hypergraph Dependency Resolution
Package managers are everywhere, with seemingly every language and operating system implementing their own solution. The lack of interoperability between these systems means that multi-lingual projects are unable to express precise dependencies across language ecosystems, and external system and hardware dependencies are typically implicit and unversioned. We define HyperRes, a formal system for describing versioned dependency resolution using a hypergraph that is expressive enough to model man…

Reason why there's Putins in the world:
Half of the I-do-my-own-reasearch comments: “But what would the lions eat now that they can't eat the villagers‘ cattle?” [Video literally shows zebras in the Nairobi National Park.]
Other half of comments: “$24 for 1 Lion Light ... Nice scam!” [Video produced by a corporation giving funds to other established non-profits; literally states the Lion Lights have motherboards.)
->
The genius invention that made peace wit…

Adaptive Chosen-Ciphertext Security of Distributed Broadcast Encryption
Kwangsu Lee
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10338 https://arxiv.or…

Adaptive Chosen-Ciphertext Security of Distributed Broadcast Encryption
Distributed broadcast encryption (DBE) is a specific kind of broadcast encryption (BE) where users independently generate their own public and private keys, and a sender can efficiently create a ciphertext for a subset of users by using the public keys of the subset users. Previously proposed DBE schemes have been proven in the adaptive chosen-plaintext attack (CPA) security model and have the disadvantage of requiring linear number of pairing operations when verifying the public key of a user.…

From Robert Reich:
"#SenatorPadilla was forcibly removed from DHS Secretary #KristiNoem’s press conference in Los Angeles while attempting to ask a question.
Padilla was thrown down and handcuffed. A senator in his own state! (He has since been released.)
The

How Vox built a huge YouTube presence, becoming an incubator that invented its own visual language, as ex-staffers like Johnny Harris grow their own channels (Simon Owens/The Long Story with Simon Owens)
https://thelongstory.substack.com/p/why-the-best-jour…

Why the best journalists on YouTube are all former Vox employees
The company became a skunk works incubator that invented its own language of visual storytelling.

What are Raiders Getting in Ashton Jeanty? https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/john-spytek-las-vegas-maxx-crosby-ashton-jeanty-pete-carroll

Very, very useful:
https://abyssdomain.expert/@filippo/114496179105976467

Every American should be able to own a gun as long as it's a Gatling gun.
- the revised Second Amendment

Just in case it wasn't crystal clear before: I will not travel to a country that actively deploys its military force against its own citizens while holding a military parade for its tyrant.

This fact is what inspired me to become part of a unique system to help people get up and running with their own successful business online, regardless of their background and experience. FYI, for those of you familiar with Robert Kiyosaki’s “𝐶𝑎𝑠ℎ 𝐹𝑙𝑜𝑤 𝑄𝑢𝑎𝑑𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑡𝑠”, this is in the B – Business Owner Quadrant.
Message me to learn more.

Med-URWKV: Pure RWKV With ImageNet Pre-training For Medical Image Segmentation
Zhenhuan Zhou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10858 https://

Med-URWKV: Pure RWKV With ImageNet Pre-training For Medical Image Segmentation
Medical image segmentation is a fundamental and key technology in computer-aided diagnosis and treatment. Previous methods can be broadly classified into three categories: convolutional neural network (CNN) based, Transformer based, and hybrid architectures that combine both. However, each of them has its own limitations, such as restricted receptive fields in CNNs or the computational overhead caused by the quadratic complexity of Transformers. Recently, the Receptance Weighted Key Value (RWKV…

Musk's Own AI Claims He Took Miller's Wife and Mocked Him for It (Ewan Palmer/The Daily Beast)
https://www.thedailybeast.com/musk-trashes-his-own-ai-over-embarrassing-post-about-him-taking-stephen-millers-wife/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250609/p69#a250609p69

I see that the Marines are being told they can "detain" people while waiting for police to arrive to "arrest" them.
I would mention that our very own SCOTUS says that if a person is not free to leave then that person is under arrest and must be given a Miranda warning.
Now --- here we have the Army or Marines "detaining" people - people who are not free to leave - and probably not giving Miranda warnings.
As such, were I the defense counsel, I …

I updated my website's list of links to add @USERNAME@WEBSITE to every social media account I own.
This way, it’s clearer what my name is and which site it belongs to. It might look like federation, but it’s not on most sites; it just works as a placeholder.
Read more here: https://midtsveen.codeberg.page

«This is the original sin of software dev: it’s a pop culture where we’re trained to accept gossip as evidence. That’s fine if you’re debating largely meaningless details like “JavaScript, threat or menace?” but it’s very risky when the system in question is a psychological hazard built out of a Jenga tower of biases and Forer effects.»
https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2025/trusting-your-own-judgement-on-ai/

From @… - False UFO stories created by military... sometimes intentionally terrorizing their own soldiers https://n…

How False UFO Stories Were Created - Sometimes Deliberately - by the US Military - Slashdot
Last year's Pentagon report reviewing UFO reports "left out the truth behind some of the foundational myths about UFOs," reports the Wall Street Journal. "The Pentagon itself sometimes deliberately fanned the flames, in what amounted to the U.S. government targeting its own citizens with disinforma...

Workshop announcement: Ally Skills
#𝐀𝐥𝐥𝐲𝐒𝐤𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐬 𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐩 𝐛𝐲 #𝐎𝐋𝐒
Many of us want to support marginalised people, but we don’t always know how.
Join us for an interactive workshop where you’ll explore your own privileges and learn concrete ways to step up for others in professional and personal spaces—in a meaningful and effective way.
July 2, 14:00 - 17:30 EET
#OpenScience!

NYC: 3pm, in front of City Hall on Broadway https://actionnetwork.org/event_campaigns/freedavidendraids

#FreeDavidEndRaids
On Friday afternoon, military-gear-clad ICE agents launched aggressive raids throughout Los Angeles. At one location, SEIU-USWW President David Huerta was assaulted, injured and detained while advocating for immigrant workers. While he has been released from the hospital, he remains in federal custody. Since then, the Trump administration has only escalated its attacks on the Los Angeles community, deploying the military against our own people. This is a clear attack on our communities, work…

I found this today when messing around with lifting-bits/sleigh build options and got a build error. Very interesting! Dynamic p-code shenanigans!
“TLDR: there is a (undocumented and disabled by default) feature in the Ghidra decompiler that lets you create your own decompiler passes, using a custom DSL. I leverage it to write a deobfuscation rule for a simple obfuscation technique.”
Thanks you @…

@… These are all my own designs. All open source, available on my github repo. A few are in my Tindie store

If you wonder how much disk space you need to run your own Mastodon instance, here are our stats of a server with a handful of active accounts:
Attachments: 8.51 GB (462 MB local)
Custom emoji: 477 MB (74.8 KB local)
Preview cards: 457 MB
Avatars: 4.29 GB (1.89 MB local)
Headers: 7.57 GB (3.58 MB local)
Backups: 0 Bytes
Imports: 0 Bytes
Settings: 34.4 KB
Disk usage is pretty stable after a while. We do backups with our own mechanism, so YMMV.

This is the vision of computing that still lives closest to my heart, and one I try against all odds to keep alive in my own various spheres of work.

When a customer solves their own issue after being their rubber duck, but you still get the credit for helping.

"Assistant Professor of History Invitation
Brian - Your management skills are impressive and made your boss a lot of money. Why not use them to build something of your own?"
YES!!! Just look at the filthy lucre that my department chair is rolling in. It could - NO, IT SHOULD - be mine!!!!

iOS 26 adds glassy effects to 3rd party apps icons on its own, cool!
Similarly to how iOS 18 was able to add dark mode icons I suppose
#WWDC

Hey, all of you 2nd Amendment fans who insist you need all those guns to protect you from evil authoritarian government oppression... Your moment has arrived.
Or were you just sacrificing kids so you could cosplay a soldier?
Or are you OK with an authoritarian government crushing its own citizens as long as they're brown people?
We're all waiting for an answer... The longer we wait, the more we assume it's the latter.

Eli Manning wants Arch Manning, Jaxson Dart to have their own journeys with Texas and New York Giants

https://www.cbssports.com/college-…

Seeing some people claiming that Apple killed @… with the announcements at #WWDC25. I don't know how these people use Raycast, but for me, the updated spotlight does not actually cover my use cases. Especially the ability to install extensions and add your own sc…

Sources: Mistral AI has closed or is closing a handful of commercial contracts, each worth $100M over three to five years, as it expands its own infrastructure (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/65f79839-d637-48a7-a0f2-3fab8952b315

Europe’s Mistral benefits from search for artificial intelligence alternatives
Start-up has embarked on expansion of its own infrastructure and secured significant contracts

The internet seems to have a stroke again.
Man... If only there was this kind of decentralized platform that could survive on its own when big providers go down...

It’s #FollowFriday, and I want to share some wonderful people who brighten my day in their own ways.
Some are trans, some live in the UK, some write about fascism and Trump, while others focus on climate change.
You’ll find folks who dress like they’re from the 1800s, and others who aren’t shy about sharing some fun jiggle physics.
If you’re curious, go check them out b…

I see Starmer is once again taking to the national stage to tell everyone that Reform are correct, that Reform have accurately described the source of the problems of British people.
Telling everyone that migrants are a problem, that migrants are causing trouble, that migrants need to be cracked down upon.
And then he somehow thinks this will make people more likely to vote Labour?
It's basically a massive country wide national advertising campaign for Reform.
Well done Labour. When you lose it will be your own fault.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/may/11/english-test-among-range-of-labour-measures-to-control-immigration

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/jun/11/public-health-bodies-urged-launch-period-tracking-apps-protect-data
Public health bodies urged to launch period tracking apps to protect data

1/3
In an earlier post I introduced the principle that there were four categories of side hustle. Let’s now talk about the second category.
2️⃣ 𝐒 – 𝐒𝐞𝐥𝐟-𝐄𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐨𝐲𝐞𝐝 𝐒𝐢𝐝𝐞 𝐇𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐥𝐞𝐬: 𝐎𝐰𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐘𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐉𝐨𝐛
Ever thought about turning your skills into a business? Many side hustlers shift from Employee (E) to Self-Employed (S) – gaining more control but still relying on their own efforts.
🔹 Examples: Coaching, consulting, independent contractors, small-scale service businesses (photography, home repairs, etc.).

Convenience gives the illusion of freedom but is quite often the exact opposite.
Convenience creates "freedom from choice" and takes away the ability to make decisions on your own.

'Sovereign AI' is just political branding, signaling to nationalist impulses while continuing to pour money into big tech firms. It's a mask for a sucker's game.
"This reveals a new kind of digital colonialism. Not one where countries are denied access, but one where they are structurally bound into dependencies across every layer of the AI stack. A European lab may host its own weights on a data center in France, but that center runs on American hardware, software…

‘Sovereign AI’ is political branding. The reality is closer to digital colonialism
The harder nations push for AI independence, the deeper their dependencies become.

Trump is frustrated by his own success on immigration (Eric Levitz/Vox)
https://www.vox.com/politics/416526/la-protests-trump-ice-deportations-border-crossings
http://www.memeorandum.com/250612/p15#a250612p15

Sonnet 069 - LXIX
Those parts of thee that the world's eye doth view
Want nothing that the thought of hearts can mend;
All tongues, the voice of souls, give thee that due,
Uttering bare truth, even so as foes commend.
Thy outward thus with outward praise is crown'd;
But those same tongues, that give thee so thine own,
In other accents do this praise confound
By seeing farther than the eye hath shown.
They look into the beauty of t…

"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"

Sources: CoreWeave will provide computing capacity to Google as part of Google's cloud deal with OpenAI; Google will also supply its own compute to OpenAI (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/coreweave

If you want to show solidarity with Los Angeles, the best thing to do is organize protests against ICE tonight/tomorrow in your own cities.
Search the web for ICE rapid response networks in your own city / state and sign up. Help your neighbors.
https://bsky.app/profile/chadloder.bsk

In May, Microsoft launched Signal, a 120-page print magazine focused on its tech and distributed to business leaders every few months, to counter digital noise (Tom Warren/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/notepad-microsoft

Why Microsoft has created its own print magazine
Microsoft has created its own print magazine, named Signal. It’s a reaction to the digital noise and ephemeral content.

I wonder how long before Miller/Noem/FFOTUS demand that those who own homes and apartments provide housing for the troops invading LA (and elsewhere)?
Bye-bye third amendment:
“No Soldier shall, in time of peace be quartered in any house, without the consent of the Owner, nor in time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law.”

🏊‍♂️ Still no pool. Still chasing contractors.
One no-show after another, with zero communication. I get delays. What I don't get is being ghosted.
Third contractor showed promise. Local, knowledgeable, communicative. Now it’s a rain game.
Also: my desktop crashed mid-post. Overheating CPU drama. 3 years of weekly blog posts. Consecutive. No breaks.
Full update here −

Tooting My Own Horn: Three Years And Counting – Bob Mueller
I extended my weekly posting streak to three years this week. Still don't have the pool up. And I wonder about conspiracy theories.

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.

«So even though driverless cars nominally have nothing to do with law enforcement, police are treating them as though they are their own roving surveillance cameras.».
And by extension, protestors and other people start to view them as the state surveillance tools they are.
https://www.404media.co/waymo-pauses-service-in-downtown-la-neighborhood-where-theyre-getting-lit-on-fire/

Karine Jean-Pierre walks away from Democratic Party to 'follow my own compass' (Asher Notheis/Washington Examiner)
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/3430892/karine-jean-pierre-walks-away-from-democratic-party-follow-own-compass-independent-book/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250605/p65#a250605p65

Mark Zuckerberg says Threads users will soon be able to send direct messages to each other without having to leave the platform, adding a separate inbox for DMs (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/684120/threads-direct…

Threads is finally getting DMs
Threads will soon test its own private messaging system that’s distinct from Instagram’s, starting in Hong Kong, Thailand, and Argentina.

In May, Microsoft launched Signal, a 120-page print magazine focused on its tech and distributed to business leaders every few months, to counter digital noise (Tom Warren/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/notepad-microsoft

Why Microsoft has created its own print magazine
Microsoft has created its own print magazine, named Signal. It’s a reaction to the digital noise and ephemeral content.

NIH Director Struggles To Defend His Own Plan To Slash $18 Billion In Medical Research (Jennifer Bendery/HuffPost)
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/nih-director-struggles-defend-billions-budget-cuts_n_68433f27e4b004bd540a815a
http://www.memeorandum.com/250610/p158#a250610p158

Putting a crypto insider in charge of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission is like putting a drug lord in charge of the DEA.
Industry insiders shouldn’t be regulators, but this is even worse.
Crypto isn’t even a legitimate industry, just one good at playing the catch-me-if-you-can game with the regulators it’s about to own.
-- Kristen Simplicio

The Blockchain Association Just Bought the CFTC
The revolving door isn’t just corrupting the CFTC—it may end the pretense of a Commission altogether.

Trump's Fury at Gavin Newsom Backfires--and Reveals His Own Weakness (Greg Sargent/New Republic)
https://newrepublic.com/article/196674/trump-gavin-newsom-fury-backfires-reveals-weakness
http://www.memeorandum.com/250611/p21#a250611p21

In a laboratory setting, humans have accelerated particles — protons, antiprotons, electrons, and positrons — to incredibly high energies: up to the TeV (trillions of electron-volts) scale.

But cosmic rays, also including protons, electrons, and other atomic nuclei, are produced up to far greater energies, at the PeV (quadrillions of electron-volts) scale and beyond.

These very high energy cosmic rays are produced somewhere in our own galaxy:
in natural, astrophysical…

Astronomers close in on the source of the highest energy particles
On Earth, our particle accelerators can reach tera-electron-volt (TeV) energies. Particles from space are thousands of times as energetic.