Tootfinder

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.

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

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 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/

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…

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

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

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.

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

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

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

"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!!!!

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.

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.

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 …

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!

"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"

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

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…

https://modal.com
https://www.cerebrium.ai
這兩間雲服務商每個月有 30 美金的免費額度給我被免費仔使用

Prime minister Mark Carney’s favourite food is pizza. That earns him in an invitation to Tech Pizza Monday! https://streetsoftoronto.com/a-list-of-world-leaders-fave-foods-just-dropped-and-carneys-are-shockingly-basic/

True story time, from about 8 years ago.
After work, I joined few co-workers for happy hour. I had 1 or 2 alcoholic drinks, then cut myself off and drank soda rest of the night, for many reasons including I wanted to be 100% sober to drive home.
One guy was rude, insisted I keep drinking, said I was ruining the fun.
Kids, be your own person. Be stubborn. Don't let someone pressure you into doing something you don't want to do. No means no.
1/x

playing prague | Prague City Tourism - https://prague.eu/en/playing-prague/?utm_source=charlesgames.beehiiv.com&utm_medium=newsl…

playing prague | Prague City Tourism
Playing Prague is a game celebrating Prague and all those who have shaped and continue to shape this beautiful city. Every detail of the game is a tribute to the 1000-year cultural heritage of a city that was once the seat of the Holy Roman Emperors and the capital of the Bohemian Kingdom. It is also the origin of the designation of bohemians as people with a creative and unconventional way of life. Become a Bohemian for a while and build your own Prague.

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

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

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

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/

Movie Wars: How Hollywood and the Media Limit What Films We Can See - Jonathan Rosenbaum
> Ebert reviews a good many film books, and to my knowledge Siskel never did; if he ever read any books about film on his own, it would have surprised me.
#films #movies

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.

Events in LA remind us that in times past, when the state uses excessive force against its own citizens, it ultimately was on the wrong side of history. In the UK, we too have a shady past of parallel events and movements: #Levellers #Chartists

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.

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…

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.

Calamus 28 When I peruse the conquered fame of heroes
My surface reading is this is a celebration of the common man, perhaps soldiers, over the more famous generals and presidents. But this commentary encourages me to dig deeper.
First, to highlight the gay text...
the brotherhood of lovers ... Through youth, and through middle and old age, how unfaltering, how affectionate and faithful they were
Very homoromantic language! Male lovers who stay together through their whole lives, affectionate.
The last fillip here is Whitman's own stance: "pensive... filled with the bitterest envy". Whitman admires these lovers and envies them. That's a striking feeling to disclose!

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

JWST Coronagraphic Images of 14 Her c: a Cold Giant Planet in a Dynamically Hot, Multi-planet System
Daniella C. Bardalez Gagliuffi, William O. Balmer, Laurent Pueyo, Timothy D. Brandt, Mark R. Giovinazzi, Sarah Millholland, Brennen Black, Tiger Lu, Malena Rice, James Mang, Caroline Morley, Brianna Lacy, Julien Girard, Elisabeth Matthews, Aarynn Carter, Brendan P. Bowler, Jacqueline K. Faherty, Clemence Fontanive, Emily Rickman

JWST Coronagraphic Images of 14 Her c: a Cold Giant Planet in a Dynamically Hot, Multi-planet System
Most observed multi-planet systems are coplanar, in a dynamically "cold" configuration of concentric orbits like our own Solar System. With the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) we have detected 14 Her c, the first mature and cold exoplanet directly imaged in a dynamically "hot", multi-planet system. With large eccentricities and a nonzero mutual inclination, the present-day architecture of this system points to a turbulent past and ongoing angular momentum exchange between the planetary orbits…

#WritersCoffeeClub 10: What is the line between homage and theft?
Theft is illegal, a copyright violation. You take someone else's words, paragraph by paragraph, and pass it on as your own. Plagiarism, while not strictly illegal, lands here in my opinion. It's artistic theft.
Homage, in my opinion, is writing something in someone else's spirit, honouring the origin…

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...

I really dislike strawpoll...
the site is paranoid and ignores its own options! I'm avoiding them for now
#StrawPoll #StrawPollSucks

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.

This headline is a *bit* deceptive. Only visa holders from two countries in #Asia are impacted - #China and #NorthKorea
Of course, North Koreans can't get visas, so it really only applies to

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.

https://bsky.app/profile/jonpainter.bsky.social/post/3loqihxmeps23

Deploying the military domestically to own the libs.

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

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.

For all the German speakers in my network: this wonderful and entertaining podcast by ZEIT Wissen takes my research on workplace environments and makes it personal by walking through their own offices, assessing them and checking in with staff on how they feel
The big question: which office form is best? Single offices, shared or open-plan? Assigned desks or activity based working?
Must listen! 👏🏻

Einzelbüro, Großraum, Zuhause? Wo der Mensch am besten arbeitet
ZEIT WISSEN. Woher weißt Du das? · Episode

MOSQUITOS ON SALE!!
Buy your own mosquitos.
Only males.
Only sterile males.
Only sterile males for companies that work in the field of pest control.
Only in Italy
https://www.…

Site-resolved magnon and triplon dynamics on a programmable quantum dot spin ladder
Pablo Cova Fari\~na, Daniel Jirovec, Xin Zhang, Elizaveta Morozova, Stefan D. Oosterhout, Stefano Reale, Tzu-Kan Hsiao, Giordano Scappucci, Menno Veldhorst, Lieven M. K. Vandersypen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08663

Site-resolved magnon and triplon dynamics on a programmable quantum dot spin ladder
Quasi-particle dynamics in interacting systems in the presence of disorder challenges the notion of internal thermalization, but proves difficult to investigate theoretically for large particle numbers. Engineered quantum systems may offer a viable alternative, as witnessed in experimental demonstrations in a variety of physical platforms, each with its own capabilities and limitations. Semiconductor gate-defined quantum dot arrays are of particular interest since they offer both a direct mappi…

'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.

Bookmark this for when you ask yourself why skepticism turns to hatred on the use of unconstrained LLMs.
https://infosec.exchange/@dvandal/114638324336575392

This video features a #GenAI avatar of a murder victim delivering their own impact statement in the murder trial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMs-_8etNts.
The technical quality is not very impressive, but the affective and social implications of this are amazing.
/via @…: https://www.404media.co/r/8a3ee799

RIP Bill Atkinson — Thank you for everything!

«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/

Emperor Trump is getting his own military parade & has made up an excuse to order the military to turn against US citizens.
Original post: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:eppsmw5nfmdzhfeymtzd3xbe/post/3lr2umqf2422s

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.

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.”

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

https://www.cbssports.com/college-…

Kent State may have figured prominently in Nixon's fall from power, but do not forget that Trump's base actively seeks such an incident. They own AR-15s precisely because they harbor blood fantasies about killing "libs."

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

From engineer to manager, told from both sides - this thoughtful article is your #linkTuesday this week as I’m reflecting on my own professional next steps https://leaddev.com/career-development/from-engineer-manager-told-from-both-sides

I find myself thinking about a long-lost friend a lot lately. Sometime in the late 90s, we both accepted that our friendship had run its course. I had come to embrace fairly low-key socialism and he was increasingly angry about the media's "liberal bias." The common ground we had once shared was gone. I imagine him cheering now, even as I recall his father, a deeply conservative Marine colonel, remarking that only authoritarian regimes used the military against their own citize…

🕊️ ❤️⚓️
Happy and blessed Pentecost to all who celebrate it at sea, in foreign ports and ashore, seafarers, families and friends!
Pentecost is celebrating diversity :
‚because each one heard their own language being spoken‘ Acts 2
It’s about accepting and understanding the diverse cultures!🌈

What's the angle here? California belongs to Mexico? In Communism, we will drive our own taxis? Baiting the people who love Evola with the defeat of martial order by the unwashed and unchecked proletariat? Kali Yuga fashion show? Just there for the violence? Strange times we live in.

Inward and Outward Spillover Effects of One Unit's Treatment on Network Neighbors under Partial Interference
Fei Fang, Edoardo M Airoldi, Laura Forastiere
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.06615

Inward and Outward Spillover Effects of One Unit's Treatment on Network Neighbors under Partial Interference
In settings where interference is present, direct effects are commonly defined as the average effect of a unit's treatment on their own outcome while fixing the treatment status or probability among interfering units, and spillover effects measure the average effect of a change in the latter while the individual's treatment status is kept fixed. Here, we define the average causal effect of a unit's treatment status on the outcome of their network neighbors, while fixing the treatment probabilit…

systemd definitely does get many things right. My current favorite is how it sets the system resolver to loopback and provides an own DNS server.
Common Linux tradition was to tell processes to use getaddrinfo, where nsswitch then provides configurable backends. That means that every process goes through loading /etc/nsswitch.conf, but worse, it reduces DNS to a terrible subset. Query SVCB records? tough luck, you're on your own.

LHAASO Protons versus LHAASO Diffuse Gamma Rays: A Consistency Check
Luis Enrique Espinosa Castro, Francesco Lorenzo Villante, Vittoria Vecchiotti, Carmelo Evoli, Giulia Pagliaroli
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.06593

LHAASO Protons versus LHAASO Diffuse Gamma Rays: A Consistency Check
We perform the first direct consistency check between the recently measured proton spectrum at the knee by LHAASO and the collaboration's own high-precision mapping of Galactic diffuse gamma-ray emission. By modeling the hadronic gamma-ray production using the updated cosmic-ray spectra, gas templates and cross-section models, we show that the predicted gamma-ray flux robustly overshoots the LHAASO data in both inner and lateral Galactic regions. This persistent mismatch in both normalization a…

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

Your left and right brain hear language differently − a neuroscientist explains how https://theconversation.com/your-left-and-right-brain-hear-language-differently-a-neuroscientist-explains-how-257436

Your left and right brain hear language differently − a neuroscientist explains how
Left and right brains hear speech differently, yet how this divide forms was unclear − until mouse studies showed each hemisphere runs on its own developmental clock.

Some more water / stream with a lot of green in the #blackforest /#schwarzwald last year.
I hope we'll go there again later this year.
(powered by my own Peertube instance 🥰)
https://video.franzgraf.d…

@…
You saw me standing alone
Without a dream in my heart
Without a love of my own
New racoon
You knew just what I was there for
You heard me saying a prayer for
Someone I really could care for

' “How do we afford public ownership?” You squeeze the water companies hard. If they’re no longer making a profit, their so-called “market value” (based on ripping you off) will fall. As they collapse, like Thames Water, they can be taken into public ownership for a song, and their debt can be refinanced more cheaply in the public sector – with the savings going to reduce bills, invest in stopping sewage, or both." '

Bring Thames Water into public ownership | We Own It

https://youtube.com/watch?v=wfpjNdhpMzg
You know when a foreigner teaches you more about your own country than you know? This guy is such a good subject matter expert at languages, that by accident he knows things about Australian languages and culture that I guarantee you won…

"You should know Trump isn’t doing this on his own. The Hoover Institution has been plotting revenge against FDR since 1932. Groups like the Heritage Foundation and Heartland Foundation are generations old. The Federalist Society has been promising to overturn liberal justice since the 1960s. The Religious Right started working to overturn Roe v. Wade the day it was promulgated. All these groups have big money, and they play the long game.
What’s happening today is their platform, backed by their research. The fact it won’t work, that the 20th century won’t be put back into a bottle, that the Amendments put in place after 1865 somehow aren’t part of the “real” Constitution, is yet to be proven by events."
https://danafblankenhorn.substack.com/p/all-in-the-family

Snippets in Visual Studio Code
You can easily define your own snippets without any extension.
https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/editing/userdefinedsnippets#_create-your-own-snippets

Hard to find a single summarizing quote from the post, but it keeps coming back to two closely related ideas:
(1) the tendency of humans to blame themselves for poor tool performance (“oh I should have prompted in •that• way instead, my bad”), and
(2) what we educators call the “hidden curriculum:” people are unaware of learning they have done / habitual effort they are expending, and thus they see their own learning / ongoing effort as zero-cost, obvious, nonexistent, innate personal virtue, etc.
The existence of (2) sets people up for (1); recognizing (2) helps cure (1).
4/

This took longer than expected. Pretty cool that it works.
Post featured in video: #PhanpySocialDev

I finally got rid of the old bed I’d kept since moving in, so the room feels pretty empty right now.
I’m in the process of reorganizing everything and plan to turn this space into my own anarchist sanctuary.
Soon, I’ll add a bookshelf and more anarchist art to the wall, right next to the communist hammer and sickle symbol.
#Declutter

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.

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.

🏊‍♂️ 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.

I keep posting about how the AI hype bubble makes it almost impossible to have a reasonable conversation about LLMs, and it’s only when the bubble bursts that we can start thinking realistically about what if anything LLMs are actually good for in writing code.
That seems to be what Fred is getting at here: the massive gap between the hype and the reality means that the affordances of these tools fit neither the task at hand nor the tool’s own capabilities.
6/

Calamus 20 I saw in Louisiana a live-oak growing
What a heartaching poem of loneliness and the need for the love of another! Just wonderful. I understand now why this poem is so popular, particularly as a gay poem. It is full of meaning and is quite clear about it.
I wondered how it could utter joyous leaves, standing alone there, without its friend, its lover near—for I knew I could not
There's a more cerebral interpretation of this work, particularly if you understand "leaves" to mean "pages in my poetry book Leaves of Grass". Whitman talking about his own poetic inspiration from lovers.
Which well enough. But I'm more interested in Whitman's expressed need for "manly love". Which is clearly on his mind constantly:
my own dear friends ... I believe lately I think of little else than of them
Also Whitman's own eroticization of nature and himself. Here speaking of the tree,
its look, rude, unbending, lusty, made me think of myself

The @…, in celebration of their 40th anniversary, has declared May to be the month in which enjoyers of free and open hardware and software will meet up at LibreLocal events. In that spirit, May 12th’s Tech Pizza Monday will host its own LibreLocal meetup! Same place and time as usual (Victory Cafe, 440 Bloor St. W., 6 PM). Demos are strongly encouraged!

Ravens extend WR Rashod Bateman, continue to prioritize their own players https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6405647/2025/06/05/rashod-bateman-ravens-contract-extension/

I didn't know that the value of IPv4 addresses peaked in 2022 and now appears to be declining.
Everyone sitting on a big chunk of IPv4 space is now holding a depreciating asset. If I were them I'd be minded to accelerate their own IPv6 transition in order to sell it off.
But I'd suggest that regardless.
https://ipv4a-5539a…

""highly sensitive counterterrorism operation with national security implications" - that was then.
'Mistake': Nicolle Wallace uses Trump admin's own words to slam MS13 claims - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/kilmar-abrego-garcia-2672324359/

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.

For those who never had a Mac who are put off by / bemused by / disdainful of all the praise for Bill Atkinson’s work:
Don’t think of this as admiration for Apple and Apple history. Think of it as admiration for a more humane view of computing:
one where software’s job is to bring delight and foster creativity,
one where our devices are not hermetically sealed gifts from the tech gods with which we make a Faustian bargain, but rather a bucket of art supplies for us to play with, reshape, make our own. https://mastodon.social/@arroz/114643547519909731

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

Once Champions of Fringe Causes, Now in a ‘Trap of Their Own Making’
Top leaders at the Justice Department and the F.B.I. are struggling to fulfill Trump campaign promises often rooted in misinformation and conspiracy theories.
h…

Law Enforcement Officials Struggle to Fulfill Trump Promises Rooted in Conspiracy Theories
Top leaders at the Justice Department and the F.B.I. are struggling to fulfill Trump campaign promises often rooted in misinformation and conspiracy theories.

Justin Sun-linked BiT Global dismisses with prejudice its lawsuit against Coinbase for delisting wBTC; the delisting followed Coinbase launching rival cbBTC (Francisco Rodrigues/CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2025/06/07…

Coinbase, BiT Global End Legal Fight Over WBTC Delisting
BiT Global agreed to dismiss its lawsuit against Coinbase, with each party covering its own legal expenses.

Underlining this from @….
Do not let anyone get away with calling ICE “law enforcement.” That term is wrong. They are operating outside the law. They aren’t law •enforcement•; they’re law •circumvention•. Their purpose is to grant a would-be authoritarian military power against his own country, unconstrained by either law or democracy. https://med-mastodon.com/@gregggonsalves/114644138834261758

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth Threatens Mobilization of Active-Duty Marines Against Protesters in Los Angeles

Such language is unprecedented in response to immigration protests.
The escalation comes just three days after the anniversary of the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre,
when Chinese troops crushed a pro-democracy movement with tanks and live ammunition
—a grim reminder of what can happen when a government turns its military on its own people.

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz says Democrats need to take a page from Donald Trump’s own playbook.
“Maybe it’s time for us to be a little meaner,” the former vice presidential hopeful said during a speech at the South Carolina Democratic Party’s annual convention in Columbia, South Carolina.
“Maybe it’s time for us to be a little more fierce because we have to ferociously push back on this.”
“When it’s a bully like Donald Trump, you bully the s--t out of him,” Walz added

Walz Tells Dems to ‘Bully the S**t’ Out of Trump or Risk Becoming ‘Roadkill’
The former vice presidential candidate doled out harsh words for both the president and his own party.

MAGA Melts Down at ABC Reporter Over Stephen Miller Takedown (Will Neal/The Daily Beast)
https://www.thedailybeast.com/maga-melts-down-at-trump-interviewer-terry-moran-over-stephen-miller-takedown/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250608/p29#a250608p29

Sources: Trump's team seeks a potential consent decree as part of an FTC deal forcing Meta to pay restitution to conservative users harmed by content moderation (Lydia Moynihan/New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2025/06/06/business/bi…

Big Tech's bet on Trump hasn't yielded special favors
Silicon Valley giants spent millions on Inauguration Day seats, but they’ve gotten little in return — save for a front-row view of their own reckoning.

Musk and Trump are enemies made for each other - united in their ability to trash their own brands (Jonathan Freedland/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jun/06/donald-trump-elon-musk-enemies-trash-twitter-tesla
http://www.memeorandum.com/250607/p1#a250607p1