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Rich Gannon on Fernando Mendoza (Part 2) https://www.raiders.com/video/rich-gannon-fernando-mendoza-part-2-raiders-morning-commute-2026

It is terrible to see a large part of Lebanon getting "the Gaza treatment" and nobody is stopping Israel. Many innocent civilians are dying and good to remember, Lebanon is another country and not part of Israel....
#israel #lebanon

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
The Fall:
🎵 Hit the North, Part 1
#TheFall
https://thefallmusic.bandcamp.com/track/hit-the-north-part-1
https://open.spotify.com/track/0XciPb5F3Sm9eDOfUVLDhO

Uh, looks like one of my DualShock analogs is starting to fail (it keeps "jumping" left). My eco-awareness teels I should get a replacement part (for ¼ of the price of a new controller) and replace it. The problem is, I don't really have energy to disassemble it and hope I won't break anything, and manage to assemble it again. The instructions suggest you have to remove pretty much everything to get there, and I have no clue how small the solders are… And I have no clue what quality is the replacement part either.

NFL picks: 49ers vs. Seahawks a part of expert's top money line parlay for Divisional Round

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/nfl-picks-…

Gaze patterns during visual mental imagery reflect part-based generation https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-026-35447-z "eye movements during mental imagery reflect a part-by-part generation process of the imagined content, independent of prior perceptual encoding"

Sonnet 074 - LXXIV
But be contented when that fell arrest
Without all bail shall carry me away,
My life hath in this line some interest,
Which for memorial still with thee shall stay.
When thou reviewest this, thou dost review
The very part was consecrate to thee:
The earth can have but earth, which is his due;
My spirit is thine, the better part of me:
So then thou hast but lost the dregs of life,
The prey of worms, my body being d…

We've discovered who rules over the humans

Source: Italian police searched the offices of the country's data protection agency, one of EU's most proactive regulators, as part of a corruption probe (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boa

ICE activity seems to have been relatively quiet the last couple of days in my part of Minneapolis.
I heard they’ve been super active recently in the outer suburbs and rural areas, and it sure doesn’t seem like anybody’s assuming we’re done with their awfulness here in the middle of the city. But I’m happily embracing the chance to take a breath.

"AI needs a lot of code."
No. It needs a lot of data and compute. But the amount of code required is comparatively small and comparatively simple.
People think of "AI" as these huge and complex IT systems when the coding part is mostly 200 Lines of Python.

The amusing part of being in #Japan right now is being able to have a video call home to Vermont and wish my wife “Happy St Patrick’s Day!” …. when it is still the middle of the afternoon for her on Monday, March 16! 😄
Ah, the joys of timezones… and the fact that we all live on a REALLY BIG spinning ball!

When the Sun was born 4.6 billion years ago, the star was located more than 10,000 light-years closer to the center of the Milky Way from its current position.
Scientists know this based on the Sun’s composition of elements heavier than hydrogen and helium,
which is more consistent with the metals found within the inner regions of the galaxy.
The missing piece of the puzzle, however, was how the Sun managed to get past the Milky Way’s central bar
—a dense region that …

Our Sun Was Born in a Hellish Part of the Milky Way. New Research Explains How It Escaped
Without the mass stellar migration, life may not have been able to form on Earth.

Part three of my three-part introduction is finally up: What can you expect from my blog and what other services will my blog replace?
https://pygospa.codeberg.page/posts/blogging-since-2001-ish/

Summer weather in China: temperatures of 20-23°C in Shanghai and its inland region!
(Normal for January there is a high temperature of 8°C)
Via @…
#ClimateChange

UK delivers 350 ASRAAM air-to-air missiles to Ukraine as part of record £4.5 billion aid package: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/17/uk-delivers-asraam-airtoair-missiles.html

rare good news https://bsky.app/profile/dropsitenews.com/post/3mcl7mhmpb22h

I know it's easy to get down on the web, but I've seen so many cool projects and blogs and personal sites and attempts to (re?)build a more human web free of corporate social media and the enshittified part of the web...
It's giving me hope that we can build an Alternative Web. The People's Web. Free of AI bullshit, free of advertisements and tracking and all that crap so many of us just do not want.

New #ThingUmbrella example to create a parametric, grid layout-based calibration sheet for black and white photography development. The sheet includes different swatches and gradients to measure results/responses of different exposure times and developer solutions/processes. The sheet also includes a placeholder for a custom test image to be added later...
All sheet components are pa…

found 'em! posters my dad brought back from san francisco in summer 1966 (&, as an art student, thought to keep them flat), part 1. some BGP classics.

Pro tip: don't give the office next to the elevators to the faculty member who no one has seen on campus for the better part of a decade. And, if the movers just dumped his stuff in the middle of the office, say in 2018, it's not too late to have someone put it away or at least hang a curtain over the window from the hall.
#AcademicChatter

@chadfowler.com's second post in his new Phoenix Architecture blog, called The Death and Rebirth of Programming.
Lots of quotable quotes, so hard to choose. "Soft skills" more important than ever, and this is all be a shock to people who self-identify as programmers.
https://aicoding…

VICE - North Korean Labor Camps (single part) - YouTube
#documnetary #korea

For sharp, unfiltered news, subscribe to Katie Phang - Part of the Meidastouch Network.
https://youtube.com/@katiephangnews?si=4zzdrPw8H1BBFlB7
Original post:

"given that #Trump has recently removed public service provision of golf courses in his own country, then transferring his Scottish golf courses to community ownership in Scotland is merely a part-compensation to the common weal" -- @…

Richard Mauer, who covered suicide and alcoholism among rural Alaskans, the Exxon Valdez spill, political corruption in Alaska, and more, died on Feb. 23 at 76 (Richard Sandomir/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/17/business/media/richard-mauer-dead.htm…

Richard Mauer, Reporter Who Probed Corruption in Alaska, Dies at 76
He routinely took on the powerful and was part of a Pulitzer-winning team at The Anchorage Daily News that investigated alcoholism and suicide among Native Alaskans.

Trump's Injustice department launches "investigation" of Minnesota's governor and Minneapolis mayor.
(Gift link)
https://wapo.st/4jJTJ8Y

😩

@… Re: https://jan.wildeboer.net/2022/08/Email-0-The-Journey-2022/
Are you thinking about implementing DANE yet? I want to learn that next. Did it…

After Gen Z’s embrace of the center part, hair appears to be migrating sideways once again.

Just finished "Pearl" written by Sherri L. Smith and illustrated by Christine Norrie, based at least in part on "Hiroshima in the Morning", a memoir by Rahna Reiko Rizzuto. A concise, wonderfully-illustrated, and fascinating story of a Hawaiian-born girl sent to visit her dying great-grandmother in Japan in 1941 and then trapped there throughout World War 2. I won't spoil things beyond that, but the book digs deep into the horrors of the war on both sides, showing just how cruel the geological ambitions of nations can be to people who belong to both cultures.
#AmReading #ReadingNow

YAWTF - Yet Another WTF?!!
Bimbo Bondi is the new Heinrich Himmler. (S. Miller is the new Adolph Eichmann.)
The logic that SCOTUS used to imbue El Cheato with imperial robes and immunity also apply, via our 10th Amendment, to governors of states.
"Justice Dept. launches criminal investigation of Minnesota governor"

Justice Dept. launches criminal investigation of Minnesota governor
The Justice Department plans to issue subpoenas for Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey as part of an investigation into impeding law enforcement.

The first time I ever really felt at home, comfortable and safe, was in an anarchist space in Seattle called "The Wildcat." It only existed for a few months, maybe a year, after I found it. Since then I've found similar places here in Amsterdam, and other places.
I want these places to be as comfortable, as much of a refuge, for everyone as they have been for me. Part of that is acknowledging and addressing the things they make physical and organizing spaces hostile.

TBH, I'd love to part ways with #facebook. The negatives are well known and too many.
Only a handful people and communities I'd like to keep in touch with are still there.
Strangely, the thing that brings me back, are the reels: Feel-good #music like Avie Sheck's cover of Creep and …

I was hoping that all those Finch LRT closures were just part of the learning process to operate it.
Now with the line shut down on the day AFTER a storm, I wonder if the whole engineering of it is wrong.
Going to be much more expensive to fix.
#ttc #finchwestlrt<…

Good. Hopefully it means that they hired a few good admins.
The worst thing to happen to email was providers of other services bundling email at prices less than it should cost to provide high quality service.
It has deprofressionalized email. The pressure on email operations to cost nothing has squeezed out high competence admins and left the largest operations mysterious black boxes to the people who run them.

Ars Technica (@arstechnica@mastodon.social)
Attached: 1 image Rackspace raises email hosting prices by as much as 706 percent Rackspace tells Ars that hosted email is still a part of its "mission." https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2026/01/rackspace-raises-email-hosting-prices-by-as-much-as-706-percent/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

Yeah. Could've had that in 3. Just laziness on my part. #Wordle
Wordle 1 703 4/6
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Series D, Episode 08 - Games
ORAC: Oh! That implies an emotional tie, which is no part of a computer's function.
AVON: These adaptations, if they went in haphazardly, could they be removed the same way?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/408/343 B7B2

I went to another running event in Barton Hall this weekend with the goal of shooting nothing but group portraits
https://www.behance.net/gallery/244247917/February-Flash-Dash-2026-Group-Portraits

#Talos and #IncusOS both have "web tools" to "generate" an image that is specifically tailored to your needs (system extensions, plugins, etc.).
That feels super weird to me. I mean, why would I want to share part of my config with the website? Why would I want to download…

Do you remember the times when the most important part of your work was an editor? And how much time we wasted to find the perfect one 😁
#ai #coding

#FridayThe13th and

Happy to be part of project INST-DSpace
The project aims to expand the #DSpacCRIS data model so that instruments and facilities can be added to the snapshot for the institutional research activity. #CERIF #eurocris

Maybe i should post smth.
#footpathfriday or #towpath ish

So the Canada - China trade deal just announced is interesting, particularly regarding Electric Vehicles. It was primarily about restoring our agricultural trade with China by allowing their EVs to access our market. But it will likely, despite the limited amount that will hit our shores, jumpstart the EV market in Canada. Cars that are feature rich and cost less, like the one reviewed in the YT video linked below, will push current manufacturers in Canada to up their game.
Doug Ford abandoned his Captain Canada persona and selfishly attacked the deal because of potential impact on Ontario's auto industry. Part of his statement demanded that the Federal government cancel their Electric Vehicle mandates because it was too costly for manufacturers to build them. I think Toyota and Honda, long time Canadian partners, may be concerned about the deal, but U.S. manufacturers are abandoning EVs and Canada. Hey Doug, I thought we were Open for Business?
#CanPoli #GlobalTrade
https://youtu.be/Mb6H7trzMfI

#CarmenElectra
Season 8 Episode 22 "White Thunder at Glacier Bay: part 2"
#RandomBaywatch #lvdlpx

"UK Fusion Energy will soon be incorporated into GOV.UK"
Is that an announcement?
https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/uk-fusion-energy

UK Fusion Energy
UKFE is part of the UK Atomic Energy Authority .

Different Corners IX ▶️
不同的角落 IX ▶️
📷 Nikon F4E
🎞️ Rollei RPX 400
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

The government has rolled back a key part of its plans to introduce a digital identity scheme by the end of this parliament.
People will no longer be required to sign up to the digital ID scheme in order to seek work in the UK.
https://www.computing.co.uk/news/2026/gove

Government backtracks on digital ID
The government has rolled back a key part of its plans to introduce a digital identity scheme by the end of this parliament.

No ICE "warehouses" in #California! Contact Schiff & Padilla, Newsom, & ABAG (https://abag.ca.gov):
"ICE is terrorizing communities across this country--California should have no part in it but I…

Am I watching TACO? No, I am doing something much more important. Relearning French. It is slow and frustrating, but some is coming back and I am learning new words. Scrolling through the TV guide and I was surprised that I could read some of the information that was in French. No where near speaking it, but can understand part of the simplest stuff.
This is one senior citizen that can still learn (even if it is slowly).

Otito Ogbonnia on what he brings to Cowboys: 'You're gonna see dominance' https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/otito-ogbonnia-on-what-he-brings-to-cowboys-you-re-gonna-see-dominance

RE: https://tldr.nettime.org/@tante/116240382037243754
I am making a slight exception for movie theaters: Movie previews are ads but I enjoy them, they are part of the experience

Sources: OpenAI appoints new leaders to oversee Stargate after deciding to rent more AI servers from cloud providers, and splits its computing effort in three (Anissa Gardizy/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/op

OpenAI Names New Infrastructure Leaders Following Stargate Strategy Shift
OpenAI has appointed new leaders to oversee its Stargate computing initiative after deciding to rent more AI servers from major cloud providers rather than build its own data centers, according to two people familiar with the changes. As part of its reorganization, OpenAI has divided its ...

Lovely engineering geekery here: https://www.theautopian.com/i-was-so-bored-at-work-i-redesigned-a-tiny-engine-part-for-fun-and-accidentally-saved-22000-pounds-of-aluminum/

I Was So Bored At Work I Redesigned A Tiny Engine Part For Fun And Accidentally Saved 22,000 Pounds Of Aluminum - The Autopian
As a Powertrain Design Engineer, the first time you design a cylinder head is a huge challenge. You have to contain gasses at 1200°C (2200°F), coolant at over boiling temperature that can’t be allowed to boil, hot oil at pressures high enough to send a flammable jet across a room, and air passages that have […]

Book nook ideas.
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DUtedQVCY1Y/?igsh=MTU0NWhuYzljdmNscQ==

Creativ-Unique on Instagram: "Turning a Blank Corner into a 3D Masterpiece 🖌️ I decided to turn this empty corner into an infinite hallway of books! 📚 It started with a complex grid of blue tape to map out the forced perspective. Then came layers of dark green paint to create the illusion of deep shadows and depth. The trickiest part was painting the hundreds of colorful books to make them look realistic from a distance. The final result is the ultimate cozy reading nook that looks like it goes on forever! Let me know in the comments: Did the perspective trick your eyes? Yes or No? 👇 Subscribe for more 3D art and room transformations! #opticalillusion #3dart #muralpainting #librarylife #readingnook #trompeloeil #satisfyingasmr #artistatwork #diydecor #reelsinstagram😍"
169K likes, 1,488 comments - creativunique on February 13, 2026: "Turning a Blank Corner into a 3D Masterpiece 🖌️ I decided to turn this empty corner into an infinite hallway of books! 📚 It started with a complex grid of blue tape to map out the forced perspective. Then came layers of dark green paint to create the illusion of deep shadows and depth. The trickiest part was painting the hundreds of colorful books to make them look realistic from a distance. The final result is the ultima…

Palantir CEO Alex Karp thinks his AI technology will lessen the power of “highly educated, often female voters, who vote mostly Democrat” while increasing the power of working-class men.
“This technology disrupts humanities-trained—largely Democratic—voters, and makes their economic power less. And increases the economic power of vocationally trained, working-class, often male, working-class voters,” Karp said in a CNBC interview Thursday.
“And so these disruptions are gonna disru…

Palantir CEO Makes Shocking Confession on Disrupting Democratic Power
They’re saying the quiet part out loud now.

The IRS erroneously shared the taxpayer information of thousands of people with the Department of Homeland Security, as part of the agencies’ controversial agreement to share information on immigrants for the purpose of identifying and deporting people illegally in the US.
https://

Taxpayer data wrongly shared with DHS, court filing says
The IRS has erroneously shared the taxpayer information of thousands of people with the Department of Homeland Security, according to a new court filing. It was part of the agencies’ controversial agreement to share information on immigrants for the purpose of identifying and deporting people illegally in the U.S. A declaration filed Wednesday by IRS Chief Risk and Control Officer Dottie Romo stated that the IRS was only able to verify roughly 47,000 of the 1.28 million names requested by U.S…

The story of what's been happening with an LLM posting attack pieces against an open source maintainer and then a news outlet publishing a piece using LLMs that made up quotes from the maintainer is a disturbing look into what the internet is going to look like in the immediate future
https://theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-published-a-hit-piece-on-me/
https://theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-published-a-hit-piece-on-me-part-2/

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Choncy:
🎵 Dressing The Part
#Choncy
https://choncy.bandcamp.com/track/dressing-the-part
https://open.spotify.com/track/19qgcBK5zv8Z2Gzl3KSCMI

Beer lovers and planet lovers, unite! Pubinno's smart tap system is revolutionizing draft beer service by slashing waste and boosting keg yields.
The results? Over 1.4 billion liters of water saved, plus industry awards for sustainability. It adjusts foam levels, works with any glass, and even handles nitro beers and sodas.
Best part: going green saves venues money too.

Happy Hour Clean Technology Special: Pubinno Smart Tap at CES - CleanTechnica
As another week comes to a close, many of us are looking forward to pouring ourselves a cold one. However, like many aspects of our lives, there are environmentally smarter ways to consumer our beverage of choice. At the end of one of the long days at CES, many people were also looking to take a break, and Pubinno’s demo offered a welcome and resource-conserving way serve up a well-poured draft beer.

fantastic work by @… about the current state of political music & why people looking for people strumming guitars might be looking in the wrong place. will add: a big reason #folk music & protest became entwined is 'cause it was…

Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl Halftime Show Was Part of a Whole Wave of Protest Music
Liberals keep asking where the political anthems are. They’re right in front of their eyes.

Also new in #ThingUmbrella: The new https://thi.ng/text-format-image package provides conversion/formatting for bitmap output for CLI/Terminal apps, currently only via the widely supported iTerm2 format (se…

A now-removed Ars Technica article, covering how an AI agent wrote a hit piece about an open source project maintainer, seems to have included AI hallucinations (Scott Shambaugh/The Shamblog)
https://theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-published-a-hit-piece-on-me-part-2/

An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me – More Things Have Happened
Context: An AI agent of unknown ownership autonomously wrote and published a personalized hit piece about me after I rejected its code, attempting to damage my reputation and shame me into acceptin…

NFL picks: Seahawks vs. 49ers showdown part of expert's top money line parlay for Divisional Round

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/nfl-pic

Trump has sent letters of invitation to various heads of government to join a new "Board of Peace",
which he will chair.
The organization was envisioned as part of the United Nations–backed effort for the reconstruction and transitional governance of Gaza.
But the new board’s charter, details of which have not been previously reported, appears to give the board a global remit, according to a copy we reviewed.
And the price of a permanent position on the…

Trump’s Billion-Dollar Board of Peace
The new entity has a global remit and a steep price for a permanent seat.

Tranquility
#DavidHasselhoff
Season 6 Episode 19 "Forbidden Paradise: part 1"
#RandomBaywatch #lvdlpx

No ICE "warehouses" in #California! Contact Schiff & Padilla, Newsom, & ABAG (https://abag.ca.gov):
"ICE is terrorizing communities across this country--California should have no part in it but I…

Ukraine moves part of drone and missile production to Poland, Polish Foreign Minister Sikorski says: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/09/ukraine-moves-part-of-drone.html

Different Corners X ▶️
不同的角落 X ▶️
📷 Nikon F4E
🎞️ Rollei RPX 400
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

Cowboys Headlines: Gary took pay cut; Dallas pulls interest in polarizing LB https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2026/03/17/news-headlines-march-16-2026-rashan-gary-pa…

Spencer Burford is officially part of The Nation 🔏 https://www.youtube.com/shorts/IzNFQJAu-aE

Trump signs an order to impose a 25% tariff on chips "transshipped through the United States to other foreign countries", as part of the Nvidia H200 deal (Josh Wingrove/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Easy-to-install solar panels that plug into a regular outlet are getting attention just as Americans are worried about rising energy costs.
These plug-in or balcony solar panels start shaving off part of a homeowner's or renter's utility bill right away.
⭐️The panels are already popular in Germany, where more than 1.2 million of the small plug-in systems are registered with the German government.
For the panels to become more widely available in the U.S., state lawmak…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Expansions
Prayer:
🎵 Entity
#Prayer
https://moonscape.bandcamp.com/track/entity-part-vi-a-stolen-prayer
https://open.spotify.com/track/2fp7GAoEqSea4Q8cBZtnfF

#NicoleEggert #StephenHeld
Season 4 Episode 14 "Coronado Del Soul: part 1"
#RandomBaywatch

Demario Davis returns to Jets for third stint in New York: Mission was 'a little incomplete' https://www.nfl.com/news/demario-davis-returns-jets-third-stint-new-york-mission-incomplete

Orion will fly by the far side of the Moon
(the side that always faces away from Earth).
For ~6 hours, the crew will observe and photograph geologic features that humans haven’t seen in person since 1972.
This is the part I’m in Mission Control for! Squeeeee!
-- barbylon.bsky.social

NASA’s Artemis II Lunar Science Operations to Inform Future Missions
While the Artemis II crew will be the first humans to test NASA’s Orion spacecraft in space, they will also conduct science investigations that will inform future deep space missions, including a lunar science investigation as Orion flies about 4,000 to 6,000 miles from the Moon’s surface.

Zelensky meets Ukraine's ex-army chief Zaluzhnyi, prominent volunteers as part of 'new policy': https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/15/zelensky-meets-ukraines-exarmy-chief.html

Rich Gannon on Fernando Mendoza (Part 2) | Raiders Morning Commute https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19JzxQdvj4k

Ravens owner points to Cowboys' Jerry Jones as example he won't follow https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2026/01/16/cowboys-jerry-jones-ravens-steve-bisci…

Metropolitana VII - Markings 💮
城 VII - 印记 💮
📷 Pentax MX
🎞️ Ilford Pan 100
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

BlackRock raises $12.5B as part of its Microsoft partnership to bankroll data centers and energy infrastructure, bringing it closer to its $30B goal from 2024 (Silla Brush/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #SundaySoul
Martin Island:
🎵 Don't Give It Up
#MartinIsland
https://zrecords.bandcamp.com/track/dont-give-it-up-part-1-2-edit
https://open.spotify.com/track/3XNJHMIG9RVQUN3MoKQSWi

A federal judge in Texas declared a mistrial on Tuesday after a defense lawyer wore a shirt in court with images from the civil rights movement,
delaying a closely watched case in which the Trump administration is accusing a group of protesters of being terrorists and says they are part of a “North-Texas antifa cell”.
US district judge Mark Pittman, an appointee of Donald Trump, declared a mistrial only hours after jury selection began at the federal courthouse in downtown Fort W…

#DavidHasselhoff #JeremyJackson
Season 5 Episode 2 "Livin' on the Fault Line: part 2"
#RandomBaywatch

Saints $24 million cut candidate could draw interest from Cowboys, Broncos and Chiefs https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/new-orleans-saints/news/saints-24-million-cut-candidate-interest-cowboys-br…

As part of its Reality Labs cuts, Meta is closing three VR gaming studios and will stop developing new content and features for its VR fitness app Supernatural (Jay Peters/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/861420/meta-reality-la…

Meta is closing down three VR studios as part of its metaverse cuts
Meta’s Reality Labs layoffs include shutting down some of its VR studios, according to employees affected by the cuts.

The Department of Commerce says the US and Taiwan have reached a trade agreement as part of which Taiwan will invest $250B in chip production capacity in the US (Kif Leswing/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/15/us-taiwan-chips-deal-china.html

Taiwan will invest $250 billion in U.S. chipmaking under new trade deal
The U.S. and Taiwan have reached a trade agreement to build chips and chip factories on American soil, the Department of Commerce announced Thursday.

FBI agents searched a Washington Post reporter’s home on Wednesday
as part of a leak investigation into a Pentagon contractor accused of taking home classified information, the Justice Department said.
#Hannah #Natanson, who has been covering Donald Trump’s transformation of the federal government,
had…

FBI searches Washington Post reporter's home in leak probe
Attorney General Pam Bondi says the search of a Washington Post reporter’s home was done at the Pentagon’s request as part of a leak investigation. The Post says journalist Hannah Natanson had a phone, two laptops and a watch seized by agents at her Virginia home. An FBI affidavit says the search was related to an investigation into a system administrator in Maryland who authorities believe took home classified reports. Natanson covers the Trump administration’s transformation of the fede…

A matplotlib maintainer explains how an AI agent that suggests code changes on open source repos wrote a hit piece on him after a rejection, and the aftermath (Scott/The Shamblog)
https://theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-published-a-hit-piece-on-me-part-2/
…

Hundreds of thousands of people have taken part in rallies around the world
to show their solidarity with anti-government demonstrators in Iran
whose continued protests have been met with brutal and deadly repression.
On Saturday, Reza Pahlavi, the exiled son of Iran’s last shah,
addressed a crowd of 200,000 people in Munich,
telling them he was ready to lead the country to a “secular democratic future”.
Pahlavi urged Iranians at home and abroad to continu…

This week, ProPublica published a story I wrote
based in part on interviews with parents and children being held at the nation’s only operating detention center for immigrant families in Dilley, Texas.
I had asked some of the parents to see if their children would be willing to write to me about their experiences inside.
-- More than three dozen did.
One of those letters came from 9-year-old Maria Antonia Guerra Montoya from Colombia.
Her letter was written on…

How a Planned Disney World Vacation Turned Into Four Months in Immigration Detention
A 9-year-old shares her story of being held at the nation’s only operating detention center for immigrant families in Dilley, Texas.

Changes in a Florida ocean current could wreak havoc worldwide
For 43 years, scientists have been studying the strength of the water flow between Florida and the Bahamas
to learn what drives its changes over time.
The information could help scientists answer a pressing question:
Is the Florida Current, one of the world’s fastest ocean currents, slowing down?
If so, it could indicate weakening of the larger circulation system in the Atlantic Ocean
— what…

Why changes in a Florida ocean current could wreak havoc worldwide
It’s part of the scenario in “The Day After Tomorrow,” but scientists differ over whether or how fast it may occur. A team studying the current toils to bring clarity.

The Department of Defense on Thursday announced it would ⚠️overhaul the military newspaper "Stars and Stripes",
👉including no longer circulating reporting from wire services like The Associated Press.
While part of the Pentagon’s Defense Media Activity,
it has long had editorial independence from the Department of Defense leadership
and is
✅ “congressionally mandated to be governed by First Amendment principles,”
according to the paper.
Th…