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Imani Thompson, along with the New York City-based tech organizing coalition "Cypurr Collective",
is the host of "Break Up With Google".
Its purpose is to help attenders understand how to mitigate their vulnerability to surveillance through major tech services.
But it’s important for people to have fun while they do it, Thompson said
– hence the DJs playing until the wee hours of the morning.
“Learning to script a little at your local bar …

swingers: Swingers and parties (2013)
A bipartite sexual affiliation network representing “swing unit” couples (one node per couple) and the parties they attended.
This network has 96 nodes and 232 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/swingers

CNN poll: Political independents hit their highest level in a decade (Jennifer Agiesta/CNN)
https://www.cnn.com/2026/06/16/politics/cnn-poll-political-parties-independent-democrats-republicans
http://www.memeorandum.com/260616/p75#a260616p75

I enjoyed this. #podcast

Why doesn’t anybody come to my parties?
Claire Haber-Harris has a question. When she sends out an invitation, why does she get a tidal wave of excuses and no's? How could someone claim to have had the sam…

The UK CMA orders Google to provide greater transparency on how its search rankings work and to let users transfer their search data to authorized third parties (Muvija M/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/uk-regulator-sets-out…

An updating list of confirmed WHCD parties, starting Wednesday; nine events are hosted by media startups that are less than 10 years old (Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/04/14/white-house-correspondents-dinner-weekend-2026

What's happening during White House Correspondents' Dinner weekend 2026
This year's event will be attended by President Trump for the first time as a sitting commander in chief.

“Britain has been telling itself wildly inaccurate stories about itself for decades. The further those stories have drifted from reality, the worse their ability to govern has become”
https://www.thegist.ie/the-gist-britain-the-ungoverned-country/

swingers: Swingers and parties (2013)
A bipartite sexual affiliation network representing “swing unit” couples (one node per couple) and the parties they attended.
This network has 96 nodes and 232 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/swingers

In this key by-election, it is essential to defeat Reform Ltd. That means putting aside reservations about Burnham.
Other left parties, in this case, must stand aside
Andy Burnham faces perilous race to win Makerfield byelection, allies say | Labour | The Guardian
htt…

This is a TikTok from glutelord@bsky.social, expressing some of the irony that shows up in incel “looksmaxxing” (basically men shaping their looks, in theory to attract women, but that they’re using a “male gaze” template)
And correctly noting that not only is it stolen from Gay circuit but without the actual undepinnings.
It’s worth a watch.

Perceived inequality is a breeding ground for populism, say researchers
#politics

Perceived inequality is a breeding ground for populism, say researchers
In recent decades, income and wealth disparities have widened significantly in many European countries. At the same time, support for populist parties has grown. Previous studies have already pointed out that rising inequality may be contributing to the growth of populist movements. But how can this correlation be explained? Why are more and more people turning to populist parties?

The UK CMA orders Google to provide greater transparency on how its search rankings work and to let users transfer their search data to authorized third parties (Muvija M/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/uk-regulator-sets-out…

Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) told White House budget director Russel Vought that
lawmakers “are not getting any answers”
as to why hundreds of millions of dollars isn’t flowing to states
for anti-poverty programs.
Senators from both parties chided the Trump administration Thursday for continuing to withhold funding Congress has approved, -- more than a year after the White House first froze billions of dollars for temporary “review.”
During White House budget di…

Court of appeal on Palestine Action: “It is not, as it claims, a direct action civil disobedience protest group like the suffragettes operating transparently in the open. It is a covert organisation that operates using secret cells to avoid the detection and prosecution of those using violence to destroy the property of third parties.”
Er, surely that's exactly how the suffragettes operated, very famously?

The UK CMA orders Google to provide greater transparency on how its search rankings work and to let users transfer their search data to authorized third parties (Muvija M/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/uk-regulator-sets-out…

"Trump Celebrates While America Capitulates" The Atlantic
[$]
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/06/trump-iran-deal/687547/?utm_source=feed

Trump Parties While America Surrenders
The peace deal with Tehran is an Iranian victory.

Sources: Google is negotiating a deal with the US DOD that would let the Pentagon deploy Gemini AI models in classified settings, reversing its previous stance (Erin Woo/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/go

Google and Pentagon Discuss Classified AI Deal as Company Rebuilds Military Ties
Google is negotiating an agreement with the Department of Defense that would allow the Pentagon to deploy Google’s Gemini AI models in classified settings, according to two people with direct knowledge of the discussions. If the two parties come to an agreement, it would expand Google’s ...

Giants' John Harbaugh on potential Odell Beckham reunion: 'It's got to be right for both parties' https://www.nfl.com/news/giants-john-harbaugh-on-potential-odell-beckham-reunion-it-s-got-to-be-right-for-both-pa…

Hello, reply guys!
Yeah, the Democratic Party in the present and political parties in general are…um, disappointing at best, let’s just say. It’s foolish to view them as the primary mechanism of constructive change; they are at best a tool we use, but change has to come from the ground up.
We can recognize that without the nose-in-air whataboutism of this person’s reply. The fact is that if we had 2 more Democrats in the House right now, ICE and CBP wouldn’t have this •massive• budget influx that’s set to give these modern Brownshirts the ability to operate at every-city-at-once scale. I am not looking for a party I can cheer like a sports team; political parties should not be fandoms. I am just looking for ways to put out the fire that’s consuming my country. If I have a bucket of water I can dump on it, I am not going to whine about how the water tastes.
https://olifant.social/@burly/statuses/01KTS3TPYH0HK6HC7VQ58MTNRP

« Nier jusqu’Š l’absurde » : au procès en appel du financement libyen, les parties civiles ciblent l’attitude de Nicolas Sarkozy - Le Parisien
https://www.leparisien.fr/fai…

« Nier jusqu’à l’absurde » : au procès en appel du financement libyen, les parties civiles ciblent l’attitude de Nicolas Sarkozy
Au terme de deux mois d’audience, les avocats des victimes de l’attentat du DC-10 d’UTA ont fustigé le positionnement de l’ancien président.

@… have called for an independent enquiry into ALL Scottish parties' finances.
That's a genuinely sensible idea.
Now, will other parties back it? After all, what do they have to hide?
#ScotPol

With only half of eligible voters turning out in Highlands and Islands, a massive 3,677 of them threw away their vote on 12 tiny "parties" and two independents, at least 3 of which were obviously created to disable votes that could have been given to real parties.

Trump has announced that the United States and Iran have reached a deal to end their war.
“Congratulations to all!” he said in a posting on his Truth Social site this evening.
He then headed off to oversee the garish public spectacle he’d arranged for his birthday on the South Lawn of the White House.
The United States, however, has little to celebrate:
Trump and his team, in record time, just lost a war to a militarily mediocre
—but nonetheless extremely dang…

Trump Parties While America Surrenders
The peace deal with Tehran is an Iranian victory.

Open Primaries Have Their Fans. The Parties Are Not Among Them. (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/14/us/politics/open-primaries-improve-lives.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260514/p99#a260514p99

Paris-Saclay retire a Etienne Klein son doctorat car il en aurait plagié de grande parties
Paris-Saclay ne retire pas le doctorat de Idriss Aberkane qui est essentiellement du copier-coler du manuel d'un logiciel open-source.
Je comprend pas trop la logique

So in the legal fight over the cage matches on the White House lawn, parties have filed their briefs.
So it's Boxers vs Briefs
#DadJokes

RE: #hungarian parliament

🇺🇸 Car seeks energy partner to work together on exciting projects for the grid. A lasting partnership, based on equality that lifts both parties.
In Europe you could almost find the reverse contact ad:
🇪🇺 Smart energy partner seeks car for joint grid fun.
#V2G

"Consumers will be more motivated when given clear, appropriate incentives. Together, we can expand localized, time-of-use tariffs, allowing EV owners to charge cost-effectively during energy… | Jaap Burger
"Consumers will be more motivated when given clear, appropriate incentives. Together, we can expand localized, time-of-use tariffs, allowing EV owners to charge cost-effectively during energy surpluses and receive appropriate compensation when supporting the grid during peak strain or in times of need. This creates a rare economic alignment: a car becomes an asset that offsets its own operating costs while actively delivering benefits to the public system." A letter well worth reading from Wad…

Die Unternehmen, die für die Plattformen die Altersverifizierung durchführen, sammeln mehr Daten als nötig wäre.
„Yoti “collects significant private information beyond what is strictly necessary to verify age” and that it “relies on sharing sensitive user information with several less user-visible fourth parties.”“
Das ist eins der zentralen Probleme der #SocialMediaVerbote

To be honest, this doesn't sound like a horrible way to govern.
No political parties, but house and senate approval needed to pass anything.
#CanPoli

Why are conservative parties not only always deeply corrupt and often doing illegal things... but also traitorous?
The UCP, "Centurion Project" and "Republican Party of Alberta" are all so tainted with this scandal that Jason Kenney... yes Jason Kenney... is playing the victim.
I feel bad for Albertans, but they've also brought a lot of it on themselves by voting these bozos in time and time again.
#ABpoli #CanPoli #CdnPoli
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/elections-alberta-voter-data-centurion-project-ndp-ucp-9.7189167

More Parties, More Risks, More Opportunity? Evolving Governance to Support Cyber Resilience Amidst Evolving Policy and Technological Change
https://fpf.org/blog/more-parties-more-ris…

from my link log —
Maximizing DNS qname minimization.
http://www.circleid.com/posts/20200916-maximizing-qname-minimization-new-chapter-dns-protocol-evolution/
saved 2020-09-17

Maximizing Qname Minimization: A New Chapter in DNS Protocol Evolution
Data privacy and security experts tell us that applying the "need to know" principle enhances privacy and security, because it reduces the amount of information potentially disclosed to a service provider -- or to other parties -- to the minimum the service provider requires to perform a service. This principle is at the heart of qname minimization, a technique described in RFC 7816 that has now achieved significant adoption in the DNS.

Expanding a bit on that “my ass” part:
One of the US parties is a mostly-anti-fascist party that’s going through an internal war about whether the best way to fight fascism is to sort of split the difference and cede a bit based on polling, or to punch fascists with everyone we’ve got.
The other US party is fascists, still united in lock step behind a fascist leader who is still trying consolidate authoritarian power — now by forming a massive paramilitary.
I don’t like either one of those things. But I dislike them in very different ways.

Multipartite reference-frame-independent quantum cryptographic communication
Donghwa Lee, Kyujin Shin, Hyang-Tag Lim, Yosep Kim, Yong-Su Kim
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.12284 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2606.12284 https://arxiv.org/html/2606.12284
arXiv:2606.12284v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Reference frame mismatch among communication parties introduces errors in quantum cryptographic protocols. As the number of participants increases, aligning reference frames becomes increasingly difficult, complicating multipartite quantum cryptographic implementations. Here, we theoretically and experimentally investigate multipartite reference-frame-independent (RFI) quantum cryptographic communication using Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger (GHZ) states. We generalize the bipartite RFI security parameter $C$ to an $N$-party parameter $C_N$ and derive the asymptotic secret key rate expressed solely in terms of experimentally accessible quantities. We analyze the key rate under global and local depolarizing noise models and find that increasing the number of parties $N$ enhances robustness against global depolarizing noise while increasing vulnerability to local channel noise. We also present a proof-of-principle experimental demonstration of four-party RFI quantum cryptographic communication using four-photon GHZ states, confirming the reference-frame invariance of both the $C_4$ parameter and the secret key rate under various reference frame rotations.
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"It's one of the features of modern Western democracies that political parties seek their crucial election finance from those people who have surplus wealth, and those who have surplus wealth are by definition those who are profiting from the status quo... So it's little surprise that when 'financial services' institutions shudder and fall, our politicians, whom we elected with their money, choose to use our money to bail them out" -- me, 2012

What a terrible indictment of all the UK's news media!
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/21/voters-across-parties-believe-uk-net-migration-is-rising-despite-sharp-drop
As with a few mother…

Voters across parties believe UK net migration is rising despite sharp drop
Study, published as latest migration figures are released, shows incorrect perceptions driving immigration debate

Wäre ich 20 Jahre gesünder, wären deren Partys sicher reizvoll für mich.
https://sachsentrance.com/
Ich bin über das Interview …

I am increasingly convinced that the 'D' next to candidate names stands for "Dumber than rocks".
Why?
Well, here in California we have a "jungle primary" - all candidates from all parties in one race -- with the top two vote getters moving onto the primary.
So the key for a party is to focus, to put all your party energy behind one or two candidates - and avoid having more than two candidates because that splits the vote.
Well, here in Cali…

“Madness is something rare for individuals; but it is the rule for groups, parties, peoples, times.”
- Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, Chapter 4, Aphorism 156

Ballot Box Scotland: Allan has started profiling parties.
Lib Dems: https://ballotbox.scot/sp26-party-profile-lib-dem/
"The smallest party to be elected to Holyrood in 2021, the Lib Dems have been suffering a second era of near-wipeout in their history. ..…

SP26 Party Profile: Liberal Democrats
The Lib Dems have had a decade of stagnation in the Scottish Parliament, born of an oddly FPTP-obsessed strategy for a proportional voting system. This time around that approach may actually bear …

Anybody who wants to package together MegaSquirt for the engine and a drop-in PLC/μC board to control the basis vehicle functions of popular tractors and combines can basically collect infinity billion dollars a year for the rest of time. You might lose stuff like humidity measurement, auto set/fan control, yield mapping, etc. at the start, and I'm sure a lot of people will bawl about losing autosteer. ArduPilot for that? The hydraulics should just remain hydraulics, and Ferguson never n…

milestone birthday parties

RE: #Germany have abandoned their official…

Remember when politicians were civil, honorable, principled & obeyed the rules... unless both parties agreed on otherwise. 😊
▶️ Let’s Have a Real Debate | The West Wing
https://youtube.com/watch?v=VDHpHQ8GhBo&si=yKOJtU_alIiJF9zl

«Meta Silently Added Face-Recognition Code for Its Smart Glasses to Millions of Phones:
Code reviewed by WIRED uncovered an unreleased face-recognition system embedded in Meta’s smart glasses platform. It’s designed to identify people via biometric data stored on users’ phones.»
Now do not explain to me that this is useful and convenient. Especially for third parties who are unintentionally recorded.
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Meta Silently Added Face-Recognition Code for Its Smart Glasses to Millions of Phones
Code reviewed by WIRED uncovered an unreleased face-recognition system embedded in Meta’s smart glasses platform. It’s designed to identify people via biometric data stored on users’ phones.

"The dark side of the balloon boom – is it time they were banned?"
#Balloons #Pollution

Bad for health and the environment: Lung experts highlight environmental impact of tobacco product waste https://phys.org/news/2026-06-bad-health-environment-lung-experts.html

Bad for health and the environment: Lung experts highlight environmental impact of tobacco product waste
Ahead of World No Tobacco Day May 31, the American Thoracic Society and our Forum of International Respiratory Societies (FIRS) partners reiterate the need for countries to urgently implement decisions made at the 11th Conference of the Parties (COP11) to the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control.

It's worth nothing that oil, the dominant funder of both political parties, the industry that ultimately maintains veto power over both parties political platforms, is not profitable without massive state investment. Roads, parking, and infrastructure grants, all put money in the pockets of the industry that is destroying the planet. That money then comes right back into the political sphere to control the frame of debate around climate change and how to address it.

It's not just killing a wind project - it encourages massive investment in #OilAndGas - This is a #ClimateCrime. When will the parties involved be charged with criminal negligence, death resulting sorts of charges? ALL the parties involved know (or should have known) what the ramifications are…

It's not just killing a wind project - it encourages massive investment in #OilAndGas - This is a #ClimateCrime. When will the parties involved be charged with criminal negligence, death resulting sorts of charges? ALL the parties involved know (or should have known) what the ramifications are…

'The new soccer mom': Both parties scramble for working class voters ahead of '28 (Megan Messerly/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/05/02/new-soccer-mom-both-parties-scramble-working-class-latinos-ahead-28-00903148
http://www.memeorandum.com/260502/p33#a260502p33

Although both parties have
“strong incentives” to maintain a ceasefire,
the deal is “extremely precarious,”
says Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi,
professor of international relations of the Middle East at the University of St Andrews in Scotland.
“We’re already seeing it being imperiled as we speak,
with ongoing attacks in Lebanon,
as well as reports of [Iranian] attacks in the Persian Gulf.”

“Sigh of Relief”: U.S. & Iran Agree to 2-Week Ceasefire, But Israel Keeps Bombing Lebanon
The United States and Iran have announced a two-week ceasefire, brokered by Pakistan, under which Iran has agreed to reopen the Strait of Hormuz. Israel is also part of the agreement, but it has said it will continue its attacks and occupation inside Lebanon. The deal was reached less than two hours before President Trump’s 8 p.m. ET deadline Tuesday for Iran to reopen the strait under threat of destroying every power plant and major bridge in Iran. Although both parties have “strong incent…

'A Green party spokesperson said: “Antisemitism needs a cross-party effort and politicians of all parties have a responsibility to reduce tensions and division, not escalate them. It does feel like the world is upside down when Reform are invited to be part of an initiative to tackle antisemitism but the Green party – and its Jewish leader – aren’t.”'
Downing Street rally asks ‘silent majority’ to fight antisemitism | UK news | The Guardian

swingers: Swingers and parties (2013)
A bipartite sexual affiliation network representing “swing unit” couples (one node per couple) and the parties they attended.
This network has 96 nodes and 232 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/swingers

i saw the stooges & the jesus lizard & sonic youth & the breeders in this room when all tomorrow's parties was held there. https://tech.intersects.art/@roadside/116491798263745574

old roadside pictures (@roadside@tech.intersects.art)
Attached: 1 image kutsher's night club, thompson, new york, 1977

"Some of my liberal friends have urged the rest of us on the left to stop obsessing over distant foreign wars, stop lambasting the Democratic and #Labour parties for their (clear) complicity in war crimes. They want us to focus instead on the very real threat from rising authoritarianism in the US and the UK. But the opposition to the destruction of Gaza – and now also

It passed the House. ICE CBP are now one of the world’s largest militaries by budget.
Voting for it (BAD):
⁃ 214 Republicans
⁃ 0 Democrats
Voting against it (GOOD):
⁃ 0 Republicans
⁃ 211 Democrats
⁃ 1 Independent
“Both parties are the same” my ass.

What doesn't kill you makes you weird at parties.
… to which you are then no longer invited, for said reasons.
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All my life, #Wordle. I'm a blast at parties...
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The Cognitive Bargain Has Ended: A Generation Born Without Comparative Advantage
The claim circulating in policy papers, venture capital essays, and parental anxiety threads runs like this: no child born this year will grow up to be smarter than artificial intelligence. The line gets used as a slogan, which is the first sign it deserves examination. Slogans that move easily through dinner parties usually carry hidden machinery. The machinery here is a definition of…

The Cognitive Bargain Has Ended: A Generation Born Without Comparative Advantage | David Boles, Blogs
The claim circulating in policy papers, venture capital essays, and parental anxiety threads runs like this: no child born this year will grow up to be smarter than artificial intelligence. The lin…

Global oil supply hit by US-Israeli war against Iran. Oil and gasoline prices up. And... of course some parties in Dutch parliament now ask for (tax) subsidies to keep demand high.
President of Central bank DNB: Don't do this! Aim financial support at lower incomes.
https://nos.nl/l/2607642

Druk op kabinet neemt toe, Kamer wil maatregelen tegen hoge prijzen
Morgen is er een debat over de economische gevolgen van de oorlog in het Midden-Oosten.

RE: https://mastodon.scot/@LaChasseuse/116262466513732511
Me to every tech bro I meet socially.
(I’m fun at parties.)

#CarlHeastie continues to be awful, but NYers maybe want to give his office a call to tell him to stop blocking the Stop Super Speeders bill. His office # is 518-455-3791, I just called and someone answered right away.
#StopSuperSpeeders

#USpol #ballroom

Oh the irony! Politicians in the UK like to describe their parties as a "broad church", when the reality is that most denominations, especially the Anglican communion, seem intent on tearing themselves apart. #BroadChurch #politics

swingers: Swingers and parties (2013)
A bipartite sexual affiliation network representing “swing unit” couples (one node per couple) and the parties they attended.
This network has 96 nodes and 232 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/swingers

Ugh 🤦🤦🤦
Starmer attacks Greens, saying vote for Labour rivals puts new workers’ rights at risk
When politicians start attacking the parties closest to them, instead of the ones that are far away (and to the right) is when you know for sure that they're in it not for the ideas, but just for themselv…

Starmer attacks Greens, saying vote for Labour rivals puts new workers’ rights at risk
PM also criticises business figures and opponents of changes, many of which come into force on Monday

John Fetterman Is a Lonely Democrat. Is Friendship Enough to Turn Him Republican? (Jonathan Martin/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2026/05/04/fetterman-switch-parties-republican-00904177
http://www.memeorandum.com/260504/p9#a260504p9

The dark side of the balloon boom – is it time they were banned? https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/apr/02/the-dark-side-of-the-balloon-boom-is-it-time-they-were-banned

@… Do you think Orcadians and Shetlanders are aware that both the LibDems and Labour are pushing for new nuclear power?
As these are English branch office parties, they will be sure to go along with using Scotland for nuclear waste disposal and placing new nuclear plants that we don't want.
And look out for the uranium found in Orkney…

Chances were fading on Wednesday for a breakthrough in Congress to salvage a warrantless surveillance law before its expiration this weekend,
after Trump dug in on naming a close ally who has alienated members of both parties to a top intelligence post.
Unless lawmakers act by midnight on Friday, the law, known as
Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, or FISA, will sunset.
It is the legal underpinning for what is widely considered to be the most po…

FISA Surveillance Law May Expire After Trump Picks Bill Pulte for Intel Post
Republicans are struggling to extend a powerful surveillance authority set to lapse this weekend after President Trump alienated lawmakers with his choice of acting spy chief.

swingers: Swingers and parties (2013)
A bipartite sexual affiliation network representing “swing unit” couples (one node per couple) and the parties they attended.
This network has 96 nodes and 232 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/swingers

Holyrood 2026: who's out?
https://ballotbox.scot/sp26-bring-out-your-candidates/

SP26: Bring Out Your Candidates
Nominations have closed for this year’s Holyrood election, with 686 candidates, representing 29 parties plus Independents, vying to take up 129 MSP seats.

"The BJP was formed by members of what was basically a Hindu religious fascist party, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), an organisation modelled on Mussolini’s Black Brigades. Modi was a long-time member of the RSS who then moved seamlessly into the BJP. "
India: a further swing to the right – Michael Roberts Blog

India: a further swing to the right
In the recent state elections in India, the ruling BJP-led coalition government won resounding victories in some key states previously held by opposition parties. In the highly populated West Benga…

"there is a growing divide between #Democrats whose opposition to #Trump is essentially defensive, aimed at preserving norms and institutions, and those who see the Trump era as a reason to challenge concentrated wealth, the security state and the corporate power that shapes both parties. The first…

Formula 1 says Sky Sports will remain its exclusive live broadcaster in the UK until at least the end of 2034; a source says the deal is worth £1B (Jonathan McEvoy/Daily Mail)
https://www.dailymail.com/sport/formulaone

Formula One signs £1BILLION deal to keep sport on Sky until 2034 - and steer clear of the US streaming model
Despite having a contract until 2029, both parties were keen to secure a longer-term arrangement rather than follow the US model of streaming via Apple.

I have a problem with the House of Commons floor crossers, as I think most people do.
But I havent been able to come up with a more palatable alternative or at least a different scenario.
The biggest problem, for me, is the act of poaching. The trickle of MPs.
It gives the impression, falsely or not, that these people needed just a little more time, a little more convincing, a little more... ? to eventually turn on their constituent's choice of party.
What would be more pallatable? How about a group? Rather than a trickle.
People tallk, it is naïve to think it isn't known between individuals who may be thinking of leaving or switching parties.
So if there is more than one with that thought I think it would be better for our democracy if those MPs banded together and made their concerns known privately in their caucus first, then if nothing changes, they communicate to others including the public, and make it clear this is something that could happen en masse.
Then at least it takes away the transactional nature of it and frames it more as a democratic choice, informed by whatever situation is happening and done for the benefit of constituents and Canadians.
How does this change get made? Unfortunately that's the hard part. It would be hard or maybe inappropriate to "legislate".
It would need to be an expectation, a habit, a "norm".
It could happen. Though today, politicians following "norms" seems to be a little out of vogue.
#canPoli #cdnpoli #canada #democracy #houseofcommons
https://halifax.citynews.ca/video/2026/04/13/floor-crossing-raises-questions-on-canadian-voting-stability/

Former Trump and Biden AI advisers Dean Ball and Ben Buchanan urge bipartisan action on AI security risks, including tighter export controls and safety audits (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/04/opinion

Opinion | A.I. Is a National Security Risk. We Aren’t Doing Nearly Enough.
Both parties can agree to do a whole lot on A.I., but they have to move faster.

Replaced article(s) found for quant-ph. https://arxiv.org/list/quant-ph/new
[3/5]:
- Fundamental Limitations of QAOA on Constrained Problems and a Route to Exponential Enhancement
Chinonso Onah, Kristel Michielsen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.17259 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_quantph_bot/115604063563298977
- Sharing quantum indistinguishability with multiple parties
Lemieux Wang, Hanwool Lee, Joonwoo Bae, Kieran Flatt
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.15199 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_quantph_bot/115740075668663194
- Quantum thermodynamics, quantum correlations and quantum coherence in accelerating Unruh-DeWitt d...
Bachain, Amazioug, Laamara, Nisar, Zakarya, Ismail, Abdel-Aty
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.18123 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_quantph_bot/115768302468735679
- Wigner Cat Phases: A finely tunable system for exploring the transition to quantum chaos
M. S\"uzen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.22169 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_quantph_bot/115807528778934437
- A saturation-absorption rubidium magnetometer with multilevel optical Bloch-equation modeling for...
Dangi, Gupta, Kasti, Vishwanath, Zepp, Smith, Geiger, Choy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.09115 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_quantph_bot/115898368405478505
- Quantum Entanglement, Stratified Spaces, and Topological Matter: Towards Entanglement-Sensitive L...
Kazuki Ikeda, Steven Rayan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.13467 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_quantph_bot/115933232875600453
- Residual-Squeezing Mechanism of Mismatch in Inverse-Squeezing Kennedy Receivers
Bai, Sun, Wu, Ran, Zhou, Zhang, Peng, Dong, Tong, Zhang, Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.19093 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_quantph_bot/115972142241455241
- Recirculating Quantum Photonic Networks for Fast Deterministic Quantum Information Processing
Emil Grovn, Matias Bundgaard-Nielsen, Jesper M{\o}rk, Dirk Englund, Mikkel Heuck
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.11033 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_quantph_bot/116057137426725312
- Coupled integrated photonic quantum memristors using a single photon source made of a colour center
Baldazzi, Ancel, Guaraldo, Fattori, Chen, Akar, Deturche, Azzini, Couteau, Pavesi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.14736 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_quantph_bot/116085940182705111
- Generating function and Bloch representation for quantum Fisher tensor
Felipe P. Abreu, Wei Chen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.04615 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_quantph_bot/116181633051356644
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A one-two for pro- #ScottishIndependence parties in this year's #Holyrood elections would be an epic win and a magnificent boost to the movement -- but we shouldn't fool ourselves, what it would mean is that Scotland's electoral system is almost as bad as First Past the Post in…

I just counted the number of candidates running in the California "jungle" primary - all parties, all candidates, one election and the top two, and only the top two, move onto the general election in November.
The number: 61 candidates.
That's less than the 130 or so who ran a few decades ago, but it is still a long list. And some of the candidate names seem fabricated.
(The R-party candidates have a strong chance of taking those two top positions and locking…

Backstage Collapsed: Universal Recording and the Architecture of Courtship
A panelist on a recent broadcast conversation made the following argument. Young people across the wealthy world are not having children. Before they do not have children, they do not date. Before they do not date, they do not interact at the dances, the parties, the mixers their parents and grandparents used as the primary infrastructure for finding mates. Even when they show up at such…

Backstage Collapsed: Universal Recording and the Architecture of Courtship | David Boles, Blogs
A panelist on a recent broadcast conversation made the following argument. Young people across the wealthy world are not having children. Before they do not have children, they do not date. Before …

"No Kings" organizers are planning events across the U.S. on June 14, the day of Trump’s 80th birthday
A national concert-style event, "Rise Up, Sing Out," will anchor activities with watch parties
Several high-profile public figures and entertainers are listed as participants, including:
Rufus Wainwright
Bette Midler
Patti Smith
Sasha Allen
Joy Reid
Jane Fonda
The event will focus on nonviolent participation
The pla…

No Kings Events Set For Trump's 80th Birthday: List of Celebrities Involved
Organizers have announced coordinated nationwide events, including concerts and watch parties, set for June 14.

Kiley switches parties, loses committees (Meredith Lee Hill/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2026/03/18/congress/kiley-switches-parties-loses-committees-00834740
http://www.memeorandum.com/260318/p98#a260318p98

It's sort of interesting how there are no women in this chart.
There are only two ways we ordinary folk can fight this; A) Boycott these platforms, and B) Vote for parties that will heavily tax the rich.
[from @…]

Forbes Media preliminarily agrees to a $10M settlement to resolve a California class action lawsuit alleging unauthorized user tracking via its website (Suzanne Smalley/The Record)
https://therecord.media/forbes-agrees-10-million-settlement-privacy-class-acti…

Forbes preliminarily agrees to pay $10 million to settle California wiretapping lawsuit
The preliminary settlement agreement, released on Thursday, said that Forbes has agreed to give users “greater notice” of its use of trackers and will add language to its website providing California residents with more control over how their data is collected and shared with third parties.

swingers: Swingers and parties (2013)
A bipartite sexual affiliation network representing “swing unit” couples (one node per couple) and the parties they attended.
This network has 96 nodes and 232 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/swingers

EU countries and lawmakers reach an impasse on a deal watering down the EU's AI Act due to some parties seeking exemptions for already regulated industries (Foo Yun Chee/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boa

My takeaways:
1. Don’t even try me with your “both parties are the same” BS.
2. Don’t even try me with your “support all Democrats all the time no matter what” BS.
3. We need to make Democrats a •lot• more afraid of getting primaried.
4. Above all, we need to stop imagining the politicians are the leaders of social change. We need to fight every day, in every place we are, to create a reality where trans people are safe and politicians are scared of casting votes like this before we even target them.
2/2

swingers: Swingers and parties (2013)
A bipartite sexual affiliation network representing “swing unit” couples (one node per couple) and the parties they attended.
This network has 96 nodes and 232 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/swingers

A key Senate rule is slowly losing its grip, and both parties know it (Theodoric Meyer/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/05/01/senate-filibuster-under-strain/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260501/p14#a260501p14

swingers: Swingers and parties (2013)
A bipartite sexual affiliation network representing “swing unit” couples (one node per couple) and the parties they attended.
This network has 96 nodes and 232 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/swingers

Hicks said he didn’t have an alternative to propose to the top-two system,
only a conviction that it needed “a review, a reconsideration and maybe even a repeal”.
He hoped either the state legislature of “someone with significant resources” would put a different model before the voters. “It could be done as early as 2026,” he said, “but it could be done in a future election as well.”
Historically, the two major parties have tended to prefer primaries accessible only to reg…

Sources: Google and Blackstone plan to create an AI cloud company to monetize Google's TPUs to external parties; Blackstone plans to put $5B in the venture (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/google-and-bla

Senate votes to end DHS shutdown
-- House next
After 41 days, the Senate voted early Friday morning to fund most of the Department of Homeland Security, excluding ICE and CBP,
ending a bitter impasse that laid bare the inability of both parties to close out an agreement.
In a near-empty chamber, senators approved the funding by voice vote at 3 a.m.
Senate Majority Leader John Thune, Majority Whip John Barrasso and other senior Republicans spent hours late Thurs…

3/27/26☀️ AM:
PRESENTED BY IN THIS EDITION Senate votes to end DHS shutdown, House next DeGette at risk of getting knocked off ballot Vault: W&M duo drop crypto tax

Just as they did across the country, Latino voters in the agricultural heart of California shifted toward Republicans in 2024.
GOP leaders celebrated the multiracial coalition they called the beginning of a political revolution.
Now, there are signs that support could be swinging away from the Republicans once again.
This year’s midterm election — in California and beyond — may show that the Latino rebuke of political parties can cut both ways.

In California’s Central Valley, Latino Voters Are Up for Grabs in 2026’s Elections
As in other Hispanic areas of the country, voters shifted toward Republicans in 2024. But now the question is whether this was a blip more than a durable trend.