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

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

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

A sour, anti-incumbent mood is sweeping across the nation
in what political analysts say is an especially troubling sign for Republican control of the House and Senate,
given Trump’s slumping approval rating.
Rising voter anger with the status quo has hit both parties,
with eight House incumbents
— five Democrats and three Republicans
— losing primary races this year
in addition to two GOP Senate incumbents, Sens. Bill Cassidy (La.) and John Cornyn …

«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.
😠

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.

#USpol #ballroom

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

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 …

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

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.

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

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.

RE: #Germany have abandoned their official…

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.

Trump’s well-documented ability to destroy everything he touches has come for what should have been the easiest of tasks:
making the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence fun.
If there is one thing the world’s oldest democracy is good at, it’s throwing Independence Day parties,
hosting outdoor concerts, and filling out state fairs with charmingly schlocky entertainment and ice cream stands.
Producing the Great American State Fair in Was…

Trump wrecked America's 250th in DC, but other blue cities will save it
Christina Aguilera, Chris Stapleton and Jelly Roll — real stars — headline July Fourth parties in liberal towns

'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

@… 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…

«Your End-to-End Encrypted Messages:
Aren't As Secure As You Think
Here's what end-to-end encryption protects—and what it doesn't.»
I know, this is not a new topic for most of you here, but you can forward it outside of the Fediverse ;)
💬 https://lifehacker.com/tech/en…

Your End-to-End Encrypted Messages Aren't As Secure As You Think
Messaging apps like WhatsApp, Signal, and iMessage all offer end-to-end encryption to protect your communications from third parties. But it isn’t foolproof.

this week’s grateful deadcast covers a favorite topic: the feral young dead of 1966. we use the new july ’66 fillmore auditorium release to get into the san francisco ballrooms, wild acid parties at rancho olompali, lost owsley tapes, the dead’s 1st single & more. https://www.dead.net/deadcast/independence

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

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…

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…

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

#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

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.

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

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…

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…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #HuwStephens
Bauhaus:
🎵 She's In Parties
#Bauhaus
https://djvampire.bandcamp.com/track/bauhaus-shes-in-parties-special-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/2RQkcg3BPdm8wJDVbrFRzr

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

EU national governments, storage developers, renewable energy developers, energy-intensive industries and financial institutions sign tripartite agreement to boost energy storage.
This provides certainty for the parties involved and thus makes delivery easier.
https://ec.europa.eu/commission/press…

Siri (Beta) is really interesting.
On one hand, I don't have to trust any new parties with my data. Apple already has it since they have my mobile devices, so if they were going to maliciously steal (e.g.) my email contents, they could already do that. This opens the door to a whole bunch of LLM data based interrogation that I wouldn't trust with other providers.
…on the other hand, the "on-device only" Siri falls over immediately when disabling the internet c…

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 @…]

"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.

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

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…

"Populist and rightwing figures take aim at Ed Miliband and UK net zero policies at ‘anti-woke Davos’"
#Climate #ClimateChange #UK

Populist and rightwing figures take aim at Ed Miliband and UK net zero policies at ‘anti-woke Davos’
Kemi Badenoch, who joined US anti-abortion activists and European far-right parties at ARC, described energy secretary as a ‘villain’

The World Cup in Las Vegas: Pool parties, star-spangled dungarees and 480 cans of Tennent's https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7382026/2026/06/22/world-cup-las-vegas/

@… 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

Beware The #BillionaireAgenda
No taxes on billionaires.
Control all media.
Control all political parties.
Laws don't apply to billionaires.
Blame the results on migrants.

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?

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AfternoonShow
Jonathan Richman:
🎵 Parties in the U.S.A.
#JonathanRichman
https://open.spotify.com/track/4axPxMZwpzQWjcNjv1JOP6

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

Andi Tepelena, a prominent activist and art curator organizing the 2026 civic protests in Tirana, Albania
made these remarks to emphasize the deepening political crisis.
He stated that m
"the regime has activated an army of patronage Nazis to tarnish the protest,"
but added that this battle has been won by the citizens and their supporters.
Tepelena stressed that protesters are united around the demand for the removal of the government and a profound c…

"We have won the war with the patronageists who try to dirty us", Andi Tepelena on the protest: Parties must be re-formed, or they will end up in the dustbin of history
Following the protests taking place in the country, Andi Tepelena has stated that, in his opinion, the civic movement has managed to withstand the attempts to discredit it on social networks and by organized political structures. He stated that, “the regime has activated an army of patronage-fascists to tarnish the protest”, but added that this battle has been won […]

Both sides in the antitrust lawsuit over Nexstar's Tegna acquisition have asked a federal judge to schedule the case for a jury trial in July 2027 (Matthew Keys/TheDesk.net)
https://thedesk.net/2026/06/nexstar-tegna-july-2027-trial-date-request/

Parties in Nexstar-TEGNA merger lawsuit propose July 2027 trial date
Expert witness lists and discovery evidence would be exchange by the parties and disclosed to the court between August 2026 and February 2027, per court records.

are political parties, de facto, part of the state apparatus? #poll

#Education, folks.
We need a lot of education.
It's shocking how many people vote for certain parties despite it being against their own interests.
Keep talking to people. Because in a #democracy, the people vote. And so they need to know what's up to meet their needs.…

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 …

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

“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/

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?

Bucs QB Baker Mayfield on contract: 'It's a matter of finding that middle ground' https://www.nfl.com/news/bucs-qb-baker-mayfield-on-contract-it-s-a-matter-of-finding-that-middle-ground

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…

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

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

Now, I don't especially like the term "church" so I may use something else... like "coven." You can do what you want. But I happen to have already mapped out an example. (It is exactly that, just an example, so take if it's useful, change if you need, and don't stick to anything too closely.) Oh, this mapping also means that you would, for religious reasons, only be allowed to work under capitalism 4 days a week instead of 5.
Given the increases in productivity over the last 100 years, a 4 day work week is a completely reasonable expectation. If we have to annex Monday for the weekend by force of religion, so be it. It is rightfully ours anyway. If enough people try it, this will probably work. If it doesn't work, it just needs more people.
The Practice of Worship:
It is recommended to break down worship in to three sections: the functional, the communal, and the spiritual. It is also recommended to break these across multiple days. A common structure for some Christian churches is to take 10-15 minutes for announcements (Functional), an hour or two for services (Spiritual), followed by (Communal) coffee, tea, and cookies for an unspecified time up to two hours after. When starting or working with limited time a single compressed model like this may work, but it's not optimal.
- The Functional
The purpose of this section is to address the functional needs of the coven. Block out time (less than 90 minute blocks is recommended) to go through reports and updates from those involved in the Dispensary, Library, Works Committee (infrastructure), and Services Committee (providing services internally and, potentially, externally). Talk through any additional announcements, including those from other covens you may be federated with.
It is helpful to include unstructured communal time, such as shared meals, during or after functional meetings. As the federation grows, more time will be needed. It is recommended to break functional meetings, work parties, and such across multiple days. When a federation becomes sufficiently large, it is recommended to take every Monday, on top of Saturday and Sunday, as a third day of community and worship.
The scope of the functional spans 3 realms (which may be more-or-less fluid): the personal or family, the coven and federation, and humanity itself. It is up to each coven and individual to negotiate how to allocate the three days of the weekend once we have liberated Monday from the work week, but it is important to reserve it for one of these three. However, some people must work on weekends. Medical personnel, for example, cannot conform to a standard work week. While the work week should be universally restricted, which specific days are used will be up to the specific coven and their members.
A functional meeting can start with an agenda like the following:
Functional Invocation
Announcements
Report Backs
Dispensary
Inventory Check
What is low
What is empty
What is expiring
What is needed
Funds status
Library
Inventory Check and Items needing return
Library acquisition requests
Funds status and budget check
Works Committee
Upcoming projects
Subcommittee updates (Following the Works Committee agenda)
New committee formations
Funds status
Services Committee
New capabilities announcements
New needs requests
Subcommittee updates (Following the Works Committee agenda)
New committee formations
Funds status
Task Check
Breaking the Circle
This agenda is a suggestion for those who don't know where to start. It can be adapted or ignored as appropriate.
- The Spiritual
Spirituality is necessarily an undefined space. It is deeply personal. Each individual taking time to share their own personal spiritual experiences can help each connect with each other. This experience of connection can itself be a spiritual experience. It may also be useful to read esoteric, mystical, or philosophical texts together as type of "book club" and share thoughts. Others may draw from their own knowledge or traditions. This is something that must be defined together within a group.
- The Communal
The communal aspect of the practice of worship bind the coven and federation together. Within the community we find joy and release, connection and comfort. The coven is where we turn in times of need, and where we share our hopes and dreams.

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.

Government just prematurely ended debate on Bill C-22
The federal government decided to use a so-called “guillotine” time-limit all further clause by clause on Bill C-22 to just 30 minutes.1 This will block ANY committee debate that scrutinizes the dangerous surveillance powers in Part 2 of the bill.2
The government wants to jam Bill C-22 today, and vote it through the House tomorrow (June 19). We’re calling on MPs of all parties to refuse to advance Part 2 without full committee…

Stop the Surveillance State: Stop Bill C-22!
🚨 Bill C-22 forces every Canadian internet provider, messaging app & cloud service to build surveillance backdoors and store a year of your data. Foreign state hackers exploited similar legislation in the US. Shut the backdoor: https://openmedia.org/StopC22 #BillC22

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

"Regular reminder that Donald Trump’s core competency is not dealmaking with powerful counter-parties. It is duping gullible victims."
✅ 'The David Frum Show': The Trump Grift Machine - The Atlantic
https://www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/archi…

'The David Frum Show': The Trump Grift Machine
Shashi Tharoor and the Trump grift machine

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…

"With less than two weeks until local elections day, the chance of all three devolved governments in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland being led by parties seeking to break up the UK is coming into view."
FT:https://www.ft.com/content/4795501a-37d3-495…

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

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

"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.

Two groups file a petition to deny FCC review of ABC's TV station licenses; they say they will seek revocations if stations restrict speech in trade for FCC OK (Matthew Keys/TheDesk.net)
https://thedesk.net/2026/06/frequency-forward-media-action…

Groups file formal petition to deny over FCC's probes into Disney, ABC
The filing makes the organizations formal parties to the proceeding, granting them standing to participate in the case and appeal future FCC decisions.

RE: #hungarian parliament

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.

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

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

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

"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

NFL Network: Matthew Stafford's revised deal sets clear roadmap for reigning MVP, Rams https://www.nfl.com/news/matthew-stafford-revised-rams-contract-details

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 …

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.

🇺🇸 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…

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 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

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…

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.

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

"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

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.

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…

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…

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.

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…

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 ...

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…

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

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

"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…

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.

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…

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.

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.