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Minnesota trade unionists active in worker assemblies are among the 15 people indicted by the federal government
as part of a sweeping crackdown on organizing in opposition to the ICE and Border Patrol since December 2025.
Among a slew of other allegations, ❌the indictment cited some of the individuals’ participation in assemblies of trade unionists and other workers held at the United Labor Centre in Minneapolis as evidence that the activists participated in a criminal conspirac…

Minnesota Trade Unionists Among Those Targeted in Federal Indictments of ICE Observers - Workday Magazine
Minnesota trade unionists active in worker assemblies are among the 15 people indicted by the federal government today, as part of a sweeping crackdown on organizing in opposition to the ICE and Border Patrol since December 2025. Among a slew of other allegations, the indictment cited some of the individuals’ participation in assemblies of trade […]

This guy is looking for an endorsement from the Milwaukee DSA, and he does consider himself a Socialist.
And, he does not fit the classic example of a young person who is a progressive or a radical... which is a good thing.
https://www.davidliners.com/
[Edit: Changed the word 'call' to…

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XDOF, which is building data pipelines, collection tools, and annotation systems for robot training data, emerges from stealth with $70M (Tim Fernholz/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/17/colle…

Collecting robot training data is dirty, unglamorous work. Some AI labs are already paying XDOF to do it. | TechCrunch
If physical AI is going to match the accomplishments of LLMs, there's a data problem that needs to be solved.

Just finished inspecting the LATENTRED line cards I had assembled over the weekend.
Unsurprisingly for the PNP/oven setup being new, there were some issues. None are usable as is.
Of the four boards:
* One has a short on the 1V0 rail and a few smaller solder defects
* One (the first) has ten 1K resistors populated with 0.1 uF caps due to a feeder configuration error, plus a tombstoned capacitor
* One is missing all semiconductors on purpose, this will be used for V…

Working with a new #acting #coaching client, had them do 2 takes with the same goal, but a different attitude/assumption about the other character. Discovered the primary tension totally shifted. We get to build and place that discovered tension as we want now.

"Liz Truss assembles host of rightwing speakers for UK’s first CPAC event in London"
Any suggestions for the best collective noun to describe this collection of self-aggrandising lunatics?
"Cabal, "Conspiracy", "Coven"?
https://www.t…

"Do you know of any unexpected pattern of emoji usage? For example I'd expect younger folks to use emoji more than older folks and private communication to use it more than business... But maybe my assumptions are wrong or there is something else interesting?" - Yes generally our studies show that younger ppl use emojis more than older (and women a bit more than men). But in class with my undergraduates, they recently often tell me "I don't use emojis at all". I must say I don't fully believe them (maybe they don't even notice all the little hearts anymore?) and I haven't been able to show this in studies, but it's an interesting anecdotal data point I'd like to know more about!
Also, a student of mine recently asked teenagers (13 and 16yos) about their emoji interpretations. And surprisingly to us, these almost entirely match the data we already have for adults. Even for some like 🙃 and 😉 that I thought were changing (and just told you that younger people see them differently 😬). So that was a bit weird to me 😅 #emojis #WorldEmojiDay #linguistics

The idea of a suspension of the constitution had been introduced,
by the Constitution of 22 Frimaire Year 8.
Article 14 of the Charte of 1814 granted the sovereign the power to
"make the regulations and ordinances necessary for the execution of the laws and the security of the State"
Because of the vagueness of the formula, Chateaubriand observed
"that it is possible that one fine morning the whole Charte will be forfeited for the benefit of Art…

🤔 Are #emojis a universal language? - No, for two reasons. 1) They are not a language, as they do not show the properties that human languages have: grammatical structure and free combinatorics, enabling us to express complex thoughts. 2) They are not really universal. While many emojis are interpreted similarly all over the world (I guess it's pretty clear what one could mean by 🍕 ), some emoji meanings are closely tied to cultural assumptions (e.g., some of the gestures 👍 , buildings ⛩️ , food), and others are very context-dependent and might follow different conventions in various groups, including linguistic or regional groups (e.g., 🙃 for which we found strong differences between populations in Norway/US vs. Germany/Bulgaria). #WorldEmojiDay #linguistics

Trust in both Moscow and Moscow’s proxies has collapsed in Crimea.
People have realized that Russia has abandoned them to their fate.
“There is no unity among Crimeans; it’s every man for himself.
The profiteers are doing quite well
—they’re selling fuel and generators along the highways and jacking up food prices.
So all the slogans about the universal unity of Crimeans are lies
—a piece of propaganda with no basis in reality.
Trust in Aksyonov has b…

"Trust Has Collapsed": Z-Blogger Reports Mass Exodus Of Crimeans From The Peninsula
Disappointment with the occupying “authorities” has reached its limit.