Tootfinder

Plan to restore nature in England by 2030 criticised as ‘completely insufficient’ https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jul/13/england-rewilding-plan-restore-nature-2030-criticised

An interview with Smartbird CEO Nadia Carlsten about the shoe company Allbirds becoming an AI infrastructure company, plans to deploy compute clusters, and more (Tim Fernholz/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/19/the-ceo-of-allbirds-new-a…

The CEO of Allbirds' new AI biz has a plan, but no employees | TechCrunch
Call it a startup with a sole founder and a very large seed round, but what's next is less clear.

Policy thriller im #Hanoi: to ban or not to ban fossil-fuel powered vehicles? The party of the people aggressively pushed a low-emission goal. Consumers were blamed for pollution. Suddenly, everything’s postponed. 🪄

Hà Nội delays approval of low-emission zone plan in Ring Road 1
City authorities seek further review of the proposed low-emission zone scheme after concerns over implementation, social impacts and funding support measures.

House GOP resurrects Trump's plan for year-round daylight saving time (Dan Diamond/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/05/19/house-gop-resurrects-trumps-plan-year-round-daylight-saving-time/?pwapi_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJyZWFzb24iOiJnaWZ0IiwibmJmIjoxNzc5MTYzMjAwLCJpc3MiOiJzdWJzY3JpcHRpb25zIiwiZXhwIjoxNzgwNTQ1NTk5LCJpYXQiOjE3NzkxNjMyMDAsImp0aSI6IjU4YmRjZDEzLWVjNGUtNDJiMS05MTk4LTAxMjdhNzlmMDQ1OCIsInVybCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3Lndhc2hpbmd0b25wb3N0LmNvbS9wb2xpdGljcy8yMDI2LzA1LzE5L2hvdXNlLWdvcC1yZXN1cnJlY3RzLXRydW1wcy1wbGFuLXllYXItcm91bmQtZGF5bGlnaHQtc2F2aW5nLXRpbWUvIn0.abLEcBBXemsTQbTCGQtDJ8lzPVrBfyzXYp5lOFaz2f4&itid=gfta
http://www.memeorandum.com/260519/p129#a260519p129

The Trump administration does not plan to seek approval from Congress for Donald Trump’s planned 250-foot arch,
arguing that they do not need it because lawmakers a century ago authorized a somewhat similar project that was never built.
Trump has targeted Memorial Circle
— a traffic roundabout on Columbia Island, a man-made island tucked inside the edge of Washington
— for his planned arch.
Teams of workers conducting surveys and geophysical testing began work …

Trump officials say they can build 250-foot arch without Congress’s approval
The administration say they are building on a project authorized by Congress a century ago. Lawyers and Democrats said the argument is an attempt to evade federal law.

Heute mal was Gutes aus der @Bundesregierung - bitte liebe #SPD, macht das richtig gut und fangt die dicken Fische!
#Hubig und #Klingbeil stellen Plan gegen Steuerhinterziehung vor

Steuerkriminalität: Hubig und Klingbeil stellen Plan gegen Steuerhinterziehung vor
Die Regierung will gegen Steuerkriminalität vorgehen. Steuerhinterziehung soll als Verbrechen eingestuft, durch Selbstanzeige keine Straffreiheit mehr gewährt werden.

Einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Weg von Big Tech: Deutschland und Frankreich beschließen Souveränitäts-Plan

Weg von Big Tech: Deutschland und Frankreich beschließen Souveränitäts-Plan
Mit einer neuen Definition und in sechs Kernbereichen nebst Kriterien treiben Deutschland und Frankreich Europas digitale Unabhängigkeit konkret voran.

"Shanghai Achieves 98% Industrial Recycling Rates After 2019 Waste Management Plan"
#Shanghai #Recycling

Shanghai Achieves 98% Industrial Recycling Rates After 2019 Waste Management Plan
A national waste management score of 100, Shanghai scored 86.9—the highest for a city of its size in the country. 

Jerry Jones’ rumored 3-year vision for George Pickens comes with one massive catch https://www.sportingnews.com/ca/nfl/dallas-cowboys/news/jerry-jones-3-year-plan-george-pickens-has-one-major-catch/d17662f7…

The problem with Klint Kubiak’s original Raiders quarterback plan https://raiderramble.com/2026/07/19/the-problem-with-klint-kubiaks-original-raiders-quarterback-plan/

Google is reducing AI limits as well
Changes to Gemini model access and limits https://support.google.com/gemini/answer/17004136?visit_id=639149690366323448-2290362578&p=plan_updates&rd=1

A hair-raising article in *The New Yorker* about Trump's plans to acquire Greenland.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/06/22/inside-the-ludicrous-deadly-serious-plan-to-take-over-greenland

Inside the Ludicrous, Deadly Serious Plan to Take Over Greenland
“We want Greenland,” Trump said. Four men sprang into action to make fantasy a reality. Ben Taub reports.

@… uh… well, to be completely frank I believe this was a plan by the US military to get kids to join up when they got old enough
I don’t really remember what it was, exactly. some military field day

Memo: the BBC says it will cut 550 jobs including in its news and content divisions by the start of FY 2027-2028 in the first phase of a plan to save $670M (Ellise Shafer/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/digital/global/bbc-layoffs-redu…

BBC to Make Layoffs, Reduce Commissioning Spend in Savings Plan
New BBC director general Matt Brittin has outlined his savings plan, which includes cutting 550 jobs and reducing commissioning spend by $107 million.

Andy Burnham Ditches Digital ID Plan,
Saying Billions Will Go To Cost-Of-Living Priorities Instead
Incoming UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham prioritises cost-of-living support over Starmer's controversial digital ID plan.
https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/andy-burnham-scr

Andy Burnham Ditches Digital ID Plan, Saying Billions Will Go To Cost-Of-Living Priorities Instead
Andy Burnham plans to scrap Starmer's digital ID plan upon becoming UK Prime Minister, redirecting resources to address cost-of-living issues and support local economies.

"The newest AI boom pitch: Host a mini data center at your home"
this a good or bad idea i am wondering? 🤔 (and comments about why are welcome)
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/05/the-newest-ai-boom-pitch-host-a-mini-data-center-…

The newest AI boom pitch: Host a mini data center at your home
The plan aims to speed up AI compute deployment while compensating residents.

"Seit seinem Amtsantritt vor dreieinhalb Jahren regiert Rösti bevorzugt per Verordnung – an Parlament und Stimm­volk vorbei.
Ob beim präventiven Wolfsabschuss, bei der Einschränkung von Tempo 30 oder der Senkung der SRG-Gebühren auf 300 Franken: Rösti nutzt die Spielräume der Exekutivmacht konsequent aus. Mit dem Bundesamt für Justiz liegt er deshalb seit langem im Dauer­clinch."
Ähnlichkeiten zu amtierenden Präsidenten sind rein zufällig.

In 2 paragraphs, the limits of social democracy:
'Another plan floated by the government, to persuade supermarkets to consider a price freeze of their own, was rejected by furious fat-cats.
'Treasury minister Dan Tomlinson had indicated that ministers were looking for self-restraint by the high-street monopolies, while stressing that there was no question of mandatory price caps.'
But, Labour could see off Reform with a ‘Burnham bounce’.
And he's the tac…

Une bouteille avec des inscriptions en mongol, mais n'utilisant pas l'alphabet cyrillique.
#cocacola #mongolie #voyage

RE: #DigiD #yivi

Matilda Radio
Writer and filmmaker Sal and photographer Mark have a five year plan to sail their Swan 47 MATILDA from Palma, Spain back to Sydney Australia...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/matilda-radio/

"Former Turkish PM & Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu’s proposal to establish a joint maritime security force—composed of Indonesia, Malaysia, Pakistan, and Turkey—to secure and temporarily administer the waterway offers this alternative precisely. By leveraging the unique reservoir of political trust these specific nations enjoy ... this formula provides a pragmatic, honor-saving way out of the current quagmire."
Can the Davutoglu "Middle Powers Plan" Reopen Hormuz?
https://www.juancole.com/2026/05/davutoglu-middle-powers.html

New Iran peace proposal triggers tense Trump-Netanyahu call (Barak Ravid/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/05/20/trump-netanyahu-call-iran-peace-plan
http://www.memeorandum.com/260520/p105#a260520p105

Brian Schottenheimer reveals plans to unlock a new dimension of George Pickens' game https://www.sportingnews.com/ca/nfl/dallas-cowboys/news/cowboys-brian-schottenheimer-plan-unlock-george-pickens/fe2ac66a…

@… im @spiegel: Katherina Reiche: Ihre Pläne müssten eigentlich »Investitionsbremsegesetz« heißen - Reiche will zehn Jahre lang neuen Wind- und Solarausbau in weiten Teilen Deutschlands verhindern. Netzausbau liegt 80 % hinter Plan. Lösung? Den Netzbetreibern weitere zehn Jahre Aufschub. Manchmal ist die einfachste Erklärung auch die richtige.

Australia just approved its largest wind farm ever. The Warracknabeal Energy Park will feature 219 turbines generating over 1.5 gigawatts of clean power, plus battery storage to keep the lights on when the wind stops. The $5 billion project will create nearly 950 construction jobs in Victoria's Wimmera region and help the state hit its renewable energy targets.

State green-lights plan for Australia's biggest wind farm, with 219 turbines and two big batteries
Plans to build what would be Australia's biggest wind farm in have cleared a major development hurdle, after winning environmental approval from the state government.

No investments in high-risk pipelines and LNG projects.
The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB) manages the retirement savings of nearly every working and retired Canadian outside Quebec. As climate impacts intensify and the global economy shifts toward clean energy, investing in new fossil fuel infrastructure like pipelines and LNG terminals puts Canadians’ pensions and retirement security at unnecessary risk. Our pension manager must say “NO” to investing in these projects.

Free Will
Fawzia Khan
Hopkins, Minnesota
2024
Handwoven wool and cotton, hydrostone, audio recording

Currently on exhibition at the North Dakota Museum of Art (NDMOA)
"Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?"
-Mary Oliver

A dozen memes (in a thread) of the foreign policy moment: capitulation, surrender, losing the war.
🧵 1 of 3
#USpol #Iran #kegseth

«Warum Cloud-Lock-in zum Sicherheitsrisiko wird—Digitale Souveränität braucht einen Exit-Plan:
Mit dem Wechsel hin zu Open-Source-Strukturen hat Schleswig-Holstein Anfang des Jahres ein deutliches Signal gesetzt. Die Abhängigkeit von großen Technologiekonzernen ist kein Naturgesetz.»
Viele verantwortliche Leute glauben wenn sie die Tools aufzuzählen, dass dies ein Plan sei. Es ist komplexer & benötigt Zeit.
💻

Digitale Souveränität braucht einen Exit-Plan
Der Wechsel zu Open-Source-Strukturen in Schleswig-Holstein zeigt, dass Digitale Souveränität einen klaren Exit-Plan benötigt.

"Measure, Change, Measure: Assessing Changes to a Traditional Approval Plan" @ Library Resources & Technical Services
https://journals.ala.org/index.php/lrts/article/view/8791
[DOI

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #Unclassified
Warrington-Runcorn New Town Development Plan:
🎵 Man and Manufacturing
#WarringtonRuncornNewTownDevelopmentPlan
https://open.spotify.com/track/2oalJQoN7jUPNMM3cjgPdC

RE: https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/@grahamperrin/116730225974288095
@… some time ago the plan was for the successor (for pkgbase…

Weg von Big Tech: Deutschland und Frankreich beschließen Souveränitäts-Plan
Mit einer neuen Definition und in sechs Kernbereichen nebst Kriterien treiben Deutschland und Frankreich Europas digitale Unabhängigkeit konkret voran.

Weg von Big Tech: Deutschland und Frankreich beschließen Souveränitäts-Plan
Mit einer neuen Definition und in sechs Kernbereichen nebst Kriterien treiben Deutschland und Frankreich Europas digitale Unabhängigkeit konkret voran.

Won't happen for me.
1. Bus service all too many days is unreliable and I don't want to be stuck.
2. On some days I have meals in the slow cooker. Why? Wife is disabled and has challenges cooking so I make sure she has a meal ready to eat and I would like to be home having dinner with her rather than waiting for a bus.

Spotify and UMG plan to let Premium users create AI covers and remixes using music from participating UMG artists as a paid add-on, without giving a launch date (Jem Aswad/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/digital/news/spotify-un…

Spotify and Universal Music Announce Agreements for Fan-Made Covers
Spotify and Universal Music Group have announced licensing agreements allowing fans to create covers and remixes using 'responsible' generative AI.

Was noch neu wird - MediaMarkt will jetzt die Kassen abschaffen #News #Nachrichten

"Conserving 30% of the planet will only succeed if people are part of the plan"
#Conservation #Environment

Conserving 30% of the planet will only succeed if people are part of the plan
People are central to conservation.

❝Criminalizing dissent isn’t a sideshow. It’s central to the plan. They want to stop you from taking to the streets in massive numbers if and when they take illegal actions to keep the Republican Party in power. They are using these bogus indictments to lay the foundation for the solution that Vice President JD Vance proposed for Minneapolis back in January — to invoke the Insurrection Act and send in tanks.❞
EDIT: Updated with gift link
https://share.inquirer.com/dCg3tG

"Trump launched a war to topple Iran’s regime, eliminate its missile program & navy, end its support for terror proxies, & , most important, obliterate (really this time) its nuclear weapons program.
He achieved none of those."
✅ A Concept of a Plan for an Iran Deal - by Jennifer Rubin
https://www.…

A Concept of a Plan for an Iran Deal
What happened — and did — not so far?

UK government plan for music (about 8 months after being announced?) targeting secondary ticketing.
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/turn-it-up-our-plan-for-…

Turn It Up: Our plan for music

Trump officials say they can build 250-foot arch without Congress's okay (Dan Diamond/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/05/20/trump-officials-plan-build-arch-without-congressional-authorization/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260520/p97#a260520p97

The Raiders’ quarterback plan only works if they stick to it https://raiderramble.com/2026/07/18/the-raiders-quarterback-plan-only-works-if-they-stick-to-it/

Het dragen van een logo op de kleding is voldoende … dit gaat Palestine Action VK achterna. Het is afgelopen met onze democratie als dit doorgaat.
Wetsvoorstel tegen verheerlijking van terrorisme naar de Tweede Kamer https://nos.nl/l/2619330

Wetsvoorstel tegen verheerlijking van terrorisme naar de Tweede Kamer
Het gaat om een oud plan, dat gevoelig ligt in de huidige coalitie. Het is nog niet zeker of D66 ermee gaat instemmen.

Spotify and UMG plan to let Premium users create AI covers and remixes using music from participating UMG artists as a paid add-on, without giving a launch date (Jem Aswad/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/digital/news/spotify-un…

Spotify and Universal Music Announce Agreements for Fan-Made Covers
Spotify and Universal Music Group have announced licensing agreements allowing fans to create covers and remixes using 'responsible' generative AI.

https://www.nyc.gov/mayors-office/news/2026/06/standing-up-for-trans-new-yorkers--mayor-mamdani-launches--15-mi

Standing Up for Trans New Yorkers: Mayor Mamdani Launches $15 Million Plan to Expand Access to Gender-Affirming Care

Dallas Cowboys Have New Plan For Deploying George Pickens Ahead of 2026 Season https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/dallas-cowboys-new-plan-deploying-george-pickens-2026-nfl-season

Die Sanierung des #Schienennetzes kommt langsamer voran als geplant.
Verzögerungen, erneute Baustellen und offene Fragen zur #Digitalisierung sorgen für Kritik. Während #Bundesverkehrsminister

Problemfall Generalsanierungen: Haben Bahn und Politik einen Plan?
Das kaputtgesparte Schienennetz soll Stück für Stück repariert werden. Doch bei Sanierungen gab es häufig Probleme. Verkehrsminister Schnieder verweist auf die Bahn - aber das lässt ihm nicht jeder durchgehen.

This is criminal
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/may/18/uk-datacentres-plan-to-burn-gas-to-generate-electricity
At least we will have really great LinkedIn infographics!

Le trafic est ralenti de Melun vers Moret Veneux les S. Prévoir des allongements de temps de trajet allant jusqu'Š 20 minutes ainsi que des modifications du plan de transport.
Pour plus d'informations sur cette perturbation, consultez le fil X de la ligne R.
Motif : altercation entre voyageurs Š Fontainebleau-Avon.
🤖 21/07 17:16

Waiting for the electrification action plan > delivering the electrification action plan

Liebe @… , alles, alles Gute zum Geburtstag! 💐 Vor allem Spaß und Freude, und dass ab jetzt alles nur noch nach Plan verläuft im Leben. 🥂🎂💚

Yesterday, I ordered a new pair of hemp shoes from 8000kicks.
UPS says they had in in Leiria, Portugal 2 hours ago - and plan to deliver it to me BY END OF DAY. That's about 2000km in less than 12 hours.
I'm not sure if that means I have to clear the field outside our house for landing of a freight plane or a helicopter - or if I just should expect a giant crater.

Komplett irre: Ich werde im August vom Ferienort zu meinen Eltern fahren, mit Bus und Bahn
Der Plan: Irgendeine Fahrkarte kaufen und früh genug losfahren, dass ich im Hellen bis auf 30 bzw. 70 km rankomme (30 bzw. 50 Autominuten), damit sie mich mit dem Auto einsammeln können, sie fahren nicht mehr gerne im Dunklen
Beide Orte sind ca. 220km voneinander entfernt …

Conserving 30% of the planet will only succeed if people are part of the plan #nature

Conserving 30% of the planet will only succeed if people are part of the plan
What do you see when you imagine a conservation area? Perhaps a remote rainforest, a towering mountain range or a coral reef teeming with life. But do you expect to see any people?

Sources: the US and China plan to hold AI talks in September when President Xi visits the US, realizing a significant outcome of the Trump-Xi summit in May (Laurie Chen/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/us-china-hold-ai-talks-september-…

A pastor aligned with the hard-right Reformed theology of influential Christian nationalist Doug Wilson
is promoting and pursuing a plan to fulfill the “dominion mandate”
by moving like-minded people into sparsely populated rural counties, colonizing and discipling
“Christian settlements,”
and building miniature civilizations based on their religious worldview.
Raymond Simmons, a pastor and podcaster based in Red Oak, Iowa, is the author of
“The Confession…

The Dominionist Plan to Create Theocratic ‘Confessional Counties’ in Rural U.S.
Rooting out pluralism is central to the strategy for colonizing sparsely populated rural counties.

Gemini 3.5 Flash costs $1.50 per 1M input tokens and $9 per 1M output tokens, 3x the price of Gemini 3 Flash Preview and 6x the price of Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite (Simon Willison/Simon Willison's Weblog)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/May/19/gemini-35-flash/

Gemini 3.5 Flash: more expensive, but Google plan to use it for everything
Today at Google I/O, Google released Gemini 3.5 Flash. This one skipped the -preview modifier and went straight to general availability, and Google appear to be using it for a …

Plex says the price for the Lifetime tier of its Plex Pass plan will increase from $249.99 to $749.99 in July (Chance Miller/9to5Mac)
https://9to5mac.com/2026/05/19/plex-increasing-lifetime-plex-pass-cost-to-whopping-750/

Plex increasing Lifetime Plex Pass cost to whopping $750 - 9to5Mac
Plex has announced a massive price increase for the Lifetime tier of its Plex Pass plan. Starting in July, Plex...

How the Cowboys plan to handle tough 7-game stretch to start season https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7295097/2026/05/21/cowboys-2026-schedule-difficult-stretch-playoffs/

The federal government took a major step forward Friday toward opening more than 2,800 acres of Ohio’s only national forest to oil and gas development.
The U.S. Bureau of Land Management announced a lease sale scheduled for Sept. 15 of 41 parcels of land in the Wayne National Forest totaling 2,840 acres.
Although some bureaucratic hurdles remain, a lease sale brings fracking the forest for the first time
– the subject of political effort since at least 2016
– far clos…

Feds advance plan to open Ohio’s Wayne National Forest to fracking
The U.S.

Kristi Noem, months after being ousted from Trump Cabinet, claims China has a ‘thousand-year plan to destroy the United States’ | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/kristi-noem-warns-china-plan-destroy-us-b2996730.html

"Draft London plan prioritises brownfield but allows green belt release"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #London #Environment

Draft London plan prioritises brownfield but allows green belt release
The Mayor of London has published the draft London Plan for consultation, setting out planning policies that will guide development across the capital over the next two decades.

Reheated social democracy. Nothing more.
A plan for Britain
https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/73773/a-plan-for-britain

A plan for Britain
Labour lacks a philosophy or a plan for government. A few simple changes could transform the country’s fortunes

The fact that an autocratic, corrupt and in some ways fascist republican administration only leads to a relatively small lead of the democrats in the polls, is food for thought. People in the US are farther removed from European and democratic values than ever it seems.
https://www.

Who Is Favored to Win the House? Latest 2026 Congressional Ballot Polls
Track the latest Congressional ballot surveys that ask who Americans plan to vote for in the 2026 midterm election.

They're Really Going For It -- Trump's plan to overturn the midterm elections comes into focus. (Brian Beutler/Off Message)
https://www.offmessage.net/p/theyre-really-going-for-it
http://www.memeorandum.com/260520/p36#a260520p36

Le trafic est ralenti de Paris Gare de Lyon vers Montargis et de Paris Gare de Lyon vers Montereau via Moret Veneux les S. Prévoir des allongements de temps de trajet allant jusqu'Š 30 minutes ainsi que des modifications du plan de transport.
Pour plus d'informations sur cette perturbation, consultez le fil X de la ligne R.
Motif : altercation entre voyageurs Š Fontainebleau-Avon. (Incident terminé)
🤖 21/07 17:34

Gritt, which is developing an AI system that helps build infrastructure like solar panels, emerges from stealth with a $26M Series A and $34M in total funding (Tim Fernholz/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/21/grit

Gritt exits stealth with $34 million for robots to build solar plants—then, everything else | TechCrunch
Gritt is coming out of stealth with $34 million and plan to automate the hardest tasks on construction sites.

Summary of the measures relating to EVs in the EU's Electrification Action Plan (and related initiatives), alongside the general adjustments to network tariffs, connection conditions and taxation
https://energy.ec.europa.eu/publications/co…

The movement in Metro Detroit fighting ICE and Trump’s reactionary agenda has scored an important victory
The agency has given up on its plan to build a new detention center in Romulus.
Instead, ICE will be selling the property, one of 11 facilities purchased by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) earlier in the year in an effort to expand deportations.

ICE Halts Efforts to Open Several Immigration Jails
While the news is an important victory, the immigrant rights movement must continue to grow.

Samsung Electronics and its South Korean labor union reach a preliminary pay deal; the union says it has decided to suspend a general strike (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/world-at-work/samsung-elecs…

Trump demands Senate fire parliamentarian who ruled against ballroom funding plan (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/05/20/trump-demands-senate-fire-parliamentarian-who-ruled-against-ballroom-funding/?pwapi_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJyZWFzb24iOiJnaWZ0IiwibmJmIjoxNzc5MjQ5NjAwLCJpc3MiOiJzdWJzY3JpcHRpb25zIiwiZXhwIjoxNzgwNjMxOTk5LCJpYXQiOjE3NzkyNDk2MDAsImp0aSI6Ijk3OTdkMWVjLTNlZjAtNDEyMy1iYjMwLTExMzk2NmRlYzFjMSIsInVybCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3Lndhc2hpbmd0b25wb3N0LmNvbS9wb2xpdGljcy8yMDI2LzA1LzIwL3RydW1wLWRlbWFuZHMtc2VuYXRlLWZpcmUtcGFybGlhbWVudGFyaWFuLXdoby1ydWxlZC1hZ2FpbnN0LWJhbGxyb29tLWZ1bmRpbmcvIn0.ZllFiCTXgwMbBqg7eQBZYIukZTBWNO1Dj7Gn9GggxBQ&itid=gfta
http://www.memeorandum.com/260520/p69#a260520p69

Kristi Noem, months after being ousted from Trump Cabinet, claims China has a ‘thousand-year plan to destroy the United States’ | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/kristi-noem-warns-china-plan-destroy-us-b2996730.html

After violence in the region over the weekend culminated in the death of three U.S. service members,
a growing number of House Republicans,
including vulnerable incumbents,
have been asking GOP leaders and the White House
for more information about the war
before they vote Wednesday to advance a plan to free up $95 billion
in additional funding for the Iran war, defense activities and farm assistance.

"More than 100 UK datacentres plan to burn gas to generate electricity"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Technology #Emissions

Fernando Mendoza gets major bad news as NFL insider sheds light on Raiders’ QB plan for 2026 season https://www.sportskeeda.com/nfl/news-fernando-mendoza-gets-major-bad-news-nfl-insider-sheds-light-raiders-qb-plan-2026-s…

Sources: Chinese startup Moonshot AI is seeking formal approval from investors to start a Hong Kong IPO process, which could happen in as soon as six months (Juro Osawa/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/moonshot-ai-seeks-…

Moonshot AI Seeks Investor Approval to Begin IPO Process
Chinese startup Moonshot AI, whose powerful new open-source model is upending Silicon Valley, is seeking formal approval from investors to begin preparations for an initial public offering in Hong Kong, according to two people with knowledge of the matter. The Beijing-based company recently distributed a shareholder resolution regarding its IPO plan, according to the people. The timing of its

Trump's Latest White House Renovation Plan: A Helipad on the South Lawn (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/trumps-latest-white-house-renovation-plan-a-helipad-on-the-south-lawn-9d0bf72f
http://www.memeorandum.com/260518/p35#a260518p35

Water in the Colorado River is dwindling to levels that haven’t been seen in decades,
and the seven states whose residents and farmers depend on the river can’t agree on a fair way to divide up what’s left.
Negotiations are going nowhere despite more than six months of ongoing talks, plus cajoling by the Trump administration, which twice gathered governors in hopes of a breakthrough that never came.
States are already sniping at aspects of a water-use plan the federal Bure…

Tensions Are Rising Among States That Rely on the Colorado River
A prolonged drought means the nation’s largest reservoirs are dwindling, and litigation over access to water could lie ahead.

Disney says select Hulu subscribers can now link their Hulu profiles to Disney , bringing their Hulu watch history, watchlist, and recommendations into Disney (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/disney-plus-hulu-unified-app-phase…

Disney+ Adds Hulu Integrations, No Current Plan to Phase Out Hulu App
Disney continues to add more features hitching Hulu and Disney+ together as it takes steps toward the goal of "fully integrating" Hulu into the Disney+ service.

A year after Trump fired a top ethics watchdog, there's still no leader (Dan Diamond/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/05/19/democrats-ask-white-house-explain-ethics-office-plan-after-trump-firing/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260519/p23#a260519p23

How Training Camp Will Put Raiders' Development Plan to Test https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-how-training-camp-put-development-plan-test

Cowboys have no clear RB2 favorite after Brian Schottenheimer reveals backfield plan https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/dallas-cowboys/news/cowboys-brian-schottenheimer-backup-running-back-battle/ed5030d34cca…

It was a plan House G.O.P. leaders hoped would satisfy everyone in their party:
With a special budget bill, they would bypass Democratic opposition and provide tens of billions for the Iran war while imposing new election restrictions Trump has demanded.
Instead, a day after the leaders released the plan, which hews closely to a spending request the White House sent to Capitol Hill last month,
it became clear it is a product that no one really likes.
The measure, whic…

Republican Rifts Deepen Over $95 Billion Budget Plan for Iran War and SAVE Act
A House panel approved the measure. But Republicans are divided over its size, cost and policy provisions, and many are concerned about the timing before the midterm elections.

Doc: SpaceX says the EU's plan to reserve satellite spectrum for European operators risks disrupting connectivity, including for emergency services in Ukraine (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/0b012610-8132-4549-afd9-14bacd9db8cb

The Newsom administration is suing five more California cities
— Calexico, Costa Mesa, Half Moon Bay, Ridgecrest and Turlock — for failing to complete state-mandated housing plans, known as the “housing element.”

Huntington Beach was the first city to face such a legal action, and it recently finalized its housing element plans following a court-order and massive fines.
The law, which has been in place since 1969, requires cities and counties every eight years to d…

Newsom continues crackdown on cities over housing plan requirements. 'No city gets a pass,' governor says
Gov. Gavin Newsom and California Atty. Gen. Rob Bonta filed legal actions this week against five small cities that they say are failing to meet benchmarks required for housing planning.

A profile of PsiQuantum, which raised $1B in 2025, is building a quantum computer with photonic chips made by GlobalFoundries and is closely monitored by DARPA (James O'Donnell/MIT Technology Review)
https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/07/1

PsiQuantum has a plan to make a massive quantum computer out of light
The company has drawn governments, a major chipmaker, and the Pentagon into an effort to control fragile photons and build a useful quantum machine. It aims to be the first.

Bernie Sanders proposes legislation to create a sovereign wealth fund financed via a one-time 50% stock tax on AI companies that reach $200M in annual AI sales (Joey Cappelletti/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/bernie-sanders-ai-publ…

Bernie Sanders unveils plan for public ownership of AI companies
Sen. Bernie Sanders is proposing a plan to give Americans ownership stakes in the country’s largest artificial intelligence companies. The legislation shown first to The Associated Press would impose a one-time 50% tax on the stock of major AI companies and place those shares into a sovereign wealth fund overseen by an independent commission. Sanders estimates the fund would be worth roughly $7 trillion and provide annual payments to Americans. While the idea of public ownership of AI compani…

Manager at Trump's N.J. Golf Club Helped Plan Reflecting Pool Repairs (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/19/us/politics/reflecting-pool-trump-schutzenhofer.html?unlocked_article_code=1.jlA.05SM.UZxiLKvMBLRo&smid=url-share
http://www.memeorandum.com/260519/p89#a260519p89

Moonshot AI pauses new subscriptions, saying that over the past two days Kimi K3 demand nearly passed the limit of its capacity, and also reworks its plan tiers (@kimi_moonshot)
https://x.com/kimi_moonshot/status/2078855608565207130

Kimi.ai (@Kimi_Moonshot) on X
Kimi K3 has received far more love than we expected, and our GPUs are feeling it. Over the past 48 hours, demand has pushed close to the limits of our current capacity. To protect the experience of existing subscribers, we're temporarily pausing new subscriptions and

In just 7 months, Katalyst built the
400 kg LINK servicing spacecraft under a $30M NASA contract.
Its job: rendezvous with Swift, capture it with three robotic arms, and boost it to a higher, stable orbit.
https://skywriter.blue/@drnereide.bsky.social/3montkodbsc2r…

A Three-Step Plan to Undo Trump's Assault on Democracy (Ben Wikler/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/15/opinion/trump-democracy-plan.html?unlocked_article_code=1.qVA._9v2.S2PEJjNSJbKs&smid=url-share
http://www.memeorandum.com/260615/p116#a260615p116

On the one hand, Trump spoke in the language of threats, sanctions, and displays of power;
On the other, he tried to avoid an all-out war, one that could endanger the energy market, the elections, and America’s focus on China.
The result of this contradiction was the transfer of risk to allies
--Arab states felt that Washington wanted to use their territory to pressure Iran, without offering a clear guarantee that it would bear the heavy costs of defending them.
Th…

Project Freedom and the end of the Arabs’ automatic “yes” to Washington
When Donald Trump spoke of “Project Freedom” to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, the plan was supposed to be a display of restored American deterrence: an operation meant to prove that Washington could…

Inside the Ludicrous, Deadly Serious Plan to Take Over Greenland (Ben Taub/New Yorker)
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/06/22/inside-the-ludicrous-deadly-serious-plan-to-take-over-greenland?currentPage=all
http://www.memeorandum.com/260615/p32#a260615p32

The EU accepts X's plan to meet DSA transparency obligations and give researchers access to data, giving X six months to implement it, following a €120M fine (Foo Yun Chee/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/eu-accepts-act…

Trump Megadonor Tim Dunn Has a Plan More Extreme Than Project 2025
The Texas fracking billionaire wants to rewrite the U.S. Constitution
to advance climate denial and other far-right priorities
https://www.desmog.com/2024/10/23/trump-pr…

Trump Megadonor Tim Dunn Has a Plan More Extreme Than Project 2025
The Texas fracking billionaire wants to rewrite the U.S. Constitution to advance climate denial and other far-right priorities.

Netflix says its ad tier now has 250M monthly active viewers, up from 94M in 2025, and is expanding to 15 new countries, as it tests an ad personalization tool (Emma Roth/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/streaming/929627/netflix-ads-plan-upfront-2026

Netflix’s ad ambitions just keep growing
Netflix’s ad-supported streaming tier reaches 250 million users each month, the company announced during its 2026 upfront presentation.

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