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Youth Who Fought the Climate Crisis in Court Are Now Targeting Trump
Many of the young plaintiffs have taken part in similar lawsuits before
-- and won key victories in Montana and Hawaii.
https://grist.org/justice/youth-climate-activis…

Youth climate activists won lawsuits in Montana and Hawai‘i. Now they’re targeting Trump.
Per the plaintiffs, “Trump’s fossil fuel orders are a death sentence for my generation."

Have you ever looked at clouds or water and tried to understand the complex system of swirls and ribbons?
To take it a step further: Jupiter, the largest planet in our solar system, and its moons still pose puzzles of this kind, which we hope to unravel with the instruments aboard the JUICE spacecraft on its journey there.
Here's a hands-on experiment that explains how the gas giant's cloud swirls are formed.
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To give some examples:
When police get vastly differential results at investigating crimes against some groups (e.g., Black women) vs. others (e.g., white men), that's malcompetence. Probably plenty of simple malice involved too, and probably the whole gamut of mechanisms I mentioned in the last post are involved here.
Another example, from my own experience: when I stumble over the names of my non-white students but pronounce my white students' names flawlessly, that's malcompetence on my part, because the net effect of my selective incompetence is to make some students feel less welcome in my classroom, which hurts their learning. I'm my case, the reasons for the incompetence are not conscious nor (I think) unconscious malice, but instead a differential capability picked up from a certain kind of upbringing and then (sometimes) insufficiently mitigated by capability-building effort. Because of how I grew up, my ability to pronounce different names is biased (this is true of everyone in the world; most people don't have a classroom instructor position that causes it to matter so much). When I'm successful at mitigating my malcompetence, I use practice time with student intro videos to pare down my competence gap for the specific students in my class. This is time consuming (several hours per week for the first few weeks of classes) and I'm sad to admit that I don't always invest that time. But it's a great example of malcompetence because I have a introspective access to it.

Study finds planetary waves linked to wild summer weather have tripled since 1950 https://phys.org/news/2025-06-planetary-linked-wild-summer-weather.html
Study finds planetary waves linked to wild summer weather have tripled since 1950

Study finds planetary waves linked to wild summer weather have tripled since 1950
Climate change has tripled the frequency of atmospheric wave events linked to extreme summer weather in the last 75 years and that may explain why long-range computer forecasts keep underestimating the surge in killer heat waves, droughts and floods, a new study says.

The CTO of Palantir, the company being tasked with making a master database of intelligence files on all US citizens, is joining the army-ish.
So are other tech execs. This feels…really bad.
https://gizmodo.com/silicon-valley-exe

Silicon Valley Execs Join the Army as Officers (But Won't Have to Attend Boot Camp)
The tech industry is fully on board, but the rank and file won't have to do time as grunts.

La de cosas que tenía yo planeadas esta mañana y llevo casi una hora negociando amablemente con un matrimonio inglés, a los que llevo esta tarde a San Mamés a la final de la Europa League, que les agradezco la invitación y las molestias que se han tomado, pero que ya había quedado con gente y no puedo acompañarles al partido.
Que no es cierto, pero es que el fútbol es algo que ni me va ni me viene, no sé de qué equipo son ellos, y ni siquiera sabía quién jugaba hasta hace una hora. Amé…

It's a perfect early evening for our solar-system-themed kid's activities: little painted stars glowing in the sunlight at the face painting station, swirling planets painted on busy little arms, and of course everything is in motion at the bouncy castle!
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A coalition of European Union countries is pushing to bar Russian citizens who participated in the war against Ukraine from entering the Schengen Area, citing serious security concerns.
The call comes as Russia increased its hybrid operations targeting the European Union.
EU security agencies have repeatedly warned of Russian-linked sabotage operations, including arson attacks, orchestrated by Moscow as part of hybrid warfare strategies.
Interior ministers from the Baltic …

Baltics, Nordics, Poland propose Schengen ban for Russians who fought in Ukraine
"There are hundreds of thousands of Russian citizens who have fought against Ukraine," Estonian Interior Minister Lauri Laanemets said. "We must take a clear stance, these individuals cannot freely travel across Schengen."

UN Climate Conference Serves Mostly Vegan and Vegetarian Food https://vegconomist.com/fairs-events/un-climate-conference-serves-mostly-vegan-and-vegetarian-food/

UN Climate Conference Serves Mostly Vegan and Vegetarian Food - vegconomist - the vegan business magazine
Caterers at the United Nations' June Climate Meetings have made the decision to serve mainly vegan and vegetarian food this year to reduce the environmental

I've never written a novel or any other intensely-plotted work of fiction, but anyone who has read or watched it played a lot of stories can probably also recognize that some authors just aren't good at endings. They're great at setting things in motion, at keeping the twists and turns coming, at the soap opera style of drama. But they just don't have the craft necessary to tie things together into a satisfying conclusion. I imagine it's much harder than the process of getting things going out keeping them moving, since you both have to wind down all the various threads you've spun up and balance satisfaction with believability.
I just finished Girl Gone Viral by Arvin Ahmadi, and it has a bad ending. The beginning is fine, the middle has plenty of drama to keep you wanting to see what happens, but the ending is murky, unsatisfying, and manages neither veracity nor satisfaction (even discounting the biggest next step that might reasonably have been left there to make room for a sequel).
Given the other issues with the book, from poor politics, to inauthentic characters, to a techno-optimism that feels as bitter in this moment as it is far from the mark in its predictions, I can't recommended it, despite having read through to the end.
#AmReading