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The European Commission has published new requirements for EV charging points. These requirements will make hardware more expensive and add to the complexity of the already opaque pricing landscape for public EV charging. They also lack a focus on true interoperability from a user's perspective.

The delegated act amending the European Alternative Fuels Infrastructure Regulation (AFIR) has now been officially published by the European Commission and will apply from 8 January 2026 onwards. | Jaap Burger
The delegated act amending the European Alternative Fuels Infrastructure Regulation (AFIR) has now been officially published by the European Commission and will apply from 8 January 2026 onwards. From this date onwards, all newly installed public EV charging stations will be required to support the outdated EN ISO 15118-2 standard, without specifying the functionality. From January 2027 onwards, all new public and private EV charging points will be required to support EN ISO 15118-20, again wit…

FAU University Press: Now in the top catalogs for open access publications https://ub.fau.de/en/2025/06/17/fau-university-press-now-in-the-top-catalogs-for-open-access-publications/

Promoting walking and cycling: a toolkit of policy options
https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/9789240109902

Promoting walking and cycling: a toolkit of policy options
This toolkit offers policy options to promote safe walking and cycling, highlighting their benefits for individuals, communities, the environment, and the economy. It includes seven strategic policies and real-world case studies demonstrating successful implementations.

The US State Department restarts student visa interviews and requires all applicants to make their social media accounts public for vetting by US embassies (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-se…

State Dept. restarts student visa interviews with tougher social media rules 
Foreign nationals who seek visas to study in the United States will have to make social media posts public to be scrutinized for hostility toward the U.S.

The Daily Beast says Reddit and Facebook have made up for falling Google referral traffic; Vox CEO says OpenAI is a good partner but still undervalues content (Dominic Ponsford/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/…

Daily Beast gains on Reddit and Facebook as Google traffic falls
Reddit and Facebook have made up for falling referral traffic from Google for the Daily Beast, Cannes Lions event hears.

Judge rules that anti-woke is just racism (Liz Dye/Public Notice)
https://www.publicnotice.co/p/william-young-trump-dei-lgbtq
http://www.memeorandum.com/250618/p33#a250618p33

The proposed sell-off of federal lands in the Senate budget bill includes a LOT of Joshua tree habitat—the trees grow in some of the largest areas of undeveloped land in the lower 48 states
The place where eastern and western Joshua trees hybridize, north of Creech AFB, is included
#JoshuaTree #USpolitics

Abt. Wirksamkeit der Tibetologie (Kudos an Dagmar Schwerk!).
https://www.blankforms.org/publications/blank-forms-10-alien-roots-eliane-radigue

Blank Forms 10: Alien Roots: Éliane Radigue
Release date: June 20, 2025The tenth and final anthology from Blank Forms explores the early electronic work of French composer Éliane Radigue, whose radical approach to feedback, analog synthesis, and composition on tape has long evaded historical and technical interpretation. Combining key texts, newly translated primary documents, interviews, and commissioned essays, this compendium interrogates the composer’s idiosyncratic compositional practice, which both embraces and confounds the it…

AI bots that scrape the internet for training data are hammering the servers of libraries, archives, museums, and galleries,
and are in some cases knocking their collections offline,
according to a new survey published today.
While the impact of AI bots on open collections has been reported anecdotally,
this survey is the first attempt at measuring the problem,
which in the worst cases can make valuable, public resources unavailable to humans
because the…

AI Scraping Bots Are Breaking Open Libraries, Archives, and Museums
"This is a moment where that community feels collectively under threat and isn't sure what the process is for solving the problem.”

H.R. 1, One Big Beautiful Bill Act (Dynamic Estimate) (CBO Publications)
https://www.cbo.gov/publication/61486
http://www.memeorandum.com/250617/p121#a250617p121