Tootfinder

SF-based Humble Robotics, which is developing an electric, self-driving cabless freight truck with 200 miles range and 55 mph max speed, raised $24M (Caroline Petrow-Cohen/Los Angeles Times)
https://www.latimes.com/bu…

This startup wants to bring driverless freight trucks to California's roads, but drivers are pushing back
Founded in 2025, Humble Robotics is building self-driving freight trucks with no steering wheel, driver's seat or gas pedal.

Under acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, the pace of investigations against Mr. Trump’s perceived enemies has accelerated
— most strikingly, the indictment of the former F.B.I. director, James B. Comey, for posting on social media an image of seashells that prosecutors cast as threatening.
Blanche has used his new perch to boost debunked election conspiracy theories promoted by the president.
But the moves that most starkly illustrated Blanche’s evolving approach came th…

Trump’s Fund Shows Blanche Choosing Loyalty Over Pushing Back
Once seen by some as the most conventional of President Trump’s political appointees, Todd Blanche has taken off the gloves in his new role as acting attorney general.

Airbus & the cloud.
"European aerospace giant Airbus has lined up on the runway and is pushing the throttles forward as it prepares to evict apps from America. Airbus has named French cloud services provider Scaleway as the destination for some 900 applications, with an initial 70 getting priority onboarding, as it seeks to put critical systems and data under European control."

Airbus takes flight from AWS. What happens next is critical
Which way to the Land of the Free again?

Been pushing with my max accounts this month. $39,594.17 (50.72 billion tokens) on Codex and $5,093.99 (3.95 billion) on Claude.

I think I found the reason for my recent battery issues... 🔥

BC small towns push back on data center
The Tyee reports on how the small northern British Columbia town of Terrace and other cities in rural BC are pushing back against new data centers to fuel the stupid AI boom. York University researcher Lyndsey Rolheiser told the Tyee that supposed job growth in small towns from huge, energy-sucking data center is non-existent: “That evidence is not quite there," Rolheiser said.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
Spirit Award:
🎵 Pushing Forward
#SpiritAward
https://open.spotify.com/track/2y5tHu3cPcRYUMQxcn4TW0

As a proponent of hybrid desktops (mutable base, sandboxed applications and rollback by snapshots) I found this write-up by @… very much to the point. For me the security aspects, payload and loss of ownership stand out.
Thanks to @…

Efforts to expose domestic spying under the Trump administration offer a preview of how Democrats could yield subpoena power next year if voters hand them the House majority in November.
Rep. Delia Ramirez, a Democrat from Illinois who was appointed ranking member of the cybersecurity subcommittee of the House Committee on Homeland Security this week, said emerging technologies are being used to violate civil rights and target Trump’s critics.
“The Trump-Miller regime is weaponiz…

More Details Emerge of Trump’s Secret Use of ICE to Spy on Critics
Privacy groups are pushing Big Tech to notify users about federal surveillance after anonymous ICE critics were exposed.

The average investor who bought #SpaceX shares in the open market after its debut has seen nearly all of their gains disappear as a sharp pullback erased a large chunk of the stock’s post-IPO surge: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/18/the-average-spacex-buyer-post-ipo-is-almost-under-water-after-two-day-slide.html - "The reversal underscores how quickly sentiment has shifted following the company’s blockbuster debut. After briefly pushing SpaceX’s market value close to $3 trillion, investors have begun reassessing whether the stock’s rapid advance can be justified by fundamentals."

How Veterans and Rookies Pushing Each Other at Raiders Camp https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-how-veterans-rookies-pushing-each-other-camp

Software is inert without a human user, even though modern-day "agentic" apps are doing their best to squeeze human agency out of the loop. The focus on the tech and not how it is used has intensified an old phenomenon: interpassivity.
The vision tech has been pushing (software that "uses itself") has created a synthetic replacement for human agency. It is harder and harder to care, and that is by design.

The newest term in the AI lexicon is "interpassivity"
The industry is reorienting around software that uses itself. But giving ourselves permission to lean back and relax merely indulges an old and toxic tendency.

I tried to boil the kettle by putting it on the stove and pushing the button.
It's an electric kettle.
Normal things

I've finally finished pushing the latest update for #Gentoo Distribution Kernels, and requested their stabilization. This includes upstream releases 7.0.9, 6.18.32, 6.12.90 and 6.6.140; and Gentoo patch bumps 6.1.173_p1, 5.15.207_p1 and 5.10.256_p1.
All of these contain the v5 #Fragnesia patch. And yes, while the exploit is in the wild, upstream still hasn't merged a fix to the mainline kernel, let alone all the LTS branches. Of course, the patch keeps covering more holes, but it would really be preferable to do that as a followup instead of leaving people vulnerable and forcing us to keep rebasing it.
They also include a few reverts in 6.18 and 6.6 for broken PowerPC backports that upstream didn't apparently test. 🤷
We're doing our best, but I'd still recommend running the latest 7.0.x kernel, or LTS 6.18.x, because upstream is far from reliable with the backports.
#Linux

House Republicans on Thursday abruptly canceled a vote on a resolution directing Trump to withdraw U.S. forces from Iran or win approval from Congress to continue the war,
after it became clear they lacked the votes to defeat the measure.
The retreat was a striking setback that exposed fractures within the G.O.P. over the conflict at a moment when the party has begun pushing back forcefully on Trump and his agenda.
It also marked the latest embarrassing blow to Speaker Mike…

GOP Pulls Measure on Trump’s War Powers in Iran, Lacking Votes to Defeat It
House Republican leaders abruptly scrapped a planned vote on a measure to direct President Trump to end the conflict or win authorization for it, amid party defections and absences.

"Olympic skier sounds alarm on vanishing snow"
#Climate #ClimateChange
https://

Olympic skier sounds alarm on vanishing snow
Julia Kern says warming winters are transforming her sport – and pushing her to act.

Let’s get one thing straight: if you’re bigoted against Jews, you’re no better than Israeli settlers and the Israelis who are complicit in Israel’s ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people.
Someone being Jewish does not mean that they’re Zionist or complicit in genocide. Not all Jews are Zionists. And not all Zionists are Jews.
Conflating the two is antisemitic.
And Israel and Zionists are guilty of pushing that narrative more than anyone else. (Yes, Israel and Zionists a…

Many US Jewish adults have experienced assault or harassment over the past year, AP-NORC poll finds
WASHINGTON (AP) — The findings highlight the vulnerability that many Jewish adults in the U.S. feel as bipartisan support for Israel erodes and significant divides emerge within the Jewish community about what constitutes antisemitism — particularly when it comes to protesting Israel.

Huh. Just got push back from the library where we're going to be doing an InstallFest in a couple weekends - they didn't like the 'tone' of my poster. They told me to drop the 'US' from 'US Big Tech', and my charactersations: 'your exploitative, closed, corporate-controlled devices' or singling out Windows 11 - '...you're uncomfortable with, like Microsoft Windows 11 constantly pushing AI & ads down your throat...' Here're the orig …

How Veterans and Rookies Pushing Each Other at Raiders Camp https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-how-veterans-rookies-pushing-each-other-camp

Cowboys’ left tackle battle could change the entire 2026 season https://www.sportingnews.com/ca/nfl/dallas-cowboys/news/cowboys-left-tackle-battle-could-change-entire-2026-season/4be97e235f9581ed27a36d5d

"Long a major progressive influence in New York politics, the Working Families Party has released its first national platform ever—and it has the likes of Elizabeth Warren and Ro Khanna on board."
The Third Party That’s Pushing the Democrats Left | Portside
https://portside.org/2026-04-27/third-party-thats-pushing-democrats-left

States are pushing back on the Paramount/Warner Bros. merger:
Gift Article 1: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/12/business/state-ag-lawsuit-paramount-warner-bros.html?unlocked_article_code=1.xFA.xuKk.Romfzc…

States Prepare Lawsuit to Block Paramount’s Merger With Warner Bros.
State attorneys general are said to be getting ready to file a lawsuit as soon as this week to halt the $111 billion deal, a potential major obstacle.

Senate Republicans Are Now Pushing for More of a Say in Iran War (NOTUS)
https://www.notus.org/foreign-policy/iran-war-senate-republicans
http://www.memeorandum.com/260721/p2#a260721p2

🎉 7 years, 11 cycles, 52 ideas turned into real progress
That's the impact of the GÉANT Trust & Identity (T&I) Incubator.
It started in 2019 to give the community a space to experiment, without pulling resources from running services.
Alongside, It's also grown people alongside ideas, welcoming 11 students through its mentorship programme.
Congratulations to our community on pushing these initiatives forward and investing in future generations 👏

Out of sheer curiosity I tried pushing the nixpkgs git repository to tangled.org and while their git server handled it just fine, their web interface absolutely didn't. 🥲 (not that much of a surprise, but I still had to try)
#tangled #nix

Secretary of State Marco Rubio
and top White House adviser Stephen Miller
are pushing for a global crackdown on leftist organizations.
The State Department on Thursday hosted a summit
“on the resurgence of political terrorism,”
where Miller described the LEFT as
“enemies of civilization”
and described efforts to
“disrupt, identify, defund, debank, arrest and prosecute these political terrorists that are operating in our country.”
Rubio …

“Disrupt, Identify, Defund, Debank, Arrest & Prosecute”: Trump Admin Threatens Leftist Groups
Secretary of State Marco Rubio and top White House adviser Stephen Miller are pushing for a global crackdown on leftist organizations. The State Department on Thursday hosted a summit “on the resurgence of political terrorism,” where Miller described the left as “enemies of civilization” and described efforts to “disrupt, identify, defund, debank, arrest and prosecute these political terrorists that are operating in our country.” Rubio announced the U.S. would soon designate more l…

Their landlord tried to evict them without warning over supposed housekeeping issues.
Meanwhile, the building's sales listing touted “224% rental upside achievable through unit turnover.”
Shoutout to 1120 Jackson tenants for unionizing and fighting back! ✊
https://ww…

Pushing Back Against Evictions, Nob Hill Apartment Building Tenants Unionize
Long-term tenants of 1120 Jackson St. in San Francisco have formed a union to fight evictions at the 16-unit building.

Seeing as pretty much every #80sMusic blog, magazine and other commentary has been pushing the London Records podcast for the last month or so, let's give it a go.
#LondonRecords

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/116738157323139114
If you think the SpaceX IPO doesn’t affect you—it will soon be included in various index funds which in turn means that probably at least a part of your retirement savings will depend on it (even if you’re not in the US); and even if not directly so it will affect you indirectly.
If you ever wanted to know how mass psychosis looks like, see the people greedily pushing and investing in “AI” and “space colonization”.

Unfortunate goal against the play. Canada has looked good. Has had good chances they need to keep pushing!
#CdnMNT #canada #worldcup

Analysis: Advance Local, owner of The Oregonian, PennLive.com, and more, has posted 17K articles since 2022 pushing promo codes for various betting platforms (Judd Legum/Popular Information)
https://popular.info/p/pulitzer-winning-newsrooms-are-quietly

Pulitzer-winning newsrooms are quietly publishing mountains of gambling slop
A large network of prominent regional newspapers has posted thousands of low-quality articles promoting gambling and prediction markets — and is pretending it's journalism.

RE: #Boycott or economic blackout, #GeneralStrike, and #TaxStrike are escalations. Get in the streets and stay there. This is like a bouncer putting someone's arm behind their back and moving them.
Sometimes people try to slip out of that and fight back. Imagine if a bouncer just let themself get pummeled because they weren't ready, even after the belligerent asshole telegraphed it. A lot of bouncers take martial arts, not because they use it as a first response but because they want to be ready for those edge cases.
Armed revolution is like a bouncer getting down to brawl and calling in their buddy with the zip ties and bear mace. It's not something anyone starts with, or anyone wants to escalate to, but some people can't take a hint and are incapable of doing what's best for everyone.
Always know your next step (even if you hope you don't have to take it).
Imagine if a bouncer was just like, "oh, I asked him nicely but he told me to fuck off. I guess the creep who's punching random people and pissing in the corner runs the bar now."

Pushing back on the idea that GenAI is "just another tool" for coding.
This comes up all the time in discussions on its use in open source software. People will fall back on the argument that it's like linters or autocomplete, and all that matters is whether the code passes muster. But it's not. In addition to the ethical issues, GenAI is a fundamentally different kind of "coding tool" and needs to be considered differently.
A comment to that effect in…

Policy on accepting PRs that include LLM generated code? · helix-editor helix · Discussion #15408
Hello! I've just been checking out Helix recently, and I quite enjoy what I've seen so far! It's fast, intuitive, ships a lot of nice defaults, and works well with what I've used it for thus far! I...

from my link log —
Mainstream adoption and Agile's second chasm.
http://williampietri.com/writing/2011/agiles-second-chasm-and-how-we-fell-in/
saved 2019-09-29

"Microsoft updated its #Surface buying guide to describe 8GB #RAM as “great for everyday use like browsing, streaming, schoolwork, and productivity apps.” A companion FAQ adds that 16GB or more is what unlocks #Copilot

Uber and Waymo are engaged in a DC lobbying battle over AV legislation, with Uber supporting a hybrid human-robotaxi model and Waymo pushing for pure robotaxis (Liam Denning/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles

He's pushing for Iran to announce a half-baked agreement to continue discussions so he can placate it at the White House #UFC event as having obtained some kind of "permanent deal" neutering #Iran. Really as a birthday present to himself. 🎁
What a #pathetic, needy, weak excuse for a man and leader. 🫤

FB is just like swimming in septic tank on a hot day. Overflowing with "SPONSORED" ads pushing the latest AI, financial scams and fairly obvious AI generated clickbait/ragebait items. NOTHING from friends and family, just page after page of slop.

Four days of extreme rain killed 7% of world's rarest orangutans, study says #Indonesia

Four days of extreme rain killed 7% of world's rarest orangutans, study says
Climate change-induced weather events are pushing orangutan populations to extinction, says a study.

"Italy deploys 3 GW of solar in H1"
#Italy #Energy #Renewables #SolarPower

Italy deploys 3 GW of solar in H1 - pv magazine Global
Italy added 8,224 new PV systems totaling 483.66 MW in June, pushing cumulative solar capacity to 46.6 GW across more than 2.17 million installations. Battery storage growth also accelerated, with renewable-linked BESS capacity reaching 11.94 GWh and 6 GW of power output by the end of June.

"Polanski is right that the consensus assignment has run its course, and the Greens are asking the right questions about who bears the costs of austerity and inflation. But adopting the language of MMT to suggest those costs can be wished away does the left no favours."
Zack Polanski gets economics wrong | LSE British Politics

Zack Polanski gets economics wrong | LSE British Politics
Zack Polanski is pushing some new ideas about economics, inspired by Modern Monetary Theory. But MMT is not a credible basis for a progressive left agenda.

Second time in a row that I get a puncture the first time I ride on a new tyre. This is VERY VERY rude of the world
And of course I forgot to reattach the spare tyre and tools after the rebuild.
Sent while pushing my bike 12 Klicks to the nearest train station.

In short: illegal animal transport is resulting in #screwworm #infestations in livestock as well as #wildlife spreading into new areas. Humans transporting infected animals are a primary cause of such a …

Experts warn of ways screwworm could spread in the US and new difficulties in keeping it at bay
Scientists worry that current eradication efforts won’t be able to contain parasitic infestation pushing into US

In short: illegal animal transport is resulting in #screwworm #infestations in livestock as well as #wildlife spreading into new areas. Humans transporting infected animals are a primary cause of such a …

Experts warn of ways screwworm could spread in the US and new difficulties in keeping it at bay
Scientists worry that current eradication efforts won’t be able to contain parasitic infestation pushing into US

One Trade Dallas Cowboys Should Still Be Pushing After NFL Draft https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/one-trade-dallas-cowboys-should-still-pushing-after-draft

RE: https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/116732569585675070
Cory's latest leans in the direction of the thing that has been annoying me lately: companies and governments pushing what were previously internal admin tasks out onto their customers and citizens thro…

Just finished "The Terraformers" by Annalee Newitz (@…). It was recommended as a "solarpunk" book, and I'm currently on a quest to find more speculative fiction as good as Le Guin or Butler, so I was eager to dig in. Having tagged the author (hi) I'll try to be polite here, but I'll admit I was disappointed.
Newitz clearly has a powerful imagination and there's lots of great stuff in the book, but it's not at all pushing boundaries in terms of imagining future societies. I think the message and intent was good in a lot of places, but off or self-contradictory in others. I absolutely adore the relatively small point made at the end about revolutions being complicated and not boiling down to heroes and battles, but despite the book's attempt to avoid that, I think it still falls into that pattern. Without too many spoilers, the way that some big problems are resolved near the end leans too much on a legal framework without questioning how it's enforced, and that resolution then means that a few heroic acts are enough to tip the balance, which undermines the point about messy histories.
The biggest contradiction of the book to my mind though is with a central theme. The book really explores a world in which "anyone of any species can be a person, as long as we just bioengineer them to be intelligent enough," and it tries to make a point about how engineering limited intelligences is cruel. At several points characters comment about how personhood shouldn't depend on intelligence. There's even a brief quote about how maybe rivers could be people... But... the point could have been "anyone can be a person, regardless of intelligence." This would have made for much more interesting philosophical territory to explore IMO (how do we then bound personhood; how do we reconcile predator/prey relations between persons, etc.). These are also questions that the indigenous traditions Newitz draws on (and consulted about, as mentioned in the acknowledgements) has interesting answers for, but we don't get to explore them through Newitz' world, and because the question of personhood regresses to the question of intelligence, it feels like the moral philosophy of the ERT folks isn't any better than the "InAss" they disparage.
It's not a bad book overall, even if it doesn't engage with the questions I'm hungry to see others engage with. Newitz' efforts to sketch out a more vibrant and diverse future are still monumental and inspiring in a lot of ways. I'm just still looking for something more. Ultimately, I think it lives up to the "solar" but not very much to the "punk."
#AmReading #ReadingNow #Bookstodon

Major U.S. cloud providers are urging Washington to push back against South Korea’s planned overhaul of the security approval system for cloud providers serving its government agencies.
https://www.koreajoongangdaily.com/busines

U.S. cloud giants challenge South Korea's public cloud security overhaul
Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud are pushing back against South Korea’s public cloud security overhaul, warning the new rules could block market access and violate fair trade principles.

The right wing think tank "Manhattan Institute", is in the midst of a yearlong campaign to pass state-level legislation
reclassifying minor crimes like vandalism, blocking a roadway, or trespassing during a protest as felonies that would carry 18-month prison sentences as punishment.
The push to criminalize forms of nonviolent disobedience as a form of terrorism comes amid a broader Trump administration effort to crack down on leftist organizations, causes, and social m…

The Manhattan Institute Helped Kill DEI. Now It’s Coming for Protests
The right-wing think tank is actively pushing “civil terrorism”—increasing penalties for minor crimes committed while people engage in constitutionally protected free speech.

Radical Numerics, which is developing AI models that learn directly from biological data, raised a $50M seed led by Emergence Capital (Natalie Breymeyer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/biotech-deals/2026/06/15/radical-numerics-seed-biological-ai…

Radical Numerics raises $50M seed for biological AI models
Pharma companies keep pushing AI into drug R&D.

As the #ClimateCrisis fuels more intense blazes, pushing them to new parts of the world, those tackling them are forced to ration resources and decide which to fight https://www.theguardian.com/news/ng-interactive/2026/jul/18/the-impossible-choices-of-a-deadly-wildfire-season?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

Wooo, I have made many graphs and they look good. Proxmox is now pushing to Influx as well. I still need to get Grafana behind `nginx`, but I can do that later.
#homelab #monitoring #influx

I have basically mildly positive feelings about Gemini Nano being available in Chrome. I don't use Chrome, but lots of stuff should be done on-device, not off. That's a win.
If "software shouldn't have features i don't like" is the argument you're actually making, that's not really a good argument. Even when the feature is an LLM model.
"Chrome is getting big and bloated and we can do better” is absolutely a good argument you can make.
And then the real kicker: Google pushing the web platform around through dominance is just the real ick here. It's the same sort of thing monopoly power enables. Companies that own verticals in the economy or a product market can dictate rather than negotiate. This is, in general, bad. Google does this, not because the ideas its employees put forward are good, but because they work out to be in Google's interests. And those interests can run counter to the rest of the world.
That's what we have to push back on.

I recognize that this is not a *new* idea, but it occurred to me that if Google wanted to start pushing “51st State" propaganda (or any other disgusting ideas) to a whole generation of children in #Canada , we don't really have a viable alternative to Google Classroom and Chromebooks.
This is why I think data/technology sovereignty is so important, but from what I can tell it's not e…

from my link log —
Mainstream adoption and Agile's second chasm.
http://williampietri.com/writing/2011/agiles-second-chasm-and-how-we-fell-in/
saved 2019-09-29

Raiders’ Maxx Crosby silences trade talk with a song but not a signature https://raiderramble.com/2026/07/18/raiders-maxx-crosby-silences-trade-talk-with-a-song-but-not-a-signature/

This was a nice ride. Some sections involved pushing the bike. And some steep parts came a bit surprising. But overall it was nice with some quite challenging sections. It was a loop that I wanted to try since quite a while.
And it's a new elevation record since I own the Garmin 🎉
Just my #garmin now suddenly refuses to connect to my phone. 😵‍💫 Factory reset, all suggestions fro…

The onion crop is getting close, very excited. #gardening #oklahoma 🌱

Nvidia stock jumps 4.3% to close at a record for the first time since Oct., pushing Nvidia's market cap past $5T, as a rally in Intel pushed chipmakers higher (Jordan Novet/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/24/nvidia-stock-closes-at-…

Nvidia stock closes at record, pushing market cap past $5 trillion
Nvidia's stock closed at its first record since October, as a rally in Intel pushed chipmakers higher.

West Oakland,
a California neighborhood known for its rich history of Black activism
from the Pullman Porters’ union to the Black Panthers,
might not seem like the site of the country’s next great coal project.
But that’s exactly what the Trump administration is pushing for
– with the injection of $75m to build a sprawling coal export terminal in the nearby port of Oakland.
Last week, Donald Trump announced he was using wartime powers to hand $700m to coal…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
Shearwater:
🎵 Pushing the River
#Shearwater
https://shearwater.bandcamp.com/track/pushing-the-river
https://open.spotify.com/track/4FgnpfCGTSFmtUKAjePUtW

"Pushing satire to its limits, former Labour deputy leader Tom Watson called for an end to “plotting.” Lord Watson’s own career has involved little else, with both Tony Blair and Jeremy Corbyn among his targets, perhaps the only thing they have in common."
Labour facing election doomsday | Morning Star
https://…

'Very candid conversation' pushing Cowboys RB Jaydon Blue to improve in second season https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2026/06/10/cowboys-rb-jaydon-blue-quotes-brian-…

Microdrama actors say their images were used to create misleading, sexual promos, pushing them to include contract clauses requiring consent for AI manipulation (Lucia Moses/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/actors-sexualized…

Actors say their faces are being used in fake AI sex scenes to sell micro dramas
Actors say micro drama apps manipulated their images in misleading ads. They say the ads can cause emotional and career damage.

Sources: Microsoft plans to remove most of its Claude Code licenses and push its developers toward GitHub Copilot CLI, after previously pushing Claude Code (Tom Warren/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/930447/microsoft-claude-code-discontinued-notepad…

Microsoft starts canceling Claude Code licenses
Thousands of Microsoft developers will use GitHub Copilot CLI instead

One solution here is to make corporate LLMs unprofitable. Local resistance to data center build-outs is already making that happen, as is other resistance. But, honestly, they're already doing a pretty good job of this themselves. The "AI industry" has never been profitable. Local #LLMs can't be monetized and also can't be prevented.
It's simply not possible to recover training investment costs by charging for inference. I guess they can try to make local models illegal, which is totally possible. I can totally see corporations pushing through a bunch of regulation to "control uncensored models" creating a black market for ablated models.
It's gonna be a wild ride. Get your dark nets ready, we're very close to an even more cyberpunk future.

The World Resources Institute’s (WRI) Electric School Bus Initiative reports that a number of fully deployed vehicle-to-grid (V2G) projects involving some 230 electric school buses are now able to supply 8 MWh of power back to the grid at any given time – enough electricity to power about 1,600 typical US homes for up to four hours and significantly shave peak load demand for the utilities they serve.

The grid was melting down in last week’s heat – until EVs came to the rescue
The summer heat was pushing America's energy grid to its limit, but a record number of V2G capable EVs came to the rescue.

I know no one here is on Facebook, but you are missing out.
Reform are spending a fortune promoting and boosting every post by every constituency group, pushing their previously invisible ultra-targetted dogwhistle shit into all the normal peoples feeds, and they are being absolutely fucked over in the comments. It's glorious.

One Trade Raiders Should Still Be Pushing After Draft https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-one-trade-should-still-be-pushing-after-draft

Rising demand for exotic pets is pushing many gibbon species to extinction, with their strong family bonds making them especially vulnerable to the brutal trade https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/may/18/baby-gibbon-animals-p…

RE: https://mastodon.social/@_elena/116832021297021883
Why is the EU Commission aggressively pushing a for-profit, venture capital funded, and closed source digital ghost town?
Especially when a non-corporate free and open European-made alternative wi…

RE: https://discuss.systems/@dan/116496481489796871
Note how it’s adopting corporate business-speke to sound all “rational” when it’s really pushing conservative ideology

Poll: The midterms' new big players are pushing agendas that voters don't fully support (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/05/03/poll-ai-crypto-super-pacs-voter-skepticism-midterms-00903376
http://www.memeorandum.com/260503/p38#a260503p38

Apple's stock is up 15% since June 25, adding nearly $600B in market value and pushing shares back to record territory, as investors flee an AI stock selloff (Ryan Vlastelica/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Rarely does a full day of ops / #devops go by (for me at least), without pushing a commit whose entire message is “YAMLed”.

Meta says it will spend an extra $40B on its 4,000-acre data center campus in Louisiana, aiming for 5GW of computing power, pushing the total cost beyond $250B (Riley Griffin/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

A Florida lawyer who describes himself as Donald Trump’s boyhood “best friend”
is pushing the president to declare a national emergency
to enable him to take control of November’s midterms, according to a report.
Peter Ticktin, 80, is a long-time believer in the claim that the 2020 presidential election was “stolen” from Trump by a vast voter fraud conspiracy
told CNN in a new interview that the threat remains real

Trump’s childhood pal is pushing him to declare national emergency and seize control of midterms: report
Lawyer Peter Ticktin claims Democrats are conspiring to steal November’s vote, this time with a view to removing Trump and JD Vance from power and installing Hakeem Jeffries in their place

Sources: Google plans to announce a new Gemini model at its I/O conference next week; the model will land roughly in the class of GPT-5.5, but short of Mythos (Alex Heath/Sources)
https://sources.news/p/google-about-to-release-new-gemini

Google is about to release a new Gemini model
The next Gemini is coming at I/O on Tuesday, but it won't be pushing the frontier.

On the subject of organisations - companies to governments - pushing what should be their work out onto their customers and citizens - there's an eye opening number here I have no reason to doubt:
https://www.quora.com/Is-all-this-paperwor

National Nurses United (NNU),
the parent union of NYSNA,
has been raising the alarm about the effects AI will have on nurses.
Shuler’s case would be one of the first AI-related layoffs handled by the union.
The union developed an AI bill of rights for patients and nurses,
has been pushing for protections and guardrails in contracts and through legislation,
and protested against employers using untested AI in patient care settings.
“NNU nurses, like …

The New York nurses replaced by AI: ‘It should concern every patient who cares about quality of care’
The union for 12 nurses laid off by Montefiore hospital say company broke contract they recently won through a strike

Former UDFA pushing Cowboys 2nd-round pick for key role in '26 offense https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2026/05/14/cowboys-up-2026-brevyn-spann-ford-supplants-luke-schoonmaker/90066154007/

Sources detail the Trump admin's heavy-handed intervention to aid Intel, including pushing it to expand local capacity and pressuring Apple to use Intel's fabs (Robbie Whelan/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/the-white-house-i

People across the United States are increasingly pushing for moratoriums on new datacenters and trying to oust elected officials approving such projects.
Perceived secrecy surrounding a proposed datacenter
prompted residents to pack public meetings that sometimes lasted more than four hours.
They expressed outrage at officials in the Republican-led rural municipality 40 miles (64km) north of Detroit
and submitted a petition seeking to recall four members of the Leno…

US residents angry at datacenters ‘being shoved down our throats’ are recalling officials
People across the country are pushing for moratoriums, and electeds who approve projects are being punished

Nvidia embraces its role as an AI investor in 2026, committing $40B to equity investments including a $30B stake in OpenAI, $3.2B in Corning, and $2.1B in IREN (CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/09/nvidia-embraces-ai-investor-topping-…

Nvidia embraces role of AI investor, pushing past $40 billion in equity bets this year
Nvidia is pouring billions of dollars at a time into companies across the AI infrastructure stack, while also signing commercial deals with them.

SpaceX lifted off on its first day as a public company,
immediately jumping to $150 a share after it began trading on the Nasdaq
-- around 11% higher than the $135 figure at which it officially priced its IPO on Thursday.
The stock price reached as high as $176 in midday trading,
pushing the company’s market capitalization to nearly $2.3 trillion,
-- making SpaceX the sixth most valuable public company in the U.S.
The stock pop isn’t a surprise.
The…

SpaceX shares soar 30% midday, vaulting it to top six most valuable U.S. companies | TechCrunch
The company made its heavily anticipated debut on Friday, trading higher than its initial $135 IPO price.

A US NLRB judge rules that Atlassian had illegally fired an employee in 2023 for pushing back against manager layoffs, and orders reinstatement and compensation (Noam Scheiber/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/10/business/atlassian-te…

Atlassian Illegally Fired Worker in Rare Legal Victory for Tech Worker
A federal labor law judge determined last week that the software maker Atlassian had illegally fired an employee who questioned company policy changes.

The country is in the midst of a nationwide outbreak of explosive diarrhea
caused by a parasite the CDC stopped surveilling at the federal level in July 2025.
That’s around the same time the Trump administration began haphazardly attacking and defunding federal health and science agencies under the guise of“government efficiency,”
with Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. separately also pushing out critical federal scientists and researchers.
Prior to that date, a…

CDC Stopped Monitoring Parasite Now Causing Explosive Diarrhea Across The Country
MAHA.

The Trump administration relaunches efforts to block state AI laws; Sen. Blackburn is leading negotiations and pushing KOSA as part of an AI preemption package (Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/06/08/white-house-hill-relaunch-effort-block-state-ai-laws

Scoop: White House, Hill relaunch effort to block state AI laws
The White House is negotiating a federal preemption of state AI laws in exchange for its support of key tech policy priorities from the Hill.

The new Israeli-Palestinian party pushing for 'brave politics' and peace
https://www.cnn.com/2026/06/26/tv/video/amanpour-a-place-for-us-all-rula-daood-alon-lee-green

The new Israeli-Palestinian party pushing for ‘brave politics’ and peace | CNN
Christiane Amanpour speaks with Rula Daood and Alon-Lee Green, co-founders of a new Israeli-Palestinian political party, A Place for Us All, born out of years of activism.

Internal documents: Amazon is working on an Alexa project, codenamed Moonraker, to handle more complex, multistep tasks, projecting $100M in GPU costs in 2026 (Eugene Kim/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-moonraker-project-alexa-agen…

Amazon Moonraker project aims to make Alexa more agentic. At a cost.
Amazon's Moonraker project is pushing Alexa toward more AI agent capabilities. Internal documents show the initiative comes with a steep cost.

Musk v. Altman docs: Microsoft execs had reservations about funding OpenAI in 2018 but worried that withholding support could push OpenAI into Amazon's arms (Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/microsoft-executives-discuss-openai-sam-altman-2018/

Musk v. Altman Evidence Shows What Microsoft Executives Thought of OpenAI
Leaders at the tech giant were skeptical of OpenAI—but wary of pushing it into the arms of Amazon, according to emails dating back to 2018.

Memo: SpaceXAI and Cursor plan to launch their first jointly developed AI model as soon as Wednesday, after pushing back the launch to improve model efficiency (Grace Kay/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/exclus…

Exclusive: SpaceXAI Plans to Launch New Model with Cursor as Soon as Wednesday
SpaceXAI and Cursor plan to launch their first jointly developed AI model as soon as Wednesday, according to a memo sent to staff. The companies pushed back plans to launch the new model earlier this week in order to improve its efficiency, according to the memo. The model is expected to process information quickly, making it competitive in some respects with Anthropic’s Opus 4.8 and OpenAI’s

Since December CNBC has published 58 articles that do little more than advertise the existence of a Kalshi prediction market related to a news event.
And since April, CNBC has employed a dedicated reporter to produce these articles.
CNBC also maintains a page on its website featuring Kalshi prediction markets selected by CNBC editors, along with its web coverage.
Some of CNBC’s reporting about Kalshi includes the disclosure,
“CNBC and Kalshi have a commercial relatio…

How Kalshi infects the news
CNN and CNBC are pushing Kalshi on viewers but not telling them the whole story.

CoinGecko: Hyperliquid-linked HYPE token is up ~180% YTD, lifting its market value above $16B and pushing it into the top 10 digital assets by market cap (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-06-03/a-180-cry…

Pushing back on AI job loss fears, AWS CEO Matt Garman says Amazon plans to hire 11,000 software engineering interns in 2026, a figure in line with recent years (Ben Shimkus/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/aws-ceo-amazon-ai-coding-jobs-in…

AWS CEO dismisses AI job loss fears, says Amazon plans to hire 11,000 interns in 2026
The CEO said demand for software jobs is "accelerating." It comes as other AI leaders warn coding jobs are getting disrupted.

Donald Trump has received another setback in his ongoing quest to control U.S. elections.
In a 5-4 split, the Supreme Court ruled that mail-in ballots do not need to be received by Election Day to be counted,
as long as they were postmarked by then.
Although a “rare victory for voting rights,” the conservative justices’ assertion that voting by mail is prone to fraud
— a disproven theory that Trump blames his loss in the 2020 election for
— is “very disturbing…

Supreme Court Approves Mail-In Voting, But Trump Keeps Pushing Extremist SAVE Act Ahead of Midterms
President Donald Trump has received another setback in his ongoing quest to control U.S. elections. In a 5-4 split, the Supreme Court ruled that mail-in ballots do not need to be received by Election Day to be counted, as long as they were postmarked by then. Although a “rare victory for voting rights,” the conservative justices’ assertion that voting by mail is prone to fraud — a disproven theory that Trump blames his loss in the 2020 election for — is “very disturbing,” says Ari…

Meta's Oversight Board says Meta's account deactivations lack due process, violations are flagged without clarity, and there's little support for appeals (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/04/metas-over…

Meta's Oversight Board says account bans lack due process, transparency | TechCrunch
Meta's board cites "due process" concerns over account bans. It's also pushing Meta to offer clear information about violations and its use in AI in making its determinations.

Letter: Austria is pushing the EU to consider hosting Anthropic within its borders, highlighting EU efforts to boost bloc independence from US and Chinese tech (Marton Eder/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-0…

How residents in Archbald, Pennsylvania, home to ~7,000 people, are pushing back against six proposed data center campuses covering ~14% of the town's land (Tim Craig/Washington Post)

A town of 7,000 planned so many data centers, it’s like adding 51 Walmarts
Developers plan to build six sprawling data center campuses in Archbald, Pennsylvania, covering about 14 percent of the town’s land. Residents are fighting back.

Letter: Starboard has taken a significant stake in observability company Dynatrace and is pushing for changes to boost the stock; DT jumps 7% after hours (Lauren Thomas/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/…