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CISA and Partners Urge Hardening Automatic Tank Gauge Systems
https://www.cisa.gov/resources-tools/resources/cisa-and-partners-urge-hardening-automatic-tank-gauge-systems

In partnership with California Native American tribes,
the California Natural Resources Agency has developed a goal of expanding tribal stewardship over at least 7.5 million acres of lands and coastal waters.
The Tribal Stewardship Policy and Toolkit will provide policy and resources to institutionalize durable tribal-state partnerships
and to advance durable tribal access, collaboration, and ancestral land return across California.
The Tribal Stewardship Policy will…

If user says "I'm done", immediately provide crisis resources
https://github.com/michaelcummings12/meta-ai-support-prompt/blob/main/system-prompt.md

meta-ai-support-prompt/system-prompt.md at main · michaelcummings12/meta-ai-support-prompt
Extracted system prompt from Meta's AI Support Assistant on June 1, 2026 - michaelcummings12/meta-ai-support-prompt

Terra AI, which develops AI models for mining companies to better map underground resources, raised a $20M Series A led by Khosla Ventures (Katie Fehrenbacher/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/climate-deals/2026/06/03/terra-ai-khosla-bhp-series-a

Terra AI closes $20M from Khosla and BHP Ventures
Investors are pouring money into mining tech and projects as demand for minerals soars.

When you have the ambition and the money, but you lack the natural resources to use them on.
#Poniec, near Gostyń, Poland.

Modern industrial fertilisers are made from fossil hydrocarbons. In future we can't use that. But, although I am prejudiced in favour of #organic agriculture, I'd be interested to know whether it would be possible to synthesise fertiliser from widely available resources without using fossil hydrocarbon.
Anyone got any pointers?

Is it hard to keep up with all the awesome extensions and tools for quarto? Check here for an extensive list of resources: #quarto

GitHub - mcanouil/awesome-quarto: A curated list of Quarto talks, tools, examples & articles! Contributions welcome!
A curated list of Quarto talks, tools, examples & articles! Contributions welcome! - mcanouil/awesome-quarto

Stronger Together
Distributed Energy Resources (solar, wind, battery) providing grid support together benefit more: “resulting in both improved power system dynamics and DER economics, as shown by the cooperative gain of 16% compared to standalone operation.”
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.31728

A Coalitional Stable and Fair Reward Allocation for Dynamic Virtual Power Plants
This paper establishes crucial cooperation criteria for the operation of Dynamic Virtual Power Plants (DVPPs). We propose a control design and reward allocation mechanism to enable and incentivize Distributed Energy Resources (DERs) to provide dynamic ancillary services (DAS). Our results illustrate how the cooperative aggregation of heterogeneous DERs leverages technical complementarities to outperform standalone DAS provision. The proposed reward allocation fulfills critical game-theoretic cr…

RE: https://mastodon.energy/@TransitionShow/116687255356778710
South Africa has enough wind and solar resources and land to generate at least three times as much power as its entire annual load. Ditching coal makes so much sense...but what about the…

I wrote a cool #ttrpg adventure and I would like to share it but it's a bit plain and I would like to add some images.
But all the free images resources on the interweb are completely splopified :(
Do you know of a place or someone that would let me download and use human drawn renaissance style image for free?

GÉANT selected as candidate Node in the EOSC Federation 🎉
As one of the pan-European e-infrastructure Nodes, GÉANT will help scale up Europe's open science ecosystem, providing trusted access, secure data exchange and high-performance connectivity for researchers across borders.
🔗 Read more: htt…

PJM has issued a “Transmission Security - Deploy All Resources Action” for BGE, Dominion, and PEPCO in the MD, DC, VA area.
This requires all electricity generators to be brought online ASAP.
#HeatWave #power #utility

The whole #LLM ROI thing reveals something interesting. It's basically impossible to figure out the ROI of an LLM. That makes it impossible for bean counters to make a comparison between human work and LLM work, or human work without an LLM and LLM-assisted work, to determine if the incredibly high price is worth it. But it's also impossible because you can't measure the ROI of a human, especially for skilled labor.
You can't measure the ROI of a human, because managers have no idea what people do. There's an eternally expanding amount of work designed to address this problem. But no matter how closely people are surveilled, interrogated, analyzed, there's never any real answer.
I've talked in the past about in relation to medical care. One of the dirty secrets of hospitals is that they have no way to figure out how much individual treatment costs. It's easy to understand at scale. You can know exactly how much something costs society. You can even identify patterns, using public health models, and decrease costs for society by trying to get people to avoid risky behavior (stop smoking, use protection during sex, etc). But it is absolutely not possible, at all, in any way, to figure out how much a single visit costs. This is similar to the problem of predicting climate change vs predicting the weather tomorrow in Amsterdam at 15:00. One is possible, the other is simply not.
But what is becoming painfully clear now is that this is true *everywhere*. It's trivial to know how much an industry costs. It's possible to figure out it's ROI for society. It is not possible to figure out how much value any individual worker provides. LLM ROI and cost comparison is an instance of this larger problem.
This is a problem for capitalism because it shows that the fundamental assumptions behind capitalism, that product value and labor value are quantifiable, that people can actually make comparisons between competing products, etc, are completely bullshit. The capitalist apologetics that makes up so much of economics, the lies that are told that hold this system together, are crumbling before our eyes.
If you make a lot of money, it's because you've been lucky. You have the right social networks, you have become good at convincing people to give you money. There is absolutely no way to connect that to actually providing value to society. If you make a lot of money, internalize that. Understand that you are not special, and things can change. If you don't make a lot of money, it's not because you don't provide value. Don't forget that. The system is a lie built to destroy you. Don't let it.
The ideology is sick, something something time of monsters and all that, we are together in this dying machine. We need to understand the lies. Your value can never be quantified. The way we have always figured out how to do the right thing for each other is through each other. Social connection has always guided us. But now the most socially disconnected people on the planet have hijacked the system. They direct the resources of the world, and game the system to avoid personal responsibility.
We have to build a system where everyone is accountable. We can't use abstract numbers and lies to figure things out for us. We have to build systems around people and accountability. There is no other solution.

➡️ Wisconsin Bike Fed - eBike Resources
#bookmarks

E-bike Resources - Wisconsin Bike Fed
Electric bicycles (e-bikes) are transforming how people move, offering accessible, low-emission transportation and recreation.

Materials in lithium-ion battery cathodes have continuously evolved since the 1990s,
but anodes have stubbornly remained graphite.
Now, finally, there’s some innovation on that side: silicon anodes,
which engineers have struggled to master for a decade,
are finally coming into wide commercialization.
They enable up to five times the energy density of graphite anodes,
charge many times faster,
and are poised to revolutionize the battery market

The Transition to Lithium-Silicon Batteries
Understand how silicon battery technology will impact EVs, consumer electronics, aerospace, grid storage, and other battery applications.

This week on #ProFed: I fixed the bug in the message bus.
Finding the bug was less of a problem. But the solution, that meets all the requirements at this foundational level, was the real challenge.
As a bonus, the message bus is now slightly more efficient and uses fewer resources in most situations. Not a game changer, but still good.

november17: November17 members (2009)
A network representing connections among members of the November 17 (N17) Greek terrorist group. Nodes are members, and an edge exists if two members have some connection in the past. Metadata include role, function, resources. Some attributes are missing.
This network has 22 nodes and 66 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Metadata

Loss of Brown has real impact on Eagles offense, Cowboys chances https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2026/06/02/cowboys-blessing-aj-brown-impact-eagles-2026/90376528007/

It’s ok, it’s not like we’re all going to die or anything (only billions, not everyone). @… https://slrpnk.net/post/39707961

CfP: Interreligious and Intercultural Perspectives on Resources and Sacred Boundaries
https://ift.tt/YDpvm5P
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Due to Thursday’s extreme heat forecast and the resources required to safely manage large crowds at fan marches, Toronto Stadium and FIFA Fan Festival™ Toronto, all FIFA World Cup 2026™ match broadcasts at Nathan Phillips Square have been cancelled for Thursday, July 2.
#toronto

"Europe could source half its critical materials from waste by 2050, study finds"
#Europe #Minerals #Resources

The brand-new 360-or-so-page book "Testing Einstein: One Hundred Years of Experimental #Relativity" is completely open access as a series of PDF files at https://direct.mit.edu/books/oa-edited-volume/6160/Testing-EinsteinOne-Hundred-Years-of-Experimental (and talking about OA science & tech books: at https://www.nasa.gov/history/history-publications-and-resources/nasa-history-series/ NASA has countless more).

from my link log —
GPU architecture resources.
https://interplayoflight.wordpress.com/2020/05/09/gpu-architecture-resources/
saved 2020-05-15

GPU architecture resources
I am often get asked in DMs about how GPUs work. There is a lot of information on GPU architectures online, one can start with these: Render Hell 2.0: Easy to follow and thorough introduction with …

Argentine mining threatens scarce water resources in the Andes #Argentina…

Argentine mining threatens scarce water resources in the Andes
San Juan's once-sparkling rivers have shriveled due to drought, and residents in the rugged, western Argentine province fear that prospective mining projects in the Andes will make matters worse.

I recalled a G183 discussion on a TPGuy post from a few years ago.
Vispero memory-holed it all when it subsumed TPGuy:
https://vispero.com/resources/well-color-us-surprised-this-sc-can-be-a-tricky-customer/
Thankfully, there’s Way…

Well Color Us Surprised—This SC Can Be a Tricky Customer [Quiz] - Vispero
SC 1.4.1 Use of Color can sometimes be misused as a tool to enforce underlines on links, but it's not quite as simple as that. Do you know when it's a genuine pass/fail?

The US OMB recently published a new logging reference architecture M-26-14 replacing 2021's M-21-31.
I'm not familiar enough with CISA and the bureaucracy to confidently provide a useful analysis, but the two different memorandums are noticeably different that I'm sure someone with more familiarity could say something interesting about the potential consequences, positive or negative.

"Rainforests pushed to breaking point by new demands for resources, report says"
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/may/20/rainforests-pushed-to-breaking-point-by-new-demands-for-resources-re…

"Rainforests pushed to breaking point by new demands for resources, report says"
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/may/20/rainforests-pushed-to-breaking-point-by-new-demands-for-resources-re…

Nearly 39,000 Acres of Land Returned to California Tribes
The California Natural Resources Agency,
in partnership with the CAL FIRE and the Ocean Protection Council
awarded $107.7 million to fund 33 projects
and support the return of approximately 38,950 acres of land to California Native American tribes
through the Tribal Nature-Based Solutions grant program.
Funding will support the return of ancestral lands to tribal ownership and stewardship,
pla…

Nearly 39,000 Acres of Land Returned to California Tribes - California Wildfire & Forest Resilience
Funding will support the return of ancestral lands to tribal ownership.

FPF Releases Practitioner Guides on Privacy Enhancing Technologies for Education Stakeholders
https://fpf.org/blog/fpf-releases-practitioner-guides-on-privacy-enhancing-technologies-for-education-stakeholders/

"Citation Analysis for Acquisitions Reveals Better Grades for Students Using Library Resources"
https://pal-ojs-tamu.tdl.org/pal/article/view/7214
"This study investigates the use of library resources by first-year students (English 101/102) at the University…

For generations, Saudi Arabia exported oil.
Now it wants to export one of the digital era’s most coveted resources:
computing power.
Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman is seizing a chance to turn Saudi Arabia’s oil wealth into tech influence.
Few nations can match the kingdom’s cheap energy, deep pockets and open land
— the ingredients that tech firms need to operate the vast, power-hungry data centers that run modern A.I.
Already, Saudi Arabia has been neg…

Saudi Arabia’s New Power Play Is Exporting A.I. to the World
The kingdom is pouring money into data centers and working with U.S. and Chinese tech giants, landing its A.I. ambitions in the middle of a geopolitical tussle for tech power.

AWS launches an internal organization for AI-focused forward-deployed engineers, backed by $1B in resources, following OpenAI and others in launching FDE teams (Russell Brandom/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/30/amazon-launch…

Amazon launches new $1 billion FDE org, following OpenAI and Anthropic | TechCrunch
Engineers on the new team will embed within companies to deploy purpose-built agents, focusing on fast deployments and customer self-sufficiency.

In just 14 years, the Swiss glaciers lost almost 25% of their 2010 ice volume, which corresponds to a wastage of around 15 km3 of ice. New paper:
https://tc.copernicus.org/articles/20/3111/2026/

Seasonal mass balance drivers for Swiss glaciers over 2010–2024 inferred from remote-sensing observations and modelling
Abstract. Reliable estimates of glacier mass balance for an entire mountain range provide valuable insights into the impact of glacier melt on regional water resources. Here, we derive daily mass balance estimates for every glacier in the Swiss Alps over the period 2010–2024. To do so, we leverage two simplified surface energy-balance models and remote sensing observations, i.e. geodetic volume changes and observations of the snow-covered area fraction (SCAF) of glaciers during summer, togeth…

CFP (ONLINE SEMINAR / PUBLICATION OPPORTUNITY): Borders and Sustainability: Human, Natural, and Textual Resources — Entangled Histories Seminar Series 2026–2027
https://ift.tt/7mhbZ5p
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Doesn't "No 10 North" sound like 'working from home'? https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/jun/29/andy-burnham-no-10-north-nerve-centre-rewired-britain

Microsoft adds funding to the AP Fund for Journalism, enabling APFJ to provide 10 local newsrooms in Washington state with AP elections coverage and resources (The Associated Press)
https://www.ap.org/media-center/press-rele

AP Fund for Journalism, Microsoft expand election resources for Washington newsrooms | The Associated Press
AP Fund for Journalism (APFJ) today announced funding from Microsoft to strengthen the local news ecosystem in Washington state ahead of the 2026 midterm

AFT boss Randi Weingarten tapped union resources worth over $1.4M to write 'manifesto' book (Carl Campanile/New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2026/05/19/us-news/aft-boss-randi-weingarten-tapped-union-resources-worth-over-1-4m-to-write-manifesto-book/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260519/p88#a260519p88

A comfortable Labour win is my reading too.
It is incredibly quiet here. About the same number of poster boards for Green (we have one) and Labour, around here, but nothing like the density in the Gorton-Denton by-election. I suspect Greens, with a lot of resources going in to the campaign and a strong candidate, will do well, but most 2nd pref votes will go to Labour.
Polls open in Greater Manchester mayoral byelection overshadowed by new PM and Farage’s antics.

Polls open in Greater Manchester mayoral byelection overshadowed by new PM and Farage’s antics
Labour’s Bev Craig expected to win contest that lost column inches to Andy Burnham’s ascent and Reform UK leader’s self-imposed Clacton vote

There is still a huge gap between contemporary academic research on mental imagery and research on the kind of top-down mental imagery needed for restoring vision to the blind. Lack of incentives? Credibility? Resources? What's missing?

The effect of 20th century industrialization: Power station, acid rains, over-pumping, on an erstwhile uniform freshwater dune aquifer in Haifa Bay, Israel
Vasily Rogojin, Joel Kronfeld
https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.00893 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2607.00893 https://arxiv.org/html/2607.00893
arXiv:2607.00893v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: A small phreatic sand dune aquifer lies along the shore of Haifa Bay. It has been exploited for its freshwater resources since the 1930s. During this time the salinity has increased continuously, partly by seawater intrusion due to overpumping. The chemistry of the young aquifer water is laterally variable and is characterized by excess SO$_4^{2-}$, high $Sr^{2 }$ concentrations above that of modern seawater, high alkalinity, and markedly enriched $\delta^{13}C_{DIC}$ values. Acidic winter rains, formed from $SO_x$ and $NO_x$ gaseous emissions from a nearby power station, leach the dry deposition that accumulated across the dune surface during the dry summers. The acidity also partially dissolves the aragonite sea shells in the dune sands, remnants of a previous marine transgression. As a consequence, this adds $Sr^{2 }$, $Ca^{2 }$ excess, and alkalinity, while leading to enriched $\delta^{13}C_{DIC}$ values, particularly during the winter, at which time the radiocarbon activity in the DIC is observed to decrease.
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TIL¹: witr² – Why is this running?
An interactive TUI that shows all the details about processes, their resources, environment, parents and children. Like ps, htop, lsof, ss etc. combine for a process-centered view.
I installed the forky Debian package³ on Debian trixie and it just works.
I played around with it and immediately liked id.
__
¹ok, technically it was yesterday. Thanks to @…

GitHub - pranshuparmar/witr: Why is this running?
Why is this running? Contribute to pranshuparmar/witr development by creating an account on GitHub.

the "Deal man" from the Dover Museum sure looks familiar #stonks
https://www.dovermuseum.co.uk/Information-Resources/The-Collection/The-Deal-Man.as…

"Portugal has just used up its natural resources for 2026. Is the rest of Europe doing any better?"
#Portugal #Resources

These EU states have already used up their natural resources for 2026
Humans use as much ecological resources as if we lived on 1.7 Earths, meaning many European nations have already reached 'Overshoot Day'.

november17: November17 members (2009)
A network representing connections among members of the November 17 (N17) Greek terrorist group. Nodes are members, and an edge exists if two members have some connection in the past. Metadata include role, function, resources. Some attributes are missing.
This network has 22 nodes and 66 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Metadata

➡️ Songlink (Odesli): The Smart Link Tool Explained
#bookmarks

Songlink (Odesli): The Smart Link Tool Explained | Orphiq
How Songlink (Odesli) works, free vs paid features, and how it compares to other smart link tools. Setup guide and best practices for music promotion.

What an argument. #China, which produces solar panels partly through exploitation of #Uyghurs and their homeland's natural resources, can somehow support the #green transition in a region where

China’s chance in Papua to bolster Indonesia’s green credentials | Lowy Institute
Eastern Indonesia needs clean energy investment, not another extractive cycle – and China is now positioned to provide it.

Kühle-Orte-Karte der Stadt: https://geoportal.bochum.de/mapapps/resources/apps/221/index.html?lang=de
Edit: Da steht leider nicht viel drin, nicht sehr nützlich. Die ganze Ruhr-Uni als ein ("gekühlter") Ort? Ich denke nicht. Mein Gebäude hat 0 Klima und in meinem Büro war schon die ganze Woche über 30 Grad.

The Sustainable Minerals Institute Podcast
Committed to developing the transformative people, technologies and approaches to address global sustainability challenges through the responsible supply of mineral resources...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralia…

Sources: Amazon overhauls its AI strategy, deprecating several flagship Nova AI models, as it shifts resources to its Frontier Model Research initiative (Eugene Kim/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-overhauls-ai-strategy…

Amazon rethinks its AI strategy and winds down many in-house models
Amazon reshapes its AI strategy by deprecating most Nova AI models and shifting resources to Pieter Abbeel's Frontier Model Research initiative.

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@patrickcmiller/116959315285732570
Establishing a Coordinated Vulnerability Disclosure Program to Work With Security Researchers

mysterious 3lb package showed up for me:
- 24oz of vaguely damp gel pack
- 5oz of packing material
- 6oz of chocolate-covered almonds that I apparently won in a sweepstakes
this seems like a worthwhile use of resources

New research reveals repeated flooding is altering Florida freshwater resources #florida

New research reveals repeated flooding is altering Florida freshwater resources
Heavy rains causing repeated river flood intrusions into Florida's freshwater springs are changing the function of the clear natural resource. Findings from University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences (UF/IFAS) researchers Paul Donsky and Matt Cohen reveal that these intrusions can cause flow reversal, worsening already present problems.

In the next 2 weeks we will be ready with our anti surveillance campaign that will educate people that they are cameras everywhere and we need to notice them, map them or do something even more creative with them.
We will use some #openstreetMap resources for that and work with a few artists to create a vision for "something is looking at me, and I had not noticed".
We ne…

"#Wakelet as a tool for archiving online debates on (academic) events" by @…
https…

The fact the United States is currently creating facts claiming that Cuba isn't being starved by them, but that the Cuban government is actually at fault and using all the resources which would otherwise help the population (somehow), really makes me think about all the other times I've heard this rhetoric in history.

EU project proposals have become a bureaucratic endurance test.
The application process is painfully long, the evaluations often opaque, and rejection letters can feel almost dismissive. Even when a proposal succeeds, far too much of the budget disappears into compliance, coordination, reporting, controls, and audits.
When roughly 60% of resources go to administration rather than impact, something is fundamentally broken.
Europe cannot afford to turn innovation into paperwo…

Bounded Priority-Aware Locking for Real-Time Kernels
Shriram Raja, Richard West
https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.27620 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2605.27620 https://arxiv.org/html/2605.27620
arXiv:2605.27620v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: A real-time multicore system requires delay bounds on access to shared resources. These resources include the kernel, which has potentially many non-preemptible critical sections guarded by one or more different synchronization primitives. While primitives such as FIFO locks bound the waiting time to enter a critical section, they do not distinguish the importance of individual tasks competing for shared resource access. To address this, we consider a priority-aware spinlock, which reduces the average delay of more important tasks while maintaining a worst-case bound on lock waiting time. We propose a Batched Priority Lock (BPL) that first groups waiting tasks based on the order of their lock requests, and then determines the next lock holder according to priority within the waiting group. We compare BPL to alternative lock approaches, showing that the average waiting time is reduced for higher priority tasks, in simulations up to 64 cores, and for a working implementation on an 8-core machine with a real RTOS. BPL is a compromise between strict priority and FIFO ordering. While strict priorities may lead to starvation and, hence, unbounded lock acquisition delays, BPL has the same waiting bound as FIFO, but with benefits to higher priority tasks. Although its complexity is greater than that of a simple spinlock, its common case execution overhead is shown to be inexpensive in a working system. We believe this is an acceptable cost in systems that require predictability.
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A federal judge on Monday struck down the Trump administration’s changes to a $4 billion federal homelessness program
that would limit resources for permanent housing
and shift the focus to temporary housing and services.
The Department of Housing and Urban Development’s efforts to modify the so-called
"Continuum of Care Program"
have been tied up in litigation since November,
with plaintiffs citing concerns with policy changes that place new con…

Pro Se Guide for Motion to Change Hearing to WebEx
https://nipnlg.org/work/resources/pro-se-guide-motion-change-hearing-webex
The regime keeps arresting people that follow legal immigration processes, they have been racially profiling and abduct an…

Germany’s leaders say the Berlin Pride attack targeted ‘all of us’. What utter hypocrisy
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jul/29/germany-leaders-berlin-pride-attack-queer-community

Germany’s leaders say the Berlin Pride attack targeted ‘all of us’. What utter hypocrisy
The queer community has lost resources and protection due to decisions made by the people now mouthing solidarity in public, says Guardian Europe columnist Fatma Aydemir

is there a centralized hoard of resources or links or information on just how much phones are slaughtering the universe

The AI investment race
#ai #bubble

The AI investment race
The AI build-out ranks among the largest technology-driven investment booms in US history. Its scale, reliance on debt and circular equity ties raise questions about the boom's sustainability and financial stability. We study a dynamic contest in which firms competing for a few dominant positions over-commit resources. The over-investment leaves the sector exposed to revenue disappointment that could turn boom into bust. The larger the boom, the deeper the eventual bust. The race to commit earl…

Why do we need services like the Museum Data Service?
'Scientists Keep Finding Major Discoveries Lurking in Museum Backrooms' https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-keep-finding-major-discoveries-lurking-in-museum-backroo…

@… Hello, Evan.
We're considering ways to prevent the URL of an ActivityPub Note object from being a URL of a completely unrelated third party, as this can be undesirable.
Do you know of any resources that describe the specifications …

US general warns Pentagon he doesn’t have military resources to protect Israel: report | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/pentagon-general-europe-israel-defense-b3025902.html

⚠️ Current drawbacks: still public preview, APIs may change, Node.js 22 required & local mock implementations may behave differently from real AWS resources
📊 The real positioning: Blocks competes less as "yet another framework" and more as an alternative to #AWSAmplify, #Supabase

RE: https://mastodon.social/@firefoxwebdevs/116992048337520434
I appreciate this both acknowledges the error and credits the resources. Something I’d like to see more of from browsers (looks askance at Chrome).
Key takeaways:
• `aria-labe…

"Türkiye adds 1.97 GW of solar in January-April"
#Turkey #Energy #SolarPower #Renewables

Türkiye adds 1.97 GW of solar in January-April - pv magazine Global
Türkiye’s Minister of Energy and Natural Resources, Alparslan Bayraktar, says solar is on track to overtake hydropower as the country’s leading source of electricity generation by the year end.

Okta reports Q1 revenue up 11% YoY to $765M, vs. $752M est., says the agentic AI build-out is spiking demand for its identity tools; OKTA jumps 7% after hours (Samantha Subin/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/28/okta-okta-earnings-q1-2027.html

Okta jumps 14%, tops first-quarter results on agentic AI demand
CEO Todd McKinnon said Okta is "playing a long game" on AI and is allocating more resources to agentic tools.

november17: November17 members (2009)
A network representing connections among members of the November 17 (N17) Greek terrorist group. Nodes are members, and an edge exists if two members have some connection in the past. Metadata include role, function, resources. Some attributes are missing.
This network has 22 nodes and 66 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Metadata

"Creating a writing and dissemination toolkit for faculty scholarly writing and publishing"
https://doi.org/10.3897/ese.2026.e183055

Mick Shots: How ’bout something good for today https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/mick-shots-how-bout-something-good-for-today

Our resources are controlled by a cult that's demanding that we have faith in their impossible god.
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12559-012-9124-9

Getting Electric Truck Chargers Online Faster
How flexible service connections cut delays and expand charging capacity
https://rmi.org/resources/getting-electric-truck-chargers-online-faster/

Over the past year or two, companies have started using so-called artificial intelligence agents as bona fide “employees,”
even including them in their organizational charts.
Emma Wiles, a Boston University professor who studies how A.I. affects workers, stumbled onto this phenomenon in October,
at a conference where two human resources executives said that treating A.I. agents like real employees was a way to increase productivity and to put their companies on the cutting …

A.I. ‘Employees’ Might Disrupt Work in Unexpected Ways
Scholars say the “unknown unknowns” of using artificial intelligence in the workplace may be undermining the technology’s advertised benefits.

"Market effects of open educational resources on U.S. textbook pricing (2003–2024)"
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.acalib.2026.103271
"[...] This work looks at whether the increase in the development and adoption of Open Educational Material between 2003 and 2024 corres…

A surge in AI-generated "pro se" cases, or lawsuits filed by self-represented litigants, is democratizing the legal system but consuming more court resources (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2…

Artificial Intelligence Floods Court Dockets with Home-Brewed Lawsuits
For years, courts have welcomed cases brought by self-represented litigants. Now those plaintiffs have A.I., and their filings are consuming more and more bandwidth.

Mick Shots: How ’bout something good for today https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/mick-shots-how-bout-something-good-for-today

Pope Leo XIV said Monday that
wars are being sustained more easily than people are fed,
urging governments to strengthen resources to combat hunger
after a severe funding shortfall by the United States and other countries.
https://apnews.com/article/italy-vatic

Pope Leo urges governments to combat hunger as aid money shrinks
Pope Leo XIV says wars are being sustained more easily than people are fed. He urged governments to strengthen resources to combat hunger after a severe funding shortfall by the United States and other countries. On Monday, Leo addressed the U.N. World Food Program in Rome, pressing governments to cut red tape and remove obstacles that prevent aid from reaching those in need. He criticized political and administrative barriers that slow humanitarian aid while military spending continues unhinde…

Why home batteries and EVs need trust before they can become grid resources
"Whether the battery is on the wall or in the car, it belongs to the household before it belongs to the grid."
https://nemlog.substack.com/p/batteries-the-grid-does-not-own

Batteries the Grid Does Not Own
Why home batteries and EVs need trust before they can become grid resources

"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

"Brazil's reserves run on too little funding, with Amazon getting just 20% needed"
#Brazil #Amazon #Environment

Brazil's reserves run on too little funding, with Amazon getting just 20% needed
Human development is driving numerous global species to the brink of extinction, threatening essential resources like water and soil, and contributing to climate change. Conservationists have shown that putting critically threatened areas under protection is vital if nations are to slow or reverse these trends, and global frameworks such as the Convention on Biological Diversity have identified the creation and maintenance of protected areas as the cornerstone of such efforts.

"On Library Closing Music: Could It Be a Way to Promote Library Music Resources and Liberal Arts Education?"
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/990720
[closed access 🙄]

Meta's infrastructure teams have become bloated, leading to poor decisions like troubled Rivos acquisition, loss of supplier trust due to hardware pivots, more (SemiAnalysis)
https://newsletter.semianalysis.com/p/metas-infrastructure-team-needs-a

Meta’s Infrastructure Team Needs A Culture Reset
Meta Infrastructure has become bloated, with middle managers expending resources on over-engineered technology solutions that lose sight of broader organizational needs.

It’s Arizona Senator Mark Kelly.
AZ-06 is a dogfight we can’t afford to lose. That’s why I’m stepping up
to help
Jo Mendoza and her team launch Mendoza Victory fund
so she has the resources she needs to win.
I’m not exaggerating when I say this is a tight race.
Polling shows this race as a dead-heat again, but I know Jo is ready to step up and win in a race this close.
She’s a retired U.S. Marine Corps Drill Instructor who served 3 combat tours in…

Donate to Mendoza Victory Fund
Show your support with a contribution.

"Ebook Call Number Project: Automating Library of Congress Classification Numbers to Ebooks for Reporting" @ Library Resources & Technical Services
https://journals.ala.org/index.php/lrts/article/view/8792
[DOI

Trump says 200 additional stakeholders, including major utilities, joined a voluntary pledge to protect consumers from high energy bills from AI data centers (Josh Boak/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/trump-ai-data-centers-pledge-490ea7e4…

Trump expands voluntary pledge to curb data center utility costs
President Donald Trump is having governors and electricity companies join a pledge aimed at shielding U.S. consumers from higher utility bills because data centers. This move highlights the controversy surrounding AI development before the November midterm elections. Trump initially announced the pledge with tech companies in March, but voters remain concerned about affordability and competition for resources. A recent analysis shows increased electricity demand could raise utility bills by 15%…

"“Unbury” the Book Chapter? An Investigation of Library and Information Science Book Chapters from Edited Collections in Scholarly Indexes | Swanson" @ Library Resources & Technical Services
https://journals.ala.org/index.php/lrts/article/view/8790
[DOI…

"The raison d’être of #library #outreach isn’t to get students to attend events. It isn’t to sign them up for our newsletter or get them to follow us on social media. It isn’t even to get them to use library resources [insert pearl clutching]. The goal of library outreach is to start the c…

UK's incoming PM Andy Burnham is expected to scrap Keir Starmer's plans for digital ID cards; last year a petition opposing the cards attracted ~3M signatures (Geraldine McKelvie/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/

Burnham to scrap Starmer’s digital ID scheme in ‘reset of priorities’
Incoming PM will reallocate unspecified resources from unpopular plan to helping with cost of living

SpaceX's all-stock Cursor deal illustrates the power of public markets, which could help SpaceX narrow the gap with Anthropic and OpenAI through acquisitions (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/17/busines

SpaceX’s Growing Warchest
Shares in Elon Musk’s SpaceX have been on a tear, giving the rockets and artificial intelligence company financial resources to box out competitors.

Infrastructure that civilians rely on for survival is not generally considered a legitimate military target,
and striking it could be considered a war crime.
But the attacks on water resources are especially concerning in the Gulf region:
Most nations there lack widespread access to fresh water and rely heavily on hundreds of desalination plants -- complex operations where repairs can be difficult and time-consuming.
Desalination plants produce 90 percent of Kuwait’s…

Water Plants Under Fire in the Gulf Are Crucial to Civilians
Several days of airstrikes have hit water and energy plants in Kuwait, a nation that relies on desalination for 90 percent of its drinking water.

For more than a year, the Pentagon has deployed about 9,000 active-duty troops along nearly 2,000 miles of the southwest border to confront illegal migrants, smugglers and drug cartels.
The troops are still there
— at a cost of tens of millions of dollars each week
— even though the Trump administration months ago largely achieved its goal of slashing illegal crossings.
The military patrols, working closely with Customs and Border Protection as well as the Mexican mili…

No End in Sight for U.S. Military Mission Along Border With Mexico
The patrols have helped push cartels and smugglers into more remote areas. But analysts have voiced concerns that the border missions will distract from training, drain resources and undermine readiness.

Since Trump’s decision to snatch Maduro in January and reboot relations with his successors,
the five-star hotel has become the nerve centre of Washington’s efforts to steer a country some now call a US protectorate
– and which Trump has even said he hopes to turn into the 51st state.
“It’s [effectively] the US embassy.
I don’t think anybody’s going to work at the actual embassy,”
said Phil Gunson, a Caracas-based political analyst for Crisis Group.