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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?

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.

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.

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.

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…

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

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…

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…

Finally something useful for my linkedin profile
https://nc3rs.org.uk/3rs-resources/rat-tickling/rat-tickling-certification

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

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%…

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

⚠️ 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

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…

Dropping back into Valheim today! Time to gather more resources, expand the base, and hopefully not get pulverized by a Troll. Grab a brew and come hang out! 🌲 hammer ⚔️
🔴 Live now: #linux

"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…

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…

Two US carrier groups in Middle East strain navy resources | Newsfeed | Al Jazeera
https://www.aljazeera.com/video/newsfeed/2026/8/25/two-us-carrier-groups-in-middle-east-strain-navy-resources?traffic_source=rss

CISA has issued guidance on identifying which systems are accessible from the internet, removing unnecessary remote access, and securing remote access that is necessary.
https://www.cisa.gov/resources-tools/resources/exposure-reduction?utm_source=InternetExposureReductionGuidanceUpdate&utm_medium=GovDelivery

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

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

RE: https://mastodon.social/@pid_eins/116786475471438132
I've never looked much into this, it's really neat!
Balancing system resources is tough, so anything that helps with coordination is a big win. Would be great to automate even more, i.…

this is a haha only serious take. limitations breed creativity. and imagine how much we could get done if each task we did hadn't expanded to use all available resources.

Heute vor 80 Jahren: Am 24. Juli 1946 wurde im Rahmen der Operation #Crossroads am Bikini-Atoll der Baker-Test durchgeführt. Eine Atombombe detonierte 90 Fuß unter Wasser, wobei das Landungsboot LSM-60 verdampfte. 10 Schiffe sanken, darunter die Prinz Eugen.

from my link log —
A list of LD_PRELOAD hacks.
https://github.com/gaul/awesome-ld-preload
saved 2020-01-27 https://dotat.at/:/K9MQB.h…

GitHub - gaul/awesome-ld-preload: List of resources related to LD_PRELOAD, a mechanism for changing application behavior at run-time
List of resources related to LD_PRELOAD, a mechanism for changing application behavior at run-time - gaul/awesome-ld-preload

I think the thing that bothers me the most about my industry in 2026 is that programming and making software used to be about embracing limitations and making well-working applications that worked for the humans who needed them despite limited computational resources.

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…

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.

The job of management boils down to deciding where to invest company resources to maximize returns.
But saying yes to one thing means saying no to something else. Deciding what gets cut (and getting buy-in for those decisions) is hard! So instead they started agitating for "velocity" in a foolish belief that they would never have to prioritize one idea over another ever again.

No amount of velocity can shield your team from opportunity cost
AKA "LLMs can't fix your shitty internal culture"

The thing I hate about working in the #JavaScript space is bit-rot. My #ClojureScript swinging needle meter demo, written in 2017, still works, but I can no longer compile it from source.
Probably this won't take too long to fix, but it is work which should not have to be done.
…

RE: https://mastodon.social/@nixCraft/116946142636186759
So very much this: Even if you think AI is net-positive, we have a duty to expand well, not on top of the most marginalized as always.
The way we do it now is the way of paving natural beauty, discarding entire communities, and taking what is often limited resources from those who need them to live.
It is possible to build data centers that do not have these problems. It is possible to power with solar, to cool with a refrigeration cycle instead of evaporating water.
It just costs more energy. And therefore is only viable if we invest in solar, heavily, and require it.
One of the fundamental tenets embedded in capitalism is that if you can't represent it in the market, it doesn't have to be taken into account. Community and ways of life are those things.

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/

That's certainly a good start!
Burnham to scrap Starmer’s digital ID scheme in ‘reset of priorities’ https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/jul/18/burnham-to-scrap-starmers-digital-id-scheme-in-reset-of-priorities

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

Toward cryptographically verifiable authorization for autonomous AI agents: A security hypothesis, preliminary formal model, and proof-of-concept implementation
M. Llamb\'i-Morillas, D. Fern\'andez-Fern\'andez
https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.21325 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2607.21325 https://arxiv.org/html/2607.21325
arXiv:2607.21325v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Autonomous AI agents increasingly execute actions, invoke tools, and operate on protected resources with limited human oversight. Existing authentication and authorization mechanisms establish identity and delegate authority, but do not inherently provide cryptographic evidence that a concrete request issued by a specific agent satisfies the applicable policy in a specific execution context. This paper hypothesizes that agent authorization can be formalized as a cryptographically verifiable relation, denoted $R_{CVA}$, that jointly binds an agent principal, a concrete authorization request, an execution context, and the satisfaction of an applicable policy, while selectively preserving the confidentiality of private authorization attributes. We introduce a preliminary formal abstraction for Cryptographically Verifiable Agent Authorization (CVA), define a compact set of candidate security properties including authorization soundness, principal binding, request binding, policy binding, and replay resistance, and provide an executable zero-knowledge proof of concept that instantiates selected elements of the model over a Groth16 zk-SNARK construction. We further identify and formalize the structural separation among identity binding, authorization-request binding, and runtime execution binding as a central open problem in the design of secure agentic systems (a distinction {not explicitly addressed by} current agentic security frameworks) and present a falsifiable research agenda for its resolution.
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"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

“resources for Radical Infrastructures, Permacomputing,
Stealth Hosting and
Other Networks” (PDF) by Colm O’Neill
#Permacomputing
https…

You are looking for information on a specific subject but can only use one of those two resources. What's your pick?

Can't stress this enough:
"British military spending is among the highest in the world, diverts scarce resources from far better causes and fuels international conflict."
Ignore the propaganda — Britain spends far too much on war already | Morning Star
https://

Have questions about crafting your comments about the #OMB proposed regulations? #DefendResearch is maintaining a set of resources to help folks make submissions (

every app became a website, and now websites take ages to load and insane resources to run

The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee announced five additions to its “Red to Blue” program on Thursday,
giving candidates access to strategic guidance, staff resources and more robust fundraising help.
Details of the additions were shared first with MS NOW. 
Three of the new members are military veterans:
🔸Leela Gray, a retired Army brigadier general who is challenging Rep. Anna Paulina Luna in Florida;
🔸Zach Dembo, a former Navy judge advocate general…

House Democrats add five more candidates to ‘Red to Blue’ list
The party's House campaign arm added five candidates — including three military veterans — to its top-recruit list Thursday.

⚠️ FAKE NEWS ALERT ⚠️
I'm unreposting and issuing a correction to a viral post going around in which Jeff Bezos is purported to have said:
"Biological limits are real, but digital potential is infinite. If we starve our data infrastructure of cooling resources just to sustain baseline human comfort, we are actively delaying the birth of a super-intelligence that could solve all of our resource problems in the first place."
The story (from ThePrint dot in) cla…

Infinite growth with finite resources. What’s the worst that could happen?

Periodic reminder that I maintain a list of git resources - a collection of extra commands, links to useful utilities, links to blog posts, etc.
#git #sre #devops

To better "see" Precambrian basement geology, an airborne geophysical survey is currently being carried out over eastern North Dakota! USGS with North Dakota Geological Survey NDGS.
Part of the national Earth Mapping Resources Initiative (Earth MRI)
https://www.

Media Alert: Low-level flights to image geology of eastern North Dakota
RESTON, Va. – The U.S. Geological Survey plans low-level airplane flights over eastern North Dakota and small nearby areas of Minnesota and South Dakota to image geology using airborne geophysical technology. The survey will begin in early June and will continue into the fall, weather and other flight restrictions permitting.

Colts star Sauce Gardner clears up confusion about his date of birth: Why almost everyone got his age wrong

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/sauce-gardner-age-nfl-colts/

RE: https://mastodon.ie/@andrewg/117098562278114107
By that measure: A forest is merely the delivery mechanism for the timber, wildlife and land resources which, once extracted, generate income, rents, appreciate in value, and provide economically valuable ser…

Europe's supercomputers are becoming hyperconnected 🌍💻
We're busy building the EuroHPC HyperConnectivity Service Area (HCSA) to make it seamless for researchers, public administrations, and industry to access high-performance resources across Europe.
At its core: the GÉANT network and the collective expertise of the European NRENs.
Four pilot NRENs are leading the way: CSC / Funet in Finland, Restena Foundation in Luxembourg, ACOnet in Austria, and FCCN in Portug…

Every so often I remember that time that someone did something completely awful to someone I love, but in a completely legal way, and I get furious again... and wish I was the sort of person who had the resources disposition to pursue vengeance instead of silently agonizing.

Energy efficiency is a cost savings. The real scam is the #47 administration's ideological opposition to any that reduces consumption of energy.
We have benefited in many ways from the new building codes and appliance efficiency standards: lower utility bills & safer buildings for occupants, not wasting scarce resources such as water reduces costs as well.
(And of course, the related environmental benefits)

Energy efficiency is a cost savings. The real scam is the #47 administration's ideological opposition to any that reduces consumption of energy.
We have benefited in many ways from the new building codes and appliance efficiency standards: lower utility bills & safer buildings for occupants, not wasting scarce resources such as water reduces costs as well.
(And of course, the related environmental benefits)

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

New study pinpoints Europe's most critical wetlands for climate action #Europe…

New study pinpoints Europe's most critical wetlands for climate action
Wetlands have shaped human life in Europe since ancient times. These ecosystems provided essential resources and safe havens for plants and animals, and in many regions they also held spiritual and ritual significance. For millennia, wetlands covered vast parts of the European continent.

Your home for all things typesetting, editorial design. Tips and tricks, how-tos, news, resources, and...
https://hadleyhouse.substack.com/?r=15ipax&utm_campaign=subscribe-page-share-screen&utm_medium=web

"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

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

Jan. 6 rioter who choked his girlfriend and was convicted in separate case should be exonerated because DOJ has limited resources: Trump admin
https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/jan-6-rioter-who-choked-his-girlfriend-and-was-convicted-in-separate-case-should-be-exonerated-because-doj-has-limited-resources-trump-admin/

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

I was trying to search in google the prevalence of, uhm, some phrase, and then the always really useful google's AI made summary said what the picture shows. When are them going to disable by default this waste of resources?
#googleai #pleasedie

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).

The job of management boils down to deciding where to invest company resources to maximize returns.
But saying yes to one thing means saying no to something else. Deciding what gets cut (and getting buy-in for those decisions) is hard! So instead they started agitating for "velocity" in a foolish belief that they would never have to prioritize one idea over another ever again.

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

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.

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.

The FTC says businesses must disclose when they use personalized pricing and it will "deploy enforcement resources" against companies that do not disclose it (Dave Michaels/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.ws…

from my link log —
Linux eBPF projects and documentation.
https://ebpf.io/
saved 2020-08-12 https://dotat.at/:/WV3ZE.html

eBPF - Introduction, Tutorials & Community Resources
eBPF is a revolutionary technology that can run sandboxed programs in the Linux kernel without changing kernel source code or loading a kernel module.

"“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…

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

How Santa Barbara County Made Strong Progress on Addressing the Unmet Need for Child Care
Strategy 1: Building Cross-Sector Relationships
Strategy 2: Creating a Data-Informed Plan for Addressing Santa Barbara County’s Needs
Strategy 3: Focusing on Child Care Facilities
Strategy 4: Prioritizing Child Care Provider Recruitment & Retention to Maximize Family Choice
Lessons Learned

How Santa Barbara County Made Strides in Addressing the Unmet Need for Child Care
Learn how Santa Barbara County expanded access to publicly funded child care through partnerships, planning, and investments in providers.

Oh, look, it’s a dickhead.
Hey, dickhead, how goes?
Being a dickhead, you probably don’t care that Palestinians are blocked from setting up fundraisers for themselves as part of the West’s complicity in Israel’s ongoing genocide. But hey, facts don’t care that you’re a dickhead so it’s still true.
If I could GoFundMe you a fucking conscience, I would.
Dickhead. @npub1k06ctulq8rcaen067tt6z3y6gxrqtsuje5em5lcn009zfpp0t7gqf0zyu9@momostr.pink

🎉 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 👏

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.

Sam Altman says OpenAI's decision to pace its AI development was caused by a collection of research observations showing "various degrees of misalignment" (Alex Heath/Time)
https://time.com/article/2026/08/18/openai-slowing-training/

OpenAI Is Slowing Down Its AI Training
After an unreleased model escaped its sandbox, OpenAI has paused frontier training efforts and shifted resources towards safety

FYI #DefendResearch has weekly Action Hours June 9-30 to help folks submit comments re. the #OMB proposed changes, using resources from #StandUpForScience, Jeremy Berg, Liz Neely & o…

May you never need to access these resources.
13 Cancer Support Resources for Black Americans
https://www.theroot.com/need-cancer-support-here-are-13-resources-for-black-pa-2000116934/slides/2

Good website, when he cares about something he goes in and provides resources, of particular interest to me are the Sšmi drums and card collection
https://old.no/

A great choice of image for an important topic: distributed energy resources can collectively respond very effectively to the needs of the grid
https://www.iea.org/reports/scaling-up-demand-flexibility

What If We Were Taught..
A podcast developed to bring a collective amount of resources, wisdom and knowledge to couples surrounding pregnancy, birth, the postpartum and parenting...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/what-if-we…

from my link log —
TEMPEST@Home: finding radio frequency side channels.
https://duo.com/labs/research/finding-radio-sidechannels
saved 2020-04-27

Duo Blog: Discover Security Insights and News | Cisco Duo
Explore the Duo Blog for expert tips, security insights, and resources to stay updated on the latest in security and access management trends.

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

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.

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

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.

"Understanding the library experience of postgraduate researchers" @ York University Library
https://www.york.ac.uk/library/about/news/2026/pgexperience/
"We recently conducted a research project with postgraduate researchers to find out more about …

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

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

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…

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.

Tech journalist Karen Hao has been covering OpenAI’s astounding rise for years
and is the author of Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman’s OpenAI.
She says that while many in Silicon Valley warn of AI’s sci-fi-like threats, the real risks are already here.
“We are allowing the tech industry to consolidate this extraordinary degree of resources unlike anything ever before,” she tells More To The Story host Al Letson.
“We thought that they were already powe…

The race to stop AI’s threats to democracy
Tech journalist Karen Hao sounds the alarm about the rising risks to the country—and planet—from the growth of artificial intelligence.

Tycoon Harold Hamm is one of the US’s most successful oilmen,
the son of Oklahoma sharecroppers who hit it rich as a “wildcatter”
and pioneered fracking techniques that drove the shale boom in 2008 that reversed declining US oil production.
Donald Trump describes him as a “long time” friend and is said to have called him his “original oil guy”
The Continental Resources founder has also faced scrutiny from climate advocates and groups and some Democratic lawmakers ov…

How Trump’s ‘original oil guy’ boosted US-Israel ties and played down risks of Iran war
Fracking billionaire Harold Hamm is co-chair of a non-profit that has aggressively pushed for US energy dominance

A look at London-based AI startup Cosine, which is building a frontier model with UK government backing, as some question if it has the talent and resources (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/02e29d7f-9e3e-4977-a5d3-ea3f2d9efd10

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…

US OPM awards a ~$400M, 10-year IT contract to Oracle to develop a single, government-wide system for agencies to manage their HR capabilities (Drew Friedman/Federal News Network)
https://federalnewsnetwork.com/contracting/2026/06/o…

OPM awards major HR IT modernization contract to Oracle
The nearly $400 million, 10-year contract is expected to deliver a single, governmentwide system for agencies to manage their human resources capabilities.

As in many US resort areas,
the suicide rates in the Tahoe region,
including the city of Truckee,
are far higher than the state average
– and these communities don’t have enough resources to deal with the issue.
Since 2022, there have been nearly 40 confirmed suicide deaths in Truckee,
South Lake Tahoe and four lakeside counties,
an area with a combined population of about 73,000,
according to an analysis by the Tahoe Daily Tribune.
Nearl…

An outdoor paradise in California has a high suicide rate. Locals are determined to turn it around
Though the Lake Tahoe region has rates higher than the state average, residents are addressing a shortage of services

The Greater Chaco region is a living, ancestral landscape,
replete with invaluable cultural resources and deeply sacred to Indigenous peoples of the Southwest since time immemorial.
However, the region continues to face the fossil fuel industry’s relentless attempts to drill these lands,
and the administration is now moving rapidly to revoke the area's 20-year ban on oil and gas development.
Roughly 90% of nearby public lands are already leased for drilling
—…

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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.