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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.

➡️ 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.

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…

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.

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

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…

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

"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.

"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…

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

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%…

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

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.

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.…

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

⚠️ 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…

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.

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…

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.
…

"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

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.

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/

“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?

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

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://

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

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/

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.

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.

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…

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)

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…

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

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?

Statement from the Premier of Nova Scotia Tim Houston on negotiations. From @… 🇨🇦
PREMIER’S OFFICE–Statement on U.S. Tariffs
Canada’s negotiating team tried to secure a deal for Canadians, which I’ve forcefully and vocally supported.
I continue to stand ready to support and work with the Prime Minister. We will work together to do everything possible to protect the massive number of Nova Scotian and Canadian families, workers and businesses that have now been added to the large list of those directly impacted by President Trump’s devastating tariffs.
It’s clear that we cannot trust or rely on the United States as we once did. This reality must make us more determined than ever to make Nova Scotia and Canada stronger. For Nova Scotia that means developing our own energy, developing our own natural resources and finding new markets for Nova Scotian goods and services.
We have tremendous opportunities and I am fully committed to seizing them.
Building up Nova Scotia is the only true path to protecting our future. Potential doesn’t build hospitals and roads. Turning potential into reality does.
This is our time to find the common ground necessary to build. This is how we make ourselves stronger and protect our future.
Let’s make it happen.
Let’s go Team Canada!

"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

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

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…

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"

➡️ 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.

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

For people wondering when the AI bubble is going to pop, I present you with this message, received by a paid-in-full customer of OpenAI.
Not a good look when you have to tell paying customers you've run out of resources.

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

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

"“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…

Can't commandeer local resources in furtherance of a federal goal (Printz v. USA)
Judge bars effort to 'conscript' locals into ICE cooperation
https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/district-judge-tosses-trump-admin-lawsuit-attempting-to-conscript-local-officials-to-cooperate-with-ice-in-michigan/

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

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…

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).

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.

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 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.

Wrong priorities, reckless waste of resources
https://www.businessgreen.com/news/4532454/generation-opportunity-uk-nuclear-manufacturing-set-benefit-100bn-investment-drive

'Once in a generation opportunity': UK nuclear manufacturing set to benefit from £100bn investment drive
High Value Manufacturing Catapult says manufacturers face ‘narrowing window’ to meet growing demand for nuclear technologies

University admin at some point cleary thought to themselves, "human resources is insufficiently dystopian, we really ought to come up with something better." After years of meetings, they congratulated themselves on a job well done. "Yes," they purred, "'people strategy' is so much worse."

“As a YDS alum, I am so proud of Dean Sterling's leadership and his message of environmental stewardship. It exemplifies what’s possible when institutions and communities commit to honoring Earth's resources.” - Rev. Luis Perez ’01 MDiv
https://

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

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

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.

🎉 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 👏

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.

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

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

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

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…

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.

steverikli wrote:
"I sent a message to the FreeBSD Foundation on their linkedin about it. They replied they don't have resources anymore for publishing the Journal as PDF's.
I'm disappointed, as I'd prefer to sit down with a single PDF rather than browsering through individual web articles. But I recognize it's free to read, so I won't complain much."
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"Europe could source half its critical materials from waste by 2050, study finds"
#Europe #Minerals #Resources

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/

"Most European Nato states are shifting large resources into this war drive, cutting welfare spending and public services to do so. To attempt to avoid the unpopularity and resistance this creates this requires stepping up their pro-war propaganda to persuade their populations of the supposed need for war."
European protest targets rearmament drive | Morning Star

"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 …

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.

"Like US presidents before him, Trump has found that Netanyahu can be a difficult ally."
Ally? With allies like that, who needs enemies? Manipulating Trump into a pointless war that squanders the US defense budget and depletes our military's resources? That's an ally?
Netanyahu rejects US-led 15-point Gaza peace plan in rare public break with Trump

Netanyahu rejects US-led 15-point Gaza peace plan in rare public break with Trump
Israeli PM says IDF will not withdraw until Hamas is disarmed and rebukes US pressure to end wars without his country’s buy-in

"Like US presidents before him, Trump has found that Netanyahu can be a difficult ally."
Ally? With allies like that, who needs enemies? Manipulating Trump into a pointless war that squanders the US defense budget and depletes our military's resources? That's an ally?
Netanyahu rejects US-led 15-point Gaza peace plan in rare public break with Trump

Netanyahu rejects US-led 15-point Gaza peace plan in rare public break with Trump
Israeli PM says IDF will not withdraw until Hamas is disarmed and rebukes US pressure to end wars without his country’s buy-in

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.

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

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…

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

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

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.

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…

"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…

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.

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.

The focus of the GOP’s first ever midterm convention in September
won’t be Trump’s dismal approval rating, how to end the war on Iran, or the stagnant economy.
They will be spending their time, resources, and funds focusing on
⚠️democratic socialism.
Axios reported Friday that the GOP has spent months pulling together an
👉 “endless” video trove of attack ads targeted at progressive commentators like Hasan Piker, and Democratic Senate nominees Abdul El-Sayed and J…

The GOP’s Midterm Convention Will Be the Worst Film Festival Ever
Republicans are using the event to show an “endless” series of videos of lefties and Democrats.

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.

Last year Google reported that protein structure predictions from AlphaFold have been used by over three million researchers worldwide.
And Isomorphic Labs,
a Google subsidiary that aims to use AlphaFold and related technologies to develop new drugs,
just raised a $2 billion Series B funding round.
But there are concrete signs of realignment, in both enthusiasm and resources.
Last month, the Los Angeles Times reported that Google fellow John Jumper, who won the …

Google I/O showed how the path for AI-driven science is shifting
Two years ago, an AI tool won Google DeepMind a Nobel. Researchers are now climbing toward a new goal.