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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

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

"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

Do you have experience developing Open Educational Resources (OER) or developing educational software? The Journal of Open Source Education (JOSE) is looking for reviewers to help with our check-list driven peer review process. Happy to answer questions about reviewing for JOSE if you're interested.
https://forms.gle/Rizd3TcHnQKhrbYY7

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.

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)

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.

Logistics in the technical sense (part of supply chain management) is a subset of logistics in the vernacular sense ("the handling of the details of an operation"). You can explore this second and more general sense, and thereby build an understanding of the first and more technical sense, by iteratively asking the question, "how does one make that happen" and follow questions from there.
A big part of organizing is figuring out the (vernacular) logistics (and helping others figure it out). You want to organize a seed swap? Ok. How does one make that happen? Well, you need seeds, people, a place, and perhaps a time. How does one make that happen? You can forage seeds or you can buy seeds for a garden and swap extras. How do you get people to come? Well, figure out where you want people to come from and choose an accessible place. What's the easiest thing to do? Get people from your neighborhood. How does one make that happen? Well, maybe put up flyers. How does one make that happen? Well, print them on your printer if you have one, or at a library, then go post them up. Etc.
Keep asking questions until you either find a roadblock that you can't find a way around, or you find things you can do yourself (one of those things you can do yourself is asking friends to help).
If you practice the exercise of thinking about how things happen, you can start to find things that you can do yourself. You can start to understand what exists now, and you can imagine what's possible. By thinking about logistics, you can figure out how to replace things when they collapse or are dismantled. You can also identify things that can't easily be replaced, and try to figure out alternatives.
This practice is good for figuring out how to build, but it can also be a valuable practice for figuring out how to resist. Concentration camps and ethnic cleansing also require logistics. Mass displacement means moving people. How does one do that? People are generally going to be moved in planes or buses. How does one do that? Well, people get loaded on to planes or buses in specific places. Planes and buses need fuel. Planes are fueled at their airports, which may well be the same places where people are loaded on to them. There is a fuel depo and a fuel truck that makes flying people out of a specific place possible. How does the fuel get to that fuel depo? Well, that fuel is probably also delivered by truck. Someone drives those trucks. Someone fuels those planes. Someone clears the planes for takeoff. Someone fuels those busses. Someone drives those busses. And so on.
Logistics networks can be highly complex. The more complex the operation, the more possible points of failure and more possible points where pressure can be applied, where operations can be disrupted. Ethnic cleansing is a complicated operation. The logistics of disrupting complicated things tend to be much less complicated than the logistics of the complicated things themselves.
The Right has exploited this fact for a long time. Centralized social services are logistically complex. Public infrastructure is logistically complex. By destroying these things, they can loot public resources by privatizing the infrastructure and functionality.
But the things that support the Right are even more logistically complex. Oil, cars, AI data centers, internal paramilitary, these are extremely complicated and fragile. There are numerous pressure points, all of which can respond to numerous strategies.
If we want to win, we should reduce the influence of politics over the things we care about. We should focus on building distributed mutual aid networks that don't rely on state funding and aren't subject to the whims of politicians. This is also known as "dual power." That is, creating counter-institutions outside of the dominant political system. The Right already does this in the form of churches and corporations.
As we reduce our complexity, we can then press our complexity advantage against the things for which the Right *needs* the state: the apparatus of violence needed to maintain capital and enforce the dominant order.

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/

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

"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

“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://

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.

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.

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.
…

"“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…

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…

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"

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…

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.

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

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…

➡️ 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.

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

"Shredded car plastics could reenter new vehicles, cutting emissions by up to 29%"
#Cars #Vehicles #Plastic #Plastics

Shredded car plastics could reenter new vehicles, cutting emissions by up to 29%
Each year, 4 to 6 million cars are scrapped in the EU—resulting in the loss of resources. The EU End-of-Life Vehicles Regulation is intended to ensure that these materials are recovered and reused in new vehicles in the future. Researchers at the TUM have now analyzed a process developed within the Car2Car research project that enables plastics to remain within the recycling loop. The study, published in Waste Management, shows potential climate benefits as well as the possibility of meeting …

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.

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

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

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 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?

Sometimes I get frustrated with the conversations around communism/socialism/capitalism. Did communism in the USSR work? No, because it concentrated all the resources with a privileged group that became corrupt. Did socialism work as practiced in many countries? Not if it concentrated all the resources with a privileged group.
Does capitalism work? Sometimes. If it's counterbalanced with regulation and social safety nets. Otherwise, capitalism runs into the same problems as socialism/communism. Market forces concentrate wealth with a privileged class that becomes corrupted. Because power corrupts. Even if that power belongs to a privileged group rather than one despotic ruler. (Forgive the amateur art, doing my best)

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

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

"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 …

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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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

🎉 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 👏

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/

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

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…

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…

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/

“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://

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.

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

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

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

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."

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 —
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.

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.

It's been more than 60 years of forking.
https://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/access/text/2010/06/102687219-05-08-acc.pdf

CfP "Matter, Materials, and (Un)Natural Resources in Science Fiction" - Enthymema Dec 2027
https://ift.tt/AFhqM2P
updated: Friday, July 10, 2026 - 4:16amfull name / name of organization: Valentina Romanzi,…
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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

Via Mylee Joseph
‪@mylee.bsky.social€
5 Questions to Ask Your Vendors about #AI products #libraries

5 Questions to Ask Your Vendors about AI | American Libraries Magazine
We must measure emerging AI platforms against our library’s tried-and-true resources to gauge which ones truly add value.

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/

"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…

➡️ 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.

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

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

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 …

"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

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

RE: https://tldr.nettime.org/@tante/116713587055769588
I was actually using LLMs a couple of years ago for text classification. Before that I pushed hard for resources to support automation. I helped build an automation team where none existed. I pushed to use transformer models to solve problems before LLMs existed. I used simple ML to make predictions and classify issues. I've been on the cutting edge for a long time.
I *should* be an early adopter of the modern LLM thing. But tech oligarchs transformed themselves into reverse ouroboros (infinitely shoving their heads up their own asses). The oligarchs never really believed that other people had free will, but I think they had been too scared to let that slip. After the lockdowns, I think they just snapped and here we are.
As much as I trash LLMs, I've had a nuanced critique for a while (wiring about this now). The lack of consent is so huge. The oligarchs have plans for us, and it doesn't involve our consent.
Under different conditions, I do actually think there could be revolutionary elements to this tech (not so much LLMs themselves as LLM MCP, and not for the things they think). But without consent, I think (and hope) the friction will overcome the momentum.
"AI" is already more expensive than humans. It will never be profitable as long as people resist. There are multiplying problems, and I don't see those being fixed without collective effort. I have a lot of thoughts, but "consent" (or the real or implied lack thereof) is central to so many aspects of LLMs.
The oligarchs want to force LLM tech onto all of us without our consent. Ultimately, they want to replace us all with obedient machines. The mistake they made was assuming we would be as obedient as the LLMs with which they have become so obsessed.

Top Trump official asked for more resources to fight a small fire near his Idaho ranch (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2026/08/14/top-trump-official-asked-more-resources-fight-small-fire-near-his-idaho-ranch/?pwapi_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJyZWFzb24iOiJnaWZ0IiwibmJmIjoxNzg2NjgwMDAwLCJpc3MiOiJzdWJzY3JpcHRpb25zIiwiZXhwIjoxNzg4MDYyMzk5LCJpYXQiOjE3ODY2ODAwMDAsImp0aSI6IjZmOGU1ZDczLTdmODgtNDdhYi04MmM2LTZhMDAyOWMyM2MzMiIsInVybCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3Lndhc2hpbmd0b25wb3N0LmNvbS93ZWF0aGVyLzIwMjYvMDgvMTQvdG9wLXRydW1wLW9mZmljaWFsLWFza2VkLW1vcmUtcmVzb3VyY2VzLWZpZ2h0LXNtYWxsLWZpcmUtbmVhci1oaXMtaWRhaG8tcmFuY2gvIn0.wnIUnkPrtIIbDjTAz6_F5_suQnUYKx8I21fAGxWdjYg&itid=gfta
http://www.memeorandum.com/260814/p14#a260814p14

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

CfP: Interreligious and Intercultural Perspectives on Resources and Sacred Boundaries
https://ift.tt/YDpvm5P
Post-Migration Discussion Dear Suscribers,The listserv-to-Commons transition is complete,…
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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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It’s ok, it’s not like we’re all going to die or anything (only billions, not everyone). @… https://slrpnk.net/post/39707961

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.

"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

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…

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…

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

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.

"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…

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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…

Frequent readers know that I often think about LLM-“AI”,
and that I think, um, poorly of it.
Most of my objections are systemic in nature, relating to climate, resources, extractive capitalism, job displacement, tool of the oppressor
-- you know what I mean.
But I can see how one could get a similar kind of joy to successfully guiding a deeply flawed program with a conversational interface, until it produced a program sort of like what one had in mind...
So I see …

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.

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.