Tootfinder

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

Patient Computing: Virtuous Waiting because the output is free as in libre, free as in beer, and free as in it didn't consume more resources than this post.

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.

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/

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

Free game alert: State Of Mind on GoG.
When mind and machine become one – what will remain of humanity?
Berlin, 2048 – The world is on the brink. Lack of resources, illnesses caused by polluted air and water, crime on the rise, war. Governments and companies promise remedies through technological progress. Drones and humanoid robots replace humans in the public sector, everything is interconnected, surveillance has become omnipresent.

How to use n8n automations with Grist – walkthroughs and examples https://www.getgrist.com/blog/how-to-use-n8n-automations-with-grist/

How to use n8n automations with Grist | Grist
Curious about n8n automations with Grist? We have video walkthroughs with templates, plus other helpful resources to get you started quickly.

Climate solutions in action this week:
California Resources Corp is opening the state's first CO2 storage site in a depleted oil field—creating permanent geologic storage for industrial emissions.
Recife, Brazil launched a public-private initiative financing collection, sorting, and recycled-content markets to build a circular plastics economy.
Real progress, happening now.
Sign up for the For People And Planet climate solutions digest:

Weekly Climate Solutions Digest
Welcome This week, the stories share a theme: coordination at scale and giving old systems new work. Across continents, we bank energy, pool flexibility, and clean up the flows of goods and carbon. The arc is steady & practical: take what we have, connect it, and make it serve a cleaner

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

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."

➡️ 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.

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.

Replaced article(s) found for physics.soc-ph. https://arxiv.org/list/physics.soc-ph/new
[1/1]:
- Involution game with migration and spatial heterogeneity of social resources
Bo Li, Qiwen Ge, Yong Shi

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

Climate solutions in action this week:
California Resources Corp is opening the state's first CO2 storage site in a depleted oil field—creating permanent geologic storage for industrial emissions.
Recife, Brazil launched a public-private initiative financing collection, sorting, and recycled-content markets to build a circular plastics economy.
Real progress, happening now.
Sign up for the For People And Planet climate solutions digest:

As midterms loom, voters who rightly blame Trump’s war-mongering and indifference for high prices are only going to get angrier. Republican operatives are reportedly panicking.
Trump as usual pretended he had a solution.
Ever since American forces kidnapped Venezuela’s dictator Nicholas Maduro in January, Trump had been trying to arrange for US seizure of the country’s oil.
Last week the White House claimed Trump had succeeded and “secured the biggest oil deal in world hi…

Trump’s colonialist Venezuela fever dream
Pillaging resources like this is the stuff of fascist regimes.

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 Ankara Summit Declaration (NATO)
https://www.nato.int/en/about-us/official-texts-and-resources/official-texts/2026/07/08/the-ankara-summit-declaration
http://www.memeorandum.com/260709/p2#a260709p2

Limiting Overshoot - Navigating exceedance of 1.5°C and pathways towards return | UNEP - UN Environment Programme https://www.unep.org/resources/limiting-overshoot-navigating-exceedance

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…

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?

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.

Maybe, instead of spending so much time, thought, debate and money to find ways to keep people from arriving, we should put the resources into figuring out how to make it attractive to stay in the country of origin?
Education, local industry, strengthening the local economies seem like things worth fostering everywhere.
Not a simple problem to solve, but the status quo seems to be remarkably unsuccessful.
EU chief criticises Spain’s migrant plan after Ceuta crisis meeting

EU chief criticises Spain’s migrant plan after Ceuta crisis meeting
Migration commissioner says scheme regularising undocumented people ‘not a good signal’ for Europe

Maybe, instead of spending so much time, thought, debate and money to find ways to keep people from arriving, we should put the resources into figuring out how to make it attractive to stay in the country of origin?
Education, local industry, strengthening the local economies seem like things worth fostering everywhere.
Not a simple problem to solve, but the status quo seems to be remarkably unsuccessful.
EU chief criticises Spain’s migrant plan after Ceuta crisis meeting

EU chief criticises Spain’s migrant plan after Ceuta crisis meeting
Migration commissioner says scheme regularising undocumented people ‘not a good signal’ for Europe

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

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).

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

A Foundational EDM2-Based Generative Model for High-Resolution Synthetic Fetal Ultrasound Imaging from Open Datasets
Harvey Mannering, Yilin Zhang, Ziao Liu, Zhiwu Huang, Jacqueline Matthew, Miguel Xochicale
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.05471 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2608.05471 https://arxiv.org/html/2608.05471
arXiv:2608.05471v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Prenatal ultrasound imaging is key for assessing fetal health, but AI progress is limited by scarce, privacy-restricted, and hard-to-annotate datasets. We propose a high-resolution fetal ultrasound synthesis framework based on the EDM2 diffusion architecture, trained on multiple public datasets to generate 512x512 images across six anatomical classes. Our method achieved improved image quality with lower FID scores and enhanced downstream fetal plane classification, reaching 93.36% ensemble accuracy after fine-tuning, surpassing real-data-only training. Clinical evaluation by an experienced fetal ultrasound specialist (10 years) on 100 images yielded a mean realism score of 2.67/5, with real images rated higher than synthetic. Artefacts included smoothing, speckle irregularities, and anatomical inconsistencies. Code, data, models and other resources to reproduce this work are available at https://github.com/xfetus/fetal-ultrasound-edm2.
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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,…
via Input 4 RELCFP

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…

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

"The thing that concerns me most is violence, the use of force and the threat or the implementation of damage to enforce an opinion. As I said at the beginning, I'm a scientist. I relish facts. I'm interested in ideas. I'm curious about relationships. Violence is just the opposite of that. Violence is the way to gain power without ideas, and it reduces your resources, it stifles dissent and experimentation which we desperately need." — Dennis Meadows (Club Of Rome, Limits Of Growth)

Sitting here, in Canada, you read things, things like:
> "national governments can already implement progressive wealth taxes on their own. What is key is that they must tax in the same way all individuals and entities that have accumulated assets by benefiting from their country’s resources and infrastructure in the past, wherever they are located now (so that one cannot simply dodge taxes by leaving).
> "Individual countries can already move in this direction on their own, but obviously they could do even more with a coalition of countries for global justice. The larger the coalition, the more one can do and the closer one gets to the full Global Justice Platform."
… and you can understand why the bold entrance of @… ignored my asking "hey why do you ALL side-step Piketty?"
Is it because, sadly, none of the above fits their form of Canadian Value$?
Still, it is good to know SOMEBODY bothers to Do The Math.
https://globaljusticeproject.wid.world/

Due to Thursday’s extreme heat forecast and the resources required to safely manage large crowds at fan marches, Toronto Stadium and FIFA Fan Festival™ Toronto, all FIFA World Cup 2026™ match broadcasts at Nathan Phillips Square have been cancelled for Thursday, July 2.
#toronto

➡️ 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.

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

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

Doesn't "No 10 North" sound like 'working from home'? https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/jun/29/andy-burnham-no-10-north-nerve-centre-rewired-britain

The Venezuelan opposition leader,
María Corina Machado,
has questioned Donald Trump’s oil deal with Venezuela’s interim government,
declaring that the country’s natural resources do not belong to “an illegitimate regime”.
In her first public comments since Trump announced what he called “the biggest oil deal in world history” with Venezuela last Friday,
Machado walked a diplomatic tightrope between challenging the controversial agreement and trying not to rile t…

Nobel laureate Machado: ‘Illegitimate’ Venezuela regime has no right to strike US oil deal
Opposition leader says interim government lacking democratic mandate to negotiate on natural resources

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

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.

Back in the Tenth World today for some Valheim! Firing it up on the Linux rig via Proton—time to gather resources, work on base expansions, and try not to get pulverized by a Troll. Grab a brew and come hang out! 🌲🛡️
🔴 Live now: https://www.twitch.tv/tuxramus

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

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

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…

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.

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…

CFP (ONLINE SEMINAR / PUBLICATION OPPORTUNITY): Borders and Sustainability: Human, Natural, and Textual Resources — Entangled Histories Seminar Series 2026–2027
https://ift.tt/7mhbZ5p
Post-Migration Discussion Dear Suscribers,The listserv-to-Commons transition is complete,…
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California wants to list 'Jewish' as an ethnicity.
Jews are divided over the idea
California is poised to become the first state to treat Jewish identity as an ethnicity on official forms,
with a new optional checkbox heading to Gov. Gavin Newsom’s desk.
Supporters say the change could reveal gaps in healthcare, education and hate-crime response for the state’s 1.2 million Jews,
giving officials better data to direct resources.
Opponents warn a s…

California wants to list Jewish as an ethnicity. Jews are divided over the idea
The state recognizes nearly 50 racial and ethnic identities for data collection, but it only considers Jewish identity as a religion, not an ethnicity.

The Kew TUI for playing music on #linux is really great. Really like it - it takes a fraction of resources on the system compared with GUI apps

Very helpful comparison and explanation of the 2 laws. Thanks, @…
Wonder why the San Francisco bill does not require "recovery housing" as required by Haney's state bill ("Recovery housing means tenants have access to on-site case management and other resources needed to address substance use disorder; it is a costlier and more robust form of…

Both California and San Francisco passed drug-free housing bills. How would they coexist?
State legislators just approved a new bill that will open up drug-free housing across the state. So did SF, in July. How will they interact?

Very helpful comparison and explanation of the 2 laws. Thanks, @…
Wonder why the San Francisco bill does not require "recovery housing" as required by Haney's state bill ("Recovery housing means tenants have access to on-site case management and other resources needed to address substance use disorder; it is a costlier and more robust form of…

Both California and San Francisco passed drug-free housing bills. How would they coexist?
State legislators just approved a new bill that will open up drug-free housing across the state. So did SF, in July. How will they interact?

RE: https://mstdn.social/@noelreports/117201553941951005
€90 billion euros. Imagine what we could do with those kind of resources if we didn't live in a patriarchy.

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…

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

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

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

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…

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"

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

"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

$5.
It’s Beto O’Rourke.
$5 is what I’m asking you to donate to Gina Hinojosa’s campaign today.
$5 because Gina is within 1 point of Greg Abbott in the latest polls.
$5 because Gina needs resources to overcome Abbott’s massive war chest.
$5 because Gina has the momentum to take back Texas
— with your help.
If it makes sense for you today, donate $5 to Gina today:

Gina Hinojosa for Texas Governor | Official Campaign Website
Gina Hinojosa has spent her life advocating for Texas families and kids. From advocating for workers, challenging the status quo, to taking on corrupt politicians – Gina has always put Texas families first.

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

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

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…

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/

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

➡️ Bicycle Crash Checklist
#bookmarks

"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

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.
…

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 …

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.

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.

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.

"“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…

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.

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%…

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.

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

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

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…

A federal judge on Monday struck down the Trump administration’s changes to a $4 billion federal homelessness program
that would limit resources for permanent housing
and shift the focus to temporary housing and services.
The Department of Housing and Urban Development’s efforts to modify the so-called
"Continuum of Care Program"
have been tied up in litigation since November,
with plaintiffs citing concerns with policy changes that place new con…

"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…

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

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…

the U.S. war against Iran passes the six-month mark,
the conflict’s disastrous impacts are being compounded by
the inability of the United States to negotiate or implement a resolution,
with the two sides trading attacksagain as of today.
The war’s “triple illegality,”
the tremendous cost to human lives and civilian infrastructure,
the immense and mounting economic costs,
the dangerous drain on military resources and readiness,
and the sheer m…

The Bipartisan Iran War Commission We Need
Congress should create a bipartisan Iran War Commission to investigate errors in going to war and how it was waged.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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
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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.

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

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

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

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

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.