Tootfinder

We need to stop reasoning about AI like this. Every time it can do something amazing it's "well that's just because its training data is so big, everything is bound to be in there."
Then, when it shows some limitation, it's "Well that's because it must not be in the training data".
It can show a shark jumping out of the moon through a computer screen. It can generate stuff that's not in the data. Also, hands counting down are obviously in t…

Bobby Brainworm cancels research on Bird flu vaccine.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/05/28/hhs-moderna-bird-flu-vaccine-funding/

China's robotindustrie onder druk, te veel inefficiënte robots
https://nos.nl/artikel/2572947-china-s-robotindustrie-onder-druk-te-veel-inefficiente-robots
China gaat dus proberen inefficiënte robots, die ze niet zel…

After decades in the U.S., Iranians arrested in Trump’s deportation drive
Mandonna “Donna” Kashanian lived in the United States for 47 years,
married a U.S. citizen and raised their daughter.
She was gardening in the yard of her New Orleans home when U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers handcuffed and took her away, her family said.
Kashanian arrived in 1978 on a student visa and applied for asylum,
fearing retaliation for her father’s support of…

After decades in the U.S., Iranians arrested in Trump’s deportation drive
Some Iranians are getting arrested by immigration authorities after living decades in the United States. 'Who picks up a grandmother?' says the husband of a detained woman who has lived in the U.S. for 47 years.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Audioasis
G.L.O.S.S.:
🎵 Outcast Stomp
#GLOSS
https://sabotagerecords.bandcamp.com/track/g-l-o-s-s-outcast-stomp
https://open.spotify.com/track/7x2JpcsehK3idTXuzsimLJ

Durov announces Telegram's partnership with Musk's xAI, who says no deal signed yet: https://benborges.xyz/2025/05/29/durov-announces-telegrams-partnership-with.html

Maxx Crosby points to NBA's Thunder when talking hopeful Raiders turnaround: 'We've got a lot of work to do' https://www.nfl.com/news/maxx-crosby-points-to-nba-s-thunder-when-talking-hopef…

In Ursula K. Le Guin's "A Man of the People" (part of "Four Ways to Forgiveness") there's a scene where the Hainish protagonist begins studying history. It's excellent in many respects, but what stood out the most to me was the softly incomprehensible idea of a people with multiple millions of years of recorded history. As one's mind starts to try to trace out the implications of that, it dawns on you that you can't actually comprehend the concept. Like, you read the sentence & understood all the words, and at first you were able to assemble them into what seemed like a conceptual understanding, but as you started to try to fill out that understating, it began to slip away, until you realized you didn't in fact have the mental capacity to build a full understanding and would have you paper things over with a shallow placeholder instead.
I absolutely love that feeling, as one of the ways in which reading science fiction can stretch the brain, and I connected it to a similar moment in Tsutomu Nihei's BLAME, where the android protagonists need to ride an elevator through the civilization/galaxy-spanning megastructure, and turn themselves off for *millions of years* to wait out the ride.
I'm not sure why exactly these scenes feel more beautifully incomprehensible than your run-of-the-mill "then they traveled at lightspeed for a millennia, leaving all their family behind" scene, other than perhaps the authors approach them without trying to use much metaphor to make them more comprehensible (or they use metaphor to emphasize their incomprehensibility).
Do you have a favorite mind=expanded scene of this nature?
#AmReading

Baidu plans to open-source its Ernie LLM on June 30; some say this could cement China's AI leadership, while others doubt it will be a "DeepSeek moment" (Kevin Williams/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/29/china-bigg

China's biggest public AI drop since DeepSeek, Baidu's open source Ernie, is about to hit the market
Chinese internet search giant Baidu will open source its Ernie gen AI large language model as soon as this week, with uncertain consequences for the market.

Trump's pardons highlight Justice Department's pullback from public corruption cases https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/trumps-pardons-highlight-justice-departments-pullback-pu…

Trump's pardons highlight Justice Department's pullback from public corruption cases
WASHINGTON — The government's evidence against Scott Jenkins was compelling, including undercover video and other corroboration showing Jenkins, then the sheriff of Culpeper County, Virginia, accepting over $75,000 in exchange for giving law enforcement authority to local businessmen, as well as two undercover FBI special agents.

45.4°C in Portugal yesterday, in June!
Unprecedented, there's that word again.
#extremeheat #globalwarming #climatechange
(That's 114 F)
Via

Drowning in infosec news overload? Check out today's Metacurity for a concise rundown of the most critical developments you should know, including
--UK military will ramp up offensive cyber attacks against Russia and China
--Victoria's Secret hit by cyberattack,
--LexisNexis Risk Solutions breach affects 364K,
--Procurement database exposed Russian nuclear bases to attack,
--US gov't to mix DNA data of migrant children and sex offenders,
--ASUS …

UK military will ramp up offensive cyber attacks against Russia and China
Victoria's Secret hit by cyberattack, LexisNexis risk arm breach affects 364K, Procurement database exposed Russian nuclear bases to attack, US gov't to mix DNA data of migrant children and sex offenders, ASUS routers ensnared by novel botnet, APT41 exploited Google Calendar, much more

Calamus 16 Who is now reading this?
A funny little poem, omitted in later editions. On the surface it's a challenge to the reader and a chance for Whitman to establish himself as self-aware. Claiming his own flaws.
But the text drips with some latent queer meaning
as if I do not secretly love strangers!
(O tenderly, a long time, and never avow it ;)
A secret love that you can never avow? Hello! At least it's tenderly and a long time.
This seems as good a time as any to link Whitman's Boys, a good recent piece considering Whitman as a queer man and what that means to us in current times. It's a nice overview of some queer theory and is even-handed.

Trump's focus on coal and hate for renewable energy etc will cost the US dearly, China is already ahead and will improve it's position further with regard to EV's, battery technology etc

I love food, I love sex, I love MUSIC but there's a special thrill about discovering that you love an author's work that you have never read before.
You look at all the books they've written that you're gonna binge and it's like.... mmmmmm... like a whole stack of the sexiest pancakes in your bed.

Hey! Just a quick snap from today's walk (okay about 4:30h) near #kirchseeon and #ebersberg.
It's been warm but really beautiful. A lot of shade, quite some old trees, lots of green 😊
I'm curious how the photos will turn out. - Now I'm thinking about tomorrow's a…

Trump's ego pushes the narrative that he's somehow a good negotiator & 'gets the best deals' from other countries.
Problem: 6 bankruptcies & no one's left that will lend him money. He only knows how to negotiate w/ dumb blunt instruments: Bribes & Tariffs.
Result: Zero actual trade agreements.

Have I read Mein Kampf? Yes!
Is it trash? Also, Yes!
#Fascism

Scotland's travellers suffered 'cultural genocide', report says - BBC News
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cp8de3ld05yo

Scotland's travellers suffered 'cultural genocide', report says
New research claims social experiments on Scotland's Gypsy Travellers were a form of "cultural genocide".

NYT and Amazon agree to a content licensing deal for use in Amazon's AI platforms and to bring the NYT's "content to a variety of Amazon customer experiences" (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/29/business/m…

The Times and Amazon Announce an A.I. Licensing Deal
In 2023, The Times sued OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement. Now its editorial content will appear across Amazon platforms.

M’enfin! Non, ce n’est pas l’IA qui ment et manipule… Mais apparemment ça joue.
https://www.rts.ch/info/sciences-tech/2025/article/l-ia-devient-menteuse-les-scientifiques-s-inquietent-des-no…

Sonnet 127 - CXXVII
In the old age black was not counted fair,
Or if it were, it bore not beauty's name;
But now is black beauty's successive heir,
And beauty slandered with a bastard shame:
For since each hand hath put on Nature's power,
Fairing the foul with Art's false borrowed face,
Sweet beauty hath no name, no holy bower,
But is profaned, if not lives in disgrace.
Therefore my mistress' eyes are raven black,

I have visited this small National Monument several times - it is very much worth a visit.
I fear that it, however, is near the top of FFOTUS' list of national monuments to dismantle.
Cesar Chavez National Monument
https://www.nps.gov/cech/index.htm

César E. Chávez National Monument (U.S. National Park Service)
Yes, we can!

Widely recognized as the most important Latino leader in the United States during the twentieth century, Cesar Chavez led farm workers and supporters in the establishment of the country's first permanent agricultural union. His leadership brought sustained international attention to the plight of U.S. farm workers, and secured for them higher wages and safer working conditions.

Hey! It's #SciFanSat day and I'm there again, this time with a #ScienceFiction story that was quite a challenge to translate to English.
Hope the effort was worth it.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.03399 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_hepe…

Study of $D_{s1}(2460)^{+}\to D_{s}^{+}π^{+}π^{-}$ in $B\to {\bar{D}}^{(*)}D_{s}^{+}π^{+}π^{-}$ decays
An amplitude analysis of the $D_{s1}(2460)^+\to D_{s}^{+}π^{+}π^{-}$ transition is performed simultaneously in $B^{0}\to D^{-}D_{s}^{+}π^{+}π^{-}$, $B^{+}\to{\bar{D}}^{0} D_{s}^{+}π^{+}π^{-}$, and $B^{0}\to D^{*-}D_{s}^{+}π^{+}π^{-}$ decays. The study is based on a data sample of proton-proton collisions recorded with the LHCb detector at centre-of-mass energies of $\sqrt{s}=7,8,$ and $13\,$TeV, corresponding to a total integrated luminosity of $9\,\rm{fb}^{-1}$. A clear double-peak str…

Mayor Lurie has to be reined in. He thinks he's CEO of the city and can do whatever he wants, and the Board of Supervisors keeps rolling over and letting him. Good on Kathrin Moore for this
https://missionlocal.org/2025/06/sf-planning-director…

New S.F. planning director’s appointment process was illegal, commissioner says
An S.F. planning commissioner is says the commission's president wrangled votes for the mayor's pick to lead the department — an alleged violation of open meeting laws

Over 80,000 people flee severe flooding in southwest China https://phys.org/news/2025-06-people-severe-southwest-china.html
When rain, snow and soil align: The triple threat behind 2024's deadly central Asian floods

Over 80,000 people flee severe flooding in southwest China
Flooding in China's southwest has driven more than 80,000 people from their homes, state media said on Wednesday, as a collapsed bridge forced the dramatic rescue of a truck driver left dangling over the edge.

For your listening pleasure!
I'm part of the Life's Booming podcast series this year, hosted by James Valentine. Martin Tobin and myself talk changing attitudes to funerals and death. Wherever you get yer podcasts, but here's Spotify. #GDEPAU #AskAnnetta

Matters of life and death - Dr Annetta Mallon & Martin Tobin
Life's Booming · Episode

Free Circle Actions on the Product of Three Spheres
Dimpi, Hemant Kumar Singh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.21993 https://arxiv.org/pdf/…

Free Circle Actions on the Product of Three Spheres
The orbit spaces of free S^0-actions on the mod 2 cohomology product of three spheres, S^n x S^m x S^l, 1 <= n <= m <= l have been determined in [6]. In this paper, we extend these findings to free S^1-actions on the rational cohomology product of three spheres. This extension also builds upon the work of Dotzel et al. [7], who studied free circle actions on the rational cohomology product of two spheres. Additionally, we establish Borsuk-Ulam type theorems.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.02491 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mat…

A categorification of Quinn's finite total homotopy TQFT with application to TQFTs and once-extended TQFTs derived from strict omega-groupoids
We first revisit the construction of Quinn's finite total homotopy TQFT, which depends on the choice of a homotopy finite space, $\boldsymbol{B}$. This constitutes a vast generalisation of the Dijkgraaf-Witten TQFT, with a trivial cocycle, and of Yetter's homotopy 2-type TQFT. We build our construction directly from homotopy theoretical techniques, and hence, as in Quinn's original notes from 1995, the construction works in all dimensions. Our aim in this is to provide background for giving i…

A quantum internet is much closer to reality thanks to the world's first operating system for quantum computers - https://www.livescience.com/technology/computing/worlds-…

When you think it's another #GitHub outage, but it's just #Renovate opening a load of PR's 🤣

The ambiguous AT2022rze: Changing-look AGN mimicking a supernova in a merging galaxy system
P. J. Pessi, R. Lunnan, J. Sollerman, L. Yan, A. Le Reste, Y. Yao, S. Nordblom, Y. Sharma, M. Gilfanov, R. Sunyaev, S. Schulze, J. Johansson, A. Gangopadhyay, K. Tristram, M. Hayes, C. Fransson, Y. Hu, S. J. Brennan, S. Rose, K. De, P. Charalampopoulos, A. Gkini, M. J. Graham, C. P. Guti\'errez, S. Mattila, T. Nagao, I. P\'erez-Fournon, F. Poidevin, J. S. Bloom, J. Brugger, T. X. Chen, M…

The ambiguous AT2022rze: Changing-look AGN mimicking a supernova in a merging galaxy system
AT2022rze is a luminous, ambiguous transient located South-East of the geometric center of its host galaxy at redshift z = 0.08. The host appears to be formed by a merging galaxy system. The observed characteristics of AT2022rze are reminiscent of active galactic nuclei (AGN), tidal disruption events (TDEs), and superluminous supernovae (SLSNe). The transient reached a peak absolute magnitude of -20.2 +- 0.2 mag, showing a sharp rise (trise,1/e = 27.5 +- 0.6 days) followed by a slow decline (td…

#WritersCoffeeClub 5/29: Tell us about an epiphany that changed your writing.
There's power in words. Incredible power. It's the closest thing to magic we come, I'd say. The words you select will bring images to life in another person's mind. You can bring smells into their life, touch, feelings. You can enrich or you can scare. Make people laugh, cry, learn.
D…

This is so fascinating! It's the sun! 👇🏻
https://www.heise.de/news/Dank-adaptiver-Optik-Mit-Abstand-schaerfste-Aufnahmen-der-Sonnenkorona-gelunge…

What's new in #Kotlin 2.2.0
https://kotlinlang.org/docs/whatsnew22.html

Let's be controversial: In modern #PHP, you should never type-hint an array.
https://peakd.com/php/@crell/php-never-type-hint-on-arrays

Trump wants to be the American version of China's Xi.
He wants to be a dictator.
He's acting that way right now and daring us to stop him.
https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3lsqvvqxwaj2a

Got out on the OG route on the river today, it's been a minute. Mostly running on the treadmill or park by work, as It's been pretty hot here. I can handle 70's (F) though 😏 #running #runnersofmastodon

Hype um Apple-Film: "F1" bei Fitness und McDonald's
Apple hat eine beispiellose Marketingkampagne für seinen "F1"-Film mit Brad Pitt losgetreten. In Brasilien gibt's sogar Fleisch.
h…

I guess it's always nice when someone cites a paper. But too often, it's very clear that they haven't read it. If they had done, they would have realised that they were writing stuff that that I showed to be wrong in 1987. Sigh.
The extent of innumeracy in pharmacology is worrying.

Frontiers | The flexibility of SABRE, a new quantitative receptor function model, when fitting challenging concentration-effect data
The Signal Amplification, Binding affinity, and Receptor-activation Efficacy (SABRE) model is the most recent general and quantitative model of receptor func...

It's only Thursday morning and I've already had what's probably the most intense and productive week of writing since the home-stretch of my dissertation almost 15 years ago.
I basically wrote the entire first draft - and not a super drafty draft, at that - of what I'm thinking will be the second chapter in my next book.
I'm feeling great.
#AmWriting

Series A, Episode 04 - Time Squad
JENNA: To transport what?
VILA: Do we care?
JENNA: [Slight laugh] Getting nervous?
VILA: No, I've been nervous all along. I do not like the look of that thing.
BLAKE: Zen, have the sensors picked up any sign of life?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/104/72

Blakes7Bot | Search
Companion site to the Blakes7Bot Twitter, Mastodon, and Bluesky accounts. Automated lines of Blakes 7 dialog. Includes a script search facility.

Patronage: become an artist's VIP and patron
#SupportArt
https://muz4now.com/2017/patronage-become-artists-vip-patron/

Patronage: become an artist's VIP and patron
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.08082 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mat…

Quantum traces for $SL_n$-skein algebras
We establish the existence of several quantum trace maps. The simplest one is an algebra map between two quantizations of the algebra of regular functions on the $SL_n$-character variety of a surface $\mathfrak{S}$ equipped with an ideal triangulation $λ$. The first is the (stated) $SL_n$-skein algebra $\mathscr{S}(\mathfrak{S})$. The second $\overline{\mathcal{X}}(\mathfrak{S},λ)$ is the Fock and Goncharov's quantization of their $X$-moduli space. The quantum trace is an algebra homomorphism…

Trying to come up with something for Furality Somna! Of course, less than a week before it begins :neofox_think_googly:
#3DArt #3DModeling #Art

children's activity from my older sister's church

US court blocks most of Trump's tariffs, rules he exceeded authority: https://benborges.xyz/2025/05/29/us-court-blocks-most-of.html

A profile of OnlyFans' secretive founder Leo Radvinsky, as the platform's parent company is considering a sale for as much as $8B, according to sources (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/media/only-fa

Texans CB Damon Arnette took 'look in the mirror,' feels he's made 'complete turnaround' before second chance in NFL https://www.nfl.com/news/texans-cb-damon-arnette-took-look-in…

Don't miss today's Metacurity for the most critical infosec developments you should know, including
--Russian group Laundry Bear hacked Dutch police, targets Ukraine-allied nations
--Iranian pleads guilty to Robbinhood ransomware,
--Vietnam-tied UNC6032 uses prompt-to-video AI tools to lure malware victims,
--Russia sends former programmer to prison for 14 years,
--Czech Republic says China's APT31 hacked its comms networks,
--Nigeria arrests 20 for…

Russian group Laundry Bear hacked Dutch police, targets Ukraine-allied nations
Iranian pleads guilty to Robbinhood, UNC6032 uses prompt-to-video AI tools to lure victims, Russia sends former programmer to prison for 14 years, Czech Republic says China's APT31 hacked its comms networks, Nigeria arrests 20 for exams hacking, Bad flaw found in GitHub MCP integration, much more

I think America was greater when the CDC was the global gold standard and not a pathetic political tool.

The BBC didn't livestream Kneecap's Glastonbury set, but is facing backlash after airing Bob Vylan leading chants of "Free Palestine" and "Death to the IDF" (Andreas Wiseman/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/06/glastonbu

BBC Avoids Kneecap But Live Streams Another Act Leading Crowd Chants Of “Death To The IDF” & “Free Palestine”
BBC Refuses To Show Kneecap Live But Another Act, Bob Vylan, Leads Crowd Chants Of "Death To The IDF!" & "Free Palestine!"

Got a yard sign at the Evanston Main Street Fair from @katmabu.bsky.social.
Really respect her hustle in this campaign. Just out there at everything, meeting voters face to face. Her platform seems solid, and it would be great to have her enthusiasm and energy representing the 9th.
The best way to support her campaign is to donate

Sam Altman: "What if an inhuman AI took control of the world by manipulating people's behavior but its core directive was to make paper clips and it burned down the planet to do that? This is so scary and it's a real thing you should be worried about!"
Governments: "Oh boy that's scary we'll make special rules to invest in your company so you can save us from this frightening possibility. Will we restrict or discourage AI use/development? Haha no that would be foolish!"
Me: "What if an inhuman handful of corporate charters took control of the world by manipulating human behavior but their core directive was to maximize venture capital and they burned down the planet to do that? ..."
Governments (sponsored by said corporations): "Send in the SWAT teams now, this idea is dangerous!"

Portimão: 35 ºC
Faro é quase sempre mais temperado. Provavelmente a mais temperada terra em todo o Algarve... juntamente com Sagres... e a malta olha para a previsão para Faro e julga que se aplica ao Algarve como um todo.
https://pt.fedimeteo.com/faro/p/1751217677.695362

Faro - FediMeteo (@faro@pt.fedimeteo.com)
## Meteorologia para Faro ☀️ **Temperatura atual (às 18:21)**: 33.0°C (Céu limpo) **Velocidade do vento**: 10.6 km/h (2.9 m/s) ### Previsão para os próximos dias: - **domingo, 29 de junho**: Min 25.6°, Max 34.6° (Parcialmente nublado) ⛅, **Velocidade do vento**: 17.2 km/h (4.8 m/s) - **segunda-feira, 30 de junho**: Min 25.6°, Max 33.2° (Nublado) ☁️, **Velocidade do vento**: 18.1 km/h (5.0 m/s) - **terça-feira, 01 de julho**: Min 24.6°, Max 32.2° (Céu limpo) ☀️, **V…

46°C in Spain today, in June!
Unprecedented, there's that word again.
#extremeheat #climatechange
(That's 115 F)

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Audioasis
G.L.O.S.S.:
🎵 We Live
#GLOSS
https://girlslivingoutsidesocietysshit.bandcamp.com/track/we-live

Taurus missiles for Ukraine 'within the realm of possibility,' Germany's Merz says: https://benborges.xyz/2025/05/29/taurus-missiles-for-ukraine-within.html

And a quick clip from today's walk as well. The clips from the woods are a bit ... unsatisfying (they seem to be unsharp / overcompressed). Maybe I have to change some settings or it's just not good for clips in darker forests.
https://video.franzgraf.de/w/9S7mkgereJmaoH5m4vVHse

"In Empire of #AI, journalist Karen Hao writes about the rise of #OpenAI and the impacts of AI around the world. Below is an extract from the book on the effects on Chile's mineral reserves and water resources."

Calamus 15 O drops of me!
It's a remarkably morbid poem for Whitman, literally about blood dropping from wounds, corrupting his poetry.
stain every song I sing, every word I say, bloody drops
But he turns this blood into a sort of virtue that infuses his poem, starting with an inversion. It's not "saturate yourself with the drops". Instead it's saturate them with yourself.
Saturate them with yourself, all ashamed and wet,
Glow upon all I have written or shall write, bleeding drops,
Let it all be seen in your light, blushing drops.
I can make a case for a queer reading of recognizing gay shame and overcoming it. To take the stigma of homosexuality and turn it into a virtue, "let it all be seen in your light".
But I think I may be out on a limb with that interpretation. Whitman's not typically a writer about shame. And I think "gay shame" doesn't apply well as a concept in the 1850s, that's a malady that comes with a backlash against modern gay identity.

This week I booked travel for work that's going to let me see a long-lost friend for the first time in over a decade. It's still months away but holy shit I can't wait.

Sonnet 063 - LXIII
Against my love shall be as I am now,
With Time's injurious hand crush'd and o'erworn;
When hours have drain'd his blood and fill'd his brow
With lines and wrinkles; when his youthful morn
Hath travell'd on to age's steepy night;
And all those beauties whereof now he's king
Are vanishing, or vanished out of sight,
Stealing away the treasure of his spring;
For such a time do I now fortify …

Here's more of Trump's thinly-veiled racism on display.
Original post: #trump

The Justice Department on Friday 👉fired at least three prosecutors involved in U.S. Capitol riot criminal cases,
the latest moves by the Trump administration targeting attorneys connected to the massive prosecution of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack,
according to two people familiar with the matter.
Those dismissed include two attorneys who worked as supervisors overseeing the Jan. 6 prosecutions in the U.S. attorney’s office in Washington
as well as a line attorney who pro…

Justice Department fires 3 lawyers involved in Jan. 6 cases
The Justice Department has fired at least three prosecutors involved in U.S. Capitol riot criminal cases, according to two people familiar with the matter. It’s the latest move by the Trump administration targeting attorneys connected to the massive prosecution of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack. Those dismissed include two attorneys who worked as supervisors overseeing the Jan. 6 prosecutions in the U.S. attorney’s office in Washington as well as a line attorney who prosecuted cases stemming from…

South Korea becomes Asia's best-performing stock market in H1 2025, as shares rise following President Lee Jae-myung's pledge to allow won-based stablecoins (Song Jung-a/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/4b19bf90-4202-4fe7-8caf-d7db6deeb768…

Crypto-crazy investors make South Korea the best-performing market in Asia
New president’s pledge to allow won-based stablecoins has led to huge gains in related shares this month

People might continue reading Cybernews after this, but not people in the cybersecurity business, that's for sure. Let's hope this stops them from promoting their baloney.
Glorious and detailed debunking of their false claims by @…
Fact-Checking Claims By Cybernews: The 16 Billion Record Data Breach That Wasn't

Fact-Checking Claims By Cybernews: The 16 Billion Record Data Breach That Wasn't
From dumps with no login credentials at all, to direct connections to txtbase leaks from Telegram and old breaches, Cybernews tried to pass this as new and unseen, but data says otherwise.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Audioasis
G.L.O.S.S.:
🎵 Lined Lips and Spiked Bats
#GLOSS
https://girlslivingoutsidesocietysshit.bandcamp.com/track/lined-lips-and-spiked-bats
https://open.spotify.com/track/6y13wDOK51lFoHDK6g8urg

An American breakfast

Immediate Media's BBC History Magazine launches a Substack and a weekly podcast, and says it has 745,000 paying online subscribers, but print remains important (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/…

Ex-Super Bowl champion doubts Travis Hunter's two-way NFL stardom, says Jaguars should 'test his armor'

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news…

On June 28—Elon's birthday—let's celebrate everything we've achieved and a recommit to the long fight still ahead.
And our birthday gift to the Broligarch in Chief?
A global party with one powerful message:
Musk Must Fall.
https://fe…

The DOJ settles its lawsuit challenging HPE's $14B acquisition of Juniper; HPE must divest Instant On and license the source code for Juniper's Mist AI software (Rishabh Jaiswal/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/us-doj-se

Europe's 'Trump shock' is opportunity to forge 'new West,' Timothy Garton Ash says: https://benborges.xyz/2025/05/29/europes-trump-shock-is-opportunity.html

In the days before the surprise U.S. attack on Iran, Politico reported that
one man in the Defense Department was having an outsized say on Washington’s Iran strategy:
Erik Kurilla, the hawkish U.S. Central Command leader known as “The Gorilla.”
“He’s a big dude, he’s jacked, he’s exactly this ‘lethality’ look they’re going for,” said an anonymous former official.
So long as military advisors “come across as tough and warfighters,”
the source added, Defense S…

Hypermasculinity Is Driving U.S. Foreign Policy
Trump’s approach to Iran shows that America’s crisis of manhood has hit the global stage.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Jagged Edge:
🎵 Lets Get Married
#JaggedEdge
https://xrayrecordsjaggededge.bandcamp.com/track/let-s-get-married-remix

Walmart's Flipkart says about 200M Indian users engaged with social videos and livestreams promoting products on the platform in H1 2025, up from 75M a year ago (Satviki Sanjay/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles…

Memo: David Leavy, who became CNN's COO in 2023, is leaving; sources say the longtime key lieutenant of David Zaslav is returning to Warner Bros. Discovery (Brian Steinberg/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/david-leavy-cnn…

David Leavy, CNN's COO, Will Return to Warner Bros. Discovery
David Leavy will leave CNN and return to duties at corporate parent Warner Bros. Discovery, where he has long been a key aide to CEO David Zaslav

Russia's budget deficit triples amid sanctions and low oil prices, Ukrainian official says: https://benborges.xyz/2025/05/29/russias-budget-deficit-triples-amid.html

Hands-on with seven coding agents tasked with building a website: Claude Code performed best, OpenAI's Codex lacked polish, and Replit failed to build the site (Timothy B. Lee/Understanding AI)
https://www.understandingai.org/p/what-i-learned-trying-seven-…

What I learned trying seven coding agents
There's still room for improvement, but don't underestimate this technology.

Russia's persecution of Ukrainian clergy is part of an organized genocidal campaign: https://benborges.xyz/2025/05/29/russias-persecution-of-ukrainian-clergy.html

A US judge dismissed Rumble's antitrust suit accusing Google of violating antitrust law by allegedly promoting YouTube in search results and its other products (Wendy Davis/MediaPost)
https://www.mediapost.com/publications/article/406168/

Google Defeats Rumble Antitrust Suit
Conservative video platform Rumble's antitrust claims against Google fell outside the four-year statute of limitations, a federal judge ruled.

Sources: DeepSeek's highly anticipated R2 model faces delays due to a shortage of Nvidia server chips in China, exacerbated by the US ban of Nvidia's H20 chips (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/deepseeks-progre…

DeepSeek’s Progress Stalled by U.S. Export Controls
The latest round of U.S. chip export controls may have curbed DeepSeek’s rise, at least for now. DeepSeek’s highly anticipated upcoming large language model, R2, may not be as quickly and extensively adopted in China as its predecessor, the wildly popular R1, due to a shortage of Nvidia server ...

Russia amassed enough troops to attack Ukraine's Sumy Oblast, Border Guard warns: https://benborges.xyz/2025/05/29/russia-amassed-enough-troops-to.html

A look at YouTube's changes to become viewers' preferred TV service and to appeal more to advertisers, and at creators' push into sitcoms, like Alan's Universe (Lucas Shaw/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/20

Hakeem Jeffries,
when asked if he's endorsed Zohran Mamdani,
says "No... We don't really know each other well. Our districts don't really overlap."
https://bsky.app/profile/kenklippenstein.bsky.social/post/3lsrb3jns6c2o

An in-depth look at how foreign scammers use US banks to facilitate large-scale transfers of funds stolen from victims of "pig butchering" scams overseas (Cezary Podkul/ProPublica)
https://www.propublica.org/article/pig-butcher…

How Foreign Scammers Use U.S. Banks to Fleece Americans
Asian crime syndicates’ online scams have reached industrial proportions, cheating victims around the world out of more than $44 billion a year. U.S. banks have been unable to stop them.

Ukraine to boycott World Judo Championships over Belarus's participation under national flag: https://benborges.xyz/2025/05/29/ukraine-to-boycott-world-judo.html

What follows is a surprisingly elegant introduction to a lesser-known evolutionary theory,
wrapped in the curious biography of Sewall Wright
-- a geneticist with a lifelong fixation on guinea pigs.
I’ve occasionally wondered:
Why don’t we see fish wandering around on little legs, on their way to becoming something grander?
Wright put it more scientifically:
How do organisms evolve beneficial traits when the steps in between might be maladaptive?
I…

Evolution and Guinea Pig Toes
How one animal's oddity inspired Sewall Wright to take on one of Darwin's big ideas

Meta offering $100M signing bonuses may be an exaggeration by Altman, but $100M overall compensation packages are plausible given Meta's need to catch up in AI (M.G. Siegler/Spyglass)
https://spyglass.org/ai-signing-bonuses/

$100M AI Signing Bonuses
Exaggeration, conflation, a game of Telephone, directional accuracy, brinksmanship, or all of the above?

Ukrainian abducted in Russian-occupied Crimea; Ukraine's ombudsman appeals to Moscow: https://benborges.xyz/2025/05/29/ukrainian-abducted-in-russianoccupied-crimea.html

Ahead of a vote on Republicans’ budget reconciliation package expected as soon as noon Saturday,
U.S. Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Chair Mike Lee revived his effort to sell off public lands.
Senate Parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough has blocked multiple provisions of the GOP megabill,
including several under the jurisdiction of the Utah Republican’s panel.
Among them is his attack on public lands.
“Here we go again,” Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) …

Mike Lee Tries to Sneak Public Land Sale Back Into 'Big, Ugly Bill' Ahead of Senate Vote | Common Dreams
Ahead of an expected vote on Republicans' budget reconciliation package, U.S. Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Chair Mike Lee revived his effort to sell off public lands.

Portnov reportedly met controversial Zelensky staffer, Ukraine's investigations chief before being killed in Madrid: https://benborges.xyz/2025/05/29/portnov-reportedly-met-controversial-zelensky.html

Stavropol explosion kills Russian official who led attacks on Ukraine's Mariupol: https://benborges.xyz/2025/05/29/stavropol-explosion-kills-russian-official.html