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This is one of my fave ever Tumblr posts:
https://www.tumblr.com/0hpartyb1/784389727648366592?source=share
I need this quality of stupid on here. Tbf, Linux reply guys are doing a lot of heavy lifting but could be more annoying?

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💬 831  🔁 210568  ❤️ 154965 · all goofing aside I genuinely don't understand the urge to reimagine Taylor Allison Swift as a secretly queer icon when the pop music scene(TM) is like. literally overf…

Sometimes democracy just works.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/25/nyregion/cuomo-mamdani-mayor-primary-nyc.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Rk8._dtb.J00ws4qd9RB2&smid=url-share

Mamdani Stuns Cuomo in New York Mayoral Primary
Zohran Mamdani, a state assemblyman and democratic socialist, had a commanding lead over former Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, who conceded in the Democratic primary.

Comparing top NBA Draft prospects to NFL counterparts: Cooper Flagg, Travis Hunter share similarities and more

https://www.cbssports.com/nba/…

Somewhat unsettling --
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/25/ukraine-russia-autonomous-drones-ai?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

Speaking at a campaign rally Cuomo said Mamdani had run a “really smart and good and impactful campaign”.
“Tonight is his night. He deserved it. He won,” Cuomo said
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/24/new-york…

How #Vietnam bets on serving the #Trump organization. Despicable, including land evictions—not particularly a thing the Vietnamese people fancy.

Video: Inside a Trump Family Project in Vietnam
As President Trump blurs the lines between politics and business — and threatens steep tariffs on trade partners — governments feel compelled to favor Trump-related projects. Damien Cave, Vietnam bureau chief for The New York Times, and Katrin Bennhold, a senior writer on the international desk, discuss how this dynamic has played out in Vietnam, at the groundbreaking of a fast-tracked $1.5 billion Trump golf complex.

American Democracy Might Not Survive a War With Iran
The United States is well down the road to dictatorship. Imagine what Trump would do with a state of war.
#GiftArticle #USPolitics
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2025/06/democracy-iran-israel-war-trump/683269/?gift=E9o0y7Rlfcfv2OQ1sSVCEglNGkNaOm3ulZvY2L-kUho&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share

Talking Heads Share New “Psycho Killer” Video Starring Saoirse Ronan https://pitchfork.com/news/talking-heads-share-new-psycho-killer-video-starring-saoirse-ronan-watch?utm_source=dlvr.it&…

Talking Heads Share New “Psycho Killer” Video Starring Saoirse Ronan: Watch
Mike Mills directs a video for the classic early single as the band celebrates its 50th anniversary

Live Updates: Trump Lashes Out at Israel and Iran as Fragile Truce Is Tested (Associated Press)
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06/24/world/ceasefire-iran-israel-trump?unlocked_article_code=1.RU8.rCan.toHYhYBQKsMQ&smid=url-share
http://www.memeorandum.com/250624/p23#a250624p23

Anthropic now lets Claude app users build, host, and share AI-powered apps directly in Claude via Artifacts, launching in beta on Free, Pro, and Max tiers (Jay Peters/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/693342/anthropic-claude-ai-apps-artifact

Anthropic now lets you make apps right from its Claude AI chatbot
Anthropic is adding a new feature to its Claude AI chatbot that lets you build AI-powered apps right inside the app. It builds upon Anthropic’s Artifacts feature.

China Unveils Mosquito-Sized Microdrone for Covert Surveillance #drones https://ground.news/article/chinas-new-mosquito-drone-could-probably-slip-through-windows-and-spy-undetected?utm_source=headline-link&utm_medium=share

I don't like learning new things, such as:
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jun/25/cod-shrinking-size-overfishing-study?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

This band comes in at the top of the list of music I'd like to hear in a dive bar. I also wouldn't be at all surprised to find the band members nursing a beer (or four) inside when I walk in the door.
Supersuckers, "Roadworn and Weary" (1997)
https://youtu.be/HP-nRS5Pklk…

https://youtu.be/WEq0QuNvodQ?si=3A3aO4WlHlikvXwK

This review is pretty damning of Windows and how it's become so user hostile. Windows is on the edge of losing its market share in a generation similar to how Internet Explorer lost it to Chrome.
https://youtu.be/CJXp3UYj50Q?si=93lqEpcGy9H3QEFO

Trump had been eager to celebrate the U.S. strikes on Iran,
but a new report indicates the attack set back Iran’s nuclear program by only a few months.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/24/us/politics/t…

Intel Report on Iran Upends Victory Lap Trump Was Hoping for at NATO
President Trump had been eager to celebrate the U.S. strikes on Iran, but a new report indicates the attack set back Iran’s nuclear program by only a few months.

brian eno’s open letter to Microsoft
https://www.tumblr.com/trickbop/784345281404846080?source=share

Still really loving the Insta 360 camera, so easy to make nice things
https://youtu.be/c8YH-oBs-cw

OMG. He was my first crush. I was 8 yrs old, and I was in love. 😢 #RIP #BobbySherman
From: @…

Setting aside copyright/commercial/other aspects, a thought about writing blog posts that LLMs train on. When people write posts, they (a) feel good about helping others, and (b) hope to get some credit and visibility for doing so.
When mediated through LLMs, no longer the satisfaction that your consumer is a human (who might comment, thank, share, etc.); nor the cred that comes from people remembering the author, posting on HN, etc.
That is, it totally destroys the incentive str…

When your Middle East policy is basically a horoscope with nukes.
“We don’t really know, but trust us.” https://open.substack.com/pub/charlotteclymer/p/we-dont-really-know-but-trust-us?utm_source=…

We Don't Really Know But Trust Us
Nothing to see here.

Q&A with comedian Andrew Schulz about becoming America's "foremost political journalist", interviewing Donald Trump and others, "podcast bros", and more (David Marchese/New York Times)
https://www.

Andrew Schulz, ‘Podcast Bro,’ Might Be America’s Foremost Political Journalist
The comedian and host has a huge audience and many thoughts on what podcasters like him are responsible for now.

I was so proud yesterday, that I had managed to apply for an ETA, that I forgot to share this gem concerning payment
!B

Como eu esqueci dessa banda por tantos anos?! Ela é muito boa! #madreDeus #NowPlaying

To ChatGPT: How many users of The vOICe visual-to-auditory sensory substitution for the blind are there in the world? https://chatgpt.com/share/6857c14d-074c-8004-b4d2-f6e6fc925e02

ChatGPT - E-bike Injury Odds in NYC
Shared via ChatGPT

America's Adversaries Are Gaining the Global Megaphone (Tiffany Hsu/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/24/business/media/us-china-russia-global-communications.html?unlocked_article_code=1.RU8.vSID.aC1mkPHdDyPn&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
http://www.memeorandum.com/250624/p88#a250624p88

Für Dogs, Bones and Catering 2025 gab es 40h Zeit, um für das ausgeloste Thema “Lost and Found" einen Kurzfilm zu drehen.
Meine Frau und ich haben folgenden Eintrag eingereicht!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vETEpMPo9j4

IRANIAN PROGRAM DEBATED AT M.I.T.
https://www.nytimes.com/1975/04/27/archives/iranian-program-debated-at-mit-training-of-atom-scientists-called.html?u…

IRANIAN PROGRAM DEBATED AT M.I.T.
Special Iranian Govt program to train nuclear engineers has stirred controversy on MIT campus; program, for which Iran is paying $1.4-billion, will place up to 54 masters degree candidates in MIT nuclear engineering dept; venture is only 1 of series of programs in which Iran is investing its oil wealth in setting up special arrangements with US universities, including Harvard and Columbia; MIT students argue that program will lead to proliferation of nuclear weapons and contend that Shah of Ira…

During “slow time”, if they happen to you, do you have a pet project that you keep working on? Would you share details about it?

Helt klart skönt sväng me go text
https://song.link/se/i/1812386334 Lastkaj 14 & ska n ska : Sverigedemokrat

Rising sea levels: adaptation has never been more urgent https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/may/25/the-guardian-view-on-rising-sea-levels-adaptation-has-never-been-m…

Statement by Dean Greg Sterling.
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Like many around the world, I am deeply saddened by the death of Pope Francis. I am grateful, too, for all he did to advance currents of Christianity that are too seldom seen today...
Read the rest https://www.facebook.com/share/p/15KhqHmUk

Yale Divinity School
Statement by Dean Greg Sterling. ------ Like many around the world, I am deeply saddened by the death of Pope Francis. I am grateful, too, for all he did to advance currents of Christianity that...

Donald is unhappy.
Now he knows how the rest of the world feels.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/202

Excellent, informative post by #SenatorChrisMurphy addressing why bombing Iran was perhaps not the best idea:
https://op…

8 Things You Should Know About Trump's Strikes on Iran
America’s addiction to military intervention in the Middle East is a stubborn habit to break for our nation, and it’s heartbreaking.

As some of you know, the first digital interactive fiction I created was a bot. That was in 2002.
I was just going through some old pages on my website and found an article I wrote for the (unfortunately no-longer online) site that Mark Marino, Jeremy Douglass and I ran in the early 2000s: Writer Response Theory.
Anyway, I found this piece I had copied for some reason and thought I would share it. It's on another historical angle people explored bots through. :)

(1/2) Here is the link to a webpage featuring the 32 InfoPics my 7th grade students created to advertise our local “World Refugee Day” on Saturday, June 21, 2025, as well as the overall, important work of Refugee Support Services (RSS) of Charlotte, North Carolina:
https://lessons.wesfryer.com/courses/c

Lessons by Dr. Wesley Fryer (wesfryer.com) - RSS
These are InfoPics 7th graders at Providence Day School in Charlotte, North Carolina, created in May 2025 to support and amplify the work of Refugee Support Services (RSS) of Charlotte, a local non-profit connected with our office of community engagement. Please use them to share about RSS, amplify

It's good that bigger mainstreamer people such as John Oliver are also talking about the "AI slop" era and phenomenon. I do think he was a bit too charitable though.
AI slop is not just bad visuals, it's the esthetic of modern fascism.
https://youtu.be/TWpg1RmzAbc?si=IJOnB4

Some of Vegas’ iconic casinos, convention centers and hotels
— and thousands of households across the city, too
— are using the sun to save money and better the planet’s odds at tackling climate change.
https://www.nytimes…

50 States, 50 Fixes
A series about local solutions, and the people behind them, to environmental problems.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #EssentialClassics
Antonín Dvořšk, Ilse Eerens, Michaela Selinger, Maximilian Schmitt, Florian Boesch, Collegium Vocale Gent, Antwerp Symphony Orchestra & Philippe Herreweghe:
🎵 Stabat Mater: I. Stabat Mater dolorosa
#AntonínDvořák
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I'm sharing a presentation I gave at my workspace last week: "LLMs, GenAI... should we?"
Just for fun, I converted what was an ODP presentation into Markdown that my Jekyll blog could display as a regular article, then materialized the slides as such, and finally I added a slideshow feature.
I'm thinking of making a presenter mode where one window would display the slideshow, while another would display the presenter's notes, as well as the previous & ne…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AfternoonShow
SAULT:
🎵 S.I.T.L.
#SAULT
https://saultglobal.bandcamp.com/track/s-i-t-l
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Subtooting since people in the original thread wanted it to be over, but selfishly tagging @… and @… whose opinions I value...
I think that saying "we are not a supply chain" is exactly what open-source maintainers should be doing right now in response to "open source supply chain security" threads.
I can't claim to be an expert and don't maintain any important FOSS stuff, but I do release almost all of my code under open licenses, and I do use many open source libraries, and I have felt the pain of needing to replace an unmaintained library.
There's a certain small-to-mid-scale class of program, including many open-source libraries, which can be built/maintained by a single person, and which to my mind best operate on a "snake growth" model: incremental changes/fixes, punctuated by periodic "skin-shedding" phases where make rewrites or version updates happen. These projects aren't immortal either: as the whole tech landscape around them changes, they become unnecessary and/or people lose interest, so they go unmaintained and eventually break. Each time one of their dependencies breaks (or has a skin-shedding moment) there's a higher probability that they break or shed too, as maintenance needs shoot up at these junctures. Unless you're a company trying to make money from a single long-lived app, it's actually okay that software churns like this, and if you're a company trying to make money, your priorities absolutely should not factor into any decisions people making FOSS software make: we're trying (and to a huge extent succeeding) to make a better world (and/or just have fun with our own hobbies share that fun with others) that leaves behind the corrosive & planet-destroying plague which is capitalism, and you're trying to personally enrich yourself by embracing that plague. The fact that capitalism is *evil* is not an incidental thing in this discussion.
To make an imperfect analogy, imagine that the peasants of some domain have set up a really-free-market, where they provide each other with free stuff to help each other survive, sometimes doing some barter perhaps but mostly just everyone bringing their surplus. Now imagine the lord of the domain, who is the source of these peasants' immiseration, goes to this market secretly & takes some berries, which he uses as one ingredient in delicious tarts that he then sells for profit. But then the berry-bringer stops showing up to the free market, or starts bringing a different kind of fruit, or even ends up bringing rotten berries by accident. And the lord complains "I have a supply chain problem!" Like, fuck off dude! Your problem is that you *didn't* want to build a supply chain and instead thought you would build your profit-focused business in other people's free stuff. If you were paying the berry-picker, you'd have a supply chain problem, but you weren't, so you really have an "I want more free stuff" problem when you can't be arsed to give away your own stuff for free.
There can be all sorts of problems in the really-free-market, like maybe not enough people bring socks, so the peasants who can't afford socks are going barefoot, and having foot problems, and the peasants put their heads together and see if they can convince someone to start bringing socks, and maybe they can't and things are a bit sad, but the really-free-market was never supposed to solve everyone's problems 100% when they're all still being squeezed dry by their taxes: until they are able to get free of the lord & start building a lovely anarchist society, the really-free-market is a best-effort kind of deal that aims to make things better, and sometimes will fall short. When it becomes the main way goods in society are distributed, and when the people who contribute aren't constantly drained by the feudal yoke, at that point the availability of particular goods is a real problem that needs to be solved, but at that point, it's also much easier to solve. And at *no* point does someone coming into the market to take stuff only to turn around and sell it deserve anything from the market or those contributing to it. They are not a supply chain. They're trying to help each other out, but even then they're doing so freely and without obligation. They might discuss amongst themselves how to better coordinate their mutual aid, but they're not going to end up forcing anyone to bring anything or even expecting that a certain person contribute a certain amount, since the whole point is that the thing is voluntary & free, and they've all got changing life circumstances that affect their contributions. Celebrate whatever shows up at the market, express your desire for things that would be useful, but don't impose a burden on anyone else to bring a specific thing, because otherwise it's fair for them to oppose such a burden on you, and now you two are doing your own barter thing that's outside the parameters of the really-free-market.

Want to read about one more guy talking about a #Framework 13? https://www-gem.codeberg.page/Framework13
Otherwise, let's interact together on other interesting topics …

Study: only 32 countries, mostly in the Northern Hemisphere, host AI data centers, with the US, China, and the EU controlling 50% of the world's top facilities (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com…

A.I. Computing Power Is Splitting the World Into Haves and Have-Nots
As countries race to power artificial intelligence, a yawning gap is opening around the world.

TIL that Mr. Oizo was/is Quentin Dupieux, director of Rubber and Smoking Causes Coughing. My tiny mind is blown.
1999 beats: https://youtu.be/qmsbP13xu6k

Airalogy: AI-empowered universal data digitization for research automation
Zijie Yang, Qiji Zhou, Fang Guo, Sijie Zhang, Yexun Xi, Jinglei Nie, Yudian Zhu, Liping Huang, Chou Wu, Yonghe Xia, Xiaoyu Ma, Yingming Pu, Panzhong Lu, Junshu Pan, Mingtao Chen, Tiannan Guo, Yanmei Dou, Hongyu Chen, Anping Zeng, Jiaxing Huang, Tian Xu, Yue Zhang
https://

Airalogy: AI-empowered universal data digitization for research automation
Research data are the foundation of Artificial Intelligence (AI)-driven science, yet current AI applications remain limited to a few fields with readily available, well-structured, digitized datasets. Achieving comprehensive AI empowerment across multiple disciplines is still out of reach. Present-day research data collection is often fragmented, lacking unified standards, inefficiently managed, and difficult to share. Creating a single platform for standardized data digitization needs to overc…

💯💯💯
"If a billionaire bought one of your local haunts, renamed it, humiliated the employees, brought back many of the people who’d been banned for harassing other regulars, eliminated basic rules of decency, started having town halls with Republicans and a leader of the #AfD, taking your business elsewhere would be perfectly rational."
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Trump dreigt met een kernoorlog. Hij is er krankzinnig genoeg voor.
https://youtu.be/irGboRoFvEQ?si=fLwdHZ0n_iOyef8W

Oh.
https://youtube.com/shorts/KYcIUzhYsQc

#Uber
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jun/25/second-study-finds-uber-us…

"When knowledge is threatened, don’t just mourn it. Build around it. Not with rage but with…resolve."
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/opinion/earth-day-nature-report-trump.h…

Can creativity and science-related work go together?
In this post I share four take-aways I had about creativity in relation to our work
​
​1: Innovation requires creativity.
​2: Creativity is in the little acts.
​3: Constraints can spark creativity.
​4: Experiment with saying “no” to rules.
http…

Creativity in our work ✨

https://youtube.com/watch?v=MIeMmri_CrQ&si=uo-A1ehbfwEEt6w1

Excited about the Highland Council by-election?
Tune in here:
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Erwachsen?
Spesso le persone
#alter

The Trump administration is pushing nations around the world, including ones at war, to take people expelled by the U.S. government who are not citizens of those countries.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/25/us/poli…

Inside the Global Deal-Making Behind Trump’s Mass Deportations
The administration is pushing nations around the world, including ones at war, to take people expelled by the U.S. government who are not citizens of those countries.

Greedy Gossiping
Kada Williams
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.17804 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.17804

Greedy Gossiping
The renowned Gossiping Problem (1971) asks the following. There are $n$ people who each know an item of gossip. In a telephone call, two people share all the gossip they know. How many calls are needed for all of them to be informed of all the gossip? If $n\ge 4$, the answer is $2n-4$. We initiate and solve the related Greedy Gossiping Problem: given a fixed number $m<2n-4$ of calls, at most how much gossip can be known altogether? If every call increases the total knowledge of gossip as much…

Do you have somewhere, by any rare chance, a Windows NT 4.0 kernel32.dll library that you can share? Or the MD5 hash.

diner
https://youtube.com/watch?v=_zztREfZ-WU

"Were the No Kings protests the largest single-day demonstration in American history?"
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/19/no-kings-how-many-protesters-attended?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

Another essential thread from @… ...
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/114733317506784669
pluralistic@mamot.fr - A major problem with letting billionaires decide how your country is run is that they will back whichever psycho promises the lowest taxes and least regulation, no matter how completely batshit and unfit that person is:
https://www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/nations-are-people
--
If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:
https://pluralistic.net/2025/06/23/billionaires-eh/#galen-weston-is-a-rat
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Pues tenemos el nuevo podcast en YouTube, con Doom TDA, Revenge of the Savage Planet y mšs juegos. Ya lo tenéis los que disfrutšis de escuchar hablar de juegos mientras veis esos mismos juegos. Espero que os mole, dejadme comentarios y RT si os gusta ;) https://youtu.be/oNAViUYEfUU

Shit. I am. How the hell did that happen?!?
https://youtu.be/O0E4kweWyhs?si=nSV_6tUWtQzW7NAe
(I was only 20 when this song first came out. It seemed like science fiction back then.)

Getting the travelbug after reading this:
"It turns out you’re never too old to go Interrailing around Europe | Phil Mongredien"
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/apr/22/interrailing-europe-sons-family…

Data marketplaces can increase the willingness to share social media data at low prices
Meysam Alizadeh, Fabrizio Gilardi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.16618 …

Data marketplaces can increase the willingness to share social media data at low prices
Living in the Post API age, researchers face unprecedented challenges in obtaining social media data, while users are concerned about how big tech companies use their data. Data donation offers a promising alternative, however, its scalability is limited by low participation and high dropout rates. Research suggests that data marketplaces could be a solution, but its realization remains challenging due to theoretical gaps in treating data as an asset. This paper examines whether data marketplac…

This is your regular reminder that open source, self-hosting tools are great AND you don't actually have to host them yourself most of the time! Plenty of great companies offer these tools as a paid-for service - exactly like the subscriptions you have on those other platforms, except more ethical.
I'll share my favourites in the thread - please add yours!

Former Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo and Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani have been locked in a tight contest.
By later tonight, voters are certain to know which candidate is in the lead,
but under the city’s ranked-choice voting system, a winner may not be clear until next week.

Mamdani Holds Lead Over Cuomo in Democratic Primary for NYC Mayor: Live Updates
Zohran Mamdani, a 33-year-old state assemblyman, built a significant advantage over former Gov. Andrew Cuomo thanks to a strong showing in Brooklyn and Manhattan. A winner might not be declared until ranked-choice ballots are tabulated next week.

French payments group Worldline's stock drops 20% after European journalism network EIC reports alleging that the company covered up customer fraud (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

When you want to evaluate a new framework do you have sort of a “petclinic” project that you are using as a foundation? If yes, could you share what the project does?

Sun Ra ~ Nuclear War (live)
https://youtube.com/watch?v=mtRepK513VY&si=jh6D6LVoE70Ht13-

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #EssentialClassics
Ludwig van Beethoven, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Charlotte Margiono, Rudolf Schasching, Birgit Remmert, Robert Holl, Arnold Schoenberg Chor & Erwin Ortner:
🎵 Symphony No 4 in B flat major, Op 60 (3rd mvt)
https://open.spotify.com/track/58SnQKnGnDvJAWi1bR47P1
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🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Kolter:
🎵 Electronic Dance Music
#Kolter
https://kolter.bandcamp.com/track/electronic-dance-music
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ByteDance's publishing imprint 8th Note Press began informing writers and agents in late May that it was closing and returning publication rights to authors (Alexandra Alter/New York Times)
https://www.

Buzzy Publisher Started by TikTok’s Owner Abruptly Shuts Down
8th Note Press informed writers and agents that it is abruptly shutting down and returning publication rights to authors.

For Trump, ‘Two Weeks’ Is the Magic Number.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/19/world/middleeast/trump-iran-two-weeks.html?unlocked_article_code=1.QU8.jnPu.iH1sgWhj-NWe&smid=url-share

‘Two Weeks’ Is Trump’s Favorite Unit of Time
“Two weeks” is one of President Trump’s favorite units of time. It can mean something, or nothing at all.

Trump's Risky Gamble on Attacking Iran (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/video/us/politics/100000010243288/trumps-risky-gamble-on-attacking-iran.html?smid=bs-share
http://www.memeorandum.com/250623/p2#a250623p2

Check out and share my latest post for #ResistAndHeal: “Reading is Important”
https://open.substack.com/pub/resistandhe…

Reading Is Important
It turns out reading is important, especially when you are the most powerful chief executive and government official on earth.

Great version of Gorillaz Feel good inc https://youtu.be/rk0NzRu6Wr0?feature=shared

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MorningShow
Ezra Furman:
🎵 Sudden Storm
#EzraFurman
https://ezrafurman.bandcamp.com/track/sudden-storm
https://open.spotify.com/track/7pV99QsiX93bdcS7VyVjf2
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Some wear balaclavas. Some wearneck gators, sunglasses and hats. Some wear masks and casual clothes.
Across the country, armed federal immigration officers have increasingly hidden their identities while carrying out immigration raids, arresting protesters and roughing upprominent Democratic critics.
It’s a trend that has sparked alarm among civil rights and law enforcement experts alike.
Mike German, a former FBIagent, said officers’ widespread use of masks was unprecedent…

Inside the Vera C. Rubin Observatory, whose 3.2-gigapixel camera will produce 60PB of space image data over 10 years, to be analyzed using ML and deep learning (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/20/science…

How Vera Rubin Telescope Scientists Will Deal With 60 Million Billion Bytes of Imagery
The Vera C. Rubin Observatory will make the study of stars and galaxies more like the big data-sorting exercises of contemporary genetics and particle physics.

Excellent, informative post by #SenatorChrisMurphy addressing why bombing Iran was perhaps not the best idea:
https://op…

8 Things You Should Know About Trump's Strikes on Iran
America’s addiction to military intervention in the Middle East is a stubborn habit to break for our nation, and it’s heartbreaking.

NYT over ICC-casus. Europese landen en politici komen aan de orde.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/20/technology/us-tech-europe-microsoft-trump-icc.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Q…

Europe’s Growing Fear: How Trump Might Use U.S. Tech Dominance Against It
To comply with a Trump executive order, Microsoft recently helped suspend the email account of an International Criminal Court prosecutor in the Netherlands who was investigating Israel for war crimes.

Trump's budget bill — the one and only major legislative effort of Trump 2.0 — is the most regressive, least populist policy package in living memory.
With its distinctive mix of tax cuts laser-focused on the rich and spending cuts that most hurt middle- and low-income Americans,
it would shift more resources up the income ladder than any bill passed since scorekeepers started keeping track.
And when voters learn what it would do — even Republican voters — they recoil…

Opinion | The Four Ugliest Points About the Big Beautiful Bill
It is wildly regressive. And when voters learn what it does — even Republican voters — they recoil against it.

U.S. Officials Assess Strikes on Iran's Nuclear Sites (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/iran-israel-us-latest-news?st=BWepAx&reflink=article_copyURL_share
http://www.memeorandum.com/250622/p64#a250622p64

Zohran Mamdani’s apparent victory late Tuesday night represented a sharp rebuke of the Democratic Party establishment
It represented, he said, the ascendance of a new Democratic coalition, one that prioritized the needs of the working class over those of the elite.
“We have won because New Yorkers have stood up for a city they can afford,” he said.
“A city where they can do more than just struggle. One where those who toil in the night can enjoy the fruits of their labor in…

In Joyful Speech, Mamdani Vows to Work for ‘Each and Every New Yorker’
A crowd in Queens celebrated the triumph of Zohran Mamdani, the presumptive winner of the Democratic primary for mayor of New York City.

The Florida field tomato — which the Trump administration wants us to eat more of by imposing a 21 percent tariff on most Mexican tomatoes starting July 14.
The tariff represents a double insult to consumers,
assaulting both our taste buds and our pocketbooks.
Trump has told us to make do with fewer (and more expensive) imported pencils and dolls for the greater good of bringing manufacturing back to America.
Fine. But tomatoes?
The last thing American consumers …

Opinion | How Has a Food This Bad Survived the American Market for So Long?
The last thing American consumers need is a revitalization of Florida’s withering tomato industry.

The Waste Musk Created (Nicholas Kristof/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/21/opinion/waste-musk-trump.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Qk8.MFa8.D83Zs5aWzLWg&smid=url-share
http://www.memeorandum.com/250621/p76#a250621p76

Not so long ago, members of high society were fixated on trying to low-key their way out of the perils of income inequality.
Minimalism and quiet luxury were in vogue.
But in the wake of President Trump’s second election, it’s the luxe life at full volume.
He gilded the White House, turning it into a Rococo Liberace lair.
Swaggy and braggy have replaced stealth wealth.
Flaunting it is in.
For women, that means sequins, diamonds, tight silhouettes and big h…

Opinion | Lauren Sánchez, Jeff Bezos and the Triumph of Tacky
In the wake of President Trump’s second election, it’s the luxe life at full volume.

A Qantas Airlines flight that left from Perth, Australia, on Monday night
returned to the same city the next morning after more than 15 consecutive hours in the air
— thanks to turmoil in the Middle East.
The flight, QF33, which was supposed to land in Paris,
was among a number of airplane journeys that were disrupted
after attacks in the region involving the United States, Israel and Iran prompted officials to temporarily close air space in the region.

15-Hour Qantas Flight Takes Passengers From Perth to Perth Amid Mideast Closures
Flights on Monday and Tuesday were delayed and diverted because of temporary air space closures in the region.

Live Updates:
‘We Have Won,’ Mamdani Says
as Cuomo Concedes N.Y.C. Mayoral Primary
Zohran Mamdani, a 33-year-old state assemblyman, galvanized voters with an energetic campaign focused on affordability.
Former Gov. Andrew Cuomo left the door open to running in the general election.
Zohran Mamdani,
a little-known state lawmaker whose progressive economic platform electrified younger voters,
surged into the lead in the Democratic primary for mayor of …

‘We Have Won,’ Mamdani Says, as Cuomo Concedes N.Y.C. Mayoral Primary
Zohran Mamdani, a 33-year-old state assemblyman, galvanized voters with an energetic campaign focused on affordability. Former Gov. Andrew Cuomo left the door open to running in the general election.

Trump reportedly in situation room amid Iran retaliatory attack on US military base in Qatar – US politics live
General Dan Caine and defense secretary Pete Hegseth are in the situation room with Trump right now monitoring Iran’s attack on US bases in Middle East, CNBC reports

'Golden Share' in U.S. Steel Gives Trump Extraordinary Control (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/15/business/economy/golden-share-us-steel-nippon-trump.html?unlocked_article_code=1.PE8.vRQH.XDJWjFCELJOv&smid=url-share
http://www.memeorandum.com/250615/p67#a250615p67

A new bill championed by President Trump calls for cutting $295 billion in federal spending over the next decade from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, better known as SNAP or food stamps, according to the Congressional Budget Office.
“What are we supposed to do?” Ms. Williams said. “I know he doesn’t need it, but the rest of us do

‘An Existential Threat’: Food Banks Brace for Fallout From Trump Cuts
New York City food banks aren’t sure how they will survive the administration’s funding cuts, which could also affect the programs they turn to for help.

Perversely, this most unconventional of presidents
who ruined the party brand
reverted to "Republican Original",
taking the kind of action that would meet approval from George W Bush, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, John Bolton and John McCain.
The America First wing, meanwhile, was mostly muted and subdued:
Trump’s cult of personality typically trumps differences over policy
– and that is not likely to change over a military operation that took plac…

Iran said it launched a military attack on an American base in Qatar -- the largest U.S. military installation in the Middle East, according to a statement by the country’s armed forces.
The base, which serves as the forward headquarters for the U.S. Central Command, was considered a prime potential target should Iran retaliate over American strikes on its nuclear installations over the weekend.

Iran Fires Missiles at U.S. Base in Qatar: Live Updates
The target was Al Udeid Air Base, the largest American military installation in the Middle East. Qatar said its air defenses intercepted the attack.

Trump’s “two weeks” statement was just one aspect of a broader effort at political and military misdirection that took place over eight chaotic days,
from the first Israeli strikes against Iran to the moment when a fleet of B-2 stealth bombers took off
Trump seemed almost gleeful in telling reporters that he could make a decision “one second before it’s due,
because things change, especially with war.”
All the while, Trump was making blustery statements indicating he…

How Trump Decided to Strike Iran
When Israel began its assault on Iran, President Trump kept his distance. But within days he was on a path that led to an extensive bombing mission aided by political and military ruses.

Trump on Monday began to confront the potential economic blowback from his military strikes on Iran,
which threatens to send oil and gas prices soaring at a moment when U.S. consumers are already facing significant financial strains.
The mere prospect of rising energy costs appeared to spook even Trump, who took to social media to push for more domestic drilling
-- while demanding that companies “KEEP OIL PRICES DOWN”; otherwise, they would be “PLAYING RIGHT INTO THE HANDS O…

White House Faces Risk of Economic Fallout From Iran Strike
President Trump, aware of how high gas prices could affect his popularity, demanded on social media that the U.S. “KEEP OIL PRICES DOWN.”

Nippon Steel’s $14.9bn acquisition of US Steel closed on Wednesday,
confirming an unusual degree of power for the Trump administration after the Japanese company’s 18-month struggle to close the purchase.
Under the deal terms, Nippon bought 100% of US Steel shares at $55 a share, as it first laid out in its December 2023 offer for the well-known and struggling steelmaker.
A press release on the filing also discloses details of a national security agreement inked with the Tr…