Tootfinder

I also made this at work!
#Communism #AnarchoCommunism #Socialism

It is not AI that is driving tech layoffs. It’s the massive change in R&D writeoff rules that kicked in for TY2022, from the 2017 Trump tax bill.
The ability to “expense” R&D costs was in place for decades and arguably drove US innovation by making it cheap. Now R&D is amortized over 5 years for US work, 15 years for non-US work. The current reconciliation bill would bring back expensing of domestic R&D costs.

Filipino workers in Taiwan's chip industry report struggling with overwork and discrimination, citing overnight shifts of up to 16 hours and abusive treatment (Rest of World)
https://restofworld.org/2025/filipino-workers-taiwan-chip-industry/

Workers describe abusive treatment in Taiwan’s semiconductor factories
A record number of people are leaving the Philippines to work in Taiwanese factories, where they face long shifts, low pay, and unequal treatment.

Reiko Nonoyama – Solo 3
#byncnd

Somehow despite the current situation I am still expected to go to work today.

😓 People who swap mundane jobs for meaningful careers still have it tough, study indicates
#work

People who swap mundane jobs for meaningful careers still have it tough, study indicates
A decade-long study of snowsport instructors has revealed what it means to seek a career that puts enjoyment and personal growth above profits and deadlines.

Two US representatives launch the bipartisan Congressional Creators Caucus to "bring the perspectives of online content creators into the public policy arena" (Amanda Silberling/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/06/crea

Creator Caucus launches in Congress with support from Patreon, YouTube | TechCrunch
The Congressional Creator Caucus will work to support the creator economy, which is estimated to be worth half-a-trillion dollars by 2027.

when a network card doesn't work, it's ethernet grrrrrmii

This, but one savory and one sweet. It would work #xkcd #xkcd3060 #cooking

Politically driven "focus on special features over ensuring affordable housing money is stretched as far as possible" is one part of this, and same thing happens in transit:
* Electric buses don't work as well as electric cars, yet we make bus riders pay for electrification with less service, and don't require drivers to use electric cars.
* Fancy stops for "BRT" buses that offer infrequent service.
Etc Etc

These publicly funded homes for the poor cost $1.2 million each to build
Costs to house the poor are approaching, and sometimes exceeding, $1 million per unit in cities across the country, including D.C., L.A., and Chicago.

Just finished "Statistically Speaking" by Debbie Johnson. It's coincidentally the second book dealing with adoption that I've just finished, though I suspect in both cases not #OwnVoices, which I also suspect matters somewhat. I was well-absorbed and enjoyed it immensely, but was left again with the reservation that I'm sure it may reflect only that small facet of real life which is pleasing and/or tolerable to a wide audience, and may thus in its own way make things more difficult for those whose realities it does not reflect. I find myself very glad to have also recently read Mama by Nikkya Hargrove, which is autobiographical and which as a result of having more real-world complexity drives its similar point about found family home with more force, to me (to be fair, Johnson's work has a decent amount of real life complexity, for a novel).
#AmReading

HUD is working on work requirements and time limits for help. These may be unlawful - HUD's put caps on benefits before
Should federal rental aid come with a time limit? Here's how it works in one place : NPR
https://www.npr.org/2025/06/07/nx-s1-5425500/federal-rental-aid-time-limit-hud-delaware-housing-authority

Von #work, die #Gewerkschaftszeitung @workzeitung@instagram.com
Die rechte Mehrheit im #Bundesrat betreibt eine Politik nach dem Motto: «

work, die Gewerkschaftszeitung on Instagram: "Die rechte Mehrheit im Bundesrat betreibt eine Politik nach dem Motto: «Ätschbätsch, Volkswille!» work-Autor Clemens Studer zeigt im Video, wie FDP und SVP skrupellos ihre Interessen durchdrücken. 😤 #bundesrat #svp #fdp #work #unia"
2,149 likes, 87 comments - workzeitung on March 24, 2025: "Die rechte Mehrheit im Bundesrat betreibt eine Politik nach dem Motto: «Ätschbätsch, Volkswille!» work-Autor Clemens Studer zeigt im Video, wie FDP und SVP skrupellos ihre Interessen durchdrücken. 😤 #bundesrat #svp #fdp #work #unia".

Does someone know how to change the port for an SSH based cache?
The `user@host:port` pattern doesn't work on my machine.
https://discourse.nixos.org/t/how-to-change-port-for-ssh-based-cache/63908

I find Peter Kropotkin to be an impressive anarchist whose work I enjoy, and I am currently reading The Conquest of Bread!
https://bookwyrm.social/user/midtsveen
@…

I've had a number of reasons to want to understand the standards (did you know that the industry work group creating the standards has vested interests in what is/ is not included, what the test method is, etc. So of course you can trust them without knowing the details, right?).
So this👇 is spot on:
https://

I've had a number of reasons to want to understand the standards (did you know that the industry work group creating the standards has vested interests in what is/ is not included, what the test method is, etc. So of course you can trust them without knowing the details, right?).
So this👇 is spot on:
https://

Oh, I see now how quote posting is going to be processed around here...
Not a bad system at all, although I do have my doubts it'll work well when the quoted posts are coming from networks where this kind of approval is tacitly given by default, such as Bluesky, like in this case.
#Mastodon #QuotePosting

Malísima – The Art of Slowly Being The Only One Left
https://www.clongclongmoo.org/2025/06/06/malisima-the-art-of-slowly-being-the-only-one-left/

so why don't we make @… vice-president of the european commission in charge of tech sovereignity, digital and internet things? https://berthub.eu/articles/po…

Another of my forays into AI ethics is just out! This time the focus is on the ethics (or lack thereof) of Reinforcement Learning Feedback (RLF) techniques aimed at increasing the 'alignment' of LLMs.
The paper is fruit of the joint work of a great team of collaborators, among whom @… and @…

Helpful, harmless, honest? Sociotechnical limits of AI alignment and safety through Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback - Ethics and Information Technology
This paper critically evaluates the attempts to align Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems, especially Large Language Models (LLMs), with human values and intentions through Reinforcement Learning from Feedback methods, involving either human feedback (RLHF) or AI feedback (RLAIF). Specifically, we show the shortcomings of the broadly pursued alignment goals of honesty, harmlessness, and helpfulness. Through a multidisciplinary sociotechnical critique, we examine both the theoretical underpinni…

The behind the scenes copyright work youtubers have to do is crazy. The ASMR scene for scene recreation of shrek has been a fight to keep up.
#youtube

Some thoughts from my self-reflection today. Maybe this helps someone.
I had to deal with a bunch of broken things today. Normally that greatly bothers me, but these were things I broke, and I broke them long ago. I have a lot of anger due to the circumstances around why I was never able to fix them. But that's not helpful. I could spend my hours in rage, or I could keep in mind that I can't undo the reasons for my anger. I can work towards fixing them, or documenting the…

How are you *being*? New interview at YaleNews with YDS professor and former Yale chaplain Frederick "Jerry" Streets about his work attending to clergy well-being.
https://news.yale.edu/2025/05/30/being-well-amid-uncertainty

On being well amid uncertainty
In a new book, former Yale chaplain Frederick Streets calls on clergy and congregations to work together to promote self-care and well-being.

Once again: #FuckEricAdams
Unbelievable how he's managed to avoid jailtime breaking federal/state laws while City Council allows him to continue to break _their_laws as well.

https://…

No to 15 mph e-bike speed limit, yes to real safety! - Transportation Alternatives
A ridiculous 15 mph speed limit for e-bikes won't work. Tell Mayor Adams and City Council: We need effective, data-driven policies that protect everyone, and accountability for the corporations fueling chaos on our streets — not the cyclists surviving it.

Woman in a construction company wants to wear a skirt over her work pants, which doesn't sound very safe.
Religion Clause: EEOC Sues Over Denial of Dress Code Religious Accommodation for Apostolic Christian Employee
http://religionclause.blogspot.com/2025/06/eeoc-sues-over-denial-of-dress-code.html

My morning so far:
- Essential system is not working, opened support ticket.
- Two hours later still no change.
- Called service desk: "Yes we assigned the ticket to the 2nd level"
- Checked ticket queue: "Priority 4: Low"
- Called service desk "Tell the 2nd level guys if they don't make this work before lunch we're coming over and confiscate every Switch 2 we find!"

#AmateurRadio Field Day is coming, and I am but a baby ham who wants to try to work #CW on field day, but would like a little practice first.
Morse Walker has an

Trying a Mango and Passionfruit Gunpowder Green Tea as a Coldbrew.
Unsure how well it will work, but have enjoyed all the others I've tried so far!
#GreenTea #Vegan

> The most distressing thing is that maybe it does work; if not well enough to actually do the work, at least ambiguously enough to fool the executives long-term.
-- @… via @…

phpc.social is now on Mastodon v4.3.7. A bit late (release was two days ago) due to work stuff intervening, but upgrade was quick and painless. #mastoadmin

Some creatives and academics are rejecting AI on environmental and ethical grounds, and describe the pressure they feel to use AI to "keep up" with others (Emine Saner/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/202

Aua. Der Text tut weh. Weil er in vielen Teilen wahr ist.
"we’ve moved all the controls away from the passionate technical folks that care about the long-term impact of their work, and handed them to greedy business folks who only care about short-term returns for their investors"
https://

One of the houses a few doors away has got a young person living there who seems to have bought himself a two-stroke motorbike with not much of an exhaust pipe.
And now that the weather's a bit warmer and I have the windows open when I work from home, I hear the BRRAAPPPP! BRRAPPPPPPPPPP!!! of him revving the bike every time he pops out down the shops or to see his mates or whatever.
I really can't complain as 30-odd years ago I was a youth with a similarly loud and obnoxious motorbike, but still. Where's that meme of Grandpa Simpson shaking his fists at the younglings?

Interesting idea. I would just like to be able to mine my BlueSky followings to see if they are bridgyfed so I can follow them on Mastodon which is my preferred experience rather than moving though.
https://werd.io/2025/bounce-lets-you-move-your-f…

Bounce lets you move your followers from Bluesky to Mastodon
https://www.theverge.com/news/678928/bounce-bluesky-mastodon-bridgy-fed-tool-followers [Cameron Faulkner at The Verge]Bounce is a game-changer for the open social web: "Bounce is built on the work of Bridgy Fed, which makes your

Palantir removed three journalists from a security conference after they asked about its work with ICE and threatened to call police on a Wired reporter (Caroline Haskins/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/palantir-defense-conference-journalists/

Palantir Is Going on Defense
Palantir threatened to call police on a WIRED reporter and kicked out other journalists from a recent conference following reports of the data analytics firm’s work with the Trump administration.

Some pre-work gardening this morning, lifting rocks and digging trenches to neaten up this border.
And now, off to my day job, where I'm going to lift virtual rocks and dig metaphorical trenches. Fun fun.

NEW BOOK>The Bhaiṣajyavastu of the Mūlasarvāstivāda Vinaya, BMSC V
https://ift.tt/lOhCERj
When did aliens become a problem? The Mediterranean Association for Marine Biology and Oceanology in…
via Input 4 RELCFP …

@…
Unfortunately, the iOS app no longer synchronizes. Browser and Linux app work.
What could be going on?

Over the last few months, I have filtered out most USA news, so I have basically a minimal knowledge of what is happening in that part of the world. To be honest, it's great! The same goes for tech, I work long 12-hour days and weekends as a sysadmin, and the last thing I want to see after those days is tech stuff. So, I read tech news through newsletters sent to an email address I only use for that purpose.
It’s making my life more relaxed not to care about what is happening on ot…

"We use cookies and similar technologies to support the #Guardian and personalise your experience in other ways. To do this we work with a cross section of 132 partners."
132!!!
So rather than paying them again (we still have the Guardian Weekly, against my better judgement), I accept and then use this Firefox/LibreWolf/Iceraven extension:

Cookie Remover – Get this Extension for 🦊 Firefox Android (en-GB)
Download Cookie Remover for Firefox. Removes cookies for the current site

Want super-thorough AI responses by applying deep thought & reasoning AI technology?
Any Microsoft 365 Copilot (Commercial) licensed user can now use the Researcher & Analyst agents at no additional cost! These new agents provide very thorough responses to help you collect FACTS on informational topics & review DATA to derive insights... with human language.
✅ #Researcher

Researcher and Analyst are now generally available | Microsoft 365 Blog
We’re excited to announce the general availability of Researcher and Analyst, two first-of-their-kind reasoning agents designed for work. Learn more.

I don't use linux solely because of privacy. The biggest reason is because I want an OS that works. I need something that doesn't hinder my work. #linux #arch #archlinux

No way - this was such a sweet surprise! @… sent me an unexpected gift: a framed version of the original work he did that ended up as the cover of my recent album on @… Records, ‘Regenesis’. :-)
Lovely things still happen.

Just a confirmation that Tesla boycotts work. New Republic reports that Musk lost a quarter of his fortune with the stock price drop. the current price is being artificially pumped up at all costs, but this can't last for another quarter as sales are plummeting.
https://newrepublic.com/post/19…

Elon Musk Lost Boatload of Money in Trump’s First 100 Days
Here’s one thing to celebrate from Trump’s first 100 days in office.

Maryland DOT launches new policy of quick-fix road diets with paint & plastic "bollards" after initial test projects work well. Approach is try it for 6-9 months and see if it works in place of long studies.
https://www.

Maryland plans more ‘quick build’ road safety changes, citing success across state
Planners have a menu of traffic calming measures to consider for each site.

The "says seeking work-life balance is a red flag that you're 'not committed to winning'."
But it al depends on which "game" is one interested in winning.
https://fortune.co…

LinkedIn’s cofounder Reid Hoffman says seeking work-life balance is a red flag that you’re ‘not committed to winning’
Reid Hoffman, the visionary behind LinkedIn, says he even expects employees at startups to constantly be working—with the exception of dinner time

Thanks to @… for finding this needle to getting the Charlie Rudder Pedals working! I've updated the blog as well to hopefully make it a bit easier to track down.
https://

»This is an awful language. Don't program in INTERCAL«
@… is talking about his work on bringing the original INTERCAL72 compiler from 1973 back to life again. Podcast recommendation, enjoy:

Advent of Computing
Welcome to Advent of Computing, the show that talks about the shocking, intriguing, and all too often relevant history of computing. A lot of little things we take for granted today have rich stories behind their creation, in each episode we will learn how older tech has lead to our modern world.

Immer wenn ich lese "Kein Backup, kein Mitleid." muss ich mit dem Kopf schütteln. Hier ist nicht nur das "ob" (also warum man Backups machen muss) etwas das IMMER WIEDER erklärt werden muss, Auch das "wie", gerade das "wie", omg ist das "wie" wichtig!
aber abgesehen davon, nur weil man Jahrzehnte in einem Bereich tätig ist, geht ein Thema nicht weg, denn es haben mit der Zeit eben nicht alle verstanden. Muss mich da auch an eigene Nase…

“‘It’s very difficult to not take corporate money … we’ve hired grant writers who have asked, “Well, how about Bank of America, how about Apple?” How about no,’ laughed Sullivan, who explained, ‘Even if a sponsor never asks you to edit any of your work, you are going to be censoring yourself, like, “If we say this, maybe they won’t give us money next year.”’”

The Ohio Senate has decided to remove the Rejoining of the Midwest Interstate Passenger Rail Commission and eliminate the Passenger Rail Seat on the Ohio Rail Development Commission.
This is a huge setback over 75% of Ohioans support passenger rail! #transit

Today’s Marie’s biscuit day! Eggs bacon tea coffee. I’ll have therapy then head off to work. #TogetherBreakfast https://photos.app.goo.gl/5MnC3Y4w5FnwS1Gz8

This chainsaw might be older than me. Today, it decided it just didn't want to work. Even a little starter fluid wouldn't do anything. No sputter, no start and stall, just nothing. I ended up using a little electric one with difficulty when this guy would have been done in seconds.

During work (no technical hanky panky)

Looks like #PyConUS dropped a new batch of videos in case you were planning on getting any work done: https://www.youtube.com/@PyConUS/videos

EVOKS (Editor for Vocabularies to Know Semantics) "allows you to:
- create a #SKOS vocabulary from scratch
- import SKOS vocabularies in RDF/XML or Turtle format
- edit SKOS vocabularies without using its textual representation
- work collaborativley
- publish the vocabulary with a single click in the vocabulary browser

Fun fact: #Windows 95 (and in some cases the later versions) had a very suboptimal implementation of idle state — they would run a busy loop, heating the CPU unnecessarily. Of course, you could work around this by installing a third-party program that would detect this state and use a more optimal HLT instruction instead.
So you could say that the purpose of such a program was to pretend that it's doing something, so that the system wouldn't fall into its own idle loop.
http://www.benchtest.com/cooler.html

So, meeting with all the IT bigwigs at work tomorrow.
What to wear, though? Jeans or orange dungarees??

Some creatives and academics are rejecting AI on environmental and ethical grounds, and describe the pressure they feel to use AI to "keep up" with others (Emine Saner/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/202

People keep yapping to me at work while I wear my earplugs (them not realizing I have earplugs in) so I got earmuffs instead so people can more easily see that I might not hear them well (also means I can leave my house keys in my locker at the office).
Also some different filters (a bit less dampening and less damping on the higher-ends) for my earplugs (that I mostly use for driving my car n stuff).

#today there has been tidying of some of the externals for the heat pump (but they were not entirely met with delight), I mowed our tiny lawns, and made a little progress on the #research modeling and at least have some mechanical (if slightly mind-bending) stuff to work through...

Ukraine's latest drone attack will be analysed for a long time, amazing achievement. As much spy work/intelligence as the smart use of drones.
https://kyivindependent.com/enemy-bombers-are-burning-en-masse-ukraines-sbu-…

'Enemy bombers are burning en masse' — Ukraine's SBU drones hit 'more than 40' Russian aircraft
"Currently, more than 40 aircraft are known to have been hit, including the A-50, Tu-95 and Tu-22 M3," a source told the Kyiv Independent.

AgentPorn.ai - Where Developers get their fix
https://agentporn.ai/

There’s exactly 1 narrow way that it’s true. Before widespread #WFH, attackers often had an insurmountable barrier: no way into the business network from the Internet. At the last gig (2008) where I had to visit a “workplace” regularly, inbound remote access was officially non-existent & outbound Internet access all went through restrictive web proxies.

Kevin Beaumont (@GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social)
Attached: 1 image This Daily Mail piece about security leaders thinking work-from-home means they will be crippled is horseshit, I'm not linking it. They've taken a survey about how security people think their businesses couldn't survive ransomware, and linked it to working from home. WFH isn't the problem: business IT and resilience being built on quicksand is the problem.

"Fresh off an ego-crushing defeat and a heightened appetite for mind-altering drugs, what workplace debauchery he gets into next is anyone's guess." --Futurism
'In the comments section, users praised Mr Musk for his dedication to his work. "Elon is a bit bizarre, but that's exactly why he's so successful. Boring people prefer to seek security and comfort," wrote one user.' --NDTV

Very good points, a reply to a CEO who wondered why his engineers were resistant to using LLMs for coding:

Interested in how "sovereign EU" AWS will work with Cloudfront and Trust Services (certificates) as these still currently require the use of us-east-1... and the subsequent agreement to submit to US courts for disputes.
https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/03/aws

AWS forms EU-based cloud unit as customers fret about Trump 2.0
: Locally run, Euro-controlled, ‘legally independent,' and ready by the end of 2025

In a few minutes LoftyAssist is about to have its 500th deployment to prod since November 11th of 2024. That averages out as 2 deployments per day. Obviously didn't push stuff to prod daily there, but some days I can just get cranking.
When I work on the systems, I want them to be instantly deployable. I know I have it easy because my systems are not mission critical, but there are real users behind them managing their money with it. So it is important not to fail, be buggy, etc.

On my way to Leipzig for the #Perl toolchain summit!
Hoping to work on a #CRA Steward concept for #CPAN and have productive discussions around

People in congress should not get paid unless they show up to work. It's simple logic. I've built a site where they can register their attendance here: #uspol

Turns out #synology 's home folders are set to chmod 777 by default!
https://blog.aaronlenoir.com/2018/05/06/ssh-into-synology-nas-with-ssh-key/

"Urban forests in Niger’s schoolyards serve climate resilience and education"
#Nigeria #Climate #ClimateChange

Urban forests in Niger’s schoolyards serve climate resilience and education
An unusual subject has found its way into the curriculum of schools in Niger: trees. As municipal authorities across the Sahel country work to adapt to extreme heat and other effects of climate change, the value of urban forestry has gained increased recognition. “This is really an opportunity to combat climate change and poverty at […]

I'll test it on Apples.
I use the Orion browser on Apple computers. EFF's attempting to tell advertisers to USE EXPLICIT METHODS to control ads, and our privacy.
The Orion browser has its own "advanced" blockers.
But because it has Firefox extensions, it should "work" in Orion (the free browser by search engine company Kagi). Also, on iPads and iPhones, extensions work in Orion, but not Safari.
Privacy is a Human Right.

That's a first for me: The health insurance tries to force folks into using their app, but their app won't work unless you have Google Chrome installed. 😂

Dr. Oz on Medicaid cuts: People should ‘prove that they matter’
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5334508-dr-oz-medicaid-cuts-work-requirements/

AMC signs a deal with Runway to use its tech to generate marketing images and pre-visualize unproduced shows, the first cable player to work with Runway (Steven Zeitchik/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business

AMC Networks Inks Deal With AI Company Runway (Exclusive)
The ‘Mad Men’ and 'The Walking Dead' platform is the latest Hollywood company to sign a pact with the generative AI firm.

If you work with Poles don't ask them how their weekend was. Especially Sunday.

NEW BOOK>The Bhaiṣajyavastu of the Mūlasarvāstivāda Vinaya, BMSC V https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20070106/new-bookthe-bhaisajyavastu-mulasarvastivada-vinaya-bmsc-v

Forgot to post yesterday’s sourdough blueberry pancakes! Eggs bacon tea coffee. Work and a bike ride, then we played mahjongg in the evening at our local watering hole. #TogetherBreakfast https://photos.app.goo.gl/R8kr3rQTSq8Mt5zh9

I think the most annoying thing is that I don't quite have the chops to figure out why the new pedals don't work. However, I did send an email to Honeycomb Aeronautics so we'll see where that goes. Until then it's time to rack my brain for another avenue to get these pedals to work under Linux/Steam/Proton.
#linux

😰 VR and AR simulations help users practice stress management in realistic scenarios
#vr

VR and AR simulations help users practice stress management in realistic scenarios
Everyday situations can sometimes feel like big stressors, whether it's delivering an important work presentation, attending a party full of strangers or confronting a partner. Talking to a friend or a therapist can help. But so can practice.

My department has just opened a call for a professor in Philosophy (area of philosophical expertise pretty much open).
The department is great, and Umeå is a lovely place to live and work in. Come join us!
https://www.umu.se/en/work-with-us/open-po

Professor of Philosophy

AMC signs a deal with Runway to use its AI tech to generate marketing images and pre-visualize unproduced shows, the first cable player to work with Runway (Steven Zeitchik/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business

AMC Networks Inks Deal With AI Company Runway (Exclusive)
The ‘Mad Men’ and 'The Walking Dead' platform is the latest Hollywood company to sign a pact with the generative AI firm.

SoftBank and Intel form Saimemory, a new company to develop stacked DRAM memory chips for AI that consume ~50% of the power of current HBM in the next two years (Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Tech/

SoftBank, Intel work on AI memory chips that use half as much power
Japanese tech investor sets sights on domestic data centers with $70m project

Malísima – Take Me In Your Arms And Cary Me Home
#ambient

On my way to Leipzig for the #Perl toolchain summit!
Hoping to work on a #CRA Steward concept for #CPAN and have productive discussions around

This channel is an unofficial mirror of Bernadette Banner’s YouTube content. It is not affiliated with or endorsed by Bernadette Banner and may be removed if she requests.
She is one of my favorite creators on YouTube, so I’ve synchronized and published her videos on PeerTube, while the rest is currently being transcoded and should be available by tomorrow!

Durry - idk i just work here (Official Music Video) #music

Went ahead and wrote up a quick post about Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024, Linux, HOTAS, and `udev` which explains how to get everything working and running under Linux.
https://blog.jamesthebard.net/posts/microsoft-flight-simulator/

FDA debuts agency-wide AI tool meant to help scientific reviewers and others streamline their work and, soon, to identify high-priority targets for inspections (Maya Goldman/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/06/02/fda-launches-ai-tool

FDA launches agency-wide AI tool
FDA said it's using the technology to review clinical protocols and speed up scientific evaluations.

Two cartoonists, Joe Dworetzky at Bay City News and Pulitzer-winner Mark Fiore, describe how generative AI tools can assist in, not replace, their work (Andrew Deck/Nieman Lab)
https://www.niemanlab.org/2025/06/i-dont-w

In "holy-crap-that-was-too-difficult", reworked the Jekyll build script to work using the `ruby:alpine` container. I just want the site to build without having to go through the hoops of installing `ruby` and getting `bundle` to do what I want it to. A nice Docker Compose file gets it done nice and quickly without fuss. Also I don't have random gems installed around my system.
#ruby

Broadcom begins shipping its Tomahawk 6 data center switch chips, which it says can perform the work of six previous-gen chips to improve GPU utilization rates (Dina Bass/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

"German lawyers who work with any of the nine U.S. law firms that made deals with the Trump administration could be in breach of the German legal professional code of conduct, the German Bar Association (DAV) has warned."
German Bar Association Warns That Working With Yellow-Bellied Firms Could Violate Professional Codes Of Conduct - Above the Law
https://abovethelaw.com/2025/06/german-bar-association-warns-that-working-with-yellow-bellied-firms-could-violate-professional-codes-of-conduct/

A profile of Kari Lake, a former TV anchor who won two regional Emmy Awards for her work in Cambodia and is now tasked with dismantling the USAGM (Scott Nover/Washington Post)

Kari Lake won awards for overseas reporting. Now she has the job of cutting it.
Kari Lake won TV news Emmys years ago for work she did in Cambodia, one of the countries affected by sweeping layoffs at Voice of America and Radio Free Asia.

Stalled on getting MSFS 2024 to run, but did clean off the desk a bit. Not the best case scenario, but figured a nice lazy Saturday just relaxing would work out well.
#desktop

Sources: UMG, Warner Music, and Sony Music are in talks to license their work to AI music services Udio and Suno and settle copyright infringement lawsuits (Lucas Shaw/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Sources: Palantir's Foundry is now deployed in at least four federal agencies, after Trump signed an EO calling for the government to share data across agencies (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/…

Trump Taps Palantir to Compile Data on Americans
The Trump administration has expanded Palantir’s work with the government, spreading the company’s technology — which could easily merge data on Americans — throughout agencies.