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Moved a child out of her Boston/Brookline border apt yesterday-today, biked some stuff home last night after work, then drove over to pick up all the stuff that would not benefit from being rattled around on our lovely roads, then returned on bike to get all the large lumpy stuff that would be harder to fit into a Honda Civic.
Moved her to Boston like this two years ago (no e-assist), then moved from Boston to Brookline a year ago (with e-assist), now this year (again with e-assist).…

AWS says Mechanical Turk will no longer accept new customers and that it is placing the crowdsourcing service in maintenance, signaling its future retirement (Simon Sharwood/The Register)
https://www.theregister.com/off-prem/2026/

Amazon’s Mechanical Turk to stop accepting new customers – and not even AI can save it
Workers who use OG crowdsourcing platform say AWS is closing accounts

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#RoundMidnight
- New from Norma Winston and Steve Gray with the NDR Radio Orchestra
Soweto presents an hour of exciting new releases and jazz classics, and saxophonist Alex Hitchcock returns to share his second Flowers pick of the week.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002y6ht

Legal-safe temperature hot take:
McCafé (Australia) has a broad, reliable network that supplies strong-yet-pleasant standard coffees (black, cappuccino, latte, etc) — I’ve been calling it a “baseline standard” for years, but if I’m being honest it’s more than okay. Anywhere else, I’d be raving about the barista and going out of my way to return.
They’re so strong, I stop at one “small” a day.
(This is everything Starbucks pretends to be, and wishes to be).

Tardigrade hunting is the first small step in a gargantuan, wildly ambitious scientific undertaking:
to sequence the genomes of all life on Earth.
Accompanied by Prof Mark Blaxter,
who leads the institute’s Tree of Life program,
Morek, a postdoctoral researcher and tardigrade expert,
goes on to collect lichen from a walnut tree on the lush campus, before returning to the lab with his samples.

Hunting the tardigrade: one small step in sequencing DNA of all life on Earth
As this year’s invertebrate of the year competition launches, we join scientists studying last year’s winner

Festering pustule Buddy Carter wants to void the vote I cast THIS MORNING in the Georgia primary.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/campaigns/4555486/kemp-carter-georgia-redistricting-pressure/

#“I think a lot of people picked up smoking cigarettes as a way to weirdly try to stop vaping,” says Levi" - And I thought vaping was supposed to stop smoking. After all, isn't that what the vape manufacturers told us?
It kills two-thirds of lifetime users – so why is smoking cool again?

It kills two-thirds of lifetime users – so why is smoking cool again?
Australian nicotine consumption is on the rise, the illegal tobacco trade is booming and cigarettes have returned to pop culture – and experts are worried

#“I think a lot of people picked up smoking cigarettes as a way to weirdly try to stop vaping,” says Levi" - And I thought vaping was supposed to stop smoking. After all, isn't that what the vape manufacturers told us?
It kills two-thirds of lifetime users – so why is smoking cool again?

It kills two-thirds of lifetime users – so why is smoking cool again?
Australian nicotine consumption is on the rise, the illegal tobacco trade is booming and cigarettes have returned to pop culture – and experts are worried

Will existing staff be retrained?
ICE to Restore Full Training Standards July 1 | Associated Press
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/markwayne-mullin-ice-training-immigration-enforcement/2026/06/03/id/1258489/

Internet pioneer Vint Cerf, who has served as Google's VP and Chief Internet Evangelist since 2005, plans to step down from his role next week and retire (Tim Fernholz/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/30/the-father-of-the-internet-is-finally-re…

The "Father of the Internet" is finally retiring | TechCrunch
Vinton Cerf, one of the creators of the protocols underlying the internet, will step down as Google's chief internet evangelist next week.