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Dr. Phil's Merit Street Media JV, launched in April 2024, files for Chapter 11 and sues business partner Trinity Broadcasting Network for breach of contract (Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/07/dr-phil-merit-street-media-jv-ban…

Dr. Phil’s Merit Street Media JV Files For Bankruptcy, Sues Partner Trinity Broadcasting For Breach Of Contract
Dr. Phil’s Fort Worth-based JV Merit Street Media filed for Chapter 11 and sued business partner Trinity Broadcasting for breach of contract that destroyed it new network pushed it into bankruptcy.

The Quiet Revolutionary of the Piano – Fauré’s Complete Piano Works Now on Piano Street https://www.pianostreet.com/blog/s…

The Quiet Revolutionary of the Piano – Fauré’s Complete Piano Works Now on Piano Street
PIANO NEWS: An article about The Quiet Revolutionary of the Piano – Fauré’s Complete Piano Works Now on Piano Street from the Piano Street Magazine.

It's still more than 3 months away - September 15, "Birmingham Sunday".
Under the white-nationalist/maga reign I am wondering whether this event will this year be remember or recapitulated.
https://www.fbi.gov/history/famous-cases/baptist…

Probably a good day 🥵 to remind of our CoolWalks study: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-97200-2
- Above all, stop burning fossil fuels
- Buildings (and trees) cast a lot of shade in cities. We systematically quantify the benefits for 🚶🚴
- Make sha…

CoolWalks for active mobility in urban street networks - Scientific Reports
Walking is the most sustainable form of urban mobility, but is compromised by uncomfortable or unhealthy sun exposure, which is an increasing problem due to global warming. Shade from buildings can provide cooling and protection for pedestrians, but the extent of this potential benefit is unknown. Here we explore the potential for shaded walking, using building footprints and street networks from both synthetic and real cities. We introduce a route choice model with a sun avoidance parameter $$…

Initiative offers relief to street vendors facing hardship amid immigration crackdowns – NBC Los Angeles
https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/street-vendors-immigration-relief-inland-empire/3737432/

montreal: Montreal street gangs (2007)
Network representing relationships between gangs, obtained from Montreal Police’s central intelligence database, spanning 2004 to 2007. Nodes are gangs, and an edge represents some kind of relationship between two gangs (as elicited from interviews with gang members).
This network has 35 nodes and 78 edges.
Tags: Social, Affiliation, Unweighted

Several demonstrators were set on fire in an “act of terror”
Sunday afternoon on the Pearl Street Mall in Boulder
during a gathering to raise awareness about people taken hostage during Hamas’ 2023 attack on Israel. 
A suspect has been arrested.
Officers responded to an area near 13th and Pearl streets at about 1:30 p.m.,
after receiving reports of people being set on fire.
Police said there are “reports of several victims.”
Redfearn said the victi…

Police investigating attack with “several victims” on Boulder’s Pearl Street Mall
Officers were called to an area near the intersection of 13th and Pearl streets about 2 p.m. Sunday, Boulder police department said.

Fiat 500 and people ;-)

Big thanks to the City of #Memphis and Lehman-Roberts for paving my street this week. Kinda fascinating to watch these #machines at work, but I bet the crews get tired of it all really quickly.
#infrastructure

MainStreet Bank reports vendor cyber incident that leaked customer info https://therecord.media/Main-street-cyber-incident-bank

Wall Street giants like Blackstone, KKR, and BlackRock are pouring hundreds of billions into AI data centers, creating concerns of "oversupply" and a bubble (Maureen Farrell/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/02/business/ai-da…

Are A.I. Data Centers a Sure Thing or the Next Real Estate Bubble?
Private equity firms like Blackstone are using their clients’ money to buy and build data centers to fuel the artificial intelligence boom.

FBI director calls incident at Boulder's Pearl Street Mall in Colorado a "targeted terror attack;" multiple injured (Christa Swanson/CBS News)
https://www.cbsnews.com/colorado/news/colorado-police-responding-to-boulder-pearl-street-mall-attack-multiple-injured/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250601/p69#a250601p69

Generation of Indoor Open Street Maps for Robot Navigation from CAD Files
Jiajie Zhang, Shenrui Wu, Xu Ma, S\"oren Schwertfeger
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.00552

Generation of Indoor Open Street Maps for Robot Navigation from CAD Files
The deployment of autonomous mobile robots is predicated on the availability of environmental maps, yet conventional generation via SLAM (Simultaneous Localization and Mapping) suffers from significant limitations in time, labor, and robustness, particularly in dynamic, large-scale indoor environments where map obsolescence can lead to critical localization failures. To address these challenges, this paper presents a complete and automated system for converting architectural Computer-Aided Desi…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.03498 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_ees…

Controllable Satellite-to-Street-View Synthesis with Precise Pose Alignment and Zero-Shot Environmental Control
Generating street-view images from satellite imagery is a challenging task, particularly in maintaining accurate pose alignment and incorporating diverse environmental conditions. While diffusion models have shown promise in generative tasks, their ability to maintain strict pose alignment throughout the diffusion process is limited. In this paper, we propose a novel Iterative Homography Adjustment (IHA) scheme applied during the denoising process, which effectively addresses pose misalignment …

US halts Ukraine-bound weapons already staged in Poland, WSJ reports: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/03/us-halts-ukrainebound-weapons-already.html

today's distracting mindblow: samuel delany & karen dalton shared bills at cafe elysee, plus fred neil, tim hardin, & other notables. (can't find any other details/documentation of the west village venue of that name.) https://archive.org/details/motionofli…

The motion of light in water : sex and science fiction writing in the East Village : Delany, Samuel R : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
572 p. ; 24 cm

In Wall Street-kringen gaat rond dat Trump een ‘chicken’ is. ‘Dat heet onderhandelen’, snauwt de president (wiens tere zieltje weer eens niet tegen kritiek opgewassen blijkt)
#TrumpChicken

The way we talk about housing in public discourse is so broken. How does kicking unhoused people out onto the street "deal with" homelessness in any sense other than a murderous one?
"Montreal's public transit agency is lifting a temporary rule against loitering in the Metro — a controversial measure established in mid-March to help deal with rising social problems in the network, including homelessness."

Baumschatten - bester Schatten
(repost of unavaliable #trees

Raining Symphony 🎷
雨奏鸣曲 🎷
📷 Pentax MX
🎞️Fomapan 400 Action
buy me ☕️ ?/请我喝杯☕️？
#filmphotography

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Da fährt eins nach Biskoupky (aktuelle Bevölkerung 185 nach cs-wikipedia) nur, um von dort aus die Jihlava hinauf zur Mohelenska hadcovš step zu wandern, und dann ist das erste Haus nach dem Ausstieg aus dem Bus gleich das Geburtshaus des Poetisten Vítězslav Nezval. Allerdings: Die Číslo popisné (40 laut OSM) ist darauf nicht angebracht, aber Nezval hat schließlich eines seiner berühmtesten (von Milča Mayerovš getanzten) Gedichte auch abeceda und nicht 1234 genannt.

Google Earth wird 20 und erlaubt den Blick auf historische Street-View-Aufnahmen
Zum 20. Jubiläum führt Google den Rückblick in vergangene Zeiten auch in Google Earth ein. So lässt sich die Historie aus anderen Blickwinkeln betrachten.

GeoChain: Multimodal Chain-of-Thought for Geographic Reasoning
Sahiti Yerramilli, Nilay Pande, Rynaa Grover, Jayant Sravan Tamarapalli
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.00785

GeoChain: Multimodal Chain-of-Thought for Geographic Reasoning
This paper introduces GeoChain, a large-scale benchmark for evaluating step-by-step geographic reasoning in multimodal large language models (MLLMs). Leveraging 1.46 million Mapillary street-level images, GeoChain pairs each image with a 21-step chain-of-thought (CoT) question sequence (over 30 million Q&A pairs). These sequences guide models from coarse attributes to fine-grained localization across four reasoning categories - visual, spatial, cultural, and precise geolocation - annotated by d…

Sources: Meta aims to help brands fully create and target ads using AI by the end of 2026, including images and budgetary goals, building on its current tools (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/meta-aims-to-f

Voor wie niet slapen kan..
Enjoy!
Pickup On South Street (1953) Richard Widmark, Jean Peters - #FilmNoir : #InternetArchive
…

First things first when moving in: fixing the wrong street name on #openstreetmap 😅😁

i'm sorry jane street did _what_ https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-06-25/jane-street-s-rob-granieri-says-he-was-duped-into-funding-south-sudan-coup-plot
(paywall free:

Trump's Lawfare Against the Free Press (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/donald-trump-lawfare-media-kristi-noem-cnn-iceblock-cbs-paramount-2ce75c5e
http://www.memeorandum.com/250702/p134#a250702p134

Source: President Trump's team expects Paramount to make an eight-figure "allocation" for ads, PSAs, and other broadcasts that support conservative causes (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/media/trump-paramount-cbs-…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #LaurenLaverne
BADBADNOTGOOD:
🎵 Found A Light (Beale Street) (feat. V.C.R)
#BADBADNOTGOOD
https://badbadnotgoodofficial.bandcamp.com/track/found-a-light-beale-street
https://open.spotify.com/track/09Btkoj4YIm36KVJqomiCE

Face the future
#StreetArt #face #photography

😠
Arrests in France after scores report being attacked with syringes at street music festival | France | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/23/france-syringe-attacks-street-music-festival-fet…

Could have fooled me bei der Menge an Clowns, die dort rumlaufen... 🤡
"#Merz über Regenbogenflagge: »Der Bundestag ist kein Zirkuszelt«"

Aktion zum Christopher Street Day: Merz über Regenbogenflagge: »Der Bundestag ist kein Zirkuszelt«
Zum Berliner CSD wird in diesem Jahr keine Regenbogenflagge auf dem Bundestag wehen. Bundestagspräsidentin Klöckner hat dem Zeichen für Vielfalt eine Absage erteilt. Der Kanzler stärkt seiner Parteifreundin den Rücken.

Ford CEO Jim Farley, Andy Jassy, and other CEOs are now predicting AI will significantly cut white collar jobs, a shift from a reluctance to acknowledge losses (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-white-collar-job-loss-b9856259?st=N6Z5iv

Percheron Driven Cart Sponsored by Wegmans Supermarket in Ithaca Festival Parade
#photo #photography #ithaca

In The Economist:

I didn't notice this in person but that's pretty funny https://www.sfgate.com/local/article/sf-street-signs-vandalized-allude-sex-work-20335773.php

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #DriveTime
BADBADNOTGOOD & V.C.R:
🎵 Found a Light (Beale Street)
#BADBADNOTGOOD #VCR
https://badbadnotgoodofficial.bandcamp.com/track/found-a-light-beale-street
https://open.spotify.com/track/09Btkoj4YIm36KVJqomiCE
🎶 show playlist 👇
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2KW4FxNKVGpVTgIJYolnNY
🎶 KEXP playlist 👇
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6VNALrOa3gWbk794YuIrwg

Bozo is the Brotherhood of Zips and Others. Bozos are people who band
together for fun and profit. They have no jobs. Anybody who goes on a
tour is a Bozo. Why does a Bozo cross the street? Because there's a Bozo
on the other side. It comes from the phrase vos otros, meaning others.
They're the huge, fat, middle waist. The archetype is an Irish drunk
clown with red hair and nose, and pale skin. Fields, William Bendix.
Everybody tends to drift towar…

Elon Musk Calls Trump Megabill a 'Disgusting Abomination' (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/elon-musk-trump-republican-tax-spending-bill-b4dd9a3b?st=nGhfyn
http://www.memeorandum.com/250603/p99#a250603p99

Sources: Meta aims to help brands fully create and target ads using AI by the end of 2026, including images and budgetary goals, building on its current tools (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/meta-aims-to-f

montreal: Montreal street gangs (2007)
Network representing relationships between gangs, obtained from Montreal Police’s central intelligence database, spanning 2004 to 2007. Nodes are gangs, and an edge represents some kind of relationship between two gangs (as elicited from interviews with gang members).
This network has 35 nodes and 78 edges.
Tags: Social, Affiliation, Unweighted

A LoD of Gaussians: Unified Training and Rendering for Ultra-Large Scale Reconstruction with External Memory
Felix Windisch, Lukas Radl, Thomas K\"ohler, Michael Steiner, Dieter Schmalstieg, Markus Steinberger
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01110

A LoD of Gaussians: Unified Training and Rendering for Ultra-Large Scale Reconstruction with External Memory
Gaussian Splatting has emerged as a high-performance technique for novel view synthesis, enabling real-time rendering and high-quality reconstruction of small scenes. However, scaling to larger environments has so far relied on partitioning the scene into chunks -- a strategy that introduces artifacts at chunk boundaries, complicates training across varying scales, and is poorly suited to unstructured scenarios such as city-scale flyovers combined with street-level views. Moreover, rendering re…

How Morgan Stanley is using its DevGen.AI tool, built in-house on OpenAI's GPT models, to translate legacy code into modern coding languages (Isabelle Bousquette/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/article…

GenAI-free WorldCon alternative!
Mia Tsai: on Bluesky: "ConCurrent Seattle, a one-day SFFH con intended to be an alternative program to WorldCon"
Thursday, August 14, 2025
ACT Theatre, downtown #Seattle
> My vision for ConCurrent was simple
> one day of excellent programming; have it be free to attend; run it efficiently; and never use genAI/L…

Mia Tsai (@itsamia.bsky.social)
There’s no way to ease into this news, so here it is. Today, I am announcing ConCurrent Seattle, a one-day SFFH con intended to be an alternative program to WorldCon, scheduled for Thursday, August 14, 2025, at the ACT Theatre in downtown Seattle at 700 Union Street, across from the Sheraton. 1/7

CityLens: Benchmarking Large Language-Vision Models for Urban Socioeconomic Sensing
Tianhui Liu, Jie Feng, Hetian Pang, Xin Zhang, Tianjian Ouyang, Zhiyuan Zhang, Yong Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.00530

CityLens: Benchmarking Large Language-Vision Models for Urban Socioeconomic Sensing
Understanding urban socioeconomic conditions through visual data is a challenging yet essential task for sustainable urban development and policy planning. In this work, we introduce $\textbf{CityLens}$, a comprehensive benchmark designed to evaluate the capabilities of large language-vision models (LLVMs) in predicting socioeconomic indicators from satellite and street view imagery. We construct a multi-modal dataset covering a total of 17 globally distributed cities, spanning 6 key domains: e…

I remember thinking somewhere around the mid seventies that Springsteen and the E Street Band, was like a version of Phil Lynott and Thin Lizzy.
But Phil Lynott did it with a lot less verses.
And this was from this side of the Atlantic, it took a long while to appreciate Springsteen more, perhaps 30 years longer.
Maybe because I kept Van Morrison (another Irishman), so close from the early 70's.
And then again watching this 75 gig on BBC 2 I'm mostly thinkin…

George Floyd Square May 2025 vs June 2020 #Minneapolis #Minnesota #GeorgeFloyd

Power is out in a big part of downtown Toronto. Yonge Street Bay Street around college.
What’s magical is that pedestrians are taking over all intersections since the street light stopped working
#toronto

Calamus 19 Mind you the timid models of the rest, the majority?
A declaration of intellectual independence and a celebration of brotherly love. Honestly this poem feels a little clumsy to me, I can see why Whitman struck the awkward introducing lines in later editions.
As always, looking for the gay content:
Yet comes one, a Manhattanese, and ever at parting, kisses me lightly on the lips with robust love.
And I, in the public room, or on the crossing of the street, or on the ship's deck, kiss him in return
We observe that salute of American comrades
But I can't in all honestly read this use of "kissing" as erotic. Here the public kissing and the "salute of comrades" makes me think it's more of a fraternal kiss.
Which doesn't exclude a romantic kiss as well, or an erotic one. What's so vital about Calamus is how Whitman blends masculine sexual love with the love of comrades. I think both meanings are latent in every poem.

"the operations at the two new Laguna Street sites will be contracted out which means they will no longer be eligible to work with their clients."
Somehow, I get the feeling that the great minds behind this project fail to understand the importance of community and trust.

S.F. plans to move mentally ill adults draws protest
If the city has its way, all 83 residents will be moved to two facilities on Laguna Street in Hayes Valley.

"the operations at the two new Laguna Street sites will be contracted out which means they will no longer be eligible to work with their clients."
Somehow, I get the feeling that the great minds behind this project fail to understand the importance of community and trust.

S.F. plans to move mentally ill adults draws protest
If the city has its way, all 83 residents will be moved to two facilities on Laguna Street in Hayes Valley.

Lurie is cutting transit service and replacing it with Waymo. letting rich people clog up the street with robotaxis that stall all the time while regular people in buses get stuck behind is terrible policy and undoes the whole point of car-free Market. absolutely catastrophic
https://www.

Apples Vision Pro: US-Zeitung sammelt Stimmen enttäuschter User
Bald ist die Vision Pro anderthalb Jahre auf dem Markt – und der Formfaktor sorgt noch immer für Kopf- und Nackenschmerzen, schreibt das Wall Street Journal.

The Justice Department and the American Civil Liberties Union squared off
in front of a federal appeals court on Monday to debate for the first time whether Trump could use
an 18th-century wartime law to deport immigrants he has accused of belonging to a violent Venezuelan street gang.
The debate took place during an hourlong hearing before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in New Orleans.
While several lower courts have considered Trump’s use of the sta…

Appeals Court Weighs Trump’s Use of Alien Enemies Act for Deportations
The case is likely to be the first to reach the Supreme Court on the substantive issue of the president’s invocation of a rarely used wartime law.

Ripple has applied for a national banking license, which would place Ripple's dollar-backed stablecoin, RLUSD, under the US OCC's regulatory remit (Vicky Ge Huang/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/finance/regulation/rip

For Democrats, Mamdani Is a Wake-Up Call--and a Bad Example (Tom Suozzi/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/for-democrats-mamdani-is-a-wake-up-call-and-a-bad-example-7e43189c?st=KqkjDk
http://www.memeorandum.com/250702/p146#a250702p146

Sources: Netflix has held talks with Spotify about partnering on projects such as a music awards show, as it adds content that was core to the cable bundle (Jessica Toonkel/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/media/netflix…

Apple says it is appealing the EU's iOS interoperability order under the DMA that creates "a process that is unreasonable, costly, and stifles innovation" (Edith Hancock/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.

Fetterman Defends Job Performance as Health Concerns Persist (Molly Ball/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/politics/fetterman-defends-job-performance-as-health-concerns-persist-35927454
http://www.memeorandum.com/250602/p108#a250602p108

Raining Aria 🎶
雨咏叹调 🎶
📷 Pentax MX
🎞️Fomapan 400 Action
buy me ☕️ ?/请我喝杯☕️？
#filmphotography

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Snowflake agrees to acquire Crunchy Data, a cloud-based database service that helps businesses and government agencies use PostgreSQL, a source says for ~$250M (Belle Lin/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/articles/snowflake-to-buy-crunchy…

40 years ago tonight, the #GratefulDead in #maryland, opening 2 nights at merriweather post pavilion. some gate crashing & lots of MDMA around, which becomes illegal at midnight. early summer ’85, show #10.
soundboard:

Trump learned about the timing of Musk’s departure in the same manner that the president himself has often used to share significant personnel news:
via a social-media post
"The president knew that Musk would be leaving soon, but not the exact timing until the post was sent"

'I don't like being surprised': Trump reportedly blindsided by Elon Musk comment
Donald Trump and Elon Musk have a "complicated" relationship characterized by at least one recent instance of lack of communication, according to a new report.The conservative Wall Street Journal late Friday evening published a report entitled "Inside Trump and Musk’s Complicated Relationship" in wh...

Some of Trump's Biggest Inaugural Donors Benefit From Early Government Actions (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/trump-inauguration-donors-benefit-2ff3121f
http://www.memeorandum.com/250603/p145#a250603p145

Thoma Bravo raised $34.4B across three funds, including $24.3B for its main software company buyout fund and $8.1B for its midsize software-focused fund (Miriam Gottfried/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.

I see that July 4 is being suggested as the next date for us to have massive, nation-wide anti-maga, anti-FFOTUS, ... demonstrations.
Might I suggest that after July 4 that we also pick September 15 (a Monday) - also known as Birmingham Sunday.
https://www.fbi.gov/history/famous-cas…

Netic, which sells an AI platform that helps home services firms automate client outreach and handle calls, raised $20M from Greylock, Founders Fund, and others (Belle Lin/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.

The Quiet Revolutionary of the Piano – Fauré’s Complete Piano Works Now on Piano Street
#piano #repertoire

The Quiet Revolutionary of the Piano – Fauré’s Complete Piano Works Now on Piano Street
PIANO NEWS: An article about The Quiet Revolutionary of the Piano – Fauré’s Complete Piano Works Now on Piano Street from the Piano Street Magazine.

Biden, in Rare Remarks Since Presidency, Warns His Accomplishments Are Coming Undone (Lindsay Ellis/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/biden-in-rare-remarks-since-presidency-warns-his-accomplishments-are-coming-undone-18c58c50
http://www.memeorandum.com/250702/p135#a250702p135

montreal: Montreal street gangs (2007)
Network representing relationships between gangs, obtained from Montreal Police’s central intelligence database, spanning 2004 to 2007. Nodes are gangs, and an edge represents some kind of relationship between two gangs (as elicited from interviews with gang members).
This network has 35 nodes and 78 edges.
Tags: Social, Affiliation, Unweighted

Sources: Netflix has held talks with Spotify about partnering on projects such as a music awards show, as it adds content that was core to the cable bundle (Jessica Toonkel/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/media/netflix…

Wall Street warns Trump aides the GOP tax bill could jolt bond markets (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/05/31/wall-street-warns-trump-tax-bill/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250531/p5#a250531p5

Sources: Meta offers to buy ~49% of Nat Friedman and Daniel Gross's VC fund NFDG; about half of NFDG's first fund of ~$1.1B, raised in 2023, has been invested (Yuliya Chernova/Wall Street Journal)
https:/…

Raining Sessions ☔️
雨 ☔️
📷 Pentax# MX
🎞️Fomapan 400 Action
buy me ☕️ ?/请我喝杯☕️？
#filmphotography

Tel Aviv-based Wonderful, which develops customer support AI agents for businesses in non-English speaking countries, raised a $34M seed led by Index Ventures (Yuliya Chernova/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/articles/wonderfu…

AMC Entertainment reaches an agreement with creditors to reduce debt, including raising ~$223.3M and converting $143M of debt into equity; AMC falls ~6% (Connor Hart/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/bus…

Ah, a new meaning for Taco Tuesday and Taco Ding Dong...
"Trump’s not happy about Wall Street’s name for tariff flip-flops "
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/05/28/trump-wall-street-acronym-tariffs-00372814

The Case for Zohranomics
As some Wall Street billionaires melt down over Zohran Mamdani’s policy platform,
a prominent progressive economist argues that it meets the moment.
https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-financial-page/the-case-for-zohra…

The Case for Zohranomics
John Cassidy writes about a prominent progressive economist who argues that Zohran Mamdani’s policy platform, and its focus on affordability, meets the moment.

Indivisible And Partners Announce
'NO KINGS' Nationwide
DAY OF DEFIANCE!
Saturday, June 14th
STAND TOGETHER !!
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No Kings
On June 14—Flag Day—Donald Trump wants tanks in the street and a made-for-TV display of dominance for his birthday. A spectacle meant to look like strength. But real power isn’t staged in Washington. It rises up everywhere else.

Google rolls out historical Street View imagery on Google Earth as the service turns 20, and says pro US users can access AI insights, like tree canopy coverage (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/24/google-brings…

Google brings historical Street View imagery to Google Earth | TechCrunch
Google announced on Tuesday that you can now access historical Street View imagery on Google Earth.

Can Trump Force Harvard to Improve? (Ben Sasse/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/can-trump-force-harvard-to-improve-writes-ben-sasse-reform-universities-ba1101c2?st=EnwpEg&reflink=mobilewebshare_permalink
http://www.memeorandum.com/250601/p55#a250601p55

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

Chinese AI models from DeepSeek and others are becoming more popular worldwide; Sensor Tower: ChatGPT has 910M global downloads compared with DeepSeek's 125M (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/artificial-int

NYC-based Empathy, which runs an online platform providing on-demand tools and guidance for bereaving families, raised a $72M Series C led by Adams Street (Allie Garfinkle/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2025/05/29/exclusi

Exclusive: Empathy raises $72 million Series C to tackle the agonizing logistics of death
Founded in 2020, Empathy has raised a $72 million Series C, with Adams Street Partners leading the round, Fortune has exclusively learned.

One hundred years ago today, downtown Santa Barbara was devastated by an earthquake centered just offshore.
The main commercial district, State Street, was in ruins. Some buildings completely collapsed
— the vulnerability in their designs laid bare by the power of Mother Nature. Around a dozen people died.
Yet, despite the destruction, the great Santa Barbara earthquake remains relatively obscure, seismically speaking,
even in a state notorious for its shaking.

Quake devastated Santa Barbara 100 years ago. What can it teach us?
In California, where the next “Big One” is an always-looming threat, some lessons learned from the 1925 Santa Barbara quake resonate even 100 years later, experts say.

Mamdani's Shock Win Has Wall Street Fretting Over 'Hot Commie Summer' (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-06-25/wall-street-decries-hot-commie-summer-after-mamdani-surprise
http://www.memeorandum.com/250625/p110#a250625p110

Republicans Go Wobbly on Work (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/republicans-go-wobbly-on-work-fff6703b
http://www.memeorandum.com/250630/p8#a250630p8

Trump Says Steel and Aluminum Tariffs Will Double to 50% (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/economy/trade/trump-is-praising-his-u-s-steel-deal-no-one-is-sure-what-it-means-a6cb15b5?st=B6YvLc
http://www.memeorandum.com/250531/p35#a250531p35

Apple will delay rolling out some iOS 26 features in the EU later this year, including "visited places", citing the difficulty of complying with the DMA (Edith Hancock/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/apple-to-delay-so

Want Soviet Bread Lines? Vote for Zohran Mamdani (John Catsimatidis/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/want-soviet-bread-lines-vote-for-zohran-mamdani-3f4a1434?st=eVq72U
http://www.memeorandum.com/250630/p105#a250630p105

Amazon says it has deployed over 1M robots in its warehouses, its most ever and close to its human workforce, with 75% of global deliveries aided by robotics (Sebastian Herrera/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/amazon-warehouse-

The U.S. Plan to Hobble China Tech Isn't Working (Christopher Mims/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/the-u-s-plan-to-hobble-china-tech-isnt-working-56d1a512?st=MQpryL&reflink=article_copyURL_share
http://www.memeorandum.com/250531/p16#a250531p16

Trump Championed Rulings That Are Now Being Used to Check His Power (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/trump-courts-judges-conservative-law-b3fd979b
http://www.memeorandum.com/250531/p8#a250531p8

Iran Builds Up Near Weapons-Grade Uranium Stockpile Despite Nuclear Talks (Laurence Norman/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/iran-builds-up-near-weapons-grade-uranium-stockpile-despite-nuclear-talks-2f371dae?st=kYET6n&reflink=article_copyURL_share
http://www.memeorandum.com/250531/p27#a250531p27

Violent Settlers Turn on Israeli Military After Attacking Palestinians in West Bank (Dov Lieber/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/west-bank-settlers-turn-on-israeli-military-after-attacking-palestinians-dfd1bd19?st=gbqsHE&reflink=article_copyURL_share
http://www.memeorandum.com/250630/p107#a250630p107

Trump Administration Weighs Eliminating Funds for Hospitals Offering Gender Care to Minors (Liz Essley Whyte/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/health/healthcare/gender-surgery-childrens-hospitals-trump-282c4cbb
http://www.memeorandum.com/250630/p98#a250630p98

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

US v. Google: during closing arguments, a judge queried both sides on ideas to limit Google's monopoly in search and said he expects to issue a ruling in August (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/google-search-ai-antitrust-trial-57ec6fd…

Sources: Menlo Ventures targets ~$1.5B for new funds to invest in AI ventures, including $650M for early-stage startups, and $850M for later-stage companies (Yuliya Chernova/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/articles/menlo-venture