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On vacation in Australia and out on a road trip to the Blue Mountains. Sadly the weather gods did not cooperate and it's been raining and foggy the whole day. So just hibernating in our Airbnb and hoping that tomorrow's weather forecast of cloudy but dry does hold.

President Lai Ching-te of Taiwan had planned to make brief stops in New York and Dallas next month, en route to and from Latin America,
hoping to demonstrate the island’s strong ties with the United States in defiance of China.
But the Trump administration,
which is focused on talks with Beijing over trade and a possible summit,
told Mr. Lai to cancel his proposed stopover in New York,
Mr. Lai canceled his whole trip.
The hints of tension between Taipei and …

Trump Administration Told Taiwan’s President to Avoid U.S. Stopover
The Taiwanese leader canceled U.S. transit visits after being urged to change his plans, two officials said. Washington has been in talks with Beijing over trade and a possible summit.

The only way Microsoft should be involved in a European Sovereign Tech Fund is if we fund it by taxing the living shit out of them.
But having them organise and influence it (and who gets funded by it), thereby de facto giving Microsoft EU taxpayer subsidies? Get the fuck out of here.
There are no words to describe how angry this attempt at corporate capture gets me when we’ve been working on sovereign tech in the EU for the past seven years with zero EU funding (not for lack of …

We need a European Sovereign Tech Fund
With a new feasibility study, GitHub’s developer policy team is building a coalition of policymakers and industry to close the maintenance funding gap.

I recently saw a news story (CHEK News, Victoria, Porter Air) about a couple denied boarding because they could not produce the credit card used to book the flight.
According to experts, this was illegal in Canadian law. The airline's “tariff" — the actual contract between air carrier and passenger — had no such requirement.
The Canadian Transportation Agency lists the tariffs for 116 airlines. Might be worth having one literally in your back pocket when you fly.
https://otc-cta.gc.ca/eng/air-carrier-tariffs-posted-websites

The Student Agency building is the first thing if you head out of Cornell towards Collegtown -- tomorrow I'm hoping to post some photos of a big yellow crane that just went up in this neighborhood but I've got to get through photos of my trip to Newark Valley and Oakley Corners State Forest first
#photo

The Washington Post's Fact Checker Glenn Kessler is leaving the paper after over 27 years, having taken a buyout, and is "not sure" if his role will be replaced (Sean Burch/The Wrap)
https://www.thewrap.com/washington-post-fact-checker-exits/

Washington Post Fact Checker Exits, Says He's 'Not Sure' if Paper Will Replace Role
WaPo Fact Checker Glenn Kessler on Monday said he was leaving the "best job in journalism" after accepting a buyout offer from the outlet

How an ESPN-NFL deal could change how we watch football, plus McAfee's apology https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6510910/2025/07/24/nfl-espn-red-zone-deal-the-pulse/

After 2 weeks of having my office deconstructed and scattered across three rooms downstairs while the upstairs gets the ceiling scrapped and the walls painted, I'm ecstatic to be slowly moving my stuff back in!
1st thing I set up? The record player, of course!
I finally get to listen to the three records I picked up on a weekend trip.
#MyBloodyValentine - Love…

Trump Is Diminished, His Powers Are Ebbing
- His poll numbers continue to drop;
his agenda is wildly unpopular;
the Epstein affair is degrading his already degraded enterprise;
House Rs rebelled this week and voted to release the Epstein files;
he has not negotiated a single trade agreement in over 100 days,
and foreign governments are just not bending the knee;
the conflicts in the Middle East and Ukraine grind on -- defying that his promises that …

Epstein Is A Huge Problem For Trump. So Are His Tariffs, And The Upcoming Budget Fight
Global Tariff Rates Are Set To Double And Triple This Friday

Tariff chaos is forcing America’s allies closer together,
-- and further from the United States.
As that happens, the European Union is trying to position itself at the center of a new global trade map.
https://www.nytim…

Amid Tariff Chaos, U.S. Allies Try to Redraw the Trade Map
Facing growing chaos, the European Union and numerous other countries are seeking to forge a global trading nexus that is less vulnerable to American tariffs.