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I finally finished the blogpost including some new photos and a short video (!!) from my hike last Saturday.
To me it was a really really gorgeous day!
Read the story here: https://www.franzgraf.de/blog/2025/getting-up-early-for-the-mountains/
(a…

Natura Urbana VIII 🏡
城市自然 VIII 🏡
📷 Nikon FE
🎞️Ilford FP4 Plus, expired 1995
buy me ☕️ ?/请我喝杯☕️？
#filmphotography

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Meet Aleksandra Lazić – the first recipient of the Sarah Jones Award!
Recently, our very own Leonardo Marino sat down with Aleksandra to talk about her passion for open science, the journey that led her to receiving the award, and what’s next on the horizon.
➡️ Read her insights in the highlights below; discover the full interview here:

Interview with Aleksandra Lazić – first recipient of the Sarah Jones Award | GÉANT CONNECT Online
Aleksandra Lazić, PhD and co-founder of REPOPSI, was awarded the Sarah Jones Award for her outstanding contribution to Open Science collaboration and inclusion.

Baby's first unun!
My #AmateurRadio journey continues with making some of my own equipment...
I wanted to be able to connect either an EFHW or an EFRW to my KX3, but move the actual antenna away from the radio, so that I can POTA with other people close enough to talk, while keeping the antennas for the different out of each others' near field so they don't interere. To …

Analysis – When your LLM calls the cops: Claude 4’s whistle-blow and the new agentic AI risk stack
🤖 https://venturebeat.com/ai/when-your-llm-calls-the-cops-claude-4s-whistle-blow-and-the-new-agentic-ai-risk-stack/…

When your LLM calls the cops: Claude 4’s whistle-blow and the new agentic AI risk stack
Claude 4’s “whistle-blow” surprise shows why agentic AI risk lives in prompts and tool access, not benchmarks. Learn the 6 controls every enterprise must adopt.

How the delivery app Fantuan grew its US presence to 50 cities since 2019 by focusing on Asian cuisines, with an app design reminiscent of Chinese platforms (Alex Harring/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/05/31/under-the-

Under-the-radar delivery apps are gaining ground in the U.S. by courting Asian restaurants
Asian restaurants are utilizing delivery apps like Fantuan and HungryPanda instead of or in addition to bigger-name options.

"As a political force, the Labour left is finished. The tactic of entryism – entering the Labour party and changing it – is finished too."
"..a string of local council victories next year would pave the way for an unprecedented challenge to #Labour – not from the right, as the party has always had to fight, but from its radical flank. And this new movement could take parts of Lab…

The British left is coming for the Government
Whisper it as yet, but after five long years of confusion and disarray, the British left is rallying. Local political organisations are coalescing, from Chiswick to Liverpool to Newcastle. The Green P

We in Game Workers Unite Ireland stand in solidarity with Animation Workers of Ireland, and the international trade union coalition happening to organise against the threat of AI in the animation industry, and we support their call to acton.
Join them Thursday 12 June at 14:00 at the Pâquier in Annecy!!
#Animation

“Pivot to AI itself got hit by an AI scraper bot over the weekend! Thankfully the scoundrels who vibe-code these things are idiots.”
➡️ https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/06/02/fighting-the-ai-scraper-bots-at-pivot-to-ai-and-rationalwiki/…

Fighting the AI scraper bots at Pivot to AI and RationalWiki
We’ve covered the AI scraper bots before. These just hit web pages over and over, at high speed, to scrape new training data for LLMs. They’re an absolute plague across the whole World Wide Web and…

The Other Side Of Addiction: Stories From The Family Empowerment Program
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/the-other-side-of-addiction-stories-from-the-family-empowerment-program/…

The never ending justice journey : the trial for the OKC Tibetan Buddhist "community" aka toxic cult, almost a decade later, the survivors are still seeking Justice, now in France
https://www.brusselstimes.com/36129/tc-bru

The state of GardenState.social is strong! we have 79 active users and 9 amazing members who contribute $37 of our $49 monthly hosting bill.
Thanks to all the supporters who help keep this community strong and invite your friends!
https://www.patreon.com/posts/130458894

I just stumbled over this article about the history of video telephony: #retronetworking

The Videophone Turns 50: The Historic Failure That Everybody Wanted
The Videophone Turns 50: The Historic Failure That Everybody Wanted

Q&A with Lesley Stahl on the pressures at CBS News and 60 Minutes, Trump's lawsuit and likely settlement, Shari Redstone, Bill Owens stepping down, and more (David Remnick/New Yorker)
https://www.newyorker.com/podcas…

Trump’s Playbook to Cripple “60 Minutes” and the Press
On The New Yorker Radio Hour, the “60 Minutes” correspondent reflects on the loss of journalistic integrity that a settlement of the President’s twenty-billion-dollar lawsuit would likely entail.

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

"The RDBMS field is so young, we can actually see it grow through the pages of computer magazines of the 1980s. BYTE Magazine had its first issue dedicated to databases in November 1981, and then another one in October 1984. Dr. Dobb’s Journal did not feature an article about databases until 1984 and did not have many more throughout the decade; actually most of them were authored by Gene Head, and talk about dBASE."

The Elephant In The Room
We have often highlighted in the pages of this magazine the seemingly never-ending sequence of fashion waves hitting the software industry. We have discussed in 2020 the one impacting type systems, and more recently, another one concerning object-oriented programming. What is important in both cases is not the details of the technologies per se, but the social mechanisms at play in both situations. In this edition, we will encounter yet another example of such a clash, this time concerning rela…

Pope Leo tells the Giro he is going to ride stage next year and will win!
#giroditalia2025

"Degrowth: a dead end or the way out? Capital’s future scam" –
https://degrowthuk.org/2025/05/31/degrowth-a-dead-end-or-the-way-out-capitals-future-scam/
New piece in our

Degrowth: a dead end or the way out? Capital’s future scam
Aurora Despierta In the series Prospects for Degrowth This article by the Spanish writer Aurora Despierta is her adaptation (highly summarised for translation into English), for the series Prospect…

"EV battery recycling key to easing future lithium supply constraints, modeling study shows"
#EV #ElectricVehicle #Cars

EV battery recycling key to easing future lithium supply constraints, modeling study shows
Lightweight, powerful lithium-ion batteries are crucial for the transition to electric vehicles, and global demand for lithium is set to grow rapidly over the next 25 years. A new analysis from the University of California, Davis, published May 29 in Nature Sustainability, looks at how new mining operations and battery recycling could meet that demand. Recycling could play a big role in easing supply constraints, the researchers found.

The definition of egregious
#StacyKamano
S11E18 "The Return of Jessie"
#BaywatchHawaii #RandomBaywatch

Aus irgendeinem Grund ist gerade die Sonos-Radio-Station "The Lighthouse", über die Brian Eno jede Menge unveröffentlichte Tracks abspielen läßt, gratis (man braucht halt ein Sonos-Gerät dazu), und ich höre mich da nun etwas durch.
DJ Food hat das ein paar Monate lang gemacht übrigens, und mitgeschrieben (Stand 2023):
ht…

Brian Eno – The Lighthouse, what’s on it?
I’ve been compiling this, off and on, all year, while listening to the 340+ unreleased tracks on Brian Eno‘s Sonos HD radio station, The Lighthouse. If I had the phone nearby I’d check what’s playing, make a note of the track number and year and write a short description. I was intrigued to see how often tracks repeated (not very often), how long it would take me to hear all of them (over 6 months) and what the ratio of good to average to bad was. It became quite addictive as I’d fill…

Save the date!
The fourth annual End of Life Doula International Research Group symposium is online September 5-6. Global south inclusion is a focus, with a diversity of international practice approaches included.
Registration opens soon, stay tuned!
#EOLD #EOLDIRG

#BritneySpears: "I am for the #deathpenalty. Who commits terrible acts must get a fitting #punishment. That way he learns the lesson for the next time."
The closest I found as referenc…

So, I hear that on during the Imperial FFOTUS Triumph parade that they are going running the tanks and stuff only on Constitution Ave (I suspect that the Potomac bridges aren't up to the weight) and that they will be laying those steel plates used in road construction.
During WW-II the resistance found that the steel wheels of locomotives would slip if there were oil or grease on the steel rails. So a bit of grease spread along the rails on an uphill stretch could stop the progres…

My mind boggled the first time I was walked around some major Canadian city and came across a Hudson's Bay Company store. It'd be like walking around Kolkota and running into an East India Company store—not just the same name but also the same company.

Trump just cut 50% of the budget of the critical organization that detects, prevents & treats the world's deadliest viruses, pandemics & diseases - INCLUDING EBOLA.
Sleep tight, America.
You did this, Trump voters.
#trump #maga

Someone in my LinkedIn network posted this, and I have no inkling if it is genuine or sarcasm (see: Poe's Law).
Full text of the post in the image Alt Text.
NOTE: Please do not dogpile this person due to my toot.
#LLMs #WorkerReplacement

IBM has announced the dismissal of approximately 8,000 employees, with its HR department bearing the brunt of the cuts.
LinkedIn also cutting jobs.
https://www.computing.co.uk/news/2025/ibm-cuts-8-000-jobs

IBM cuts 8,000 jobs amid AI expansion
IBM has announced the dismissal of approximately 8,000 employees, with its HR department bearing the brunt of the cuts.

Is it plausible that someone who did a psychology degree in the UK in the early 1980s but went on to work in a largely unrelated field has never heard of The Trolley Problem?
I ask only for a trivial reason and to satisfy my curiosity. Backstory is that a UK talk show host took a call in the last week where the caller said, "you know The Trolley Problem?" and he said no, but I am sure he did that only so the caller would explain in their own words for the purposes of the show…

Conference colateral benefit: catching up with Good old Friends & colleagues, talking research, and having a decent Espresso 😜
#eswc2025 #slovenia #semanticweb

once again love whenever i come across an overly specific meme, like what real friend of the creator is getting ribbed here

Natura Urbana IX 🏡
城市自然 IX 🏡
📷 Nikon FE
🎞️Ilford FP4 Plus, expired 1995
buy me ☕️ ?/请我喝杯☕️？
#filmphotography

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Hm... Apparently, the screamer is Russian?

Various Artist – Madrid Austral
#byncsa

2020 > 2025
#Utrecht

*points at glasgow* network card

The human aspects of the Ukrainian operation Spider's Web i find the most amazing, driving all those trucks through Russia, having drone operators on site (!), evading all checks and controls within Russia. Very likely a lot of bribing was involved, the extreme level of corruption makes Russia weak.
#ukraine

At a certain age, the paperwork you have at home is enormous. Official letters, invoices, prescriptions... But, of course, there is a self-hosted application that helps you manage all that clutter.
At the moment, I already have Paperless installed on the server using Docker. I'll leave for the weekend its configuration, testing its ocr (wow!) and its app for Android.
#selfhosting

When someone has the compound title of #developer, #dba, and business analyst in their email signature.

China Mieville contra Perry Anderson: Anti-Streeck
»On immigration, socialist demands should include full labour and civic rights for migrants, full entitlement to benefits, unionisation across the economy, and an undoing of vulnerabilities that contribute to the super-exploitation of migrants.«
https://www.

I'm happy to announce structlog 25.4.0 that adds support for exception groups but more importantly fixes an incompatibility with the upcoming Python 3.13.4
https://github.com/hynek/structlog/releases/tag/25.4.0

Release 25.4.0 · hynek/structlog
Highlights The main feature is support for exception groups we stole adapted from Rich, however the main reason for this release at this point in time are backwards-incompatible changes in the upco...

"The Tax Foundation is a veteran anti-tax campaign organization from the United States. It has been around since 1937 when it was founded by top brass from companies such as Standard Oil and General Motors. Close links to some of the biggest corporations in the US has been a constant feature of the organization, as has its political aim of bringing down taxes"
#lobbying

I understood this in principle but for some reason this graph really drove home the shape of the problem. https://vis.social/@infobeautiful/114614345328627391

Information Is Beautiful (@infobeautiful@vis.social)
Attached: 1 image If you're aged 30 or more, then 50% of all human fossil fuel emissions happened during your lifetime

twitter_higgs: Twitter, Higgs boson (2012)
Data on tweets related to the announcement of the discovery of a new fundamental particle with the features of the Higgs boson on 4th July 2012. Data covers 1-7 July 2012, and includes four types of networks: followers, retweets, replies, and mentions.
This network has 116408 nodes and 150818 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Weighted, Multilayer

(1/3) Please join me today on Zoom at 12pm ET / 11am CT / 10am MT / 9am PT for "Beyond the Algorithmic Feed," a free MediaEd Club webinar for the Media Education Lab:
https://mediaeducationlab.com/index.php/events/beyond-algorithmic-feed
While som…

Title: The End of Anarchism?
Author: Luigi Galleani
Topics: #AnarchoCommunism, #insurrectionary
Date: 1925
Link:

Fuck Liz Truss
https://www.instagram.com/p/DKWtxobNcx_/

Christian Stöcker on Instagram: "Quiz Questions: Who wrote this deranged but familiar sounding treatise about a „globalist“ (read: Jewish) conspiracy that „hates western civilization“ and is trying to take over the world? I‘ll give you a second to think about it. The answer is: @trussliz, the former (salad survival length) Prime Minister of the UK. The (very real) international conspiracy of far right pro fossil fuel crazies is taking root everywhere. It showed its face at #CPAC. These people want what #Trump does, but everywhere."
22 likes, 0 comments - chrisstoecker on June 1, 2025: "Quiz Questions: Who wrote this deranged but familiar sounding treatise about a „globalist“ (read: Jewish) conspiracy that „hates western civilization“ and is trying to take over the world? I‘ll give you a second to think about it. The answer is: @trussliz, the former (salad survival length) Prime Minister of the UK. The (very real) international conspiracy of far right pro fossil fuel crazies is taking root everywhere. It showe…

We just went for a walk in Bad Tölz. Nothing special, just going for a walk along the river #isar.
Enjoy your Sunday!
#silentsunday #badtoelz

Ad on the tube says 'Humans were the beta test. The era of AI employees is here'.
I can't *imagine* why people are a bit resistant to AI! At least offshoring never advertised on the tube. The enshittification of 21st century life continues.

Today, I re-printed the first two things I ever designed for #3DPrinting nine years ago and change. When the pen clips for our kitchen whiteboard broke back in 2016, right after I bought my first printer, I made replacements.
…

A look at Russian GRU Unit 29155's hacking department, which started out in 2012, and its involvement in cyber warfare and disinformation campaigns (The Insider)
https://theins.press/en/inv/281731

Hidden Bear: The GRU hackers of Russia’s most notorious kill squad
Russian GRU Unit 29155 is best known for its long list of murder and sabotage ops, which include the Salisbury poisonings in England, arms depot explosions in Czechia, and an attempted coup d’etat in Montenegro. But its activities in cyberspace remained in the shadows — until now. After reviewing a trove of hidden data, The Insider can report that the Kremlin’s most notorious black ops squad also fielded a team of hackers — one that attempted to destabilize Ukraine in the months before …

eduGAIN is expanding across Africa! 🌍
Five new countries: 🇹🇬 Togo, 🇧🇫 Burkina Faso, 🇲🇼 Malawi, 🇬🇭 Ghana, and 🇹🇿 Tanzania have joined, bringing the total on the continent to 14. 🎉
At the heart of this progress is eduID.africa (by UbuntuNet Alliance & WACREN under #AfricaConnect3), and now more researchers and students can now access global services with one trusted identity.

Five new African members join eduGAIN! | GÉANT CONNECT Online
Today, online services are crucial for research and education. These can be for e-learning, teaching and conferencing, scientific collaboration, analysing and sharing data, accessing journals and libraries. Access to these resources is usually controlled with a user name and password. As the number and variety of services expand, often being delivered by service providers outside

Entirely reasonable.
"Hamas has responded to the latest US-proposed ceasefire with demands for a pathway to a permanent ceasefire, instead of a temporary one where the Israeli government could unilaterally restart hostilities as they did in March.
"They have also called for a full withdrawal of Israeli forces from the Gaza Strip and the resumption of aid and assistance to the besieged area."

Why Hamas is seeking to change the US-proposed Gaza ceasefire deal
Hamas claims the response was positive but with added provisions. Still, they’ve drawn criticism from the US and Israel.

Shift-Command-4
Mac OS

An interview with Henry Blodget on BI's layoffs, media market changes in the past five years, why the future is direct distribution and subscriptions, and more (Andy Meek/Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/andymeek/2025

Henry Blodget On Business Insider Layoffs: 'The Market Has Changed'
Business Insider co-founder Henry Blodget weighs in on the site's layoffs and how AI is reshaping the future of journalism.

"How farmers are becoming unexpected heroes in the bird migration crisis"
#Birds #Farming #Agriculture

How farmers are becoming unexpected heroes in the bird migration crisis
Across the Americas, rice and crawfish farmers are helping keep migrating birds alive by transforming their land into makeshift wetlands.Lela Nargi reports for Knowable Magazine.In short:Bird populations like ducks, cranes, and sandpipers are plummeting as wetlands vanish due to climate change and d...

I consider these kinds of events to be nearly useless symbolism, preaching to the choir.
I do accept that these events are useful as means to meet others, but one should not expect these events to have even the slightest impact on the maga/white-nationalist/musk-ites... Nor do I think they have much impact on those who are in "the middle" and do not particularly engage in politics.
"Nearly 1,000 gather at Main Beach to create ‘Resist!’ human banner protesting Trum…

Nearly 1,000 gather at Main Beach to create ‘Resist!’ human banner protesting Trump administration
Around 1,000 people gathered Saturday morning at Santa Cruz Main Beach to spell out the word “Resist!” The event, organized by Indivisible Santa Cruz County, aimed to protest the Trump administration and celebrate Santa Cruz Pride’s 50th anniversary.

Check out this compelling rebuttal of Soteria International's claims regarding the OKC case. Get informed about the facts and perspectives presented in the article by visiting: https://blog.rmendes.net/2024/12/15/rebuttal-of-soteria.html

Rebuttal of Soteria International's Claims on the OKC Case - rMdes - a place to write and think freely
Rebuttal of Soteria International’s Claims on the OKC Case As a victim of the Ogyen Kunzang Chöling (OKC) cult and an advocate for justice, I find Soteria …

Xbox Games Showcase & The Outer Worlds 2 Direct... streaming this Sunday!
https://news.xbox.com/en-us/2025/06/02/xbox-games-showcase-2025-outer-worlds-2-direct-how-to-watch/

How to Watch the Xbox Games Showcase and The Outer Worlds 2 Direct on Sunday - Xbox Wire
This Sunday, it’s time for another huge double feature. The Xbox Games Showcase 2025 kicks off on June 8, immediately followed by The Outer Worlds 2 Direct. Here's everything you need to know.

I just updated the prints on my office door to reflect the kind of photos (particularly event photos) that I am taking now -- as well the the new system which supersedes "three sided cards" that attains better branding in every respect except that it doesn't have a name (yet) #photo #photography

Filing: neobank Chime plans to sell 26M shares in its IPO at $24 to $26, giving it a valuation between $10.3B and $11.1B; its two co-founders own 4% to 5% each (Cory Weinberg/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/chime-sets-ipo-…

Chime Sets Tentative IPO Price at Around $10.7 Billion
Banking app Chime plans to sell shares in an initial public offering at a price that would value it at between $10.3 billion and $11.1 billion, on a fully-diluted basis, the company said in a new securities filing Monday. The company set the price range ahead of a roadshow to meet investors over the next week, ahead of its IPO. The per-share price of the range, between $24 and $26, is more

facebook_friends: Maier Facebook friends (2014)
A small anonymized Facebook ego network, from April 2014. Nodes are Facebook profiles, and an edge exists if the two profiles are "friends" on Facebook. Metadata gives the social context for the relationship between ego and alter.
This network has 362 nodes and 1988 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted, Metadata

When moving or copying large files between hard disks I like to see the progress to make the wait more informative and enjoyable.
If you want to achieve the same thing the "progress" package (present in the repos of all distros) allows you to do it. After installing it add to mv or cp the variable "& progress -mp $!", for example: mv file1 /destination-directory & progress -mp $!
If you like you can add the corresponding alias: alias mv='mv -v &quo…

Excellent keynote in the #SemDH2025 workshop by Laura Hollink on Cultural Bias in Linked Open Data. Laura is addressing all bias related aspects in cultural heritage items itself, in the data representing it, the data schemata, vocabularies, and ontologies on which the data are based, as well as in the knowledge representation languages used to create the schemata.

There's chatter today about #POX the little Englander Party of Xenophobes and Fascists high in the polls for a Scottish seat.
So how to fight them (and how not)?
https://ste…

The right wing threat and a viable future
A statement from Steady State Manchester Introduction With horror we see the electoral success of POX, The party of Xenophobes and Fascists (which, without irony, actually calls itself Reform UK1).…

Hi friends!
I set my alarm to 5am and headed out for a nice walk. It was getting warm, so I started early. - and it was just so good to do so!
A nice 6h walk with lots of views, lots of photos and just enjoying being out. End the #summit just for me 😍
On the way up I noted all places where I could refuel later using my water filter. Seriously: why didn't I buy that waaays ear…

"Antarctica’s sea ice is changing, and so is a vital part of the marine food web that lives within it"
#Antarctica #Climate #ClimateChange

Antarctica’s sea ice is changing, and so is a vital part of the marine food web that lives within it
When sea ice forms later, the communities of tiny algae that live within it change too. Detecting these early signals now could help us adapt to a changing world.

Natura Urbana VII 🏡
城市自然 VII 🏡
📷 Nikon FE
🎞️Ilford FP4 Plus, expired 1995
buy me ☕️ ?/请我喝杯☕️？
#filmphotography

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This is an interesting article about FFOTUS's cell phone.
Apparently many people know the number. And apparently FFOTUS often picks up and answers.
If I had the number I would publish it so that all of us could carry out our First Amendment right to "right to petition the government for redress of grievances".
"The Secret History of Trump’s Private Cellphone"

The Secret History of Trump’s Private Cellphone
“Who’s calling?” the president asks as he answers call after call from numbers he doesn’t know.

A profile of new Pentagon press secretary Kingsley Wilson, who is known for combative social media posts, including support for the "great replacement theory" (Matthew Adams/Stars & Stripes)
https://www.stripes.com/theaters/us/2025-0

New Pentagon press secretary outspoken critic of Ukraine aid, State Dept. and immigration
Kingsley Wilson, daughter of a right-wing commentator and herself known for combative social media posts, is the latest person to hold the seat of Pentagon press secretary.

Microsoft announces new Windows changes in response to the DMA for EEA users, including Edge not prompting users to set it as the default unless it is opened (Richard Lawler/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/678350/microsoft-dma-windows-10-11-bing…

Microsoft will finally stop bugging Windows users about Edge — but only in Europe
Microsoft’s changes to Windows 10 and 11 in countries covered by the EU’s Digital Markets Act will make Bing less annoying and let you ditch the Microsoft Store

🎉 perfSONAR turns 20! 🎉
What started with a single line of code in 2001 has grown into a worldwide network performance monitoring infrastructure, spanning all 7 continents with:
✅ 20 years of continuous operation
✅ 6 leading R&E networks driving its development
✅ over 2,000 registered instances deployed across 1,000 organizations
Learn more about perfSONAR’s journey and impact over the past 20 years:

perfSONAR Celebrates 20 Years of Simplifying Global Research Collaboration Through Standardized Network Measurement and Testing | GÉANT CONNECT Online
April 2, 2025 — The global research and education (R&E) community is celebrating a major milestone in high-performance networking and collaboration: the 20th anniversary of perfSONAR. Since April 2005, this powerful, open-source toolkit has enabled researchers and network operators to measure and troubleshoot performance across diverse network environments. perfSONAR’s reach has extended to all seven

🦠 Microbiologists discover new species of methane-producing archaea in the human gut
https://phys.org/news/2025-04-microbiologists-species-methane-archaea-human.html

Microbiologists discover new species of methane-producing archaea in the human gut
An international team of microbiologists from the Medical University of Graz, the DSMZ—German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures (Braunschweig, Germany)—and the University of Illinois (U.S.) has identified and described a previously unknown species of methane-producing archaea in the human gut: Methanobrevibacter intestini sp. nov. (strain WWM1085).

facebook_friends: Maier Facebook friends (2014)
A small anonymized Facebook ego network, from April 2014. Nodes are Facebook profiles, and an edge exists if the two profiles are "friends" on Facebook. Metadata gives the social context for the relationship between ego and alter.
This network has 362 nodes and 1988 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted, Metadata

Oh look. Elon Musk is tripping balls in yet another video. This is the drug-addicted asshat that's gonna "make the government more efficient"?
Psst. He didn't. He's also ultra-paranoid AF as well.
#elonmusk #spacex

Hi friends!
I set my alarm to 5am and headed out for a nice walk. It was getting warm, so I started early. - and it was just so good to do so!
A nice 6h walk with lots of views, lots of photos and just enjoying being out. End the #summit just for me 😍
On the way up I noted all places where I could refuel later using my water filter. Seriously: why didn't I buy that waaays ear…

"Women aren’t 14 times more likely to die in disasters – inequality is the real killer"
#Women #Climate #ClimateChange

Women aren't 14 times more likely to die in disasters - inequality is the real killer
Women often do face bigger climate risks but not because they are inherently more vulnerable - they are held back by social barriers we can tackle

Conclusions from the excellent #AlternativeDefenceReview
https://cnduk.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/ADR-digital.pdf

A profile of sports journalist Pablo Torre, who launched his podcast Pablo Torre Finds Out in 2023 under Meadowlark Media, focusing on "adversarial journalism" (Zak Keefer/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6329507/2

Jordon Hudson, Kash Patel and MJ’s fax machine: Pablo Torre’s ‘terminal content brain’ battles the algorithm
Torre had to leave ESPN to carve out a spot in the media landscape that fits him, mixing the silly — even the salacious — with the smart.

If an "undercover" officer is seen and known to the press then I would not hesitate to publish their face image and identity - in part because they have failed actually be "undercover".
That said, the fact that agents can't be identified as actual Federal agents, much less identified down to the individual actor when they do ill, is simply unacceptable.
TSA at least has numbers on their "name" badges, so one can make a complaint about a person …

The ICE agents disappearing your neighbors would like a little privacy, please
After taking four people into custody at SF’s immigration court, ICE wanted The Standard to conceal agents’ faces.

karate: Zachary Karate Club
Network of friendships among members of a university karate club. Includes metadata for faction membership after a social partition. Note: there are two versions of this network, one with 77 edges and one with 78, due to an ambiguous typo in the original study. (The most commonly used is the one with 78 edges.).
This network has 34 nodes and 78 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted

A deep dive into Apple TV's privacy features shows that Apple's streaming device is more private than the vast majority of alternatives, save for dumb TVs (Scharon Harding/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/0

Breaking down why Apple TVs are privacy advocates’ go-to streaming device
Using the Apple TV app or an Apple account means giving Apple more data, though.

"‘It’s a virtuous spiral, and it’s just beginning’: electric vehicles as mini power plants"
#EV #ElectricVehicles #Cars

‘It’s a virtuous spiral, and it’s just beginning’: electric vehicles as mini power plants - Positive News
The grid is struggling, and EVs add extra pressure. Thanks to their potential as energy storage plants, however, they could be part of the solution

reality_mining: Reality mining proximity network (2004)
A network of human proximities among students at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), as measured by personal mobile phones. Nodes represent people (students from the Media Lab and the Sloan Business School) and an edge connects a pair if the two devices made a Bluetooth handshake at the time. Edges are timestamped.
This network has 96 nodes and 1086404 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Timestamps

After Google's two antitrust losses in the past year, a look at critics' claims that its breakup might be better for investors, customers, and innovation (David Streitfeld/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com…

What if Google Just Broke Itself Up? A Tech Insider Makes the Case.
Prosecutors aren’t the only ones arguing for a smaller Google. Some critics say it might be better for investors, customers and innovation.

"Pesticides, antibiotics, animal medicines: the chemical cocktail seeping into our rivers"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Rivers

Elad Gil, backer of Perplexity, Character.AI, Airbnb, Coinbase, and Stripe, invested in Enam Co., which aims to transform businesses with AI via PE roll-ups (Connie Loizos/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/01/early-a…

Early AI investor Elad Gil finds his next big bet: AI-powered rollups | TechCrunch
Elad Gil started betting on AI before most of the world took notice. By the time investors began grasping the implications of ChatGPT, Gil had already

"A Weaponized AI Chatbot Is Flooding Canadian City Councils with Climate Misinformation"
#Canada #Climate #ClimateChange

A Weaponized AI Chatbot Is Flooding Canadian City Councils with Climate Misinformation
Thousands of councillors in more than 500 municipalities have received AI emails from a group called KICLEI, a name that mimics the international network ICLEI.

Sources: the FTC is investigating whether roughly a dozen advertising and advocacy groups violated antitrust law by coordinating boycotts among advertisers (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/…

F.T.C. Investigates Ad Groups and Watchdogs, Alleging Boycott Collusion
The regulator is looking into whether roughly a dozen groups violated antitrust law by coordinating boycotts among advertisers.

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

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.

Google is ending PayPal account integration in Google Wallet for US users, effective June 13, after stopping new PayPal account linking in April (Mishaal Rahman/Android Authority)
https://www.androidauthority.com/paypal-killing-google-wallet-inte…

PayPal is killing Google Wallet integration for users in the US
PayPal has long let you link your PayPal account to Google Wallet, but that integration is ending soon in the US. Here's what'll happen.

A profile of prediction market Kalshi, which is using its federal financial license to open up sports gambling across the US, even in states where it is illegal (Justina Lee/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/20

Kalshi Pushes Sports Betting as Trump, Deregulation Boosts Prediction Market
Armed with a federal license and allies in Trumpworld, the tech start-up is pushing prediction markets across America into a legal gray zone: sports betting.

An interview with Jony Ive and Laurene Powell Jobs on tech's next chapter, meeting in 1997, Steve Jobs, Apple, Powell Jobs' io investment in 2019, AI, and more (Matthew Garrahan/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/7f0a45b0-a3cc-4e1c-be71-1b7b42958d4…

‘Humanity deserves better’: Jony Ive and Laurene Powell Jobs on tech’s next chapter
After Apple, the Silicon Valley visionaries are looking to artificial intelligence to shape the future again

Paris' public prosecutor says it charged 25 people, including six minors, over a spate of kidnappings and attempted abductions targeting crypto executives (Le Monde)
https://www.lemonde.fr/en/france/article/2

France charges 25 suspects in crypto abduction cases
The Paris public prosecutor said 18 people were placed in pre-trial detention on Saturday after a spate of kidnappings, successful and attempted, related to those in the crypto world.