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>People using 12L/100km pick-up truck to go to and from work: Fine. :stallman_thaenkin:
>People using 1350kWh to send "money" over the internet: Fine. :stallman_thaenkin:
>People using 3Wh to have "AI" generate some sloppy image: Fine. :stallman_thaenkin:
>My car using 6.5L/100km but kicking out 0.2% too much CO: Nope that's too polluting, not allowed. :drool:

US Acts Against Foreign Ownership of Farmland Amid China Tension (Ilena Peng/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-07-08/us-acts-against-foreign-ownership-of-farmland-amid-china-tension
http://www.memeorandum.com/250708/p48#a250708p48

"The white supremacists told Reuters they love Trump’s repeated praise of “Western values,” his attacks on DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion) initiatives, and his opposition to immigration."
Nazis are having a moment—and they’re thanking Trump
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/8/8/2337463/-Nazis-are-having-a-moment-and-they-re-thanking-Trump

Former Apple employees say integrating LLMs with Siri has led to bugs, an issue not faced by companies that have built GenAI-based voice assistants from scratch (Michael Acton/Financial Times)

Apple’s struggles to update Siri lead to investor concerns over AI strategy
iPhone-maker hit by technological challenges that have led to delays to the full rollout of its ‘Apple Intelligence’ features

There's a whole bunch of recent #ThingUmbrella updates which I still have to write about, but one of the things is the reworked, improved and more customizable optical flow (aka https://thi.ng/pixel-flow

Naive, lightweight CPU-based dense optical flow implementation

Thomson Reuters reports Reuters News Q2 revenue up 5% YoY to $218M, driven by its agency and professional business and a contractual price increase from LSEG (Kenneth Li/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/markets/europe/tho

“At least memorise that #tolerance becomes crime when applied to evil.”
– 6th chapter of #ThomasMann’s “Magic Mountain”
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Thomas Mann – Wikiquote

National Guard troops begin to arrive in LA (ABC7)
https://abc7.com/live-updates/tensions-flare-downtown-la-anti-ice-protesters-clash-agents-live-updates/16692645/entry/16695462/?linkId=828840736
http://www.memeorandum.com/250608/p33#a250608p33

LIVE UPDATES: Anti-ICE protesters clash with police officers in chaotic confrontation in downtown LA (ABC7)
https://abc7.com/live-updates/tensions-flare-downtown-la-anti-ice-protesters-clash-agents-live-updates/16692645/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250608/p79#a250608p79