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This Week in Sports Trivia: June 12, 2025 https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6419531/2025/06/12/this-week-in-sports-trivia-june-12-2025/

#permaculture

2 hours a week
I skite that I grow nearly all the fruit, veggies, flowers, eggs, herbs we eat for less than two hours work a week, with almost no bought inputs, and that this stares down the meme about home grown…

For #MusicWomenWednesday this week, a killer new find-- Melbourne, Australia's PHANTASM. Some really ripping hardcore punk here highlighted by the raw, furious vocals of Bernadette Fitzgibbon. Stumbled across this 4 song 7" EP 'Conflict Reality' that Phantasm put out in 2023 via Hardcore Victim, and I've really been digging it this week.

Oor Lesley mentioned this video she made on her podcast this week. As she says, this is a perfect miniature of Scotland's power problem...
But she needs to learn to pronounce Bealach na BŠ!
#ScotPol
#GridTransition

I’m Brigadier General Shawn Harris.
I served this nation for decades in the US Army and now I’m answering the call to serve again
— this time, to defeat Marjorie Taylor Greene and bring sanity back to Congress.
This week, Donald Trump said has sent U.S. Marines into Los Angeles.
As someone who led troops in combat, I can tell you:
our troops don’t serve to be used as political weapons against Americans.
Marjorie Taylor Greene stood by that reckless idea

I just gave to Shawn Harris!
Show your support with a contribution.

❝"This has been a bad week for the Army for anyone who cares about us being a neutral institution," one commander at Fort Bragg told Military.com on the condition of anonymity to avoid retaliation. "This was shameful.”❞
Yup.
❝“I don't expect anything to come out of it, but I hope maybe we can learn from it long term."❞
Oh, you naive fool.

"Amsterdam University Press (AUP) had been acquired by the for-profit corporate publishing behemoth Taylor & Francis" – Martin Paul Eve: "What is a University Press?" https://doi.org/10.59348/paybh-98d21

If you missed my content on social this week, find it in one place in my newsletter. Specially curated for you, so you don't have to.
https://blog.frankel.ch/java-geek-weekly/88/

More seriously, of the devices I brought with me to Cupertino this week, the chances of installing a new operating system on each today are:
- MacBook: 95%. (I can install to a separate partition and test with a separate account without risking my main setup.)
- Apple Vision Pro: 99%. (I use this nearly every day, but don't rely on it.)
- iPhone: 0% (If there's one device I need to work reliably this week, this is that device.)
- Apple Watch: 50%? (I brought t…

The House Rules Committee advances a bill that would claw back $1.1B in funding for public broadcasting, including $535M for CPB, over the next two fiscal years (Ted Johnson/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/06/pbs-npr-funding-rescinded-congress-12364…

House Committee Advances Bill To Rescind Funding For Public Broadcasting Stations, NPR And PBS
The legislation is expected to make it to the floor later this week.

The depth of the damage to the USA by the Republican party and this administration is catastrophic, especially in the long term.
Hundreds or thousands of incredibly damaging actions have been taken this year with seeming dozens more every week.
It is impossible to keep track of the destruction being done to the rule of law, our economy, human rights, our health...

This week's #ThursDeath is a killer new find, Hyvinkää, Uusimaa Finland's DEATHGOAT and their fucking EXCELLENT new LP 'Dragged Into Realms Below' that Xtreem just put out. This thing is a churning, raging, roaring mass of filthy death metal. Riffs, solos, it's got it all. Finnish death metal doesn't fuck around, man. And there's often a lot of gems via Xtreem. A surprising c…

I’m on vacation with my family this week and purposefully not delving into the news or reading anything on social media besides my happy word games. But I sure hope I come home to a democratic society governed by the rule of law.

Our pick this week comes courtesy of Swedish rock/metal outfit Blindside!
If you haven’t heard this one - now’s the time. If you have - spin it again, doctor’s orders!
Check out the track, read our take, and let us know what you think.
Follow us for your weekly dose of #rock and #metal—ha…

Blindside - Caught a Glimpse
One awesome, hand picked song from the world of rock and metal, showcased every week. Nothing more, nothing less! 🤘

It really bothers me that the media is still referring to prisoners as "undocumented" migrants/immigrants, despite it being well-known at this point that we're canceling green cards and visas specifically to imprison people. Not to mention also throwing people into gulags when they attempt to renew their documentation. https://…

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#InTune
- Live classical music for your commute
Petroc Trelawny is joined by the pianist Marc-André Hamelin, who performs at London's Wigmore Hall this week.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002cyx5

Sigh, the client wants to add more items to the release for next week and they don't even have it tested. This time around I am putting a flag on each and every program they want to add so when (not if) they pull it Friday afternoon a quick search & delete will nuke those modules. I am not going to be popular in a bit when I do the pre-release walkthrough for the release schedule in a few minutes.

Oh. Just checked the Calendar and the Refused concert is this week? Felt like it was still months away

Pete Carroll explains why Raiders signed LB Germaine Pratt and their plans for him https://raiderswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/raiders/2025/06/12/pete-carroll-raiders-plans-lb-germaine-pratt/84174040007…

phpc.social is now running Mastodon 4.3.8. Busy week, hence the slow roll on this upgrade (which was made available on Tuesday).
In other news, we're up above 5100 registered users, though that influx has slowed way down of late.
#MastoAdmin

Trump team plans to send thousands of migrants to Guantanamo starting as soon as this week (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/06/10/trump-plans-migrants-guantanamo-bay-00396673
http://www.memeorandum.com/250610/p64#a250610p64

Metacurity is pleased to offer our free and premium subscribers a weekly digest of the best long-form (and longish) infosec-related pieces we couldn't properly fit into our daily news crush.
This week's selection covers
--Bashar al-Assad was toppled by spyware,
--Facial recognition threatens us all with deportation,
--VC money fuels worker surveillance,
--Will Trump launch offensive cyber ops on US networks?,
--The Pall Mall Process and commercial c…

Best infosec-related long reads for the week of 5/31/25
Bashar al-Assad was toppled by spyware, Facial recognition threatens us all with deportation, VC money fuels worker surveillance, Will Trump launch offensive cyber ops on US networks?, The Pall Mall Process and commercial cyber intrusions, Self-confidence leads to GenAI skepticism, more

"And what has it got us? You can now order any product made by stroking a pocket glass and have it next day or even quicker. What are you doing with all that time that is freed up?
Certainly not leisure. The average hours worked per week in developed countries has certainly dropped since the industrial revolution but remained roughly constant since 1980. Tracking all that work in Jira has not led to doing less of it."

From AP religion news:
Southern Baptists target porn, sports betting, same-sex marriage and ‘willful childlessness’
https://apnews.com/article/southern-baptists-pornography-sports-betting-gay-marriage-aac48…

Southern Baptists to meet in Dallas for annual evangelical gathering
Southern Baptists meeting this week in Dallas will be asked to approve resolutions calling for a legal ban on pornography and reversing the U.S. Supreme Court’s approval of same-sex marriage. The proposed resolutions call for laws on gender, marriage and family based on what they say is biblical teaching. They also call for legislators to curtail sports betting and to support policies that promote childbearing. Delegates of the Southern Baptist Convention, the nation’s largest Protestant de…

From engineer to manager, told from both sides - this thoughtful article is your #linkTuesday this week as I’m reflecting on my own professional next steps https://leaddev.com/career-development/from-engineer-manager-told-from-both-sides

The Law of Large Numbers and CLT for Non-stationary Markov Jump Processes Exhibiting Time-of-Day Effects
Monte Fischer, Peter W. Glynn
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08282

The Law of Large Numbers and CLT for Non-stationary Markov Jump Processes Exhibiting Time-of-Day Effects
In this paper, we develop a general law of large numbers and central limit theorem for finite state Markov jump processes with non-stationary transition rates. Such models commonly arise in service operations and manufacturing applications in which time-of-day, day-of-week, and secular effects are of first order importance in predicting system behavior. Our theorems allow for non-stationary reward environments that continuously accumulate reward, while including contributions from non-stationar…

Three inmates to be executed in three states this week, amid an uptick nationwide | The Independent
https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/crime/execution-alabama-florida-south-carolina-oklahoma-b2766905.html

Shemar Stewart skips final day of Bengals mandatory minicamp amid rookie contract dispute https://www.nfl.com/news/shemar-stewart-skips-final-day-bengals-mandatory-minicamp-contract-dispute

Reuters has a live video stream of the situation here in Los Angeles.
I'm usually down at City Hall West & Main every week. This hurts.
LIVE: Protesters gather in downtown LA
https://youtube.com/live/nZHPX0Qq5XI?si=yfoaQHu6JYOyISxk

Volle Fahrt voraus im Rückwärtsgang!
[Full speed ahead in reverse gear!]
What this TV report opens with seems to be a new motto for the German automotive industry.
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jaapburger_

MDR SACHSEN-ANHALT HEUTE: Rückwärts-Weltrekord: Die Fahrt ging noch weiter… | Jaap Burger
Volle Fahrt voraus im Rückwärtsgang! [Full speed ahead in reverse gear!] What this TV report opens with seems to be a new motto for the German automotive industry. This week, a German manufacturer set a new world record for reversing in an electric truck. The German automotive industry as a whole is also attempting to reverse in electric mode: it has presented a 10-point plan to postpone, water down, weaken, undermine, regret, delay, reduce, replace, backtrack on and ridicule European CO2 re…

Cowboys Headlines: Trevon Diggs expected at minicamp, news on Jaire Alexander's fit? https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/06/10/news-headlines-june-9-2025-tre…

Stumped
Good news! The car is fixed! I got my computer back! There's always some bad news though. But I got to play with power equipment this week.
https://www.bobmuellerwriter.com/stumped/

Stumped – Bob Mueller
I got to play with power equipment this week, and I still have all of my fingers and toes! Plus good news/bad news.

Ran a 10k on Sunday in Wisconsin (solo #trailrunning). Two more times at lunch during the office this week. The weather has been great, getting hotter, it will probably be a brutal one for heat this summer! #running

After landing in San Jose, had a great time catching up with folks at this morning’s Core Coffee meetup, then rehearsing with James Dempsey and the Breakpoints for Wednesday's show.
(And now I'm realizing I never had lunch, and should probably figure out what I'm doing for dinner. I wonder what ratio of time this week I'll end up spending at the Apple Park Visitor Center vs. Oren's Hummus?)

The Trump administration is preparing to begin the transfer of potentially thousands of foreigners who are in the United States illegally
to the U.S. military base in Guantšnamo Bay, Cuba,
starting as early as this week,
said U.S. officials familiar with the matter.

The foreign nationals under consideration hail from a range of countries.
They include hundreds from friendly European nations, including Britain, Italy, France, Germany, Ireland, Belgium, the Nethe…

Trump to ramp up transfers to Guantánamo, including citizens of allies
The administration aims to send thousands of foreigners to Guantánamo, including people from Britain and France, with no plans to notify their home governments.

The NetMob25 Dataset: A High-resolution Multi-layered View of Individual Mobility in Greater Paris Region
Alexandre Chasse, Anne J. Kouam, Aline C. Viana, Razvan Stanica, Wellington V. Lobato, Geymerson Ramos, Geoffrey Deperle, Abdelmounaim Bouroudi, Suzanne Bussod, Fernando Molano
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05903

The NetMob25 Dataset: A High-resolution Multi-layered View of Individual Mobility in Greater Paris Region
High-quality mobility data remains scarce despite growing interest from researchers and urban stakeholders in understanding individual-level movement patterns. The Netmob25 Data Challenge addresses this gap by releasing a unique GPS-based mobility dataset derived from the EMG 2023 GNSS-based mobility survey conducted in the Ile-de-France region (Greater Paris area), France. This dataset captures detailed daily mobility over a full week for 3,337 volunteer residents aged 16 to 80, collected betw…

Since @… alerted me to Salerno, Italy slow drone-doom project NIGHTSCAPE's new EP last week, I noticed the project also has a self-titled LP from earlier this year. And just like the EP, it's EXCELLENT. DAMN, am I a fan of drone-doom like this. FFO Black Sky Giant, Pelican, etc.
Nightscape (Vol. 1) LP from January:

Q&A with Maggie Haberman about covering Trump's second term, how the media is separating "the signal from the noise", Trump's threats, Biden's decline, and more (Natalie Korach/Vanity Fair)
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/magg

Donald Trump “Wants to Demonstrate Absolute Power”: Maggie Haberman on Covering a Tumultuous Second Term
The New York Times’ stalwart Trump chronicler, who’s out this week with a new afterword to Confidence Man, sees the media learning lessons from the first go-round. “I think that people have managed to figure out and separate the signal from the noise,” she tells VF.

A person ethically committed to nonviolence should see capturing, imprisoning, and expelling immigrant workers and children as violent acts.
Their first duty in Los Angeles this week would be denouncing ICE.
1/

We have booked a stay in a self-catering cottage in Gloucestershire for a week over the summer. We've just been sent the welcome pack and it reads a little bit like solving an old school adventure game.
There is a keysafe at the cottage - located on the left pillar of the porch when you walk up the path. The key safe code is XXXX.
Use the small key in here to open the wooden box on your left as you walk in to the porch. Inside that you will find a large key which is for the main door.
Please make sure you leave this key in the wooden box on your departure as this is the only key to the property.

Remaining Voice of America employees expected to receive termination notice this week, Politico reports: https://benborges.xyz/2025/05/29/remaining-voice-of-america-employees.html

Money, mining and marine parks: The big issues at UN ocean summit #nature

Money, mining and marine parks: The big issues at UN ocean summit
France is hosting world leaders this week to confront what the United Nations calls a global "emergency" in the oceans—but what is expected, and can the summit make a difference?

Nine biggest questions hovering around NFL's first wave of mandatory minicamps https://www.nfl.com/news/nine-biggest-questions-hovering-around-nfl-s-first-wave-of-mandatory-minicamps

Good analysis as always.
#ukraine

Weekend Update #136: The War In A Nutshell
The Trump Administration Is More Terrified of Escalation Than Biden Ever Was; This Week In The Sanctions Pantomime

Well, duh - Elon (age 53) will still be alive (preserved by drugs, perhaps) while FFOTUS (age 78) is decomposing in a box. Musk has time on his side.
"Who holds the cards in Trump vs. Musk?"
https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/06/politics/repu…

Who holds the cards in Trump vs. Musk? Trump, but …
It remains to be seen whether President Donald Trump and Elon Musk can patch things up after their ugly break-up this week – as many around them are hoping.

The research collective I'm a member of had a great couple of days of meetings this week. We could all use more colleagues we truly want to spend time working with.

Two FCC commissioners announce they'll depart this week, creating three vacancies on the five-member panel amid a probe into EchoStar's 5G service obligations (Kelcee Griffis/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

I nearly gave my credit card to a legit-looking Maine business, until I noticed their “privacy policy” linked to Wikipedia. That’s not laziness but AI-generated HTML vibecoded into place without review. And a lot more can go wrong than a missing legal page.
https://www.

I will try to make it - it is today:
https://mas.wrong.tools/@crystalvisits/114593299739628516

Crystal Huff (they/them) (@crystalvisits@wrong.tools)
Attached: 1 image I'm looking forward to this book talk next week! Copaganda: how the police and media manipulate our news. Wednesday, 6/4 at 6:30 pm at Connexion in Somerville, MA. #MApoli #Somerpoli #policing #politics #SomervilleMA

This Week in Sports Trivia: June 5, 2025 https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6404019/2025/06/05/this-week-in-sports-trivia-june-5-2025/

New hacker group uses LockBit ransomware variant to target Russian companies https://therecord.media/new-hacker-group-lockbit-target-russia

This seems like as good a week as any to quit teaching.

Tune in this Sunday at 8pm BST (Noon in Vancouver) for this week's #ListeningClub featuring perhaps my very favourite #accordion record all the way through — right up there if I had to pick from any genre it's so nifty
That'll be a treat, so join us, don't give it away …

About 6,800 miles away, this cat is starting his three week journey to our place, wish him luck and bon voyage!

According to Barak Ravid at #Axios shortly after the #DJT confab at #CampDavd this week, the #USA began evacuating

U.S. evacuating personnel from the Middle East amid growing tensions with Iran
A White House official said President Trump "is aware" of these measures.

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#RoundMidnight
- Donovan Haffner’s 4/4
This week rising UK alto saxophonist Donovan Haffner shares four albums that have resonated with him.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002cypd

Super well done fediverse! Will post my next Greenland video this evening ...
Onwards to the next goal then ...
#fediverse
If we get to the €35000 target this week, I promise to post a couple of new #Greenland  #science vids on my @tilvids channel.  @icesheets_climate
Who else is in? 8 days to go.
#bigTech derisory) amount of EUR 75,000 to develop the opensource #fediverse competitor app to Youtube. Maybe chuck 'em a few euros if you think it useful?
https://support.joinpeertube.org/en/

So @… announced an upgrade for #ActionText with "No #Trix".

Jorge Manrubia
A huge editor upgrade is in the works for Action Text. No Trix, no House, no Tiptap, no ProseMirror. A drop-in replacement that will take rich text editing to the next level in Rails, and lay a foundation far better than anything we ever had with Trix. We will start using it internally in the new product this week. We’ll test, we’ll polish, and we’ll ship. (Yes, I’m shamelessly teasing here. And yes, I am VERY excited about this one)

Jagmeet Singh deserved a lot better than he got from Canada considering what he endured.
"Singh told reporters in April that police had advised him in the winter of 2023 that his life could be in danger. They did not tell him who was behind the threat but he said the implication was that it was a foreign government.
He said he stayed in his basement, avoided windows and considered quitting politics over fears about his family’s safety. He decided to carry on but was forced to lead the NDP for a period under police protection.”
I hope Carney brings this up with Modi next week, but now with the tragedy of the air crash…
#canPoli #CdnPoli #elxn45 #NDP #India #Modi #G7
https://globalnews.ca/news/11229198/jagmeet-singh-indian-agent-surveillance/

A huge outbreak has made Ontario the measles centre of the western hemisphere
Three-quarters of cases are in unvaccinated children, and this week saw the first fatality:
a premature baby
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun

Thanks for playing our nightly 9 o'clock #HashTagGames game. This week has been a busy week of playing. Lots of game plays and some new players.
Keep Playing and feel free to browse the feed and play any of the past games.
We are approaching our 1000 nightly game on the #Fediverse

This week: Music, Football, and the Red Fern Fèis
I hung out at an Irish dance competition this weekend.
https://www.bobmuellerwriter.com/this-week-music-football-and-the-red-fern-feis/

This week: Music, Football, and the Red Fern Fèis – Bob Mueller
What possible connection could there be between football, music, and a Fèis? And what the heck is a Feis, anyway?

It looks like spring might finally be here permanently. The forecast for snow has fallen apart and no frost is expected for the next week. Leaves are also budding on the trees this week.

Bringing the energy this week with a crushing metal track from Wage War! It’s heavy, it’s furious, and it’s the perfect way to kickstart your weekend.
Give it a spin, check out our thoughts, and let us know what you think.
Follow us for your weekly fix of #rock and #metal—handpicked, reviewed,…

Spending some time at #QConLondon this week, the schedule is stunning, the exhibitor lineup is relevant, and it’s sunny in London. Pretty sure I’m winning at life!

This might be the Cowboys’ easiest opponent down the stretch https://insidethestar.com/this-might-be-the-cowboys-easiest-opponent-down-the-stretch

Metacurity is pleased to offer our free and premium subscribers a weekly digest of the best long-form (and longish) infosec-related pieces we couldn't properly fit into our daily news crush.
This week's selection covers
--How regular Americans unwittingly aid DPRK job scams,
--Self-driving truck startup sent massive amounts of IP to China,
--The Com claims it's behind the Coinbase hack,
--It feels like Panetta's Cyber Pearl Harbor is nigh,
…

Best infosec-related long reads for the week of 5/24/25
How regular Americans unwittingly aid DPRK job scams, Self-driving truck startup sent massive amounts of IP to China, The Com claims it's behind the Coinbase hack, It feels like Panetta's Cyber Pearl Harbor is nigh, Brazil's counterintel agents exposed Russian spy imposters

Not sure I really have a good excuse to be carrying around a tote bag right now, but…
If you see me this week, please say hello!

3 things to watch at the Raiders’ mandatory minicamp https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/raiders/3-things-to-watch-at-the-raiders-mandatory-minicamp-3382919/

SEC filing: Uber appoints Palo Alto CEO Nikesh Arora to its board of directors following a broader executive shakeup this week (CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/04/uber-board-palo-alto-nikesh-arora.html

Uber adds Palo Alto CEO Nikesh Arora to its board after executive shakeup
Nikesh Arora, the CEO of Palo Alto Networks, is joining the board of Uber. Prior, he was COO of Softbank and also held positions at Google and T-Mobile.

On the fence about outside or in on this one, but it went okay. A bit of a headache afterward, but great to get outside! A bit of an air quality problem here in MN from the Canadian wildfires, but today was much better than earlier this week. #running #runnersofmastodon

Irsay's daughters take ownership 'very seriously' https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45487941/take-very-seriously

The Trump people have just announced that they have sent a letter to Columbia’s accreditor, the Middle States Commission on Higher Education, accusing Columbia of being in violation of civil rights law.
My initial reaction is that this is good news since it implies both that Columbia hasn’t further caved-in yet and makes clear that the Trump people have run out of ammunition

The Situation at Columbia XXIII
This week I’m very happy to not be at Columbia, and not in the US, enjoying spending the week at the Perimeter Institute at a conference in honor of Lee Smolin. Since there’s a little b…

Our pick this week is from Big Audio Dynamite, and is a real piece of rock history. If you haven't heard it, well, you need to hand in your rock license until you have!
Give it a spin, check our usual thoughts and ramblings on it and don't forget to follow us for your weekly slice of #rock and #metal

Big Audio Dynamite - V. Thirteen
One awesome, hand picked song from the world of rock and metal, showcased every week. Nothing more, nothing less! 🤘

This week is building up to a crescendo of critical cybersecurity developments, so don't miss today's Metacurity for the top infosec news stories you should know, including
--CISA nominee Plankey pulled from Senate confirmation hearing,
--The Com has been hacking Salesforce tools,
--Chinese hackers broke into US telecoms in 2023,
--Law enforcement busts up BidenCash,
--China issues warrants for 20 alleged Taiwanese hackers,
--Feds are probing CrowdS…

CISA nominee Plankey pulled from Senate confirmation hearing
The Com has been hacking Salesforce tools, Chinese hackers broke into US telecoms in 2023, Law enforcement busts up BidenCash, China issues warrants for 20 alleged Taiwanese hackers, Feds are probing CrowdStrike's 2024 outage, Reddit sues Anthropic for scraping comments, much more

In Week 13, the Cowboys will host an old cousin for Thanksgiving https://insidethestar.com/in-week-13-the-cowboys-will-host-an-old-cousin-for-thanksgiving

This Week: SCOTUS Punts and Authors Fumble
SCOTUS chose not to decide about religious charter schools. One more step toward getting the pool up. Authors make mistakes with gen AI. And so it goes.
https://www.bobmuellerwriter.com/this-week-scotus-p…

This Week: SCOTUS Punts and Authors Fumble – Bob Mueller
SCOTUS chose not to decide about religious charter schools. One more step toward getting the pool up. Authors make mistakes with gen AI.

It's on days like today that @…'s rain radar really comes into it's own - I've been trying to clear some admin from home, but I need to bike to the office to print a poster for this week's @… meeting in Brussels - guess I'm going to wait an hour or so then..
https://www.dmi.dk/#radar

NFL minicamp 2025 live updates: Browns rookie QBs look sharp https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45460351/nfl-minicamp-live-updates-2025-news-notes-depth-charts

At the risk of stating the obvious, please do state the obvious! In two separate meetings this week it seemed like someone was arguing against a proposed change and in both cases, they were actually very supportive of the idea, and had already moved on to talk about what else could be done. Stop. Express your support (you can thank the suggester if you like!) so that it's clear, and THEN you can build on the original suggestion.
In both cases, we nearly ended up not doing the original thing!

When unvaccinated families present with measles at healthcare centres, doctors sometimes struggle to even discuss vaccination with the parents, Hussain said.
“It’s really hard to even approach the conversation.
I would ask: ‘How come you aren’t [vaccinated]?’
And they will say: ‘Oh, we’re exempt’
or ‘We’ve had this discussion before and we just don’t want to,’” she said

Sources: Watt not attending Steelers minicamp https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45484696/tj-watt-not-attending-steelers-mandatory-minicamp-sources-say

For this week's #MusicWomenWednesday, something with some real female RAGE. For the last couple days since it came out, I've been thoroughly enjoying Kitchener, Ontario's hardcore quintet BODY MINUS HEAD's debut LP 'An Exercise in Self-Sufficiency'. The whole band is tight and solid, but vocalist Alexandra Garvin really shines on this one. Her screams are unreal, and at …

Aaron Rodgers, Micah Parsons headline 8 players to watch at NFL minicamps https://www.foxsports.com/stories/nfl/8-players-watch-nfl-mandatory-minicamp-aaron-rodgers-tj-watt-micah-parsons

Two FCC commissioners announce that they'll depart this week, creating three vacancies on the five-member panel amid reviews of the Paramount-Skydance merger (Kelcee Griffis/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Power equipment! Power tools! Car repairs! Computer repairs! It's all here!
https://www.bobmuellerwriter.com/stumped/

Stumped – Bob Mueller
I got to play with power equipment this week, and I still have all of my fingers and toes! Plus good news/bad news.

X aims to roll out an "XChat" messaging feature "with encryption, vanishing messages and the ability to send any kind of file" to all users this week (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/02/elon

Elon Musk says XChat is rolling out to all, but questions remain about its alleged security | TechCrunch
Elon Musk on Sunday announced that a new version of X's Direct Messaging (DM) feature, XChat, was rolling out with support for features like vanishing

Dolphins top players Ramsey, Smith not in camp https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45485279/dolphins-cb-jalen-ramsey-te-jonnu-smith-minicamp

Trump Wants to Cut Tribal College Funding by Nearly 90%,
Putting Them at Risk of Closing
ProPublica found that Congress was underfunding tribal colleges by a quarter-billion dollars per year.
Rather than fixing the problem, proposed federal funding cuts unveiled this week would devastate the schools, tribal education leaders say

Trump Wants to Cut Tribal College Funding by Nearly 90%, Putting Them at Risk of Closing
ProPublica found that Congress was underfunding tribal colleges by a quarter-billion dollars per year. Rather than fixing the problem, proposed federal funding cuts unveiled this week would devastate the schools, tribal education leaders say.

This week's #ThursDeath is a huge new favorite. The fittingly titled 'IV', the new fourth album from Gulfport, Mississippi's CAVE, starts with an abrasive, rough roar and eventually forms into a pummeling and chugging inferno by the end of the first track and into the second. And then the rest! Cave's drummer is beyond talented, as are the rest of these folks. I dig the walls of gui…

Another busy week!
🩰 Helped with tabulation at the Red Fern Feis (and yes, deciphering handwriting is an art).
🏈 NFL Draft brought surprises — and a Muskogee native signed with the Buffalo Bills!
🎶 And somehow, a Phil Collins cover songs post from years ago is trending again?
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This week: Music, Football, and the Red Fern Fèis – Bob Mueller
What possible connection could there be between football, music, and a Fèis? And what the heck is a Feis, anyway?

This week, #SCOTUS chose not to decide about religious charter schools. We took one more step toward getting the pool up. Authors made mistakes with #GenerativeAI AI. And so it goes.

This Week: SCOTUS Punts and Authors Fumble – Bob Mueller
SCOTUS chose not to decide about religious charter schools. One more step toward getting the pool up. Authors make mistakes with gen AI.

#GrindayFriday for this week is TRADING HANDS from the UK and their new EP 'I'm Going Out of My Mind, Does Anyone Want Anything?'
Trading Hands play a wild mix of powerviolence, grind & fastcore. This stuff is FAST, heavy, raw, tons of breakdowns. You can listen to this in no time at all. Blink and you might miss it. Weird, dynamic, I can't get enough. Easily one of my favo…

I didn’t expect that my career-ending move would be to say 'stop bombing hospitals'
https://www.democracynow.org/2025/6/6/university_california_san_francisco_gaza

Fired over Gaza? Dr. Rupa Marya Sues UCSF, Says She Was Targeted for Speaking Up for Palestine
We speak with Dr. Rupa Marya, a physician, activist, author and composer, who this week filed two free speech complaints against her former employer, the University of California, San Francisco. The school fired her last month after a lengthy suspension over her criticism of Israel’s war on Gaza and its impact on healthcare in the Palestinian territory. “I didn’t expect that my career-ending move would be to say 'stop bombing hospitals,' for expressing support for Palestinian liberation a…

Drake Maye is making his voice heard in Year 2, and the Patriots are listening https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45464580/drake-maye-new-england-patriots-leader-mike-vrabel

Some economists are beginning to question the accuracy of recent U.S. inflation data
after the federal government said staffing shortages hampered its ability to conduct a massive monthly survey.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics, the office that publishes the inflation rate,
told outside economists this week that a hiring freeze at the agency was forcing the survey to cut back on the number of businesses where it checks prices.
In last month’s inflation report, which exa…

Students around the world who were gearing up to study in the United States this fall face growing uncertainty
after the Trump administration temporarily halted student visa appointments this week.
On Tuesday, a state department directive ordered US embassies globally to immediately stop scheduling visa interviews for foreign students
while it prepares to implement expanded social media screening for all international visa applicants.
While interview appointments that …

Enormous early-season wildfireshave erupted across the prairie provinces of Canada this week,
taxing local emergency response and threatening a long stretch of dangerous air quality across eastern North America.
The country’s largest fires
– the Bird River fire and the Border fire
– remain completely uncontained in northern Manitoba.
In Manitoba alone, wildfires have burned about 200,000 hectares already this year – already about three times the recent full-year …