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Trump administration considers adding 36 countries to travel ban list (Adam Taylor/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/06/14/trump-travel-ban-expansion/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250614/p68#a250614p68

Linus Torvalds goes back to a mechanical keyboard after making too many typos https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/13/linux_6_15_rc6_keyboards/
This change will cost Mr. Torvalds a lot of money. It's another rabbit hole down which your money is dippi…

Vaccinated Time Travel:
To fantasize about traveling backward in time, but only
with proper vaccinations.
-- Douglas Coupland, "Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated
Culture"

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #90TEEN
Freckle:
🎵 Taraval
#Freckle
https://freckledfreckles.bandcamp.com/track/taraval
https://open.spotify.com/track/5m0fBSdQ9f9EJRhZ0IGjm9

My aging #Ubiquiti Edgerouter-X is failing. So, I spent 3 hours yesterday trying to set up a new #Unifi Gateway Max without success. I'm returning it.
I decided to just get a #miniPC with dua…

Symbolic Generation and Modular Embedding of High-Quality abc-Triples
Michael A. Idowu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10039 https://arxiv…

Symbolic Generation and Modular Embedding of High-Quality abc-Triples
We present a symbolic identity for generating integer triples $(a, b, c)$ satisfying $a + b = c$, inspired by structural features of the \emph{abc conjecture}. The construction uses powers of $2$ and $3$ in combination with modular inversion in $\mathbb{Z}/3^p\mathbb{Z}$, leading to a parametric identity with residue constraints that yield abc-triples exhibiting low radical values. Through affine transformations, these symbolic triples are embedded into a broader space of high-quality examples,…

I rode my bike to the library to return a book, which isn't terribly exciting, but I'm pleased that I can now take care of local errands by bike instead of car.
#bikeTooter

Today in terrible LinkedIn pitches:
"I would like to Promotion and marketing your podcast show at iTunes" 🤣

Less than two years ago,
the administration of President Joe Biden announced what tribal leaders hailed as an unprecedented commitment to the Native tribes
whose ways of life had been devastated by federal dam-building along the Columbia River in the Pacific Northwest.
The deal, which took two years to negotiate, halted decades of lawsuits over the harm federal dams had caused to the salmon that had sustained those tribes culturally and economically for thousands of years. …

Trump Administration Abandons Deal With Northwest Tribes to Restore Salmon
The Trump administration canceled a deal, signed under President Joe Biden, that would have enabled the removal of four hydroelectric dams along the Columbia River that are considered harmful to salmon.

A gaudy stage with the US Army logo and Coinbase listed as its sponsor underneath.
I am pretty damned far from being one of those people who puts the armed services some kind of quasi-religious pedestal, and even to me this is deeply offensive, just incredibly gross.
EDIT to add: This is so hideous I’m having trouble believing it. Can anyone verify the photo?
EDIT 2: Yes, almost certainly real; see thread
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:gvda6fem6r7selm4gzjjww4a/post/3lrm2rrrhms2y