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With the first #AAS246 presser "Cosmic Accelerators and Active Black Holes" came the papers https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/adb7e0 (Discovery of a Pulsar Wind Nebula Candidate Associated with the Galactic PeVatron 1LHAASO J0343 5254u) &
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/adccb9 (Swift-XRT Observations and Upper Limits at Five LHAASO Galactic Sources) with the press release https://natsci.msu.edu/news/2025/2025-06-where-did-cosmic-rays-come-from.aspx, https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/adccc1 (Radial Profiles of Radio Halos in Massive Galaxy Clusters: Diffuse Giants Over 2 Mpc) etc. with the press release https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/news/record-breaking-cosmic-structure-discovered-colossal-galaxy-cluster and https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.09676 (Investigating the Emission Mechanism in the Spatially Resolved Jets of Two z ≈ 3 Radio-loud Quasars) with the press releases https://chandra.si.edu/photo/2025/j1610/ and https://www.nasa.gov/image-article/nasas-chandra-sees-surprisingly-strong-black-hole-jet-at-cosmic-noon/ and the abstract https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2025AAS...24520421S/abstract (NIRCam imaging of NGC 4258).

EdTech Situation Room Ep 345 “TikTok, Tech & Trust”
https://edtechsr.com/2025/06/10/edtechsr-ep-345-tiktok-tech-trust/
Also on Substack:

EdTechSR Ep 345 TikTok, Tech & Trust
where technology news meets educational analysis

EU announces punishing sanctions targeting Russian energy and banks.
https://www.politico.eu/article/ursula-von-der-leyen-kaja-kallas-vladimir-putin-russia-eu-sanctions-targeting-energy-banks/

EU announces punishing sanctions targeting Russian energy and banks
“Our message is clear: This war must end,” Ursula von der Leyen says.

Here’s a person, Baldur Bjarnason, @…, who thinks I’m really wrong about LLMs and coding. I mostly don’t agree but the argument is well-presented: https://www.baldurbjarna…

Trusting your own judgement on 'AI' is a huge risk
Web dev at the end of the world, from Hveragerði, Iceland

This essay by @… on why individual experiments on the usefulness of "AI" (or similar stuff) don't teach us anything useful and might actually harm us is brilliant.
Go read it. Too many insights to pull a quote TBH:

Trusting your own judgement on 'AI' is a huge risk
Web dev at the end of the world, from Hveragerði, Iceland

bitcoin_alpha: Bitcoin Alpha trust network (2017)
A network of who-trusts-whom relationships among users of the Bitcoin Alpha platform. Each directed edge (i,j,w) represents the rating of user j by user i, in which i assigns j a weight w on a scale of -10 (total distrust) to 10 (total trust) in steps of 1.
This network has 3783 nodes and 24186 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Weighted, Signed, Timestamps

Musk's administration allies become targets (Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/06/09/2025/musks-administration-allies-become-targets
http://www.memeorandum.com/250610/p18#a250610p18

The one good thing about the whole US interference in #Greenland thing is that I no longer have to explain to journalists and others that the island is part of the Kingdom of Denmark (for now). But there's so much more that people should know about Greenland.
Which is the thrust of this piece:
https://www.thearcticinstitute.org/who-expert-greenland/

The presentations at the 2nd #AAS246 presser were about the papers https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/adc911 (Discovery of the Seven-ring Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon Cyanocoronene (C24H11CN) in GOTHAM Observations of TMC-1, also https://public.nrao.edu/news/cosmic-chemistry-breakthrough-largest-aromatic-molecule-found-in-deep-space/), https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05575 (A map of the outer gas disk of the Galaxy with direct distances from young stars, also https://www.uah.edu/news/items/uah-researcher-unveils-new-map-of-milky-way-galaxy-in-atomic-hydrogen-revealing-its-clumped-flocculent-nature-for-first-time) and https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/adbbd9 (Surveying the Giant H ii Regions of the Milky Way with SOFIA. VII. Galactic Center Regions Sgr B1, Sgr B2, and Sgr C, also https://www.seti.org/press-release/unusual-stellar-nurseries-near-our-galaxys-center-puzzle-scientists) plus two results with apparently neither papers nor press releases going with them.

RFK Jr.: HHS Moves to Restore Public Trust in Vaccines (Robert F. Kennedy Jr/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/rfk-jr-hhs-moves-to-restore-public-trust-in-vaccines-45495112
http://www.memeorandum.com/250609/p111#a250609p111