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Trump's Big Bill Would Be More Regressive Than Any Major Law in Decades (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/06/12/upshot/gop-megabill-distribution-poor-rich.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250613/p5#a250613p5

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…

Uh, World Bank, solar?
World Bank Lifts Ban on Nuclear Power, Considers Upstream Gas | Financial Post
https://financialpost.com/pmn/business-pmn/world-bank-lifts-ban-on-nuclear-power-considers-upstream-gas

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Mk.gee:
🎵 Alesis
#NowPlaying #Mkgee
https://djlukinhas.bandcamp.com/track/mk-gee-alesis-dj-lukinhas-the-dream-police-edit
https://open.spotify.com/track/4u7vj352S98d9iA7ac1EVG

Adobe reports Q2 revenue up 11% YoY to $5.87B, vs. $5.8B est., Digital Media revenue up 11% to $4.35B, and forecasts Q3 revenue above estimates (Brody Ford/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-06-12/ado…

Adobe Posts Strong Outlook, Touting Traction for AI Tools
Adobe Inc. gave a strong sales outlook for the current quarter, quieting investor anxieties that the leader in creative software is falling behind in a competition with AI-focused upstarts.

Guardians of the Regime: When and Why Autocrats Create Secret Police
Marius Mehrl, Mila Pfander, Theresa Winner, Cornelius Fritz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10194

Guardians of the Regime: When and Why Autocrats Create Secret Police
Autocrats use secret police to stay in power, as these organizations deter and suppress opposition to their rule. Existing research shows that secret police are very good at this but, surprisingly, also that they are not as ubiquitous in autocracies as one may assume, existing in less than 50% of autocratic country-years. We thus explore under which conditions secret police emerge in dictatorships. For this purpose, we apply statistical variable selection techniques to identify which of several…

The Republican megabill now before the Senate cuts taxes for high earners & reduces benefits for the poor.
☑️ NYTimes: Trump’s Big Bill Would Be More Regressive Than Any Major Law in Decades https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/06/12/ups…

Tubi announces plans to distribute 20 films funded on Kickstarter, starting in the fall, and to invest in Kickstarter's FilmStream Collective Fund (Charles Pulliam-Moore/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/684374/tubi-kickstarter-initiative

Kickstarter-funded films are coming to Tubi
Tubi and Kickstarter are partnering to bring a selection of crowdfunded movies to the upstart streamer.

How to prepare for a 8h train ride: go running.
Now of to Prague to #FlockToFedora; looking forward to meet a lot of old friends there and make new ones.
Ohh, and I give a talk there, too: When and how to use upstream Linux kernels to fix or improve Fedora –

The Republican megabill now before the Senate cuts taxes for high earners & reduces benefits for the poor.
☑️ NYTimes: Trump’s Big Bill Would Be More Regressive Than Any Major Law in Decades https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/06/12/ups…