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Extreme temperature warnings in place as ‘heat dome’ bakes US https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/15/extreme-heat-warnings-us
Heat wave smashes records across central US

Donald Trump ordered US negotiators to travel to Pakistan on Monday, just days before a ceasefire in the Middle East expires
State broadcaster IRIB on Sunday cited Iranian sources as saying “there are currently no plans to participate in the next round of Iran-US talks”.
The Fars and Tasnim news agencies had earlier cited anonymous sources as saying “the overall atmosphere cannot be assessed as very positive”, adding that lifting the US blockade was a precondition for negotiation…

Ich lasse es mal unbemerkt stehen:
«Angebliche China-Verbindungen von SK Telecom alarmierten US-Beamte und lösten Anthropic-Krise aus:
[…] Der südkoreanische Telekommunikationsriese SK Telecom erhielt Zugang zu #Mythos über Anthropics Partnerprogramm Project Glasswing. #US-Beamte waren alarmiert, wei…

Angebliche China-Verbindungen von SK Telecom alarmierten US-Beamte und lösten Anthropic-Krise aus
SK Telecom erhielt über Anthropics Partnerprogramm Project Glasswing Zugang zum KI-Modell Claude Mythos, bis das Weiße Haus intervenierte. US-Beamte sahen Verbindungen des südkoreanischen Konzerns zu China.

Hugging Face says it used the open-weight GLM-5.2 hosted on its own compute for breach forensics, after US frontier model safety guardrails blocked the requests (Edward Targett/The Stack)
https://www.thestack.technology/hugging-fa

Hugging Face hacked: Turned to Chinese LLM for help after US models blocked Blue Team
Expensive, proprietary US models were no help to Hugging Face’s defenders, and free Chinese ones were; that’s a warning sign.

Politikwetten: US-Behörden untersuchen Insiderhandel auf Polymarket und Kalshi
Nach Berichten über Insiderhandel untersuchen Regulierer Wetten auf Regierungsbeschlüsse und Militäreinsätze. Die Plattformen kooperieren mit der Justiz.

Politikwetten: US-Behörden untersuchen Insiderhandel auf Polymarket und Kalshi
Nach Berichten über Insiderhandel untersuchen Regulierer Wetten auf Regierungsbeschlüsse und Militäreinsätze. Die Plattformen kooperieren mit der Justiz.

“MSI prices its latest handheld at $1,800 as exec says ‘it will be a tough year for us and the gamers’”
Those poor souls will have to hand over their money and we’ll have the unenviable task of taking it.
https://www.videogam…

MSI prices its latest handheld at $1,800 as exec says ‘it will be a tough year for us and the gamers’
There's still potential for more price hikes, its marketing lead warns

sidequest idea: get the exotic trees in front of city hall replaced with coast live oaks. think of the symbolic value to start conversations about the native ecosystems that make where we live special

EU dependence on gas from the US (LNG) showing up in climate policy:
US gas exporters ask to push back EU methane regulation (requiring monitoring and verification of methane emissions) until 2028.
https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/us

US expected to unveil criminal charges against Cuba's Raul Castro (Reuters)
https://nypost.com/2026/05/20/us-news/us-expected-to-unveil-criminal-charges-against-cubas-raul-castro/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260520/p7#a260520p7

So, basically, our democracy is now 100% grift. Excellent.
House Democrats attack Trump’s $1.7bn compensation fund as ‘corruption unparalleled’ – US politics live
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2

Redistricting debate shifts to South Carolina as Republicans seek clean sweep of House seats – US politics live
GOP to target seat held by Jim Clyburn, the only Democrat among the state’s seven representatives in the House

And given today's holiday, a timely read:
New monument turns Rosa Parks’s booking number into warning on US erasure
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/19/alabama-monument-rosa-parks?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other…

And given today's holiday, a timely read:
New monument turns Rosa Parks’s booking number into warning on US erasure
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/19/alabama-monument-rosa-parks?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other…

faculty_hiring_us: Faculty hiring networks in the US (2022)
Networks of faculty hiring for all PhD-granting US universities over the decade 2011–2020. Each node is a PhD-granting institution, and a directed edge (i,j) indicates that a person received their PhD from node i and was tenure-track faculty at node j during time of collection (2011-2020). This dataset is divided into separate networks for all 107 fields, as well as aggregate networks for 8 domains, and an overall network for …

@… I don't know about whatever artist you're dealing with, but for a portfolio they should at least be able to tell you things like the medium, year, dimensions, even if they don't have a title or story about it.

Jazzaria – Critical Path
https://jazzaria.bandcamp.com/album/critical-path
https://www.cl…

full text of MoU Iran/US:
https://www.npr.org/2026/06/18/nx-s1-5863027/us-iran-trump-memorandum-of-understanding-full-text.
wow, that is readable and uh straightforward.
(sorry if you have seen it)

“The threats of military aggression against Cuba from the world’s greatest power are well-known,” Diaz-Canel said, in reference to the US. “The threat itself already constitutes an international crime. If it were to materialise, it would trigger a bloodbath with incalculable consequences, plus the destructive impact on regional peace and stability.”
Cuba says it has ‘legitimate’ right to defend itself amid US threats | Conflict News | Al Jazeera

Cuba says it has ‘legitimate’ right to defend itself amid US threats
Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel says country is not a threat, but will defend itself from aggression if necessary.

"When a debate gets heated, it effectively hijacks the mental "radar" people rely on to flag suspicious content."
✅ Can you tell a bot from a human online? New experiment says nearly half of us cannot
https://www.

Can you tell a bot from a human online? Surfshark's new experiment says nearly half of us cannot
Surfshark's "Bot or Not" challenge proves our biggest weakness against AI is our own emotions

This is how the rule of law dies
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/19/us/politics/fbi-ice-agents-investigations-shootings.html?unlocked_article_code=1.y1A.aLnf.Rl0wNtaiWohG&a…

Federal Agents Were Told FBI Will No Longer Investigate ICE Confrontations
Senior officials deny such a change is in the works, despite guidance shared with agents around the country in recent days.

Wut? A campaign aimed at UK Boots shoppers involved infrastructure in Romania with phishing content hosted on a compromised Bolivian gov't site, with emails sent using a legit bulk mailing app that attackers installed on a compromised UK business terminal server.

Got a Boots email offering 'free gift beauty sample pack'? Well, 8.8 million of us got the same thing from Romanian hackers looking to steal our credit cards (and more)
A fake Boots giveaway reached nearly 9 million inboxes as hackers turned compromised systems into phishing machines

Meanwhile, on the Python/Django side of life… Over the past few evenings I’ve made numerous updates and bug fixes to my reusable, pluggable, multi-user/multi-group task assignment system for Django. Live on the demo site and installable now. Hope it’s useful!
https://django-todo.org/

Very democracy, super justice
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/19/trump-irs-settlement-tax-returns

Freitag: EU-Auflagen für US-Clouds, Robotaxi-Rückruf wegen Autobahnbaustellen
AWS und Azure als Gatekeeper Robotaxi-Probleme mit Baustellen KI-Beschleunigung bei Deutscher Bank Bezahlen zumeist bargeldlos Verbraucherschutz-Podcast

Freitag: EU-Auflagen für US-Clouds, Robotaxi-Rückruf wegen Autobahnbaustellen
AWS und Azure als Gatekeeper + Robotaxi-Probleme mit Baustellen + KI-Beschleunigung bei Deutscher Bank + Bezahlen zumeist bargeldlos + Verbraucherschutz-Podcast

A US circuit court overturned an injunction against Ohio, allowing the state to implement a law forcing platforms to seek parental consent if a user is under-16 (Nate Raymond/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-court-rules-ohi…

Is it just me or is KFC’s brand typeface this year kinda like Costco?

KFC Custom Font — Projects — Studio DRAMA
A custom finger lickin’ typographic identity crafted as part of KFC’s global rebrand.

Outlets Get Trump Phone: It's Made In China And The US Flag On The Back Only Has Eleven Stripes [VIDEO] - Joe.My.God.
https://www.joemygod.com/2026/05/outlets-get-trump-phone-its-made-in-china-and-the-us-flag-on-the-back-only-has-eleven-stripes-video/

This week I’m writing from the season of storms.
https://salrandolph.substack.com/p/lightning-ragini

Lightning Ragini
In the season of storms

Chambers has said that he has known since 2015 that he was on the US federal government’s radar,
due to activism against police in Atlanta.
A self-described communist and anti-imperialist, he is heir to one of the richest families in the US,
the owners of Atlanta-based Cox Communications.
He sold stock back to his family worth about $250m in mid-2023 and since then has been funding an estimated 100 projects in 20 countries, Schnabel said.
She said that includes,…

Wife of US heir and activist donor on fighting his extradition to US: ‘It’s incredible that this can happen’
Stella Schnabel says Trump administration is falsely accusing James ‘Fergie’ Chambers of contributing to Hamas

A fellow from SAP told me about this nice panel session from 2014 where representatives of variious languages - C , D, Go and Rust - discussed the future of programming, worth watching:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/shows/lang-nex…

Panel: Systems Programming in 2014 and Beyond
C++, D, Go, Rust. Each of these languages are systems programming languages. By definition, a systems programming language is used to construct software systems that control underlying computer hardware and to provide software platforms that are used by higher level application programming languages used to build applications and services. Often, systems languages are used to build operating systems, compilers, device drivers, factory automation, robots, high performance mathematical software, …

Die Trump-Regierung hat die neuesten Anthropic-Modelle für Nicht-US-Bürger gesperrt. Erstmals trifft eine US-Exportkontrolle KI-Basismodelle direkt. Was Forrester, Gartner und @Handelsblatt jetzt klar sagen: Europa braucht dringend eine geopolitische KI-Strategie — keine IT-Abteilung, die einfach den nächsten US-Dienst bucht. #KI

yes trump this or trump that but i can't stop telling people how much i HATE gusanos marco rubio and ted cruz with a burning passion.
both (!!) fled cuba under BATISTA, ted cruz's father was even tortured in prison by batista's regime, marco rubio arrived in the US years before the communist revolution took place.
batista was the puppet dictator installed by the US, and his regime's slave based society is what the likes of fidel castro and che guevara fought against, yet these u…

RE: https://halo.nu/@theguardian_us_news/116944935422496622
"are campaigning to get Virginia’s law passed in the US, which would remove the federal statute of limitations in sexual abuse cases, as well as maintain the pressure to release the rest …

Comparison to Hitler, Mao, Stalin? Trump says: ‘Sounds good to me!’
#Resist

Comparison to Hitler, Mao, Stalin? Trump says: ‘Sounds good to me!’
‘Historian’ claims ‘overwhelming difference’ between him and rogues’ gallery of autocrats is that Trump is more powerful

This will go on my list of three things to be grateful for today:
#3goodthings

Shoulder mended - JazMat
The Missus’s shoulder has mended and the doc removed her sling, so she is free to stretch her arm out. Next week, she’ll start physical therapy. We are...

Wood burning is reintroducing lead pollution into the air, US scientists find https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/may/15/wood-burning-for-heat-reintroducing-lead-pollution-into-the-air-us-scientists-fin…

US claims 'emergency refugee situation' as it admits 10,000 more white South Africans (Rachel Savage/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/19/us-government-increase-white-south-africa-refugees
http://www.memeorandum.com/260519/p49#a260519p49

«Passwörter auf Github geleakt — Peinliche Datenpanne bei #US-Cyberbehörde Cisa:
Forscher haben in einem öffentlichen #Github-Repo interne Daten der #Cisa gefunden. Sie hielten den Fund zunächst für einen Streich, d…

Passwörter auf Github geleakt: Peinliche Datenpanne bei US-Cyberbehörde Cisa - Golem.de
Forscher haben in einem öffentlichen Github-Repo interne Daten der Cisa gefunden. Sie hielten den Fund zunächst für einen Streich, doch es war keiner.

RE: https://assortedflotsam.com/@NewsBot/116942297332156781
What were US soldiers doing in Jordan? It’s very far from the US. Maybe US soldiers should stay home where they belong.

@… As an artist, I would already have descriptions for each. :)

reFUGeeS From Beyond – Perceptronic
https://archive.org/details/refugees-from-beyond-perceptronic

"Until now, the record for most spending per vote was held by Mayor Daniel Lurie, who paid $156.14 for each of his first-choice votes in the 2024 mayoral race. But there’s a big difference: Lurie won."
(He had much worse opposition! It was a terrible field.)
https://

$211 per vote: How Saikat Chakrabarti spent $8.8M on his congressional run
Connie Chan spent $25.09 per vote. Scott Wiener spent $61.24. Saikat Chakrabarti spent...a lot more than that.

TSMC will US-Investitionen auf 265 Milliarden US-Dollar erhöhen
Der Weltmarktführer TSMC will weitere Halbleiterwerke in den USA bauen. Dafür stehen weitere 100 Milliarden US-Dollar bereit.
https://www.

TSMC will US-Investitionen auf 265 Milliarden US-Dollar erhöhen
Der Weltmarktführer TSMC will weitere Halbleiterwerke in den USA bauen. Dafür stehen weitere 100 Milliarden US-Dollar bereit.

"A very good deal."
Return to the status quo plus unfreezing of Iranian assets and US$300Bn in reparations.
Read the US account of unreleased 14-point Iran ceasefire memorandum | Donald Trump News | Al Jazeera
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/…

Read the US account of unreleased 14-point Iran ceasefire memorandum
US official gives clearest account yet of deal set to be signed by US and Iran Friday; Iran has not confirmed text.

us_roads: United States roads (2000)
The road networks of the 50 US States and the District of Columbia based on UA Census 2000 TIGER/Line Files. Edges are stretches of road and vertices are intersections of roads. The data sets were assembled by Dominik Schultes. The 'merged' network contains all the states merged together.
This network has 497458 nodes and 629750 edges.
Tags: Transportation, Roads, Unweighted

Did AI replaced all the designers who can do proper vectors graphics?

US supreme court justice
Ketanji Brown Jackson
issued a rare public rebuke of the nation’s highest court,
declaring that it “can and should be better”
in the wake of a string of controversial moves by its conservative supermajority.
Weeks after writing a solo dissent as the supreme court effectively gutteda key section of the Voting Rights Act,
Jackson – its newest member and fiercest liberal voice – delivered a stark warning over the risk of the court bei…

"The new rules require eligible religious institutions and nonprofits not to “operate any programs that advance or promote DEI, DEIA” (diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility), participate in any “discriminatory prohibited boycott” or run any program that “benefits illegal immigrants or incentivizes illegal immigration.”
Bipartisan Senate duo introduce new bill to protect US Jews and institutions
https://religionnews.com/2026/05/19/bipartisan-senate-duo-introduce-new-bill-to-protect-and-secure-us-jews-and-institutions/

@… Maybe Windows 95 except with the Windows 7 search in the Start menu and the Windows 7 window tiling features. That would be peak. :)

FC Stoffel – Sockenpartymann
https://fcstoffel.bandcamp.com/album/sockenpartymann
https://www.

"The SFMTA announced last month that it would significantly reduce the 1.1 miles of [Ocean Ave] red [transit-only] lanes to a handful of blocks"
Okay, hold it right there. That's a cut-and-dried violation of our city charter's Transit First policy, repeatedly reaffirmed by voters. This should not be a debate because we already had the debate. The "don't prioritize transit" side lost. Transit supporters need to sue the city.

Merchants Group Demands SFMTA Cancel Ocean Avenue Red Lanes Before Election
A project designed to speed up the K-Line may soon become an obstacle for cash-strapped Muni's November ballot measure.

ASML says claims that one of its EUV lithography systems has ended up in China are inaccurate, after a report on Howard Lutnick's questions to ASML's leadership (Anton Shilov/Tom's Hardware)

ASML denies US government report that its EUV chipmaking tool was shipped to China — says 'rumors' are 'inaccurate and damaging to our reputation'
ASML denies it has ever shipped an EUV scanner to China.

Early War Goal Was to Install Hard Line Former President as Iran's Leader (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/19/us/politics/iran-israel-us-leader-ahmadinejad.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260519/p122#a260519p122

US imperialists threaten 94 year old revolutionary hero Raul Castro.
Threatened indictment of Raúl Castro ratchets up US pressure on Cuba | Cuba | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/15/raul-castro-indictment-cuba-trump

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Various Artist – Lust for a Vampire
https://archive.org/details/v-a-lust-for-a-vampire
https://www.

荣耀™属于深圳
世界™属于华为™

The US FERC approves new orders to fast-track data center power requests, aiming to handle them in 90 days, while bringing new requirements for AI hyperscalers (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-06-18/us-to-fast-t…

Does Cuba Really Have Iranian Drones, as Trump claims?
Experts say Trump is laying the pretext for U.S. military action against the island
https://foreignpolicy.com/2026/07/17/cuba-iran-drones-trump-venezuela-us-military/

Does Cuba Really Have Iranian Drones?
Experts say Trump is laying the pretext for U.S. military action against the island.

US-Robotikforscherin vom MIT erhält bayerischen High-Tech-Preis
Die US-Amerikanerin Daniela Rus erhät den bayerischen High-Tech-Preis des Ministerpräsidenten von Bayern. Die Forscherin hat besondere Beziehungen zu Bayern.

US-Robotikforscherin vom MIT erhält bayerischen High-Tech-Preis
Die US-Amerikanerin Daniela Rus erhät den bayerischen High-Tech-Preis des Ministerpräsidenten von Bayern. Die Forscherin hat besondere Beziehungen zu Bayern.

Whoa! Zune HD vs Kin 2! https://youtu.be/7vncqUzmnWs?si=4EqSkraag_9ZvG6f

Toxic Chicken – Cozy Cat Therapy
https://archive.org/details/s65171
https://www.clongclongmoo.org/2026/0…

To honour the US dead cannon-fodder, many more Iranians must be murdered.
Trump says US strikes hit Iran in 'honour' of American soldiers killed - BBC News
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cly52xzjd3qo

Trump says US strikes hit Iran in 'honour' of American soldiers killed
Iran responded with attacks in Syria and Jordan, as two ships reportedly exploded in the Strait of Hormuz.

A look at Russia's push to develop homegrown AI talent, as the country is hampered by scarce access to AI hardware and a brain drain of top technical talent (Nikita Ostrovsky/Time)
https://time.com/article/2026/06/18/russia-ai-putin-chip-us-china/

Russia Wants AI Sovereignty. It Has a Chip Problem
As Vladimir Putin's daughter helps lead a new push for AI talent, Russia's biggest obstacle may be the chips it can't make.

US-Iran peace talks postponed, clouding prospects for lasting truce (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/us-iran-peace-talks-postponed-clouding-prospects-lasting-truce-2026-06-19/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260619/p8#a260619p8

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Yadak Kymatha – Rezumar
https://archive.org/details/pn254/
https://www.clongclongmoo.org/2026/05/13/y

Chinas neuer KI-Riese Moonshot AI fordert US-Dominanz heraus
Chinas KI-Start-up Moonshot AI setzt die USA mit seinem neuen Sprachmodell unter Druck. Wie reagiert Washington und das Silicon Valley auf den Wettbewerb?

Chinas neuer KI-Riese Moonshot AI fordert US-Dominanz heraus
Chinas KI-Start-up Moonshot AI setzt die USA mit seinem neuen Sprachmodell unter Druck. Wie reagiert Washington und das Silicon Valley auf den Wettbewerb?

The grassroots group HumansFirst is organizing protests against the "unaccountable" buildout of data centers across 125 US locations on July 18 (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/us-data-center-…

US Mint Says Donald Trump Gold Coins Won't Be Ready for 250th Anniversary (Marni Rose McFall/Newsweek)
https://www.newsweek.com/us-mint-donald-trump-gold-coins-250-anniversary-delay-11967439
http://www.memeorandum.com/260519/p147#a260519p147

Cuba’s top diplomat in the United States on Friday underscored the inviolability of her country’s sovereignty
amid tenuous negotiations with the Trump administration and mounting fears that the US is planning to criminally indict a former Cuban president and possibly invade the island to abduct him.
Cuban Chargé d’Affaires Lianys Torres Rivera told The Hill that her country’s socialist government is open to negotiating with the US,
but that “the only exception is our sovere…

Cuban Envoy Draws 'Red Lines' Amid Specter of US Invasion and DOJ Targeting Castro Like Maduro | Common Dreams
Cuban Chargé d'Affaires Lianys Torres Rivera said her government is willing to negotiate with the US, but "the only exception is our sovereignty, independence, and right to self-determination."

Humanfobia – MOTHRA モスラ (single)
https://archive.org/details/humanfobia-mothra
https://www.

Sources: Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick questioned ASML leaders on concerns China acquired one of its EUV machines, violating US-led export restrictions (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-06-19/us-tells-asm…

Anthropics KI Mythos: Unternehmen haben weiter Zugriff auf Preview-Version
Trotz US-Anordnung haben manche Unternehmen weiterhin Zugriff auf eine Preview-Version von Anthropics KI-Modell Mythos.
ht…

Anthropics KI Mythos: Unternehmen haben weiter Zugriff auf Preview-Version
Trotz US-Anordnung haben manche Unternehmen weiterhin Zugriff auf eine Preview-Version von Anthropics KI-Modell Mythos.

US justice department 'forever' bars IRS from auditing Trump's past tax returns (Sam Levine/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/19/trump-irs-settlement-tax-returns
http://www.memeorandum.com/260519/p125#a260519p125

Bericht: EU stuft AWS und Azure bald als Gatekeeper laut Digital Markets Act ein
Den US-Cloud-Diensten drohen höhere Auflagen der EU-Wettbewerbshüter. Die Untersuchung der EU nach dem Gesetz über digitale Märkte steht vor dem Abschluss.

Bericht: EU stuft AWS und Azure bald als Gatekeeper laut Digital Markets Act ein
Den US-Cloud-Diensten drohen höhere Auflagen der EU-Wettbewerbshüter. Die Untersuchung der EU nach dem Gesetz über digitale Märkte steht vor dem Abschluss.

US to Issue New Russia Oil Waiver as Iran War Hits Supplies (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2026-05-18/us-to-issue-new-russia-oil-waiver-as-war-hits-supplies-video
http://www.memeorandum.com/260518/p84#a260518p84

OpenAI: Erstes Hardware-Gerät ist ein Makro-Pad für 230 US-Dollar
OpenAIs erstes eigenes Gerät heißt Codex Micro und ist ein Makro-Pad. Es kostet 230 US-Dollar und steuert KI-Agenten, wird aber nicht von OpenAI selbst gebaut.

OpenAI: Erstes Hardware-Gerät ist ein Makro-Pad für 230 US-Dollar
OpenAIs erstes eigenes Gerät heißt Codex Micro und ist ein Makro-Pad. Es kostet 230 US-Dollar und steuert KI-Agenten, wird aber nicht von OpenAI selbst gebaut.

US Senate Signals Intensifying Opposition to Trump's War in Iran (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-05-19/us-senate-signals-intensifying-opposition-to-trump-s-war-in-iran
http://www.memeorandum.com/260519/p106#a260519p106

„Star Wars“: Lukes Hand mit Lichtschwert bringt 3,75 Millionen US-Dollar
Mark Hamills Requisitenhand samt Lichtschwert aus „Das Imperium schlägt zurück“ wurde bei Heritage Auctions für 3,75 Millionen US-Dollar verkauft – ein Rekord.

„Star Wars“: Lukes Hand mit Lichtschwert bringt 3,75 Millionen US-Dollar
Mark Hamills Requisitenhand samt Lichtschwert aus „Das Imperium schlägt zurück“ wurde bei Heritage Auctions für 3,75 Millionen US-Dollar verkauft – ein Rekord.

Sources: CIA operative Jonny Gannon spied on G42 to probe its China ties and helped the UAE gain expanded access to US AI chips by allaying US suspicions (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/cia-spy-united-arab-emirates-ai-49d90…

Exclusive: US plans to shrink forces available to NATO during crises, sources say (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/us-plans-shrink-forces-available-nato-during-crises-sources-say-2026-05-19/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260519/p96#a260519p96

FC Stoffel – Sockenpartymann
https://fcstoffel.bandcamp.com/album/sockenpartymann
https://www.

DeepL: Deutscher Übersetzungsdienst setzt jetzt auf AWS
Neue Nutzungsbedingungen von DeepL ermöglichen das Datenspeichern beim US-Dienst AWS. Wer die Server des Tech-Konzerns ablehnt, muss kündigen.
https://www.

DeepL: Deutscher Übersetzungsdienst setzt jetzt auf AWS
Neue Nutzungsbedingungen von DeepL ermöglichen das Datenspeichern beim US-Dienst AWS. Wer die Server des Tech-Konzerns ablehnt, muss kündigen.

US-Iran peace talks in Switzerland called off, clouding prospects for lasting truce (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/us-iran-peace-talks-geneva-called-off-clouding-prospects-lasting-truce-2026-06-19/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260619/p6#a260619p6

Sources: Dario Amodei and Demis Hassabis called for a US-led coalition to shape AI rules and standards at a closed-door meeting at the G7 summit on Wednesday (Kai Nicol-Schwarz/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/17/anthropic-amodei-google-hassabis-us-…

CEOs of Anthropic and Google DeepMind call for U.S.-led AI coalition in meeting at G7
Tech leaders and heads of state, including President Donald Trump, joined a meeting about AI standards at the G7 Summit.

Various Artist – Lust for a Vampire
https://archive.org/details/v-a-lust-for-a-vampire
https://www.

Ein Gerät so groß wie ein Kleinbus, schwerer als ein Sattelschlepper und angeblich soll es unbemerkt nach China verschwunden sein? 🤨 Das zumindest behauptet die US-Regierung gegenüber ASML, dem einzigen Hersteller von EUV-Lithografie-Systemen weltweit und wertvollstem Konzern Europas.
Zum Artikel:

US Targets Cuba's Leaders, Generals and Spies With New Sanctions (Jim Wyss/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-05-18/us-targets-cuba-s-leaders-generals-and-spies-with-new-sanctions
http://www.memeorandum.com/260518/p101#a260518p101

Toxic Chicken – Cozy Cat Therapy
https://archive.org/details/s65171
https://www.clongclongmoo.org/2026/0…

Dienstag: Elon Musk verliert gegen Sam Altman, Bitcoin Depot ist pleite
Elon Musk-Klage abgewiesen Bitcoin Depot meldet Insolvenz an Sony erhöht die Preise US-Behörden untersuchen Insiderhandel SpaceX bereitet Erstflug vor

Dienstag: Elon Musk verliert gegen Sam Altman, Bitcoin Depot ist pleite
Elon Musk-Klage abgewiesen + Bitcoin Depot meldet Insolvenz an + Sony erhöht die Preise + US-Behörden untersuchen Insiderhandel + SpaceX bereitet Erstflug vor

Bill Pulte assumes role of US acting director of national intelligence (Cate Brown/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/19/bill-pulte-acting-director-national-intelligence
http://www.memeorandum.com/260619/p50#a260619p50

Adieu Palantir: Berlin und Paris planen eigenes digitales Rückgrat
Mit neuen KI-Sicherheitsinstituten und gemeinsamer Rüstungs-IT wollen Deutschland und Frankreich die Abhängigkeit von US-Technologie deutlich reduzieren.

Adieu Palantir: Berlin und Paris planen eigenes digitales Rückgrat
Mit neuen KI-Sicherheitsinstituten und gemeinsamer Rüstungs-IT wollen Deutschland und Frankreich die Abhängigkeit von US-Technologie deutlich reduzieren.

Ukraine Sees US Seeking Technology Transfers in Drone Deal (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-05-19/ukraine-sees-us-looking-for-technology-transfers-in-drone-deal
http://www.memeorandum.com/260519/p38#a260519p38

White House delays release of US voting machine study as midterms near (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/white-house-delays-release-us-voting-machine-study-midterms-near-2026-06-19/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260619/p25#a260619p25

Exclusive: Trump official helped secure US visa for fugitive Polish minister (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/trump-official-helped-secure-us-visa-fugitive-polish-minister-2026-05-18/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260518/p106#a260518p106

Israel and Hezbollah agree to halt fighting, officials say, as US-Iran talks hang in the balance (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/iran-us-israel-lebanon-oil-june-19-2026-635ad6f41610df8355d24cc301a75fc4
http://www.memeorandum.com/260619/p60#a260619p60

Iran declares the Strait of Hormuz closed again after US lifts blockade (Caitlin Doornbos/New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2026/06/19/world-news/iran-declares-the-strait-of-hormuz-closed-again-after-us-lifts-blockade/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260619/p49#a260619p49

Greenlanders are not 'experimental subjects', says minister as she decries US doctor's visit (Miranda Bryant/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/18/greenland-us-doctor-visit-trump-envoy-deeply-problematic
http://www.memeorandum.com/260518/p128#a260518p128

Defense Watchdog Will Probe US Attacks on Boats in the Caribbean (Anthony Capaccio/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-05-18/pentagon-watchdog-will-probe-us-attacks-on-boats-in-the-caribbean?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTc3OTE1MTAyNiwiZXhwIjoxNzc5NzU1ODI2LCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJURjkxTjhUOTZPU0cwMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiJCN0IyNTk4OTJFMDc0RTZCOEZGNEVCQThFNTc5RDg4OCJ9.EnsLXOhx14H-ac3Ree66jKfE9gi7cybBiU8lTFi114g&leadSource=uverify wall
http://www.memeorandum.com/260518/p124#a260518p124