
2025-06-23 16:01:18
Microsoft says it is testing a new aggregated gaming library in the Xbox PC app for Windows 11 with Xbox Insiders, integrating "leading PC storefronts" (Jez Corden/Windows Central)
https://www.windowscentral.com/gaming/pc-g
Microsoft says it is testing a new aggregated gaming library in the Xbox PC app for Windows 11 with Xbox Insiders, integrating "leading PC storefronts" (Jez Corden/Windows Central)
https://www.windowscentral.com/gaming/pc-g
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…
Well that was glorious in places, and gruesome in others. Well done to everyone who stuck with #TOTP for the last 3½ hours.
It's Christmas 1997 next week. Get your crackers ready. In the meantime have a great bank holiday weekend and enjoy your week.
Tomorrow is the start of Toronto Tech Week! That only really coincides with Tech Pizza Monday, as we have decided to not be a part of it, so in the great tradition of TV programs trying to attract an audience by mentioning the show that runs at the same time, we are calling it counterprogramming. If you would like to join us, come over to Victory Cafe, 440 Bloor St. W., at 6 PM on Monday, June 23rd. #Toronto
Bengals' future in Cincinnati faces critical week with possible Paycor Stadium vote https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6446507/2025/06/24/bengals-paycor-stadium-renovations-hamilton-county/
This was a terrible week to release my line of wax-based baseball caps. 🫠
Field Diary 2025
I very rarely have time to write a proper field diary, our time in the field is usually extremely hectic and filled with 12-18 hour working days that blend seamlessly together. I suspect this week is also going to be busy, but Nature has offered an olive branch in the shape of an early break-up of the sea ice, so I'm taking a moment to write a few things down.
http://sternaparadisaea.net/2025/05/24/field-diary-2025/
My regular Monday contribution at the blog Balloon Juice.
#Birds
Last night, exactly a week after his military parade fizzled and more than five million Americans turned ... (Heather Cox Richardson/Letters from an American)
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/june-22-2025
http://www.memeorandum.com/250623/p44#a250623p44
@… Al ongeveer een week ofzo krijg ik bij het lezen van teletekst na enkele keren >>: Pagina 113-2 niet beschikbaar.
Gaat iemand dit nog een keer ontdekken en oplossen? De feedback optie op nos.nl blijft ook hangen.
#teletekst
A bit baffled by my colleagues' and students' helplessness regarding "new" digital tools - considering that my grandpa, who is turning 97 in a week and is almost blind, is reading a lot of online news and tutorials ("TV is boring"), still sends e-cards for all our birthdays, recalculates all his care bills with a huge Excel table, and apparently has a LinkedIn account (he hasn't worked since 1990) 🤷♀️
(edit: typo)
This is the second time I've gone to Stone Creek Coffee in the past week to find out that they closed 5 hours early.
#FotoDerWoche zur Sommersonennwende. Happy Solstice!
https://blog.till-westermayer.de/index.php/2025/06/21/photo-of-the-week-summer-evening/…
‘This is about more than burgers and fries’: Boycott of McDonald’s to begin this week | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/mcdonalds-boycott-2025-dei-taxes-price-gouging-when-b2775624.html
(1/3) Our daughter, Rachel, participated in a podcast last week in Colorado Springs at the “Innovation Hub” where she has been working in an internship as an astronautical engineering major, “doing Space Force things.” Check it out:
“That's So Cadet with Rachel Fryer and Lucan Keyser, USAFA CSRP Interns®”
https:/…
Time For 9 o'clock #HashTagGames hosted by @…
We lost George Wendt, the actor who played NORM! on Cheers, this week. In remembrance, Let's play!
#FictionalCharactersLastWords
♫ Top 5 artists of the Last.week: Casiopea (12) Daft Punk (2) Gorillaz (2) Gwen Stefani (2) Jamiroquai (2). #myweekcounted 35 Scrobbles with Lastfm #music via @…
@… @… I have to pick one!?
I subscribe to many webcomics, and I love them all, but the one that brings me the most joy every (week)day is Questionable Content.
😑
AI Slop: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWpg1RmzAbc
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
--Tech-facilitated intimate partner stalking is rampant,
--Algorithms trap users in right-wing hatred,
--Pavel Durov denies he's a buddy of Putin,
--Musk lied to grab Social Security data,
--DOGE damaged the VA with a bad AI syst…
Thanks to everyone who recommended La Residencia to me a week or two ago. Yesterday, I witnessed amazing band Oust playing live. Seriously, one of the best fucking bands I've heard live in a long time. @…
#laResidencia
April 30th will be 3 years that I've been with @…. While the dating anniversary is superseded by the engagement anniversary, it is still quite amazing to look back on the last 3 years. What a wild ride and I am excited to celebrate the day with him in-person next week!
"Activists from the UK action group Everyone hates Elon and Greenpeace Italy unfolded a giant 20x20m banner reading “If you can rent Venice for your wedding, you can pay more tax” on Piazza San Marco, as Jeff Bezos is due to celebrate his reportedly multi-million wedding in the lagoon city this week."
https://m…
🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#RoundMidnight
- Terri Lyne Carrington’s 4/4
The pioneering American drummer, producer and educator has four albums to share this week.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002djtk
Last week of this school term starts today for me. It feels good to be able to relax a little. All of the major assignments and projects are done and turned in. The best part is that I'm at the halfway point now, and almost completely done with GE requirements. Next term I get two computer science courses for the first time since starting on this journey.
*IT* was already delivered today. 5 days before FedEx ETA and just on time to illuminate my week-end :)
John Oliver's Last Week Tonight looks at AI slop, how it corrodes the concept of objective reality, the slop economy, tech leaders' enthusiasm for gen AI, more (LastWeekTonight on YouTube)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWpg1RmzAbc
I hate spam as much as you do, but sometimes I have to admire technical prowess.
https://www.theverge.com/microsoft/673568/microsoft-palestine-email-block-defeated-employee
I'm sharing a presentation I gave at my workspace last week: "LLMs, GenAI... should we?"
Just for fun, I converted what was an ODP presentation into Markdown that my Jekyll blog could display as a regular article, then materialized the slides as such, and finally I added a slideshow feature.
I'm thinking of making a presenter mode where one window would display the slideshow, while another would display the presenter's notes, as well as the previous & ne…
W00t!
Another installment of the Java Geek Weekly; a whole week of curated content by your humble servant 😊
https://blog.frankel.ch/java-geek-weekly/85/
[Blog] Peroquet : Luuuuuuuuuuuuuuuudiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiikon 2025
#convention
https://debellum.hirlimann.net/index.p
Past week statistics for faction war.
Check more info in the ALT text in the attached screenshot or just look at the screenshot 😄
Editing to take a glimpse at the guild "Mastodon Fediverse Unity" ... 3/7 online...
#MastodonFedivers #AlbionOnline
Having non-negotiables is also a really helpful hack when you are dealing with executive dysfunction https://www.overcomecompulsivehoarding.co.
Kinda cool to see the programme for the UN's open source week... https://www.un.org/digital-emerging-technologies/content/open-source-week-2025 but, of course, it's already almost entirely co-opted by corporate interests. They shit on ev…
#EroticMusings week 4: Is your MC the kind of person you’d want a relationship with? How would they feel about you?
Thinking just of OCs, no, I wouldn't wanna date them and they probably wouldn't want me either. And the gods... no, the risk it won't end well is just too high 😳
The Cowboys 1st must win comes in week 3 against Chicago https://insidethestar.com/the-cowboys-1st-must-win-comes-in-week-3-against-chicago
Watched Severance, both seasons over the course of a week or so. Late to the party there I'm sure.
Wiping your memory when you walk into another room and wondering why you are in there is just a part of getting old I'm afraid 😆
You'd think the innie work personas would object and rebel more really, more like Hellany than the rest. Innies don't get paid, don't get to spend the wages. Pretty easy to get fired from a job really, just don't do the work.
Interesting that nobody was a different sexuality inside vs out, guess that's just fixed by biology huh? No transgender innies either. Maybe that's for season three.
Don't really get Helen's motivation for getting severed at all. Can't go under cover if you wipe your own memory. Can surely do a better job of it all from the outside.
Anyway. Gripping and stylish show, good fun. Nearly as good as everyone says it is.
#watching #tv #severance
Home again, after a week and some. Today I made biscuits! Egg and bacon, tea and coffee. Work, transit board meeting, and play at our local Spanish-language theater tonight: “La Dama Boba” #TogetherBreakfast https://photos.app.goo.gl/7S7RtWAatP5Ps1ZN8
Last week I watched a new apprentice take 15 minutes to type a simple email – using the eagle-search system, eyes glued to the keyboard.
Over 12 years of #school education behind them, able to analyze Shakespeare and solve math problems, but typing as if they're seeing a computer for the first time!
HOW is it possible that in 2025 we are still producing graduates who can…
A potentially mutating bat virus has some scientists worried about the next pandemic | The Week
https://theweek.com/science/mutating-bat-virus-pandemic
Anyone else rooting for YouTuber Tristan Jass to make it as a pro baller?
▶️My First Week As A Pro Basketball Player!
https:// youtube.com/watch?v=HI2AQyzjITw&si=T5k3wcemoa1Yl4Iw
#tristanjass #vancouver
shiiiit, een week voor onze 6-weekse tocht door Ierland breekt de autosleutel 😭
I ordered a #motorcycle permit for work, last week. I don't think that I'm going to be using it, tomorrow.
The Economist this week:
"MAGA'S assault on science is an act of grievous self-harm — America will pay the price most of all"
Raiders Are In for a Tough Matchup in Week 11 https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/las-vegas-dallas-cowboys-pete-carroll-geno-smith-ashton-jeanty
Back home after a week away to see family and itching to get back to work on the Small Web on Monday.
Expect an exciting update soon :)
:kitten: 💕
#SmallWeb #SmallTech #humanRights…
This week instead of a playlist with random rock/metal stuff, I'm working on Progressive Metal playlists. :blobkeyboard:
First one has:
- "Tiara" by "Seventh Wonder"
- "The Waking Hour" by "Age of Artemis"
- "Secret Garden" by "Angra"
- "V: The New Mythology Suite" by "Symphony X"
- "Contingent" by "Pyramaze"
(no Dream Theater, sorry!)
YT Music: …
Today I cycled 25km (but 750 elevation difference uphill) from Rohrbach to Wenigzell, where I'll spend the next week on a fitness training program focusing on (against?) back pain, mostly paid for by my health insurance.
Friday Links 25-08
Pocket is a big part of how I collect the links for the Friday Links. Sadly, Mozilla has decided to shut Pocket down. My plan is to migrate to Readwise Reader, which seems to be a reasonable replacement. I am now migrating some of my helper scripts to make the change easier. You will see next week if I will be successful. :-)
Respekt.
„Schüler und Eltern sind am vergangenen Wochenende Zeugen der Angriffe auf das Vielfalt-Fest in #BadFreienwalde geworden. Von einer Aktionswoche wollten sie sich deshalb aber nicht abbringen lassen.“
„Elternsprecher Wolfram Schwelgin hat eigenen Angaben zufolge selbst einen Faustschlag von einem Angreifer abbekommen. Deshalb an der Schule die Pride Week abzusagen, sei…
This Week in Sports Trivia: June 19, 2025 https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6432672/2025/06/19/this-week-in-sports-trivia-june-19-2025/
Good morning! Here's a photo from my bike and hike last week (video and photos still pending) to the #Benediktenwand
I started cycling at 7am and saw this scene when the ☀️ peeked over the mountains. I passed a photographer a couple of minutes earlier who discovered a chamois in the distance, we had a quick chat and continued our ways.
To me it's just a good motive f…
i'm afraid that the #technoilliterocrats in the eu institutions are exactly this kind of #businessidiot described in this post, where every paragraph is a banger:
Oren Cass has a knack for reverse engineering a reasoned explanation for Trump’s latest policy, only to fall out of sync when it turns out Trump doesn’t work that way.
Here he is last week lamenting how “commentators stuck in the old world seem confused” in worrying about the US being dragged into a war with Iran. Instead, he explains confidently, Israel will “handle its own business”, while an “America First” US will “step back from conflicts in the Middle East”.
U2 have won the fellowship of the Ivor Novello songwriting academy.
You can see why when you consider songs such as their popular tribute to the horror of Sundays - those awful anxieties you feel prior to the start of the working week.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CkeDjLZMRRk…
Excited to be travelling to Paris next week (train obviously) to attend the Sunbelt conference of the International Network of Social Network Analysis
It's my first Sunbelt since 2019 and I'm really looking forward to connecting with people and learning about latest research
#Sunbelt2025
Israel-Iran air war enters second week as Europe pushes diplomacy (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israel-iran-air-war-enters-second-week-europe-pushes-diplomacy-2025-06-20/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250620/p54#a250620p54
When I heard the news that the US bombed Iran. I had to remind myself of what I witnessed this past week - millions of people turned out for #NoKings. Three retiree women in a coffee shop planning their resistance. And these fiber art designs in Lanesboro, MN I saw this weekend. (Shout out to Driftless Fiber Arts) Not the kind of town where you'd expect to see resistance art or pride parad…
To give some examples:
When police get vastly differential results at investigating crimes against some groups (e.g., Black women) vs. others (e.g., white men), that's malcompetence. Probably plenty of simple malice involved too, and probably the whole gamut of mechanisms I mentioned in the last post are involved here.
Another example, from my own experience: when I stumble over the names of my non-white students but pronounce my white students' names flawlessly, that's malcompetence on my part, because the net effect of my selective incompetence is to make some students feel less welcome in my classroom, which hurts their learning. I'm my case, the reasons for the incompetence are not conscious nor (I think) unconscious malice, but instead a differential capability picked up from a certain kind of upbringing and then (sometimes) insufficiently mitigated by capability-building effort. Because of how I grew up, my ability to pronounce different names is biased (this is true of everyone in the world; most people don't have a classroom instructor position that causes it to matter so much). When I'm successful at mitigating my malcompetence, I use practice time with student intro videos to pare down my competence gap for the specific students in my class. This is time consuming (several hours per week for the first few weeks of classes) and I'm sad to admit that I don't always invest that time. But it's a great example of malcompetence because I have a introspective access to it.
For the last four weeks north west England has been bathed in non-stop sunshine. It's been terrible for farmers, gardeners, and the countryside generally, but beautiful weather to just be out and about in.
Anyway, the rains have finally arrived and according to the forecast it's going to be pretty much non-stop rainfall for the next week or so.
Guess whose holiday in the Lake District starts today ...
(Pah, I have tons of wet weather clothes, it'll be fine!)
A Week Of Vegan Dinners That Everyone Will Love #plantbased
The Republican Majority on the Senate Banking Committee released a press release Friday confirming that they were intentionally eliminating
the “duplicative Office of Financial Research (OFR)”.
According to sources I’ve talked to in the Senate, Republican committee members have shown little concern with the elimination of the Office of Financial Research.
They also seem aware of the concerns over SOFR, because both their “one pager” and “section by section” documents clai…
In less than a week I'll be spending a month with @…. This will the longest I've ever been away. Very excited for the trip and looking forward to celebrating my college graduation with him.
This week, we’re leveraging some #NWOBHM nostalgia with a pick from the underrated Tokyo Blade!
It’s got all the classic ingredients that you love / know / yearn for and it flies the flag for one of metal’s most exciting eras. Give it a spin, check out our musings, and as always, don't forget to follow us for your weekly dose of
2025 CFL picks, betting odds, predictions: Proven expert reveals predictions for every game on Week 3 schedule
https://www.cbssports.com/b…
Raiders Looking to Keep Up Impressive Win Streak in 2025 https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/las-vegas-shedeur-sanders-cleveland-browns-geno-smith-pete-carroll
6/23/25 ☀️ AM: ... Congress is back this week for what can only be described ... (Punchbowl News)
https://punchbowl.news/archive/62325-am/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250623/p8#a250623p8
Sources: Apple is locked in last-minute EU negotiations over App Store changes to avoid fines set for this week, and is expected to offer "steering" concessions (Barbara Moens/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/b5d51870-e864-4aa5-b998-c0d2994a7e2…
Marie made drop biscuits, egg and bacon, tea and coffee. Busy week starts with Lucy Dacus in Boston tonight! #TogetherBreakfast https://photos.app.goo.gl/MRjKH9N79NYHfGDAA
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 the SEC missed the likely culprits in its 2017 hack,
--How a quiet engineer controls Telegram,
--When a Canadian teen spied for Russia,
--Cybercrime group document shows that Russia doubts China,
--Modern militaries rely on li…
Skill players headline my personal Dallas Cowboys All-Quarter Century team https://insidethestar.com/skill-players-headline-my-personal-dallas-cowboys-all-quarter-century-team
Oracle stock jumped 24% this week, its best performance since 2001, and is up 29% in 2025, vs. Nasdaq's 1%, after the company reported cloud momentum (Jordan Novet/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/13/oracles-stock-on-pace…
It's Esther Kim Varet,
Democrat running to flip blue California's closest Republican held seat.
We know the Republicans are scared of my brand of leadership, because they've already started attacking me online.
This week my opponent announced that she wants to work with Trump to sell federal parks to pay for tax cuts for their friends.
It's unacceptable.
My opponent is powered by billionaires,
but I'm powered by you.
Can you …
NFL overreactions from the first week of minicamp, plus stadium drama and an interview with Barry Sanders
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/nfl-…
After an ugly week, an ugly bill (Jennifer Rubin/The Contrarian)
https://contrarian.substack.com/p/after-an-ugly-week-an-ugly-bill
http://www.memeorandum.com/250616/p35#a250616p35
How Will the Raiders Fare Against the Chiefs in 2025? https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/las-vegas-andy-reid-patrick-mahomes-pete-carroll-geno-smith
The “Appeal to Heaven” flag,
a popular symbol for Christian nationalists that was waved by January 6 rioters,
was raised over the Small Business Administration headquarters last week.
https://www.wired.com/story/far-right-appeal-to…
My mum & sister and nephew were up here visiting us today. So we took them to Chester where we had a good mooch around the shops and the city walls. As well as tea and cakes, of course.
Then home via the Ice Cream Farm, and then later we went out to the always excellent Yum Cha dim sum restaurant in Warrington.
I don't think I'll need to eat for a week after today!
Trump's Two-Week Window for Diplomacy Was a Smoke Screen (The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/06/trump-israel-iran-bomb/683275/?gift=kPTlqn0J1iP9IBZcsdI5Ie8uG5lCCjj8j4qVMruuL_s
http://www.memeorandum.com/250622/p3#a250622p3
Eagles' Jeremiah Trotter Jr. seizing first-team opportunity; how likely will linebacker start in Week 1?
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/eagle…
The House will vote next week on a resolution “condemning the violent June 2025 riots in Los Angeles, California,”
sponsored by California GOP Rep. Young Kim.
Protests against sweeping immigration raids, deportations and detentions swelled in the Democratic stronghold earlier this month amid Donald Trump’s broader immigration crackdown.
Trump deployed Marines and the National Guard in a move harshly criticized by Democrats and resulting in a lawsuit from the state of Calif…
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/
Colts to induct late owner Jim Irsay into Ring of Honor during Week 1 game vs. Dolphins https://www.nfl.com/news/colts-induct-jim-irsay-ring-of-honor-week-1-game-dolphins
Jets' Johnson fired up for Week 1 Rodgers reunion https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45487606/jets-de-johnson-set-week-1-return-eager-face-rodgers
2025 CFL picks, betting odds, predictions: Proven expert reveals predictions for every game on Week 2 schedule
https://www.cbssports.com/b…