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“Pivot to AI itself got hit by an AI scraper bot over the weekend! Thankfully the scoundrels who vibe-code these things are idiots.”
➡️ https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/06/02/fighting-the-ai-scraper-bots-at-pivot-to-ai-and-rationalwiki/…

Fighting the AI scraper bots at Pivot to AI and RationalWiki
We’ve covered the AI scraper bots before. These just hit web pages over and over, at high speed, to scrape new training data for LLMs. They’re an absolute plague across the whole World Wide Web and…

This Weekend in Politics, Bulletin 142. (Ron Filipkowski/Meidas )
https://www.meidasplus.com/p/this-weekend-in-politics-bulletin-441
http://www.memeorandum.com/250602/p2#a250602p2

There’s no rain in the forecast for Flin Flon, Manitoba over the next week as crews there fight a wildfire that’s raging nearby.
Temperatures throughout the weekend are expecting to range from the low to high 20s, before cooling off.
Thousands have evacuated the northwestern Manitoba city, including municipal government officials and health-care professionals.

No rain forecast as crews battle Flin Flon wildfire
Thousands have evacuated the northwestern Manitoba city, including municipal government officials and healthcare professionals. So far, the wildfires have displaced over 17,000.

At a certain age, the paperwork you have at home is enormous. Official letters, invoices, prescriptions... But, of course, there is a self-hosted application that helps you manage all that clutter.
At the moment, I already have Paperless installed on the server using Docker. I'll leave for the weekend its configuration, testing its ocr (wow!) and its app for Android.
#selfhosting

Today, in a conclusion to my very political weekend, I shall see the brothers Semsrott

Does anyone who uses nasal pillows find they get pressure on the septum? Sometimes it can get quite uncomfortable and tonight it's been bad enough to have to take the mask off and could be what's wakened me. Other nights it's not such a problem. Is this a known issue? I'm not aware that I have a particularly huge septum 😄 Mask is a small. #cpap

EU science advisers slam Brussels' weakened 2040 climate plans (Zia Weise/Politico)
https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-science-adviser-slam-brussels-weakened-2040-climate-goal-hoekstra-carbon-credits/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250602/p19#a250602p19

In Los Angeles wird es am Wochenende heiß und feucht. Temperaturen bis über 37 Grad werden in den Tälern und Wüsten erwartet.
Dazu kommt #tropische Feuchtigkeit durch #Sturm Alvin, was lokal zu #Gewittern

California heat wave expected to break records this weekend
Large swaths of California are under heat advisories Friday and Saturday with officials cautioning against outdoor activities in triple-digit areas.

Abstract Wikipedia was selected as a finalist for the MacArthur Foundation's 100&Change competition.
https://diff.wikimedia.org/2025/04/30/abstract-wikipedia-is-a-100change-finalist/

Acting head of FEMA said he wasn't aware U.S. has a hurricane season, sources say (Nicole Sganga/CBS News)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/fema-head-wasnt-aware-hurricane-season/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250602/p145#a250602p145