
2025-07-01 13:10:00
Will Musicians Ever Rule the World?
It's a silly headline, but a sweet article (with music videos and such). Check it out.
https://muz4now.com/2020/will-musicians-ever-rule-the-world/
Nahost, aber anders.
„Der Innenminister plant demnach ein Zentrum für deutsch-israelische Cyberforschung. Außerdem solle die Zusammenarbeit der deutschen und israelischen Geheimdienste und Sicherheitsbehörden sowie bei der Cyberabwehr ausgebaut werden.“
https://www.
Tariffs will pay for tax cuts?
-- The White House can’t be serious.
After passing tax cuts that will likely cost $5.5 trillion over the coming decade, the Trump administration is under increasing pressure to rein in soaring budget deficits. So what’s the plan? Tariffs, tariffs and more tariffs.
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick recently claimed on CBS’s “Face the Nation” that tariff revenue “is going to pay off our deficit.”
Administration estimates of 10-year tari…
5 Inspiring Documentaries That Will Make You Want to Go Vegan https://veganfta.com/blog/2025/06/13/5-inspiring-documentaries-that-will-make-you-want-to-go-vegan/?utm_source=Mastodon
Reddit will zur Suchmaschine werden
Nicht nur OpenAI und Perplexity werden zur Konkurrenz für Google. Auch Reddit schickt sich an, eine Suchemaschine zu werden.
https://www.heise.de/news/Reddit-will-zur-…
X will start to publish Community Notes written by AI agents; developers will soon be able to submit their own "fact-checking" AI agents for review (Kurt Wagner/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
Micah Parsons Next Team Odds: Will Cowboys Trade Star DE? https://www.foxsports.com/stories/nfl/micah-parsons-next-team-odds-will-cowboys-trade-star-de
Amid Russian economy warnings, Lavrov says NATO's increased defense spending will lead to 'collapse' of alliance: https://benborges.xyz/2025/06/30/amid-russian-economy-warnings-lavrov.html
Woof. 5 years since I kicked off my “[overlay] Will Get You Sued” series, which helped lead to a million dollar fine earlier this year by the FTC against accessiBe for its constant lies.
https://bsky.app/profile/overlaytimeline.com/post/3lss6jbuwec27
Why isn't this considered wage theft? "“All Common Stock will be canceled for no consideration and all Options will be canceled and extinguished for no consideration,” "
Apparently employees were given stock options, and were encouraged to buy stock - ALL shares held by employees were Common Stock. When Private Equity bought the company, the shares were declared worthless (of course the the CEO, etc all will receive payouts).
Why isn't this considered wage theft? "“All Common Stock will be canceled for no consideration and all Options will be canceled and extinguished for no consideration,” "
Apparently employees were given stock options, and were encouraged to buy stock - ALL shares held by employees were Common Stock. When Private Equity bought the company, the shares were declared worthless (of course the the CEO, etc all will receive payouts).
From TransLink
The Pattullo Bridge will be partially closed to traffic three nights in a row next week so crews can perform scheduled maintenance work.
The bridge will be closed to vehicles travelling southbound into Surrey for three consecutive nights from August 5 to 7 between 9 pm and 5 am.
During these nights equipment will be blocking some lanes of traffic requiring directional closures to vehicles. The bridge will remain open at all times for pedestrians, cyclists, an…
Will Steelers move Jalen Ramsey to safety? Here are Pittsburgh's options after trading away Minkah Fitzpatrick
https://www.cbssports.com/…
X will start to publish Community Notes written by AI agents; developers will soon be able to submit their own "fact-checking" AI agents for review (Kurt Wagner/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
The year 2038 will be "interesting".
At 03:14:07 UTC on 19 January 2038 we will hit what may be the real Y2K problem.
And will the US exist as a single nation-state in the year 2038? (I have serious doubts.)
They Will Not Kill Us Without A Fight
https://ourmoralmoment.substack.com/p/they-will-not-kill-us-without-a-fight
They Will Not Kill Us Without A Fight (Our Moral Moment w/ Bishop William ...)
https://ourmoralmoment.substack.com/p/they-will-not-kill-us-without-a-fight
http://www.memeorandum.com/250701/p34#a250701p34
I would really like to understand the productivity claims of "AI" for normal office workers.
If you summarize all emails with unreliable technology, you will miss important things; so in order to not fail at your job when your company now pays for "AI" you will have to read "AI" summaries _and_ all the whole emails?
Where's the savings in time and money there exactly? Last time I checked addition makes things larger?
I guess I'm a naive luddite.
Dolphins are trading with Giants for tight end Darren Waller, who will come out of retirement https://www.foxsports.com/articles/nfl/dolphins-are-trading-with-giants-for-tight-end-darren-waller-who-will-…
Because firing the head of BLS for reporting bad numbers will cascade through the BLS, *ending* our capacity for trustworthy numbers. Lacking a commonly agreed-upon set of facts, markets will be more volatile and every loan will have a higher interest rate because of the uncertainty.
Inequity of information is terrible for markets. https://
Today is house meeting day for us at DMI as we find out where the state's budget cuts will land and who will be affected (i.e. made redundant).
Coincidentally, one of our #Ukraine #AntarcticScience centre colleagues has just sent us a draft deliverable report to review.
They apologise for lack of polish (it's actually really good! And very interesting science looking at climate change impacts in Antarctica) and they appended this photo of their apartment block after a visit by a Russian drone last week.
And suddenly, Danish state budget cuts seem much less worse...
And now I am going to find someone to swear at.
A good friend of mine has the Muppet character "Beaker" as his avatar. For reasons.
He offers me advice. I offer him advice. We chat. These are #ChatsWithBeaker
#PaloAlto #CyberArk
Qualcomm will ab 2028 AMD und Intel bei Servern Konkurrenz machen
Qualcomm bereitet seine Serveroffensive vor. Mit Oryon-Kernen und Chiplets geht es gegen AMD und Intel.
https://www.
I'm starting my glider project! It will be slow progress in fits and spurts but I'll update progress here as I go.
It will be awkward, because I haven't written code in 5 years.
This is the idea that I'm attempting to implement:
https://infosec.exchange/@saraislet/11
Supreme Court will hear challenge to limits on political party spending
The Supreme Court will hear a significant campaign finance case next term
that will examine whether it violates the Constitution to restrict the amount of money that political parties can spend in coordination with individual candidates.
The national Republican senatorial and congressional committees,
then-Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio)
and then-Rep. Steve Chabot (R-Ohio) filed suit over the limits…
A guy I know said he just got his teen an ebike, and got it from TST Group.
Anyone know anything about them? Are they good or garbage? (He did not do any research ahead of time.)
Will he have issues finding a shop that will do repairs or maintenance if needed?
https://tstebike.com/
Made in USA: Apple gibt kleinen Herstellern Tipps
Das dürfte der Trump-Regierung gefallen: In Detroit eröffnet bald die "Apple Manufacturing Academy", in der Apple Fabrikantenwissen teilen will.
https://www.
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
Stevie Wonder:
🎵 I Believe (When I Fall in Love It Will Be Forever)
#StevieWonder
https://danielevans.bandcamp.com/track/i-believe-when-i-fall-in-love-it-will-be-forever-stevie-wonder-cover
Die Begründung, man wolle denjenigen gegenüber fair sein, "die jeden Morgen aufstehen", bedient das Narrativ, #Bürgergeldempfänger seien leistungsunwillig.
Das fördert eine #Stigmatisierung von
Wadephul will in Indien über Ukraine-Krieg sprechen
Außenminister Johann Wadephul hat vor seiner Abreise nach Indien für einen deutlichen Ausbau der strategischen Partnerschaft mit dem südasiatischen Land geworben. Indien sei für Deutschland "ein in jeglicher Hinsicht strategischer Partner im Indopazifik und zentral im System globaler Partnerschaften", erklärte Wadephul.
Als Demokratien und "natürliche Partner" wollten beide…
📑
Tomorrow, we will dive deeper into ontologies with OWL, the Web Ontology Language. However, I'm doing OWL-lectures now for almost 20 years - and OWL as well as the lecture haven't changed much. So, I'm afraid I'm going to surprise/dissapoint the students tomorrow, when I will switch off the presentation and start improvising a random OWL ontology with them on the blackboard ;-)
#ise2025
Google says it will preserve "actively used" goo.gl URLs, after announcing earlier that all existing goo.gl links would stop working in August 2025 (Abner Li/9to5Google)
https://9to5google.com/2025/08/01/google-goo-gl-links-shortener/
Tidal is getting over run with AI bullshit. It's slowly making the app not worth paying for.
https://www.reddit.com/r/TIdaL/comments/1l4seae/when_will_this_crap_end_no/
Starting with August 25th 2025, #Google shuts down yet another very popular service: #URLshortener goo.gl
Billions of links will go dead.
Background:
📢 Grenze zu Deutschland: Polen führt am Montag vorübergehend Kontrollen ein
Polen will vorübergehend Kontrollen an der Grenze zu Deutschland einführen. Eine entsprechende Anordnung trete ab Montag in Kraft, sagte Regierungschef Tusk nach einer Kabinettssitzung.
➡️ https://www.
The financial AI bubble will burst, companies will go broke, investments will be lost, there will be a large consolidation phase, as with every wave of innovation. But there is not any signal that the actual use and application of GenAI will decline. We struggle with finding added value, using them in the right way, mitigating the risks, that is the main challenge.
#AI
Hehehehehehe.
Isto sair hoje é *chef's kiss*
https://assortedflotsam.com/@NewsBot/114608159268017548
Just read that Mozilla has decided to shut down Pocket (!?!). Its integration with Kobo e-readers is great and something I will miss. It will be difficult to find a similarly practical way to read web articles on my e-reader, other than the somewhat clunky pdf-saving cloud sync method. Any tips much welcome!
According to my napkin estimations, and also assuming (unreasonably) that we will have cracked 100% fusion efficiency of E=mc² within the next few weeks, humans will have burned up the entire mantle of the Earth in approximately 2200 years.
This is using the 2023 figures for present use (15000 Mtoe, ie about 7 tonnes annually) and its 2.2% growth rate which, while suddenly up from the long standing 1.5%, is largely pre-LLMs.
Wave your flags and waive your fate
The freedom you claim is the one you hate
The victory you seek will never come
Brutal views through brutal eyes
See no future, hear no lies
Speak no truth to me or the people I love
When I grow up I want to be
All the things you've never been
And your opinion will count for none <-- #StyleCouncilForevah
"A new aviation solidarity coalition on premium flyers (first- and business- class tickets, and private jets) has been launched today at FFD4 by France, Kenya, Barbados, Spain, Somalia, Benin, Sierra Leone and Antigua & Barbuda. It will be supported by the European Commission"
Eight countries launch solidarity coalition for levies on premium flyers | Global Solidarity Levies Task Force
Better late than never I suppose.
"An investigation into how a 35-year-old was physically harmed while being placed under arrest at a pro-Palestinian protest will begin after NSW Police declared the situation a critical incident."
https://www.abc.n…
Eventually, AI-generated audiences will purchase NFTs offered by AI-generated programs using AI-generated money...
Amazon Invests In 'Netflix of AI' Start-Up Fable, Which Lets You Make Your Own TV Shows
https://slashdot.org/story/444998
Please Note: If you receive a reply that looks like this, it is fake and a malicious scam. Do not click on the links in the post. Report the post for spam to the Pawb moderation team and we will handle it.
Mastodon will never ask for your identification on our servers (or in general). On Pawb servers, we control the operations and we also will not ask for identification in this manner either. If that was required for some reason, we would contact the user directly and …
3 players who will benefit the most from adding George Pickens https://insidethestar.com/3-players-who-will-benefit-the-most-from-adding-george-pickens
#Vancouver Gastown Public Spaces survey
Take the survey and share your experience of the following neighbourhood changes:
Public space enhancements on Water Street
Two-way Cordova Street
Sunday pedestrian zone (10 am to 6 pm)
NFL players will no longer be punished for using this celebration that led to a penalty in 2024
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/nfl-pla
A US Senator secured $9.4M for 35 Native American radio stations and one TV station but the loss of CPB's systemwide support will make operating costs go up (Kathryn Squyres/Current)
https://current.org/2025/07/why-a-senators-side-deal…
Trump says he will order voter ID requirement for every vote (Ismail Shakil/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-says-he-will-order-voter-id-requirement-every-vote-2025-08-31/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250831/p66#a250831p66
Sam Altman said in a memo to staff, "missionaries will beat mercenaries" and "I believe there is much, much more upside to OpenAI stock than Meta stock" (Zoë Schiffer/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/sam-altman-meta-ai-ta…
This terrible, terrible bill is going to do direct, material harm to the country
- our health care system is going to be weakened,
- close to 100m people will be paying more for health care or lose their insurance,
- tens of millions will struggle to eat,
- our existential transition to a clean energy future undermined,
- an unprecedented domestic political police force will be established,
- the fiscal integrity of the United States will be in jeopardy t…
#Sanktionen berim #Bürgergeld bei Pflichtverstößen sind rechtlich grundsätzlich zulässig.
Doch eine Erhöhung von 10 % auf 30 % Kürzung bei versäumten Terminen stellt eine drastische Maßnahme dar. Sie berücksichtigt nicht die realen Lebensumstände vieler Leistungsbeziehender, etwa:…
These 2 receivers will battle for a critical roster spot https://insidethestar.com/these-2-receivers-will-battle-for-a-critical-roster-spot
Eagles legend Brandon Graham explains why there will be 'no Super Bowl hangover' for Philadelphia
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/eagles-
Kremlchef Putin trifft Chinas Staatschef Xi in Peking
Chinas Staatschef Xi Jinping will morgen nach Angaben des Kremls Russlands Präsidenten Putin in der chinesischen Hauptstadt Peking zu bilateralen Gesprächen empfangen. Putins außenpolitischer Berater Juri Uschakow hatte vor der viertägigen China-Reise des Kremlchefs ein solches Treffen in Aussicht gestellt. Nähere Details zu dem Treffen lagen zunächst nicht vor.
China und…
📑
Evans Announces He Won't Seek Re-Election, Will Serve Full Term Ending Jan. 3, 2027 (Representative Dwight Evans)
https://evans.house.gov/media/press-releases/evans-announces-he-wont-seek-re-election-will-serve-full-term-ending-jan-3
http://www.memeorandum.com/250630/p76#a250630p76
Yes. We are.
The next epidemic *will affect you* before the mass media has received any mention of it from the Federal government.
It will be like AIDS except that the ignored dead will be everyone instead of just gays, drug injectors, and Haitians.
https://
Join us for a casual Scrappy Hour bike ride on Sunday, August 31st. 🚴♀️
We'll roll out from Rocket Baby just after 9am and head to the Domes... There's about four or five of us so far but we welcome anyone to join us! 🚴
https://www.instagram.com/p/DNvbxVRXHS1/
Russia is preparing for a confrontation with NATO: will Europe have time to prepare? #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/01/russia-is-preparing-for-a.html
I’m always consumed by the same question:
How will this endless, brutal spectacle of killing finally end?
Will it be like a movie
— justice prevailing, liberation won, goodness triumphing over evil?
Will the ending even be worthy of the horrors we’ve endured?
Or will it all fade away in an open-ended scene, full of unknowns, unanswered questions, and the absence of closure?
Will I make it to the final scene?
AOr will my story be abruptly cut short,…
Dallas Cowboys will be walking into the Lions’ den in Week 14 https://insidethestar.com/dallas-cowboys-will-be-walking-into-the-lions-den-in-week-14
Das #Bürgergeld soll das soziokulturelle #Existenzminimum sichern – nicht nur das physische Überleben, sondern auch die Teilhabe am gesellschaftlichen Leben ermöglichen.
Eine Nullrunde in Zeiten weiterhin steigender
NASA says its NASA live programming will be available on Netflix starting this summer; it will be still available on NASA's app and site for free without ads (Lauren E. Low/NASA)
https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/nasa-is-coming-to-netflix-this-summer/…
Spotify updates its Discover Weekly playlist after ten years, adding new genre filters for Premium users, and says users streamed 100B tracks via the playlist (Amanda Silberling/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/30/spot…
Raiders Will Close Out the 2025 Season With a Win https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/las-vegas-jaxson-dart-pete-carroll-new-york-giants
Einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Facebook will an unveröffentlichte Bilder auf Smartphones
Spotify updates its Discover Weekly playlist after ten years, adding new genre filters for Premium users, and says users streamed 100B tracks via the playlist (Amanda Silberling/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/30/spot…
Declassified intel ties Soros to Clinton's Russiagate plan for FBI to 'put more oil into the fire' (Jerry Dunleavy/Just The News)
https://justthenews.com/government/federal-agencies/clinton-plan-tying-trump-russia-had-hope-fbi-will-put-more-oil-fire
http://www.memeorandum.com/250731/p67#a250731p67
250 international media outlets protest Gaza journalist deaths,
‘At the rate journalists are being killed in Gaza by the Israeli army, there will soon be no-one left to keep you informed,’ says Reporters Without Borders, amid front-page protest
https://www.
NBCU reports Q2 revenue up 2% YoY to $6.44B; Peacock had 41M subscribers, a $101M loss, down from $348M in Q2 2024, and revenue grew 18% YoY to $1.2B (Lillian Rizzo/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/31/comcast-cmcsa-earnings-q2-2025.html
Cowboys, playoff hopes will walk into the Lions Den in Week 14 https://insidethestar.com/cowboys-playoff-hopes-will-walk-into-the-lions-den-in-week-14
SANTA BARBARA — On Labor Day, Monday, September 1, at 11:00 a.m., community members will gather at De La Guerra Plaza in Santa Barbara as part of a nationwide day of protest to honor working people and stand strong against billionaire exploitation and corporate domination.
Across the country, workers, students, parents, and neighbors are rising up to demand dignity, justice, and investment in people
— not billionaire empires.
The Santa Barbara event will include protest song…
Bosch: Milliarden-Übernahme im Klimageschäft abgeschlossen
Bosch kauft für Milliarden das Heizungs- und Klimatechnikgeschäft eines Konkurrenten. Davon will der Konzern in den USA und Asien profitieren.
https://w…
A single paragraph buried deep in a spending bill that passed the GOP-controlled House of Representatives earlier this month is causing growing concern among democracy watchdogs
-- who warn the provision will make it so only the well-to-do would be in a good position to launch legal challenges against a Trump administration that has shown over and over again its disdain and disregard for oversight or judicial restraint of any kind.
Coming just about half-way through what Presiden…
Hi, I’m Bridget Brink
-- the first female ambassador to serve in a warzone
as our Ambassador to Ukraine.
I just launched my campaign to flip Michigan's 7th congressional district.
Help us take back the House because we need leaders that deliver for the American people.
My first FEC public filing deadline of the campaign is Monday at midnight.
This deadline will set the tone for our entire campaign.
Will you join me and rush a contribution to…
Windows 11: Microsoft will den Bluetooth-Klang verbessern
Der Qualitätsabbruch in Sprach-Chats über Bluetooth-Headsets soll ein Ende haben. Microsoft will Bluetooth LE Audio in Windows 11 salonfähig machen.
https:/…
The White House has withdrawn Jared Isaacman as its nominee for Nasa administrator,
abruptly yanking a close ally of Elon Muskfrom consideration to lead the space agency.
Donald Trump said he would announce a new candidate soon.
“After a thorough review of prior associations, I am hereby withdrawing the nomination of Jared Isaacman to head Nasa,”
Trump posted online.
“I will soon announce a new Nominee who will be mission aligned, and put America first in space.”…
Etwas mehr der heute besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Vorbeiflug an Erde: Japan will an ESA-Asteroidenmission zu Apophis teilnehmen
Trump administration is launching a new private health tracking system with Big Tech’s help
The system
-- spearheaded by an administration that has already freely shared highly personal data about Americans in ways that have tested legal bounds
-- could put patients’ desires for more convenience at their doctor’s office on a collision course with their expectations that their medical information be kept private.
“There are enormous ethical and legal concerns,”
…
Vivaldi will keine KI-Agenten im Browser
Wer KI-Agenten im Browser nutzt, lasse Big Tech entscheiden, was man sieht, sagt Vivaldi. Man sei nur noch ein passiver Zuschauer.
https://www.heise.de/news/V…
Skylo will Satellitensprachanrufe kommerziell verfügbar machen
Das US-Startup Skylo hat angekündigt, Satellitensprachanrufe direkt aufs Smartphone kommerziell verfügbar zu machen.
https://www.