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I'm going to deviate a bit from my normal audience and focus in on #tech (especially #Security folks). I came across the practice from public health and emergency management and brought it into work. They seemed to have never heard of it. I'm curious how common my experience is. (Please boost for visibility)
Have you ever used table top exercises in your work (such as, to verify a runbook would work as expected)?
Yes, and I work in tech
No, and I work in tech
Yes, and I don't work in tech
No, and I don't work in tech

How do erasers actually work?
It’s surprisingly interesting
https://www.popsci.com/science/how-do-erasers-work/

How do erasers actually work? It’s surprisingly complicated.
To err(ase) is human.

OpenAI says it now has 10M people using Codex and ChatGPT Work, nearly doubling usage from earlier this month when the company announced ChatGPT Work (Shirin Ghaffary/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-07…

The EU is about to sell our most sensitive data to the US for visa-free travel https://edri.org/our-work/the-eu-is-about-to-sell-our-most-sensitive-data-to-the-us-for-visa-free-travel/

Bike to work, low-intensity run at lunch, bike from work, and publish the Java Geek Weekly.
What a cool day 😊
https://blog.frankel.ch/java-geek-weekly/137/

"Ebooks Are Books. The Law Should Say So." @ Katina Magazine
https://katinamagazine.org/content/article/future-of-work/2026/ebooks-are-books-the-law-should-say-so
"By treating

TidyX: screencasts explaining different aspects of the R language and the coding process. #rstats

TidyX
TidyX is a screen cast where we discuss how Data Science topics and code work line-by-line, explaining what they did and how the functions they used work. We also break down the visualizations they create and talk about how to apply similar approaches to other data sets. The objective is to help more people learn R and get involved in the TidyTuesday community. The hosts are Ellis Hughes (@ellis_hughes) and Patrick Ward (@OSPpatrick). Ellis has been working with R since 2015 and has a backgr…

Sicily is getting a massive solar farm that doubles as farmland. European Energy just broke ground on a 225.5MW agrivoltaic project that will power 135,000 homes while supporting sheep grazing and reforestation on the same land.
The facility will generate 405GWh annually, proving renewable energy and agriculture can thrive together.

European Energy begins work Italy’s 225.5MW agrivoltaic project
European Energy has broken ground on the 225.5MW agrivoltaic project near Vizzini, Sicily, marking it as Italy's largest and one of Europe's most significant agrivoltaic developments.

#today I did several hours of QA work for a new uni BA course (as one paticipant in a Teams meeting), which was pleasant and interesting, and I think that I managed to jam sustainability a bit more firmly into the new course! Tomorrow is meetings with friends but also I really really ought to do work on my #buildingModel

Yay #work.
Riding the first possible #bus out of town.
Good morning everybody \o/

Reuters' staff union files an unfair labor practices complaint with the NLRB, saying a producer's contract ended after he discussed Reuters' ICE ties internally (Angela Fu/Poynter)
https://www.poynter.org/business-work/2026/reuters-ret…

Reuters retaliated against a journalist for raising concerns about the company’s ties to ICE, union alleges - Poynter
The union says the contractor was investigated after participating in internal chats about Thomson Reuters’ DHS contracts

"Come to work on time, know your lines and don't bump into the other actors."
—Spencer Tracy
#acting #coaching #inspiration

If you’re looking for an alternative search engine now that Google is completely dead:
Free option: DuckDuckGo “NoAI”
Paid option: Kagi
Turbonerd option: SearXNG (local metasearch engine)
All have pros and cons, so it depends a bit on what you’re looking for.
Probably a good idea to read up on and try what you think might work for you.

Samsung Electronics and its South Korean labor union reach a preliminary pay deal; the union says it has decided to suspend a general strike (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/world-at-work/samsung-elecs…

Does anyone have any decent EDR running on an Apple Neo? Logging? I have a small nonprofit org that wants to roll out a fresh fleet of 15 Neos and the arm64 chip in the Neo isn't the same series as the M. I'm looking for actual A18 Pro / MacBook Neo validation, not "it should work" because I've already got Claude telling me "it shoudl work fine" and that reality is not manifesting for an MSP I know working with this issue.

I made a little very specific program that you probably only need if you are me.
I keep getting sidetracked during work. With nobody to judge me and nothing to interrupt my tangents I do a lot of interesting things throughout the day but none of them are the work I am supposed to do.
This little message will pop up at regular time intervals and ask me if I'm doing work right now. I have to answer honestly. The time interval is shortened/lengthened based on my answer.

Cressida Stephenson is only a quarter through #DigitalAccessibilityEthics, but her review is so far positive.
I appreciate her perspective on #GAAD. Which doesn’t mean doing something substantive has to be to buying this book, but it should be more than a post.
I’m not even putting…

TFW you read something attributed to your work that it absolutely doesn't do.
#academia

Next up, an icy Americano, a lil bike ride, then more server work

Just finished an end to end simulation, BGA land to ARF6 launch, of the actual SFP28 TX lane 0 pair (not the shorter pair I had been using for initial layout work).
Took a while - the final geometry would have been way too big to simulate in a sane amount of time. Sonnet estimated 113GB of RAM and 122K mesh cells which... yeah.
I *could* do it, I have half a terabyte of RAM on this workstation, but considering that a 22GB / 54K cell simulation takes ~20 minutes per frequency and …

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
Blondshell:
🎵 Heart Has to Work So Hard
#Blondshell
https://blondshell.bandcamp.com/track/heart-has-to-work-so-hard
https://open.spotify.com/track/4wwOje67xW4mPCf8JvmWYK

For the countries that seem so much better than the US... do you just have fewer assholes?
Did you find a way to create fewer assholes?
Do you still have the assholes but they never get into positions of power?
How does it work?

From a Chinese state-sponsored news outlet. Can you say pot-kettle-black?
"Investigations found that the foreign intelligence agency had taken control of multiple routers within China and used them as platforms to send phishing emails disguised as invitations to participate in review work or traffic violation payment notices, targeting staff at key institutions."

China’s state security authorities uncover foreign agency using domestic routers as cyberattack proxies; users notice only slower speeds - Global Times
China’s state security authorities recently found that a foreign intelligence agency had used domestic routers in China as “proxies” and phishing emails to target personnel at key institutions to steal sensitive data, while affected users remained unaware, experiencing only slower internet speeds, frequent disconnections and unexpected reboots, according to China's Ministry of State Security (MSS).

It had to happen at some point.
On a work related document, I wrote"situasion" instead of "Situation"

Project #Valhalla, Explained: How a Decade of Work Arrives in #JDK
https://www.jvm-weekly.com/p/project-valha

NFL Supplemental Draft: How Does It Work? What To Know As Brendan Sorsby Enters https://www.foxsports.com/stories/nfl/nfl-supplemental-draft-how-does-work-what-know-brendan-sorsby-enters

I can't imagine anyone is reading this: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/business/595901/why-nvidia-s-result-matters-for-kiwisaver-investors and is seriously thinking 'damn, I should work to make myself more dependent on that slop!' l…

One year ago today, the Coalition on Digital Impact (#CODI ) was launched with a mission of ensuring everyone can navigate the Internet in their own language, using their own scripts. My employer, @… , was among the founding members. 🎉
I've since joined CODI's Board of Directors as I do see this as critical work to deliver on the I…

CNN: DACA Recipients Are Losing Protections and Work Permits as Renewal Delays Surge – ITEP
https://itep.org/cnn-daca-recipients-are-losing-protections-and-work-permits-as-renewal-delays-surge/

#OTD 2012
Lass uns Freunde sein

Southern Poverty Law Center says Justice Department is investigating its work with informants (Hannah Rabinowitz/CNN)
https://www.cnn.com/2026/04/21/politics/splc-justice-department-criminal-investigation
http://www.memeorandum.com/260421/p65#a260421p65

"Driving the speed limit could slash fuel use and emissions at the cost of only 54 extra seconds a day"
#Cars #Vehicles #Emissions

Driving the speed limit could slash fuel use and emissions at the cost of only 54 extra seconds a day
Speeding in your car to work, to pick up your children from school, or go from one errand to the next not only wastes money in gas and sends harmful emissions into the air, it barely saves you time, new research says.

it’s better to struggle, hoping something will work, then to give up, knowing that won't.

@… Thanks! Makes sense. My main goal is to keep it as simple as possible, and since people work on different courses anyway, permissions shouldn’t be such a big issue.

@… Thanks! Makes sense. My main goal is to keep it as simple as possible, and since people work on different courses anyway, permissions shouldn’t be such a big issue.

happy to see fanzine hemmorhage out of retirement & even happier to see them covering freak out, usa #1, published in fall 1967. https://fanzinehemorrhage.com/2026/04/16/freakout-usa-1/

Some work trips are better than others

NFL Supplemental Draft: How Does It Work? What To Know As Brendan Sorsby Enters https://www.foxsports.com/stories/nfl/nfl-supplemental-draft-how-does-work-what-know-brendan-sorsby-enters

After a lot of work, some great inspiration feedback, and help, I can finally present to you
27 o'clock!
This album describes the feelings of the all-nighters I had to go through
The cover art was done by rockybird, huge thanks for the help!
If you download the album from Bandcamp, you will be able to see the bonus cover art included.
htt…

Just picked up 16 A1 sheets from the printersI Will be putting up in the Community Centre this week to celebrate the local magazines 50th Anniversary, I volunteer creating it with a small team of editors and a huge team of locals who deliver it to their neighbors. Not done any display work for quite a few years and it’s all come out great!

The Quiet Operator
A podcast that gets inside the boring, profitable businesses most people never hear about and finds out how they actually work...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/the-quiet-operator/

Wnt to work in hoodie and sunglasses yesterday, on my way home it was raining. Today is better, sun, blue sky and warm (I was freezing my ass off yesterday). Today is a good day - so good morning fellow tooters

Breakfast even more off kilter today, so it was just oatmeal with egg bacon tea coffee. A play tonight after work. #TogetherBreakfast https://photos.app.goo.gl/rWQPVqBdJhwuchEs8

btw: I don't know if that matters but I'm on Zotero 9.0.3 and it's a shared group library. Does anyone know if these retraction notices work for local libraries, too?

Sometimes work can be pretty awesome
#Maui #Hawaii #RoomWithAView

Weekend #Plankton Factoid 🦠🦐
Researchers that work on zooplankton are all familiar with fecal pellets since it is a major pathway of #carbon flux to the bottom of the oceans. A study recently measured gut passage time of

@… do things work as root?
su -

Are you in the US and want to work on Smartcards? My employer has a position available: https://redhat.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/jobs/job/Senior-Software-Engineer-in-Crypto--Smart-Cards-_R-056859
(It says Raleigh, but…

Traveling to work, there were some electrical issues at Reus.
6:10 train never materialized, 7:40 is 40 minutes delayed. I won't make it before 10...
It's my life record traveling 90km over 4h by #renfe . Probably I could make it faster by bike including shower afterwards 🫣
On the positive side, train seats are way more comfortable than my bike :)

Yeah, 8,000 layoffs & 7,000 internal transfers tend to piss people off.
✅ Meta AI Reshuffle Sparks Employee Morale Revolt
https://winbuzzer.com/2026/06/21/meta-ai-reshuffle-sparks-reported-employee-morale-revolt-xcxwbn/

Meta AI Reshuffle Sparks Employee Morale Revolt
Meta's AI reorganization has reportedly deepened morale problems after 8,000 layoffs and 7,000 internal transfers, testing control over AI-support work.

Time-shifted to watch with my son, who was at work today. We managed, somehow, to stay spoiler-free. 🎉 🙌
Spain were the better team, by far, although the first half was relatively even. Any real hope Argentina had evaporated after Enzo Fernandez’s ridiculously stupid challenge. That late, while carrying a yellow?!? The only question was whether Argentina could steal it via PKs. The way Martinez was playing, you could see it.
Happily, it was decided in open play.

I'll generalize, apologies.
Broadly speaking, almost ever painting ever made is a work of art.
Photography made things much, much easier - you just need to be where what you want to photograph is - and perhaps one photo in a million is a true work of art.
GenAI made things even easier - you don't even to be there.
I don't think we'll ever see a true work of art from it.

@… @… It’s not glamorous work, but someone has to do it 😂

Creating parts for Skye Edwards (her very imaginative / different new solo work outside Morcheeba. ☺️)

Amazing work by Spain! Out of this world control of the pitch. Zero chance for Argentina. 🔥🔥🔥

Iraq Embarks on Preservation Work for the Ziggurat of Ur Using Bricks of Identical Material to 5,000-yo Original https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/iraq-embarks-on-preservation-work-for-the-ziggurat-of-ur…

Iraq Embarks on Preservation Work for the Ziggurat of Ur Using Bricks of Identical Material to 5,000-yo Original
The Iraqi government has budgeted around $382,000 for new conservation work to protect the exposed upper sections of the original ziggurat. 

So that he can say that he 'drained the swamp'?
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/21/trump-lincoln-memorial-reflecting-pool?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Trump says repair work to begin ‘immediately’ on beleaguered reflecting pool
Algae blooms and peeling paint mar $14.2m renovation as president claims pool has been ‘seriously vandalized’

"Veränderung gehört schon immer zu unserem Beruf und deshalb sollte Agilität kein Fremdwort für Bibliotheken sein!", Rebecca Meyer über "New Work und Agilität in kleinen Teams" , nachvollziehbar und pragmatisch, gefällt mir. #bibliocon26

Now, more than ever, it's essential to practice good mental hygiene, work on emotional regulation, and guard against social media psyops. You never know when you'll need those inner resources.

I created a Workshop called "Naming Files and Folders - Best Practices at the Microscope" and now the slides and examples are published under #CCBY40, so feel free to use and adapt if you are working in #RDM as well. I am open for Feedback.
This was work for the CRC TRR 384 "IN-CODE",…

Internal memo: Intuit is laying off about 17% of its workforce, or about 3,000 employees worldwide, to streamline operations and focus on its key bets (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/world-at-work/intuit-cut-17-…

Team, there is no “undo” button for irreplaceable landscapes, yet ConocoPhillips and other oil companies are trying to get their hands on one of America’s wildest and most fragile places: The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
Despite overwhelming public opposition, the administration just announced it will hold an oil and gas lease sale next month, offering tracts on the refuge’s sensitive coastal plain.
We will not stand by and let corporate greed and this administration's …

Homepage | The Wilderness Society
Our Mission: United people to protect our wild places. Our Work: Climate Solutions, Landscape Connectivity, Community Led Conservation Each day thousands of acres of wild places are lost to mining, drilling, logging and other development. But we don't have to give it all away. Together, we can save our wildest lands for future generations.

Canal says it will no longer work with 600 cinema figures who signed a petition voicing concern over the influence of its right-wing owner Vincent Bolloré (Nadia Khomami/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/…

'What is needed is not the abolition of masculinity, but its recovery. [A] public ethic of manhood that refuses the rot. It says a man can drink a beer, drive a truck, work with his hands, serve in uniform, love his country, and still maintain a zero-tolerance toward rape, coercion, harassment, and every form of “rape-adjacent” behavior that has long been excused as just how men are.'
Online Rape Academies? Enough. It's time to reset the paradigm.
https://whiskeyleaks.org/online-rape-academies-enough-its-time-to-reset-the-paradigm/

Senators Work to Ban Gambling Ads Targeting Minors (Amrith Ramkumar/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/media/senators-work-to-ban-gambling-ads-targeting-minors-9cf39d00
http://www.memeorandum.com/260518/p63#a260518p63

@… does it always work as root (without doas)?

Hoped to bike with the potential next governor tonight but it’s gonna rain so we’ll see. In the meantime, crepes, egg bacon tea coffee, then work! We lost our game of Nemesis last night 😬 #TogetherBreakfast https://photos.app.goo.gl/hzU51nbJfvbTTQmb8

Plans for today: husband and I will go for our first proper walk in about 3 weeks. Okay, so we're going to make it a smallish one because it's been quite a while. Only 2.5km each way to have lunch in an adjacent suburb. Between catching up with work, appointments, weather, and the wee one, we just haven't had the chance or inclination. And the weather looks perfect today!
#Suburbia…

Just 10 months ago, NASA asked three companies if they could do something nobody had done before.
Could they build and launch a satellite to save a $500 million astronomy mission at risk of crashing back to Earth?
What’s more, could they do it in less than a year on a tight budget?
Katalyst Space Technologies, a startup founded in 2020, presented the most compelling solution.
“They came back with a response that was technically and programmatically plausible,
an…

A bold satellite rescue mission came together in record time, but will it work?
I consider this a success already, just from the fact that we're even going to try this."

Gavin Newsom signs an EO mandating state agencies work with the AI industry and others to study subsidies for companies that don't replace workers with AI (Cecilia Kang/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/21/technol

Gov. Gavin Newsom to Sign Executive Order Aimed at A.I. Job Loss
Gov. Gavin Newsom issued an executive order to explore an overhaul of labor policies to deal with potential mass job displacement from artificial intelligence.

Sources: Alex Cooper's Unwell Network faces staff turnover, struggling shows, and hostile work environment allegations under co-CEO Matt Kaplan, amid expansion (Ashley Carman/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Don't answer the first question
https://lalitm.com/post/dont-answer-the-first-question/

@… I'm very impressed with all of your work on this.
I no longer daily drive FreeBSD, but Miller Columns would be great.
<https://m.hirad.it/@redstar/1152196833

Cornyn and his allies have poured millions into brutal, personal ads trying to defeat Paxton
— and they’ve had a lot of material to work with.
Paxton has faced an impeachment attempt by the state legislature,
ethics complaints from his staff
and a federal securities fraud investigation.
He’s currently going through a divorce that his wife filed for on “biblical grounds.”
Republicans are increasingly concerned that a Paxton nomination would put the seat i…

Meta is installing tracking software on US staffers' computers to capture mouse movements, clicks, and keystrokes in work-related apps for use in AI training (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boa…

Granta and the Commonwealth Foundation say they can't determine yet if AI was used to write a prize-winning short story after critics pointed to signs of AI use (The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/may…

Maya glyphic texts from the Classic period (250–900 CE)
typically chronicle the exploits of historical or divine characters;
everyday or functional records are rare.
Here, the authors offer a reconstruction and transcription of a ‘microtext’
painted on an interior wall of Structure 10K-2 at the site of Xultun, Guatemala.
The text records a unique astronomical formula that concludes with a name,
attributing the work to an individual named Sak Tahn Waax …

The identification and work of an eighth-century Maya mathematician | Antiquity | Cambridge Core
The identification and work of an eighth-century Maya mathematician

Convey, which is building AI "teammates" to automate manual work at clients like NBCUniversal, raised a $38M Series A led by a16z (Ben Bergman/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/convey-raises-38-million-a16z-to-…

Convey raises $38 million from a16z to automate repetitive office work
Convey, a startup founded last year that builds AI "teammates," has raised $38 million in Series A funding led by Andreessen Horowitz,.

@… I wonder whether the 'desktop' script (to be integrated with FreeBSD Installer) will work with FreeBSD-15.1-RELEASE-amd64-memstick.img …

Several journalists on Substack say they feel safer working for themselves rather than for legacy outlets, but some say earning a living wage can be difficult (Mallary Tenore Tarpley/Poynter)
https://www.poynter.org/business-work/2026/can-independent-…

What journalists gain — and lose — when they go independent - Poynter
The creator economy is opening new doors for journalists. But can independence replace everything a newsroom provides?

Samsung Electronics rejects a labor union-accepted mediation proposal, raising the prospect of a workers' strike; a general work stoppage will proceed on May 21 (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-05…

Two CIA officers die in Mexico accident after counternarcotics operation
Two U.S. embassy officials who died in an automobile accident in northern Mexico as they returned from the scene of a counternarcotic operation
worked for the Central Intelligence Agency as part of a significantly expanded role in battling narcotics trafficking in the Western Hemisphere

The deadly car crash Sunday in the state of Chihuahua also took the lives of two Mexican officials
and prompte…

Two CIA officers die in Mexico accident after counternarcotics operation
The U.S. spy agency has significantly expanded its international antidrug work under President Trump and CIA Director Ratcliffe.

Granta and the Commonwealth Foundation say they can't determine yet if AI was used to write a prize-winning short story after critics pointed to signs of AI use (The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/may…

Barack Obama says Higher Ground, his production company with Michelle Obama, will become an independent operation after its Netflix deal, signed in 2018, ends (Kimberly Nordyke/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-ne

Barack Obama Says His and Michelle’s Production Company Higher Ground Will Go Independent After Netflix Deal Ends
The couple are “in the process now of transitioning to a more independent [company] where we can work with a bunch of different studios,” Barack Obama said.

A woman named Lanna shared that she left the United States two-and-a-half years ago and is now living in Germany.
She recently got a job as a part-time barista to make some extra cash.
The experience, even before she has started the job, has “broken” her—but “in a good way.”
Per her residence permit, Lanna cannot work more than 20 hours per week.
Rather than a traditional interview, the employer had her come in for a “try-out day.”
At the end of it, she was surp…

An American got hired as a part-time barista in Germany. The job benefits blew her mind.
A young woman living in Germany shared that her part-time barista job came with over a month of paid vacation and healthcare benefits.

An analysis based on current valuations of OpenAI and Anthropic suggests ~$370B of philanthropic assets tied to the two AI companies are poised to become liquid (Nan Ransohoff/Nan's Substack)
https://nanransohoff.substack.com/p/the-third-wave-of-american-phila…

The third wave of American philanthropy
AI is about to generate hundreds of billions in new philanthropic funding. We have real work to do to make the most of it.

In Iran, at least 3,468 people were killed over several weeks of U.S.-Israeli strikes.
Recovery for Iran is expected to be costly after the strikes hit critical infrastructure like bridges, manufacturing, and oil depots, as well as civilian infrastructure like hospitals and schools.
As part of the agreement signed this week, the U.S. has said it would work with regional partners create a $300 billion reconstruction fund.
Meanwhile, in the U.S.:
as Trump seeks nearly $1.…

Trump May Be Drawing Down Iran War, But He’s Demanding Billions More for Bombs
The GOP is souring on Trump’s $1.5 trillion military budget as the president pushes for yet another reconciliation bill.

Brazil takes its National Civil Defense warning platform offline after suspected hackers send an unauthorized alert to mobile phones in several states (Mariana Catacci/CNN)
https://www.cnn.com/2026/06/20/americas/brazil-hackers-unauthorized-alert-latam

Hackers suspected to be behind unauthorized alert sent to cell phones across Brazil
An unauthorized alert bearing a mysterious message that was sent to cell phones in several states across Brazil on Saturday morning is suspected to be the work of hackers, the Brazilian government said.

“Stand up if you know someone who’s been affected by community violence,”
Dr. Khalid Griffin prompted the group of Fort Wayne high schoolers. 
Almost all 60 teenagers who had been seated in the center of the downtown church stood up.
The teens, a predominantly Black group of students, were selected as part of a youth program that does violence prevention work with local high schools.
As area business leaders, city officials, judges, and police officers watched and too…

Teens in This Small Indiana City Want to Talk About Shootings. Adults Are Listening.
“Stand up if you know someone who’s been affected by community violence,” Dr. Khalid Griffin prompted the group of Fort Wayne high schoolers.  Almost all 60 teenagers who had been seated in the center of the downtown church stood up. The teens, a predominantly Black group of students, were selected as part of a youth […]

Flipper unveils the Flipper One, a pocketable open Arm Linux computer with similar performance to a Raspberry Pi 5, and welcomes feedback to get it market-ready (Mark Tyson/Tom's Hardware)
https://www.

New Flipper One computing multitool bristles with network, GPIO, and M.2 connectivity — new keychain device is also a fully open Arm Linux computer
But the devs admit there's still a lot of work to be done to get the Flipper One market-ready, and they are looking for contributors.

Since Trump’s decision to snatch Maduro in January and reboot relations with his successors,
the five-star hotel has become the nerve centre of Washington’s efforts to steer a country some now call a US protectorate
– and which Trump has even said he hopes to turn into the 51st state.
“It’s [effectively] the US embassy.
I don’t think anybody’s going to work at the actual embassy,”
said Phil Gunson, a Caracas-based political analyst for Crisis Group.

Sam Altman says OpenAI offered to invest $2M in tokens in each startup in the current YC batch; a source says the offer is in exchange for equity via SAFE (Jemima McEvoy/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/sam-altman…

Sam Altman Offers YC Founders $2 Million in OpenAI Tokens For Equity
OpenAI cofounder and CEO Sam Altman late Tuesday offered to invest $2 million in every startup currently in the Y Combinator startup accelerator program—not in cash, but in OpenAI tokens. “I am excited to see what will happen with tokenmaxxing startups, both for how they work internally and the products they can build,” Altman posted on X after unveiling the offer in a talk to YC founders

When We’re in Charge is a no-bullshit guide for the next generation of leaders on how to show up differently,
break the cycle of bad leadership,
and navigate the changing demands of those in power
and the evolving expectations people have of their workplace.
Based on Amanda Litman’s experience as a founder and executive (and mom of two who’s trying desperately to have a life outside of work),
and informed by conversations with more than 100 next-gen leaders acr…

When We're in Charge (Paperback)
Featured on Forbes, Morning Joe, Teen Vogue, Pod Save America , and more From Amanda Litman, cofounder of Run for Something, “a refreshingly candid,…

Officially an engraver and accorded the lowly status thereof,
William Blake devoted his labors to realizing his elaborately idiosyncratic visions using images and words together in ways that no artist had done before.
Blake swam against the current “of modern human understanding, whose bedrock is the principle of specialization.”
Today, nearly two centuries after his death, that principle still obtains -- and in some ways more rigidly than ever.
But his work remains,

The Radical, Unclassifiable Art of William Blake
William Blake is a household name, or not far from it, but things get more complicated when it comes to professional description. He was a poet, a painter, and a printmaker, at least insofar as he wrote poetry, painted paintings, and made prints.

US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has engaged in a deadly immigration crackdown that has trampled the constitutional rights of migrants and US citizens.
During the operation, there have been 28 incidents where immigration agents shot at people,
resulting in eight deaths,
according to an analysis by The Trace.
On July 13, an ICE officer fatally shot Joan Sebastian Duršn Guerrero,
a 25-year-old delivery driver from Colombia authorized to work in the US…

How Many People Have Been Shot in ICE Raids?
The Trace is tracking gun incidents connected to Trump’s deployment of immigration agents. Know of an incident? Please be in touch.

XDOF, which is building data pipelines, collection tools, and annotation systems for robot training data, emerges from stealth with $70M (Tim Fernholz/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/17/colle…

Collecting robot training data is dirty, unglamorous work. Some AI labs are already paying XDOF to do it. | TechCrunch
If physical AI is going to match the accomplishments of LLMs, there's a data problem that needs to be solved.

The Trump administration does not plan to seek approval from Congress for Donald Trump’s planned 250-foot arch,
arguing that they do not need it because lawmakers a century ago authorized a somewhat similar project that was never built.
Trump has targeted Memorial Circle
— a traffic roundabout on Columbia Island, a man-made island tucked inside the edge of Washington
— for his planned arch.
Teams of workers conducting surveys and geophysical testing began work …

Trump officials say they can build 250-foot arch without Congress’s approval
The administration say they are building on a project authorized by Congress a century ago. Lawyers and Democrats said the argument is an attempt to evade federal law.

A Hollywood writer recounts working as an "AI trainer" for companies like Mercor, as AI gig work becomes the "new waiting tables" for entertainment workers (Ruth Fowler/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/i-work-in-hollywood-ev…

I Work in Hollywood. Everyone Who Used to Make TV Is Now Secretly Training AI
For screenwriters like me—and job seekers all over—AI gig work is the new waiting tables. In eight months, I’ve done 20 of these soul-crushing contracts for five different platforms. It’s bad.

InstaLILY, which develops AI agents to automate sales, operations, and service workflows, raised a $60M Series B led by Energize Capital (Mike Wheatley/SiliconANGLE)
https://siliconangle.com/2026/07/14/instalily-dev…

InstaLILY, a developer of AI teammates that can automate complex, business-specific work, raises $60M - SiliconANGLE
InstaLILY, a developer of AI teammates that can automate complex, business-specific work, raises $60M - SiliconANGLE