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Block launches Buzz, an open source collaboration workspace on Nostr protocol for humans and AI agents to share messages, code repositories, workflows, and more (Block)
https://block.xyz/inside/introducing-buzz-where-humans-and-agents-work-together

Introducing Buzz: where humans and agents work together
Today we're releasing Buzz, a free, open source collaboration platform where humans and AI agents work together in a shared workspace. It's available now at buzz.xyz. Buzz is a collaboration workspace built on the Nostr protocol. It has channels, threads, direct messages, voice, media sharing, code repositories, and automated workflows. The interface will feel familiar to anyone who's used a modern team communication tool.

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.

Cowboys will not work on contract extension with franchise-tagged WR George Pickens in 2026 https://www.nfl.com/news/cowboys-will-not-work-on-contract-extension-with-franchise-tagged-wr-george-pickens

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

Although I switched to LibreWolf for my primary browser every now and then I get some weird thing where a web site does not work right, and using Firefox solves the issues.
I really prefer LibreWolf since it strips out so much of the crap in Firefox, but I just need to remember that sometimes it does not work.
#browsers

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MorningShow
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

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…

"To Keep Up with AI, First Slow Down" @ Katina magazine
https://katinamagazine.org/content/article/future-of-work/2026/to-keep-up-with-ai-slow-down
"Academic librarians face growing pressure to adapt to AI quickly. A r…

RE: https://kolektiva.social/@aredridel/116614280060230177
Okay I wrote this as snark but there is a body of economics research on this, Elinor Ostrom's Nobel-prize-winning work in fact.
Commons _can_ be managed, but it requires some interesting framework pieces to really work. I think actually trying to apply her ideas to the information commons is extremely prudent.
It's also a little uncharted because the commons isn't just a resource. It's people's creative output.

I would like to thank Mythos for my having to perform multi-factor gymnastics every day for every work mobile app:
* Please re-authenticate
* User ID
* BeyondIdentity Challenge (which never works)
* Open BI QR Code
* Screen Shot QR Code
* Open in Work Side Photos app
* Google Lens to read the QR code and turn into a URL
* Open the URL
* Approve BI
* Challenged with my phone's 8 digit PIN
* Challenged by Okta
* Accept the Okta N…

This is a great thread on remote work. The notes about having to be 💯 while on camera made me realize that all my clients are fine if people have their cameras off (mine is almost always off), and how much that really makes doing meetings easier.
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:svvjd

Snitty (@clofsnitville.bsky.social)
Matt and @ed3d.net have offered up some interesting thoughts on making remote work more workable with both technology and camera-facing skills, but I'll throw in my two cents about the limits of technology and why some *workers* still prefer to be in-person. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

The Secret Reason Bosses Want Everyone Back in the Office, Every Day of the Week (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/22/opinion/office-work-wfh-bosses.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260622/p97#a260622p97

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.

On Website Technicals (2019-01) - Tech updates: Happy New Ear, cssgip, work storage, AMP srcset, LEDs, details, 400kpx image warning, bad AutoAd, indigestion, multi-hero, OGP revisited. - https://www.earth.org.uk/note-on-site-technicals-20.html

On Website Technicals (2019-01)
Tech updates: Happy New Ear, cssgip, work storage, AMP srcset, LEDs, details, 400kpx image warning, bad AutoAd, indigestion, multi-hero, OGP revisited.

#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/

My team is looking for a US-based person to work on making #PQC #SmartCards work with open source software. Says Raleigh, but remote will be considered when nobody can be found locally, which is likely:

Senior Software Engineer in Crypto (Smart Cards)
About the Job The Security Technologies crypto team is seeking a Senior Software Engineer who is a technical leader, creative and committed to delivering quality software. Our team is focused on cryptographic back-end components such as OpenSSL, GnuTLS and Network Security Services as well as cryptographic protocols like TLS, SSH and IPSEC. As a Senior Software Engineer, your main focus will be on designing, developing, testing and collaborating with other contributors over the world to bring f…

"Several of my peers now “AI-wash” their work, meaning that even when they can perfectly competently execute on their jobs to the satisfaction of their management teams, said managers are unhappy if the engineers haven’t used AI in the work… so now they’re lying about using LLMs even in contexts where their professional judgement is that they aren’t the appropriate tool. They just do the work, the same way they have for decades, and say Claude did it. "

You know those Nazis people were living next to in Germany, back in the day? You’re living next to them right now. And they have those lovely families and the house next door and every day they go to work at corporations that are complicit in genocide. And if you’re wondering what you would have done about it back then… well, you’re doing it now. And, more than likely, it’s exactly what most folks did in Nazi Germany. Which is absolutely fuck all.

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/

Mit #Mastodon 4.6. kann ich keine Emojis mehr im Webinterface eingeben. 😒
Früher ergab sich bei Eingabe von `:wink` eine Autovervollständigung. Das ist jetzt kaputt. Aber zumindest gibt es dafür ein Issue:
https://githu…

"sure it doesn't work TODAY but the technology is getting better every day!!" was a more compelling argument when you were actually allowed to use the better technology
“Amazon, Walmart, Cisco, Uber and Meta are among early adopters that have introduced caps, discouraged wasteful use or pushed employees to cheaper models in a bid to keep AI spending under control.”

‘We created a monster’: companies rein in AI usage as costs strain budgets
Amazon, Walmart and Uber are among early adopters that have introduced caps or discouraged wasteful activity

"If any of the work, that any of us do, contributes to the stretching of culture, the stretching of boundaries of empathy that’s expected of an audience… that’s the holy grail."
—Riz Ahmed
#acting #coaching

I just updated my /uses page with all the gear I use for design work, workshops, and audio things. And while I was at it, I replaced all links to Jeff’s online shop with direct links to the respective manufacturer or Thomann.de (💙🇪🇺):
https://matthiasott.com/uses

Uses · Matthias Ott
Independent web design engineer, UX designer, and accessibility consultant based in Stuttgart, Germany.

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Caroline Polachek:
🎵 Welcome to my island
#NowPlaying #CarolinePolachek
https://stereonuke.bandcamp.com/track/caroline-polachek-welcome-to-my-island-stereonukes-after-work-edit
https://open.spotify.com/track/4bp2wYweUPvsBrQfntdYcr

Rookie CB Jermod McCoy gets work with Raiders 1st team in OTA's https://raiderswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/raiders/2026/05/21/rookie-cb-jermod-mccoy-working-raiders-1st-team-ota-practice/90201…

So which do you think I rode in to work today? The tallbike or the balance bike? 😜

First time I've tried to update my blog from a moving train. It doesn't work well, but what's astonishing is that it works at all.
If you don't get a 404 at this address, then I've succeeded.
https://www.journeyman.cc/blog/posts-output/2026-07-2…

Work in progress: monitoring public EV charging ad hoc prices (i.e. what you pay on the go at the charger with a bank or credit card without registration) in the European Union.
Across the EU, only 40% of pricing transparency as required by #AFIR regulation for EV charging. Most countries fail.

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

There's plenty of mapping tools that tell you how to get from point A to point B and how long it will take.
But what about for more exploratory mapping? Say, I live/work at point A and want a job/house no more than an hour away by X mode of transit. Is there any way to plot travel time isosurfaces so I can see a polygon of locations an hour or less from home?
Or say I want to go for a 2 hour bike ride, give or take 30 minutes. What are potential destinations leaving from a gi…

Applications for the Secure Program Synthesis Fellowship by Apart Research are now open; you have 10 days to apply. I've listed two of my projects here; one more is heavily based on my work; and the rest are all fun too! Please feel free to share.
https://apartresearch.com/fellowships/

The Secure Program Synthesis Fellowship - Apart Research
Apart Research is an independent research organization focusing on AI safety. We accelerate AI safety research through mentorship,
collaborations, and research sprints

>Be me at work.
>Make train of the empty roll carts so it's easy to pull them out (and move them to designated spot) in 1 go.
>(Newbie) Depot worker: "Making a train of them, smart. How'd you come up with this?"
>Me: "Am autistic, trains are in my DNA"

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

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/

Though often associated with avant-garde jazz, Sun Ra did not believe his work could be classified as "free music": "I have to make sure that every note, every nuance, is correct... If you want to call it that, spell it p-h-r-e, because ph is a definite article and re is the name of the sun. So I play phre music – music of the sun."

Interdisciplinary collaboration can be so eye-opening. I just heard a speaker say off-hand "Oh yeah, this is really new work, from 2017" 😅 I think my colleagues in #NLProc wouldn't even touch such historic sources #academicChatter

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 last example:
The first LLM code example that really made my eyes pop was early after the release of GPT, when somebody got it to combine Breakout with Conway’s Game of Life (a truly delightful idea). It worked!
Funny thing: the Breakout code and the Life code had a •completely• different style and flavor. Red flag. In about 15 minutes of web searching, I was able to find one of the projects (can’t remember if it was the Breakout or the Life half) which it had copied wholesale, with just a few variable renames. And the other half? It was in Python, but it used dictionaries where it really should have used objects — tons of `thing["prop"]` where it should have said `thing.prop`, and lots of other un-Pythonic stuff besides. It was a machine translate of code from another language, very likely Javascript.
The entire thing was a plagiarized Breakout and a plagiarized Game of Life, one transpiled, and all stuck together in a single run loop. To be fair, figuring out how to (1) run both halves of the logic from a single loop and (2) count the Life cells as Breakout bricks is work I'd cheer on from a second-semester intro CS student! It's not, however, quite what's being sold by these companies.
6/

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

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

Rotten:
A North East resident, recently
made redundant, signed up for
online work reviewing TikTok
videos. She was asked to open a
Crypto wallet to invest her wages
and was scammed out of £8,000.

When we bought our pickup truck I looked into spraying Rhino liner in the bed. The extensive and painstaking prep work required to make the coating stick put me off the idea.
This is not a post about truck beds.

Just out from Yale Medicine. This story on the work being undertaken by the Medical and Divinity schools to explore the intersection of #spirituality and #mentalhealth.

RE: https://social.telemetrydeck.com/@telemetrydeck/116958414905506989
Not only did I do a lot of work behind the scenes, I ALSO made a pretty blender illustration for the accompanying blog post! Make oooh 🤩 and aaaah 🤯 noises please

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…

I hate front-end work. It is such a slog of boilerplate code...

Some work trips are better than others

Just finished The Salt Grows Heavy by Cassandra Khaw. Per @… it's an excellent work of feminist horror, although it's really only a little more horrifying than the fairy tales it's grounded in. It's also a tale of love, just with a lot more entrails than your average romance novel, despite being only a novella. I'm not usually one for horror, but I enjoyed it a lot.
#AmReading #ReadingNow #Bookstodon

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

@… Trying to wrap up some work to demo to a client next Friday, but sometime in early August I'd be down for either.

@… do things work as root?
su -

#Kilonovae and Long-duration Gamma-Ray Bursts: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ae5e53 -> "detections of kilonova-like emission following long-duration gamma-ray bursts GRB 211211A and GRB 230307A have been interpreted as originating from the merger of two neutron stars. In this work, we demonstrate that these observations are also consistent with nucleosynthesis originating from a collapsar scenario" -> Los Alamos scientists uncover new insights into gamma ray bursts: https://www.lanl.gov/media/news/0617-gamma-ray-bursts - extreme high-energy events in the universe corroborated as originating from collapsing stars.

StoryWork
Matt talks to some of Australia's most successful business leaders and thinkers. And he asks them to share the secrets of their success, shedding a light on how they put their stories to work...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/storyw

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.

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.

How to make me hate your website?
Move the page scroll bar slightly to the left, as that breaks "move mouse cursor to the right of the screen blindly, hit button, move mouse downwards".
Looking at you, #gitlab[1] (where I need the scroll bar often, as the pages for issues are really long, so using the scroll wheel is not really a option.
[1] see for example

Finished up with the build, turned out pretty well. I do wish I had some quieter fans, but considering the space constraints I'm happy that they work as well as they do. The 240mm AIO keeps CPU cool enough though I worry that the Radeon 7900XT is going to catch fire considering airflow, but it was well-behaved while testing it out.
#steamMachine

Great piece by Bethany Brookshire on how AI output is built on the works of many hard working writers:
LLMs are the combined "voices" of so many writers who I respect. The combined work of so many people who worked so long, and so hard, who learned and felt joy, who sweated over exactly the right word choice to make you learn and feel.

The first record of the parable commonly known as the "Blind Men and the Elephant" showed up around 2500 years ago, in a Buddhist text from India. At this point it's pretty commonly known. I assume that most folks reading this will be familiar with some variation of it.
If not, it's essentially a story about people who have limited information making assertions about something: one man grabs a tail and says, "it's like a rope," another the trunk and says, "it's like a snake," a third the leg saying, "it's like a tree," and so on. Later variations are less kind to the men, having them not simply report their findings, but fight over them. The first English translation draws a parallel to religion.
This comes to mind for me, because social media has a tendency to incentivize us to make those hard assertions, to dig in, to argue our perspective as part of a spectacle. Free and federated social media isn't structurally that different from corporate media, so the incentive models built to maximize engagement by maximizing conflict tend to leak through the similarities in the user experience and the conditioning of other platforms.
I didn't really come here to critique the fediverse, but rather to remind everyone, "no one sees the whole fucking elephant." We are limited and there are necessarily some things so big they will never be individually comprehensible. Any system that relies on us all agreeing cannot possibly respond to those big things.
We can see that concretely if we look at the difference between "democratic unity" and "diversity of tactics." In the first model, everyone either agrees or gets forced to behave as though they agree (at least on some issues). That's how liberal democracy works. Diversity of tactics (which systematically described, for example, in the "St Paul Principles"), on the other hand, let's people align on goals without needing to agree on exactly how to achieve them. The reality being that often there are multiple "correct" paths, and sometimes those paths can only work if multiple paths are taken in unison.
No one sees the whole elephant. We won't even see the elephant later. People will still be arguing about the elephant long after it's gone. But if you want to get rid of the elephant, you're gonna need to accept that you can't comprehend it all and you're gonna have to figure out a way to work together that doesn't require a unified approach.

RE: #peopleFarming

"The hardest part of acting is not being guaranteed work. Every job could be your last."
—Henry Cavill
#acting #coaching #inspiration

Such an amazing adaptation!
It requires a lot of work per trap but is so incredibly effective that it's worth it for the spider
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2531317-new-to-science-spider-builds-trap-that-flings-…

New-to-science spider builds trap that flings ants into the air
A spider living in the rainforests of Queensland, Australia, builds a snare trap reminiscent of a Roman-era ballista weapon that it uses to catapult green tree ants into a web 30 centimetres above

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

There's Another Reason Gen Z Can't Find Work (Jessica Grose/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/22/opinion/gen-z-job-ladder.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260422/p78#a260422p78

WGA seeks an injunction to bar Paramount and WBD from "closing or consummating" their merger or "taking any steps to integrate or consolidate their operations" (Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/film/news/wga-injunction-paramount-warner…

WGA Seeks Injunction to Block Paramount-Warner Bros. Deal
The Writers Guild of America argues that further consolidation will lead to less work and lower pay for writers, ultimately harming the culture.

"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

Dolls KatieJane Garside used to sell on her site 16 years ago

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.

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

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…

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…

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

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.

Speaker Mike Johnson is 6 years old and thinks Congress is school.
Let me make my case.
He made it all recess and no work.
😲😝😳
#USpol

Google says Gemini 3.6 Flash delivers better coding, knowledge work, and multimodal performance while reducing output token usage by up to 17% vs. 3.5 Flash (MacKenzie Sigalos/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/21/google-gemini-flash-ai-mythos-rival.html

Google expands Gemini lineup with cheaper models and new Mythos rival
Google is expanding Gemini with cheaper, more efficient models and a new cybersecurity offering as it tries to close product gaps and compete on cost.

A year after DOGE, former federal employees are still looking for work (NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/doge/year-doge-former-federal-employees-still-unemployed-looking-jobs-rcna265911
http://www.memeorandum.com/260422/p39#a260422p39

Project Glasswing: what Mythos showed us
#cloudflare

At Cornell University in upstate New York, researchers are testing how a deep geothermal system can work
far from the tectonic boundaries and volcanoes that have long defined where distributing their energy is even viable.  
By tapping into the planet's internal warmth, the project, known as
"Earth Source Heat",
could supply the 2,300-acre
(931-hectare) campus in Ithaca with fossil fuel-free heat to help the university become carbon neutral by 2035.…

How geothermal energy could power US homes
Advancements in geothermal systems and sustained political support in the US provide an opportunity for this clean energy industry to scale.

Poolside launches Laguna S 2.1, an 118B open-weight model built for agentic coding and long-horizon work, that it says competes with larger open models (Iain Martin/Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/iainmartin/2026/…

American Open-Source Labs Think They Can Beat China’s Best AI Startups
Chinese open-source models like Kimi and Deepseek are now dominant AI tools. American startups like Thinking Machines, Reflection AI and now Poolside are trying to challenge that.

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…

Analysis: every frontier AI model tested in cybersecurity evaluations attempted to "cheat", led by GPT-5.4 at 14.1% of tasks; Mythos cheated the least, at 7.8% (AI Security Institute)
https://www.aisi.gov.uk/blog/cheating-behaviour-in-frontier-model-ev…

Cheating behaviour in frontier model evaluations | AISI Work
We find cheating behaviour in all of our capability evaluations, and outline the implications as models grow more capable.

Five people have reportedly been arrested for vandalizing Lincoln Memorial reflecting pool in Washington DC,
with Donald Trump insisting repair work will begin “immediately”.
CBS News reporter Emma Nicholson tweeted on Sunday that an administration official told her five people had been arrested for vandalizing the pool
and another five issued federal citations,
bringing the total number of police reports filed to 14, including one related to an alleged 250ft gash in …

Meta adds the Xbox Game Pass starter edition to its Horizon Plus plan, which costs $60/year or $8/month; the starter pass allows 10 hours of gaming per month (Scott Stein/CNET)
https://www.cnet.com/tech/gaming/metas-quest-game-subscribers-will-…

Meta's Quest Game Subscribers Will Be Getting Some Xbox Extras - CNET
Meta’s throwing Xbox cloud gaming Into Its Horizon Plus Quest subscription, and converting its controllers to work with it.

Deep in the Atlantic, a vast circulation of water carries heat from the tropics towards Greenland.
This is the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation, or Amoc.
It does this work largely out of sight,
so doesn’t have the public profile of rainforests, polar ice caps or other huge climate-regulating systems.
Recent studies suggest it is weakening.
If it slows further, northern Europe could experience much colder winters even as the world warms,
while t…

One of the world’s most important climate threats has an image problem
A key current in the Atlantic may be slowing down. But changes deep below the waves don’t generate obvious visual narratives.

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.

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…

There are three big takeaways that I think still apply.
First, recognize that people want change and are looking for candidates who will upend a political and economic system that they see as broken and corrupt.
Second, be willing to build the broadest coalition possible and work hard to persuade people who may disagree with you on some issues that we Democrats hold pretty sacred.
Finally, run on a message of hope and unity. The American people are better than our politi…

Opinion | Dan Pfeiffer Thinks Two Democrats Could Upend American Politics
Why 2026 might tell us a lot about 2028.

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-…

“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)
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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.

As of Friday, CBS News will no longer provide a syndicated radio news service
-- after almost a century on the air.
My grandfather built the CBS News Radio network and then the CBS Television networks.
The enterprise blossomed into the empire that CBS would become.
News had always been a primary focus of the Tiffany Network, as embodied by the work of Edward R Murrow, Walter Cronkite and programs like 60 Minutes.

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.

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,.

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.

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