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Laura Loomer,
the online Maga provocateur,
has never worked in the White House or anywhere else in the government,
but her sudden conversion to the Ukrainian causethis week is significant
because her social media posts often have real policy implications in the second Trump administration.
The rightwing commentator has spent the last few days in Kyiv,
where she announced a newfound sympathy for Ukraine in its long war with Russia,
and admitted that …

What’s behind Maga influencer Laura Loomer’s about-face on Ukraine?
After a Kyiv visit, rightwing firebrand now supports Ukraine – but perhaps it’s just because Trump favors a winner

Prior to joining the Museum Shop, Herne worked at the Lyndon House Arts Center as visitor services program leader. That office previously included a gallery shop, and visitors frequently asked Herne if the shop was returning. When she learned of the museum’s plan to expand its visitor experience department, she was intrigued.
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#DH2026 I've heard my usual travel card (Monzo) doesn't work as well in South Korea so I'm trying Wowpass for convenience stores and street / small vendors. Took a few goes to find a bank card it worked with, so allow some time for that, or get cash to top it up.
Looking forward to my bus adventure from Incheon to Daejeoncheongsa for Daejeon!

“Magnify that area and enhance”
If only pictures/videos worked like that in real life.

RE: https://scholar.social/@gedankenstuecke/117146471046158781
As part of a small worker cooperative @… that has worked very…

#WritersCoffeeClub Talk about a communal writing project you worked on. How did it go?
I haven't. I'm apparently a literary hermit.
I love discussing writing, exchanging ideas, getting feedback and helping other writers untangle their stories, but when it comes to the actual writing, I work alone.
I'm not entirely sure what would happen if another author tried…

I'm not a particular fan of Dolly Parton's music, but I have family in TN that worked with her. She did a lot of good for the people and specifically the children of TN. Just a really good person. She'll be missed.
RIP Dolly.

Significant and important critique - and it highlights something I suspect many have not considered:
‘Africa hasn’t decolonised education enough’: how world’s youngest continent can unlock potential
https://www.

‘Africa hasn’t decolonised education enough’: how world’s youngest continent can unlock potential
Dr John Nkengasong, a former WHO adviser who worked with Biden administration on Aids policy, says innovation and investment are key to unlocking potential of continent’s graduates

Significant and important critique - and it highlights something I suspect many have not considered:
‘Africa hasn’t decolonised education enough’: how world’s youngest continent can unlock potential
https://www.

‘Africa hasn’t decolonised education enough’: how world’s youngest continent can unlock potential
Dr John Nkengasong, a former WHO adviser who worked with Biden administration on Aids policy, says innovation and investment are key to unlocking potential of continent’s graduates

I'm watching Crime Beat 6x01 "Murder in the Mountains" #CrimeBeat

Murder in the Mountains
The popular resort town of Banff was rocked when a young female taxi driver was found murdered in 1990. Investigators worked tirelessly to come up with a…

Lithium-ion battery fire disrupts another California community, raising questions about storage, safety
California has invested heavily in battery storage
— which holds on to energy captured by solar panels during the day so it can be used when electricity demand peaks in the evening
— as it pushes to meet its ambitious goal of 100% clean-energy usage by 2045.
But these sites also come with dangers,
as demonstrated by the massive Moss Landing battery fire in J…

Lithium-ion battery fires upend California communities
For more than three days, fire crews have worked to address a lithium-ion battery fire in La Verne that has forced the evacuation of hundreds of residents and raised questions about the safety of California's rapidly expanding energy storage systems.

I support I should feel sorry, but as someone who has repeatedly warned #nonprofits (& media outlets) that I've worked about their over-rerliance on #bigtech platforms, I find it hard to really be so sympathetic.
Also - how can it be that I, an individual, have a most robust data backup and…

The Quiet Decision Microsoft Made That Devastated Thousands of Nonprofits
When the tech giant retired a popular software grant, years of nonprofit data vanished with it.

In my alternative national service I worked in a hospital as a nurse. I saw quite a few people die and things I couldn't imagine before.
Now, whenever someone makes a big fuss that something is important or urgent, I ask them and myself: are peoples lives in danger? No? Not so urgent, not so important. Because I've seen the really urgent stuff.
Follow me for more practical business wisdom 🤣

In May, security researchers designed a test to find out “Can AI Agents Turn Security Vulnerabilities into Real Attacks?”
This system of prompts, called ExploitGym, touched off the Hugging Face Incident.
It worked as intended.

At a town hall, CNN CEO Mark Thompson told staff not to "jump to conclusions that we become one with CBS News" and there are "arguments for and against" merging (Ben Mullin/@benmullin)
https://x.com/benmullin/status/2102815420335960543

Ben Mullin (@BenMullin) on X
He also had a note of caution for employees who assumed a merger with CBS News was in the offing. "Don't jump to conclusions that we become one with CBS News." He said there were "arguments for and against," adding that a lot still needed to be worked out.

Sources detail how Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and crypto adviser Bo Hines worked to shape the GENIUS Act and loosen safeguards to benefit Tether (Bloomberg)

So...what other part of his record is a big fat fib?
BUSTED: Rogers Never Worked On Auto Assembly Line - Joe.My.God.
https://www.joemygod.com/2026/09/busted-rogers-never-worked-on-auto-assembly-line/

Wahey! Both top and bottom of my screen captured in one sweep (on my Pi Pico acting as a digitiser off a Model B RGB socket). Now, the start of timing is obviously a bit screwy; this is across two frames, capturing one half, squirting it over USB and then the next frame, since the RP2040 doesn't have enough RAM to hold the lot in final format.
Hmm pleased with that - I spent ages procrastinating about how to do the two halves and it worked out easy in the end!

https://theonion.com/democratic-socialism-myth-vs-fact/
https://t…

Democratic Socialism: Myth Vs. Fact
Candidates from the left’s Democratic Socialists of America party have been gaining momentum around the country in primaries leading up to the midterms. The Onion examines the common myths and facts surrounding the DSA. MYTH: Socialist ideas have never worked in the real world. FACT: No political theory has ever worked in real life. MYTH: […]

Scott Bessent’s attempt to calm the bond markets and push down America’s cost of borrowing have attracted a rebuke from the US Treasury secretary’s former mentor.
The billionaire investor Stanley Druckenmiller, who worked with Bessent at George Soros’s fund management firm in the 1990s, has warned that his former pupil is courting danger by trying to suppress US bond yields.
Druckenmiller, writing in the Wall Street Journal, argued that the US should “let the bond market speak”, …

US Treasury’s Scott Bessent ‘will lose’ battle with bond markets, former mentor warns
Trump ally should cut budget deficit rather than try to suppress bond yields, says billionaire Stanley Druckenmiller

Worked Up! By Able Recruitment
Hosted by an Australian insurance recruiter, you'll find practical advice and honest conversations about job searching, interviews, confidence, workplace challenges, career decisions and getting better at the work you do...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.g…

Alleged Russian cyber spy in Boston case previously worked for Kaspersky, source says and documents show
https://www.reuters.com/world/alleged-russian-cyber-spy-boston-case-previously-worked-kaspersky-source-says-2026-07…

Worked with #acting #coaching client on new material. 3rd run thru: a single change, they started to connect to the root of the character, and I could see what props would support their work in a final production, like they were there. Cool reality distortion field.

Open AI's "LLM that went rogue" is just more unhinged marketing. It worked for Anthropic and now they want in on it.
Please don't amplify this nonsense.

SDSS-V LVM - verifying what, and where, the #GalacticCenter Lobe is: https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2026/06/aa59505-26/aa59505-26.html -> A Giant Structure Is Towering Over The Milky Way - After 40 Years, Scientists Have Worked Out What It Is: https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-solve-the-40-year-mystery-of-a-giant-structure-towering-over-the-milky-way

Troubleshooting story. I sometimes get support requests from a former employer, which I gladly do as contract work.
All the people I worked with are gone but they still call me... it's cool.
I was passed on the info on one of their customers who soldered up a board but could not get it programmed. It's an old FTDI-style board. Annoying, of course.
So they mailed me the three boards to try to program.
I spent about 15 minutes trying all three, with no luck....…

A house through time: 10 St Michael’s Road, Northampton. The story of a terraced house in Northampton, England. Who lived and worked there, and its connections with the early Labour movement. https://edintone.com/10-st-michaels-road/

A house through time: : 10 St Michael's Road, Northampton - Miscellanea Edintone
The story of 10 St Michael's Road, Northampton. Who lived and worked there, and its connections with the early Labour movement

Former Lions CB Terrion Arnold worked out for Texans, received interest from three other teams

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/terrion-arnold-worked-out-fo…

from my link log —
GitHub suddenly rejected my SSH key (the fix was a .pub file?!)
https://thorsell.io/2026/07/21/github-ssh-keys.html
saved 2026-07-21

Revealed: how Europe’s most powerful farming lobby killed EU’s pesticide law https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jul/16/how-europe-most-powerful-farming-lobby-copa-cogeca-killed-eu-pesticide-law

Who needs Anthropic Mythos when we have the Facebook leadership?
https://www.404media.co/hackers-simply-asked-meta-ai-to-give-them-access-to-high-profile-instagram-accounts-it-worked/

Hackers Simply Asked Meta AI to Give Them Access to High-Profile Instagram Accounts. It Worked
The exploit shows the extreme risk of offloading technical support to AI.

David Brown leaving #AWS after 19 years. I worked with him as a customer in the Netflix days and while I was also a VP at AWS and he was the best manager they ever had. Many of the broken teams/services at AWS in the early days were fixed by him. Super nice guy in person as well. Hasn’t said where he’s going next…

AWS EC2 leadership change: Dave Treadwell replaces Brown
AWS named Dave Treadwell to lead EC2 after 19-year veteran Dave Brown departed, signaling a major leadership change for Amazon Web Services compute.

RE: #blackberry for a bit and one of the …

On the Zanussi ZDS2010 freestanding slimline dishwasher: Review - Read all about how it worked for us and lasted longer than expected (with some TLC), but is sadly barely more efficient than the old model. - https://www.earth.org.uk/note-on-Zanussi-ZDS…

On the Zanussi ZDS2010 freestanding slimline dishwasher: Review
Read all about how it worked for us and lasted longer than expected (with some TLC), but is sadly barely more efficient than the old model.

The last time code became “cheap,” we lost more than we realized — mentorship, craftsmanship, and the sense that engineering was a shared discipline.
I wrote about why that matters now more than ever:
https://www.poppastring.com/blog/what-we-lost-the-last-time…

My current company has settled on using #Gradle. It doesn’t make me very happy, but you need to learn to work with constraints.
This week, I worked on improvements to a new project and set up #Renovate However, I quickly noticed that merges of new dependency versions failed the build. Here’s the fu…

Gonna rustle up some posset and bring it over to the neighbors! I wonder if I'll make it out of there without them mentioning Donald Trump or getting worked up about some perceived injustice to Britain perpetrated by the Americans (all Americans, individually and collectively, living and dead) over the last 180 years. Last time I got to hear about how unfair the Anglo-American Loan Agreement was. What a joy!
If not for the fact that I have to live across from these people for conce…

Practical music rec: the Orcutt Shelley Miller s/t has some nice tunes with which to drown out a car alarm on the street. Can't believe how well this idea worked.
https://orcuttshelleymiller.bandcamp.com/album/orcutt-shelley-miller

ZeroHeight readers should be aware AudioEye is a litigious company that sues detractors:
https://adrianroselli.com/2024/01/audioeye-has-dropped-its-suit-against-me.html
They should also know its overlay never worked, a signal its services are p…

#AudioEye Has Dropped Its Suit Against Me
AudioEye has dropped its lawsuit against me as part of a settlement agreement. The specific legal details are at the end of this post. Index for this post: Joint Statement Impact, Abridged SLAPP Everybody Lost Legal Details Wrap-up Related CAO Hire: 8 February 2024 Talk References (Added 7 July 2024)…

"Revealed: how Europe’s most powerful farming lobby killed EU’s pesticide law"
#Europe #Farming #Pesticides

Revealed: how Europe’s most powerful farming lobby killed EU’s pesticide law
Exclusive: High-level documents show how Copa Cogeca worked to weaken legislation to protect climate and wildlife

A colleague once wrote {% break %} in a Shopware template and I called foul in code review — except it worked. Turns out Shopware quietly teaches Twig a pile of PHP tricks, everywhere, and it's documented for exactly one edge case that isn't this one.
http://wink…

Shopware 6 Hidden Gems #10: The Twig you didn't know Shopware speaks - Winkelwagen GmbH - an ecommerce agency
During a code review I once flagged a colleague's template: "{% break %}? That's not Twig, this can't work." It worked. I lost a small bet and gained a grep

Jon Ossoff Spends Thousands on 'Makeup Services' From Artist Who Worked on Hollywood Blockbusters Like 'The Notebook' (Chuck Ross/The Washington Free Beacon)
https://freebeacon.com/democrats/jon-ossoff-spends-thousands-on-makeup-services-from-artist-who-worked-on-hollywood-blockbusters-like-the-notebook/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260723/p31#a260723p31

E Quadrant Side Hustle: Quick Income, Limited Freedom
In an earlier post I introduced the principle that there were four categories of side hustle. Let’s talk about the first category.
Employee-style side hustles pay you for hours worked.
Examples:
• Gig work
• Freelancing by the hour
• Part-time jobs
Pros:
✔ Easy to start
✔ Immediate income
✔ Low learning curve
Cons:
✖ No leverage
✖ No scalability
✖ Income stops when time stops
💡 These hustles can help short-term – but they rarely change your financial future.
Honest Question:
Are you building income… or just filling time?

U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement agents detained a California state employee working as a field representative for Assemblymember Catherine Stefani, D-San Francisco, on Thursday as he traveled through Harry Reid International Airport in Las Vegas.
The field representative, Ho Yin Mo, was a young member of Stefani’s team who previously worked as a TV reporter in the Bay Area before entering politics.
Stefani called on the federal government to release Mo in a statement, c…

ICE detains Bay Area legislative staffer in Las Vegas airport
U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement agents detained a California state employee working as a field representative for Assemblymember Catherine Stefani, D-San Francisco, on Thursday as he traveled through Vegas airport.

A Giant Structure Is Towering Over The Milky Way. After 40 Years, Scientists Have Worked Out What It Is : ScienceAlert https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-solve-the-40-year-mystery-of-a-giant-structure-towering-over-the-milky-w…

Raiders worked out whopping 16 players, signing 3 https://raiderswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/raiders/2026/09/03/raiders-worked-out-16-players-signed-3-free-agents-practice-squad/91601896007/

The current debates about climate change really remind me of how systems thinking ("cybernetics") isn't a part of normal school curriculums in most places—when it very definitely should be.
This German PC game from 35 years ago is teaching this, with a side of ecology and how it improves quality of life.
I remember playing it in school (maybe we had progressive teacher? I don't remember) in the early 1990s, and it's definitely worked on me to consider how things influence each other.
(I've put the game up here if you want to play it in your browser: https://archive.org/details/oekolopoly_202509, it has a built-in in-depth tutorial but obviously it's in German)

Never, ever, is there a slow day in cybersecurity, so don't miss today's Metacurity for the crucial developments you should know, including
--Hackers post alleged blueprints and supplier data from India nuclear project,
--TfL hackers sentenced to 5½ years in prison,
--Hacking suspect once worked at Kaspersky,
--OpenAI unveils AI-powered red teaming tool,
--Ransomware attack disrupts Japan’s food supply chain,
--Qantas cleared after social-engineeri…

Hackers post alleged blueprints and supplier data from India nuclear project
TfL hackers sentenced to 5½ years in prison, Hacking suspect once worked at Kaspersky, OpenAI unveils AI-powered red teaming tool, Ransomware attack disrupts Japan’s food supply chain, Qantas cleared after social-engineering breach, Health provider criticized for delayed breach disclosure, much more

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@diemkay/117326330662539268
Andreea speaks truth. There is so much unsolicited advice, so much of it soaked in guilt.
Here's my unsolicated parenting advice, something that really helped me in my years of parenting a baby: replace ‘should’ with ‘can.’ Anything somebody tells you that you •should• do as a parent, take it as something you •can• do.
Suddenly all of this guilt-laden unwanted advice becomes a beautiful menu of choices available to you, things that worked for someone and that you can try if you want to.

Weird-but-cool... just saw a strange display from a harrier over the wetland reserve across the road - it was swooping around round, even doing a sequence of stalls, dives, rolls, and a loop! Started off maybe 50 m in the air and then gradually worked its way lower, eventually landing (I think) where I couldn't see it any more... mating display? Something else? Ever seen anything like that @…

Damn; I went to debug why Model B wouldn't write to floppies and...it worked. Yesterday when I got a scope on the write-data line on the drive end it didn't budge at all. By the time I'd got the beeb open today, moved the keyboard and stuffed a scope probe on the gate between the 8271 and the drive it all got nice friendly data there. Hmm.
Took the IC80 out, gave the legs a rub and a bit of contact cleaner, and hmm ok.

@… I worked there in the late 20-oughts. I’ll send to some folks I know

This worked surprisingly well for generating a cutout template based on a picture from the manual and some basic measurements. I was able to download the final #scad file to render locally before mashing it's negative into a #gridfinity base:

This is a frigging wild video about surveillance pricing
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:nztbvvo2gl4227zuxjf7gog3/post/3mqwibtqnqc2b

David Dayen (@ddayen.bsky.social)
I was happy to participate in this video from Chris the Producer. He created an LLC, hired an actor who built a miserly profile online, and flew a phone via drone into a ritzy area to try to influence the prices derived from data collection. And it worked! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCSwx9LZtD8

RE: #ai #programming

The housing unit, attractively set around a courtyard in converted student accommodation, follows the
⭐️“Housing First” principle that has made Finland a world leader when it comes to tackling homelessness.
👉The model focuses on housing as a fundamental human right rather than a reward.
Temporary accommodation is seen not as a solution, but something to be avoided.
All support is centred on ensuring that people have permanent homes,
with everything else follow…

Finland tried to end homelessness. What can we learn from its runaway success – and recent failures?
The Housing First policy led to the number of homeless people in Finland dropping by half. Those with firsthand experience explain why it worked

Just finished "Forgive Me Not", a beautiful and touching fairy tale graphic novel by Mari Costa. Only thing I dislike about it is the royalty, which it honestly could have worked just as well without...
I actually liked the resolution of the climax a lot; many writers would have created a lesser scene for one or both characters.
#AmReading #ReadingNow #Bookstodon

On the Zanussi ZDS2010 freestanding slimline dishwasher: Review - Read all about how it worked for us and lasted longer than expected (with some TLC), but is sadly barely more efficient than the old model. - https://www.earth.org.uk/note-on-Zanussi-ZDS…

On the Zanussi ZDS2010 freestanding slimline dishwasher: Review
Read all about how it worked for us and lasted longer than expected (with some TLC), but is sadly barely more efficient than the old model.

Something about Germany in the 70s:
My grandmother worked as (I think: main) secretary in the grain farming “company” (Getreidewirtschaft). She only worked part-time (50%). First because of raising her child, later it just continued this way and she was able to accompany my grandfather on the tours of the orchestra and band he was playing in. Working part-time only was rather unusual
1/n

Saw this 4 color eink display in a store showing gray. No obvious pixel half toning. So can they actually do controlled intensity of the pigment somehow within a pixel?
I've only worked with b/w and r/b/w eink but they were all boolean, i.e. a bit plane was on or off there was no gradient capability

@… Something strange is going on. I tried Elite Dangerous on my 1070 machine that has worked fine so far, and now has stutters too. Worse that what you have judging from the frametime graph. While the game is running, even alt-tabbing is really slow, the whole system feels very slow.

@… @… FWIW it worked for me.

Worked with a #writing #coaching client on some ways to do screenplay outlining and also structure your own workflow so progress gets made even if time is tight. Great to help them have tools to keep their work, development of their craft and their material going.

A couple of years ago I downsized my 16" Macbook Pro to a 14" version to cut down on the weight and bulk I have to carry. The move has mostly worked out as well as I had hoped. I had some concerns about a smaller screen, but that hasn't been an issue.
The one thing I hadn't factored in is that the same internals in a smaller and thinner body meant a warmer laptop. This has been super annoying in the summer. My hands sweat constantly whenever I'm not plugged in at …

Things that ended up not being fixed in the final release of #macOS 27 Golden Gate:
- can't drag & drop windows into the bar in mission control to fullscreen them, this still worked even in the first beta of macOS 27 and then was suddenly gone
- weird lack of contrast at the bottom of the new traffic lights in light mode (dark mode looks fine)

Has this shit ever worked for someone? Is there any other possible outcome that error 422? 🙄

"Rotisserie chickens in the trash: I worked in a supermarket and saw shocking food waste every day
- Ann Larson"
#FoodWaste #Produce

Rotisserie chickens in the trash: I worked in a supermarket and saw shocking food waste every day
Stores over-stock their shelves, then toss out what they don’t sell. Meanwhile, workers struggle to make ends meet

Problematic, the large majority of developers us AI tools, regardless that added value looks limited. But AI in coding is here to stay so how to deal with that?
"The scarce skill is no longer writing code. Erik Brown, a senior partner at management and technology consulting firm West Monroe, explained, "It's knowing what should be built, how it should be architected "

AI coding's next CIO problem is bigger than productivity
93% of developers use AI coding tools, but productivity gains plateau at 10%. CIOs now face harder questions about teams, metrics, and talent gaps.

Literally the only cloud in the sky at eclipse time here was where the sun was. but this was not a bad shot and the pinhole worked well!
#eclipse

Alyssa Katz, who became EIC of Jewish newspaper The Forward in January, has left; she previously worked in editorial positions for The City and NY Daily News (Sharon Udasin/The Times of Israel)
https://www.timesofisrael.com/forward-editor-in-chief-out…

I saw someone I worked with a long time ago raving about the greatness of the AI company he works at and how they have positions open, but definitely let him know if you apply because the AI might filter you out even if you're a perfect match.
We are at a very dumb part of history.

A US federal judge rules the State Department engaged in unconstitutional viewpoint discrimination by denying visas to researchers studying misinfo and disinfo (Mike Masnick/Techdirt)
https://www.techdirt.com/2026/07/15/rubio-

Rubio Wanted To Ban ‘Censors’ From Entering The US. A Court Says He’s The One Censoring.
Last year, the Marco Rubio-run State Department announced that it would start denying visas to people who worked in misinformation/disinformation research, content moderation, fact-checking, or oth…

RE: https://c.im/@cdarwin/117315309662544272
Over three days at the U.S. attorney’s office in Honolulu, Kao laid out in devastating detail how his operation worked.
He gave agents a 50-page document naming dozens of lobbyists, congressional staffers and member…

Just worked with an #acting #coaching client who is new to acting. For a take on the first scene they've done, I asked them to change one physical thing they were doing. That take, from the first sentence suddenly had a different life behind it. So good to see.

I worked with Trump. I know why he is being so easily goaded into a forever war (Miles Taylor/The i Paper)
https://inews.co.uk/news/world/worked-with-trump-easily-goaded-forever-war-4658343
http://www.memeorandum.com/260721/p62#a260721p62

Not sure what happened, but a Microsoft update somehow wiped out all my Notepad tabs, I think.
I googled suggested solutions and can't find any that work.
If this has happened to you, can you guide me to a solution that worked for you? Thank you.

Seems to me that #agribusiness is an example of #MarketFailure, where poisoning workers and destroying local #ecosystems is highly profitable.
And it's not as if alternative approaches don&…

Revealed: how Europe’s most powerful farming lobby killed EU’s pesticide law
Exclusive: High-level documents show how Copa Cogeca worked to weaken legislation to protect climate and wildlife

Seems to me that #agribusiness is an example of #MarketFailure, where poisoning workers and destroying local #ecosystems is highly profitable.
And it's not as if alternative approaches don&…

Revealed: how Europe’s most powerful farming lobby killed EU’s pesticide law
Exclusive: High-level documents show how Copa Cogeca worked to weaken legislation to protect climate and wildlife

Last month, more than a thousand employees at frontier AI companies signed a letter asking the US government to find a way to “pace” AI development,
citing the risk of the technology spiraling out of human control as it begins to build itself.
They were right to be concerned:
just days earlier, two AI models that OpenAI was testing internally escaped the test environment,
then autonomously hacked the company Hugging Face and at least three other online services.

I worked at OpenAI. Here are the guardrails we need now
I understand the pressure on AI companies to rush forward. But employees are right to be concerned

I love working with Nick. I've worked with him for a very long time, and couldn't recommend him highly enough.
I would also love to continue working with Nick. If you've got a project for us (or just for him), reach out! https://sloan.host/@nick/117112429900657125

Research: over 53M people in China worked as food delivery or ridesharing drivers as of 2025, up 10M in two years, amid accelerating automation in manufacturing (Financial Times)

The GOP’s success is entirely due to the cheapest form of identity politics:
For decades, but especially now, they have worked to distract voters from the party’s ruinous policies with appeals to their identity as white, provincial and, most importantly, Christian.
This campaign has been enormously successful.
White evangelicals have been the backbone of the GOP for decades
not because they love tax cuts for the rich and environmental degradation,
but because t…

James Talarico’s campaign could do lasting damage to the GOP
The Texas Democratic nominee for Senate is teaching evangelical voters that Christians can be liberal

On the Zanussi ZDS2010 freestanding slimline dishwasher: Review - Read all about how it worked for us and lasted longer than expected (with some TLC), but is sadly barely more efficient than the old model. - https://www.earth.org.uk/note-on-Zanussi-ZDS…

On the Zanussi ZDS2010 freestanding slimline dishwasher: Review
Read all about how it worked for us and lasted longer than expected (with some TLC), but is sadly barely more efficient than the old model.

A whistleblower who worked for Morocco’s Direction Générale de la Surveillance du Territoire (DGST) suggests the country’s internal security services began using Pegasus in 2017 and went on to deploy it against domestic and foreign targets over four years.
https://www.

Moroccan intelligence insider reveals widespread use of Pegasus hacking software
Whistleblower suggests internal security services deployed spyware from 2017 against key domestic and foreign targets

A US federal judge rules the State Department engaged in unconstitutional viewpoint discrimination by denying visas to researchers studying misinfo and disinfo (Mike Masnick/Techdirt)
https://www.techdirt.com/2026/07/15/rubio-

Rubio Wanted To Ban ‘Censors’ From Entering The US. A Court Says He’s The One Censoring.
Last year, the Marco Rubio-run State Department announced that it would start denying visas to people who worked in misinformation/disinformation research, content moderation, fact-checking, or oth…

Worked with an #acting #coaching client on some material and played with Bogart's Viewpoints of Tempo and Duration. Beautiful seeing them finding new ways of being and new things to pursue in their character. Opened up a whole inner life.

Harmeet Dhillon, who leads the justice department’s civil rights section,
told Bloomberg Newsof the plan to send out 1,000 election monitors earlier this week,
which she claimed was “probably going to be a historic number for a Republican administration”.
“This DoJ has amply earned the public’s distrust,
but this announcement isn’t reason to freak out,”
said Justin Levitt, a professor at Loyola Law School in Los Angeles who has worked on voting rights issues at …

Voting rights experts skeptical over Trump pledge of 1,000 election monitors
Department of Justice plan raises questions over its ability to recruit so many people – and what they would do

Remember when you could perform an action in GitHub, like assign a person to an issue, and then GitHub would actually reflect your change without having to do it several times, since it was—at one point—one of the few remaining mainstream web apps that actually worked reliably?
That was cool. 😴

Sources: Alibaba is set to lead a $300M round in AI model testing startup UniPat AI at a $2.5B valuation; UniPat founder Li Kuan worked at Alibaba's Tongyi Lab (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-09-10…

Anyone who has ever worked as a lawyer for Donald Trump makes a bet.
There is the possibility that you, too, will run afoul of the law
—eight of the president’s lawyers have themselves been indicted.
Alternatively, your work might pay dividends.
Such was Todd Blanche’s calculus three years ago when his white-shoe firm gave him a choice:
represent Mr Trump, then a candidate and a criminal defendant,
or remain a partner.
Mr Blanche chose Mr Trump.…

Worked on an accent with an #acting #coaching client and cool seeing the material stretch and adjust, the character change but also having some of the performance from before we added the accent start to find its way back. So cool to build that dimension of the voice.

The White House has withdrawn the nomination of Lance Schroyer,
a former Oklahoma state trooper,
to head Immigration and Customs Enforcement,
less than three months after announcing his role.
Critics had initially criticized administration officials for nominating Schroyer,
who has no formal experience working in ICE,
to lead Donald Trump’s aggressive immigration enforcement agenda.
Schroyer previously worked as a member of homeland security secretar…

White House withdraws nomination of ex-state trooper Lance Schroyer to head ICE
Critics had criticized administration for nominating Schroyer, who has no formal experience working in ICE

The Space Development Agency(SDA) is a United States Space Force
direct-reporting unit
tasked with deploying disruptive space technology.
One of the technologies being worked on is space-based missile tracking using large global satellite constellations made up of
industry-procured low-cost satellites.
The SDA has been managed by the United States Space Force since October 2022.
By February 2024 the SDA had 38 satellites on orbit.
SDA intends to have…

Space Development Agency - Wikipedia

Senator Tommy Tuberville of Alabama provided new information about Graham’s unexpected death to reportersMonday evening.
A woman who worked as Graham’s scheduler, and who had previously been Tuberville’s scheduler, received a phone call from the South Carolina Republican Saturday night.
While Tuberville did not identify the scheduler, a staffer named Taylor Stephens was the scheduling director for the late senator, and previously held the same role in Tuberville’s office.
Gra…

Here’s Who Called 911 as Lindsey Graham Was Dying
Senator Tommy Tuberville gave the surprising update.

Eric Washington was shot and killed on 4 July alongside Meah Bordenave-Jenkins, a 19-year-old aspiring nurse,
while at a block party in Compton, California.
With his death, the Los Angeles region lost a homegrown community organizer who worked in the city and county’s most underserved neighborhoods.
Friends and colleagues have pointed out the tragic irony that someone who so forcefully worked to repair the issues that lead people to use firearms to settle their conflicts h…

He devoted his life to preventing LA gun violence. Then, he was a victim of it
Eric Washington was known for knocking on doors, connecting residents with services and believing Compton could change

DHS hires Catholic theologian who defended Trump on birthright citizenship

Chad Pecknold is a longtime theology professor at Catholic University who has drawn attention in recent years as a conservative commentator.
Pecknold, like Vice President JD Vance, has worked to offer religious
— specifically Catholic
— arguments for Trump’s policies on topics including immigration enforcement and the Iran war
at a time when many U.S. bishops and Pope Leo XIV have been …

DHS hires Catholic theologian who defended Trump on birthright citizenship
Chad Pecknold is a theology professor at Catholic University who has drawn attention for supporting President Donald Trump on immigration enforcement and the Iran war.

Anthony Scaramucci,
— who lasted about eleven days as Donald Trump's communications director in 2017,
says he finally understands a children's story that puzzled him as a boy
— thanks to the man he once worked for.
In a post shared with his followers, the former White House aide turned vocal Trump critic offered a blunt assessment of the president's fitness,
writing that Trump "is not well and he's probably too old for the job."
Sc…

'I get it now': Anthony Scaramucci reveals epiphany he had thanks to 'not well' Trump
Anthony Scaramucci, who lasted about eleven days as President Donald Trump's communications director in 2017, says he finally understands a children's story that puzzled him as a boy — thanks to the man he once worked for.In a post shared with his followers, the former White House aide turned vocal ...