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"May 2026 was the world’s second-warmest May on record"
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May 2026 was the world’s second-warmest May on record
Global sea surface temperatures were the second-highest on record for May.

President Trump says he warned Emmanuel Macron to drop France's 3% digital services tax on US tech giants, or face a 100% tariff on French champagne and wine (James Franey/New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2026/06/15/business…

Exclusive | Trump warns France in exclusive interview with The Post: Kill tech tax or face 100% wine tariffs: 'I have no choice'
A senior source close to the French president told reporters last week that the issue was “no longer up for debate” ahead of the G7—an account a US official immediately dismissed as …

What leaders (usually) get wrong about motivation https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7275978/2026/05/15/what-leaders-usually-get-wrong-about-motivation/

"prequels" by wronghand 📚🙃
https://wronghands1.com/2026/05/01/prequels/

Don't leave for the weekend until you've checked out today's Metacurity for the most critical infosec developments you should know, including
--AI bug hunters expose new weak point in Apple’s locked-down macOS,
--Shai-Hulud attack campaign hit two OpenAI employees,
--Hackers unwisely targeted Amnesty International's Security Lab chief,
--US and China to discuss AI guardrails,
--Anthropic warns of CCP AI dominance,
--DPRK's APT 37 is now…

AI bug hunters expose new weak point in Apple’s locked-down macOS
Shai-Hulud attack campaign hit two OpenAI employees, Hackers unwisely targeted Amnesty International's Security Lab chief, US and China to discuss AI guardrails, Anthropic warns of CCP AI dominance, DPRK's APT 37 is now posing as cops, MSFT warns of severe XSS flaw for Outlook web users, much more

Influencer treiben Online-Käufe bei Jugendlichen in die Höhe
Mit nur einem Klick landen Sneaker, Beauty-Produkte und Co. im Warenkorb. Wie stark Social Media und Influencer den Kaufrausch bei Jugendlichen anheizen.

DAK-Studie: Jugendliche geben jährlich bis zu 1200 Euro online aus
Mit nur einem Klick landen Sneaker, Beauty-Produkte und Co. im Warenkorb. Wie stark Social Media und Influencer den Kaufrausch bei Jugendlichen anheizen.

Pope Warns Europe's Rearmament Risks Undermining Social Spending (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-05-14/pope-warns-europe-s-rearmament-risks-undermining-social-spending
http://www.memeorandum.com/260514/p19#a260514p19

It’s a pleasure to be right, but there are advantages being wrong as well. It can be easier to let go of your own ideas, for one. A kind of freshness of curiosity and surprise for another.
I like the way Shunryu Suzuki paraphrased Dogen in describing Zen as a practice of wrong following on wrong — a lifetime of “one continuous mistake.”

The Boat of Purity and Ease
"Remembered by those who have visited as the Marble Boat and known by the Chinese as the Boat of Purity and Ease, is not marble and it is not a boat." Ray Hahn, Postcard History

“In Bombay Beach, everything that can go wrong in the world has gone wrong;
that’s why people most describe it as apocalyptic or post-apocalyptic,” said Tao Ruspoli.
“You have climate change, environmental collapse, severe poverty and contaminated water.
The beauty of the apocalypse is that it exposes all the problems of our culture and then asks the question, what’s next?
What do you do once the end has happened?”

"Climate change could erase most South American cloud forests, study warns"
#SouthAmerica #Climate #ClimateChange

Climate change could erase most South American cloud forests, study warns
Up in the misty mountains, teems a kaleidoscope of life: trees drip with epiphytes, hummingbirds sip from bright blossoms, and rare creatures occupy every nook in the cloud forests, which scientists have likened to terrestrial coral reefs. But a new study warns that climate change could strip away the conditions that make cloud forests possible, […]