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"The National Design Studio, staffed by Doge veterans, installed visitor-tracking software on vital federal websites."
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/28/government-website-visitor-tracking-surveillance-fears…

‘It’s dangerous and it’s going to erode trust’: redesign of US government websites stokes surveillance fears
The National Design Studio, staffed by Doge veterans, installed visitor-tracking software on vital federal websites

Das #Rezept des Tages:
🍝 Vegetarischer Gyros-Nudelauflauf
Dieses Gericht wurde zu einer vegetarischen Version überarbeitet. Der Auflauf reicht locker für sechs Personen. #Fusilli, #Sojaschnetzel

Vegetarischer Gyros-Nudelauflauf: Herzhaftes Ofengericht für große Runden
Herzhafter vegetarischer Gyros Nudelauflauf mit Sojaschnetzel, Fusilli, Tomaten und Käse – sättigend, würzig und perfekt für viele Personen.

Donald Trump has received another setback in his ongoing quest to control U.S. elections.
In a 5-4 split, the Supreme Court ruled that mail-in ballots do not need to be received by Election Day to be counted,
as long as they were postmarked by then.
Although a “rare victory for voting rights,” the conservative justices’ assertion that voting by mail is prone to fraud
— a disproven theory that Trump blames his loss in the 2020 election for
— is “very disturbing…

Supreme Court Approves Mail-In Voting, But Trump Keeps Pushing Extremist SAVE Act Ahead of Midterms
President Donald Trump has received another setback in his ongoing quest to control U.S. elections. In a 5-4 split, the Supreme Court ruled that mail-in ballots do not need to be received by Election Day to be counted, as long as they were postmarked by then. Although a “rare victory for voting rights,” the conservative justices’ assertion that voting by mail is prone to fraud — a disproven theory that Trump blames his loss in the 2020 election for — is “very disturbing,” says Ari…

China's tech boom is creating a new kind of tech tourism where visitors pay for curated robotaxi rides and tours of EV factories and AI and robotics companies (Kinling Lo/Rest of World)
https://restofworld.org/2026/china-ai-tourism/

China’s tech rise is creating a new kind of tourism
Foreign visitors are flocking to China’s factories and AI startups in search of the next technological breakthrough.

I’m really not sure what to think about the new Strokes sound … I like the instrumentation and the sizzling distortion – but Julian Casablancas has completely turned into a vocoder, wtf. 😅
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ZdSZN7LdqY

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Continent
Viktor Minsky:
🎵 Smoked
#ViktorMinsky

«Websites have a new way to spy on visitors — analyzing their SSD activity:
Telltale SSD activity can be measured in the browser using simple JavaScript.»
WTF!?!! Why do the web providers always want to listen to their users instead of simply offering correct honest services?
🤬

Websites have a new way to spy on visitors: analyzing their SSD activity
Telltale SSD activity can be measured in the browser using simple JavaScript.

Heads up for those who care: A flurry of #ThingUmbrella updates/additions incoming, incl. new nD spatial hash table (with 2D/3D optimizations), indexed mesh data structure, updates to https://thi.ng/vectors and

Tens of thousands of people gathered in soaring temperatures in Hungary's capital on Saturday
to celebrate the 31st annual
Budapest Pride,
-- the first such LGBTQ march since former Prime Minister Viktor Orbšn
(who had sought to ban the event)
was ousted in an April election.

Tens of thousands march in the first Budapest Pride since Viktor Orbán was voted out
Saturday's Pride march came a little more than a year after Orbán's nationalist-populist government passed legislation and a constitutional amendment to outlaw the event, drawing criticism from human rights groups and politicians across the European Union.

Donald Trump created the National Design Studio (NDS) by executive order on 21 August 2025,
ostensibly to overhaul federal websites and digital services.
The office sits within the executive office of the president as a “temporary organization”,
a designation that places it outside the Senate confirmation process,
outside the financial disclosure system applied to most federal appointees
and outside the inspector general’s jurisdiction, which covers cabinet dep…

‘It’s dangerous and it’s going to erode trust’: redesign of US government websites stokes surveillance fears
The National Design Studio, staffed by Doge veterans, installed visitor-tracking software on vital federal websites