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King Donald 🤴 and his minions: successfully isolating the US for 5 months and counting. More people leaving the country than coming: www.washingtonpost.com/business/202... New travel bans planned: www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

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German carmakers, whose definition of derisking has been more (not less) China, are now scrambling in real-time to diversify from Chinese rare earth magnets. The lack of strategic vision is breathtaking. A replay of the Russian gas debacle on.ft.com/4l6hgR8

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There’s a good reason why interviews are typically edited for brevity and clarity. Try to read this podcast transcript, and you’ll see why. Solution? Write an article with key quotes, make the transcript optional. #journalism www.nytimes.com/2025/06/14/m...

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Truly every sane and good thing they trash with malice

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Large language models “are not emotionally intelligent or ‘smart’ in any meaningful or recognizably human sense of the word,” Tyler Austin Harper writes. Understanding this is essential to avoiding AI’s most corrosive effects:

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With their extreme wealth, control over information infrastructures, and proximity to political power, the billionaire owners of Big Tech companies can shape the information ecosystems that democracies depend on to make decisions, writes Jamie Hancock, digital policy researcher at Demos:

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“Netanyahu felt that now was the time, even if the Americans don't like it.” www.bbc.com/news/article...

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The WSJ news pages expands on the NYT: since Stephen Miller demanded ICE increase its numbers, they’ve started grabbing people without even checking their immigration status, let alone their criminal history. Gift link: www.wsj.com/us-news/prot...

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"My Mac Contacted 63 Different Apple Owned Domains in One Hour - While Not is Use" appaddict.app/post/my-mac-...

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Ah, too bad, I have mice only in my 5th and 7th house… Seriously, what kind of garbage #journalism is this from @nytimes.com? www.nytimes.com/2025/06/11/r...

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Sea acidity has reached critical levels, threatening entire ecosystems – study www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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"Reducing US military aid to Ukraine will neither lead to a sustainable peace in Ukraine nor compel Russian President Vladimir Putin to reassess his theory of victory" understandingwar.org/backgrounder...

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How was the wheel invented? Engineers ran computer simulations to reinvent the wheel, revealing how nearly 6,000 years ago, the wheel may have evolved from wooden rollers, driven by the principle of mechanical advantage. An aerospace engineering professor explains: buff.ly/oM8otao

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…and all buyers should be aware that they are being milked for #mobility data flowing back to China.

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At Fort Bragg, Donald Trump crossed a dangerous line. Where are the generals who should be speaking up in defense of the military's rules and traditions, asks @radiofreetom.bsky.social? https://theatln.tc/eVGJfmoZ

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Families arrested in LA Ice raids held in basements with little food or water, lawyers say

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In today's @theoverspill: seeing faces in clouds, as humans do, resembles what LLMs do with text - mistaking unstructured content for content.

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We don’t know how close we are to triggering an Atlantic Ocean circulation #AMOC breakdown - but now we know a lot more about what it would mean for extreme temperatures in Europe. Good @carbonbrief.org piece on a new study just out by the Dutch colleagues! 🌊 www.carbonbrief.org/ocean-curren...

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How Musk & X.com are “strong-arming advertisers” into buying ads. Excellent investigative #journalism by @wsj.com reporter team. #media #socialmedia #business #law www.wsj.com/business/med...

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Even more polarizing? Tesla’s robotaxis crashing because Musk doesn’t believe in Lidar or other sensors beyond cameras…

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”even if industry returns, the old jobs will not…” @economist.com analysis on #manufacturing & Trump’s faulty tariff hopes. #work #automation economist.com/finance-and-...

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Mistral CEO Arthur Mensch says European companies and governments increasingly want non-US AI tools, and Mistral is on track to top $100M in annual revenue (Sam Schechner/Wall Street Journal) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

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One common misperception is that clean tech is all about solar or wind and we’ve lost that so we’d better give up. Germany still has some of the latter. And if you look at the wider ecosystem - including machines, various turbines, parts for nuclear centrifuges - Germany is in far better shape.

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Director of National Intelligence, but hey. Tulsi Gabbard Admits She Asked #AI Which JFK Files Secrets to Reveal www.thedailybeast.com/tulsi-gabbar...

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Money,money, money… 💰 ⚽️ 💵 #Fifa #greed

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Next Trump loyalty test: which governor calls in the National Guard – and who’s holding out. www.wsj.com/us-news/texa...

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Excellent satire by the @nytimes.com social media crew. #journalism (“Breaking News”, seriously?)

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Elon blinked. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/11/b...

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Raising climate ambition would BOOST global GDP in the short, medium and long term, says a major new OECD analysis This excludes the benefits of avoided climate impacts, which it says would further increase the advantages of greater action www.oecd.org/en/publ...

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Europe is putting Nord Stream 1 & 2 behind for good. We also propose to lower the oil price cap from 60 to 45 $ per barrel. Oil is one third of Russia’s government revenues. We need to cut this source. We'll discuss how to best coordinate with partners at the G7 Summit ↓ europa.eu/!qG9bx3

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#PPOD: A panorama from NASA’s 2001 Mars Odyssey orbiter shows one of the Red Planet’s biggest volcanoes, Arsia Mons, poking through a canopy of clouds just before dawn. Arsia Mons and two other volcanoes form what is known as the Tharsis Montes, or Tharsis Mountains. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU 🧪

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WSJ: The White House Marching Orders That Sparked the L.A. Migrant Crackdown After deportations fell short of President Trump’s campaign promises, federal agents summoned to a meeting in Washington were told to ‘just go out there and arrest illegal aliens’ www.wsj.com/us-news/prot...

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There are good uses for AI at a newspaper, Amanda Katz, a former Opinions editor at The Washington Post, argues. But what’s puzzling is why everyone keeps trying to make AI do the tasks that “we humans most want to keep for ourselves.” https://theatln.tc/ndnRF0P1

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Paging @npr.org’s Wait, Wait… Don’t Tell Me. (Cc @petersagal.bsky.social) Via @charlesarthur.bsky.social’s The Overspill. theoverspill.wordpress.com/faa-floppy-d... www.reuters.com/article/worl...

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Meanwhile, among 🦠 🦠 🦠 worldwide… 🥳 🎊 🎈🎉

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"Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” has $185bn for ICE, which is more than the annual military budgets of the UK and France combined. Wherever ICE raids trigger protests, Trump can send in the troops." My column. www.ft.com/content/3d6c...

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Finally! Some real innovation from #Apple… (Irony alert.) www.macrumors.com/2025/06/10/t...

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Yeah, let’s blame quantum physics when things go wrong. 😑

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“In a post-reality environment, it turns out, the president didn’t need to wait for a crisis to launch an authoritarian crackdown. Instead, he can simply invent one.” @michellegoldberg.bsky.social commentary on Trump & LA in @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/06/09/o...

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60 days into Trump’s 90 day tariff reprieve, we have: - No Japan deal - No South Korea Deal - No EU deal - A UK deal that has not yet led to a lowering of tariffs - A tit-for-tat mess with China asia.nikkei.com/Economy/Trad...

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This is Trump propaganda & bad #journalism, dear @wsj.com colleagues. 😕 The government is merely claiming that federal buildings & personnel need protection from protesters. www.wsj.com/us-news/trum...

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Surprise:

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In case you're wondering, authoritarians use this strategy of escalation to manufacture crisis, provoke outrage, then use the reaction to justify repression. It’s not about restoring order, it's about creating a spectacle of chaos they can claim only they can control.

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I still find it amusing that Zuckerberg in 2021 pivoted his entire empire to "The Metaverse" - even renaming the company! - and within a year AI and ChatGPT was the thing everyone cared about. Rarely seen such a big bet on the wrong thing. Good luck hiring an AI team after that.

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Has @theonion.com taken over @theatlantic.com? 😮

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#German word that perfectly describes what #Apple has been doing with iOS and macOS for years: Verschlimmbesserung Meaning you make things worse while pretending to improve on them. The #LiquidGlass #UI redesign? Q.e.d. 😶‍🌫️ appleinsider.com/articles/25/...

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The Guardian partners with Cambridge University to launch Secure Messaging in its app, protecting sources by making messages indistinguishable from other data (Katharine Viner/The Guardian) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

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Before the 1970s, a child diagnosed with leukemia had a 90% chance of dying within 5 years. Today, those odds are flipped: they have an almost 90% chance of survival. My colleague @scientificdiscovery.dev's article on progress against childhood cancer. ourworldindata.org/childhood-le...

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Looks like Trump is getting what he was hoping for. 😞 www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06...

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