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🧵 THREAD: Why the Cato Institute’s new paper on “misinformation panic” is dangerously wrong, and why it completely misunderstands the real crisis we face. www.cato.org/policy-analy...

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This is big for on-device AI🚀 So excited that Gemma 3n is now generally available for everyone to build with! The team packed an incredible amount of power into a tiny package. We're talking about the first sub-10B model to smash a 1300 LMArena score – it seriously punches above its weight class 👇

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Some days ago my @igalia.com colleague Tvrtko Ursulin published a super-interesting blog post about his DRM Fair Scheduler work for the #Linux #Kernel. Don't miss it! 👉 blogs.igalia.com/tursulin/fai...

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PARIS: In the last 20 years, 44ha of Paris car parking has been transformed, making room for wider sidewalks, bikes & buses (15ha), bike racks, EV spots, accessible space, & 2.2K new patios/terraces for outdoor dining. 90% of Paris trips are via walking, biking & transit. V/@villedeparis.bsky.social

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OTD in 1940 USSR gave Romania ultimatum to cede large parts of the country to Soviet Union or be invaded. Imagine us threatening to invade countries & take their territory in this day and age…

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Rust 1.88.0 has been released! ✨🎊 🦀 This release brings you let chains, naked functions, automatic Cargo cache cleaning, Cell::update, proc_macro span locations, as_chunks methods on slices, and more! Check out the blog post and release notes for all the details: blog.rust-lang.org/2025/06/26/R...

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Absolutely striking numbers. 65% of Germans support Germany significantly increasing its defence expenditures to reach NATO’s 5%* goal. *it’s a 3,5%+ goal, to be exact.

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New from 404 Media: ICE is using a new facial recognition app to identify people, leaked emails show. Point camera at person, reveal their identity. It uses the CBP system that records peoples' faces as they enter or exit the U.S. Now, turned inwards to be used by ICE www.404media.co/ice-is-using...

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there’s never been a better time to learn mathematics

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Hmm… "Just because it says ‘Palestine’ in the title doesn’t mean it’s about Palestine. This is standard GRU ops."

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“Chinese government regulations adopted in September requiring export permits for dual-use goods have more than tripled the price of drone components shipped to the US, according to a report by Nikkei’s Itsuro Fujino.”

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I'm really impressed by the new Gemma 3n I tried a 7.5GB model from Ollama and a 15GB model through mlx-vlm - they seem very capable, and this is the first model of that size I've tried that can handle both image AND audio input in addition to text! simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/26/...

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Steam Summer Sale 2025 is live - here's some top picks all under £20 #Steam #Gaming #PCGaming

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Warcraft I: Remastered, Warcraft II: Remastered, and Warcraft III: Reforged now on #PCGamePass 🔥🔥🖥️

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i've always been curious about how to write a Linux USB device driver and this blog post looks like a great intro: crescentro.se/posts/writin...

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If you see a github user with this badge it’s because they have code ~1,000 feet underground in the Arctic Circle.   5 years ago Github took a snapshot of all public repos, stored it on photographic film (essentially big QR codes), and stuck it in a mining tunnel.

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System Shock 2: 25th Anniversary Remaster is available NOW on PC platforms including Steam, GOG, Epic Games, and Humble Bundle! 🤖⚡

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Launching today, @NightdiveStudio has done it again with the excellent System Shock 2: 25th Anniversary Remaster - and here's John and Oliver playing through the early stages of the game in co-op: youtu.be/6FAGdxHKqMs

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ECMAScript excitement 😉 The Ecma General Assembly has approved ES2025 🎉 🔶 Duplicate Named Capture Groups 🔶 Float16Array 🔶 Import Attributes 🔶 Iterator Helpers 🔶 JSON Modules 🔶 Promise.try 🔶 RegExp.escape 🔶 RegExp Modifiers 🔶 Set Methods

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Open sourcing a new kubectl plugin called `kubectl node-resource` that queries allocations/utilizations for all/subset of the Kubernetes nodes. It has optimizations for large clusters. We've needed this in our set up to quickly answer questions. github.com/ahmetb/kubec...

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Health groups are mobilizing behind the scenes to preserve access for vaccines as Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. works to upend the nation’s decades-old vaccine system, according to public health experts.

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"The Biden administration was trying to treat technology as an ordinary industry that should be subject to normal oversight and regulation. But tech leaders, who still see themselves as special b/c they’re leading us to a glorious future, were outraged..." paulkrugman.substack.com/p/why-big-te...

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europe’s dependence on american military hardware, charted

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Microsoft was planning to charge consumers $30 for a year of extra security updates to Windows 10, but now it's making them free! ...with a catch. You'll have to enable Windows Backup 🤔. Full details on how it works 👇 www.theverge.com/news/691811/...

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Interesting, if (unsurprisingly) unspecific assessment by Chinese military officers of US capability to disrupt PLAN submarine warfare. cimsec.org/exposed-unde...

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Devastating account of the damage that conspiracy theories can cause. www.bbc.com/news/article...

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Finally, good news out of Belarus. Sending my best wishes to Sergei Tsikhanouski and Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya. www.reuters.com/world/europe...

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In my current work, I point to the invasion of Iraq 2003 as a moment where the public's trust in the foundational ideals of democracy, verification, deliberation, and accountability were systematically betrayed, destroying their trust in democratic systems.

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Svitlana Tsikhanouskaya's husband, Siarhei has been released from a Belarusian prison She entered politics after his arrest She had no contact with him for several years x.com/Tsihanouskay...

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Maybe Detroit made a mistake when it stopped offering Americans sedans and told them to choose between pricey, huge SUVs and pricey, huge pickups

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Mistral Small 3.2 was released today - I used a 15GB quantized model from Hugging Face (via Ollama) running on my Mac and got it to draw me a pretty decent SVG of a pelican riding a bicycle model (considering the model size) simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/20/...

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Blogged too much today and had to send it all out in a newsletter - it's a pretty fun one, covering Gemini 2.5 and Mistral Small 3.2 and the fact that most LLMs will absolutely try and murder you given the chance (and a suitably contrived scenario) simonw.substack.com/p/trying-out...

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NEW: Russian President Vladimir Putin claimed that Russians and Ukrainians are one nation and all of Ukraine is effectively Russian as part of efforts to justify his continued conquest of Ukraine. (🧵1/X) Read more in the June 20, 2025 Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment: isw.pub/UkrWar062025

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yep. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Here's 29 games to claim from Prime Gaming for Linux, SteamOS and Steam Deck #Gaming #PCGaming #Linux #SteamOS #SteamDeck

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I can only think of one thing that Putin can do to save the economy, but he won't do it: Stop the war.

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A lone Boston coder rewrote BIOS in 1984. IBM wanted to sue. The programmer's clever loophole became the model for legally defensible reverse engineering.  You’ve probably been booting his descendants ever since. This is how Phoenix Technologies got away with it:

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here's the final version of the "redirects cheat sheet" draft I posted a while back! ("The Secret Rules of the Terminal" is finished! 95 beta readers have read it! the copy editor is done! technical review is done! the illustrator has made the cover! It's going to be out on Tuesday June 24"!)

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Today I learned about python -X importime and the really neat python-importtime-graph tool by Kevin Michel that turns its output into a handy treemap visualization simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/20/...

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Microsoft is blocking Google Chrome through its family safety feature. Microsoft’s parental controls have been wreaking havoc with Chrome for more than two weeks. Details below 👇 www.theverge.com/news/690179/...

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😂😂😂

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“The French government will more than double its stake in debt-laden satellite operator Eutelsat, in a state-led €1.35bn capital raising that will see Paris strengthen its hold on OneWeb, Europe’s answer to Elon Musk’s Starlink.” on.ft.com/45yreq4

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In my experience in the work force — and this is admittedly subjective! — people like days off from work.

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Rematch is like if they made Rocket League with dudes. Weird. You'd think someone would have done this already.

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I've been working real hard on this for a long time, and there's still more to come. If there's anything Steam can do to be more accessible for you, I want to hear about it! store.steampowered.com/news/app/593...

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Our textbook “Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning: Foundations and Modern Approaches” has sold out! Another print round with minor corrections is in production with @mitpress.bsky.social and coming 👏 An errata of these corrections and the updated book PDF can already be found at www.marl-book.com

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🔴 NATO has successfully completed testing of advanced systems capable of intercepting Russian guided aerial bombs.

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