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"Ukraine's top priorities are Patriot missile interceptors and GMLRS mobile rocket artillery which may be included in the package. The weapons could be on the front lines within days because stocks are positioned in Europe."
"The Chan-Zuckerbergs stopped funding social causes. 400 kids lost their school."
"Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg’s retreat from funding social issues forced the closure of a school Chan opened for disadvantaged families in Silicon Valley."
"Is it safe for your battery? Interestingly, experts are a bit divided on this one. Some say it's harmless with today’s smarter batteries, while others warn it can still have long-term effects... If you’re using a certified charger and placing your phone in a well-ventilated spot (aka not under a blanket), it's generally safe and unlikely to cause major harm."
Pretty much the opposite of the headline.
https://blog.adafruit.com/2025/05/08/high-tariffs-become-rea...
While those tariffs eventually went down, I think that's the answer to the question of where the tariff money is coming from. U.S. importers are paying it as their goods come in. In some cases they'll then raise prices to cover it, meaning tariff costs get passed on to consumers.
$96.5 billion worth.
I just think the impact of tariffs hasn't trickled through the system and reached consumer yet. But if the goal is really funding the government (like the article suggests), then it's basically meant to function like a new kind of tax.
The first one that came to my mind was "All Your Base Are Belong to Us." (The video where all the images where spliced together...)
"DNSFilter estimates that 1 in every 644 email unsubscribe links is liable to send a user to possibly malicious sites."
"Seven of Moscow's largest drone attacks in its war on Ukraine have happened in the past four weeks."
As many as 479 drones a night - but it's not just that drone swarms are larger (and more frequent). The swarms are "more concentrated" and also "executed in a way that makes them a lot more difficult to combat, flown at higher altitudes out of reach of machine guns."
I really wish artists would develop some self esteem. This week I saw a professional editor using AI to write his headlines. And I pointed out: the second you do that, you're saying "I'm not good enough. I need the crutch of some machine-spliced goobledy-gook to choose from, because I can't do it myself."
We can, though. We're artists -- writers, editors, song-writers, musicians. We're humans. There is something special and irreproducible about us.
I wish artists would act like they believed in that human special-ness. And believed in themselves.
The answer to the question "How does it feel to be an AI" is "It doesn't." Code doesn't feel. And it's a little unhealthy/dangerous/immoral to pretend otherwise.
The sky looks ever so deep when you lay down on your back in the moonshine; I never knowed it before. And how far a body can hear on the water such nights! I heard people talking at the ferry landing. I heard what they said, too—every word of it. One man said it was getting towards the long days and the short nights now. T’other one said _this_ warn’t one of the short ones, he reckoned—and then they laughed, and he said it over again, and they laughed again; then they waked up another fellow and told him, and laughed, but he didn’t laugh; he ripped out something brisk, and said let him alone. The first fellow said he ’lowed to tell it to his old woman—she would think it was pretty good; but he said that warn’t nothing to some things he had said in his time. I heard one man say it was nearly three o’clock, and he hoped daylight wouldn’t wait more than about a week longer. After that the talk got further and further away, and I couldn’t make out the words any more; but I could hear the mumble, and now and then a laugh, too, but it seemed a long ways off.
It was inevitable that critical mission overseers would have to assess the state of their fallback options...
Since Thursday's exchange, at least three commercial space companies, Rocket Lab, Stoke Space and Jeff Bezos's Blue Origin, have been contacted by government officials about the status of their rockets and when they might be available for government missions, according to four people familiar with the inquiries.
Officials at Sierra Space, which is developing a Dream Chaser spaceplane that could deliver cargo to the space station, were in a meeting with NASA officials on Thursday as the Trump-Musk feud was getting underway. "Sierra Space stands ready to ensure uninterrupted support for the International Space Station," Fatih Ozmen, the company's CEO, said in a statement to The Post.
https://thenewstack.io/kelsey-hightower-on-nix-vs-docker-is-...
https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/01/europe/ukraine-drones-russia-...
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/trump-administration-rac...
Trump pretty much admits as much -- that it's his usual standard take-an-aggressive-stance posturing -- in the article. "I just said, it's time that we play the game the way I know how to play the game."
Asked if the EU will be able to negotiate in the nine days before the 50% tariffs kick in, [Treasury Secretary] Bessent said, "I would hope that this would light a fire under the EU."
https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/05/04/2350224/the-un-ditc...
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/google-fixes-...
But all kidding aside, they probably wanted to get this out there for a beginning-of-the-week jump when stock markets open Monday morning.
- A public policy demographer says despite more women in their late 30s having children, "it's not making up for fertility declines among younger women. What's coming to appear is that a lot of these babies are just going to be forgone entirely. They're not going to be born."
- There's also a decline in teen pregancies, and the article quotes a population center director who attributes that to more effective contraception. "The United States has always had much higher rates of teen and unplanned pregnancies than other countries. This is a success story... that people are able to avoid having births early on, when they themselves would say, 'This is not the right time for me.'"
So I hate how X.com (on desktop) makes it hard to open things in a new tab. (Like "Trending Topics", or even the original post that someone's reposted.)
Also, on my phone lately Threads has started doing this really terrible thing where the sound auto-plays on every single video as you scroll past it. I can control things like that on my desktop better. And in general on desktop your screen is bigger.
But also, if someone posts a video on YouTube, sometimes I'll want to see it on YouTube (so I can see the date and who posted it and how long it is...) Maybe that's the larger theme here. You have more controls on desktop than you do on your phone - and more options. (Like if a piece of news looks fishing, I can instantly open a new tab and see if it's being discussed by other credible sites...)
There's even a phrase for it. Anne Lamott wrote a really good book for aspiring (fiction) writers -- and one of the chapters urged them to accept and aspire to "shitty first drafts."
https://wrd.as.uky.edu/sites/default/files/1-Shitty%20First%...
"We find that the policy increased average hourly pay by a remarkable 18 percent, and yet it did not reduce employment,” a study by the UC Berkeley Institute for Research and Labor Employment concluded. “The policy increased prices about 3.7 percent, or about 15 cents on a $4 hamburger (on a one-time basis), contrary to industry claims of larger increases."
This is one of those situations where everyone seems to see what they want to see. (The article notes that "Both pro and con studies used roughly the same employment data generated by the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics. The agency does not collect specific data on the fast food chains affected by the minimum wage legislation, so the rival researchers had to extrapolate what they contend are valid statistical bases... without some reliable data on effects, everyone involved is shooting in the dark. It will be politics, rather than fact, which governs the outcomes.")