Daily Wire editor in chief Brent Scher alleging that the Trump administration, for some reason working in concert with the Southern Poverty Law Center despite pursuing criminal charges against the org, planted a white nationalist group in DC this morning.

I was asked to create a risk analysis of Microsoft 365 Copilot for a labor council and it occurs to me that others may find it useful. Voila! padlet.com/verdigris21/...

Not sure what this says about me, but the more I explore the capacities of generative AI the less it interests me. I'm not denying its potential power, just that how it does what it does is not nearly as interesting as the thoughts and expressions of some other, any other, human being.

As if a country that walked out of the EU, hoping that Brexit would lead to a collapse of the EU as other countries followed it out, which, of course, did not happen, is going to be given a decision-making role in the EU. The UK needs to get real. www.ft.com/content/c5b0...

This is what modern fishing looks like. The oceans are being emptied, and lives are being destroyed 🐟

Palantir, bekend van deportatiesoftware en antidemocratische waarden, krijgt nog meer toegang tot onze defensiesystemen. De staatssecretaris beloofde met Palantir te stoppen, het omgekeerde gebeurt. Zorgwekkend dat we onszelf nog verder afhankelijk maken. Morgen voorstel om dit te stoppen.

The number of highly skilled workers coming to the Netherlands from outside the EU has almost halved in three years.

Great news! Several years of punitive visa rules, higher taxes, hostile rhetoric and banning English are finally paying off! Highly educated people may be fleeing the US but they won’t be coming here. Dutch firms, universities, hospitals will be truly grateful!

Oh dear. Good thing at least some real world problems like poverty, hunger, climate change, cancer or dementia were solved thanks to these hundreds of billions invested /s

Meta selling its compute capacity...Oracle warning everybody that it might not get paid by OpenAI...going on a major business TV show tomorrow...the Summer of Smiles has begun

Nu op NPO 2 Rutgers lobby over pesticiden. Wetenschappers slaan alarm ivm oa Parkinson, politici willen milieuregels juist versoepelen. Hoe meer biologisch je eet, hoe minder gif. Maar je kunt pesticiden niet vermijden, je ademt ze overal in. De gif-lobby negeert dat compleet.

I will say based on the interviews I’m doing and the questions I’m getting that the mainstream media sees that there’s an AI bubble, realizes the companies are misleading them, and even sees where parts of the media contributed. It’s weird but encouraging to see and hear!

Ukraine's ingenuity lies at the heart of its success in resisting Russia's full-scale invasion. It is this ingenuity that we want to support. Today, we are providing a first €3.9 billion for advanced drone technology to strengthen Ukraine's defence. More will follow. link.europa.eu/Rpkvhd

For over a week, #ElonMusk has demanded a "single name of someone" whose death was attributed to DOGE cuts to U.S. federal aid. When thousands of responses came in, Musk became notably silent. #DOGE

Killionaire

Goedemorgen Samen maken we de wereld een beetje mooier... In Schotland verzamelden vrijwilligers met de hand 11 miljoen zaden om Atlantisch regenwoud te herstellen. Daaruit groeiden bijna 8 miljoen jonge inheemse bomen. #PositiefNieuws #natuur

The three branches of the United States government, as delineated in the Constitution, are the God Emperor, The High Council of the Six Ayatollahs, and the Federal Reserve

“Computational thinking is a way humans solve problems; it is not trying to get humans to think like computers. Computers are dull and boring; humans are clever and imaginative.” — Jeannette M. Wing (2006) h/t @olivia.science dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

"We do not speak of faith that two and two are four or that the earth is round. We only speak of faith when we wish to substitute emotion for evidence." — Bertrand Russell

Maar gelukkig zijn ze er veel productiever door geworden en lossen ze problemen voor cliënten nu sneller en goedkoper op /s

CEOs summoning profits through the magic of AI

Ha! Things that were better attended than Trump’s Great American State Fair this weekend include Minneapolis’ annual Cat Tour, Iran’s World Cup match in Seattle Friday night, and NYC’s Dyke March. Boom from @lebassett.bsky.social (No offense to cats 😹) open.substack.com/pub/laurabas...

I‘m sorry, but this reads like somebody with an addiction that genuinely needs help. If a friend told me they were talking and acting like this I’d be really worried!

We already have abundance. It is not justly or rationally distributed. The billionaires and trillionaires are not going to share. Ever. They are going to fixate on becoming quadrillionaires or robots or whatever. The USAID cuts reveal the whole game. So much for "all lives matter."

When billionaires preach "abundance," remember that the richest man in the world killed the poorest children in the world just for the LOLs. And if these AI fascists get their way, most of us will join the starvation class. www.thenerdreich.com/a-silicon-va...

It is profoundly bizarre that the head of one of America’s major teachers union is currently promoting Khanmigo only weeks after Sal Khan, creator of Khanmigo, admitted the vast majority of students don’t like using it and he, Sal Khan, is moving on to other matters.

Meanwhile, in the US. It just takes your breath away. *50 years* in prison for protesting. Don't imagine for one moment that we are immune to this. Already, the legislative framework is in place in the UK to enable such convictions - before we get a Trumplike PM. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Good answer. Pointless question.

Imagining every newspaper in the 1900s crediting scientific discoveries to coal because Einstein had electricity in his lab. “How researchers used the lightbulb to win the 1921 Nobel Prize for Physics”

🔔 cool link alert 🚨 foxglove foxgloveapp.com “Foxglove protects your art before you post it. It strips tracking metadata that platforms use to profile you, embeds a hidden ownership watermark into the pixel data, and applies adversarial perturbation that corrupts AI training.”

World’s richest man kills world’s poorest children …and becomes a trillionaire. This is Greek myth territory. I joined @krystalball.bsky.social and @kylekulinski.bsky.social to discuss USAID cuts, which my book describes as “Silicon Valley’s other genocide.” youtu.be/ZL3vhTJR8ac?...

The heatwave scorching western Europe is the most severe and widespread ever and is only possible due to the climate crisis driven by fossil fuel burning, scientists have said, reports Damian Carrington. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

New paper! w/ @cocoscilab.bsky.social🧵Can large language models reason flexibly, or have they learned what reasoning looks like? We introduce a new paradigm to test this question—the riddle riddle—and find that humans and LLMs show opposite patterns of performance. 📜

University of Technology Einhoven @tue.nl acknowledging they are "AI boosters" 👀 "TU/e is taking a logical next step to boost AI even more and to integrate it into research, education, valorization and its own business operations (...)" www.tue.nl/en/news-and-...

Goed stuk van de NOS over het toekomstige zomerklimaat. Belangrijkste: het wordt nog warmer. Oorzaak: fossiele brandstoffen. app.nos.nl/shorthand/de...

Fresh off of endorsing Chris Rufo —by name—and his vision to destroy higher education, Yale is rushing to help the Trump admin resegregate education. An absolute disgrace.

And yes, Italy's doing just fine, despite nature's comeback. share.google/a9A0ShIc1vku...

The EU wants to hand over our fingerprints and facial images to Trump. Sign and share to help stop it! action.wemove.eu/sign/2026-06...

"The Extreme Sentences Handed to Anti-ICE Protesters Should Terrify Us All" 30-100 years! Perhaps the most important and scary story you'll read all week:

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Please, stop using the media and tech industry phrase, 'AI boom' (as in 'AI boom increases memory prices'). There is no 'boom' there is an economic and ideological total war being waged against us by a dying system that is producing material consequences. An imposition, not a boom.

"The lawsuit also alleges that OpenAI knowingly stripped copyright management information from publishers’ work — including author bylines, copyright notices, and terms of use information."

Once again: GET THEIR ASSES

‼️‼️Beste @ministerlvvn.bsky.social , de meeste Nederlandse mest is géén goeie hernieuwbare bron, want het is een gevolg van grootschalige import van krachtvoer geproduceerd met #fossiele kunstmest! Grootschalige mestvergisting past niet bij #grondgebonden landbouw www.nieuweoogst.nl/nieuws/2026/...

JD Vance: "I think Nixon's historical legacy is enjoying a bit of a renaissance, and deservedly so. I joked that if Watergate happened tomorrow, it would be like a 12 hours news story. The idea that it took down a presidency is crazy."

SoftBank’s investor presentation is one of the greatest things ever made. I’ve been thinking about it all day. These are the real slides shown in a speech where Masayoshi Son said he wouldn’t retire for at least another decade. The goose stuff is truly demented. Bravo group.softbank/media/Projec...

With no explanation, Republicans on the State Board of Education have cut lessons that taught about racial segregation and slave revolts; that acknowledged slavery was because of skin color; and that said southern states seceded from the Union in part to preserve the practice of slavery.

Turns out doing literally nothing is *still better* than the council mowing the lawn down to stubble all the time. Plants want to grow. Flowers want to exist!