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Bananas could vanish from US school meals. Here’s why.
New Farm Bill places caps on non-US foods; nutritionists say it restricts availability of healthy meals for kids. #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jun/11/farm-bill-school-lunches-non-us-foods
i wish they sold a nebula / dropout dual subscription
Apple is selling a water bottle. With "SipSense" technology 🤡, for only $69.95.
No, this is not an Onion news item.
I can't believe it's not an Onion news item.
My Modest Proposal re: social media remains unchanged: if you're going to lop off access for an arbitrary amount of the bottom of the actuarial scale, do the same at the top. No under 16s in the UK? Great!, so long as no over-65s either (80.9 year avg lifespan, minus 16).
@slightlyoff they’ll go back to e-mailing us 1.2mb PPT files containing a single bad joke
"Genaro" says, "We lay an average of 480 pipes a day in the broccoli fields. Two of us lay & assemble the irrigation system & one worker drives the tractor pulling the pipes. The hardest part is when it gets hot. The humidity takes a heavy toll as we do this work." #WeFeedYou
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Big banner with a Teddy quote about courage on the Theodore Roosevelt Federal Building, headquarters of OPM. Only discrepancy is that the 26th president never said this.
What We’ve Been Doing This Past Year: https://netnewswire.blog/2026/06/15/what-weve-been-doing-this.html
To be fair, she does embody a lot more of the qualities that men should strive for than he does.
@david_chisnall @georgetakei from where I am (Australia) initial reaction is like "is this one of those Joe Rogan eposodes where they smoke DMT" but sadly it appears its just good ol' US white supremacist racism and sexism once again
Maybe "The Cloud" wouldn't be so hyped if the internet quadrupled the bitwidth of IP addresses earlier? To be clear making that change at any time that would've mattered would qualify as over-engineering.
Or maybe inventing CRDTs decades ahead of time would've had a similar effect?
Or what if we published more international & accessible Free/Libre Software text-rendering tools in the late 1980s, to help the movement of the time better compete against the coming proprietary office suites?
2/3!
Honestly though: Who knows? We can only guess at what might have been.
And none of this would really have dent against my true gripe: Capitalism!
But it may have led to a better FOSS folklore, embedding inclusivity values early on...
2.5/2.5 Fin for today!
Because Discord was one single site with viable alternatives, so the market logic was still able to pressure them. This is an all-out attack on every single website at once, sponsored simultaneously by the government and the companies, and with actual criminal sanctions for non-compliance - boycotting will eventually become legally impossible. The only feasible remedy is to pressure the governments themselves to change the law.
@csolisr it's not "boycotting", it's adding as much friction to the process as possible. And "eventually legally impossible" is not "currently legally impossible".
For everyone asking how close the Trump Phone is to the HTC U24 Pro, here’s the inside view.
The answer is: very.
The internals line up almost part for part, down to the board layout, cameras, shields, cables, and battery placement. This is what a rebrand looks like when the back cover comes off.
https://www.ifixit.com/News/117789/teardown-confirms-the-trump-phone-is-a-gold-painted-htc-u24-pro
"Every failed attempt to make children safer online is followed by more surveillance and censorship.
Children have rights too and these policies will harm their free expression and privacy rights, and push them into less regulated spaces."
🗣️ ORG's James Baker on the under-16s social media ban.
#socialmediaban #ukpol #onlinesafety #stopKillingInternet #ukpolitics
Hot new job: telescope ranching. "People from all around the world send their telescopes here to observe the night sky from this place with no light pollution. We set them up and they can all access their stuff through a computer remotely." https://kottke.org/26/06/telescope-ranchers
Note to self: pruning media while I'm copying old media back from backup is a silly idea. Maybe I shouldn't do that.
Aight, media cleanup seems to be done. Lets do some status cleanups too.
In the next day or so I need to force myself to read Yet Another Stupid Fucking Orbital Data Center filing, because I have to write a comment to the FCC so that it's on file that astronomers hate it.
This one called "Stampede" from a company named Cowboy Space. I hate *everything* about this. I'm not even going to link to any news stories about them because they're all so horrible. A sun-synchronous terminator orbit is where satellite companies want Kessler Syndrome to start, apparently.
@sundogplanets Are there any initiatives/companies you like in the space junk removal field?
Sudden trip to Limburg because of a death in the family. Odin has no idea, he’s just happy for a chance to be Public Transport Odin, he’s a bit hyperactive about it
Maybe "The Cloud" wouldn't be so hyped if the internet quadrupled the bitwidth of IP addresses earlier? To be clear making that change at any time that would've mattered would qualify as over-engineering.
Or maybe inventing CRDTs decades ahead of time would've had a similar effect?
Or what if we published more international & accessible Free/Libre Software text-rendering tools in the late 1980s, to help the movement of the time better compete against the coming proprietary office suites?
2/3!
Seeing people pondering what time they'd want to travel back in time to... What springs to my mind is: Could I nudge the computing industry towards a better present with the gift of foreknowledge?
To an extent I don't think I would be able to nudge things too much, since my read of computing history is that we needed to go down the path we did simply to have the tools we needed to build our present.
That said...
1/2?
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