Supreme Court upholds birthright citizenship, rejecting Trump’s proposed limits
This is good, in that my expectations for SCOTUS are in the basement, and this was probably the most important thing for them not to fuck up.
If you base your entire indie hacking career on being the only asshole who knows how to center a div or hook up a Stripe API, you are going to lose.
Code is dead as a moat.
But the indie hacker is not.
Why the AI doomers are entirely wrong about the future of SaaS: 👇
https://www.selfonomics.com/p/defensibility-through-giving-a-shit
(Or : https://archive.ph/j8fcm )
It's a testament to how insane US politics have become that I'm about to leap to the defense of John Fucking Bolton.
"The admission added a black mark on the legacy of a public servant whose career has spanned several presidential administrations, and delivered a victory to a Justice Department focused on prosecuting Trump’s political foes."
WTF? Bolton's plea bargain isn't a black mark on him, it's a black mark on a DOJ that has been corrupted into a grievance processor for the real criminal: Donald Trump.
And if Bolton does end up incarcerated, he'll be a bona fide political prisoner.
Linux folks: I’m looking for a photo management app that has basic photo editing capabilities. Don’t tell me about GIMP. Shotwell? digiKam? Something else?
Huh! I was today years old when I realised that the mighty @libreoffice has a great tool for generating QR. In a world where online QR code generators tend to re route via themselves this is an awesome tool to find! #opensource
Democratic socialists cemented power in New York. Next, the rest of the country?
(Or: https://archive.ph/jPVPu )
Betteridge's law of headlines is an adage that states: "Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no."
And it would tough to find a clearer example than this.
"Keep your options open" might be the worst advice we give ambitious young people.
Humans are measurably less happy with decisions they can reverse; and the escape hatch you're guarding is making you miserable.
Caesar crossed the Rubicon to destroy every alternative he had. Remove the irreversibility and the whole legend is reduced to a man wading across a stream.
https://www.joanwestenberg.com/publish/posts/detail/203291601/share-center
As reprehensible as US foreign policy towards Cuba has been for the last six decades, especially under Trump, I can't deny that I'm glad to see this.
What I'd really love is a free and fair election there, but since Trump and his ilk don't really like those very much, I doubt we'll see pressure from his administration for that result.
Seriously, I cannot emphasize this enough Canadian friends:
Bill C-22 SHALL NOT PASS! ⛔️
If you are Canadian, you must contact your representative ASAP to tell them you strongly oppose Bill C-22.
We cannot have this kind of authoritarianism in Canada (or anywhere else frankly).
More information here: https://action.openmedia.org/page/188754/action/1
Contact your representative(s) directly without the form by finding their contact information here: https://www.ourcommons.ca/members/en/search
#BillC22 #Privacy #HumanRights #DigitalRights #Canada #Authoritarianism #MassSurveillance #CanPoli #CndPoli
I hadn't seen Chariots of Fire since I was a kid, and since my wife had never seen it, we watched it the other night..
I had no idea that it doubles as a Gilbert and Sullivan singalong!
They say seeing is believing, but the true question is... what do you believe you've seen?
Enough is enough! I have had it with these MFing snakes on this MFing plane!
Finally, a 7-1 score in a World Cup game that Germany can appreciate! ⚽️
https://www.fox26houston.com/sports/germany-curacao-2026-fifa-world-cup-match-houston
Americans Are Already Paying Dearly for the National Debt
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/06/national-debt-affordability-legislation/687517/
(Or: https://archive.ph/GN0LP )
My thought is that in a sense, deficit spending is like climate change: it's easy for policy makers and individuals to say they'll worry about it later (or not at all) when it seems like dire consequences are still far off, but in both case those consequences have already begun and worse is on the way.
A “news” site has quoted at least six non-existent EFF experts in the past two months. False quotations that misstate our positions damage the trust that the public and reputable media outlets have in us. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/06/news-site-keeps-hallucinating-eff-staffers
Paul Litvak wrote a thoughtful piece on the limitations of the scientific journal article and the advantages of a proposed new genre or structure.
https://www.paullitvak.com/p/the-future-of-academic-journals
The new structure he describes is similar to one I proposed in 2012: one that would disaggregate claims and connect each one to the current evidence. See my 2012 essay, "The idea of an open-access evidence rack."
http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:32988193
One difference is that his would use #AI. Mine would use #crowdsourcing. But his could also use crowdsourcing and mine could also use AI.
Another is that his seems meant to stand alone. Mine is meant to be a dynamic collection of "perpetually updated, public footnotes" that might stand alone or might be cited, as footnotes, by articles, books, and any other new genres that might come along.
Seems appropriate today (and every day)
EDIT: FOUND !!!
I'll avoid spoilers for those who enjoy the chase, I'll happily reply to DMs asking for the answer
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Here's a real challenge for die hard fans of older #SciFi ...
I remember in my teens in Australia, 70s?, reading a story or novel in which two computers (or neural nets) were interacting, having a conversation in English, and at one point one of them offered the other a banana.
The humans who were watching discussed this, and one said that this was an insult in the language they used.
Does this ring any bells? Does anyone recognise this?
Help?
(Boosts for reach would be very welcome ... thank you to those who have already done so!)
Edited to add some hashtags:
#WhatsTheTitle
#WhatsThatBook
#StoryIdentification
#bookstodon
#ScienceFiction