Jamie Pollard, a Cyclone who weathered the storms, steps down as Iowa State AD (Gift Article) (nytimes.com)
Trump rule says habitat destruction does not harm endangered species (wapo.st)
Electrek
• Michelle Lewis
UNIGRID’s sodium-ion home battery debuts in Europe, US is next
Lithium-ion has long dominated home battery storage, but sodium-ion is starting to make its move. Sodium-ion battery startup UNIGRID has shipped the first units of its Na+Casa residential battery, with the first systems now installed in homes across Europe.
Ars Technica
• John Timmer
Quantum error correction can constantly recalibrate a processor
Reinforcement learning uses error information to adjust control algorithms.
That’s fine. It’s all 100% opt in. :-)
Studies of the Arm showing the Movements made by the Biceps, 1510 #leonardodavinci #davinci
Where does Novak Djokovic go from here? Wimbledon men's semifinals recap (nytimes.com)
I parked in front of this shop while running an errand this afternoon. I feel unworthy of extraordinary banana pudding.
Techdirt
• Justin Elliott
How Google And AI Nearly Made A Seasoned Reporter Spiral
This story was originally published by ProPublica. Republished under a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 license. Last month, my colleagues and I published an investigation into a Texas oil refinery startup, America First Refining, that had secretly gotten investment from Donald Trump Jr. We discovered a saga involving the Trump administration’s tariff policy, sanctioned Russian oil and an Indian billionaire family’s private zoo. […]
Racket
• Racket Staff
Reckless Plan to Put Lyndale Flower Shop out of Business Careens Forward
Plus mail art, Trump take wind, and Smokey catches up with a latter day Bandit in today's Flyover news roundup.
escarpment
• lnebres
NOT a newsflash: the Sun rose yesterday
::chuckle::
The real newsflash: yesterday, OpenAI broadly released the model called "Sol" — ChatGPT 5.6 — to the broader, unwitting, public and to normies like me... finally.
It had been buzzed about in certain precincts lately (the buzzers being privileged with the limited release a couple weeks ago), and of course I'd been curious about it, like most any self-aware prompter and 'cognition conjurer' {::snicker::} these days.
I asked it just now this:
Prompt: please provide me with an image for the post. Make it about the release of Sol, but... not literal. Make it symbolic and surreal/abstract. Use your design chops AND imagination. This is, also obvi, a test. GO. ;p
Result, after a 2nd attempt {WHOA}:
[ in progress... ]
Ars Technica
• Jeremy Hsu
On America's 250th, more cities used drone surveillance to spot illegal fireworks
More police and firefighters use drones to catch and deter illegal fireworks.
Graham Platner officially withdraws from Maine Senate race (wapo.st)
36 Hours in Philadelphia (Gift Article) (nytimes.com)
The Deal Is in the Details: Turning Dreams into Trust (medium.com)
What’s Behind the Latest National Guard Surge in D.C. (theatlantic.com)
White House appoints climate science critic to lead key climate program (wapo.st)
Letters from an American
• Heather Cox Richardson
Ami Fields-Meyer and Julia Angwin | American Conversations
The Wolf – Hudson Valley’s New Country
• Jana Deak
Couple Survives Lake George Seaplane Crash
A seaplane upside down on Lake George, two people in the water, and emergency crews racing to Blair's Bay — it's the kind of story that could have ended very differently. Continue reading…