@platypus my son’s been on a tropical kick so he has us adding papaya, guava, and coconut to those. We had to debate whether sub-tropical kiwi were allowed 😁

Cloudflare’s CEO has shared that Google is sending 3x less traffic to publishers relating to how much it crawls their sites compared to 6 months ago. But it’s better than OpenAI and Anthropic who send 40x and 1000x fewer users per page crawled than Google.

To protect their business models, publishers will block & sue these companies as freeloaders and switch to paywalls. The Open Web is dying and the Paywall Web will take its place.

https://www.axios.com/2025/06/19/ai-search-traffic-publishers

@carnage4life especially nasty because it reverses why people contribute. In the past, you got recognition for your expertise and it might look good on a job app. Now even happy contributors are wondering whether they’re doing anything other than training their replacement. I’m worried about what that does to the open source world in general.

☀️ It’s the solstice—what better day to explore the tools we’ve used to understand our Sun?
Librarian Karina Cooper dives into AIP’s image collections to showcase historical instruments for solar observation: eclipse cameras, heliostats, and more.
🔗 https://www.aip.org/library/ex-libris-universum/here-comes-the-sun-historical-instruments-for-solar-observation

@Viss I'm waiting for the heart-warming story about a recent Microsoft hire realizing they were being asked to delete code their grandmother wrote.

Both of these people will accurately state that AI has made them more productive and saved them time.

In a social media environment increasingly full of misinformation, consider finding an actual link to give people information, rather than (or as well as) sharing information-lite tile images.

Losing WebAuthn seems bad:
https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/06/cybersecurity-take-a-big-hit-in-new-trump-executive-order/

“AI bots that scrape the internet for training data are hammering the servers of libraries, archives, museums, and galleries, and are in some cases knocking their collections offline, according to a new survey published today”

https://www.404media.co/ai-scraping-bots-are-breaking-open-libraries-archives-and-museums/

@neurovagrant the automatic sorting of shopping lists wasn’t that long ago and it’s actually useful, not just UI churn.

A young German man left the country by kayak in 1932, and spent 7 years kayaking all the way to Australia, only to be interned as an enemy alien. [In the 1st camp he was in, he met *another* German who emigrated by kayak, albeit only as far as Beirut.] A strange, resilient life.

https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/abc-rewind/abc-rewind/105368900

That story about an AI startup collapsing after it turned out to be 700 Indian developers in a Trenchcoat? It was a made up story by a crypto guy that became clickbait, published unchecked by tech media everywhere. Read the real story behind Builder.ai here: https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/builder-ai-did-not-fake-ai/

1/3

Translation: “All these continents are yours except Antarctica. Attempt no settlements there!”

https://www.psu.edu/news/research/story/strange-radio-pulses-detected-coming-ice-antarctica

Please tell people when you find work they have done to be good.

We just had a client mail and tell us that the spam issue has stopped, and thanks to recent work we did they've just had a booking for 16 people at their project "thank you".

We all perked up so much.

We do good work, but praise or appreciation is _rare_.

“For every item, experts face the agonising question of whether to save it as heritage – or, in cases where the contamination is considered a public safety risk, put into a nuclear waste facility.”
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20250605-the-hunt-for-marie-curies-radioactive-fingerprints-in-paris

#Python 3.13.5, aka "oops".

https://feedsin.space/feed/python_releases

My secret hobby is feeding story ideas to the 404 Media crew via Signal group chat. This was one of them! https://www.404media.co/spam-blogs-ai-slop-domains-wowlazy/

If you use Mastodon; please pay for your use. Please.

This is not the corporate web of Twitter and Google. No company is paying for your use of this service. Your use of the service is not being sold to ad companies.

You use it? That is costing your admin owner literal actual money.

Pay for things you like. Or they go away. Or they stay but get taken over by exploitative people that will eventually destroy it.

Please, find your instance owner and pay them some money.

Thanks.

@tbridge @Tiffany congratulations!

“On June 10, 2018, the rover Opportunity sent its last message from the surface of Mars. Originally expected to serve a three-month mission, Opportunity functioned for over 14 years, traveling over 28 miles (45 kilometers) across Mars and unveiling critical discoveries about the planet’s geology.”
https://apnews.com/today-in-history/june-10