US Financial Markets stop their losses and turn positive before the truce in the conflicy with Iran is announced. The gain might seem small, but it is an average, it is interesting to note that at the same time shares of oil companies, like ExxonMobil stopped their progress and turned into red.

Are, those, signs of some information leaking out from government sources before the official announcement?

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) signed sweeping legislation Sunday to slap warning labels on potentially tens of thousands of food and beverage packages...containing 44 dyes or additives commonly found in the country’s food supply...

...the effort from Texas — a deep-red state — is particularly striking, food safety experts said. Policies cracking down on the nation’s food supply have often come from big blue states, such as California...

...GOP lawmakers and the first Trump administration decried measures such as stricter school lunch standards as overregulation by the nanny state...The bill passed the Texas legislature this year with bipartisan support...

The law applies to a food product label “developed or copyrighted” on or after Jan. 1, 2027. This essentially means that companies would only need to add the labels to their packaging when they redesign or update labels, such as when new ingredients are added to a product...

In 2023, California passed a law prohibiting food containing red dye No. 3 from being sold in the state after Jan. 1, 2027. This year, West Virginia’s Republican governor signed sweeping legislation banning foods containing any of seven dyes from being served in school nutrition programs starting in August, and from being sold in the state starting in 2028.

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Sarcastic bluesky post saying [time traveling back to 1933 to make sure to tell Germans to protest Hitler less vigorously so as not to alienate bougie centrists who want to go to brunch undisturbed, thus preventing the rise of fascism]

Sono passati 9 dalla doppietta che i Gorilla Biscuits infilarono nell'estate 2016, due apparizioni a Roma e Milano che non avevano certo deluso le attese. Era ora di rifarlo.

Eroi dell’hardcore newyorkese, i Gorilla Biscuits fanno irruzione nella scena straight edge nei tardi Anni ’80, affermandosi rapidamente come un punto di riferimento per i decenni a venire.

Reazionari e intenzionati ad abbattere le regole militanti e limitanti che circondavano molte band hardcore a favore di più decisione e presenza concreta, i Gorilla Biscuits stravolgono la scena con performance martellanti e una schiettezza incorruttibile che li rendono assolutamente indelebili dalla storia del movimento.

Il tutto rilasciando un solo album e un EP in tutta la loro carriera.

A nove anni dall’ultima parentesi italiana, i Gorilla Biscuits tornano a spazzarci via per due serate al limite del collasso, di cui un’unica al Largo Venue di Roma, supportata dai Feldspar. Mancate a vostro rischio e pericolo.

https://www.cbpp.org/research/social-security/reassignment-wont-fix-the-largest-ever-social-security-staffing-cut

More than 110 million people across Europe suffer high levels of health-damaging noise pollution, according to a report. The resulting physiological stress and sleep disturbance leads to 66,000 early deaths a year and many cases of heart disease, diabetes and depression.

The report is based on data reported by EEA countries on transport noise, which is the most widespread and significant type of noise pollution.

Noise pollution harms health of millions across Europe, report finds

About 110 million people suffer stress and sleep disturbance that lead to tens of thousands of early deaths

^{Damian Carrington (The Guardian)}

Looked for an app on mobilism. And a comment said something suspicious.

App name: Seven

Uploader: Balatan

About an year ago I searched on reddit about, If mobilism is safe or not. And lot of people said that it's safe. And some people even mentioned above mentioned uploader Balatan to be trustworthy.

I don't know how much true is that comment.

I am not an expert in digital forensics. So, I just leave it to your eyes.

Photographer @balsoft@lemmy.ml

Moon rising during sunset. Taken from Gombori mountain. Nikon D700, 85mm, cropped.

The Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) has until the end of June to develop new guidance for federal agencies. Federal agencies will use this guidance to create new policies that align with the Trump administration’s dubious definitions of scientific integrity and “gold standard science.”

The goals of scientific integrity policies are to (1) protect the scientific process from inappropriate (like political or corporate) influence, (2) make federal research and evidence accessible without compromising people’s personal data, (3) allow federal scientists to communicate their research without interference, and (4) to use the best available science in decision and policy making.

I mean, I think we all know what the choice will be, right?

OSTP Has a Choice to Make: Science or Politics?

Last week, the Union of Concerned Scientists sent a letter to the Director of OSTP, Michael Kratsios, outlining our concerns about this EO and recommending what should be included in the new guidance President Trump requested in the recent EO.

^{The Equation}

Automation, public data repositories, standardized metadata forms, and interoperable data-sharing platforms are some of the major pushes being made in guidance for Federal agencies looking to apply the Trump administration’s “gold standard science” objectives, according to guidance issued today by the White House Office of Science and Technology (OSTP).

OSTP Director Michael Kratsios delivered the memo to Federal agencies on June 23 and said the guidance will assist agencies in applying an executive order from President Donald Trump on “Restoring Gold Standard Science” by ensuring “that science is no longer manipulated or misused to justify political ends.”

That memo included methods of approaching science-related initiatives – namely those related to national security and energy innovation, according to the document – that would foster cross disciplinary collaboration and withstand scrutiny.

“In an age of rapid technological progress and heightened public scrutiny, federally-funded and federally-performed science, and its use in Federal decision-making, must be beyond reproach,” reads the document.

To support this goal, OSTP said that agencies should encourage depositing raw data and code in publicly accessible repositories to facilitate reproducibility. Other data-related pushes include requiring grant applications to include data sharing plans, and standardizing metadata formats and data-sharing platforms across agencies.

When introducing the concept of gold standard science in May, Kratsios zeroed in on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) principles in scientific fields, claiming that inclusive efforts pushed by DEI pose an “existential threat to the real diversity of thought that forms the foundation of the scientific community.”

Kratsios said that the “first step to restoring trust in America’s scientific establishment, and rebuilding a strong foundation for breakthrough discoveries, is a return to Gold Standard Science.”

OSTP Unveils Agency Data, AI Guidelines for ‘Gold Standard Science’

Automation, public data repositories, standardized metadata forms, and interoperable data-sharing platforms are some of the major pushes being made in guidance for Federal agencies looking to apply the Trump administration’s “gold standard science” o…

^MeriTalk

cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/42192609

• Olympus OM-D E-M1 Mk.2, Olympus 30mm Macro
• F/8 30.0mm 1/100s ISO-1000 15 frames

I'm still figuring out how to best do this, but I'm amazed at the pictures I can get! This is the JPEG straight from the camera, so no editing other than the stacking and tweaks the camera does. I almost exclusively use natural light, but I'm probably going to need to grab something for this type of thing.

Lots of fun, and if my neighbors didn't think I was crazy before, I'm sure they do now! 😂

cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/42192701

cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/42192609

• Olympus OM-D E-M1 Mk.2, Olympus 30mm Macro
• F/8 30.0mm 1/100s ISO-1000 15 frames

I'm still figuring out how to best do this, but I'm amazed at the pictures I can get! This is the JPEG straight from the camera, so no editing other than the stacking and tweaks the camera does. I almost exclusively use natural light, but I'm probably going to need to grab something for this type of thing.

Lots of fun, and if my neighbors didn't think I was crazy before, I'm sure they do now! 😂

A Republican proposal to penalize states that regulate artificial intelligence can move forward without requiring approval from 60 senators, the Senate parliamentarian decided on Saturday. But the moratorium on state AI laws did not have unanimous Republican support and has reportedly been watered down in an effort to push it toward passage.

In early June, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) proposed enforcing a 10-year moratorium on AI regulation by making states ineligible for broadband funding if they try to impose any limits on development of artificial intelligence. While the House previously approved a version of the so-called "One Big Beautiful Bill" with an outright 10-year ban on state AI regulation, Cruz took a different approach because of the Senate rule that limits inclusion of "extraneous matter" in budget reconciliation legislation.

Under the Senate's Byrd rule, a senator can object to a potentially extraneous budget provision. A motion to waive the Byrd rule requires a vote of 60 percent of the Senate.

As originally drafted, Cruz's backdoor ban on state AI laws would have made it impossible for states to receive money from the $42 billion Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) program if they try to regulate AI. He tied the provision into the budget bill by proposing an extra $500 million for the broadband-deployment grant program and expanding its purpose to also subsidize construction and deployment of infrastructure for artificial intelligence systems.

I covered a lot of BEAD distributions and state- and jurisdictional-level plans, and it's safe to say this is just another way to screw poor people. That's the whole fucking point of the program: Bringing broadband to those who don't yet have access.

It's not quite rural electrification, but it's the closest we've seen since then. Interestingly, rural voters, well, voted for this. And many are poor.

Bombing Iran ought to solve that, right?

Ted Cruz can’t get all Republicans to back his fight against state AI laws

Cruz plan moves ahead but was reportedly watered down amid Republican opposition.

^{Jon Brodkin (Ars Technica)}