California AI Policy Report Warns of 'Irreversible Harms' [Slashdot.org]

Google makes Gemini 2.5 Flash and Pro generally available and introduces 2.5 Flash-Lite, which it says is its most cost-efficient and fastest 2.5 model yet [TechMeme]

The surprising right-wing push to keep us out of war [Vox]

Opinion: Space startups are pivoting to defence. That’s great for innovation [TheNextWeb]

An Eater’s Guide to Tōhoku, Japan’s Capital of Sake, Wagyu, and Sea Pineapples [Eater]

Chocolate Prices Are Skyrocketing—This Company Has a Solution Voyage Foods makes alternatives for products like coffee, peanut butter, and chocolate. But is chocolate really chocolate without the cocoa? [Inc.]

How Field Notes went from side project to cult notebook [Fast Company]

Resumes Are Dying — Here’s What’s Replacing Them [Medium]

Meta Is Reportedly Planning to Release New AI Smart Glasses With Oakley and Prada [Entrepreneur]

The Online Tools That Fueled ‘No Kings’ and the Trump Resistance [WIRED]

This Week in Tech #1036 [TWIT]

Android 16 is here [Google Blog]

Learning to clarify: Multi-turn conversations with Action-Based Contrastive Self-Training [Google Research]

James Webb, Hubble space telescopes face reduction in operations over funding shortfalls [Astronomy Magazine]

What is Trailhead? All About Salesforce’s Free Online Learning Platform [Salesforce, The 360 Blog]

Accelerate Your SAP Business Suite Migration with AI & Automation | SAP Sapphire 2025 [SAP] #SAP #IwantToWorkAtSAP #Neurodivergent

What’s up, everybody! It’s Tuesday, June 17th, 2025. It’s a very special day in BLEACH! mythology. I still cannot afford the Bleach Rebirth of Souls videogame, but when it gets down to $20, I will do my best to get it. For those unfamiliar with BLEACH the anime/manga, get on Crunchyroll and watch the entire series, which was 500 episodes in the other universe, but a little bit less than that in this universe, the Bleach TYBW Season 1,2,3, as we await Season 4, which is aggravating, because Yaweh aka Yhwach is just so strong and drunk with power, he simply won’t die. Ichigo, his father, and everybody including his friends, fellow Captains, etc, must do EVERYTHING THEY CAN to defeat him. Today, Deus Ex: The Conspiracy was released on the Playstation 5 PS Classics (Playstation 2) on PS Plus. Shoutout to #GeeksNerdsOtakus. PS. Happy Birthday to my wife even though she wants to be my ex-wife starting next month (divorce finalized in late-July 2025).

Until Next Time!