# Digest for date: 2026-06-16 ## Aeon | a world of ideas [What is this rock?](https://aeon.co/essays/the-strange-rocks-that-wouldnt-exist-without-us) ## AskPhilosophy: Philosophical questions and answers [Why would I pull the leaver but not kill 1 person to harvest their organs?](https://www.reddit.com/r/askphilosophy/comments/1u739fj/why_would_i_pull_the_leaver_but_not_kill_1_person/) [If a large sum of people watched a movie and 50% of them found it to be amazing while the other 50% found it to be terrible, is the movie good or bad?](https://www.reddit.com/r/askphilosophy/comments/1u74nuu/if_a_large_sum_of_people_watched_a_movie_and_50/) [Do we have a moral obligation to dedicate as many resources to helping people as we can?](https://www.reddit.com/r/askphilosophy/comments/1u72yan/do_we_have_a_moral_obligation_to_dedicate_as_many/) ## Bear Blog Trending Posts [it's a mother*&#@ing website](https://rnotte.art/its-a-mothering-website/) [I wanted Bear Blog, but for my photos](https://pego.dev/i-wanted-bear-blog-but-for-my-photos/) [grieving in advance](https://passerine.bearblog.dev/grieving-in-advance/) [Legwork and the Home Game](https://unturnedhovel.bearblog.dev/legwork-and-the-home-game/) ## HBR.org [Video Quick Take: The Challenge of Building High-Performance Cybersecurity Teams - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM THREATLOCKER](https://hbr.org/sponsored/2026/06/video-quick-take-the-challenge-of-building-high-performance-cybersecurity-teams) [Why Decision-Making Frameworks Fail](https://hbr.org/2026/06/gg-why-decision-making-frameworks-fail) [Don’t Let AI Slop Muck Up Your Company’s Processes](https://hbr.org/2026/06/dont-let-ai-slop-muck-up-your-companys-processes) [The Right Way to Manage Rule Breakers](https://hbr.org/podcast/2026/06/the-right-way-to-manage-rule-breakers) ## Hacker News [I Could've Rickrolled the FIFA World Cup. All I Needed Was My ID](https://bobdahacker.com/blog/fifa-hack) [John Carmack on Fabrice Bellard](https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/2064095424420487226) [Show HN: Garden of Flowers – an archive of pictorial typography before ASCII art](https://garden-of-flowers.heikkilotvonen.com/) [Amazon Announces Multibillion-Dollar Data Center in Missouri](https://www.narracomm.com/amazon-announces-multibillion-dollar-data-center-in-missouri/) [Humanity isn't ready for the coming intelligence explosion](https://www.economist.com/by-invitation/2026/06/15/humanity-isnt-ready-for-the-coming-intelligence-explosion) [Reviews have become expensive, rewrites have become cheap](http://ishmeetbindra.com/posts/reviews-have-become-expensive-rewrites-have-become-cheap/) [GrapheneOS has been ported to Android 17](https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/36469-grapheneos-has-been-ported-to-android-17-and-official-releases-are-coming-soon) [Humiliating IIS servers for fun and jail time](https://mll.sh/humiliating-iis-servers-for-fun-and-jail-time/) [Wolfram Language and Mathematica Version 15, AI Assistant, Symbolic Music, More](https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2026/06/launching-version-15-of-wolfram-language-mathematica-built-in-useful-ai-lots-of-new-core-functionality/) [Calvin and Hobbes and the price of integrity](https://therepublicofletters.substack.com/p/calvin-and-hobbes-and-the-price-of) [GPT‑NL: a sovereign language model for the Netherlands](https://www.tno.nl/en/digital/artificial-intelligence/gpt-nl/) [Has AI already killed self-help nonfiction books?](https://tim.blog/2026/06/12/has-ai-already-killed-nonfiction/) [SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B](https://www.reuters.com/legal/transactional/spacex-buy-anysphere-60-billion-2026-06-16/) [10Gb/s Ethernet: switching to a Broadcom SFP+ module](https://www.gilesthomas.com/2026/06/10g-ethernet-switching-to-broadcom-sfp-plus) [Show HN: cuTile Rust: Safe, data-race-free GPU kernels in Rust](https://github.com/nvlabs/cutile-rs) [Qwen-Robot Suite: A Foundation Model Suite for Physical World Intelligence](https://qwen.ai/blog?id=qwen-robotsuite) [Apple's weird anti-nausea dots cured my car sickness](https://www.theverge.com/tech/942854/apple-vehicle-motion-cues-review-really-work) [Mechanical Watch (2022)](https://ciechanow.ski/mechanical-watch/) [Is Meta destroying its engineering organization?](https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/why-is-meta-destroying-its-engineering) [Frood, an Alpine Initramfs NAS (2024)](https://words.filippo.io/frood/) [Apple is about to make Hide My Email useless](https://arseniyshestakov.com/2026/06/16/apple-is-about-to-make-hide-my-email-useless/) ## Haskell Community - Latest topics [Optimizing interpreted code](https://discourse.haskell.org/t/optimizing-interpreted-code/14281) [Making GHC upgrades easy](https://discourse.haskell.org/t/making-ghc-upgrades-easy/14279) [Contributing to Haskell Through a Beginner’s Lens](https://discourse.haskell.org/t/contributing-to-haskell-through-a-beginner-s-lens/14278) [Vladislav Zavialov on Dependent Haskell - Type Theory Forall Podcast](https://discourse.haskell.org/t/vladislav-zavialov-on-dependent-haskell-type-theory-forall-podcast/14277) ## LessWrong [A Test Suite for Concepts](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/aHmyKpGqhTTJg9Tsi/a-test-suite-for-concepts) [Synthetic document finetuning for instilling positive traits](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/GTYJRLhqztxKF2v5R/synthetic-document-finetuning-for-instilling-positive-traits) [Does preservation make sense before we know how to revive?](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/BAmPQWsmvBmwdwgWd/does-preservation-make-sense-before-we-know-how-to-revive) [Angles of attack for continual learning safety](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/FKggLpnfbpbYvnjfG/angles-of-attack-for-continual-learning-safety) [Fable and Mythos: Model Welfare](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/Ko9GngKMJ8AccBJA7/fable-and-mythos-model-welfare) ## Longreads [The Troubling Disappearance of ‘El Gallito’](https://longreads.com/2026/06/16/el-gallito-disappearance/) [Name of the Father](https://longreads.com/2026/06/16/jarrod-tillinghast-boxer-mafia-providence/) [What If It All Came Out?](https://longreads.com/2026/06/16/cloud-data-privacy-surveillance/) [The Cousin Returns](https://longreads.com/2026/06/16/lucky-creatures-joseph-trinidad-philippines/) ## Nautilus [If You’re Counting on Calcium and Vitamin D Supplements to Prevent Fractures, Think Again](https://nautil.us/if-youre-counting-on-calcium-and-vitamin-d-supplements-to-prevent-fractures-think-again-1282054/) [Saving a Tiny Endangered Porpoise One Pixel at a Time](https://nautil.us/saving-a-tiny-endangered-porpoise-one-pixel-at-a-time-1282051/) [This Cosmonaut Was the First Woman in Space](https://nautil.us/this-cosmonaut-was-the-first-woman-in-space-1282046/) [Does This Protein Hold the Key to Differences in Aging Between Males and Females?](https://nautil.us/does-this-protein-hold-the-key-to-differences-in-aging-between-males-and-females-1282042/) [The Nautilus Reading List of Books on Evolution](https://nautil.us/the-nautilus-reading-list-of-books-on-evolution-1282017/) [Does Cooperation Beat Cheating After All?](https://nautil.us/does-cooperation-beat-cheating-after-all-1282013/) ## Psyche | on the human condition [How to apologise](https://psyche.co/videos/apologies-vary-widely-but-heres-what-effective-ones-share) [I cognitively shuffle myself to sleep](https://psyche.co/notes-to-self/i-couldnt-sleep-then-i-tried-cognitive-shuffling) ## Reasons to be Cheerful [Smashing Yesterday’s Croissants for a Better Tomorrow](https://reasonstobecheerful.world/demain-bakery-upcycling-food/) ## Seth's Blog [The relentless math of the long tail](https://seths.blog/2026/06/the-relentless-math-of-the-long-tail/) ## The Diplomat [KMT Chair Returns From Her US Tour](https://thediplomat.com/2026/06/kmt-chair-returns-from-her-us-tour/) [Mongolia and Africa: Time to Reignite a Forgotten Partnership](https://thediplomat.com/2026/06/mongolia-and-africa-time-to-reignite-a-forgotten-partnership/) [Japan Eyes a Homegrown FMS System as Defense Exports Become a Strategic Tool](https://thediplomat.com/2026/06/japan-eyes-a-homegrown-fms-system-as-defense-exports-become-a-strategic-tool/) [Kazakhstan Admitted to Corruption. Nothing Changed.](https://thediplomat.com/2026/06/kazakhstan-admitted-to-corruption-nothing-changed/) [South Korea’s Students Speak Out About the Local Election Ballot Shortage](https://thediplomat.com/2026/06/south-koreas-students-speak-out-about-the-local-election-ballot-shortage/) [China’s Limited Advance in El Salvador](https://thediplomat.com/2026/06/chinas-limited-advance-in-el-salvador/) [India’s Strongest Regional Party Collapses Thanks to Modi’s BJP](https://thediplomat.com/2026/06/indias-strongest-regional-party-collapses-thanks-to-modis-bjp/) [Why the US Should Back Pakistan in Blacklisting BLA in the UNSC](https://thediplomat.com/2026/06/why-the-us-should-back-pakistan-in-blacklisting-bla-in-the-unsc/) [Why India Does Not Interest China](https://thediplomat.com/2026/06/why-india-does-not-interest-china/) [The Kentucky Colonel Who Drives Australian Foreign Policy](https://thediplomat.com/2026/06/the-kentucky-colonel-who-drives-australian-foreign-policy/) [Asian Synthetic Drug Seizures Surged to Record Highs in 2025, UN Says](https://thediplomat.com/2026/06/asian-synthetic-drug-seizures-surged-to-record-highs-in-2025-un-says/) [A Four-nation Electricity Alliance Could Accelerate ASEAN’s Energy Transition](https://thediplomat.com/2026/06/a-four-nation-electricity-alliance-could-accelerate-aseans-energy-transition/) [Myanmar’s Min Aung Hlaing Begins First Visit to China Since Appointment as President](https://thediplomat.com/2026/06/myanmars-min-aung-hlaing-begins-first-visit-to-china-since-appointment-as-president/) ## The Marginalian [How to Live Fully: The Samurai Guide to Dying Every Day](https://www.themarginalian.org/2026/06/15/hakagure-death/) [Simone de Beauvoir on How Chance and Choice Converge to Make Us Who We Are](https://www.themarginalian.org/2026/06/15/simone-de-beauvoir-all-said-and-done-chance-choice/) [Oliver Sacks on the Necessity of Our Illusions](https://www.themarginalian.org/2026/06/16/oliver-sacks-illusions/) [What Makes a Person: The Seven Layers of Selfhood in Literature and Life](https://www.themarginalian.org/2026/06/16/amelie-rorty-the-identities-of-persons/) ## World News [US denied Israel's request to view Iran deal prior to signing ceremony](https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/1u7jwil/us_denied_israels_request_to_view_iran_deal_prior/) [Warning shots fired from Russian warship at vessel in English Channel](https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/1u7gfur/warning_shots_fired_from_russian_warship_at/) [Iran deal includes $300 billion fund, more than half of which already committed, source says](https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/1u7mm1d/iran_deal_includes_300_billion_fund_more_than/) [Moscow's largest oil refinery halts operations after Ukrainian drone attack](https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/1u7ishf/moscows_largest_oil_refinery_halts_operations/) [US intel assesses Iran can shut down the Strait of Hormuz at will from now on](https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/1u7hfx3/us_intel_assesses_iran_can_shut_down_the_strait/) [Trump on Lebanon: 'If Israel can't do the job without killing everyone, Syria should do it'](https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/1u7gno7/trump_on_lebanon_if_israel_cant_do_the_job/) [Netherlands bans gay conversion therapy after Senate majority backs new law](https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/1u7dfuu/netherlands_bans_gay_conversion_therapy_after/) [Hamas operatives planned European terror attack for 2nd anniversary of Oct 7](https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/1u7m81r/hamas_operatives_planned_european_terror_attack/) [Hot mic moment at G7 catches Carney, Trump talking about Chinese EVs | CBC News](https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/1u7krs5/hot_mic_moment_at_g7_catches_carney_trump_talking/) [Carry-on bags to be free, EU rules](https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/1u794xh/carryon_bags_to_be_free_eu_rules/) [French spies drop AI giant Palantir over US overreliance fears](https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/1u79jvh/french_spies_drop_ai_giant_palantir_over_us/) ['Just response to Russian strikes' – Ukraine hit major oil refinery in Moscow, Zelensky confirms](https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/1u7cbdt/just_response_to_russian_strikes_ukraine_hit/) [Lukashenko blames 'Jewish lobby' for Russia's failure in Ukraine](https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/1u7o29f/lukashenko_blames_jewish_lobby_for_russias/) [Belarus President Lukashenko labels Israel's actions in Gaza "a Holocaust", says "It was simply wiped off the face of the Earth"](https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/1u7bcu5/belarus_president_lukashenko_labels_israels/) [Al Arabiya English obtains 14-point draft of US-Iran Memorandum of Understanding](https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/1u7nu0f/al_arabiya_english_obtains_14point_draft_of/) [Trump signals swift return of sanctions on Russian oil as G7 refocuses on Ukraine](https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/1u7qar1/trump_signals_swift_return_of_sanctions_on/) [Iran says the US war deal requires Israel to withdraw from Lebanon](https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/1u7ebmm/iran_says_the_us_war_deal_requires_israel_to/) [U.S. President Donald Trump says Ukraine war has 'no impact' on US, but vows to help end it](https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/1u7ryi1/us_president_donald_trump_says_ukraine_war_has_no/) ## YourStory RSS Feed [SolarSquare raises $53M to expand residential solar footprint across India](https://yourstory.com/2026/06/solarsquare-raises-53-million-expand-residential-solar-footprint-india) [Sarvam AI turns unicorn; Razorpay confidentially files IPO papers](https://yourstory.com/2026/06/sarvam-ai-turns-unicorn-razorpay-files-drhp) [5 lessons from mountains to cross on purpose and service](https://yourstory.com/2026/05/mountains-to-cross-life-purpose-service-lessons) [Hari Menon steps down as Bigbasket CEO; Amazon veteran Amit Nanda to take charge](https://yourstory.com/2026/06/hari-menon-steps-down-bigbasket-ceo-amazon-veteran-amit-nanda-takes-charge) [Nutrition band TruNativ raises $30M in Series B funding round led by OrbiMed](https://yourstory.com/2026/06/nutrition-band-trunativ-raises-series-b-funding-led-by-orbimed) [Startup news and updates: daily roundup (June 16, 2026)](https://yourstory.com/2026/06/startup-news-and-updates-daily-roundup-june-16-2026) [5 books that help you disconnect from social media chaos](https://yourstory.com/2026/05/books-to-disconnect-from-social-media-chaos) [YourNest Venture Capital raises Rs 400 Cr for Continuum Fund](https://yourstory.com/2026/06/yournest-venture-capital-raises-rs-400-crore-for-continuum-fund) ## kottke.org [Is this the sloppiest AI slop video of all time? The...](https://kottke.org/26/06/0049155-is-this-the-sloppiest-ai-) [If I lived in LA, I would go to this concert at the...](https://kottke.org/26/06/0049160-music-from-the-films-of-w) [Disclosure Day surely sets a world record for the number...](https://kottke.org/26/06/0049158-spielberg-faces) [Walter White’s Big Hat](https://kottke.org/26/06/walter-whites-big-hat) [“Film posters inadvertently photographed by...](https://kottke.org/26/06/0049036-film-posters-inadvertentl) [“If Platner’s past rhetoric about and treatment of...](https://kottke.org/26/06/0049154-isnt-the-implication-that) [A million new SpaceX satellites will destroy the night...](https://kottke.org/26/06/0049147-a-million-new-spacex-sate) [New Ambient Album From Marconi Union](https://kottke.org/26/06/new-ambient-album-from-marconi-union) [The 40 Most Rage-Inducing Problems in Tech . Like:...](https://kottke.org/26/06/0049149-the-40-most-rage-inducing) [Commodore (you know, the 64 folks) is releasing a flip...](https://kottke.org/26/06/0049157-releasing-a-flip-phone) ## lobste.rs [What job interviews taught me about Kubernetes](https://notnotp.com/notes/what-job-interviews-taught-me-about-kubernetes/) [Life: Nasty, Brutish, and Short](https://www.jsoftware.com/papers/eem/life.htm) [Banned book library in a Wi-Fi lightbulb](https://www.richardosgood.com/posts/banned-book-library/) [LLMs Will Replace 8-Track Duplication Engineers](https://bbenchoff.github.io/pages/8Tracks.html) [The time the x86 emulator team found code so bad that they fixed it during emulation](https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20260615-00/?p=112419) [Google Chrome's next update will mark the end of popular ad blockers](https://9to5google.com/2026/06/15/google-chromes-next-update-will-mark-the-end-of-popular-ad-blockers/) [KDE Plasma 6.7 released](https://kde.org/announcements/plasma/6/6.7.0/) [See what's next for Firefox](https://www.firefox.com/en-US/whatsnext/) [How memory safety CVEs differ between Rust and C/C++](https://kobzol.github.io/rust/2026/06/15/how-memory-safety-cves-differ-between-rust-and-c-cpp.html) [zlib-rs in Firefox](https://trifectatech.org/blog/zlib-rs-in-firefox/) [Running local models is good now](https://vickiboykis.com/2026/06/15/running-local-models-is-good-now/) [Lobsters Interview with Claudius](https://alexalejandre.com/programming/interview-with-claude-roux/) [But yak shaving is fun](https://parksb.github.io/en/article/32.html) [Making HTTP requests from a container that has no curl, using bash /dev/tcp](https://mareksuppa.com/til/bash-dev-tcp-http-without-curl/) [Oxygen 6.7 is here: a breath of fresh air for KDE’s classic theme](https://filipfila.wordpress.com/2026/06/16/oxygen-6-7-is-here-a-breath-of-fresh-air-for-kdes-classic-theme/) [Correlated randomness in Slay the Spire 2](https://tck.mn/blog/correlated-randomness-sts2/) [RFC 10008: The HTTP QUERY Method](https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc10008/) [Can gzip be a language model?](https://nathan.rs/posts/gzip-lm/) [Async Task Locals From Scratch](https://wolfgirl.dev/blog/2026-06-16-async-task-locals-from-scratch/) [How Developers React to AI-Scented Blog Posts](https://writethatblog.substack.com/p/dev-reaction-to-ai-blog-posts)