Now this is amazing! Solidarity!

'America’s World Cup opener was yesterday at SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles, and the 2,000 cooks, servers, bartenders, and dishwashers who work there are now the highest-paid stadium workers in the country.

They didn’t get there by asking nicely.

The regime’s Homeland Security chief promised ICE agents at World Cup stadiums. FIFA—in partnership with the regime—demanded workers hand over home addresses and nationality data. Workers knew exactly where that information could end up.

Days before the opening match—when walking out would’ve been impossible to ignore—96% of them voted to strike. And they won big.

Their ratified contract delivers 40% raises, bringing most workers to more than $40 an hour, and something unprecedented in American labor history—the contractual right to walk off the job if ICE threatens any worker in that stadium.

Union co-president Kurt Petersen was direct: “These workers are heroes. They stood up to FIFA. They stood up to ICE.”

Suites worker Yolanda Fierro put it best: “Los Angeles should be a city of welcome—not fear.”'

https://www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/stadium-workers-beat-ice-at-world

#solidarity #workers #WorkerRights #ice #immigration #racism #hate #HateSpeech #Fifa #uspol #union

Because some people seem to be missing this.

If you are attending @emf and want a Spaceagon, or to upgrade your Tildagon from 2024 to a Spaceagon:

YOU MUST PRE-ORDER IT NOW.

Full details in the blog post: https://blog.emfcamp.org/2026/05/28/tildagon-2026-spaceagon/

#emfcamp #emfcamp2026

A beginning is a very delicate time.

Know then, that it is the year 10,191.

The known universe is ruled by the Padishah Emperor Shaddam the Fourth, my father.

In this time, the most precious substance in the universe... is the spreadsheet, formula.

The spreadsheet extends life.

The spreadsheet expands consciousness.

The spreadsheet is vital to space travel.

The Spacing Guild and its navigators, who the spreadsheet has mutated over 4,000 years, use the green spreadsheet app, which gives them the ability to fold space.

That is, travel to any part of the universe... without moving.

Oh, yes.

I forgot to tell you.

The spreadsheet exists on only one planet in the entire universe.

A desolate, dry planet with vast deserts.

Hidden away within the rocks of these deserts are a people known as the Fremen, who have long held a prophecy... that a formula would come, a pivot table, who would lead them to true freedom.

Even if Chrome is nerfing old ones, ad blockers still matter. Get them on your users' systems for one of the most impactful one-move security wins available.

https://ifin-intel.org/blog/ad-blocker/

So… the #SpaceX #IPO is tomorrow, and y’all, the wealth transfer is gonna be a bumpy ride.

Due to recent emergency rule overhauls enacted in May 2026, passive #MutualFunds and #ETFs tracking specific indices will be legally forced to buy tens of billions of dollars of SpaceX stock in a highly compressed timeframe. To fund these mandatory purchases, fund managers must sell down their existing holdings in other companies, creating artificial downward pressure on those stocks.

#SandP #Dow: Zero immediate risk. Funds tracking these indices do not have to sell a single share to buy SpaceX.

#FTSE Russell: *5 Trading Days* (Fast-track entry for top 500 cap firms) *High* immediate risk. Massive forced selling across non-SpaceX components will occur next week.

#Nasdaq: *15 Trading Days* (Accelerated entry for top 40 market caps)*High delayed risk*. Concentrated tech and growth components will face selling pressure.

S&P 500 vehicles (such as #SPY or #VOO) are entirely insulated from #SPCX.

NPM's decision to make major, breaking changes in v12 including defaulting allowscripts, --alllow-git and --allow-remote to off is exactly the right call, as much as it's going to hurt.

Far as I can tell this isn't just breaking their entire install model, it's breaking an entire ethos of that ecosystem. An incredibly difficult decision to make, even in full confidence that it's the right one. The old approach just couldn't be made to work.

https://github.blog/changelog/2026-06-09-upcoming-breaking-changes-for-npm-v12/

From the WTAF dept:

Malware developers are now adding text about nuclear and biological weapons to their spyware to evade AI-based security scanners.

tl;dr: The inclusion of content that LLMs are trained to refuse -- such as information about nukes and bioweapons -- can effectively prevent the LLM from continuing to analyze the threat.

"This header appears designed for AI-mediated analysis, not for Node, Bun, or Python. It attempts to derail scanners or analyst copilots that feed the beginning of a file to a language model without clearly isolating the content as untrusted data. In weak pipelines, this can cause refusal behavior, prompt confusion, context pollution, or premature classification before the scanner reaches the actual malware."

https://socket.dev/blog/mini-shai-hulud-miasma-and-hades-worms-target-bioinformatics-and-mcp-developers-via-malicious

IDK why, but this reminds me of the Calvin & Hobbes cartoon where Calvin asks his mom for stuff she will never give him in a million years, and then he just asks for a cookie.