Great Lakes region, USA. June 2026.

I was getting out of my car at an Aldi and heard the distinct call of the killdeer across the street. I happened to see an adult killdeer chilling by a manmade pond and luckily had my camera handy. I walked over and noticed it had a brood of three chicks. I didn't want to get too close and disturb them as this was all next to a highway with a lot of traffic.

The U.S. Justice Department and 17 states reached settlement agreements with three major egg producers this week to resolve allegations that the companies illegally colluded for years to raise prices, including when the cost soared to record highs last year.

The states and federal government accused Cal-Maine Foods, Versova and Hickman’s Egg Ranch of a behind-the-scenes arrangement to “artificially inflate the daily price quotations for eggs” between June 2022 and March 2025. In particular, their investigation found that the companies coordinated on what bids they would submit to Urner Barry Publications, a company that runs an index key to determining how much grocery stores, restaurants and others pay for billions of eggs each year.

In turn, that meant “higher prices for eggs sold to consumers,” alleged the complaint, which was filed in Iowa on Monday, the day the settlement terms were announced.

A newly disclosed privacy vulnerability in Apple's Hide My Email feature can reportedly allow an attacker to uncover the real email address behind a generated alias. According to the researcher who found the bug, it was responsibly disclosed to Apple more than a year ago but remains unpatched, and independent testing has verified the issue.

Joining the WIP Wednesday!

Cloudsfactory's SAL from last year, and I'm officially behind again as of today as I'm still in part 6 of 12

No new features today, just wanted to make a short post.

It is completely possible to do linux development on the go!

Is it convenient? Probably not.

Is a laptop better? Most likely.

Is it funny? Yes.

Also a double table is definitely better:

While we are mostly focused on Linux mobile development, it is easy to overlook that all you need is a bluetooth keyboard and mouse and it becomes an (albeit tiny) linux desktop!

That the two hottest Junes have been the last two is not a coincidence or a statistical fluke. It simply reflects what is happening to the planet: it is overheating because of greenhouse gases emitted by humans, primarily from the use of fossil fuels (oil, gas and coal). Climate change has ushered Earth into an era of fleeting records and a stringing together of historic highs. For example, the last 11 years have been the warmest on average for the planet as a whole.

The Trump administration cost the American taxpayer $11 billion by telling workers not to work under Elon Musk-inspired efforts to gut the federal workforce last year, a report found.

The Office of Personnel Management initiated the Deferred Resignation Program on January 28, 2025, after Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency sent the now-infamous “fork in the road” email to federal employees, allowing them to resign and continue to receive pay through September 30, 2025.

It resulted in nearly 140,000 federal workers being paid not to work for weeks or, in most cases, months, the cost totaled between $11.1 billion and $15.1 billion through March 2026, government watchdog Public Citizen’s analysis found.

Overview

Prof. Kate Adamala and her team at the University of Minnesota have built SpudCell, a cell-like system constructed entirely from known chemical components that can perform a complete cell cycle.

The system contains 36 purified enzymes, a 90,000 base pair genome spread across nine separate DNA molecules, and a lipid membrane. SpudCell is able to grow, replicate its genome, divide, and undergo selection and competition across multiple generations.

Unlike earlier work on minimal cells that carved down living cells, SpudCell is built entirely bottom-up from individually purified, non-living components. It is the first time such a system has demonstrated a complete cell cycle.

https://thehardtimes.net/blog/we-sat-down-with-anti-trans-swimmer-riley-gaines-to-find-out-what-other-sports-she-fucking-sucks-at/