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JD.com reports Q2 revenue up 22% YoY to $49.7B, above $46.8B est., and net income down 50% YoY to ~$846M, benefiting from government-directed consumer subsidies (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-08-14/jd-…

This AI complaint is brought to you today by this ridiculous poster at Manhattan’s Guitar Center
“Make your dream tone a reality”, my ass.
Ever notice how 90% of AI marketing copy is literally just vague platitudes because they can’t actually think of any legitimate benefits or use cases?
“Be anything you imagine” = “we can’t imagine anything good enough to say here so you do the thinking for us”

Socioeconomic Impact of the Pierre Auger Observatory
Ingomar Allekotte (for the Pierre Auger Collaboration), Alejandra Calvo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.10802

Socioeconomic Impact of the Pierre Auger Observatory
The Pierre Auger Observatory has been operating in Malargue, Province of Mendoza, western Argentina, for over two decades, significantly advancing our understanding of cosmic rays. Beyond its scientific mission, the installation and operation of the Observatory has had profound social, economic, educational and cultural impact on the local community, the region and worldwide. More than 90 percent of the Observatory's annual operational budget is invested in the region, benefiting sectors such a…

lovely overview of social housing's benefits and recent social housing successes in the US! https://theconversation.com/from-seattle-to-atlanta-new-social-housing-programs-seek-to…

From Seattle to Atlanta, new social housing programs seek to make homes permanently affordable for a range of incomes
Americans are realizing that the country’s two-tiered system of market-rate housing and government-operated, low-income housing isn’t doing the trick.

A RIS-Enabled Computational Radar Coincidence Imaging
Kavian Zirak, Mohammadreza F. Imani
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.07285 https://ar…

A RIS-Enabled Computational Radar Coincidence Imaging
This paper introduces an innovative imaging method using reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) by combining radar coincidence imaging (RCI) and computational imaging techniques. In the proposed framework, RISs simultaneously redirect beams toward a desired region of interest (ROI). The interference of these beams forms spatially diverse speckle patterns that carry information about the entire ROI. As a result, this method can take advantage of the benefits of both random patterns and spotl…

Automated Seam Folding and Sewing Machine on Pleated Pants for Apparel Manufacturing
Ray Wai Man Kong
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.06518 https://arxiv.org/pd…

Automated Seam Folding and Sewing Machine on Pleated Pants for Apparel Manufacturing
The applied research is the design and development of an automated folding and sewing machine for pleated pants. It represents a significant advancement in addressing the challenges associated with manual sewing processes. Traditional methods for creating pleats are labour-intensive, prone to inconsistencies, and require high levels of skill, making automation a critical need in the apparel industry. This research explores the technical feasibility and operational benefits of integrating advanc…

What will our billionaire overlords get out of the “big, beautiful” budget reconciliation bill that narrowly cleared the Senate this week?
Higher interest rates, for one,
because the bill more than doubles the budget deficit;
this will benefit billionaire creditors but hurt billionaire borrowers.
The top marginal rate won’t rise from the present 37 percent to 39.6 percent, as it would have done in a Harris administration,
which is excellent news if you actual…

The Oligarchs’ Big Prize in Trump’s Budget-Busting Bill
Avoiding an income-tax increase is nice, but that’s not the bill’s greatest gift to the rich.

{\mu}Fork: Supporting POSIX fork Within a Single-Address-Space OS
John Alistair Kressel, Hugo Lefeuvre, Pierre Olivier
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.09439 https://

μFork: Supporting POSIX fork Within a Single-Address-Space OS
Single-address-space operating systems have well-known lightweightness benefits that result from their central design idea: the kernel and applications share a unique address space. This model makes these operating systems (OSes) incompatible by design with a large class of software: multiprocess POSIX applications. Indeed, the semantics of the primitive used to create POSIX processes, fork, are inextricably tied to the existence of multiple address spaces. Prior approaches addressing this is…

The ACT government provides a wide range of grants, funding and other support to individuals, groups, and organisations that benefit Canberrans and the Canberra community.
https://www.act.gov.au/money-and-tax/grants-funding-and-incentives

The One Big Beautiful Bill Act expands Qualified Small Business Stock benefits for VCs, founders, and startup staff, raising tax-free gains from $10M to $15M (Robert Frank/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/03/trump-big-beautiful-…

Top five tax changes for the wealthy in Trump's 'big beautiful bill'
Taxpayers earning $1 million or more are expected to see a boost in after-tax income of about 3% under Trump's megabill.