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The Most AI-Exposed Counties in America Are Not Where You Think
https://jakeprokopets.substack.com/p/why-the-most-ai-exposed-counties
Here is a county-level AI displacement model across all 3,204 US counties.
The Top 5 most exposed counties are a…

Why the Most AI-Exposed Counties in America Are Not Where You Think
A county-level model of AI workforce displacement built on peer-reviewed methodology, BLS data, and real deployment evidence. The findings surprised me.

Sam Bankman-Fried withdraws his request for a new trial, saying he doubts he would receive a fair hearing; his broader appeal remains pending (Olivier Acuna/CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2026/04/23/sa…

SBF withdraws motion for retrial but leaves option open for after appeal ruling
The convicted former founder of the collapsed FTX crypto exchange withdrew, for now, his motion for retrial, saying he believes he would not face a fair trial.

Contextualizing the Proposed SECURE Data Act in the State Privacy Landscape
https://fpf.org/blog/contextualizing-the-proposed-secure-data-act-in-the-state-privacy-landscape/
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sp_hypertext: Hypertext 2009 dynamic contact network
The temporal network of contacts among attendees of the ACM Hypertext 2009 conference, which spanned 2.5 days of time.
This network has 113 nodes and 20818 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Temporal
https://networks.skewed.de/net/sp_hype…

A pittance compared to the actual need.
Trump Admin Commits $7.5 Million to Bring More Protein to Food Banks | Civil Eats
https://civileats.com/2026/05/21/trump-admin-commits-7-5-million-to-bring-more-protein-to-food-banks/

Don't Forget the Broader Context of the Iranian Memorandum (Victor Davis Hanson/American Greatness)
https://amgreatness.com/2026/06/23/dont-forget-the-broader-context-of-the-iranian-memorandum/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260623/p86#a260623p86

After nearly 30 years, NASA realized this near-Earth asteroid is actually a comet | Space https://www.space.com/astronomy/comets/after-nearly-30-years-nasa-realized-this-nea…

Before everybody get's too excited about available Chinese open weights models, the infrastructure costs for running these models are immense, it's hard to find specific and reliable data but think about half a million dollars of infrastructure costs for 5-15 users according to this linkedin post.

Kimi K3 just dropped. 2.8 trillion parameters, 1M-token context window, open weights. Capabilities comparable to Fable 5. 🔥 And every enterprise buyer is doing the same math right now. Here is… | Miklos Toth
Kimi K3 just dropped. 2.8 trillion parameters, 1M-token context window, open weights. Capabilities comparable to Fable 5. 🔥 And every enterprise buyer is doing the same math right now. Here is what running it yourself actually costs: - 16x NVIDIA H200 GPUs: ~$500,000. That's GPUs only. No chassis, no networking, no power infrastructure. - Model weights on disk: 1 to 1.7TB depending on quantization. - What's left for actual context: somewhere between 550 and 1,250GB of KV cache. Translat…

The Ethereum Foundation cuts ~20% of its workforce, or 54 staff, as part of a broad restructuring amid leadership turnover and growing Ethereum fragmentation (Margaux Nijkerk/CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/tech/2026/06/23/ethereum-foun…

Ethereum (ETH) news: Foundation cuts 20% of staff amid leadership exodus
The reduction follows a period of significant upheaval at the organization’s leadership level.

sp_infectious: Art exhibit dynamic contacts (2011)
This dataset contains the daily dynamic contact networks collected during the Infectious SocioPatterns event that took place at the Science Gallery in Dublin, Ireland, during the artscience exhibition INFECTIOUS: STAY AWAY. Each file in the downloadable package contains a tab-separated list representing the active contacts during 20-second intervals of one day of data collection. Each line has the form “t i j“, where i and j are the a…