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48 hour film festival's AI rule. I think it says a lot as to what is and isn't allowed. Some of it might just be pragmatic, but some of it may also reflect values of what is considered central and what more peripheral?

Arbitrary models of the complete first-order theories of FDZ-rings
Mahmood Sohrabi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.27730 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2603.27730 https://arxiv.org/html/2603.27730
arXiv:2603.27730v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: In this paper, we study arbitrary models of the first-order theory of a ring $A$ where the additive group $A$ is a finitely generated abelian group. Following an earlier paper by this author, Alexei G. Myasnikov and Francis Oger, we call these rings the FDZ-rings or FDZ-algebras. The rings considered are not necessarily unitary, commutative, or associative. We provide criteria for such rings to be quasi finitely axiomatizable (QFA) or bi-interpretable with the ring of integers $\mathbb Z$. We shall also describe all rings elementarily equivalent to such a ring $A$ given certain constraints on $A$.
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Investors have grown accustomed to buying into major selloffs because stocks recover quickly
— not this time so far.

"This is a little bit of a more protracted, longer duration selloff than what investors have become used to,"
"Ironically, I think that's keeping people from feeling that they can buy the dip."
Big Tech firm's are spending at such a record rate to fund their AI ambitions, their capital expenditure is a bigger driver…

The US CFTC sues New York, accusing the state of invading its authority to regulate prediction markets by filing lawsuits against Coinbase and Gemini (Jonathan Stempel/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/cftc-sues-new-y…

Kuwait acquits journalist Ahmed Shihab-Eldin following 52 days' detention after he shared footage of damage resulting from the Iran war (Adam Lucente/AL-MONITOR)
https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2026/04/kuwait-acquits-…

Kuwait acquits journalist Ahmed Shihab-Eldin after 7 weeks in detention
The American-Kuwaiti journalist is expected to be released after 52 days in custody over posts about wartime damage.

"Rice feeds billions of people—but its role in fueling climate change is growing"
#Rice #Food #Climate #ClimateChange

Rice feeds billions of people—but its role in fueling climate change is growing
Rice feeds more than half the world. From terraced paddies in Southeast Asia to irrigated fields in China and India, it underpins daily meals for billions of people.

H H forgot the most important point to managing stress, "Try guillotining the Epstein class."

The US FDIC proposes a rule to establish a regulatory framework for stablecoin issuers, including requirements related to reserve assets, under the GENIUS Act (Sarah Wynn/The Block)
https://www.theblock.co/post/396588/fdic-proposes-rule…

Meta’s approach to user privacy is under renewed scrutiny
-- following a Swedish report that employees of a Meta subcontractor have watched footage captured by Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses showing sensitive user content.
The workers reportedly work for Kenya-headquartered Sama and provide data annotation for Ray-Ban Metas.
The authors said that several people interviewed for the report said they have
💥seen footage shot with Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses that
👉shows peo…

Workers report watching Ray-Ban Meta-shot footage of people using the bathroom
Meta accused of "concealing the facts" about smart glass users' privacy.

A study of ~1,500 US workers finds AI use can reduce burnout but also cause "AI brain fry", a mental fatigue from using AI tools beyond one's cognitive capacity (Harvard Business Review)
https://hbr.org/2026/03/when-using-ai-leads-to-brain-fry

When Using AI Leads to “Brain Fry”
As firms increasingly incentivize employees to build and oversee complex teams of agents—for example, by measuring and rewarding token consumption as a proxy for performance—people are finding themselves pushed to their cognitive limits. Participants in a recent study described a “buzzing” feeling or a mental fog with difficulty focusing, slower decision-making, and headaches. The authors call this phenomenon “AI brain fry,” defined as mental fatigue from excessive use or oversight…