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Raiders GM Doesn’t Hold Back on Fernando Mendoza Selection https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/gm-on-fernando-mendoza-selection/

The next time I read an anti-AI piece in the failing @…, I am going to wipe their nose in this. (Received because I am so very tired of the All-Access Family BS ... hey @…, I'm the only one using this account and tired of it).

That feeling when "ancient Native American burial mounds" are mentioned on page 2 and you think "oh God here we go with some intense racism/cultural appropriation again" but then you remember that you checked this book out because it was Native-authored and so it's actually a good thing.

A few highlights from the Turkish-Persian section of a random carpet symbolism book I skimmed while stopped at a random library in New Jersey a couple days ago

The Newsom administration is suing five more California cities
— Calexico, Costa Mesa, Half Moon Bay, Ridgecrest and Turlock — for failing to complete state-mandated housing plans, known as the “housing element.”

Huntington Beach was the first city to face such a legal action, and it recently finalized its housing element plans following a court-order and massive fines.
The law, which has been in place since 1969, requires cities and counties every eight years to d…

Newsom continues crackdown on cities over housing plan requirements. 'No city gets a pass,' governor says
Gov. Gavin Newsom and California Atty. Gen. Rob Bonta filed legal actions this week against five small cities that they say are failing to meet benchmarks required for housing planning.

Also worth noting that cellular/mobile phones still provided an actual working service.
Yes there were trade-offs, but the core functions that people wanted were there.
https://beige.party/@FeloniousPunk/116573505276924676

Filings: Dario Amodei gave $1M in May to Public First, a super PAC advocating for AI safety regulations, seemingly his first seven-figure political donation (Brendan Bordelon/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/07/16/a

Solutocapillary instability in slipping falling films
Sanghasri Mukhopadhyay, S\'everine Millet, Bastien Di Pierro, Asim Mukhopadhyay
https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.17519 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2605.17519 https://arxiv.org/html/2605.17519
arXiv:2605.17519v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: We present a comprehensive framework for gravity-driven, surfactant-laden thin films flowing over slippery substrates, elucidating how wall slip modifies the coupled hydrodynamics and interfacial transport. A long-wave model is formulated with a conservative bulk-surface mass balance and a Navier slip condition. The Orr-Sommerfeld eigenvalue problem governs the linear regime, while a weighted-residual model captures the nonlinear evolution over a range of equilibrium surfactant coverages, Marangoni strengths, and adsorption kinetics. The analysis predicts a non-monotonic variation of the critical Reynolds number with equilibrium coverage, exhibiting a maximum at intermediate $\Gamma_e$, and a slip-induced transition from single- to double-hump solitary structures with increasing Marangoni number, accompanied by attenuated capillary ripples. Under fast adsorption kinetics, the surface field homogenizes, preserving the mean film shape and flux while flattening both the surface concentration $\Gamma$ and the bulk inventory $\chi h\phi$. A spurious interfacial mass growth reported by Pascal et al.(PRF, 2019) and D'Alessio et al.(JFM, 2020) is resolved through a revised surface balance ensuring strict conservation. Wall slip thus emerges as a key control parameter, reducing viscous resistance and mitigating Marangoni back-stress. The slip parameter $\beta$ is a useful control knob for surfactant-laden films. Slip prevents fragile multi-hump bound states, promoting a single broad crest or an almost flat, uniform sheet by carefully bonding $\beta$ to wave selection, ripple damping, and the bulk-surface surfactant balance.
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I know next to nothing of substance abt The Amazing Digital Circus. All I know is that every time a trans woman makes a virtual reality story she makes a zillion bucks and her characters get turned into fortnite skins cuz of our innate sauce with the feeling of physical disconnection, and im lowk tempted to try continuing the family nacho recipe even as itd be purely cynical cuz I actually really really only care abt the process of becoming a real physical person im tired of thinking within …

“We are a nation of laws.
You can't just make up things whole piece,”
said Senator Bill Cassidy,
following his primary loss.
“People are concerned about making ends meet, not about putting a slush fund together without a legal precedent.”
It’s not clear yet what approach Cassidy will take in his final months in office,
but he’s got plenty of opportunities to make his voice heard,
including on the effort to limit U.S. hostilities against Iran wi…

Bill Cassidy Is Done Holding Back What He Thinks
The Louisiana Republican is already speaking out against the president's “weaponization” fund and money for a White House ballroom.