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Indigenous Woman and US Citizen On Her Way To A Chemotherapy Appointment Abducted By Fascists In Chaparral, NM
Video Source:
https://reddit.com/comments/1uxn9wf
Her daughter confirmed she was on her way to chemotherapy appointment and is a citizen. The truck had been following her and she …

AWS launches an internal organization for AI-focused forward-deployed engineers, backed by $1B in resources, following OpenAI and others in launching FDE teams (Russell Brandom/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/30/amazon-launch…

Amazon launches new $1 billion FDE org, following OpenAI and Anthropic | TechCrunch
Engineers on the new team will embed within companies to deploy purpose-built agents, focusing on fast deployments and customer self-sufficiency.

Fernando Mendoza focused on the next rep amid ‘following role’ with Raiders https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/raiders/fernando-mendoza-focused-on-the-next-rep-amid-following-role-with-raiders-3857031/

NASA is racing to save an aging telescope from falling back to Earth with a daring rescue mission.
The $30 million salvage operation gets underway as soon as this week with the planned launch of a robotic lifesaver.
NASA hired startup
Katalyst Space Technologies
to boost the Swift Observatory to a higher orbit
where it can continue hunting for some of the universe’s biggest explosions.
A three-armed spacecraft built by Katalyst will chase after Swift once …

NASA races to save the Swift telescope with a $30M robotic rescue mission
NASA is racing to save its Swift telescope from falling back to Earth with a daring rescue mission. The salvage effort gets underway as soon as this week with the planned launch of a robotic lifesaver. NASA has hired Katalyst Space Technologies to boost Swift to a higher orbit where it can continue hunting for some of the universe's biggest explosions. Launched in 2004, Swift has been sinking faster and faster because of recent intense solar activity. It needs to get to a higher orbit as soon a…

It will be entirely unsurprising in a few years when we find out that “outside” Trumpist/Putinist operators like Bannon and Musk created the Ceuta incident in concert with Spanish Neo-Falangists and Morocco’s government.
A feature of today’s Fascist is that they have been duped by mass Western culture storytelling. In a movie, 60k Moroccans is enough to collapse Ceuta. In a novel, assassinating the top 2 tiers of the Islamic Republic of Iran topples it.
It’s not that simple.

Lee-Yang paradigm of phase transition in eigenstate thermalized systems
Yongjiang Xu, Weixin Sun, Chushun Tian, Huajia Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.13174 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2608.13174 https://arxiv.org/html/2608.13174
arXiv:2608.13174v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: As phase transitions in isolated quantum systems remain elusive, here we show how a thermodynamic-like phase transition, falling into the Lee-Yang paradigm, can arise in systems displaying eigenstate thermalization. Specifically, we show that in holographic conformal field theories, the eigenstate expectation of the auto-correlation function can be mapped to the partition function ${\cal Z}_{{gauge}}(z)$ of a virtual interacting instanton gas, with the conformal mapping of the imaginary time: $z=1-e^{-\tau}$ and the central charge $c$ mimicking the instanton fugacity and volume, respectively. We find that akin to the Lee-Yang paradigm, for $c\to\infty$ a pair of complex conjugate zeros of ${\cal Z}_{{gauge}}(z)$ move to the real axis located at the famous forbidden singularity. Passing through the singularity the system transits from the low- to high-fugacity phase, accompanied by dramatic changes in scaling behaviors of the free energy and dominant microscopic configurations. Our findings indicate that physics of phase transitions from eigenstate thermalization is very rich.
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FIling: Lone Palm Labs, the startup behind friend-focused photo sharing app Retro, raised a $21M Series A from Thrive Capital and others (Sydney Bradley/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/alternative-social-media-ap…

Instagram alternative Retro raises $21M for close friends sharing
In 2023, ex-Instagram employees launched a new app called Retro. It's one of many new social media apps taking on Big Tech platforms.

Andi Tepelena, a prominent activist and art curator organizing the 2026 civic protests in Tirana, Albania
made these remarks to emphasize the deepening political crisis.
He stated that m
"the regime has activated an army of patronage Nazis to tarnish the protest,"
but added that this battle has been won by the citizens and their supporters.
Tepelena stressed that protesters are united around the demand for the removal of the government and a profound c…

"We have won the war with the patronageists who try to dirty us", Andi Tepelena on the protest: Parties must be re-formed, or they will end up in the dustbin of history
Following the protests taking place in the country, Andi Tepelena has stated that, in his opinion, the civic movement has managed to withstand the attempts to discredit it on social networks and by organized political structures. He stated that, “the regime has activated an army of patronage-fascists to tarnish the protest”, but added that this battle has been won […]

Fascist paramilitary invaders smash car window while trying to abduct someone, then fire at the fleeing vehicle, endangering everyone (07/02/2026, PA)
Video Source:
#ice

OpenAI says it has made several changes to its safety practices following the Hugging Face breach and has paused two weeks of deployment-focused RL training (Ina Fried/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/08/18/openai-pause-astra-preparedness-framework

OpenAI to rewrite its safety rules post-Hugging Face
The changes follow the Hugging Face incident and increased cybersecurity risk of new Astra model