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Slovakia hints it won't block 18th sanctions package following EU assurances: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/15/slovakia-hints-it-wont-block.html

Mgmt: We don't have the resources to make our own LLM. Can we just monetize AI prompts?
Business School Student: Hold my beer 🍺
#blockchain

PromptChain: A Decentralized Web3 Architecture for Managing AI Prompts as Digital Assets
We present PromptChain, a decentralized Web3 architecture that establishes AI prompts as first-class digital assets with verifiable ownership, version control, and monetization capabilities. Current centralized platforms lack mechanisms for proper attribution, quality assurance, or fair compensation for prompt creators. PromptChain addresses these limitations through a novel integration of IPFS for immutable storage, smart contracts for governance, and token incentives for community curation. O…

"A Perilous 4,000-Mile Passage From Mexico to Find Jobs in the U.S." New York Times story dated Tuesday, May 31, 2001. Part of a retrospective on the films of Chantal Akerman; in this case, "De l’autre côté" ("From the Other Side") 2002 at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Belém / Lisbon

3.5 billion euros in new funds pledged for Ukraine's reconstruction after Recovery Conference, ministry says: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/13/billion-euros-in-new-funds.html

WATCH: Raiders Cornerback Jakorian Bennett Following Minicamp https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/las-vegas-jakorian-bennett-patrick-graham-pete-carroll

SEC filing: Oracle signed multiple large cloud agreements, including one that is expected to contribute $30B in annual revenue starting in FY28; ORCL jumps 5% (Samantha Subin/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/30/oracle-orcl-stock-cloud-deal.html

Oracle stock jumps after $30 billion annual cloud deal revealed in filing
Oracle shares have jumped more than 33% this year, benefiting from cloud growth and the rise of artificial intelligence models.

The Trump administration deported a 31-year-old Salvadoran man minutes after a federal appeals court barred his removal while his case proceeded, the government admitted in a court filing this week.
In its filing, the government denied that it had violated the order from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, in New York, instead blaming “a confluence of administrative errors.”
The government had previously given the court what the judges called “express assurance” that…

Trump Officials Deported Another Man Despite Court Order
A federal appeals panel ordered officials not to deport a 31-year-old to El Salvador. Minutes later, it happened anyway. The government blamed “administrative errors.”

Comment on "Electric conductivity of graphene: Kubo model versus a nonlocal quantum field theory model (arXiv:2403.02279v3)"
M. Bordag, N. Khusnutdinov, G. L. Klimchitskaya, V. M. Mostepanenko
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10792

Comment on "Electric conductivity of graphene: Kubo model versus a nonlocal quantum field theory model (arXiv:2403.02279v3)"
Recently, Rodriguez-Lopez, Wang, and Antezza [arXiv:2403.02279v3; Phys. Rev. B v.111, 115428 (2025)] compared the theoretical descriptions of electric conductivity of graphene given by the Kubo model and quantum field theory in terms of the polarizationtensor. According to these authors, in the spatially nonlocal case, the quantum field theoretical description contains ``hard inconsistencies". To bring the predictions of quantum field theory in agreement with those following from the Kubo model…

Disney and Lucasfilm settle with Gina Carano, who sued for discrimination over her firing from The Mandalorian after she shared controversial social media posts (Katcy Stephan/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/biz/news/gina-carano-disney-settle-mand…

Gina Carano, Disney Settle Legal Dispute Over 'Mandalorian' Firing
Lucasfilm and the Walt Disney Company have reached an agreement in their legal dispute with Gina Carano following her firing from "The Mandalorian."

US and Mexico team up to tackle sewage flowing across border in Tijuana River #climatechange #climatesolutions #climate

US, Mexico Sign Accord To Combat Tijuana River Sewage Flowing Across Border
"The United States and Mexico have signed an agreement outlining specific steps and a new timetable to clean up the longstanding problem of the Tijuana River pouring sewage across the border and polluting California beaches, officials from both countries announced Thursday."