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I just sent the following to my House and Senate Congress Critters:
Please do not vote to approve *any* budget agreement.
Please let our Federal government shut down.
Please do not fall for any “negotiations” or “agreements”: We know that the present administration will simply usurp those funds for whatever purpose they chose.
Our present Federal government is engaged in a near-war against our people. Both the Constitution and the laws are being ignored or twisted.

Colts reach agreement with QB Brett Rypien following Anthony Richardson's injury: Source https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6717737/2025/10/14/colts-backup-quarterback-brett-rypien/

Broadcom closes up 9.88% following the announcement of its custom chip deal with OpenAI; its stock is up over 50% in 2025 after more than doubling in 2024 (MacKenzie Sigalos/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/13/openai-partners-with-bro…

Broadcom stock pops 7% on OpenAI custom chip deal, adding to Nvidia and AMD agreements
OpenAI is teaming up with Broadcom to jointly develop and deploy 10 gigawatts of custom AI accelerators starting in 2026.

The Law-Following AI Framework: Legal Foundations and Technical Constraints. Legal Analogues for AI Actorship and technical feasibility of Law Alignment
Katalina Hernandez Delgado
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.08009

The Law-Following AI Framework: Legal Foundations and Technical Constraints. Legal Analogues for AI Actorship and technical feasibility of Law Alignment
This paper critically evaluates the "Law-Following AI" (LFAI) framework proposed by O'Keefe et al. (2025), which seeks to embed legal compliance as a superordinate design objective for advanced AI agents and enable them to bear legal duties without acquiring the full rights of legal persons. Through comparative legal analysis, we identify current constructs of legal actors without full personhood, showing that the necessary infrastructure already exists. We then interrogate the framework's clai…

Finite element analysis of a nonlinear heat Equation with damping and pumping effects
Rishabh Shukla, Wasim Akram, Manil T. Mohan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.10210 https://

Finite element analysis of a nonlinear heat Equation with damping and pumping effects
We study the following nonlinear heat equation with damping and pumping effects (a reaction-diffusion equation) posed on a bounded simply connected convex domain $Ω\subset \mathbb{R}^d$, $d \geq 1$ with Lipschitz boundary $\partialΩ$: $$ \frac{\partial u(t)}{\partial t} - νΔu(t) + α|u(t)|^{p-2}u(t) - \sum_{\ell=1}^M β_{\ell} |u(t)|^{q_{\ell}-2}u(t) = f(t), \quad t>0, $$ subject to homogeneous Dirichlet boundary conditions and the initial condition $u(0)=u_0$, where $2 …

Only one paper telling the truth... is that funny?
https://theonion.com/israel-agrees-to-go-back-to-killing-palestinians-on-less-frequent-basis/

Israel Agrees To Go Back To Killing Palestinians On Less Frequent Basis
CAIRO—As part of a historic ceasefire agreement with Hamas following two years of war, the Israeli government reportedly agreed Thursday to go back to killing Palestinians on a less frequent basis. “In line with the terms of the deal, Hamas will release all remaining Israeli hostages, and Israel will still murder innocent Palestinian civilians on […]

Spotify enters into a direct music publishing agreement with BMG, following deals in 2025 with UMG, Sony Music, Warner Chappell, and Kobalt (Ethan Millman/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/music/music-industry-news/s…

Spotify Signs Licensing Publishing Deal with BMG
"Working directly with Spotify helps us reinforce our mission to ensure songwriters are fairly represented and rewarded for their work," BMG CEO Thomas Coesfeld said.

A new deepening of mass-radius empirical relation for main sequence stars
Salvatore Camposeo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.08845 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.08…

A new deepening of mass-radius empirical relation for main sequence stars
In the following paper I have compared some typical mass-radius relations for main sequence stars by studying their level of agreement with DEBCat [https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.1411.1219], which is a recent catalogue by J. Southworth. Models chosen for testing were originally developed using older, smaller datasets than DEBCat. Each model follows a two-piece function structure, where each branch is a monomial power-law. This approach is motivated by theoretical considerations suggesting that …

Some French news publishers have signed agreements with unions to redistribute revenue from AI licensing deals to journalists; Le Monde redistributes 25% (Andrew Deck/Nieman Lab)
https://www.niemanlab.org/2025/09/in-france…

Some French publishers are giving AI revenue directly to journalists. Could that ever happen in the U.S.?
Le Monde agreed to give journalists 25% of revenue from licensing deals with OpenAI and Perplexity. Now, other French publishers are following suit.