“Humans generally want to feel chosen and special, and some individuals will believe they are to an extraordinary degree.” —YDS Prof Yii-Jan Lin as quoted in Rolling Stone on A.I. and religious fervor. https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/cultu
"What Stroustrup wanted was apparently what a lot of people wanted: a language that provided OOP features, such as those offered by Smalltalk, but compiled into binaries that would execute as fast as an executable written in C.
The solution Stroustrup adopted was not to adopt the Smalltalk model, but instead to take inspiration from fellow Scandinavians and to bolt ideas borrowed from Simula into C."
HASHIRU: Hierarchical Agent System for Hybrid Intelligent Resource Utilization
Kunal Pai, Parth Shah, Harshil Patel
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04255 https:…
AT&T launches Account Lock to protect wireless users against SIM swapping attacks, following similar features from T-Mobile, Verizon, and Google Fi (Emma Roth/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/695916/att-account-lock-sim-swapping-attack
Well, that didn't take long https://futurism.com/commitment-jail-chatgpt-psychosis
LongAnimation: Long Animation Generation with Dynamic Global-Local Memory
Nan Chen, Mengqi Huang, Yihao Meng, Zhendong Mao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01945
Bivariate polynomial histopolation techniques on Padua, Fekete and Leja triangles
Ludovico Bruni Bruno, Francesco Dell'Accio, Wolfgang Erb, Federico Nudo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.03025
Multi-wavelength observations of substructures in solar flare ribbons
Vishal Singh, Eamon Scullion, Gert J. J. Botha, Natasha L. S. Jeffrey, Malcolm Druett, Gerry Doyle, Chris Nelson, Aidan O'Flannagain, Alex G. M. Pietrow
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01169
Oil futures surge following US strikes in Iran (Auzinea Bacon/CNN)
https://cnn.com/2025/06/22/business/oil-futures-stocks-iran
http://www.memeorandum.com/250622/p72#a250622p72