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"The vast majority of arrests have been for failing to leave the area in defiance of requests from law enforcement, according to police."
The Latest: Los Angeles police have made nearly 400 arrests and detentions since Saturday - SooLeader
https://www.sooleader.com/michigan-news-ap/the-latest-los-angeles-police-have-made-nearly-400-arrests-and-detentions-since-saturday-10793135

Jets CB Michael Carter II 'in a lot better place' after adverse 2024, eager to play for Aaron Glenn https://www.nfl.com/news/jets-cb-michael-carter-ii-in-a-lot-better-place-after-adverse-2024-eager-to-play-for-aaron-…

"..some residents in #Ballymena have started to mark their front doors to indicate their nationality to avoid attack.."
I lived in this town, Ian Paisley's home town and DUP core territory, for 3 years as a teenager. Not been back.
It was characterised by narrow-mindedness and bigotry then in the 60s.
The last place to concentrate migrants, if that is what has happene…

Police injured, houses burned in second night of riots in Northern Ireland
Rioters said to target ‘foreigners’ in Northern Ireland town following alleged sexual assault of local teenage girl.

Been playing Pistol Whip again. Such a great game. The Black Magic "hard" level, with Reckless and Hell options is ridiculously hard. Finishing at all is a feat.
Was wondering how the hell the top players managed to score so highly. I was in like 4th place thinking I was playing a practically perfect game.
But it turns out only with 188 hits. The top three, I noticed, has 189 hits! There's a secret dude!?
Found him, flying around in the sky mid level on the right.
Nice. That's me 3rd in the global leaderboard for Black Magic Hard Reckless Hell now then.
Maybe I shouldn't be giving the game away. If someone learns of the secret dude from this post and then beats me into 4th place I'll be miffed.
#vr #games #pistolWhip

The latest executive order from Trump administration removed the following sentence from a previous executive order.
" e) Open source software plays a critical role in Federal information systems."
🔗 https://www…

Sustaining Select Efforts to Strengthen the Nation's Cybersecurity and Amending Executive Order 13694 and Executive Order 14144
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including the International Emergency

It's worth bearing in mind that all AI companies are in that phase where they burn money to attract the most customers and hope that the competition blinks first. That means all AI is pretty badly underpriced.
For coding, that's a problem. It's just on the edge of being arguably positive for some. If the price goes up by an order of ten, the bubble is going to burst. And it may take the other AI use cases with it. After all, coding was kind of a killer app.

Anthropic Is Bleeding Out
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The IRS said in a new court filing that clergy and houses of worship should be allowed to make political endorsements,
-- abandoning an 71-year-old tax policy that banned the mixing of religion and politics.

Nonprofits should be allowed to make political endorsements and not lose their tax exemption,
the IRS said in the court filing.
Religious congregations, the filing said, are like families and communication between them should not be deemed “participation” in a ca…

IRS: Churches should be allowed to make political endorsements
Since 1954, the IRS has banned nonprofits — including congregations — from participating in political campaigns. The agency now says political endorsements by churches should be allowed.

G-Sim: Generative Simulations with Large Language Models and Gradient-Free Calibration
Samuel Holt, Max Ruiz Luyten, Antonin Berthon, Mihaela van der Schaar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09272

G-Sim: Generative Simulations with Large Language Models and Gradient-Free Calibration
Constructing robust simulators is essential for asking "what if?" questions and guiding policy in critical domains like healthcare and logistics. However, existing methods often struggle, either failing to generalize beyond historical data or, when using Large Language Models (LLMs), suffering from inaccuracies and poor empirical alignment. We introduce G-Sim, a hybrid framework that automates simulator construction by synergizing LLM-driven structural design with rigorous empirical calibration…

Europe's red line to China: Stop fueling Putin’s war machine or face policy reversal, Von der Leyen warns - Euromaidan Press
https://euromaidanpress.com/2025/07/08/europes-red-line-to-china-stop-fueling-putins-war-machine-or-face-policy-reversal-von-der-leyen-warns/

Europe's red line to China: Stop fueling Putin’s war machine or face policy reversal, Von der Leyen warns - Euromaidan Press
https://euromaidanpress.com/2025/07/08/europes-red-line-to-china-stop-fueling-putins-war-machine-or-face-policy-reversal-von-der-leyen-warns/