In its latest move to restrict the legal immigration system,
the Trump administration announced a sweeping change Monday that could lead to the
deportations of thousands of asylum seekers.
The change from U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services
💥allows asylum officers to bypass the need to interview certain applicants
👉 and instead refer them directly to immigration judges for removal proceedings.
🔥The agency estimates that up to a third, or 444,000 of…
Shein's IPO prospectus shows Q1 revenue of $9.05B, up 1% YoY, as it swings from $395M profit in Q1 2025 to $99M loss partly due to US' "de minimis" rule removal (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/legal/transactional/sh…
RE: https://mastodon.uno/@amministratore/116967326136690873
Looks like there’s a Mastodon identity verification scam going around.
Good rule of thumb: if a web site asks you to verify your identity, you close that browser tab.
The scam lett…
DoorDash is selling out D.C. over a 20-cent delivery tax
https://www.ms.now/opinion/doordash-dc-fee-home-rule
Trump Administration Seeks Supreme Court Stay of Lower Court Order Stopping USPS from Moving Forward with Rule to Limit the Delivery of Mail Ballots; Issue is Whether the Lower Court's Order was Premature - Election Law Blog
https://electionlawblog.org/?p=157634
The US is a hostile entity.
They have joined X's appeal of their €120m fine with the explicit position that the EU has no role in regulating US tech giants.
Oligarchs and kleptocrats trying to rule the whole world.
In Le Monde:
"Nous ne tolérerons pas que la Commission européenne outrepasse ses prérogatives réglementaires pour contrôler les moteurs américains de l’innovation et de la croissance"
https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2026/09/25/les-etats-unis-veulent-soutenir-x-dans-son-recours-contre-une-amende-de-l-union-europeenne_6782074_3210.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
but RTE is more neutral:
https://www.rte.ie/news/technology/2026/0925/1592973-eu-x-platform-fine/
What is the rule determining where you can find the previously used app on the iPhone when switching apps?
I expect it to always be at the left but that is definitely not *always* the case.
"The proposal would restrict international collaboration and give political appointees the ability to decide the most important research to fund, and the power to pull the plug at any time, for any reason."
Trump admin could shut US scientists out of Nobel-worthy discovery with new rule - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/how-the-trump-admin-could-shut-u-s-scientists-out-of-the-next-nobel-worthy-discovery/
📊 Measured tools/list payload: 10 tools 5,843 − 1,431 bytes (-75.5%), 40 tools 23,423 − 1,431 bytes (-93.9%), 100 tools 58,585 − 1,431 bytes (-97.6%). Rule of thumb: past 10-15 tools, a catalog pays off.
⚖️ Trade-off: search adds a round trip and batches have no loops or branching. Small servers with always-used tools should keep advertising directly; agents needing control flow still need a sandbox like
RE: https://mastodon.social/@burger_jaap/117280605873354475
If even the association of German TÜVs – the inspectors for all things technical and therefore the ultimate authority on regulations – finds the proposed rule too rigid, then it seems highly likely that a change will follow
https://www.tuev-verband.de/positionspapiere/bidirektionales-laden-potenziale-von-e-autos-fuer-das-stromnetz-nutzen
Ojeee ...
Is er in het VK een nieuwe oude hype nodig?
Burnham refuses to rule out rejoining EU
#UKpol #EU
Build-Authorized Evidence for Opaque Calls: A Fail-Closed Rewrite-Authority Boundary
Zhonghua Yi (Toka Language Research Group)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.18949 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2607.18949 https://arxiv.org/html/2607.18949
arXiv:2607.18949v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Detached semantic facts about opaque native providers do not by themselves justify compiler rewrites: rewrite authority must be confined to the accepted fact, selected provider and build, caller, callback environment, observation, and runtime target. We present a build-authorized path-effect interface that enforces this boundary through fail-closed authorization and link receipts. The design separates receipt closure, callback-environment closure, and projection identity, and passes accepted facts to LLVM through a narrow internal API. We use one-hop topology-load reuse as a minimal observable witness of authority, not as the optimization target.
A conservative LLVM consumer reuses a pointer observation only from a noalias root or one constant nonzero projection. Rocq models prove conditional refinement and authority non-amplification under explicit effect, alias, compiler/ABI, and target-resolution premises. We instantiate checked production with Toka: a source-summary gate emits exact LLVM IR, a separate IR checker accepts only a bounded topology-preserving subset, and only accepted IR is compiled into the receipt-bound provider object. A bounded static Darwin/arm64 profile also checks the final direct branch target.
Across issuer-declared readv, recvmsg, and Cairo boundaries, authorized IR retains each opaque call, reduces the relevant loads from two to one, and preserves observed results; mismatched providers, builds, callbacks, projections, and unsupported IR remain neutral. A libjpeg case is rejected because its callback environment is open, while a bound callback singleton demonstrates the supported closure rule. The contribution is a checked deployment-compiler boundary with an explicit trust and applicability frontier, not a uniquely expressive effect encoding or a new load-elimination algorithm.
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Ooh, found my dad's slide rule; I guess I have to learn how to use it now!
#retrocomputing
oh look, the future of the USA.
"Nicaragua's President Ortega says no more elections, extending his 20-year rule"
#uspoli #fascism #democracy
https://www.npr.org/2026/07/21/nx-s1-5902228/nicaragua-ortega-no-elections
New York City has adopted a new rule that bans companies from using deceptive subscriptions to trap customers into paying for gym memberships, streaming services and other recurring charges, the city’s consumer protection office said.
The new rule, which will start on 1 October, promises hefty fines and aggressive enforcement for violators.
Companies that do not provide a simple way to cancel could pay $525 per user subscription, back fees and additional fines.
The city is …
Folks tying their businesses to the APIs of Anthropic, OpenAI, etc., are this generation’s Twitter client developers.
(Maybe look into recent history to see what Twitter eventually did and what happened to them. Rule of thumb: an API key is a key to a door you don’t own whose lock can be changed at any time.)
Remember, the first rule of forklift safety is to have fun and be yourself!
lol @ gruber forgetting rule number one:
if you want it done right, do it yourself.
(thread is more eloquent than i am, addresses the text, &c.) https://merveilles.town/@lrhodes/117111278095986201
And to be clear, I’m not excited about the possibility of all that violence. I don’t like living in a world where disputes get resolved by murder — even if it’s the murder of truly despicable people. I mean, I’d like to see these technofascists cut down to size just as much as anyone else, but I’d rather that happen in a way that is thoughtful and just. For all its flaws, I still prefer the rule of law, the rule of ever-less-violent social consensus over the rule of violence. I would rather live in a world where we are always making the structures of our society less violent, less coercive, and more just.
I want that. Alas, that is not the direction the world is heading.
Ever since Donald Trump returned to the White House, his administration has taken a sledgehammer to anti-corruption efforts, destroying policy after policy dedicated to preventing bribery and money laundering in the country. But this week brought the biggest blow yet: The Treasury has obliterated a recent rule to deter devious shell companies, handily reopening the American economy to anyone looking to hide their illicit wealth.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/08/corrupt-administration-shell-company-business-transparency/688274/
RE: https://hachyderm.io/@jenniferplusplus/117269649777256405
Good at generating code doesn't mean it's good at generating good code.
In the hand of someone who's both an expert programmer and an expert team manager (basically a unicorn person, few exist)—yes they can produce good code if herded enough. But that's an exception, not the rule.
We are seeing and will see gradual, accelerating worsening of code quality.
Beyond headcount and human capital: The Effective Cognitive Population as a decomposable capacity unit for AI-era planning
Kwan Soo Shin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.09642 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2608.09642 https://arxiv.org/html/2608.09642
arXiv:2608.09642v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: National planning counts population, human capital, and artificial-intelligence preparedness in separate ledgers. Demographic accounting has advanced from headcount to skills-adjusted stocks and still debates how much age structure retains once skills are modeled, yet no existing unit carries the conditions under which preparedness becomes productive capacity. This study introduces the Effective Cognitive Population (ECP), a decomposable unit that weights population by capability and by the conditions under which capability is deployed, anchored to the World Bank Human Capital Index Plus (HCI ) and the non-overlapping dimensions of the IMF AI Preparedness Index. The architecture is portable in principle; the case tested here is artificial intelligence, which has a published preparedness index. For 144 countries, HCI becomes a productivity level, AI opportunity uses digital infrastructure and innovation integration, conversion governance uses regulation and ethics, and the benchmark is ECP = N H(1 AC). Against 2024 total output on identical population bases, ECP raises criterion R-squared from 0.849 for the HCI -adjusted stock to 0.882 and lowers leave-one-country-out RMSE from 0.723 to 0.641, with the working-age comparison identical and bootstrap intervals excluding zero. Eighty-nine of 144 countries move at least ten rank positions from headcount, mostly through the human-capital adjustment itself. Results are stable across denominators, vintages, aggregation forms, and a 27-rule multiverse. The direct A by C interaction is not statistically supported, so the conjunction is a planning rule rather than causal complementarity. ECP is a diagnostic ledger whose scope excludes forecasts of population decline and estimates of AI's causal productivity effect.
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In #Jellyfin 10.11.11 I had some shows with S01E09a S01E09b etc that would show as alternates for the episode number, but In Jellyfin 12.0 the b (and c) episodes have vanished!
Is there a better rule for episodes occurring in stand-alone parts? These were for the 80's Twilight Zone that put 3 shorts into each week's episode.
More #emf #emfcamp #emf2026 photos.
Edit: This was meant to be a reply to the first post here:
Golden rule of threat hunting:90% of what you find is IoT devices and admins doing something weird - Matthew Gracie at #BlueTeamCon https://github.com/InfosecGoon/StandardForPlaybooks
➡️ Cycling Safety at Intersections: My Rule for When the Driver Has a Stop Sign
#bookmarks
Blessed be the rule of law.
DOJ Loses Appeal To Enact Trump's Mail Voting Edict - Joe.My.God.
https://www.joemygod.com/2026/07/doj-loses-appeal-to-enact-trumps-mail-voting-edict/
“That traditional question of political theory, 'Who should rule?', which begs for an authoritarian answer such as 'the best', or 'the wisest', or 'the people', or 'the majority', […] should be replaced by a completely different question such as 'How can we organize our political institutions so that bad or incompetent rulers (whom we should try not to get, but whom we so easily might get all the same) cannot do too much damage?'”
—Karl Popper
"“Feds said the rule was needed to prevent ‘dangerous accidents’ that ‘could result in injury or even loss of life. But within a year, the regulation was dead, amid a flood of tech industry campaign cash to President Donald Trump’s political machine — and a pressure campaign waged by the same AI giants now claiming to have always welcomed federal regulation"
'Blockbuster story' links $50 million pro-Trump contributions to death of major safeguard - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-ai-2677939253/
I just released ptrclassify is a small, dependency-free Python library and CLI that infers likely IP usage from reverse-DNS PTR hostnames.
It is intentionally heuristic and multi-label. PTR naming is operator-controlled and is not authoritative evidence of how an address is actually used. The output therefore includes a confidence score, the text that matched, and the rule IDs that produced each label.
To summarize, the library is trying to guess usage (and a bit location) of an IP address based on its PTR records. It's based on a set of rules which can be updated easily.
#osint #cybersecurity #ptrclassify #opensource #dns
https://github.com/adulau/ptrclassify
module https://pypi.org/project/ptrclassify/
New rule: if you're going to complain about AI you have to talk about something you've created first.
A search sent me to Kung Fury's subreddit and the rules cracked me up, specially since there is only one rule:
#kungFury #AI
🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Patti Smith:
🎵 Everybody Wants To Rule The World
#NowPlaying #PattiSmith
#radioeins gespielten Titel als #Spotify Playliste: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3hdH98B6uyXilhcWxCA6nv
Handoffs drool, meetings rule. To fully realize our design vision we MUST coordinate with other people, and therefore deliberately design our meetings to be effective. But instead we are ceding the influence that meetings give us, to focus on LLM-powered solipsism.
#tech #UXDesign #SoftwareDevelopment #AI #LLM #UX #design
US Postal Service rule tightens mail-in voting despite court orders blocking changes | US voting rights | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/21/us-postal-service-mail-in-voter-rule
ScoreField: Neural Inverse Scattering with Score-Based Generative Priors
Wenhan Guo, Yuan Gao, Yu Sun
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.02937 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2608.02937 https://arxiv.org/html/2608.02937
arXiv:2608.02937v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Designing an effective electromagnetic inverse-scattering solver requires faithful enforcement of nonlinear full-wave physics together with an expressive prior on the unknown permittivity contrast. We propose ScoreField, a neural inverse scattering framework that integrates coupled implicit neural representations (INRs) with a pretrained score-based generative prior. ScoreField employs two INRs to parameterize the permittivity contrast and the induced current fields, and jointly optimize them under the Lippmann-Schwinger equations. In addition to the implicit regularization by the INR architecture, the score model provides a learned prior gradient on the contrast, which is propagated to the contrast INR through the chain rule. This formulation enables ScoreField to effectively handle strong multiple scattering, where nonlinear wave interactions require accurate modeling of the coupled full-wave physics. We evaluate ScoreField on simulated weak- and strong-scattering benchmarks, the canonical Austria phantom, and experimental Fresnel measurements. We note that ScoreField significantly improves reconstruction fidelity and suppresses artifacts relative to classical full-wave methods and deep learning baselines, achieving an average PSNR improvement of $1.8 \, \mathrm{dB}$ over the best competing method on real Fresnel data.
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Breaking: USPS Issues Final Rule on Handling Mail Ballots Following Trump's Mail-In Executive Order; Federal Government Says In Court Filings It Cannot Enforce It with Two Injunctions Against It in Place: What It Means for Pending Supreme Court Stay Request - Election Law Blog
https://electionlawblog.org/2026/breaking-usps-issues-final-rule-on-handling-mail-ballots-following-trumps-mail-in-executive-order-federal-government-says-in-court-filings-it-cannot-enforce-it-with-two-injunctions-against-it-in-p/
RE: https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/117032211410803941
So anyway, who here wants to make a macOS Mail app plugin or AppleScript rule extension to automatically make icons (company logos and maybe gravatars) for mails? 😅
(I don't get why Mail app doesn't have something for this built-in.)
New on #blog: "How hard is it to get a jobserver client right?"
"""
In November 2025, I’ve started working on #steve, the #jobserver for #Gentoo. I wrote about it already, in the “One jobserver to rule them all” post. Back then, my main focus was on the motivation for a system-wide jobserver, and the technical details of getting it working. I have also mentioned a few client bugs we’ve discovered along the way.
Since then, we’ve found a few more bugs, as well as problematic design patterns. I think they’re kind of interesting, so I’ve decided to dedicate this post specifically to them. As a disclaimer, my aim is not to pick on specific projects; I’m bringing them up as real examples of what we’ve hit, and how that impacts jobserver operation.
"""
https://blogs.gentoo.org/mgorny/2026/09/02/how-hard-is-it-to-get-a-jobserver-client-right/
Trump’s proposed anti-trans gun rule suddenly had thousands of new supporters. Most were bots;
Assigned Media investigation finds that 96 percent of comments supporting a proposed anti-trans gun rule showed signs of being machine-generated. | Advocate.com
https://www.advocate.com/politics/national/trump-transgender-gun-rule-bots?0#toggle-gdpr
Bakers and florists and all those folks that like to do this aren't channeling the Golden Rule, for sure.
Pastor files discrimination lawsuit after losing library job over pronouns
https://www.friendlyatheist.com/p/pastor-files-discrimination-lawsuit
Alito and Thomas dissented, of course.
Supreme Court rejects Trump bid to lift block on mail-in ballots rule
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/09/14/supreme-court-trump-mail-ballots-midterms.html
"Under a new rule, even being under hospice care won't automatically exempt you from the new Medicaid work requirements."
Trump Admin: 'Nearly Dead' No Excuse For Not Working For Your Medicaid
https://www.wonkette.com/p/trump-admin-nearly-dead-no-excuse
Judges Strike Down Trump Rule on Loan Forgiveness for Public Servants - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/30/business/trump-student-loan-forgiveness.html
Jack Smith says rule of law under unprecedented attack in first TV interview since resignation (Sydney Carruth/MS NOW)
https://www.ms.now/news/jack-smith-doj-trump-defends-investigations
http://www.memeorandum.com/260702/p96#a260702p96