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…
A search sent me to Kung Fury's subreddit and the rules cracked me up, specially since there is only one rule:
#kungFury #AI
The Grandmaster's Palace is a bit of a mixed bag. But it's interesting for the extraordinary wealth the Hospitallers commanded for much of their rule.
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…
I've started to implement a pretty stringent "if you reply to my post but you couldn't be bothered to read my post first I will block you" rule.
It took a while but it really cuts down on unwanted and unhinged replies.
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.
DoorDash is selling out D.C. over a 20-cent delivery tax
https://www.ms.now/opinion/doordash-dc-fee-home-rule
RE: https://infosec.exchange/@0xabad1dea/116800069685944016
When you’re young (and maybe not just then), everything that happened before you were born happened in “the distant past,” which is all approximately the same time.
I remember at the age of 6 or so thinking about how I was born in ’76, so my parents lived before ’76, so what was it like for them living under British rule? It took me a good few minutes to figure out the catch.
Ooh, found my dad's slide rule; I guess I have to learn how to use it now!
#retrocomputing
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #SaturdayMorning
Thomas Arne, Sarah Walker, BBC Symphony Orchestra & Vernon Handley:
🎵 Rule! Britannia (Last Night of the Proms 1985)
#ThomasArne #SarahWalker #BBCSymphonyOrchestra #VernonHandley
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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Federal judge blocks mail-in voting rule in Washington state | The Olympian
https://www.theolympian.com/news/local/article316290571.html
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.)
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
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
"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/
Most museum visitors know the rule “look, but don’t touch,” but where does that leave people who are blind or have low vision? As museums work toward increasing accessibility, many are exploring the incorporation of tactile images, or three-dimensional objects designed to be interpreted through touch. 1/4
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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So when your investing in index funds (except S&P 500), you can't avoid SpaceX stock and the AI financial bubble it seems. It looks like they want to make the SpaceX stock too big and important to fail. We will see if it is enough when the inevitable financial bubble of AI will pop.
More #emf #emfcamp #emf2026 photos.
Edit: This was meant to be a reply to the first post here:
Burklund-Lin-Wang-Xu Methods in the Cofiber-of-Tau Formalism and Applications to Equivariant Slice Differentials
Yuchen Wu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.02779 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2606.02779 https://arxiv.org/html/2606.02779
arXiv:2606.02779v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: We reinvestigate the theory of spectral sequences by studying the $(\infty,1)$-category of filtered spectra through the cofiber-of-$\tau$ formalism of Burklund-Isaksen-Pstragowski-Wang-Xu. In this framework, we define and analyze hidden extensions along arbitrary maps of filtered spectra, establishing computational principles that extend the generalized Leibniz rule and the generalized Mahowald trick of Lin-Wang-Xu, as well as Burklund's Leibniz rule for total differentials, from the Adams spectral sequence to this broader setup. Our formulation uses a more refined, layered notion of extension, which slightly sharpens these statements even for the Adams spectral sequence. As an application, we study equivariant slice spectral sequences and obtain new families of "exotic transfer" differentials in the $C_4$-slice spectral sequences for the Hill-Hopkins-Ravenel theories $\mathrm{BP}^{((C_4))}\langle m\rangle$ for every $m \ge 1$.
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"As Octavia Butler said: “To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool.” The fool here is Trump. The opportunist here is Vought."
Russell Vought’s Latest Plan to Gut the Government Should Terrify You | The Nation
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/russell-vought-omb-grant-rule/
someone please tell me Canada has a similar rule on religious tolerance 🛐
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.
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/
"these voters “very explicitly do not want majority rule. They want minority rule.” The study found that they viewed Democrats as immoral because of issues like supporting racial diversity, backing LGBTQ rights, believing in feminism and opposing the imposition of Christianity on society. They feel frustrated by ... young people overwhelmingly turning away from these values."
'I would rather die': Inside the politics of spite driving Trump voters - Alternet.org
https://www.alternet.org/trump-supporters-2677106031/
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/
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
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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"The Trump administration released a final rule saying Medicaid recipients exempted from the employment requirements for medical frailty must prove every six months that they remain too ill to work. The federal work mandate goes into effect Jan. 1."
How sick is sick enough? New Medicaid work rule worries patient advocates, states - POLITICO
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/06/07/how-sick-is-sick-enough-new-medicaid-work-rule-worries-patient-advocates-states-00952476
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.)
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
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/
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
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
"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