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Pro-Ukrainian partisans reportedly destroy railway electrical transformer in Southern Russia: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/24/proukrainian-partisans-reportedly-destroy-railway.html

Distributing Retractions, Weak Distributive Laws and Applications to Monads of Hyperspaces, Continuous Valuations and Measures
Jean Goubault-Larrecq
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.18418

Distributing Retractions, Weak Distributive Laws and Applications to Monads of Hyperspaces, Continuous Valuations and Measures
Given two monads $S$, $T$ on a category where idempotents split, and a weak distributive law between them, one can build a combined monad $U$. Making explicit what this monad $U$ is requires some effort. When we already have an idea what $U$ should be, we show how to recognize that $U$ is indeed the combined monad obtained from $S$ and $T$: it suffices to exhibit what we call a distributing retraction of $ST$ onto $U$. We show that distributing retractions and weak distributive laws are in one-…

Google's "AI Overviews" are garbage. Sadly they are now becoming the main way people interact with the web.
(Original title: Google’s AI Is Destroying Search, the Internet, and Your Brain)
https://www.404media.co/googles-ai-is-destro…

Google’s AI Is Destroying Search, the Internet, and Your Brain
Google’s AI Overview, which is easy to fool into stating nonsense as fact, is stopping people from finding and supporting small businesses and credible sources.

Q&A with Hinge CEO Justin McLeod on why AI companionship is like junk food, plans for a Hinge mobile payment system to avoid App Store fees, and more (Nilay Patel/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/decoder-podcast-w

Hinge CEO Justin McLeod says dating AI chatbots is ‘playing with fire’
The head of Hinge doesn’t want us dating AI chatbots anytime soon.

After 70 years, twisted gothic thriller The Night of the Hunter remains as disturbing and beguiling as ever https://theconversation.com/after-70-years-twisted-gothic-thriller-the-night-of-the-h…

After 70 years, twisted gothic thriller The Night of the Hunter remains as disturbing and beguiling as ever
In 1955, director Charles Laughton crafted one of the darkest, strangest fairytales ever to come out of Hollywood.

Stay focused patriots, Epstein is just a distraction from Obama - National Zero
https://nationalzero.com/2025/07/24/stay-focused-patriots-epstein-is-just-a-distraction-from-obama/

Jonny Liesegang – Der Dichter, der dem Wedding aufs Maul schaute https://weddingweiser.de/jonny-liesegang-der-dichter-der-dem-wedding-aufs-maul-schaute/

Trump Denies Wanting to Destroy Elon Musk's Firms (Josh Wingrove/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-07-24/trump-denies-wanting-to-destroy-musk-firms-wants-him-to-thrive-mdhfyu43
http://www.memeorandum.com/250724/p37#a250724p37

Google's AI Overviews, which a recent Pew study shows reduce clickthrough rates, are further eroding traffic to original publishers by linking to aggregators (Emanuel Maiberg/404 Media)
https://www.404media.co/googles-ai-is-destroying-search-the-inter…

Google’s AI Is Destroying Search, the Internet, and Your Brain
Google’s AI Overview, which is easy to fool into stating nonsense as fact, is stopping people from finding and supporting small businesses and credible sources.