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EHRC commissioner calls for trans people to accept reduced rights (Peter Walker/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/jun/06/ehrc-commissioner-calls-for-trans-people-to-accept-reduced-rights-after-years-of-lies
http://www.memeorandum.com/250606/p6#a250606p6

Improving the world, one PR at a time: #smallstep step-ca will accept the old name "nonRepudiation" in the X.509…

Accept nonRepudiation when unmarshalling keyUsage by neverpanic · Pull Request #811 · smallstep/crypto
Name of feature: Accepting NonRepudiation when unmarshalling keyUsage. Pain or issue this feature alleviates: Better user experience for users that are used to the old name (e.g., from OpenSSL, whi...

WhatsApp adds a new "safety overview" that appears in new group chats, including info on the group and when it was created, to help protect users from scams (Emma Roth/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/718881/whatsapp-group-chat-scams-safety-ov…

WhatsApp will show a ‘safety overview’ before you join unknown group chats
WhatsApp is trying to combat group messaging scams by launching a new “safety overview” that appears before you can accept group chat invites from someone you might not know.

The US justice department has initiated a criminal investigation into mortgage fraud claims against Federal Reserve governor Lisa Cook
as a lawsuit she filed against Donald Trump over her firing makes its way through court.
Lawyers with the justice department have issued subpoenas for the investigation, according to the Wall Street Journal, who first reported the investigation,
which has since been confirmed by multiple news publications.
This is the third mortgage fr…

Brilliant eBay trick for sellers:
Just make sure your street address is longer than 35 characters - DHL won't accept it, and MAGICALLY your wares won't ever be returned!
WIN/WIN!

'Shocked' Saquon declined Trump sports council https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45899838/eagles-saquon-barkley-shocked-trump-sports-council-mention

Neue Studie zeigt: EU-Bürger akzeptieren keinen demokratischen Rückschritt. Untersuchungen und Experimente zeigen, dass eine Mehrheit der Befragten Maßnahmen der EU gegen Regierungen befürwortet, die gegen demokratische Normen verstoßen.
https://www.e…

Long; central Massachusetts colonial history
Today on a whim I visited a site in Massachusetts marked as "Huguenot Fort Ruins" on OpenStreetMaps. I drove out with my 4-year-old through increasingly rural central Massachusetts forests & fields to end up on a narrow street near the top of a hill beside a small field. The neighboring houses had huge lawns, some with tractors.
Appropriately for this day and this moment in history, the history of the site turns out to be a microcosm of America. Across the field beyond a cross-shaped stone memorial stood an info board with a few diagrams and some text. The text of the main sign (including typos/misspellings) read:
"""
Town Is Formed
Early in the 1680's, interest began to generate to develop a town in the area west of Natick in the south central part of the Commonwealth that would be suitable for a settlement. A Mr. Hugh Campbell, a Scotch merchant of Boston petitioned the court for land for a colony. At about the same time, Joseph Dudley and William Stoughton also were desirous of obtaining land for a settlement. A claim was made for all lands west of the Blackstone River to the southern land of Massachusetts to a point northerly of the Springfield Road then running southwesterly until it joined the southern line of Massachusetts.
Associated with Dudley and Stoughton was Robert Thompson of London, England, Dr. Daniel Cox and John Blackwell, both of London and Thomas Freak of Hannington, Wiltshire, as proprietors. A stipulation in the acquisition of this land being that within four years thirty families and an orthodox minister settle in the area. An extension of this stipulation was granted at the end of the four years when no group large enough seemed to be willing to take up the opportunity.
In 1686, Robert Thompson met Gabriel Bernor and learned that he was seeking an area where his countrymen, who had fled their native France because of the Edict of Nantes, were desirous of a place to live. Their main concern was to settle in a place that would allow them freedom of worship. New Oxford, as it was the so-named, at that time included the larger part of Charlton, one-fourth of Auburn, one-fifth of Dudley and several square miles of the northeast portion of Southbridge as well as the easterly ares now known as Webster.
Joseph Dudley's assessment that the area was capable of a good settlement probably was based on the idea of the meadows already established along with the plains, ponds, brooks and rivers. Meadows were a necessity as they provided hay for animal feed and other uses by the settlers. The French River tributary books and streams provided a good source for fishing and hunting. There were open areas on the plains as customarily in November of each year, the Indians burnt over areas to keep them free of underwood and brush. It appeared then that this area was ready for settling.
The first seventy-five years of the settling of the Town of Oxford originally known as Manchaug, embraced three different cultures. The Indians were known to be here about 1656 when the Missionary, John Eliott and his partner Daniel Gookin visited in the praying towns. Thirty years later, in 1686, the Huguenots walked here from Boston under the guidance of their leader Isaac Bertrand DuTuffeau. The Huguenot's that arrived were not peasants, but were acknowledged to be the best Agriculturist, Wine Growers, Merchant's, and Manufacter's in France. There were 30 families consisting of 52 people. At the time of their first departure (10 years), due to Indian insurrection, there were 80 people in the group, and near their Meetinghouse/Church was a Cemetery that held 20 bodies. In 1699, 8 to 10 familie's made a second attempt to re-settle, failing after only four years, with the village being completely abandoned in 1704.
The English colonist made their way here in 1713 and established what has become a permanent settlement.
"""
All that was left of the fort was a crumbling stone wall that would have been the base of a higher wooden wall according to a picture of a model (I didn't think to get a shot of that myself). Only trees and brush remain where the multi-story main wooden building was.
This story has so many echoes in the present:
- The rich colonialists from Boston & London agree to settle the land, buying/taking land "rights" from the colonial British court that claimed jurisdiction without actually having control of the land. Whether the sponsors ever actually visited the land themselves I don't know. They surely profited somehow, whether from selling on the land rights later or collecting taxes/rent or whatever, by they needed poor laborers to actually do the work of developing the land (& driving out the original inhabitants, who had no say in the machinations of the Boston court).
- The land deal was on condition that there capital-holders who stood to profit would find settlers to actually do the work of colonizing. The British crown wanted more territory to be controlled in practice not just in theory, but they weren't going to be the ones to do the hard work.
- The capital-holders actually failed to find enough poor suckers to do their dirty work for 4 years, until the Huguenots, fleeing religious persecution in France, were desperate enough to accept their terms.
- Of course, the land was only so ripe for settlement because of careful tending over centuries by the natives who were eventually driven off, and whose land management practices are abandoned today. Given the mention of praying towns (& dates), this was after King Phillip's war, which resulted in at least some forced resettlement of native tribes around the area, but the descendants of those "Indians" mentioned in this sign are still around. For example, this is the site of one local band of Nipmuck, whose namesake lake is about 5 miles south of the fort site: #LandBack.

"Too often I see simplistic thinking used to accept that the results were good so what we did was wise or the results were bad so what we did was unwise. Sometimes those conclusions have merit. Sometimes they don’t. The results matter but understanding the nature of those results is important..."

Live your truth MAGA
#MAGA #socialism

Wait, no, Jeff Atwood? The Jeff Atwood? Oh my goodness, I’m so sorry. I hadn’t realised! My goodness, what was I thinking? Please, tell me, does your God accept penance? How does one make up for such an egregious transgression upon His Holiness? https://ravenation.club/@grievousangel/115…

Accept or Deny? Evaluating LLM Fairness and Performance in Loan Approval across Table-to-Text Serialization Approaches
Israel Abebe Azime, Deborah D. Kanubala, Tejumade Afonja, Mario Fritz, Isabel Valera, Dietrich Klakow, Philipp Slusallek
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.21512

Accept or Deny? Evaluating LLM Fairness and Performance in Loan Approval across Table-to-Text Serialization Approaches
Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly employed in high-stakes decision-making tasks, such as loan approvals. While their applications expand across domains, LLMs struggle to process tabular data, ensuring fairness and delivering reliable predictions. In this work, we assess the performance and fairness of LLMs on serialized loan approval datasets from three geographically distinct regions: Ghana, Germany, and the United States. Our evaluation focuses on the model's zero-shot and in-cont…

Reading in a Swedish paper about the harassment of trans migrants by *other migrants* from the same countries.
"It's important they understand that behaviour that was accepted or normalised in their old countries is not allowed in Sweden."
No one is forcing migrants to shop at IKEA or eat smorgasbord. But those who come from patriarchal religious countries have to accept that Sweden has a long tradition of human rights and sexual equality.
Too much to ask in r…

#ScribesAndMakers for July 3: When (and if) you procrastinate, what do you do? If you don't, what do you do to avoid it?
I'll swap right out of programming to read a book, play a video game, or watch some anime. Often got things open in other windows so it's as simple as alt-tab.
I've noticed recently I tend to do this more often when I have a hard problem to solve that I'm not 100% sure about. I definitely have cycles of better & worse motivation and I've gotten to a place where I'm pretty relaxed about it instead of feeling guilty. I work how I work, and that includes cycles of rest, and that's enough (at least, for me it has been so far, and I'm in a comfortable career, married with 2 kids).
Some projects ultimately lose steam and get abandoned, and I've learned to accept that too. I learn a lot and grow from each project, so nothing is a true waste of time, and there remains plenty of future ahead of me to achieve cool things.
The procrastination does sometimes impact my wife & kids, and that's something I do sometimes feel bad about, but I think I keep that in check well enough, and for things my wife worries about, I usually don't procrastinate those too much (used to be worse about this).
Right now I'm procrastinating a big work project by working on a hobby project instead. The work project probably won't get done by the start of the semester as a result. But as I remind myself, my work doesn't actually pay me to work during the summer, and things will be okay without the work project being finished until later.
When I want to force myself into a more productive cycle, talking to people about project details sometimes helps, as does finding some new tech I can learn about by shoehorning it into a project. Have been thinking about talking to a rubber duck, but haven't motivated myself to try that yet, and I'm not really in doldrums right now.

Being autistic, I have to keep telling myself, "Yes, being gender-fluid is valid, and Norway lets me be who I am," just to really accept myself. 🏳️‍⚧️🇳🇴
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_fluidity

This was a really good read: “The legitimacy barrier”.
This is like a 9-course tasting menu, lots of nutritional content coming at you from every angle.
Loved it.
https://www.sinicapodcast.com/p/the-legitimacy-barrier

The Legitimacy Barrier
How American reluctance to accept China's political system shapes the relationship

Putin urges Ukraine to accept Russian demands, warns situation will worsen if peace talks delayed - Euromaidan Press
https://euromaidanpress.com/2025/06/19/putin-urges-ukraine-to-accept-russian-demands-warns-situation-will-worsen-if-peace-talks-delayed/

Congresswoman Nydia Velšzquez on Saturday held a rally outside a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement field office in New York City to promote her recently introduced "No Masks for ICE Act".
“We would never accept it if the NYPD operated in masks without names or badges
— and we shouldn’t accept it from ICE either,”
Velšzquez (D-N.Y.) said in a statement, referring to the New York Police Department.
“When agents hide their faces and identities they creat…

Velázquez Leads 'No Masks for ICE Act' Rally at NYC Field Office | Common Dreams
"When agents hide their faces and identities they create chaos, fear, and open the door to abuse. Immigrant communities are left wondering if they're being arrested or kidnapped."

I’ve come to accept that raising a #baby is really time and energy consuming and that many of those things that I’d like to get done simply won’t. I find that acceptance quite liberating. There is tension though as C is not in the same place and is constantly fretting that things are not getting done.
#parenting

Trump says US will accept 600,000 Chinese students as part of trade deal (Naomi Lim/Washington Examiner)
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/white-house/3781400/trump-us-accept-600000-students-china-trade-deal/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250825/p114#a250825p114

«At some point today, or tomorrow, a politician somewhere will step to a podium and tell us that this is not who we are, but when you’re covered in the blood of children, and have been for a long time, you have to accept the fact that this is indeed who we are.»
https://buttondown.com/monteiro/archive/how-to-lose-a-child/

"Starmer says UK will recognise Palestinian statehood in September unless Israel agrees ceasefire and two-state solution”
Erm, surely, if a two state solution was implemented, then we would recognise the state of Palestine so none of this makes any sense??
#ukpolitics

#CNN: China tells EU it can’t accept Russia losing its war against Ukraine
This seems like a big deal. Between China taking this position, Trump cozying up to Putin, and fissures in EU, it's hard to see Russia losing this war. 🥺
#Ukraine #Russia #China #USA #EU #war

'We are pleased to inform you that we accept your proposal “#RedHat​'s path to post-quantum cryptography with OpenSSL” for the #OpenSSL Conference'
Looks like I'm going to Prague in October!

The Maryland Transit Administration is actively investigating a cybersecurity incident, namely a ransom attack, that has left it unable to accept new requests for rides for its Mobility paratransit service for the disabled.
https://www.mta.maryland.gov/cybersecurity-incident

Accept More, Reject Less: Reducing up to 19% Unnecessary Desk-Rejections over 11 Years of ICLR Data
Xiaoyu Li, Zhao Song, Jiahao Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20141

Accept More, Reject Less: Reducing up to 19% Unnecessary Desk-Rejections over 11 Years of ICLR Data
The explosive growth of AI research has driven paper submissions at flagship AI conferences to unprecedented levels, necessitating many venues in 2025 (e.g., CVPR, ICCV, KDD, AAAI, IJCAI, WSDM) to enforce strict per-author submission limits and to desk-reject any excess papers by simple ID order. While this policy helps reduce reviewer workload, it may unintentionally discard valuable papers and penalize authors' efforts. In this paper, we ask an essential research question on whether it is pos…

SFMTA board is hearing Mayor Lurie’s mass displacement plan to banish working-poor, mostly Latino families living in RVs from the city.
Here’s the “refuge permit” designed as window dressing to make liberals feel ok about this. Notice to get one, you have to “agree to accept offer of… interim… housing,” ie agree to be displaced a little later anyway. 💩
#sfpol

1. Order two bags of cat litter.
2. The seller doesn't send it on time. No matter, you're not in a hurry.
3. Recall that they still didn't send it. Decide to resign.
4. Turns out they send it just before you resign.
5. The parcels come. Open the box.
6. Discover that the bag is damaged. Take a photo just in case.
7. Carefully take it out and check how damaged it is. Well, it's only ripped at the top, no point in returning it over that.
8. Notice they've sent the wrong litter (you've ordered non-scented) 🤦.
9. Call them asking whether there's a point in opening the other box. They say it's going to be the wrong litter too, just make a return request and attach photos.
10. You do that, requesting money return. They request you to make damage protocol from delivery company.
11. You do that. Maybe you'd agree to a 20 PLN discount for next shopping instead of returning two bags of the wrong cat litter?
12. They finally accept the return. And they prepare the return… for one bag 🤦.
So I was supposed to work less today. Instead, I've wasted a lot of time on dealing with damaged parcel and the vendor. And a lot of tape, so it wouldn't fall apart on the return journey.

Repeated warnings of AI-driven layoffs is fueling anxiety among workers, who report feeling pressured to accept pay cuts or worse conditions to keep their jobs (Anne Lutz Fernandez/Nobody Wants This)
https://nobody-wants-this.ghost.io/ai-is-already-disemp…

AI is Already Disempowering Workers Through Hype
Workers and students are being prepped for less power in the workplace

I'm about to give up on Heltec radios; have two modules which work great, (well...... work well enough for a limited duration of time since they're battery hogs), but refuse to accept any serial data when in DFU mode.
I was able to flash a third Heltec (all V3 32-bit devices) just fine, but for whatever reason these two just refuse to play nicely.
Even tried a stupid simple application just to see if _something_ would flash and NOPE.
```
Failed to connect to ES…

Hm, do Firefox and Vivaldi really not accept my system-wide custom CA(s)? On Windows, at least Firefox works fine if you set “security.enterprise_roots.enabled” to true, but on Linux it doesn't seem to make any difference. While in Firefox I can at least import a custom CA, I can't find anything similar in Vivaldi. 🤔
#firefox

Holistic Evaluations of Topic Models
Thomas Compton
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.23364 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.23364…

Holistic Evaluations of Topic Models
Topic models are gaining increasing commercial and academic interest for their ability to summarize large volumes of unstructured text. As unsupervised machine learning methods, they enable researchers to explore data and help general users understand key themes in large text collections. However, they risk becoming a 'black box', where users input data and accept the output as an accurate summary without scrutiny. This article evaluates topic models from a database perspective, drawing insight…

Meta will end political, election, or social issue ads in the EU from October, like Google, with both citing incoming regulation (Sara Fischer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/07/25/meta-eu-political-election-ads

Meta will no longer accept political, election or issue ads in EU
Meta's decision comes ahead of regulation it says will cause "significant operational challenges and legal uncertainties."

Is there anyone with Norwegian language setup on a desktop or mobile browser?
I need to know what your browser declares in `accept-language` header?
Is it nb-NO or no-NO? Or maybe both?
Boost for visibility please!
#webdev #programming
How to do it? Open any web…

Mamdani on Trump's deportation threat: We won't 'accept this intimidation' (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/07/01/trump-threatens-deport-zohran-mamdani/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250701/p158#a250701p158

This ENG-IND #cricket test is going to turn into a test of Gill's captaincy: India won't score enough runs in the 3rd inning, and the question will be, does Gill overuse the fragile Bumrah or accept defeat in return for Bumrah being available for the whole series.

okay. took 5 -10 tries but if you accept that's part of Expedition 33 it's not so bad.
I really want a battle restart option though because 1 wrong parry and the battle could easily be over.
#videogames #jrpg

Things you don't need to do to run a successful business in Ireland (based on my observations):
-Show up on time
-Deliver the agreed product
-Do better the second time around
-Communicate clearly
-Respond to E-mails
-Be proactive
-Have a website
-Accept electronic payments

Online Conformal Selection with Accept-to-Reject Changes
Kangdao Liu, Huajun Xi, Chi-Man Vong, Hongxin Wei
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13838 https://arxiv.o…

Online Conformal Selection with Accept-to-Reject Changes
Selecting a subset of promising candidates from a large pool is crucial across various scientific and real-world applications. Conformal selection offers a distribution-free and model-agnostic framework for candidate selection with uncertainty quantification. While effective in offline settings, its application to online scenarios, where data arrives sequentially, poses challenges. Notably, conformal selection permits the deselection of previously selected candidates, which is incompatible with…

Prompt-in-Content Attacks: Exploiting Uploaded Inputs to Hijack LLM Behavior
Zhuotao Lian, Weiyu Wang, Qingkui Zeng, Toru Nakanishi, Teruaki Kitasuka, Chunhua Su
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.19287

Prompt-in-Content Attacks: Exploiting Uploaded Inputs to Hijack LLM Behavior
Large Language Models (LLMs) are widely deployed in applications that accept user-submitted content, such as uploaded documents or pasted text, for tasks like summarization and question answering. In this paper, we identify a new class of attacks, prompt in content injection, where adversarial instructions are embedded in seemingly benign inputs. When processed by the LLM, these hidden prompts can manipulate outputs without user awareness or system compromise, leading to biased summaries, fabri…

I wonder if one day someone can explain to me why Google thinks the fact that I am in a foreign country means I immediately am fluent in that country's language, and prefer it over English or my native language. I mean, there's an Accept-Language header, I think it's older than Google.

Call for Papers: "Religion"
https://ift.tt/juS5NEm
Rutgers Global Affairs Conference now VIRTUAL - new CFP deadline Rutgers University…
via Input 4 RELCFP https://

I do not understand why the U.S. military accepts noncitizen volunteers. However, since the U.S. military does accept noncitizen volunteers, I really do not understand why those servicemembers aren't automatically granted citizenship with their honorable discharge.
https://www.military.net/veterans-facing-d

For the longest time, the c.im server didn't even accept or ask for donations, but I just got the notification that they are now, and I immediately donated. This place is too great.

Anthropic requires users to accept new terms by September 28, including choosing whether new chats and coding sessions can be used to train AI models (Anthropic)
https://www.anthropic.com/news/updates-to-our-consumer-terms

Updates to Consumer Terms and Privacy Policy
Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.

Weak Links in LinkedIn: Enhancing Fake Profile Detection in the Age of LLMs
Apoorva Gulati, Rajesh Kumar, Vinti Agarwal, Aditya Sharma
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.16860 https://

Weak Links in LinkedIn: Enhancing Fake Profile Detection in the Age of LLMs
Large Language Models (LLMs) have made it easier to create realistic fake profiles on platforms like LinkedIn. This poses a significant risk for text-based fake profile detectors. In this study, we evaluate the robustness of existing detectors against LLM-generated profiles. While highly effective in detecting manually created fake profiles (False Accept Rate: 6-7%), the existing detectors fail to identify GPT-generated profiles (False Accept Rate: 42-52%). We propose GPT-assisted adversarial t…

I would be a bigger fan of #OptumRX if they didn’t:
1. Stall every order of 1 of Kyle's seizure meds because it is so expensive & refuse to accept that yes, we’ll ALWAYS want it at ANY PRICE.
2. Pack all 9 bottles of said order into a small box that will not admit the inclusion of packing materials & so make it very likely that less than 3 actually arrive intact, and those h…

Never accept an invitation from a stranger unless he gives you candy.
-- Linda Festa

"On June 25th, 1999, Brian Foote published a seminal article that became, for a short while, one of the most commented pages of the early Internet, at least by struggling software developers and prospective architects. Such was the impact that it “was twice featured in Slashdot” (kids: that is the 1999 equivalent of “this article hit the homepage of Hacker News”). After almost 25 years since that publication, one question lingers: when are we going to accept defeat?"

If I have one complaint about the Jellyfin ecosystem, it's specifically with the Infuse client. It does a great job, but there is no way to have it accept "self-signed" certificates. I run a local CA and all of my internal servers have certs carved off of it. Unfortunately, Infuse will not connect to the Jellyfin server because of it which kinda sucks. Very annoying...
#jellyfin

Burnout leave, day negative 13:
‣ Half of me wants to rip myself to shreds with self-criticism for things I could have done better
‣ Half of me resents that, through my life so far (independent of recent events), the world hasn't been the best place for me to grow and be the best person I can be
‣ Half of me wants to accept both of the above and find the most realistic (and inevitably imperfect) path forward (ACT therapy style)
‣ Half of me is grumbling that these are…

Happens a lot. There was a bug in the MedAdvisor Android app. It wouldn't accept photos of scripts for several weeks. I sent them an email explaining the problem we had encountered. I included the information that it didn't work on either my phone model or the husband's different model both running android version etc. Their first response was to ask what phone I was using. 🤦‍♀️
#TechHelp

I made this image, and caption, in the fall, but I feel like it is worth posting as its own article today:
https://stuff.davidaugust.com/accepting-help/
Maybe sign up for my articles to be in your email while you're there?

Accepting Help
we must accept help for it to help

arse:
'Accept State: remote can't support version # {2}
Program Version (Minimum): 3'
Jun 11 15:07:08 major sh[1012]: rpc.nfsd: Writing version string to kernel: 2 3 4 4.1 4.2
Jun 11 15:07:08 major sh[1012]: rpc.nfsd: Setting version failed: errno 22 (Invalid argument)
OK, so Debian Trixie has NFSv2 server configured out of the kernel; (it has the client as a module)

aiXiv: A Next-Generation Open Access Ecosystem for Scientific Discovery Generated by AI Scientists
Pengsong Zhang, Xiang Hu, Guowei Huang, Yang Qi, Heng Zhang, Xiuxu Li, Jiaxing Song, Jiabin Luo, Yijiang Li, Shuo Yin, Chengxiao Dai, Eric Hanchen Jiang, Xiaoyan Zhou, Zhenfei Yin, Boqin Yuan, Jing Dong, Guinan Su, Guanren Qiao, Haiming Tang, Anghong Du, Lili Pan, Zhenzhong Lan, Xinyu Liu

aiXiv: A Next-Generation Open Access Ecosystem for Scientific Discovery Generated by AI Scientists
Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have enabled AI agents to autonomously generate scientific proposals, conduct experiments, author papers, and perform peer reviews. Yet this flood of AI-generated research content collides with a fragmented and largely closed publication ecosystem. Traditional journals and conferences rely on human peer review, making them difficult to scale and often reluctant to accept AI-generated research content; existing preprint servers (e.g. arXiv) lack ri…

A User Manual for cuHALLaR: A GPU Accelerated Low-Rank Semidefinite Programming Solver
Jacob Aguirre, Diego Cifuentes, Vincent Guigues, Renato D. C. Monteiro, Victor Hugo Nascimento, Arnesh Sujanani
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.15951

A User Manual for cuHALLaR: A GPU Accelerated Low-Rank Semidefinite Programming Solver
We present a Julia-based interface to the precompiled HALLaR and cuHALLaR binaries for large-scale semidefinite programs (SDPs). Both solvers are established as fast and numerically stable, and accept problem data in formats compatible with SDPA and a new enhanced data format taking advantage of Hybrid Sparse Low-Rank (HSLR) structure. The interface allows users to load custom data files, configure solver options, and execute experiments directly from Julia. A collection of example problems is …

Jump Complexity of Deterministic Finite Automata with Translucent Letters
Szil\'ard Zsolt Fazekas, Victor Mitrana, Andrei P\u{a}un, Mihaela P\u{a}un
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.18393

Jump Complexity of Deterministic Finite Automata with Translucent Letters
We investigate a dynamical complexity measure defined for finite automata with translucent letters (FAwtl). Roughly, this measure counts the minimal number of necessary jumps for such an automaton in order to accept an input. The model considered here is the deterministic finite automaton with translucent letters (DFAwtl). Unlike in the case of the nondeterministic variant, the function describing the jump complexity of any DFAwtl is either bounded by a constant or it is linear. We give a polyn…

Been using Monero for 5 years now, and I can’t believe how fast the time has gone by, it feels like just yesterday I started. Over that time, I’ve even used it to pay for clothes, which might sound a bit unusual but it works, and I also use it to pay for privacy services like Mullvad and iVPN since they accept XMR.
Honestly, I’m probably one of the few people who still uses Monero on a weekly basis, not just holding it but actually spending it the way it was meant to be used, which is …

PayPal unveils Pay With Crypto for merchants to accept bitcoin, ether, USDT, and more via Coinbase, OKX, and other wallets, rolling out in the coming weeks (Emily Mason/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-07-28/p…

Accept-Reject Lasso
Yanxin Liu, Yunqi Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.04646 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.04646

Accept-Reject Lasso
The Lasso method is known to exhibit instability in the presence of highly correlated features, often leading to an arbitrary selection of predictors. This issue manifests itself in two primary error types: the erroneous omission of features that lack a true substitutable relationship (falsely redundant features) and the inclusion of features with a true substitutable relationship (truly redundant features). Although most existing methods address only one of these challenges, we introduce the A…

In This Thread: denizens of debian-user mailing list who refuse to accept that there are people who do creative work without wanting to use email.
Apparently it is only "kids" who "don't understand what is important", who "have a mobile phone glued to their hand" and "don't care about their computer as long as it plays their games."

I'm happy hosting #LanguageTool rather than dealing with Grammarly, but I love when LanguageTool recommends I replace a word with the same word or I accept the replacement and it repeats letters in the replacement. What do you expect for free? 🙂

Analysis: 16 of the UK's top 50 biggest news websites now use a "consent or pay" model to let users opt out of cookies; almost 100% choose to accept cookies (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/marketing/consent-or-pay-…

More UK news publishers are adopting 'consent or pay' advertising model
Sixteen of the 50 biggest news websites in the UK are now using a “consent or pay” model to allow users to pay to reject personalised ads.

If you don't compare yourself with others you are not human.
Even if you say you don't compare yourself to others you are lying both to yourself and others.
Everyone compares.
Comparing is how you tell the difference between things or people.
To accept difference you must first see difference.
Ignoring difference doesn't make the difference stop existing.
#Neurodiversity

Molecular Tools for Non-Planar Surface Chemistry
Taleana Huff, Brandon Blue, Terry McCallum, Mathieu Morin, Damian G. Allis, Rafik Addou, Jeremy Barton, Adam Bottomley, Doreen Cheng, Nina M. \'Culum, Michael Drew, Tyler Enright, Alan T. K. Godfrey, Ryan Groome, Aru J. Hill, Alex Inayeh, Matthew R. Kennedy, Robert J. Kirby, Mykhaylo Krykunov, Sam Lilak, Hadiya Ma, Cameron J. Mackie, Oliver MacLean, Jonathan Myall, Ryan Plumadore, Adam Powell, Henry Rodriguez, Luis Sandoval, Marc Sav…

Molecular Tools for Non-Planar Surface Chemistry
Scanning probe microscopy (SPM) investigations of on-surface chemistry on passivated silicon have only shown in-plane chemical reactions, and studies on bare silicon are limited in facilitating additional reactions post-molecular-attachment. Here, we enable subsequent reactions on Si(100) through selectively adsorbing 3D, silicon-specific "molecular tools". Following an activation step, the molecules present an out-of-plane radical that can function both to donate or accept molecular fragments,…

In balance news, I manage to calibrate my not-quite-a-trackstand for e-assist and trailer, and I am pretty chuffed. It's helpful to be able to just stop the load and restart it without all that on-and-off-the bike stuff, so, practice, practice, practice. It can be done.
And also, fucking hell, are cars noisy. It's wild that people just accept that. E-cars, too.

When I contacted my #bank last time via its web service, I got the reply there, after two days.
This time I've also used the web service, and:
• A week later, got a text that they've started processing my request.
• Further two weeks later, I've got an e-mail asking if I'm interested in "electronic reply". I answer using the formula they give.
• Three days later, they text me that they've sent the reply via traditional mail. 🤦
I wonder why they didn't accept my request to reply via e-mail. Was it that I quoted their original mail, or perhaps they didn't like the encoding my mail client used…

Series D, Episode 13 - Blake
VILA: You mean we really are going to crash?!
SOOLIN: No wonder they were convinced!
VILA: There must be something we can do!
AVON: I'll accept suggestions!
VILA: How does "Abandon ship!" grab you?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/413/174

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LMAO. 🤣
“But Elon is a man who has never known a day’s hardship in his life. He has had a charmed life & so has never had to learn that the hard way.”
✅ Musk’s father: Trump & Elon feud like ‘two gorillas’
https://www.thetimes.com/us…

Musk’s father: Trump and Elon feud like ‘two gorillas’
Errol Musk said that his son has ‘never known a day’s hardship’ but urged him to accept that the president was the more dominant of the pair

Students' Reliance on AI in Higher Education: Identifying Contributing Factors
Griffin Pitts, Neha Rani, Weedguet Mildort, Eva-Marie Cook
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13845

Students' Reliance on AI in Higher Education: Identifying Contributing Factors
The increasing availability and use of artificial intelligence (AI) tools in educational settings has raised concerns about students' overreliance on these technologies. Overreliance occurs when individuals accept incorrect AI-generated recommendations, often without critical evaluation, leading to flawed problem solutions and undermining learning outcomes. This study investigates potential factors contributing to patterns of AI reliance among undergraduate students, examining not only overreli…

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U.S. Pushes More African Countries to Accept Deported Migrants (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/u-s-pushes-more-african-countries-to-accept-deported-migrants-b6f330c5
http://www.memeorandum.com/250709/p111#a250709p111

No Dougie, you are the one trampling on the rights. The courts looked at the issue and told you NO. Stop being like the orange taco and accept the ruling.
https://flip.it/kVwmRV

NaSh: Guardrails for an LLM-Powered Natural Language Shell
Bimal Raj Gyawali, Saikrishna Achalla, Konstantinos Kallas, Sam Kumar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13028

NaSh: Guardrails for an LLM-Powered Natural Language Shell
We explore how a shell that uses an LLM to accept natural language input might be designed differently from the shells of today. As LLMs may produce unintended or unexplainable outputs, we argue that a natural language shell should provide guardrails that empower users to recover from such errors. We concretize some ideas for doing so by designing a new shell called NaSh, identify remaining open problems in this space, and discuss research directions to address them.

Britain said it will start work within days to implement a deal to return some migrants who arrive on small boats to France -- a key part of its plans to cut illegal migration,
after a treaty on the arrangement was ratified on Tuesday.
Under the new
⭐️ "one in, one out" pilot scheme agreed in principle last month,
👉 France will accept the return of undocumented people arriving in Britain by small boats,
in exchange for Britain agreeing to accept an equ…

Meta will end political, election, or social issue ads in the EU from October, like Google, with both citing incoming regulation (Sara Fischer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/07/25/meta-eu-political-election-ads

Meta will no longer accept political, election or issue ads in EU
Meta's decision comes ahead of regulation it says will cause "significant operational challenges and legal uncertainties."

Divide or Confer: Aggregating Information without Verification
James Best, Daniel Quigley, Maryam Saeedi, Ali Shourideh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.17609 https://

Divide or Confer: Aggregating Information without Verification
We examine receiver-optimal mechanisms for aggregating information that is divided across many biased senders. Each sender privately observes an unconditionally independent signal about an unknown state, so no sender can verify another's report. A receiver has a binary accept/reject decision which determines players' payoffs via the state. When information is divided across a small population and bias is low, the receiver-optimal mechanism coincides with the sender-preferred allocation, and can…

How popular media gets love wrong
Now a bit of background about why I have this "engineered" model of love:
First, I'm a white straight cis man. I've got a few traits that might work against my relationship chances (e.g., neurodivergence; I generally fit pretty well into the "weird geek" stereotype), but as I was recently reminded, it's possible my experience derives more from luck than other factors, and since things are tilted more in my favor than most people on the planet, my advice could be worse than useless if it leads people towards strategies that would only have worked for someone like me. I don't *think* that's the case, but it's worth mentioning explicitly.
When I first started dating my now-wife, we were both in graduate school. I was 26, and had exactly zero dating/romantic experience though that point in my life. In other words, a pretty stereotypical "incel" although I definitely didn't subscribe to incel ideology at all. I felt lonely, and vaguely wanted a romantic relationship (I'm neither aromantic nor asexual), but had never felt socially comfortable enough to pursue one before. I don't drink and dislike most social gatherings like parties or bars; I mostly hung around the fringes of the few college parties I attended, and although I had a reasonable college social life in terms of friends, I didn't really do anything to pursue romance, feeling too awkward to know where to start. I had the beginnings of crushes in both high school and college, but never developed a really strong crush, probably correlated with not putting myself in many social situations outside of close all-male friend gatherings. I never felt remotely comfortable enough to act on any of the proto-crushes I did have. I did watch porn and masturbate, so one motivation for pursuing a relationship was physical intimacy, but loneliness was as much of a motivating factor, and of course the social pressure to date was a factor too, even though I'm quite contrarian.
When I first started dating my now-wife, we were both in graduate school. I was 26, and had exactly zero dating/romantic experience though that point in my life. In other words, a pretty stereotypical "incel" although I definitely didn't subscribe to incel ideology at all. I felt lonely, and vaguely wanted a romantic relationship (I'm neither aromantic nor asexual), but had never felt socially comfortable enough to pursue one before. I don't drink and dislike most social gatherings like parties or bars; I mostly hung around the fringes of the few college parties I attended, and although I had a reasonable college social life in terms of friends, I didn't really do anything to pursue romance, feeling too awkward to know where to start. I had the beginnings of crushes in both high school and college, but never developed a really strong crush, probably correlated with not putting myself in many social situations outside of close all-male friend gatherings. I never felt remotely comfortable enough to act on any of the proto-crushes I did have. I did watch porn and masturbate, so one motivation for pursuing a relationship was physical intimacy, but loneliness was as much of a motivating factor, and of course the social pressure to date was a factor too, even though I'm quite contrarian.
I'm lucky in that I had some mixed-gender social circles already like intramural soccer and a graduate-student housing potluck. Graduate school makes a *lot* more of these social spaces accessible, so I recognize that those not in school of some sort have a harder time of things, especially if like me they don't feel like they fit in in typical adult social spaces like bars.
However, at one point I just decided that my desire for a relationship would need action on my part and so I'd try to build a relationship and see what happened. I worked up my courage and asked one of the people in my potluck if she'd like to go for a hike (pretty much clearly a date but not explicitly one; in retrospect not the best first-date modality in a lot of ways, but it made a little more sense in our setting where we could go for a hike from our front door). To emphasize this point: I was not in love with (or even infatuated with) my now-wife at that point. I made a decision to be open to building a relationship, but didn't follow the typical romance story formula beyond that. Now of course, in real life as opposed to popular media, this isn't anything special. People ask each other out all the time just because they're lonely, and some of those relationships turn out fine (although many do not).
I was lucky in that some aspects of who I am and what I do happened to be naturally comforting to my wife (natural advantage in the "appeal" model of love) but of course there are some aspects of me that annoy my wife, and we negotiate that. In the other direction, there's some things I instantly liked about my wife, and other things that still annoy me. We've figured out how to accept a little, change a little, and overall be happy with each other (though we do still have arguments; it's not like the operation/construction/maintenance of the "love mechanism" is always perfectly smooth). In particular though, I approached the relationship with the attitude of "I want to try to build a relationship with this person," at first just because of my own desires for *any* relationship, and then gradually more and more through my desire to build *this specific* relationship as I enjoyed the rewards of companionship.
So for example, while I think my wife is objectively beautiful, she's also *subjectively* very beautiful *to me* because having decided to build a relationship with her, I actively tried to see her as beautiful, rather than trying to judge whether I wanted a relationship with her based on her beauty. In other words, our relationship is more causative of her beauty-to-me than her beauty-to-me is causative of our relationship. This is the biggest way I think the "engineered" model of love differs from the "fire" and "appeal" models: you can just decide to build love independent of factors we typically think of as engendering love (NOT independent of your partner's willingness to participate, of course), and then all of those things like "thinking your partner is beautiful" can be a result of the relationship you're building. For sure those factors might affect who is willing to try building a relationship with you in the first place, but if more people were willing to jump into relationship building (not necessarily with full commitment from the start) without worrying about those other factors, they might find that those factors can come out of the relationship instead of being prerequisites for it. I think this is the biggest failure of the "appeal" model in particular: yes you *do* need to do things that appeal to your partner, but it's not just "make myself lovable" it's also: is your partner putting in the effort to see the ways that you are beautiful/lovable/etc., or are they just expecting you to become exactly some perfect person they've imagined (and/or been told to desire by society)? The former is perfectly possible, and no less satisfying than the latter.
To cut off my rambling a bit here, I'll just add that in our progress from dating through marriage through staying-married, my wife and I have both talked at times explicitly about commitment, and especially when deciding to get married, I told her that I knew I couldn't live up to the perfect model of a husband that I'd want to be, but that if she wanted to deepen our commitment, I was happy to do that, and so we did. I also rearranged my priorities at that point, deciding that I knew I wanted to prioritize this relationship above things like my career or my research interests, and while I've not always been perfect at that in my little decisions, I've been good at holding to that in my big decisions at least. In the end, *once we had built a somewhat-committed relationship*, we had something that we both recognized was worth more than most other things in life, and that let us commit even more, thus getting even more out of it in the long term. Obviously you can't start the first date with an expectation of life-long commitment, and you need to synchronize your increasing commitment to a relationship so that it doesn't become lopsided, which is hard. But if you take the commitment as an active decision and as the *precursor* to things like infatuation, attraction, etc., you can build up to something that's incredibly strong and rewarding.
I'll follow this up with one more post trying to distill some advice from my ramblings.
#relationships #love

«This is the original sin of software dev: it’s a pop culture where we’re trained to accept gossip as evidence. That’s fine if you’re debating largely meaningless details like “JavaScript, threat or menace?” but it’s very risky when the system in question is a psychological hazard built out of a Jenga tower of biases and Forer effects.»
https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2025/trusting-your-own-judgement-on-ai/

#CLI design is my passion:
```
btrfs balance start: unrecognized option '--help'
Try 'btrfs balance start --help' for more information
```
(it apparently doesn't accept `--help` after other options)
#btrfs

"The president of Guinea-Bissau on Thursday said that the country would only take back its own citizens who are deported from the U.S., rejecting requests from the Trump administration to take in deported migrants whose home countries refuse them or are slow to accept them."
African leader says taking US deportees was ‘discussed’ with Trump
https://www.yahoo.com/news/african-leader-says-taking-us-163857375.html

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A Myhill-Nerode Type Characterization of 2detLIN Languages
Benedek Nagy (Eastern Mediterranean University / Eszterh\'azy K\'aroly Catholic University)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.15316

A Myhill-Nerode Type Characterization of 2detLIN Languages
Linear automata are automata with two reading heads starting from the two extremes of the input, are equivalent to 5' -> 3' Watson-Crick (WK) finite automata. The heads read the input in opposite directions and the computation finishes when the heads meet. These automata accept the class LIN of linear languages. The deterministic counterpart of these models, on the one hand, is less expressive, as only a proper subset of LIN, the class 2detLIN is accepted; and on the other hand, they are also e…

Sources: the EU is set to approve Apple's App Store rule and fee changes, unveiled last month, in the coming weeks, staving off a potentially hefty daily fine (Foo Yun Chee/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainabilit…

"The precision of our analysis notwithstanding, the sad truth is that the future looks bleak and insurrectional, particularly for those in the USA. As these words hit the web, the SCOTUS has effectively abolished universal injunctions to presidential power, thereby kicking off the democracy overrule process we predicted exactly three years ago in this magazine–needless to say, a prediction we would have loved to get wrong."

I'm sorry DuckDuckGo but it looks like you are force feeding your users with Microsoft JavaScript.
You see M$ doesn't give a **** about you.
THEY DON'T TRUST YOU...and that's why they are giving you THEIR JAVASCRIPT.
When serving an ad you could make the ad be natural as part of your web page...
that way I won't have to "accept ads"...I mean if I ALREADY accept your webpage.
EMBED YOUR ADS
Is this a tech problem? I think this …

Look, I give a fuck, because freedom isn't some abstract idea or lip service paid to "choice" while real decisions are made over your head.
Freedom is collective, it's when everyone gets to shape the community together, no more of this top-down bullshit where rules drop from above and you’re told to accept it or leave. Anarcho-syndicalism is not theory to me, it’s my fucking life story now, because I want to actually live this principle where people, not bosses, run t…

National security elites accept Trump is creating a new world order (Eric Bazail-Eimil/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/07/19/aspen-forum-attendees-admit-theres-no-return-to-a-pre-trump-world-order-00464338
http://www.memeorandum.com/250719/p37#a250719p37

Navigating Cookie Consent Violations Across the Globe
Brian Tang, Duc Bui, Kang G. Shin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08996 https://arxi…

Navigating Cookie Consent Violations Across the Globe
Online services provide users with cookie banners to accept/reject the cookies placed on their web browsers. Despite the increased adoption of cookie banners, little has been done to ensure that cookie consent is compliant with privacy laws around the globe. Prior studies have found that cookies are often placed on browsers even after their explicit rejection by users. These inconsistencies in cookie banner behavior circumvent users' consent preferences and are known as cookie consent violation…

Netflix shareholders voted to oust Jay Hoag, who's served on its board since 1999; Hoag offered his resignation and the board has 90 days to accept or reject it (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/netflix-shareholde…

Netflix Shareholders Vote to Oust Jay Hoag, Its Lead Independent Director
Jay Hoag, who has served on Netflix's board since 1999, failed to get reelected at the company's annual shareholder meeting.

The moment Putin walks into the negotiating room, he has gotten everything he wants
— plus an opportunity to make a quip about Alaska as historically Russian land
(consider this a prediction).
If the meeting does not produce an agreement, Putin loses nothing.
Trump, on the other hand, would lose face if he walked out empty-handed.
He may be motivated to accept something, anything.

Opinion | Trump Is Giving Putin a Most Wonderful Gift
There is something Putin cares about more than money.

Overly academic/distanced ethical discussions
Had a weird interaction with @/brainwane@social.coop just now. I misinterpreted one of their posts quoting someone else and I think the combination of that plus an interaction pattern where I'd assume their stance on something and respond critically to that ended up with me getting blocked. I don't have hard feelings exactly, and this post is only partly about this particular person, but I noticed something interesting by the end of the conversation that had been bothering me. They repeatedly criticized me for assuming what their position was, but never actually stated their position. They didn't say: "I'm bothered you assumed my position was X, it's actually Y." They just said "I'm bothered you assumed my position was X, please don't assume my position!" I get that it's annoying to have people respond to a straw man version of your argument, but when I in response asked some direct questions about what their position was, they gave some non-answers and then blocked me. It's entirely possible it's a coincidence, and they just happened to run out of patience on that iteration, but it makes me take their critique of my interactions a bit less seriously. I suspect that they just didn't want to hear what I was saying, while at the same time they wanted to feel as if they were someone who values public critique and open discussion of tricky issues (if anyone reading this post also followed our interaction and has a different opinion of my behavior, I'd be glad to hear it; it's possible In effectively being an asshole here and it would be useful to hear that if so).
In any case, the fact that at the end of the entire discussion, I'm realizing I still don't actually know their position on whether they think the AI use case in question is worthwhile feels odd. They praised the system on several occasions, albeit noting some drawbacks while doing so. They said that the system was possibly changing their anti-AI stance, but then got mad at me for assuming this meant that they thought this use-case was justified. Maybe they just haven't made up their mind yet but didn't want to say that?
Interestingly, in one of their own blog posts that got linked in the discussion, they discuss a different AI system, and despite listing a bunch of concrete harms, conclude that it's okay to use it. That's fine; I don't think *every* use of AI is wrong on balance, but what bothered me was that their post dismissed a number of real ethical issues by saying essentially "I haven't seen calls for a boycott over this issue, so it's not a reason to stop use." That's an extremely socially conformist version of ethics that doesn't sit well with me. The discussion also ended up linking this post: https://chelseatroy.com/2024/08/28/does-ai-benefit-the-world/ which bothered me in a related way. In it, Troy describes classroom teaching techniques for introducing and helping students explore the ethics of AI, and they seem mostly great. They avoid prescribing any particular correct stance, which is important when teaching given the power relationship, and they help students understand the limitations of their perspectives regarding global impacts, which is great. But the overall conclusion of the post is that "nobody is qualified to really judge global impacts, so we should focus on ways to improve outcomes instead of trying to judge them." This bothers me because we actually do have a responsibility to make decisive ethical judgments despite limitations of our perspectives. If we never commit to any ethical judgment against a technology because we think our perspective is too limited to know the true impacts (which I'll concede it invariably is) then we'll have to accept every technology without objection, limiting ourselves to trying to improve their impacts without opposing them. Given who currently controls most of the resources that go into exploration for new technologies, this stance is too permissive. Perhaps if our objection to a technology was absolute and instantly effective, I'd buy the argument that objecting without a deep global view of the long-term risks is dangerous. As things stand, I think that objecting to the development/use of certain technologies in certain contexts is necessary, and although there's a lot of uncertainly, I expect strongly enough that the overall outcomes of objection will be positive that I think it's a good thing to do.
The deeper point here I guess is that this kind of "things are too complicated, let's have a nuanced discussion where we don't come to any conclusions because we see a lot of unknowns along with definite harms" really bothers me.

I wish my family could see how much I care about anarchism, syndicalism, and especially anarcho-syndicalism, and how serious I am about building a different kind of world.
They still hold on to the image of me as someone who just spends all day gaming, like that’s all I ever was. But people change, grow, and find new paths.
If they can’t accept that, then they don’t really know who I am now, and it’s painful to realize that the people closest to me can’t see the person I’ve beco…

Berlin-based Payrails, whose platform helps enterprises accept payments, issue payouts, and more, raised a $32M Series A, taking its total funding to $52.8M (Tamara Djurickovic/Tech.eu)
https://tech.eu/2025/06/12/payrails-ra

Payrails raises $32M Series A to boost payment performance for global enterprises
A global payment software company Payrails, has raised $32 million in Series A funding to further its mission of enabling enterprises to take control of their payment operations.  Founded by former fintech leaders from Delivery Hero, Payrails’ founding team brings deep experience building global, scalable financial infrastructure. With the continued backing of leading technology investors, Payrails is strengthening its position as a category-defining payment platform for large enterprises. …

Trump demands Brazil drop charges against Bolsonaro, former president who tried to stay in office after election loss
Donald Trump’s enraged letterto his Brazilian counterpart, Luiz Inšcio Lula da Silva, announcing that
the US would impose a 50% tariff on imports from Brazil,
said that the move was motivated in part by the treatment of former president Jair Bolsonaro,
who was barred from running for office until 2030 and is on trial for allegedly plotting to remain in…

'We find another country': Homan says Trump administration looking to make deals with several countries to accept deportees. (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/07/11/homan-says-white-house-hopes-to-forge-more-third-country-deals-in-wake-of-south-sudan-deportations-00448137
http://www.memeorandum.com/250711/p47#a250711p47

MTG says Americans are 'not going to accept' there is no Epstein client list (Rachel Dobkin/The Independent)
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/marjorie-taylor-greene-jeffrey-epstein-client-list-b2786010.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250709/p144#a250709p144