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Le MIT est la première université Š refuser de signer l’accord sur l’éducation supérieure de l’administration Trump
https://www.lemonde.fr/international/artic

Le MIT est la première université à refuser de signer l’accord sur l’éducation supérieure de l’administration Trump
Au risque de perdre d’importants financements fédéraux, la présidente du prestigieux Massachusetts Institute of Technology a refusé de céder à la pression du gouvernement et a choisi de défendre l’indépendance de son institution.

😬 https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/10/vimeo-to-be-acquired-by-bending-spoons-in-1-38b-all-cash-deal/

Vimeo to be acquired by Bending Spoons in $1.38B all-cash deal | TechCrunch
The announcement comes as Bending Spoons was interested in a potential takeover of Vimeo as far back as March 2024.

🚜 Electrification will change the farm. Swappable batteries, bidirectional charging and on-site solar charging
https://www.fwi.co.uk/machinery/tractors/agritechnica-2025-160hp-tadus-tractor-gets-swappable-batteries

Agritechnica 2025: 160hp Tadus tractor gets swappable batteries - Farmers Weekly
German outfit Tadus hopes to become the Tesla of the tractor world, having all but completed the development of its first battery-electric model. This has

A group of American investors led by Hollywood producer Robert Simonds has agreed to acquire NSO Group in a deal valued at "several tens of millions of dollars" (Omer Kabir/CTech)
https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/s1jgvmitgx

NSO to be acquired by U.S. investors, ending Israeli control of Pegasus maker
Hollywood producer Robert Simonds leads the deal, subject to Israeli and U.S. regulatory review.

“According to our president, there’s only two genders..."
Also according to him experiments with injecting bleach, shining UV lights up your ass, hydroxychloroquine, etc. should be pursued. I hope said student is following that advice too.
https://www.theguardian.c…

Corporate reports miss the mark on ocean health, according to new analysis #ocean

Corporate reports miss the mark on ocean health, according to new analysis
New research led by Stanford University and co-authored by Lancaster University explores the industrial impacts on the ocean and compares them with what leading companies in the ocean economy disclose, underscoring the need for greater transparency and accountability.

One other thing, while we don't claim that our mixed-effects logit model is the perfect way to account for non-independence between languages, we don't think it's correct, as Xia & Lindell assert, to just claim that our results are "counterintuitive", the fix-eff estimates are "unreliable" and that the high model fits are "unrealistic." Whether a mix model better captures the data-generat. process is ultimately an empirical question, not one to be decided by assertion. Take, for instance, our finding that once random effects for either subregion or language family are included, the estimated effect of L1_population reverses direction—from the negative value reported by Xia & Lindell et al. to a positive one.

From a Q2 (according to Elsevier Scopus ) journal asking for a review. They are not even trying. According to them, I have an "expertise in areas related to linguistics (if any)" [I love this "if any"!] , makes me "an ideal candidate to review the manuscript".

A formal system for reasoning about assertibility, truth, and meaningfulness
Nik Weaver
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07641 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.07641…

A formal system for reasoning about assertibility, truth, and meaningfulness
We propose axioms governing the interaction of constructive assertibility and meaningfulness predicates with a self-applicative truth predicate characterized by the T-scheme, and we prove the consistency of the resulting formal system.