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To keep Medicaid, a mom caring for her disabled adult son may soon need to prove she works (Bram Sable-Smith/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-care/keep-medicaid-mom-caring-disabled-adult-son-may-soon-need-prove-works-rcna216025
http://www.memeorandum.com/250630/p136#a250630p136

When was the first middle-finger used to denote contempt in a (mainstream) film? I don't know but there is an instance of it in Sergio Leone's 1971 Giù la testa (Duck, You Sucker / A Fistful of Dynamite).
This was perpetrated by Rod Steiger. In this film he and James Coburn also make a solid case that Keanu Reeves' accent in Bram Stoker's Dracula was not even close to being the worst in film history.

Bram Cohen on algorithms for determining the winner in ranked-choice voting: More complicated than you might think.
https://bramcohen.com/p/variants-on-instant-runoff

Variants on Instant Runoff
A practical view

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #Breakfast
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Bram van Sambeek, Swedish Chamber Orchestra & Alexei Ogrintchouk:
🎵 Bassoon Concerto in B flat major, K 191: II. Andante ma Adagio
#BramvanSambeek
https://open.spotify.com/track/4Y5TAcOkNdpojTTFwKJTKZ

Model Context Protocol (MCP) at First Glance: Studying the Security and Maintainability of MCP Servers
Mohammed Mehedi Hasan, Hao Li, Emad Fallahzadeh, Bram Adams, Ahmed E. Hassan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13538

Model Context Protocol (MCP) at First Glance: Studying the Security and Maintainability of MCP Servers
Although Foundation Models (FMs), such as GPT-4, are increasingly used in domains like finance and software engineering, reliance on textual interfaces limits these models' real-world interaction. To address this, FM providers introduced tool calling-triggering a proliferation of frameworks with distinct tool interfaces. In late 2024, Anthropic introduced the Model Context Protocol (MCP) to standardize this tool ecosystem, which has become the de facto standard with over eight million weekly SD…

The odd spectral localiser via asymptotic morphisms and quasi-projections
Yuezhao Li, Bram Mesland
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.17143 https://

The odd spectral localiser via asymptotic morphisms and quasi-projections
We describe the index pairing between an odd K-theory class and an odd unbounded Kasparov module by a pair of quasi-projections, supported on a submodule obtained from a finite spectral truncation. We achieve this by pairing the K-theory class with an asymptotic morphism determined by the unbounded Kasparov module. We interpret the spectral localiser of Loring and Schulz-Baldes as an instance of such an index pairing.