Tootfinder

"In coming weeks, proposed job cuts and restructures will be released for the Academic Portfolio, Research and Innovation Portfolio, the College of Science and Medicine, and the College of Arts and Social Sciences."
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025…

Australian National University announces first round of job cuts as part of effort to turn around financial issues
As the Australian National University grapples with its dire financial position, the first of several rounds of job cuts has been announced as the institution seeks to save $250 million by the end of the year, including $100 million from salaries.

Democrats and opposition groups call the bill the Trump Tax Scam,
and with solid majorities turning against it in poll after poll, they are preparing to hammer Republicans for supporting cuts that will harm their constituents ahead of the 2026 midterms.
Republicans are repeating falsehoods about the bill’s impacts,
especially on health care, and lashing out in response — or calling it quits altogether.

The Political Blowback to GOP’s Medicaid Cuts Has Already Begun
Senate Republicans passed a budget package with the deepest cuts to health care in decades on Tuesday.

How People in the Twin Cities Responded to a Federal Raid https://crimethinc.com/2025/06/04/minneapolis-to-fed…

Minneapolis to Feds: "Get the Fuck Out"
Two firsthand accounts detailing how people in the Twin Cities responded to a federal raid.

🚆 Oye, sabemos algo de la reapertura de la línea C-9 de Cercanías Madrid? La de #Cotos
📺 Aquí TeleMadrid decía que cerraba 1 año, que se cumplirš pronto:

Walmart expands its partnership with Alphabet-owned Wing to bring drone delivery services to Atlanta, Charlotte, Houston, Orlando, and Tampa, adding 100 stores (Andrew J. Hawkins/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/680723/walmart-wing…

Wing and Walmart are bringing drone delivery to 100 new stores
Walmart and Wing announced an expansion of their drone delivery partnership to include 100 additional stores in five new cities.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.12898 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csIT_…

AG Codes Achieve List-decoding Capacity over Constant-sized Fields
The recently-emerging field of higher order MDS codes has sought to unify a number of concepts in coding theory. Such areas captured by higher order MDS codes include maximally recoverable (MR) tensor codes, codes with optimal list-decoding guarantees, and codes with constrained generator matrices (as in the GM-MDS theorem). By proving these equivalences, Brakensiek-Gopi-Makam showed the existence of optimally list-decodable Reed-Solomon codes over exponential sized fields. Building on this, …

“Reuters published a story just a few days ago, 1 of many warnings: ‘In May, every living former director of NWS signed on to an open letter w/ a warning that, if continued, Trump’s cuts to fed weather forecasting would create needless loss of life. Despite bipartisan congressional pushback for a restoration in staffing & funding to NWS, sharp budget cuts remain on pace in projections for the 2026 budget for NOAA, the parent organization of NWS.”

Texas Officials Blame Agency Gutted by Trump for Results of Deadly Storm
Experts warned for months about cuts to NWS and NOAA

Trump really seems to prefer misinformation to actual facts. Why else would he have abruptly cancelled thousands of research grants (throwing perhaps 10,000 scientists and their families on the streets).
https://www.

Here Are the Nearly 2,500 Medical Research Grants Canceled or Delayed by Trump
Some cuts have been starkly visible, but the country’s medical grant-making machinery has also radically transformed outside the public eye.

Tax Cuts Now, Benefit Cuts Later:
The Timeline in the Republican Megabill
👉 Republicans deferred some of their most painful spending cuts until after the midterm election
To pay for the tax policies,
which confer their greatest benefits on the wealthy,
Republican lawmakers have looked to slash programs that are both popular and widely used,
discomfiting even some within their own ranks.
💥The savings from the safety net cuts still are not enough to of…

Tax Cuts Now, Benefit Cuts Later: The Timeline in the Republican Megabill
Republicans deferred some of their most painful spending cuts until after the midterm elections.

A generation of scientific talent is at the brink of being lost to overseas competitors by the Trump administration’s dismantling of the National Science Foundation (NSF), with unprecedented political interference at the agency jeopardizing the future of US industries and economic growth, according to a Guardian investigation.
The gold standard peer-reviewed process used by the NSF to support cutting-edge, high-impact science is being undermined by the chaotic cuts to staff, programs a…