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JD Vance is being lambasted for dismissing social safety net rollbacks under the Trump tax bill currently making its way through Congress.
On Monday night, Vance attempted to rally support for the bill in a post on X, writing,
“Everything else—the CBO score [the Congressional Budget Office cost estimate], the proper baseline, the minutiae of the Medicaid policy—is immaterial compared to the ICE money and immigration enforcement provisions.”
Many were rubbed the wrong way by…

Vance Says It Doesn’t Matter How Many People Lose Medicaid in Budget
JD Vance is being slammed after a twisted post on the costs of Republicans’ budget bill.

I would really like to understand the productivity claims of "AI" for normal office workers.
If you summarize all emails with unreliable technology, you will miss important things; so in order to not fail at your job when your company now pays for "AI" you will have to read "AI" summaries _and_ all the whole emails?
Where's the savings in time and money there exactly? Last time I checked addition makes things larger?
I guess I'm a naive luddite.

In 2011 a North Carolina man robbed a bank for $1 because he couldn't afford to get a lump on his chest checked out, and hoped free healthcare in jail would sort it out for him.
He had hoped for a three year stretch but owing to the low amount he was released early.
It's unknown whether he actually got the medical treatment so it's possible that he should have stolen more in order to achieve his goal.

DNN-based Methods of Jointly Sensing Number and Directions of Targets via a Green Massive H2AD MIMO Receiver
Bin Deng, Jiatong Bai, Feilong Zhao, Zuming Xie, Maolin Li, Yan Wang, Feng Shu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.22906

DNN-based Methods of Jointly Sensing Number and Directions of Targets via a Green Massive H2AD MIMO Receiver
As a green MIMO structure, the heterogeneous hybrid analog-digital H2AD MIMO architecture has been shown to own a great potential to replace the massive or extremely large-scale fully-digital MIMO in the future wireless networks to address the three challenging problems faced by the latter: high energy consumption, high circuit cost, and high complexity. However, how to intelligently sense the number and direction of multi-emitters via such a structure is still an open hard problem. To address …

One of the goals I've set for further development of #Python eclasses in #Gentoo was to avoid needless complexity. Unfortunately, the subject matter sometimes requires them. However, many of the functions added lately were already manually done in ebuilds for years.
We've started disabling plugin autoloading years ago. First we just did that for individual packages that caused issues. Then, for these where tests ended up being really slow. Finally, pretty much anywhere `python_test()` was declared. Doing it all manually was particularly cumbersome — all I needed for `EPYTEST_PLUGINS` is a good idea how to generalize it.
Similarly, `EPYTEST_XDIST` was added after we have been adding manually `epytest -p xdist -n "$(makeopts_jobs)" --dist=worksteal` — and while at it, I've added `EPYTEST_JOBS` to override the job count.
Perhaps `EPYTEST_TIMEOUT` wasn't that common. However, it was meant to help CI systems that could otherwise get stuck on hanging test.
Similarly, "standard library" version (like `3.9`) matching to `python_gen_cond_dep` was added after a long period of explicitly stating `python3_9 pypy3`. As an extra benefit, this also resolved the problem that at the time `pypy3` could mean different Python versions.

Today was an extremely hot day in the Netherlands: 35.5°C at De Bilt (main met station, center), 36.2 at the coast, 37.6 in Eindhoven, in the south!
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Mean Field Games of Controls with Dirichlet \& Neumann Boundary Conditions
P. Jameson Graber, Kyle Rosengartner
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.21642 https://

Mean Field Games of Controls with Dirichlet \& Neumann Boundary Conditions
In a mean field game of controls, a large population of identical players seek to minimize a cost that depends on the joint distribution of the states of the players and their controls. We consider the classes of mean field games of controls in which the value function and the distribution of player states satisfy either Dirichlet or Neumann boundary conditions. We prove that such systems are well-posed either with sufficient smallness conditions or in the case of monotone couplings.

Human cost of Tory and Labour welfare cuts.
UK is no longer a Welfare State: it's becoming a Warfare State wiith reckless militarisation, and a war without bullets on the "surplus population".
'I've got no money. I'm constantly cold. I don't want to be here anymore' - Manchester Evening News

'I've got no money. I'm constantly cold. I don't want to be here anymore'
The Manchester Evening News spent a day at Citizen's Advice to find out what impact Labour's controversial welfare cuts could have

Love is dope, not chicken soup. I mean, love is something to be passed
around freely, not spooned down someone's throat for their own good by a
Jewish mother who cooked it all by herself.

When Donald Trump addressed the nation in the early hours of November 6, 2024, he didn’t just celebrate his improbable return to the White House.
He hailed an unprecedented political realignment.
“This campaign has been so historic in so many ways,” he said.
“We’ve built the biggest, the broadest, the most unified coalition.
They’ve never seen anything like it in all of American history.
They’ve never seen any.
Young and old, men and women,
rural …

Everybody Hates Trump Now
Six months after Trump bragged about a “historic” realignment, voters from across the political spectrum have soured on the president.