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This weekend, lawmakers got their first look inside “Alligator Alcatraz,”
-- the makeshift immigration detention center in the Florida Everglades.
Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla., called the conditions
“disturbing and vile,”
a description Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem challenged
…

A look at the controversy around ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ detention center
This weekend, lawmakers got their first look inside “Alligator Alcatraz,” the makeshift immigration detention center in the Florida Everglades. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla., called the conditions “disturbing and vile,” a description Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem challenged. John Yang speaks with Miami Herald reporter Ana Ceballos about the controversy surrounding the facility.

Trump's Crypto Firm Raised $52 Million--Likely Sending Millions To His Family, New Disclosure Reveals (Zach Everson/Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/zacheverson/2025/07/12/trump-world-liberty-financial-crypto-sec-tokens-wlfi-usd1/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250712/p14#a250712p14

comiCSS #190: Sheriff
https://comicss.art/comics/190
> cartoon with two panels. The first one shows a sheriff with a curly mustache, curly cowboy hat, curly eyebrows, and additional shadows that make it 'fancy'; it is titled Sheriff. The second one is the same sheriff, but the …

Arnold Strangeness of Surface Immersions
Noboru Ito, Hiroki Mizuno
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10457 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.10457

Arnold Strangeness of Surface Immersions
For any smooth sphere eversion, the number of quadruple point jumps is always odd. In this paper, we introduce a function that detects the first quadruple point jump as the eversion starts. The invariant is a higher-dimensional analogue of Arnold strangeness invariant for plane curves.

»Führungskräfte zweifeln an KI-Strategien:
Führungskräfte sind laut einer Studie weniger euphorisch hinsichtlich KI als noch vor einem Jahr. Sie erkennen Defizite bei sich selbst und organisationale Herausforderungen.«
Nun ja, jetzt könnte ich sagen "Das habe ich doch euch schon immer gesagt!" aber anderseits ist dies bei jeglichen Jahrzehnten-Hype und war schon bei jeder Technologie so.
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Führungskräfte zweifeln an KI-Strategien
Führungskräfte sind laut einer Studie weniger euphorisch hinsichtlich KI als noch vor einem Jahr. Sie erkennen Defizite bei sich selbst und organisationale Herausforderungen.

Two-time Georgia gubernatorial candidate and voting rights activist Stacey Abrams spoke at the event,
denouncing efforts by the Trump administration to strip the names of activists from Navy vessels, including possibly Medgar Evers.
“They want to take his name off a boat because they don’t want us to have a reminder of how far he sailed us forward,” Abrams told the conference crowd.
U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has undertaken an effort to change the names of ships a…

Activists honor assassinated civil rights leader Medgar Evers' birthday
Civil and voting rights activists gathered in Jackson, Mississippi, to honor what would have been the 100th birthday of civil rights leader Medgar Evers. Evers was assassinated by a white supremacist in 1963. The 2025 Democracy in Action Convening, a four-day conference, celebrated Evers last week. Former Georgia state Rep. Stacey Abrams headlined the four-day conference. Abrams, also a voting rights activist, railed against recent actions by President Donald Trump’s administration and denoun…

Distinct Possibility, a gaming studio launched by EverQuest co-creator to build a web3 shooter on Etherlink, a Layer 2 network built on Tezos, raised $30.5M (RT Watson/The Block)
https://www.theblock.co/post/360973/bitkra…

Miami archbishop slams Everglades immigrant detention site as 'unbecoming' and 'corrosive' (NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/miami-archbishop-slams-alligator-alcatraz-detention-site-rcna218245
http://www.memeorandum.com/250711/p82#a250711p82

3D Steering and Localization in Pipes and Burrows using an Externally Steered Soft Growing Robot
Yimeng Qin, Jared Grinberg, William Heap, Allison M. Okamura
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.07225

3D Steering and Localization in Pipes and Burrows using an Externally Steered Soft Growing Robot
Navigation and inspection in confined environments, such as tunnels and pipes, pose significant challenges for existing robots due to limitations in maneuverability and adaptability to varying geometries. Vine robots, which are soft growing continuum robots that extend their length through soft material eversion at their tip, offer unique advantages due to their ability to navigate tight spaces, adapt to complex paths, and minimize friction. However, existing vine robot designs struggle with na…

The first group of immigrants has arrived at a new concentration camp deep in the Florida Everglades that officials have cynically dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz”
The facility, at an abandoned airport, will have an initial capacity of about 3,000 detainees, DeSantis said.
The center was built in eight days and features more than 200 security cameras,
28,000-plus feet of barbed wire and 400 security personnel

First immigration detainees arrive at Florida center in the Everglades
The first group of immigrants has arrived at a new detention center deep in the Florida Everglades that officials have dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz.” Florida Republican Attorney General James Uthmeier said on social media Wednesday that “hundreds” of immigration detainees were to arrive at the center. Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis says the facility will have a capacity of about 3,000 detainees when fully operational. The center was built in eight days and features more than 200 security ca…