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Aaron Rodgers wants to retire with this player on his team: 'It's always been something A-Rod would bring up'

https://www.cbssports.…

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I’m well out of my depth here: my historical knowledge to speak to the issues is thin; my cultural knowledge is almost nonexistent. Reading that Standing Together site, seeing how they’ve crafted what they write, I see just how much nuance and awareness I •don’t• have.
I’m grateful to the people who’ve helped me learn, and who’ve pointed me to these resources — in this case @… and @…. Sometimes the Internet really is good for something.
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A late addition to stroke awareness month (May).
From my article: #health #stroke

https://www.rawstory.com/raw-investigates/trump-s-scum-points-to-something-more-sinister-than-partisan-posturing/

Trump's 'scum' attack gave awful signal of what's coming
Donald Trump opened Memorial Day in the most disgusting way possible, not by praising our fallen heroes but by attacking Democrats. He wrote on his Nazi-infested social media site on Monday morning:“Happy Memorial Day to all, including the scum that spent the last four years trying to destroy our co...

Set Smoothness Unlocks Clarke Hyper-stationarity in Bilevel Optimization
He Chen, Jiajin Li, Anthony Man-cho So
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04587 https://…

Set Smoothness Unlocks Clarke Hyper-stationarity in Bilevel Optimization
Solving bilevel optimization (BLO) problems to global optimality is generally intractable. A common alternative is to compute a hyper-stationary point -- a stationary point of the hyper-objective function formed by minimizing/maximizing the upper-level function over the lower-level solution set. However, existing approaches either yield weak notions of stationarity or rely on restrictive assumptions to ensure the smoothness of hyper-objective functions. In this paper, we remove these impractica…

https://bsky.app/profile/indivisiblepaplus.bsky.social/post/3lqo5d6ugvk23
From my local Indivisible group in Palo Alto: And Now for Something Completely Different ...

There have been many instances documented, do a damn web search.
But forget that for a moment: What I’m doing is the same as what Netanyahu is doing? My opposing genocide is the same as a fucker perpetrating genocide?
Fuck you, Alfred.
Get some fucking perspective. https://mastodon.social/@amsz…

In addition to the mutual aid giving circle link upthread, @… is raising money for the family of a student there:
https://techhub.social/@shantini/114619633818679727
In both cases, this is money that is helping to meet basic needs under dire conditions right now. If you’re distressed by the news from Gaza (as I am), this is a way to at least •do• something concrete.

This is a dangerous level of squinting at tea leaves, so •serious• grain of salt here, but:
The sudden re-plunge of Tesla’s stock price during this Musk / Trump spat suggests that maybe, maybe its utterly wild overvaluation had nothing to do with Tesla’s products, or its market position, or Musk’s phony brilliance, or even (the usual explanation) with investors getting hyped about a self-driving car future and magical robots.
Maybe it was investors expecting the company to be the beneficiary of kleptocratic pillaging of the US Federal budget. Which — unlike all the other explanations — would not be an irrational expectation.