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Trump administration ends emergency abortion requirement for hospitals (Praveena Somasundaram/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/06/04/emtala-emergency-abortion-guidance/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250604/p129#a250604p129

Trump Admin Revokes Emergency Abortion Guidance - Joe.My.God.
https://www.joemygod.com/2025/06/trump-admin-revokes-emergency-abortion-guidance/

"Strada is seeking to use state housing laws that will both streamline approvals for the development and allow for denser construction — in exchange for the inclusion of affordable units.""
Yes, inclusion of affordable units at a lower rate than San Francisco's existing inclusionary requirements, and well below the level of induced demand per SF Planning's Residential Nexus studies. In other words, it creates even more stress in the affordable housing segment.…

SoMa housing plan ‘encouraging’ to boosters
Proposal would develop long-vacant lot.

SAVOR: Skill Affordance Learning from Visuo-Haptic Perception for Robot-Assisted Bite Acquisition
Zhanxin Wu, Bo Ai, Tom Silver, Tapomayukh Bhattacharjee
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02353

SAVOR: Skill Affordance Learning from Visuo-Haptic Perception for Robot-Assisted Bite Acquisition
Robot-assisted feeding requires reliable bite acquisition, a challenging task due to the complex interactions between utensils and food with diverse physical properties. These interactions are further complicated by the temporal variability of food properties-for example, steak becomes firm as it cools even during a meal. To address this, we propose SAVOR, a novel approach for learning skill affordances for bite acquisition-how suitable a manipulation skill (e.g., skewering, scooping) is for a …

We need people like Matthew Cassel and Kyri Evangelou that are able to stand with a straight face when being in the middle of this. But what face can the rest of us afford to have?
https://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2025/…

Trump Rescinds Biden Policy Requiring Hospitals to Provide Emergency Abortions (Sheryl Gay Stolberg/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/03/us/politics/trump-emergency-abortion-rule.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250604/p6#a250604p6

I'm afraid this is true. I already struggle to raise enough money to keep the very talented young scientists I have working with me (from many different countries already), finding funding for more will be difficult, and why should US scientists essentially queue jump just because of their nationality ? I know that sounds harsh, I have very good US colleagues, but I have to be fair to all, regardless of where they come from. OTOH, if you are a US scientist and you are interested in exploring possibilities in Denmark, give me a shout and we'll see what we can do.
https://mastodon.world/@davidho/114620044303457868
davidho@mastodon.world - Unless you’re a Nobel laureate, the brain drain will be away from science and not to other countries.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/03/us/trump-federal-spending-grants-scientists-leaving.html?unlocked_article_code=1.ME8.sh9q.qy7jX0S1ZrBa&smid=url-share

"the legislation they’re proposing would actually mandate the burial or cremation of miscarriages—opening the door to arresting women who dispose of their miscarriages ‘improperly’.
The Anti-Abortion Movement Has a New Language Trick
https://jessica.substack.com/p/the-anti-abortion-movement-has-a

Trump rescinds Emtala guidance protecting women in need of emergency abortions (Carter Sherman/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/03/trump-admin-emergency-abortion-emtala
http://www.memeorandum.com/250603/p135#a250603p135

Texas hospital that discharged woman with doomed pregnancy violated the law, a federal inquiry finds (Amanda Seitz/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/abortion-texas-hospital-doomed-pregnancy-discharge-308ea695a17f72500cbf31622fdb521a
http://www.memeorandum.com/250604/p111#a250604p111