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The Trump administration may have just axed the IRS Direct File program.
During a summit earlier this week, IRS Commissioner Billy Long said the free tax filing service is “gone,”
adding that “big beautiful Billy wiped that out
https://news.bloombe…

IRS Chief Says Direct File Is ‘Gone,’ Other Audit Tech Is Coming
The Biden-era IRS free filing tool, Direct File, is “gone,” IRS Commissioner Billy Long said.

Como o letramento em ficção científica ajuda a inovar na comunicação e nos negócios e a criar uma sociedade melhor?
https://cassano.com.br/2025/08/31/a-arte-de-prever-engarrafamentos/

A arte de prever engarrafamentos – Brogue do Cassano
Como o letramento em ficção científica (SciFi) ajuda a inovar na comunicação e nos negócios e a criar uma sociedade melhor?

"Wertheimer argues that the famous Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act--which protects companies from liability for content posted by users to their websites--needs to be reinterpreted to exclude “platforms that actively promote content using reinforcement learning-based recommendation algorithms.”"
(Original title: Platform Temperance)

Platform Temperance
Notes on a new wave of the Techlash

Oz: Coming spike in ACA premium payments 'not the big issue' (Nathaniel Weixel/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5580142-affordable-care-act-premiums-increase-dr-oz/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251030/p45#a251030p45

"Having Lunch Now": Understanding How Users Engage with a Proactive Agent for Daily Planning and Self-Reflection
Adnan Abbas, Caleb Wohn, Arnav Jagtap, Eugenia H Rho, Sang Won Lee
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.24073

"Having Lunch Now": Understanding How Users Engage with a Proactive Agent for Daily Planning and Self-Reflection
Conversational agents have been studied as tools to scaffold planning and self-reflection for productivity and well-being. While prior work has demonstrated positive outcomes, we still lack a clear understanding of what drives these results and how users behave and communicate with agents that act as coaches rather than assistants. Such understanding is critical for designing interactions in which agents foster meaningful behavioral change. We conducted a 14-day longitudinal study with 12 parti…

Joint UE positioning and distributed sensing in the upper mid-band exploiting virtual apertures
Soroush Mesforush, Murat Bayraktar, Nuria Gonz\'alez-Prelcic
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.25557

Joint UE positioning and distributed sensing in the upper mid-band exploiting virtual apertures
Networks exploiting distributed integrated sensing and communication (DISAC) nodes can provide enhanced localization and sensing performance, further emphasized when operating with large arrays and bandwidths available in the upper mid-band (also known as FR3). In this paper, we consider a DISAC system operating at FR3 where a single base station (BS) acts as the transmitter and several vehicular user equipments (UEs) act as the receivers. We tackle the design of the signal processing chain at …

I'm bad at making more organic shapes in OpenSCAD but this is progress so far on a custom "nunchuck" style controller someone asked for.
The buttons would get inserted with wires coming out the bottom to solder into place... then I'd need some sort of small piece to mount the microcontroller to and slide up through the bottom, secured with a screw, probably.
Probably a better way so I'll keep trying!

Google unveils the Pixel Watch 4 in 41mm and 45mm sizes, with an Actua 360 curved display and emergency satellite communication, starting at $349 from October 9 (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/20/goog…

Google debuts Pixel Watch 4 with domed display, emergency Satellite Communication | TechCrunch
The 41mm Pixel Watch 4 starts at $349 for Wi-Fi and $449 for LTE, while the 45mm version starts at at $399 for Wi-Fi and $499 for LTE.

Coming up on Friday Beyond Growth conference in the Spanish parliament.
Good to see mention of key concepts, #EmergencyBrake and societal #Collapse.
#Degrowth takes the stage

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Activar el freno de emergencia o colapsar: el decrecimiento toma la palabra en el Congreso
Académicos, políticos, sindicalistas, intelectuales y representantes de la sociedad civil debatieron este viernes sobre cómo activar de forma colectiva un freno de emergencia al modelo que está llevando al planeta a un colapso ecológico y social.

Lepton Flavor Violation: From Muon Decays to Muon Colliders
Pouya Asadi, Hengameh Bagherian, Katherine Fraser, Samuel Homiller, Qianshu Lu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.22771 https…

Lepton Flavor Violation: From Muon Decays to Muon Colliders
We investigate the unique potential of a high-energy muon collider to probe lepton-flavor-violating signals arising from physics beyond the Standard Model (SM). Low-energy, precision searches for charged lepton-flavor violation (LFV) are projected to dramatically improve their sensitivity in the coming years, and could provide the first evidence of new physics. We interpret the sensitivity of these searches in terms of a set of LFV operators in the SM Effective Field Theory. The same operators …