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The billions and billions of dollars this bill pumps into ICE far exceed any conceivable legitimate need the agency could have, even if you agree with its mission.
This bill takes the same masked, anonymous gunmen who have been kidnapping people off the streets and gives them a budget the size of a military.
This is not about honoring the law. This is not even about immigrants.
This is about creating a police state.
I see no other way to read these numbers.
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The Federal Trade Commission, last month, announced that it would approve the merger of two of the biggest ad agencies in the world
-- only if the parties agree to an unusual condition:
The merged company cannot refuse to place ads on websites for political reasons.
The move was a sharp break from its traditional practice.
The F.T.C. is usually focused on such concerns as consumer protection and monopoly power;
Now it’s trying to dictate where businesses adverti…

Opinion | Trump’s Campaign to Coerce Advertisers Into Backing Conservative Media
The administration seeks to coerce advertisers into using conservative media.

Optimally Dictatorial Committees
D. Carlos Akkar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.21699 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.21699

Optimally Dictatorial Committees
I study the optimal voting mechanism for a committee that must decide whether to enact or block a policy of unknown benefit. Information can come both from committee members who can acquire it at cost, and a strategic lobbyist who wishes the policy to be enacted. I show that the dictatorship of the most-demanding member is a dominant voting mechanism: any other voting mechanism is (i) less likely to enact a good policy, (ii) more likely to enact a bad policy, and (iii) burdens every member with…

#DJT expected to quickly run to pals in #SCOTUS to overturn 3 judge panel's ban in US Court of International Trade to resume his chaotic #WhiteHouse wank off of tariff tirades that many experts agree exceeds executive branch authorit…

Court blocks Trump from imposing sweeping tariffs
Trump imposed tariffs on most of the countries in the world in an effort to reverse America’s massive and longstanding trade deficits. He earlier plastered levies on imports from Canada, Chin…

By all reports, DOGE’s tools were hot crap, and I have serious doubts about whether any of the engineers in involved were any good. But what Weissmann is saying about this •belief•? Agree completely.
That particular form of engineering arrogance that imagines Smart Boys with Fancy Tech can magically untangle complex human systems needs to die a quick death. It’s not good public policy. It’s not even good engineering.
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Empathy in Explanation
Katherine M. Collins, Kartik Chandra, Adrian Weller, Jonathan Ragan-Kelley, Joshua B. Tenenbaum
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.21081 https://

Empathy in Explanation
Why do we give the explanations we do? Recent work has suggested that we should think of explanation as a kind of cooperative social interaction, between a why-question-asker and an explainer. Here, we apply this perspective to consider the role that emotion plays in this social interaction. We develop a computational framework for modeling explainers who consider the emotional impact an explanation might have on a listener. We test our framework by using it to model human intuitions about how …

A RTP foi entrevistar um par de betinhas que vão agora estudar para os EUA e estão assustadas com as trumpices. Uma betinha, que vai estudar gestão para Boston porque depois tem de voltar para Portugal e subir a pulso e por mérito na empresa do papš, levou a mãe a ser também entrevistada, a qual diz que ela achou Boston uma cidade muito "comuspolita". 🤪

Spin-Dependent Axion Generation with Controllable Emission Angles in Strong Laser Fields
Jia-Ding Chen, Hang Liu, Kai-Hong Zhuang, Baifei Shen, Pei-Lun He, Yue-Yue Chen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.21596

Spin-Dependent Axion Generation with Controllable Emission Angles in Strong Laser Fields
We investigate axion production in the collision between a spin-polarized relativistic electron beam and an ultraintense laser pulse. A spin-resolved Monte Carlo framework is developed to model axion-electron and axion-photon couplings in arbitrary electromagnetic fields, using quantum emission probabilities under the local constant field approximation. Owing to spin-dependent asymmetries in radiation probability, the emitted axions acquire a characteristic angular deflection tied to the initia…

I hate that just to park my car somewhere, I have to agree to a privacy policy that allows them to record me, use facial recognition, recognize my ad identifier on my phone, share all that info with whomever they please, receive any info other companies or specifically any individuals have to share, train their ai with that info, and to top it all off I pay them to do it.