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Bengals reach $470 million deal to renovate Paycor Stadium in Cincinnati, pending final approval

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/bengals

Kraken secures a MiCA license from the Central Bank of Ireland to offer crypto services across the EU, following Coinbase's approval in Luxembourg last week (Callan Quinn/Decrypt)
https://decrypt.co/327112/kraken-license-europes-new-rules

Kraken Becomes Latest to Win a License Under Europe's New Rules
Approval from Ireland's central bank gives Kraken the ability to operate across 27 EU states as it races to catch up to rival Coinbase.

Tesla stock jumped Friday because Trump's Department of Transportation scrapped some safety regulations that were preventing approval of Tesla's Full Self Driving.
I hope prospective buyers learn this fact and extract its key implication: "Elon admits that Tesla's Full Self Driving is unsafe and unfixable".
#Tesla

Which is why the conservatives supported it, they were thinking ahead for when they’re in power.
#CdnPoli
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app

Dinari, which offers blockchain-based US stocks, secures a broker-dealer registration to become the first tokenized equity platform to secure approval in the US (Hannah Lang/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustai…

The paradox driving Trump's bad polling numbers (Christian Paz/Vox)
https://www.vox.com/politics/417577/trump-paradox-poll-iran-economy-approval-number
http://www.memeorandum.com/250624/p24#a250624p24

F1 owner Liberty Media completes its €4.3B acquisition of MotoGP owner Dorna after EU approval, and says growing in the US is its main goal for MotoGP (Samuel Agini/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/12f49b54-b269-4e99-a301-9eaf3a11bef2

F1 owner Liberty Media targets US growth with MotoGP
The group controls two of the biggest brands in motorsport after winning approval for €4.3bn takeover of MotoGP owner

Florida wildlife officials gave preliminary approval for the first black bear hunt since one 10 years ago that was halted early after more than 300 bears were killed in only two days.
The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission voted 4-1 at a meeting in Ocala in favor of a bear hunt in December and annually into the future,
allowing the use of up to six dogs to corner the bears.
Methods could include bowhunting, similar to rules for hunting deer, and bear hunting…

Florida gives preliminary approval to controversial black bear hunt amid strong opposition
The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission has given preliminary approval for a black bear hunt for December and into the future, which could eventually allow the use of up to six dogs to corner the bears and use of bowhunting. The commission voted 4-1 Wednesday on the proposal, which would be the first bear hunt since 2015 when more than 300 bears were killed in only two days. Hunt supporters say managing bear populations is key to preventing dangerous encounters with humans. Oppone…

"UK ministers reopen door to drilling at two North Sea oilfields as new guidance released"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #NorthSea

#psychedelics #news

Safer Psychedelic Drugs May Be Coming
Companies are working to make psychedelic drugs safer, better, and easier to administer, in hopes of winning regulatory approval.

Another change proposal was submitted to the Fedora Engineering Steering Committee (FESCo) for approval[1]:
Replace the #Xorg #Xserver with the X11Libre Xserver for #Fedora 43-

Enhancement Report Approval Prediction: A Comparative Study of Large Language Models
Haosheng Zuo, Feifei Niu, Chuanyi Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.15098 …

Enhancement Report Approval Prediction: A Comparative Study of Large Language Models
Enhancement reports (ERs) serve as a critical communication channel between users and developers, capturing valuable suggestions for software improvement. However, manually processing these reports is resource-intensive, leading to delays and potential loss of valuable insights. To address this challenge, enhancement report approval prediction (ERAP) has emerged as a research focus, leveraging machine learning techniques to automate decision-making. While traditional approaches have employed fe…

Robust Committee Voting, or The Other Side of Representation
Gregory Kehne, Ulrike Schmidt-Kraepelin, Krzysztof Sornat
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.18643 htt…

Robust Committee Voting, or The Other Side of Representation
We study approval-based committee voting from a novel perspective. While extant work largely centers around proportional representation of the voters, we shift our focus to the candidates while preserving proportionality. Intuitively, candidates supported by similar voter groups should receive comparable representation. Since deterministic voting rules cannot achieve this ideal, we develop randomized voting rules that satisfy ex-ante neutrality, monotonicity, and continuity, while maintaining s…

from my link log —
Rewriting the Ruby parser.
https://railsatscale.com/2023-06-12-rewriting-the-ruby-parser/
saved 2024-12-26

Rewriting the Ruby parser
At Shopify, we have spent the last year writing a new Ruby parser, which we’ve called YARP (Yet Another Ruby Parser). As of the date of this post, YARP can parse a semantically equivalent syntax tree to Ruby 3.3 on every Ruby file in Shopify’s main codebase, GitHub’s main codebase, CRuby, and the 100 most popular gems downloaded from rubygems.org. We recently got approval to merge this work into CRuby, and are very excited to share our work with the community. This post will take you thro…

Perversely, this most unconventional of presidents
who ruined the party brand
reverted to "Republican Original",
taking the kind of action that would meet approval from George W Bush, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, John Bolton and John McCain.
The America First wing, meanwhile, was mostly muted and subdued:
Trump’s cult of personality typically trumps differences over policy
– and that is not likely to change over a military operation that took plac…

Abandoning 'Transparency,' RFK Jr Initiates Shady Drug Approval Scheme - National Memo
https://www.nationalmemo.com/rfk-jr-fda

Trump approval steady at 42%, support weakens for his immigration policy, Reuters/Ipsos poll finds (Jason Lange/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-approval-steady-42-support-weakens-his-immigration-policy-reutersipsos-2025-06-16/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250616/p129#a250616p129


Three House Democratic committee leaders have introduced a
⭐️War Powers Resolution
that would limit Donald Trump from escalating a conflict with Iran without congressional approval.

The Democratic resolution
— led by Reps. Gregory W. Meeks (D-New York), ranking Democrat of the House Foreign Affairs,
Adam Smith (D-Washington) of House Armed Services
and Jim Himes (D-Connecticut) of the House Select Committee on Intelligence
— would direct the preside…

Israel-Iran live updates: Qatar closes airspace; IDF expands scope of strikes
Iran reiterated its right to self-defense as President Donald Trump repeated his claim that U.S. strikes caused “monumental damage” to Iranian nuclear sites.

Brilliant comedic & operatic response to Whitehouse Press Secretary KKKaroline Leavitt's unabashed lie about Trump's approval ratings having 'never been higher' & reaching 'historic highs'.
(Courtesy of @blancareysoprano)
#trump #humor

New poll on "abundance agenda" shows majority still support local decision-making.
Do you support or oppose limiting local zoning rules to build more homes? Yes 28% No 43%
https://www.gelliottmorris.com/p/trump-approval-at-42-democrats-up
BUT…

Still running a bit hot after this one, but it certainly felt good 😀#running #runnersofmastodon
My HRV is starting to go up again this past week (from the teens to the twenties), and my mood seems to be improving, we shall how long this lasts. Waiting on IgE shoot approval from…

Oh, I see now how quote posting is going to be processed around here...
Not a bad system at all, although I do have my doubts it'll work well when the quoted posts are coming from networks where this kind of approval is tacitly given by default, such as Bluesky, like in this case.
#Mastodon #QuotePosting

The #GiantMagellanTelescope received official approval from the National Science Foundation (NSF) confirming that the observatory will advance into its Major Facilities Final Design Phase, one of the final steps before becoming eligible for federal construction funding: https://astro.arizona.edu/news/giant-magellan-telescope-advances-national-science-foundation-final-design-phase

A voice for minorities: diversity in approval-based committee elections under incomplete or inaccurate information
Feline Lindeboom, Martijn Brehm, Davide Grossi, Pradeep Murukannaiah
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10843

A voice for minorities: diversity in approval-based committee elections under incomplete or inaccurate information
We study diversity in approval-based committee elections with incomplete or inaccurate information. As standard in the literature on approval-based multi-winner voting, we define diversity according to the maximum coverage problem, which is known to be NP-complete, with a best attainable polynomial time approximation ratio of $1-1/\e$. In the incomplete information model, voters can vote on only a small portion of the candidates. We suggest a greedy algorithm and a local search algorithm that q…

Sources: China delays approval of Synopsys' Ansys deal as the US moved in late May to ban chip design software sales by US firms, including Synopsys, to China (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/762b1818-795d-4270-b6cc-5d902d8bc0a8

China delays approval of $35bn US chip merger amid Donald Trump’s trade war
Beijing’s antitrust regulator postpones sign-off on Synopsys and Ansys deal

“OUR DEAL WITH CHINA IS DONE, SUBJECT TO FINAL APPROVAL WITH PRESIDENT XI AND ME,
Why not President Xi and I?

lol this project can go fuck itself
https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/10/xlibre_new_xorg_fork/

Forked-off Xlibre tells Wayland display protocol to DEI in a fire
: Project to modernize the X.org X11 server seems to actively court controversy

Rather pessimistic table of countries on these new Nightjet carriages. Only space for one more country. One would hope that approval for France, Czechia, Slovakia, Poland, Hungary, and perhaps Denmark would be nice to have for future needs.
Or are these tables actually obsolete and will be changed to some “goes everywhere” marking in the future, like what I think is the case for freight wagons?

“The MC5's roaring distortion sound in a box”: MXR and Daredevil bottle Wayne Kramer’s gritty and explosive tone into the Jail Guitar Doors Drive pedal – and it has Tom Morello’s approval https://www.…

From AP religion news:
Southern Baptists target porn, sports betting, same-sex marriage and ‘willful childlessness’
https://apnews.com/article/southern-baptists-pornography-sports-betting-gay-marriage-aac48…

Southern Baptists to meet in Dallas for annual evangelical gathering
Southern Baptists meeting this week in Dallas will be asked to approve resolutions calling for a legal ban on pornography and reversing the U.S. Supreme Court’s approval of same-sex marriage. The proposed resolutions call for laws on gender, marriage and family based on what they say is biblical teaching. They also call for legislators to curtail sports betting and to support policies that promote childbearing. Delegates of the Southern Baptist Convention, the nation’s largest Protestant de…

#Global surveys by #Pew Research finds confidence in #DJT as a world leader by majority of respondents in only three countries: Israel, Hungary & India, for a total approval rating of 34% across 24 surveyed nations. While ranking higher in …

U.S. Image Declines in Many Nations Amid Low Confidence in Trump
More than half of adults in 19 of 24 countries surveyed lack confidence in Trump’s leadership on the world stage.

New poll on "abundance agenda" shows majority still support local decision-making.
Do you support or oppose limiting local zoning rules to build more homes? Yes 28% No 43%
https://www.gelliottmorris.com/p/trump-approval-at-42-democrats-up
BUT…

Indian Creek Village,
the “Billionaire Bunker” near Miami,
couldn’t get approval to discharge its waste into a neighboring town’s sewer lines.
So the village quietly persuaded state lawmakers to force the issue.
In a world where billionaires are increasingly exercising political clout,
the fight over sewage in Indian Creek suggests the degree to which their influence is extending not just to policy in the White House and Congress but to some of the most foundat…

A Billionaire Island Where Bezos and Kushner Live Is Fighting Over Sewage
Indian Creek Village, the “Billionaire Bunker” near Miami, couldn’t get approval to discharge its waste into a neighboring town’s sewer lines. So the village quietly persuaded state lawmakers to come to the rescue.

President Trump says a trade framework with China "is done, subject to final approval with President Xi and me", and the US tariff rate would be 55% "total" (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Trump's approval among Latino voters is crashing, new poll shows (Andrew Howard/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/06/03/somos-votanes-poll-trump-approval-latinos-00381955
http://www.memeorandum.com/250603/p45#a250603p45

On many issues, Americans are deeply polarized.
War with Iran isn’t one of them.
An Economist/YouGov poll of U.S. adults taken in the days after Israel’s attack last Friday found that Democrats opposed entering the conflict by a margin of 50 points and Republicans opposed entering it by a margin of 30 points.
Given these numbers, you might think Democratic leaders would be doing everything they can to prevent President Trump from striking Iran without the approval of Cong…

Opinion | Schumer and Jeffries Need to Step Up and Challenge Trump on War Powers
Failing to aggressively defend Congress’s role in authorizing war would be a serious blunder for Democrats.

Weakening NEPA without replaciing it with something better is no abundance agenda.
This highway widening would foreclose future transit expansion and probably make traffic worse for most drivers.It is opposed by both local governments it goes through. NEPA is the only veto point.
A transit project with the same local opposition would be dead on arrival.

Alexandria asks VDOT to delay adding express lanes to Woodrow Wilson Bridge | ALXnow
Alexandria Mayor Alyia Gaskins and city staff are asking that the Virginia Department of Transportation delay approval of a preferred alternative on a plan to add express lanes from the Springfield Interchange across the Woodrow Wilson Bridge. In an April letter to VDOT, Gaskins wrote that the project will bring "Alexandria "substantial consequences to our

Venus Cloud Research: Progress and Perspectives
Longkang Dai, Dmitrij V. Titov, Wencheng D. Shao, Xi Zhang, Jun Cui, Siteng Fan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.06164

Venus Cloud Research: Progress and Perspectives
Venus has regained attention on the international stage with the approval of three new missions by ESA and NASA. As the twin sister of Earth, Venus exhibits a distinct atmosphere, which casts a veil of mystery over the planetary evolution and is of great scientific significance. One of the most important components of Venus-the cloud-is believed to have significantly regulated its climate evolution and affect the environmental habitability. However, due to sparse in-situ measurements and the li…

What. The. Actual. Fuck. https://kolektiva.social/@alissaazar/114656946056668221

Alissa Azar (@alissaazar@kolektiva.social)
Attached: 2 images So yeah. Things started off as they usually do. Couldn’t check in online or at a kiosk. Got to the front desk to check in where I waited over 2 hours for them to get approval from TSA to let me through. Before leaving they asked if I was checking a bag. I said yes, one. They proceeded to charge me for the bag and sent me off with my boarding pass equipped with the SSSS stamp. Before I left they called me back and said TSA told them I had to take my checked bag with me to…

Sources: OpenAI wants Microsoft to take a ~33% stake in exchange for giving up future profit rights, and seeks to revise its exclusive cloud deal with Microsoft (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/opena…

OpenAI Seeks New Financial Concessions From Microsoft, a Top Shareholder
Negotiations between Microsoft and OpenAI over the startup’s plan to restructure its for-profit unit, which requires Microsoft’s approval, have entered their eighth month with no end in sight and new conflicts emerging. OpenAI wants Microsoft, the startup’s biggest outside shareholder, to have a ...

New poll: Trump and deportations unpopular with voters, Dems up 8 in House vote (G. Elliott Morris/Strength In Numbers)
https://www.gelliottmorris.com/p/trump-approval-at-42-democrats-up
http://www.memeorandum.com/250616/p27#a250616p27

Senate Democrats are increasingly concerned that President Donald Trump is considering striking Iran without seeking authorization from Congress
— or even filling them in on his plans.

Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Virginia) is mounting a last-ditch push to force a vote as soon as next week
to restrain Trump from attacking Iran without Congress’s approval.

Other Senate Democrats say the White House has not briefed them on its plans for a potential strike.
And some are warn…

Democrats raise war powers concerns as Trump mulls Iran strike
The pushback follows Trump’s encroachment on almost every congressional prerogative — from taking control of the power of the purse to threatening tariffs.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2202.01660 has been replaced.
link: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=a

On the Complexity of Winner Determination and Strategic Control in Conditional Approval Voting
We focus on a generalization of the classic Minisum approval voting rule, introduced by Barrot and Lang (2016), and referred to as Conditional Minisum (CMS), for multi-issue elections with preferential dependencies. Under this rule, voters are allowed to declare dependencies between different issues, but the price we have to pay for this higher level of expressiveness is that we end up with a computationally hard rule. Motivated by this, we first focus on finding special cases that admit effici…

Nexstar has deleted references to DEI and data on its workforce composition from its site; it is interested in acquisitions that are subject to FCC approval (Matthew Keys/The Desk)
https://thedesk.net/2025/05/nexstar-ends-dei-programs-policies/

Scoop: Nexstar pulls back on DEI programs amid FCC lobbying efforts
The broadcaster removed references to its diversity, equity and inclusiveness programs from its website and social media profiles.

Britain's parliament voted on Tuesday to
decriminalise abortion
in England and Wales
to stop a growing number of women from being investigated by police
for terminating pregnancies
under legislation dating back to the mid-19th century.
Abortions have been legal in England and Walesfor almost 60 years
but only up to 24 weeks and with the approval of two doctors.
Women can face criminal charges if they decide to end a pregnancy after 24 week…

Sources: Chinese diplomats agree to a six-month ease of rare-earth export licenses, with the earliest application approval within a week of the deal's signing (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/world/china/beijing-pu

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.09880 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csSE_…

Determining Absence of Unreasonable Risk: Approval Guidelines for an Automated Driving System Deployment
This paper provides an overview of how the determination of absence of unreasonable risk can be operationalized. It complements previous theoretical work published by existing developers of Automated Driving Systems (ADS) on the overall engineering practices and methodologies for readiness determination. Readiness determination is, at its core, a risk assessment process. It is aimed at evaluating the residual risk associated with a new deployment. The paper proposes methodological criteria to g…

Trump's deportation program nets positive approval amid contrasting views over its scope, CBS News poll finds (Anthony Salvanto/CBS News)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/deportation-immigration-opinion-poll/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250608/p26#a250608p26

Walmart's Flipkart secures a lending license from the RBI, letting the e-commerce company offer loans directly to Indian customers and sellers on its platform (Ashwin Manikandan/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/w

#Anarchism #Syndicalism #AnarchoSyndicalism #Anarchy

Representative Don Bacon, Republican of Nebraska,
has publicly accused President Trump of treating Russia with “velvet gloves,”
criticized him for gutting AmeriCorps
and questioned his power to impose tariffs without congressional approval.
He has described Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s use of Signal to share sensitive military operations as “unacceptable.”
And he was the sole House Republican to vote “no” on a bill to rename the Gulf of Mexico as the “Gulf of…

Breaking With Trump, Bacon Says He Won’t Follow His Party ‘Off the Cliff’
The Nebraska Republican’s dissent makes him one of a disappearing breed in the G.O.P. — and suggests he may head for the exit.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, contracts must first go through an approval process led in part by a young man who worked as a Temple University food hall monitor last year.
A few weeks earlier, Politico reported on a different young man, just four years removed from high school, who was appointed to serve as the acting chief AI officer at the Department of Health and Human Services, while on leave from pursuing his undergraduate degree.
The problem is made w…

Despite talk of ‘meritocracy,’ a Team of Amateurs holds sway on Team Trump
One of the things that people outside of Washington, D.C., might not fully appreciate about how the city works is the outsize influence of young adults.

Sources: TSMC is evaluating building a "gigafab" in the UAE and has discussed the possibility with MGX and officials in the Trump administration (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-0…

TSMC Is Said to Evaluate Building Advanced Chip Plant in the UAE
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. is evaluating building an advanced production facility in the United Arab Emirates and has discussed the possibility with officials in President Donald Trump’s administration, according to people familiar with the matter, a potentially major bet on the Middle East that would only come to fruition with Washington’s approval.

Strengthening Proportionality in Temporal Voting
Bradley Phillips, Edith Elkind, Nicholas Teh, Tomasz W\k{a}s
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.22513 https://

Strengthening Proportionality in Temporal Voting
We study proportional representation in the framework of temporal voting with approval ballots. Prior work adapted basic proportional representation concepts -- justified representation (JR), proportional JR (PJR), and extended JR (EJR) -- from the multiwinner setting to the temporal setting. Our work introduces and examines ways of going beyond EJR. Specifically, we consider stronger variants of JR, PJR, and EJR, and introduce temporal adaptations of more demanding multiwinner axioms, such as …