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A federal judge on Wednesday blocked Donald Trump's asylum ban at the U.S.-Mexico border,
saying Trump exceeded his authority when he issued a proclamation declaring illegal immigration an emergency and setting aside existing legal processes.
https:…

EXPOSURE THERAPY FOR INTERNET ADDICTED DEBATE PEOPLE
1. strap them to a chair, show them a mild take they disagree with by someone who's otherwise 99% aligned with their goals
2. watch them thrash angrily, unable to crash out on their socials, for the next 4 days
3. they settle, and think about this reaction after a week of being stuck there. they sheepishly set it aside in favor of teamwork
4. repeat with bigger and bigger issues until they have reasonable expec…

Attorney General Pam Bondi told tech companies that they could
lawfully violate a statute barring American companies from supporting TikTok
based on a sweeping claim that Trump has the constitutional power to set aside laws.
In letters to companies like Apple and Google,
Ms. Bondi wrote that Trump had decided that shutting down TikTok would interfere with his
“constitutional duties,”
so the law banning the social media app must give way to his
“core …

How the Trump Administration Justified Ignoring the TikTok Ban
In purporting to license otherwise illegal conduct by tech firms, President Trump set a precedent expanding executive power, legal experts warned.

The % of GDP spent on Defence isn't necessarily a measure that makes sense. Estonia is spending over a billion Euros a year which is whereabouts 3% is, and that makes sense for the size of Estonia's overall GDP.
The UK spend currently about £52B, spending 3% would take it to £76.8B, aside from spending more than the £20B what greater amount of defence would it actually provide a year?
An extra 10B and perhaps it would provide for missiles and ammunition. Greater manpow…

As an aside, I spent an embarrassingly long time on getting the icons in the taskbar of that meme just right. The pictograms spell my name, if you look hard enough, and accept that a duck can be an "R". 😅

Gov. approves funds for new Browns stadium https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45632687/ohio-governor-signs-budget-includes-funds-browns-stadium

I read Bostrom's book SUPERINTELLIGENCE back when I worked at Google —
Blaise A— insisted that it go on the "AI" SF book club reading list
(as an aside: I started the book club; we were mostly reading, uh, cautionary stories)
SUPERINTELLIGENCE is garbage, & I said so: throw around big numbers until your moral calculus has a floating-point overflow & you can be convinced of obviously crazy things
(phrasing wasn't so clean at the time)
.…

Thiel is fully supportive of burning up the Earth & dumping it for Mars.
Put aside the other jackass that wants to "Occupy Mars" & the utter stupidity of leaving Earth...
...who do you think he believes can/should AFFORD to leave earth after he's used all its resources?
https://

On Thursday 03.07. I'll have the honor of giving a talk with @… on "Fascist AI" in the "Loops" series of events (https://www.newpractice.net/loops

Loops Series
The Loops Event Series brings together perspectives on Art and Technology in relation to current challenges facing society. The event series is supported by the Berlin University Alliance.

Heh, so people in the import/export world, instead of dealing with Trump’s short-attention-span/TACO tariff policies, now have to deal with the uncertainties of US constitutional litigation. Joking aside, I think that’s an improvement.
#USpol

"""
Writing has been an instrument for some of the highest expressions of the human spirit: poetry, philosophy, science. But to understand it — why it came into being, how it changed the human experience — we have to first appreciate its crass practicality. It evolved mainly as an instrument of the mundane: the economic, the administrative, the political.
Confusion over this point is understandable. Some scholars have equated the origin of “civilization” with the origin of writing. Laypeople sometimes take this equation to mean that with writing humanity put aside its barbarous past and started behaving in gentlemanly fashion, sipping tea and remembering to say “please.” And indeed, this may be only a mild caricature of what some nineteenth-century scholars actually meant by the equation: writing equals Greece equals Plato; illiteracy equals barbarism equals Attila the Hun.
But, in truth, if you add literacy to Attila the Hun, you don’t get Plato. You get Genghis Khan. During the thirteenth century, he administered what even today is the largest continuous land empire in the history of the world. And he could do so only because he had the requisite means of control: a script that, when carried by his pony express, amounted to the fastest large-scale information-processing technology of his era. One consequence was to give pillaging a scope beyond Attila’s wildest dreams. Information technology, like energy technology or any other technology, can be a tool for good or bad. By itself, it is no guarantor of moral progress or civility.
"""
(Robert Wright, Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny)

One of the reasons I appreciate walking, biking, and public transit so much (aside from just being a more joyful/connected way to travel, and better for our environment) is because they starve so many absolutely awful billionaires/corporations/oligarchs of profit. Oil companies, car manufacturers, large chain stores..
https://

Trump eyes staff cuts to top spy agency as he sweeps aside Iran intelligence (Stars & Stripes)
https://www.stripes.com/theaters/us/2025-06-27/donald-trump-cuts-top-spy-agency-18268837.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250628/p11#a250628p11

Around the turn of this century, a composer named Camille Saint-Saens wrote
a satirical zoological-fantasy called "Le Carnaval des Animaux." Aside from
one movement of this piece, "The Swan", Saint-Saens didn't allow this work
to be published or even performed until a year had elapsed after his death.
(He died in 1921.)
Most of us know the "Swan" movement rather well, with its smooth,
flowing cello melody against a calm backgr…

Setting aside copyright/commercial/other aspects, a thought about writing blog posts that LLMs train on. When people write posts, they (a) feel good about helping others, and (b) hope to get some credit and visibility for doing so.
When mediated through LLMs, no longer the satisfaction that your consumer is a human (who might comment, thank, share, etc.); nor the cred that comes from people remembering the author, posting on HN, etc.
That is, it totally destroys the incentive str…

TOMI: Transforming and Organizing Music Ideas for Multi-Track Compositions with Full-Song Structure
Qi He, Gus Xia, Ziyu Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.23094

TOMI: Transforming and Organizing Music Ideas for Multi-Track Compositions with Full-Song Structure
Hierarchical planning is a powerful approach to model long sequences structurally. Aside from considering hierarchies in the temporal structure of music, this paper explores an even more important aspect: concept hierarchy, which involves generating music ideas, transforming them, and ultimately organizing them--across musical time and space--into a complete composition. To this end, we introduce TOMI (Transforming and Organizing Music Ideas) as a novel approach in deep music generation and dev…

I’d rate myself an #AI skeptic to agnostic. I hadn’t used the tools at all, because I had problems w/ creation of the models: resource usage, & IP theft, were top of mind. Hallucinations a big issue too.
But I tried it, and even though I can’t set aside my concerns I’ll say I was impressed.
I used Claude to produce a Zsh prompt to replace one I’ve used for years using Oh My Zsh.
What …

Zsh prompt from Claude
Zsh prompt from Claude. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

This is one of my fave ever Tumblr posts:
https://www.tumblr.com/0hpartyb1/784389727648366592?source=share
I need this quality of stupid on here. Tbf, Linux reply guys are doing a lot of heavy lifting but could be more annoying?

Reblog by @0hpartyb1 · 11 images
💬 831  🔁 210568  ❤️ 154965 · all goofing aside I genuinely don't understand the urge to reimagine Taylor Allison Swift as a secretly queer icon when the pop music scene(TM) is like. literally overf…

Curvy points, the perimeter, and the complexity of convex toric domains
Dan Cristofaro-Gardiner, Nicki Magill, Dusa McDuff
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.23498

Curvy points, the perimeter, and the complexity of convex toric domains
We study the related notions of curvature and perimeter for toric boundaries and their implications for symplectic packing problems; a natural setting for this is a generalized version of convex toric domain which we also study, where there are no conditions on the moment polytope at all aside from convexity. We show that the subleading asymptotics of the ECH and elementary ECH capacities recover the perimeter of such domains in their liminf, without any genericity required, and hence the per…

New York Times op-ed coming soon (probably):
Why Ionizing Radiation is Actually Good for You
“Sprinkle fallout on your breakfast cereal and you’ll feel warm all day,” says HHS Secretary rfk jr, “I did that starting this morning, and aside from the hair loss and my stomach lining sloughing off, I feel great!”
#USpol

Prediction: interest in electrode-based BCIs will wane (aside from niches), as non-implantable ("non-invasive") phased array focused ultrasound will take over for both brain stimulation and measuring brain activity https://www.cell.com/neuron/fulltext/S0896-6273(20)…

A small aside, during my vacation I finally started on writing a Metal backend for SwiftTerm.
It has a few missing features, so not worth comparing performance yet, but it is feeling great:
https://github.com/migueldeicaza/SwiftTerm/tree/metal-backend

GitHub - migueldeicaza/SwiftTerm at metal-backend
Xterm/VT100 Terminal emulator in Swift. Contribute to migueldeicaza/SwiftTerm development by creating an account on GitHub.

Sonnet 076 - LXXVI
Why is my verse so barren of new pride,
So far from variation or quick change?
Why with the time do I not glance aside
To new-found methods, and to compounds strange?
Why write I still all one, ever the same,
And keep invention in a noted weed,
That every word doth almost tell my name,
Showing their birth, and where they did proceed?
O! know sweet love I always write of you,
And you and love are still my argument;…

As an interesting aside here, this would mean that Hawaii would technically return to a monarchy since the kingdom has been illegally occupied since 1893 and the promise of returning sovereignty has never been fulfilled.

AutoSAS: a new human-aside-the-loop paradigm for automated SAS fitting for high throughput and autonomous experimentation
Duncan R. Sutherland, Rachel Ford, Yun Liu, Tyler B. Martin, Peter A. Beaucage
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13918

AutoSAS: a new human-aside-the-loop paradigm for automated SAS fitting for high throughput and autonomous experimentation
The advancement of artificial-intelligence driven autonomous experiments demands physics-based modeling and decision-making processes, not only to improve the accuracy of the experimental trajectory but also to increase trust by allowing transparent human-machine collaboration. High-quality structural characterization techniques (e.g., X-ray, neutron, or static light scattering) are a particularly relevant example of this need: they provide invaluable information but are challenging to analyze …

Jazzaria – Lost Insight
#acoustic

The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that states may exclude Planned Parenthood clinics from providing medical screenings and other healthcare for women on Medicaid.
The court’s conservative majority cast aside the longstanding rule that said Medicaid patients may obtain medical care from any qualified provider.
In a 6-3 vote, the justices ruled the Medicaid Act does not give patients an “individual right” to the provider of their choice.
The dispute turned on abortion, even …

Supreme Court says states may bar women on Medicaid from using Planned Parenthood clinics
Conservative states that banned abortion are still fighting with Planned Parenthood, which provides medical screening for women.

"Staff who provide data to the vaccine panel have been pushed aside, according to health officials, raising doubts about the availability of coronavirus and other vaccines."
RFK Jr's vaccine panel overhaul sparks chaos, uncertainty about access - The Washington Post
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/06/13/rfk-jr-vaccine-committee-overhaul/

Watching the Padres at #Dodgers, aside from it should be a good game I’m wondering if the SNLA (a team subsidiary I assume) announcers will talk about the big news story.

Popcorn aside, the implosion of the Trump-Musk axis is probably not bad news for the world.

The most shortsighted take on "let's replace human iNaturalist contributors with 'AI'" that I've read comes from people that cite that shit paper about how much more energy efficient "AI" is at solving tasks than humans.
All aspects of human enjoyment and fulfilment that comes from volunteering aside. It's not like they'll put all contributors against the wall to save energy now, do they?! Bob Contributor will still drive his car, eat his sandwiches and burn energy 🤦‍♂️

Since moving ALL* my cacti and succulents from my office to my bedroom, they are doing SO much better! Clearly south facing window was too much for them.
Anyway, I am left with a whole empty window ledge that I am wondering what to fill it with.
Suggestions please?
#WFH
*aside from a plastic one with a cute face on the pot

Maybe it could even guess when you've been around someone, setting aside blocks where your hrv, etc. seem to be fairly uniform...and one could then identify that block as being x or y (could be a person, ones pet, watching a TV show) and then it could watch for similar patterns of measurements and ask if you were in xs proximity again, over time we might find unique signatures associated with specific people, activities, locations?

Track star to Panthers RB to Canadian Olympic flag football? Chuba Hubbard keeps dream alive https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45498715/nfl-carolina-panthers-chuba-hubbard-olympics-flag-football-track

32 years together, 27 married. She with a thick Arkansan accent, he with a weird Slavic-Penn Dutch combo dialect that at times led to genuinely comic misunderstanding. Language barrier aside, couldn’t have a better partner in life.

Despite Close Ties With Iran, Russia Stands Aside as Israel Attacks (Paul Sonne/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/17/world/middleeast/iran-russia-relationship-analysis.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250617/p182#a250617p182

"Mary Maxwell Gates, Bill’s mother, was appointed to the board of directors of the national United Way in 1980. And guess who else was in that committee? The late John Opel, president, chairman, and CEO of…, you guessed it, IBM, between 1974 and 1986."
https://deprogrammaticaipsum.com/gary-

I've been dabbling in the world of Linux on the desktop in the past week or so, mostly from the gaming angle, and I Have Thoughts.
But... aside from criticisms, as someone who used Wine in its infancy, it's amazing to see it just work. Start Steam, click a checkbox, start a game. That's literally it!

The mirror map and other natural tangent tensors
R. Albuquerque
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10881 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.10881

The mirror map and other natural tangent tensors
We review the intrinsic geometry of the tangent bundle of a differentiable manifold $M$, aside from any non-natural structures. We recall the properties of the mirror map $B\in\mathrm{End}(TTM)$, known also as the canonical endomorphism or the almost-tangent structure, solve some cohomological questions and raise other induced by the $\mathrm{d}_B$ operator.

Aside from my upcoming project:
Here's a handy guide of accessibility features on this year's #DublinPride
https://dublinpride.ie/accessibility/

#WritersCoffeeClub
June 10: Where is the line between homage and theft?
Oh, that one's simple. Homage is when I do it.
Jokes aside, it's about motivation and scope, however subjective and unreliable that may be. Treating characters and stories with respect is homage. Indicating that borrowed things are, in fact, borrowed and referring the source is homage. Eventually…

The liberal obsession with optics serves the right and persuades no one. There is literally an active ethnic cleansing happening in the US right now, and the only thing that matters is making that as hard as possible to carry out.
Anarchists destroying intelligence assets saves lives. Every escooter thrown at a cop car is one less escort for a goon too afraid to kidnap random brown people without being flanked by a branch full of bad apples. Spray paint is not violence. Vandalism is not violence. Community self defense in all forms is legitimate.
Make no mistake, these raids are about changing demographics. Demographic trends have been shifting blue for a long time, and the right has, for a long time, been blaming "white replacement." Conspiracy theory aside, Democrats have also been relying on the growth of black and brown voters as a block. The nuances of whiteness as an identity are lost on the current administration and their supporters. They see that "white people will be a minority by 2050" and equate that with the "end of Western Civilization."
The only way to "save Western Civilization" is to change those demographics. Forced birth and forced removal are two sides of the same white nationalist objective. Of course they can't have due process, because they need to be able to kidnap anyone who they see as a threat to their demographic future.
They don't care about optics. The plan is to murder away any threat and flood everyone else with propaganda. There is no mythical middle. There's no one unconvinced. They know this, but they win when democrats buy that myth and save the police the work of policing the protests.
If your protest is 90% "peaceful," they'll take pictures of the 10% that isn't. If it's 99% peaceful, they'll shoot rubber bullets and teargas until someone throws a brick and take 100 pictures from a dozen angles. If its 100% "peaceful" and no one can be provoked, they'll generate pictures with AI or photoshop like they did during the George Floyd uprising and the pictures from the CHOP/CHAZ. Do you have literally no memory?
#USPol #FiftyFiftyOne #50501movenent #resistance #NoKingsDay #NoKingsDayOfAction