It was a plan House G.O.P. leaders hoped would satisfy everyone in their party:
With a special budget bill, they would bypass Democratic opposition and provide tens of billions for the Iran war while imposing new election restrictions Trump has demanded.
Instead, a day after the leaders released the plan, which hews closely to a spending request the White House sent to Capitol Hill last month,
it became clear it is a product that no one really likes.
The measure, whic…
🔍 refscout profiles live award-winning sites for the libraries they really load, pinned scenes, scroll budget, fonts and painted palette. moodboard builds a numbered contact sheet, and source.mjs fetches licence-clean HDRIs and glTF models with every licence recorded.
We finally got round to watching #deathofaunicorn last night. Sure there was some fairly saccharine writing and shonky #cgi but we still found it a very funny creature feature with loads of Easter eggs and nods to classic horror tropes. Considering it's budget I think it understood the assig…
Speicherkrise: Budget-Smartphones werden für Hersteller unrentabel
Steigende DRAM- und NAND-Preise setzen Smartphone-Hersteller unter Druck. Besonders Geräte unter 400 US-Dollar werden zunehmend unrentabel.
Thatch, a healthcare plan marketplace where employers set a fixed budget that employees can use for individual plans, raised a $108M Series C at a $1B valuation (Marina Temkin/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/15/heal…
UK local government structures aren't the most exciting, glamorous part of our democratic institutions; but abolishing our local district councils AND the County Council, and replacing it with a new body that will be like a sort of council, covering the whole... county, like the existing council but with fewer elected reps, a bigger budget and bigger coterie of faceless professional administrators. I wonder if the Chief Ex's pay will be above £250K?
So it
- costs a load o…
📋 Pipeline runs in fixed order: recon − commit-sheet − generated assets − build − gate. A single brand hue, a type system, a motion budget and named anti-references are decided upfront, so there is no "let's see how it looks" drift.
SQLite for Everything
https://joecode.com/2026-08-19-sqlite3/
We have so many remarkable tools that we avoid using because something else has a shiner marketing budget. (Though SQLite's type system is pretty mediocre.)
heise | 16 GByte für lokale KI: Budget-Grafikkarten von AMD und Nvidia im Vergleich
AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT vs. Nvidia GeForce RTX 5060 Ti: Wir lassen die 16-GByte-Karten auf drei LLMs los und beurteilen, ob sich der Nvidia-Aufpreis lohnt.
Me: Hmmm, we should fill this annual budget, we don’t spend anything on “hobbies,“ don’t we?
Also me: \*registers for an ACM conference without an own contribution for $ 750 early bird member rate\*
#KaChing
I'll be disappointed if the next UK budget doesn't include a windfall tax on recipients of large political donations.
This latest move is a brazen power grab by the Director of the Office of Management and Budget
to buck the will of Congress and the American people
and will make future discoveries less likely.
If this rule becomes final, Americans’ hopes for future cures, national security and economic strength will rely on the scientific sensibilities of the nation’s chief bureaucrat.
Alzheimer’s disease will not be cured by a budget analyst from either political party.
We keep hearing how lack of #AffordableHousing is a major problem for San Francisco -
So please, #MayorLurie, explain how dedicating revenue to address this identified problem is a #SlushFund. …
We keep hearing how lack of #AffordableHousing is a major problem for San Francisco -
So please, #MayorLurie, explain how dedicating revenue to address this identified problem is a #SlushFund. …
Should I get lower-quality items so that I can provide more of them within my budget, or better (more expensive) items (because everyone deserves better stuff) and not be able to buy as many?
Should I buy a bagful of a single item that food pantries have said they need, or a smaller quantity of a variety of items?
Should I get some interesting items that the food pantries probably don't receive many of, or stick with the basics?
The latest issue on the SqlClient repository is a huge wall of slop about auto-triage exceeding daily AI credits budget. 🤪 #dotnet ecosystem is suffocating to AI.
Bus cap proposal ‘throws global south countries under the bus’, says ActionAid UK director.
Funding bus fare cap from aid budget will hit world’s poorest, Burnham told | Transport policy | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/
BOFH excuse #376:
Budget cuts forced us to sell all the power cords for the servers.
Random thought: assuming infinite budget but only technology available today, would it be possible to keep a human head alive and conscious indefinitely without the rest of the body (for the rest of its natural lifespan) a la Futurama heads in jars?
Assume some sort of surgical procedure to remove the torso, hook the carotid and jugular to ECMO hemodialysis, and periodic infusions of total parenteral nutrition along with some means to cover the exposed tissue and promote healing of t…
Ich war nie radikaler Pazifist im Sinne von andere Wange hinhalten wäre immer die beste Strategie, und ich denke auch nicht, daß wir Spieler wie Putin einfach wegverhandeln können, wenn wir nichts entgegenzusetzen haben.
Insofern kann ich die inhärente Logik grundsätzlich nachvollziehen, die nach einer Verteidigungsarmee und entsprechendem Budget verlangt.
Mein Hauptproblem dabei ist: bei der aktuellen Regierungspolitik muß sich alles kurzfristig rechnen, ob Krankenhäuser, Univer…
Sources: Apple is discussing multiyear content deals with publishers to deliver current news and information for Siri AI, with a potential nine-figure budget (Alexandra Bruell/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/bu…
Meta so: "Wir machen KI." Auch Meta: baut praktisch eine neue Stadt... 🏙️ Der Konzern lässt in Louisiana seinen Hyperion-Campus entstehen, der auf knapp 16 Quadratkilometern zu den flächenmäßig größten Rechenzentrumsprojekten weltweit zählen soll. 🏗️
Zum Artikel: https://…
In the fall of 1965,
after the Voting Rights Act passed,
the coalition of black, socialist, and progressive leaders who had come together to organize 1963’s March on Washington
joined together again to create an ambitious policy document
with no less a goal than ending poverty in the United States
without cost to taxpayers.
First released in 1966,
it proposed using strong economic growth to provide a federal jobs guarantee,
universal health ca…
I'm not even the first person to say things along this line either:
"Another motivation for reducing the steel intensity of modern society is to limit the consequences of geopolitical conflicts. The more steel we produce for peaceful purposes, the more steel becomes available for war and destruction. Remarkably, the production of military equipment is absent from modern steel statistics, and if mentioned, its share is very low. However, in times of war, steelmaking facilities switch to producing steel for military purposes. The steel industry can thus be converted into a weapons industry at any moment, and there is now a lot more steel production capacity available than there has ever been in history."
https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2024/03/how-to-escape-from-the-iron-age/ buried in the last footnote.
Oh, and that article also shows the math that proves that there is no way to move to EVs without absolutely blowing through the carbon budget. You have to switch to bikes and trains. There's literally no other way to keep an even close to habitable planet.
Calvin Coolidge, the 30th POTUS, was such a loser:
- balanced budget each year
- lowered fed budget
- did not own a home
- had a pet raccoon
Anyway: #history #corruption #Korea
Luisier présente un budget pessimiste encore plus que les années précédents, en intégrant tous les imprévus possibles. Il ne sera pas pour autant plus précis. Au contraire, l’écart entre le budget et les comptes (plus positifs) va se creuser. Si on change les bases de calcul en pleine campagne, c’est donc une opération idéologique de communication. https://www.rts.ch/audio-podcast/2026/audio/forum-29357140.html
Does anyone know the best budget way to make a LoRA APRS mobile tracker? Can only find the heltec tracker on 433mhz on AliExpress haha, was wondering if anyone has experience with it.
#LoRaAPRS #aprs #radio
It’s about fucking time.
There’s an opportunity that has just been sitting there waiting for months to impeach everyone, or at least write up the details and force every last Republican to endorse the blatant criminality of each corrupt thug. @…
Wenigstens auf Instagram funktioniert die Demokratie noch. Kack-Beatles.
Tfw you wanna buy physical / DRM-free digital media, but your entertainment budget is empty, yet again 🫠
Washington state pushes back on federal overreach that threatens far-ranging issues from public health to the state budget
https://content.govdelivery.com/accounts/WAGOV/bulletins/420af90
Internal email: Microsoft introduces token budget limits for employees' AI use, saying "tokenmaxxing is not what we are optimizing for" (Emanuel Maiberg/404 Media)
https://www.404media.co/microsoft-tells-engineers-tokenmaxxing-i…
UK local government structures aren't the most exciting, glamorous part of our democratic institutions; but abolishing our local district councils AND the County Council, and replacing it with a new body that will be like a sort of council, covering the whole... county, like the existing council but with fewer elected reps, a bigger budget and bigger coterie of faceless professional administrators. I wonder if the Chief Ex's pay will be above £250K?
So it
- costs a load of money
- will inevitably degrade quality of services
- ...the replacement local elected representatives will cover much larger constituencies, at least 500% more constituents (counting on my fingers)
- And will abolish official recognition of the very unique, distinctive area (the Forest of Dean).
Thank goodness we all still trust our democratic institutions, and don't already feel insecure, abandoned, betrayed and ignored. And how fortunate it is that social cohesion is solid as a rock, and we all happily join hands with our fellow citizens regardless of race, gender, social class, wealth and so on! Not to worry, it must have been 40 or 50 years since there was any sort of large scale social unrest and, er, riots.
Viture stellt günstige Display-Brille und USB-C-Dock für Nintendo Switch 2 vor
Viture bringt ein Budget-Modell auf den Markt und bietet neues Zubehör, das die eigenen Display-Brillen mit der Nintendo Switch 2 kompatibel macht.
Last August, the Trump administration issued an executive order intended to fundamentally alter how grant funding is handled by the US government.
Under the system that had made the US a scientific superpower, peer reviewers rated the scientific quality and feasibility of grant applications,
and subject-matter experts within the funding agencies used these ratings to determine which grants got funded.
Under the proposed rules, political appointees would have the final say,…
From Translink
R2 RapidBus launches between Phibbs Exchange and Metrotown three months early and under budget
#Vancouver #Transit
New all-day service will create more direct connection to jobs, schools, and major destinations across the North Shore, Vancouver, and Burnaby
TransLink is deliv…
Actually real. Insane, and real.
We did know he wants to f*ck up voting.
😲😬🤦♂️
source: #USpol
RE: https://mastodon.social/@burger_jaap/116686096160169413
And the entire budget (€17 million) was snapped up within an hour. That’s 2,000 old petrol cars off the road, and 2,000 additional batteries on wheels ready to harness Irish wind power.
…
Due to a need for budget austerity, we are now means-testing the benefit of the doubt
I've been asked a bunch of times to write up my "QSO in a Kilo(gram)" ham radio kit that is light enough to just drop into my computer bag and have with me to deploy at a moment's notice.
I kept not writing it up because I haven't taken all the opportunities to make it even lighter and wanted to try just one more thing — which was silly. I can always make another blog post, or edit this one.
Everything (beyond what I already carry with me) that I need to work 60…
If Star Wars had a $10 Budget
#StarWars #YouTube
Today, I've heard the third instance of a project losing a valuable contributor because the university that had the budget and intention to hire them had a contract (or extension) planned, and all of a sudden there are uncommunicated problems, the contract would start months later, leaving the contributor unemployed for a months-long gap. Again in this case, the contributor switched to more reliable employer in industry.
How hard can it be for management departments to act responsi…
"Like US presidents before him, Trump has found that Netanyahu can be a difficult ally."
Ally? With allies like that, who needs enemies? Manipulating Trump into a pointless war that squanders the US defense budget and depletes our military's resources? That's an ally?
Netanyahu rejects US-led 15-point Gaza peace plan in rare public break with Trump
"Like US presidents before him, Trump has found that Netanyahu can be a difficult ally."
Ally? With allies like that, who needs enemies? Manipulating Trump into a pointless war that squanders the US defense budget and depletes our military's resources? That's an ally?
Netanyahu rejects US-led 15-point Gaza peace plan in rare public break with Trump
Which Model Is Actually Serving You? IRIS: Budgeted Black-Box Auditing of Model Substitution and Routing Dilution in LLM Gateways
Yuewei Zhang, Zhi-Hai Zhang, Hanzhang Qin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.20860 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2607.20860 https://arxiv.org/html/2607.20860
arXiv:2607.20860v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Commercial LLM gateways mediate access to hosted models, but the served backend may not match the advertised one: it may substitute a cheaper model on every request or route only a fraction $\epsilon$ of requests to it. Prior black-box auditors often need a privileged signal (log-probabilities, token ranks, or reference samples) or a target-specific probe, fix the query budget in advance, and return a yes/no verdict. We present $\mathrm{IRIS}$, an audit that needs only the returned text: it asks endpoints to generate random numbers or strings, fingerprints the backend, and is the first to combine, in one text-only audit, detection of whole-stream substitution and fractional dilution, attribution of the served backend, routing-fraction ($\epsilon$) estimation, and a query budget it sizes itself. A cheap pilot fits the exponential query-error decay and freezes that budget before any suspect query is issued. On an intra-family Qwen3 ladder $\mathrm{IRIS}$ verifies the backend at $0.99$ AUROC and sharpens attribution as queries accumulate; across a commercial OpenRouter library it catches $\epsilon{=}0.3$ dilution on margin-qualified pairs at $0.85$ mean power ($0.017$ false-positive rate) and recovers $\epsilon$ to within $0.04$ for enrolled diluents; and a live cross-provider audit flags $14$ of $15$ same-model provider pairs by genuine quantization and kernel deviations, corroborated on third-party MET traces. Against comparable black-box auditors, $\mathrm{IRIS}$ matches or beats detection on shared tasks, and adaptive allocation lifts the matched-budget target-hit rate from $73$% to $87$%. Further experiments cover adversarial gateways, knob identifiability, unseen diluents, and false-positive control.
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much controversy in the #IETF, while #NSA is using their budget to stuff the ballot, i'm unsure if @… and @…
Pause before you agree, renew, or continue. Compare the request with everything your budget must cover. Pressure can make a request feel urgent. It cannot create more hours, money, or attention.
Choose one change for each commitment you no longer want to fund.
Nothing CMF: Kein neues Budget-Smartphone 2026
Aufgrund der hohen Kosten für Arbeitsspeicher bringt Nothing 2026 kein neues CMF Phone auf den Markt. Der Preis sei zu hoch für ein Gerät der Mittelklasse.
https://www.
House Adopts $95 Billion G.O.P. Budget for Iran War
Republican leaders muscled through resistance in their own ranks to approve the budget blueprint for the war and other measures,
but its prospects are far dimmer in the Senate
House Republicans on Wednesday won narrow approval of their $95 billion budget plan to fund the war with Iran
and impose new election restrictions that Trump has demanded,
muscling through dissent in their ranks to send the measure to a …
"in its annual block grant to the Scottish government, the UK government deducts what it would have collected in income tax revenue had its rates been applied north of the border."
"Scottish income tax receipts, for 2024-25, were £209m lower than [...] forecast."
"combined with higher than expected income tax revenue in England and Northern Ireland, [...] the Treasury will deduct from the Scottish Budget [...] a record £720m."
UK Treasury not r…
Survey: Chinese companies plan to allocate 46% of their AI accelerator budget to domestic products in the next 12 months, up from 30% today, a shift from Nvidia (Gao Yuan/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026…
🔧 Three pieces mirror the Python RLM design: a system prompt, a $CONTEXT file plus bash as the REPL, and the native rlm_query sub-call. Depth 0 and 1 get full tools; the leaf at max depth runs bash only. jj workspaces isolate child edits when available.
🛡️ Five guardrails guarantee termination: dollar budget, wall-clock timeout, call limit, depth limit and PATH scrubbing. Deeper agents are told to be more conservative, preferring direct action over spawning more children.
Isn't there an easy way to manage this?
Set gilt interest rates on an offer basis, rather than letting the bond market decide them.
If I lend to the government (via NS&I), I know what the rates offered are.
It wouldn't make a big change overnight, but over time....
UK long-term borrowing costs could halve chancellor’s budget headroom | Gilts | The Guardian
Trump’s decision to keep National Guard troops deployed to Washington, D.C.,
through the end of his term will cost an additional $1.4 billion in taxpayer funds,
according to budget estimates provided to Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s office and shared with NOTUS.
The new estimates cover the time period from October 2026 through January 2029,
adding to the millions that have already been spent to pay, house and equip the soldiers currently deployed to D.C.
The deploymen…
Norwegisches Parlament beschließt Bau eines Tunnels für Hochseeschiffe
In Norwegen sollen Schiffe künftig einen Bergrücken zwischen zwei Fjorden unterqueren. Das Parlament hat das Budget für das umstrittene Projekt genehmigt.
The #bbc, in its coverage of the weapons £ increases, predictably doesn't give airtime to critics of this reckless warmongering.
The actual priority is to re-structure the defence budget to create readiness for climate and related shocks.
Start with the nuclear subs, bombs and missiles.
The Nancy Grace Roman space telescope survived two rounds of proposed White House budget cuts,
and began a million-mile journey into deep space from a launchpad at the Kennedy Space Center on Sunday morning.
Searching chiefly for exoplanets and clues about planetary formation,
it is set to join the Hubble and James Webb space telescopes in the annals of Nasa’s storied history of space exploration.
But as next-generation equipment almost 10 years in the making,
…
"Arms spending is an inefficient way to create employment, since the industry is in Marxist terms, weighted towards constant rather than variable capital, investing in high-tech equipment rather than labour.
Moreover, as Rutte revealed last week, much of the money will be spent on US firms which, already geared to the enormous Pentagon budget, can outbid British rivals for most applications and contracts."
Arms spending plan is a threat to our future | Morning Star
…
MediaTek says its board has approved a discretionary $5B financing budget to support long-term growth, including its expansion into AI chips for data centers (Wen-Yee Lee/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/media-teleco…
A $4.3bn space telescope
that Donald Trump tried to kill
is set to lift off from Florida early on Sunday
as Nasa embarks on the next stage of its quest to unlock the secrets of the universe.
The Nancy Grace Roman space telescope survived two rounds of proposed White House budget cuts,
and will embark on a million-mile journey into deep space from a launchpad at the Kennedy Space Center at 7.26am ET,
barring late technical issues or intervention from Florid…
Uber says weekly AI agent requests have grown 9.4x since February, but total AI spending has stayed stable since April, after using up its 2026 AI budget in Q1 (Madison Mills/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/08/27/ai-uber-spending
This November, California voters will weigh what could become America’s first-ever tax on net worth.
The Billionaire Tax Act,
a ballot initiative put forth by health workers after Donald Trump blew holes in the state Medicaid budget,
would impose a one-time tax of 5 percent on personal wealth exceeding $1 billion.
With polls indicating majority support,
tech oligarchs have threatened an exodus
and crafted competing measures,
bankrolling them to the…
Scott Bessent’s attempt to calm the bond markets and push down America’s cost of borrowing have attracted a rebuke from the US Treasury secretary’s former mentor.
The billionaire investor Stanley Druckenmiller, who worked with Bessent at George Soros’s fund management firm in the 1990s, has warned that his former pupil is courting danger by trying to suppress US bond yields.
Druckenmiller, writing in the Wall Street Journal, argued that the US should “let the bond market speak”, …
@cdarwin@c.im
![screenshot of a post by Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump • July 27, 2026, 9:01 AM
John Thune should not allow the United States Senate to "leave town" until it passes The Save America Actor, far better still, TERMINATES THE FILIBUSTER, where Republicans can then quickly pass everything they ever dreamed of, including a [HIGHLIGHTING STARTS] full and deep throated [HIGHLIGHTING ENDS] SAVE AMERICA ACT, the Budget, and the ever looming Debt Ceiling disaster, 1929! The Dumocrats will do it on day…](https://files.mastodon.online/media_attachments/files/117/021/132/463/181/769/original/abd6a15297ac0a1b.jpeg)
