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"Amendment is a constitution’s mechanism for the prevention of insurrection—the only way to change the fundamentals of government without recourse to rebellion. Amendment is so essential to the American constitutional tradition—so methodical and so entirely a conception of endurance through adaptation—that it can best be described as a philosophy. It is, at this point, a philosophy all but forgotten."

How Originalism Killed the Constitution
A radical legal philosophy has undermined the process of constitutional evolution.

Putin's negotiator calls for 'constructive dialogue' as Trump shifts stance on Ukraine: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/14/putins-negotiator-calls-for-constructive.html

At Dreamforce 2025, Salesforce unveils Agentforce 360, a unified agentic AI stack to connect humans, AI agents, and more, and positions Slack as an "agentic OS" (Larry Dignan/Constellation Research)
https://www.constellationr.com/blog-news/i

Salesforce makes its Agentforce 360 case to be your AI agent platform
Salesforce announced a series of product updates, a process intelligence acquisition and an Agentforce 360 architecture designed to make the case that it should orchestrate first and third party AI agents. At Dreamforce 2025, Salesforce looked to differentiate itself from what's becoming a crowded agentic AI platform space. The cloud giants are looking to go horizontal with stacks to build, deploy and optimize AI agents. SaaS vendors are expanding into managing AI agents beyond their verticals.…

Chinas neue Schrägseilbrücke Changtai bricht mehrere Rekorde
China hat innerhalb von sechs Jahren die längste Schrägseilbrücke der Welt errichtet. Die Changtai-Brücke bricht aber noch weitere Rekorde.
https:/…

An analysis of ~80K articles published by Investing.com, The Defiant, Benzinga, CoinDesk, and Bitcoin News in H1 2025 finds 48% were AI-generated or AI-assisted (Afik Rechler/Chainstory)
https://www.chainstory.co/the-state-of-crypto-newsrooms-in-the-age-of-ai/

Report: The State Of Crypto Newsrooms in the Age of AI
An in-depth look into how crypto newsrooms are adopting AI, disclosing its use, and shaping trends in AI-generated journalism.

On the Constant-Factor Approximability of Minimum Cost Constraint Satisfaction Problems
Ian DeHaan, Neng Huang, Euiwoong Lee
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.08693

On the Constant-Factor Approximability of Minimum Cost Constraint Satisfaction Problems
We study minimum cost constraint satisfaction problems (MinCostCSP) through the algebraic lens. We show that for any constraint language $Γ$ which has the dual discriminator operation as a polymorphism, there exists a $|D|$-approximation algorithm for MinCostCSP$(Γ)$ where $D$ is the domain. Complementing our algorithmic result, we show that any constraint language $Γ$ where MinCostCSP$(Γ)$ admits a constant-factor approximation must have a \emph{near-unanimity} (NU) polymorphism …

Robust Closed-Form Control for MIMO Nonlinear Systems under Conflicting Time-Varying Hard and Soft Constraints
Farhad Mehdifar, Charalampos P. Bechlioulis, Dimos V. Dimarogonas
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11393

Robust Closed-Form Control for MIMO Nonlinear Systems under Conflicting Time-Varying Hard and Soft Constraints
This paper introduces a novel robust closed-form control law to handle time-varying hard and soft constraints in uncertain high-relative-degree nonlinear MIMO systems. These constraints represent spatiotemporal specifications in mechanical systems' operational space, with hard constraints ensuring safety-critical requirements and soft constraints encoding performance or task objectives. Initially, all constraints are consolidated into two separate scalar time-varying hard and soft constraint fu…

DatasetAgent: A Novel Multi-Agent System for Auto-Constructing Datasets from Real-World Images
Haoran Sun, Haoyu Bian, Shaoning Zeng, Yunbo Rao, Xu Xu, Lin Mei, Jianping Gou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.08648

DatasetAgent: A Novel Multi-Agent System for Auto-Constructing Datasets from Real-World Images
Common knowledge indicates that the process of constructing image datasets usually depends on the time-intensive and inefficient method of manual collection and annotation. Large models offer a solution via data generation. Nonetheless, real-world data are obviously more valuable comparing to artificially intelligence generated data, particularly in constructing image datasets. For this reason, we propose a novel method for auto-constructing datasets from real-world images by a multiagent colla…

For running my #HamRadio portable setup from solar power, I made a power distribution box. I didn't know where to stop, apparently, and now I have a beast that weighs 1.2kg. It has two isolated battery busses, each of which has an XT60M, PowerPole, and 5.5x2.1mm barrel connector to choose from, supporting the batteries I have and that friends might have. It has four other circuits that …

What to expect from the Meta Connect 2025 keynote on September 17 at 5pm PT: "Hypernova" smart glasses with a display, Meta AI and Llama updates, and more (Karissa Bell/Engadget)
https://www.engadget.com/social-media/what

What to expect at Meta Connect 2025: 'Hypernova' smart glasses, AI and the metaverse
Meta Connect, the company's annual event dedicated to all things AR, VR, AI and the metaverse is just days away. And once again, it seems like it will be a...