Niet Oekraïne, maar Trump capituleert
"President Trump de „pragmatische vredesstichter” (dixit secretaris-generaal Rutte) maakt er geen geheim van dat hij Poetin meer vertrouwt dan Zelensky en zijn handen van Europa wil aftrekken." https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/08/2…
cuPDLP : A Further Enhanced GPU-Based First-Order Solver for Linear Programming
Haihao Lu, Zedong Peng, Jinwen Yang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.14051 https:…
How Shaun Maguire dragged Sequoia into culture wars; emails show senior partner Doug Leone defended Maguire in distinguishing between "Islamists" and "Muslims" (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/19/technology/sequoia-…
Capitulating law firms presumably were hoping that their deals would prevent the same revocation of security clearances and cancellation of federal contracts that Trump had already leveled at other firms.
But none of that was included in the vague contents of the deals,
leaving it entirely unclear what these law firms were getting out of exchange.
What was clearer was what Trump was getting out of it:
namely, an open-ended promise from the capitulating law firms to …
Ukraine war latest: Ukraine proposes peace talks with Russia next week; Fire reported near Moscow as Ukraine launches drone attack on Russia's capital: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/20/ukraine-war-latest-ukraine-proposes.html
Judge refuses to expunge record of man exonerated for Jan. 6
https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/trump-appointed-judge-refuses-to-expunge-record-of-accused-capitol-rioter-who-called-jan-6-a-magical-day-but-was-fully-acquitted-of-charges/
#HotTake:
Liberalism is a syncretic religion where the highest deity is the State and all other deities are subject to it. Liberalism asserts this distinction by classifying political systems as deriving from "natural law" and religions as faith systems. Classical liberalism divided the world into "primitive" beliefs and "enlightened" beliefs. Atheistic anarchism aligns with this distinction by opposing the state and capitalism through logic, rather than asserting that the state and capitalism are themselves systems of faith. Atheistic anarchism further reinforces the narrative of the liberal state by aligning with the liberal understanding of religion as a "primitive" institution.
Graeber et al pointed out the connections between property rights as a form of fedishism (magic) and the evolution of currency, debt, taxes, and the state from temples.
@… @… That would go against the whole point of capitalism: For the capitalists to reap the rewards without taking on any of the real risk.
Take another bow, capitalism.
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EvoluteIQ, which offers a low-code AI platform for companies to design, deploy, and scale business processes, raised $53M led by Baird Capital (Tamara Djurickovic/Tech.eu)
https://tech.eu/2025/09/17/evoluteiq-raises-53m-led-by-baird-capi…