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Trump tapped another conservative media personality and conspiracy theorist for a big job in his administration.
Dan Bongino,
a former U.S. Secret Service agent who later hosted a Fox News show and pilots a popular right-wing podcast, is deputy director of the FBI
-- despite having no leadership experience at the department.
His appointment did not require a Senate confirmation

Trump’s FBI Deputy Director Is A Podcaster Who Thinks The Election Was Stolen
“Folks, the FBI is at it again. I don’t trust these people at all,” the conspiracy theorist once wrote on social media.

Towards generating more interpretable counterfactuals via concept vectors: a preliminary study on chest X-rays
Bulat Maksudov, Kathleen Curran, Alessandra Mileo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04058

Towards generating more interpretable counterfactuals via concept vectors: a preliminary study on chest X-rays
An essential step in deploying medical imaging models is ensuring alignment with clinical knowledge and interpretability. We focus on mapping clinical concepts into the latent space of generative models to identify Concept Activation Vectors (CAVs). Using a simple reconstruction autoencoder, we link user-defined concepts to image-level features without explicit label training. The extracted concepts are stable across datasets, enabling visual explanations that highlight clinically relevant feat…

Patel and Ratcliffe try to bolster claims that FBI and CIA conspired against Trump (NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/patel-ratcliffe-try-bolster-claims-fbi-cia-conspired-trump-rcna216848
http://www.memeorandum.com/250704/p57#a250704p57

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.24492 has been replaced.
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Object Centric Concept Bottlenecks
Developing high-performing, yet interpretable models remains a critical challenge in modern AI. Concept-based models (CBMs) attempt to address this by extracting human-understandable concepts from a global encoding (e.g., image encoding) and then applying a linear classifier on the resulting concept activations, enabling transparent decision-making. However, their reliance on holistic image encodings limits their expressiveness in object-centric real-world settings and thus hinders their abilit…

Concave symplectic toric fillings
Aleksandra Marinkovi\'c
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.03912 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.03912

Concave symplectic toric fillings
As shown by Etnyre and Honda in [EH], every contact 3-manifold admits infinitely many concave symplectic fillings that are mutually not symplectomorphic and not related by blow ups. In this note we refine this result in the toric setting by showing that every contact toric 3-manifold admits infinitely many concave symplectic toric fillings that are mutually not equivariantly symplectomorphic and not related by blow ups. The concave symplectic toric structure is constructed on certain linear and…

Textual-Based vs. Thinging Machines Conceptual Modeling
Sabah Al-Fedaghi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02646 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.…

Textual-Based vs. Thinging Machines Conceptual Modeling
Software engineers typically interpret the domain description in natural language and translate it into a conceptual model. Three approaches are used in this domain modeling: textual languages, diagrammatic languages, and a mixed based of text and diagrams. According to some researchers, relying on a diagrammatic notation levies certain burdens for designing large models because visual languages are intended to depict everything diagrammatically during a development process but fail to do so fo…

"Autoformalization of mathematical theorems? No shit!"
"what mathematicians need is ... not elementary statements of math olympiad problems, but the most advanced mathematical concepts that the human mind is capable to grasp despite the fact that they involve extremely intricate and sometimes combinatorically involved constructions.
"I am not sure that we fully know what it means to understand these concepts, but I am certain that it doesn't reduce to being…

Thermodynamics: A Clear Conceptual Framework
Joaquim Anacleto
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.02023 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.02023

Thermodynamics: A Clear Conceptual Framework
Building on the fundamental equation, this study revisits key thermodynamic concepts in a cohesive and innovative manner. It demonstrates the consistency of thermodynamic theory while addressing and clarifying common misconceptions and errors found in the literature, particularly regarding discussions on heat and work. Although the latter two concepts could potentially be set aside, they can be retained if their various and different definitions are clearly articulated and properly understood. …

Trump ordered his White House counsel and the attorney general on Wednesday to investigate former President Joseph R. Biden Jr. and his staff -- in Mr. Trump’s latest attempt to stoke outlandish conspiracy theories about his predecessor.
In an executive order, Mr. Trump put the power and resources of the federal government to work examining whether some of Mr. Biden’s presidential actions were legally invalid because his aides had enacted those policies without his knowledge.
The e…

Trump Orders Investigation of Biden and His Aides
The executive order is the latest effort by President Trump to stoke outlandish conspiracy theories about his predecessor and question the legality of his actions in office.

Trump's FBI Deputy Director Is A Podcaster Who Thinks The Election Was Stolen (Lydia O'Connor/HuffPost)
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/dan-bongino-conspiracy-theories_n_6865393ee4b06a8312549a45
http://www.memeorandum.com/250704/p33#a250704p33