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AIM Intelligent Machines, which retrofits heavy construction equipment to operate autonomously, raised $50M from Khosla Ventures, General Catalyst, and others (Rachyl Jones/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/06/10/2025/co…

Construction tech startup AIM raises $50M to fuel expansion
The firm that retrofits heavy equipment into autonomous machines, backed by Khosla Ventures and General Catalyst, can help fill the construction industry’s huge labor gap and growing infrastructure demand.

Midwestern dads might find today’s #Connections refreshing.
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GOP Senate Version of the Big Beautiful Bill Includes an Ugly Attack on Courts' Ability to Protect Constitutional Rights (Ilya Somin/Reason)
https://reason.com/volokh/2025/06/14/gop-senate-version-of-the-big-beautiful-bill-includes-an-ugly-attack-on-courts-ability-to-protect-constitutional-rights/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250614/p77#a250614p77

What might the future of research and education networking look like?
“Foresight 2030: Navigating Change” report explores 9 key challenges, 3 possible futures, and one key takeaway: change is coming, and collaboration is our strength.
📖 Read the article by Charles Hutchings, Raimundas Tuminauskas & Beatrix Weber −

Foresight 2030 – Navigating Change | GÉANT CONNECT Online
“Foresight 2030 is a great example of what NRENs do best: collaborate for the benefit of the unique and crucial digital infrastructure which supports research and education and the benefit they bring to science and learning, communities and economies internationally. The report demonstrates the reach and significance of the technical expertise NRENs convene within and

Hill: Former Raiders cornerback vows he has changed, wants new job https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/sports-columns/adam-hill/hill-former-raiders-cornerback-vows-he-has-changed-wants-new-job-33854…

A DC-Reformulation for Gradient-$L^0$-Constrained Problems in Function Spaces
Bastian Dittrich, Evelyn Herberg, Roland Herzog, Georg M\"uller
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11917

A DC-Reformulation for Gradient-$L^0$-Constrained Problems in Function Spaces
Cardinality constraints in optimization are commonly of $L^0$-type, and they lead to sparsely supported optimizers. An efficient way of dealing with these constraints algorithmically, when the objective functional is convex, is reformulating the constraint using the difference of suitable $L^1$- and largest-$K$-norms and subsequently solving a sequence of penalized subproblems in the difference-of-convex (DC) class. We extend this DC-reformulation approach to problems with $L^0$-type cardinalit…

Trump appears eager to create optics that support his claim that public dissent constitutes an existential threat to the nation.
He also apparently seeks to get the American public used to seeing our armed forces in a new light.
In the president’s version of America, the military should be seen less as an apolitical body loyal to the Constitution.
-- Rather, it should be viewed as an institution that serves at the behest of a leader and his ideological and political agen…

Opinion | Trump Wants You to Get Used to This
The president wants to get Americans used to seeing the armed forces in a new light.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Roadhouse
The Muppets:
🎵 Rainbow Connection
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https://disbanded.bandcamp.com/track/rainbow-connection-the-muppets
https://open.spotify.com/track/1SJ4ycWow4yz6z4oFz8NAG

I was reminded again why it takes more than a feeling to get #Connections right, even when the hurried, obvious answer is waiting there for you. I nearly bit the dust by falling for a barracuda of a red herring.
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Why the judgey face, #Connections? I’ll spend my #FathersDay the way I like, thank you very much.