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From Civil Wars to Neoliberalism in Central America
The end of the bloody, US-backed civil wars across Central America led to a brutal neoliberal economic restructuring near the turn of the century — which then helped produce the 21st-century authoritarianism of Salvadoran president Nayib Bukele.

Wall Street giants like Blackstone, KKR, and BlackRock are pouring hundreds of billions into AI data centers, creating concerns of "oversupply" and a bubble (Maureen Farrell/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/02/business/ai-da…

Are A.I. Data Centers a Sure Thing or the Next Real Estate Bubble?
Private equity firms like Blackstone are using their clients’ money to buy and build data centers to fuel the artificial intelligence boom.

U.S. health officials have changed their advice to international travelers about measles,
saying that Americans should be vaccinated against the virus
-- no matter where they’re going.
U.S. residents are recommended to get measles-mumps-rubella shots, anyway.
But the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention previously emphasized the importance of vaccination for travelers going to countries with outbreaks.

All international travelers should get measles vaccinations, CDC says
U.S. health officials have changed their advice to international travelers about measles, saying Americans should be vaccinated against the disease no matter where they travel in the world. U.S. residents are recommended to get measles-mumps-rubella shots, anyway. But the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention previously emphasized the importance of vaccination for travelers going to countries with outbreaks. Last week, the CDC updated its guidance to call for vaccinations for travelers goi…

It's astonishing how much time #Republicans spend raging about — and then "fixing" — problems that don't exist.
The brainless rep who introduced this #chemtrail bill claims she's personally seen contracts "with at least nine federal agencies" to spray barium and…

Louisiana lawmakers push ‘chemtrail’ ban legislation through the House
The chemtrail ban heads to the Louisiana Senate despite experts saying chemtrails are only a conspiracy theory.

Control-R: Towards controllable test-time scaling
Di Zhang, Weida Wang, Junxian Li, Xunzhi Wang, Jiatong Li, Jianbo Wu, Jingdi Lei, Haonan He, Peng Ye, Shufei Zhang, Wanli Ouyang, Yuqiang Li, Dongzhan Zhou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.00189

Control-R: Towards controllable test-time scaling
This paper target in addressing the challenges of underthinking and overthinking in long chain-of-thought (CoT) reasoning for Large Reasoning Models (LRMs) by introducing Reasoning Control Fields (RCF)--a novel test-time approach that injects structured control signals to guide reasoning from a tree search perspective. RCF enables models to adjust reasoning effort according to given control conditions when solving complex tasks. Additionally, we present the Control-R-4K dataset, which consists …

I'm broke and summer's coming up, so now is a great time to remind you all, I am STILL available #forhire for #pixelart, #textmode,

Lions Pro Bowl center Ragnow says he's retiring https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45436192/lions-four-pro-bowl-center-frank-ragnow-says-retiring

Face the future
#StreetArt #face #photography

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei saying the quiet part out loud in a CNN interview about impending job losses due to AI:
"There's an inherent social contract in democracy where ultimately the ordinary person has a certain amount of leverage because they're contributing to the economy.
"If that leverage goes away, then it's harder to make democracies work, and it's harder to prevent concentration of power."

At least 54,418 people have been killedin Gaza during the war, according to the territory's health ministry

A local Palestinian journalist told the BBC that Israeli tanks opened fire near an aid centre.
A medic says he is treating people with bullet or shrapnel wounds

The Palestinian Red Crescent says 14 people have been injured near another aid distribution centre in the Netzarim Corridor, central Gaza

As a reminder: Israel doesn't allow independent…

Gaza latest: 31 dead after Israeli tanks open fire near aid centre in Rafah, Hamas health ministry says
The Red Cross hospital in Rafah says 150 Palestinians have been injured in Gaza’s southern city.