Tootfinder

Take care! Be on your guard against all kinds of greed, for one’s life does not consist in the abundance of possessions
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/trump-qatar-air-force-one-corruption

Grifter-in-Chief Trump and the Grift That Keeps on Grifting | Common Dreams
In case you haven't noticed, the bribes Trump is taking are getting bigger and bigger.

E.U. Cuts Aid to Ukraine Over Corruption Concerns (Andrew E. Kramer/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/26/world/europe/eu-ukraine-corruption-aid.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250726/p47#a250726p47

Pretty amazing. And yet, the majority of Americans won’t see this story because the truth is paywalled but the bullshit is free. Which feels more and more to me like one of the world’s most important problems.
https://masto.ai/@Nonilex/114580574368958399

#OrganizedCrime and #Corruption Reporting Project hosting unique investigative reporter online roundtable on how rogue states, #oligarchs, and international organized

Tansu Çiller, and the corruption of her neoliberal government, was one of the primary drivers of the neoliberalism-to-fascism pipeline* in Turkey that exacerbated inequality, alienated and marginalised huge swaths of the population, and eventually led to Erdoğan’s fascist/Islamist takeover.
Carve her name, indeed; right next to Margaret Thatcher’s.
* Sound familiar, Americans?
#tansuCiller

CarveHerName (@CarveHerName@mstdn.social)
Attached: 1 image #OnThisDay, 25 June 1993, Tansu Çiller wins a vote of confidence to become prime minister of Turkey. She was the first woman to hold the post. #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory

I’m Democrat Zach Dembo
– Navy JAG veteran, former DOJ prosecutor,
and I just launched my campaign to flip Kentucky’s 6th Congressional District
and give the people of Central Kentucky a voice in Congress again.
You don’t know me yet, so here’s the short version: 
I served in uniform.
I fought corruption at the Department of Justice.
And I worked as a policy advisor to Governor Andy Beshear
– helping deliver real wins for working families here …

Donate to Zach Dembo
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Protests held across Ukraine after parliament passes bill weakening anti-corruption institutions - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/VOQkoe-xtBA

The Devil's Dung? Money as a mechanism of generalized reciprocity in human societies
Eduardo C. Ferraciolli, Francesco Renzini, Tanya V. Araujo, Flaminio Squazzoni
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20691

The Devil's Dung? Money as a mechanism of generalized reciprocity in human societies
St. Francis of Assisi (1181/82-1226) famously called money the devil's dung, and indeed money is often associated with greed, inequality, and corruption. Drawing on Nowak's five rules for the evolution of cooperation, we argue here that money promotes the formation of circuits of generalized reciprocity across human groups that are fundamental to social evolution. In an evolutionary tournament, we show that money exchange is an evolutionary stable strategy that promotes cooperation without rely…

From ⁨⁨⁨⁨⁨#AnnafromUkraine⁩⁩⁩⁩⁩ @AnnafromUkraine@youtube.com
🧵 👇
STRIKES IN CRIMEA RIGHT NOW: WAR IN #RUSSIA & #CORRUPTION PROTESTS Vlog 1114: War in

Denoising-While-Completing Network (DWCNet): Robust Point Cloud Completion Under Corruption
Keneni W. Tesema, Lyndon Hill, Mark W. Jones, Gary K. L. Tam
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.16743

Denoising-While-Completing Network (DWCNet): Robust Point Cloud Completion Under Corruption
Point cloud completion is crucial for 3D computer vision tasks in autonomous driving, augmented reality, and robotics. However, obtaining clean and complete point clouds from real-world environments is challenging due to noise and occlusions. Consequently, most existing completion networks -- trained on synthetic data -- struggle with real-world degradations. In this work, we tackle the problem of completing and denoising highly corrupted partial point clouds affected by multiple simultaneous d…

This is the most blatant, naked gangster corruption I've ever seen in a country.
And I grew up in Mexico in the 80s. https://flipboard.social/@NewsDesk/114908211854266893

Zelenskyy approves bill weakening anti-corruption bodies despite big protests (Luke Harding/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jul/22/zelenskyy-approves-bill-weakening-anti-corruption-bodies-despite-big-protests
http://www.memeorandum.com/250722/p156#a250722p156

Euclidean Distance Deflation Under High-Dimensional Heteroskedastic Noise
Keyi Li, Yuval Kluger, Boris Landa
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.18520 https://arxiv…

Euclidean Distance Deflation Under High-Dimensional Heteroskedastic Noise
Pairwise Euclidean distance calculation is a fundamental step in many machine learning and data analysis algorithms. In real-world applications, however, these distances are frequently distorted by heteroskedastic noise$\unicode{x2014}$a prevalent form of inhomogeneous corruption characterized by variable noise magnitudes across data observations. Such noise inflates the computed distances in a nontrivial way, leading to misrepresentations of the underlying data geometry. In this work, we addre…

'Not going to tell you': Bondi refuses to answer question on Trump corruption (Krystina Alarcon Carroll/Raw Story)
https://www.rawstory.com/pam-bondi-2672435040/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250625/p127#a250625p127

Here’s the key point: Trump’s corruption of justice isn’t just individual; it’s categorical. We have grown accustomed to him rewarding his loyalists and punishing his critics. That he fired the prosecutors who worked on his federal criminal cases while pardoning the Jan. 6 rioters represents a textbook case of individual favoritism.
The Trump administration’s abuse of the civil rights division is something else entirely. It had already initiated a “litigation freeze” on filing new civil rights cases, and it had indicated that it was even going to reconsider previous settlements and consent decrees intended to address police misconduct.
...
Civil rights laws are designed in part to protect innocent citizens — including, of course, innocent citizens from minority communities — from unjust government officials. Here, the legal world is turned upside down. The Justice Department is using its civil rights division to protect an unjust government official who violated the civil rights of an innocent individual.
#USPolitics
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/20/opinion/dillon-taylor-justice-trump.html?unlocked_article_code=1.X08.0DWy.hF58YNdciy3A&smid=url-share

Ukrainian lawmaker's warning amid Zelensky’s anti-corruption crackdown
https://youtube.com/shorts/xHYsJL6OPsk?si=QO5oCuKQgsISwEbm

I improved my disk defragmenter. It now moves files to the end when there isn’t enough space, rather than shunting them forward (which could result in file corruption if a crash occurs).
Of course, it doesn’t actually do any of that, it just visualises it, but I think the visualisation is prettier this way too.
Enjoy!
https://

Abuse and #Buddhism: Behind the Smiling Façade https://www.info-buddhism.com/Abuse_and_Buddhism-Behind_the_Smiling_Facade-Anna_Sawerthal.html

Abuse and Buddhism: Behind the Smiling Façade
Buddhism in the West is in a crisis. For years, it had benefited from a reputation too good to be true. Only now are victims of sexual abuse, corruption and cultic behaviour finally beginning to speak out.

😈 'Dark' personality traits thrive in societies with corruption and inequality, global study shows
#psychology #personality #evil

'Dark' personality traits thrive in societies with corruption and inequality, global study shows
A new global study shows that people in societies characterized by corruption, inequality, poverty, and violence are more likely to develop aversive, "dark" personality characteristics such as selfishness or spitefulness.

Beyond Blur: A Fluid Perspective on Generative Diffusion Models
Grzegorz Gruszczynski, Michal Jan Wlodarczyk, Jakub J Meixner, Przemyslaw Musialski
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.16827

Beyond Blur: A Fluid Perspective on Generative Diffusion Models
We propose a novel PDE-driven corruption process for generative image synthesis based on advection-diffusion processes which generalizes existing PDE-based approaches. Our forward pass formulates image corruption via a physically motivated PDE that couples directional advection with isotropic diffusion and Gaussian noise, controlled by dimensionless numbers (Peclet, Fourier). We implement this PDE numerically through a GPU-accelerated custom Lattice Boltzmann solver for fast evaluation. To indu…

Mongolian Prime Minister Luvsannamsrain Oyun-Erdene resigned this Wednesday after weeks of anti-corruption protests in Ulaanbaatar.
The anti-government demonstrations had begun following reports of extravagant spending by the son of the former Prime Minister. The protests, primarily led by young Mongolians, centered on broader concerns about government corruption, inequality, and the influence of political elites and their families.

Mongolia PM resigns after weeks of anti-corruption protests
Mr Oyun-Erdene will remain as caretaker PM until his successor is appointed within 30 days. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

#GiftLink NYT Editorial Board | A Comprehensive Accounting of Trump’s Culture of Corruption - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/07/opinion/trump-corruption.html?unlocked_article_code=1.NE8.cFXX.Bo06-Mx9oWfB&smid=url-share

Les cryptos, ce mélange parfait de prédation et de corruption
https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/inequality-part-vii-crypto

If the birthday card had come out before the election, it would have had little effect.
Six months into Trump's term, Epstein is the vehicle onto which MAGA has loaded its repressed disillusionment with the regime's plutocracy, corruption & brutality.

Pyramid Hierarchical Masked Diffusion Model for Imaging Synthesis
Xiaojiao Xiao, Qinmin Vivian Hu, Guanghui Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.16579 https://

Pyramid Hierarchical Masked Diffusion Model for Imaging Synthesis
Medical image synthesis plays a crucial role in clinical workflows, addressing the common issue of missing imaging modalities due to factors such as extended scan times, scan corruption, artifacts, patient motion, and intolerance to contrast agents. The paper presents a novel image synthesis network, the Pyramid Hierarchical Masked Diffusion Model (PHMDiff), which employs a multi-scale hierarchical approach for more detailed control over synthesizing high-quality images across different resolut…

Saudi Arabia executes prominent Saudi journalist Turki al-Jasser, who was arrested in 2018 over Twitter posts alleging corruption within the Saudi royal family (Committee to Protect Journalists)
https://cpj.org/2025/06/saudi-arabia-e

Saudi Arabia executes journalist Turki al-Jasser on treason, terrorism charges  - Committee to Protect Journalists
Washington, D.C., June 14, 2025 — Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Interior announced the Saturday execution of prominent Saudi journalist Turki al-Jasser, who had been detained for seven years on charges of treason, foreign collaboration, funding terrorism, and endangering national security and unity.  Saudi authorities arrested al-Jasser in 2018 and seized his devices, believing that he...

Crypto? More like corrupto.
#crypto #corruption #Trump #uspol
https://us.cnn.com/2025/05/23/politics/trump-crypto-meme-coin-dinner

Does he know Barbara Streisand? 👀 https://mstdn.social/@Nigel_Purchase/114844866507960483

Fight the Right (@Nigel_Purchase@mstdn.social)
Attached: 1 image #OrangeOaf #Trump #Corruption

If the guy elected to fight corruption is receiving millions in bribes, just imagine how much more the corrupt guys must be getting!

From ⁨⁨⁨⁨⁨#AnnafromUkraine⁩⁩⁩⁩⁩ @AnnafromUkraine@youtube.com
PROTEST IN KYIV: ANTI-CORRUPTION LAW & MOSCOW NO FLY ZONE Vlog 1113: War in #Ukraine
Why #Moscow has become the new testing gro…

How the crypto industry bought Trump (and by extension DC) (Paul Waldman/Public Notice)
https://www.publicnotice.co/p/genius-act-crypto-trump-corruption
http://www.memeorandum.com/250722/p16#a250722p16

Elon Musk will singlehandedly be responsible for the wholly unnecessary deaths & misery of millions worldwide. And he & Trump couldn't care less.
You did this, #Trump voter.
And anyone that didn't vote.
http…

Elon Musk’s Reign of Terror Is Only Just Beginning
His “departure” from the government is anything but.

Suddenly the political outlook looks very grim in Spain as the majority coalition party, Sšnchez's PSOE is mired in a corruption scandal.
Sšnchez himself not implicated but his judgement in appointing ministers is.
Minority parties could withdraw.
Election not due til 2027 but how long can he hold on?
Alliance of post Franco PP and neofascist Vox is the nightmare scenario.
El día en que colapsó la legislatura

El día en que colapsó la legislatura
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Image Corruption-Inspired Membership Inference Attacks against Large Vision-Language Models
Zongyu Wu, Minhua Lin, Zhiwei Zhang, Fali Wang, Xianren Zhang, Xiang Zhang, Suhang Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12340

Image Corruption-Inspired Membership Inference Attacks against Large Vision-Language Models
Large vision-language models (LVLMs) have demonstrated outstanding performance in many downstream tasks. However, LVLMs are trained on large-scale datasets, which can pose privacy risks if training images contain sensitive information. Therefore, it is important to detect whether an image is used to train the LVLM. Recent studies have investigated membership inference attacks (MIAs) against LVLMs, including detecting image-text pairs and single-modality content. In this work, we focus on detect…

Last thing to do today accomplished: got the Allen&Heath CQ-12T mixer's firmware updated and now it works like it's supposed to under Linux. No more distortion/audio corruption which makes me happy. Absolutely love this mixer, but I hated having to wait for those kinds of issues to get fixed.
#audio

The White House has seen its share of shady deals.
Ulysses S. Grant’s brother-in-law used his family ties to engineer an insider-trading scheme that tanked the gold market.
Warren Harding’s secretary of the interior secretly leased land to oil barons, who paid a fortune for his troubles.
To bankroll Richard Nixon’s reelection, corporate executives sneaked suitcases full of cash into the capital.
But Americans have never witnessed anything like the corruption that Presi…

America Has Never Seen Corruption Like Trump's
Trump’s Qatari jet was just the beginning.

On Subsample Size of Quantile-Based Randomized Kaczmarz
Jian-Feng Cai, Junren Chen, Anna Ma, Tong Wu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.15185 https://

On Subsample Size of Quantile-Based Randomized Kaczmarz
Quantile-based randomized Kaczmarz (QRK) was recently introduced to efficiently solve sparsely corrupted linear systems $\mathbf{A} \mathbf{x}^*+\mathbfε = \mathbf{b}$ [SIAM J. Matrix Anal. Appl., 43(2), 605-637], where $\mathbf{A}\in \mathbb{R}^{m\times n}$ and $\mathbfε$ is an arbitrary $(βm)$-sparse corruption. However, all existing theoretical guarantees for QRK require quantiles to be computed using all $m$ samples (or a subsample of the same order), thus negating the computational adva…

Governance, productivity and economic development
Cuong Le Van (CNRS, PSE, CES), Ngoc-Sang Pham (EM Normandie), Thi Kim Cuong Pham (EconomiX), Binh Tran-Nam (RMIT)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13099

Governance, productivity and economic development
This paper explores the interplay between transfer policies, R\&D, corruption, and economic development using a general equilibrium model with heterogeneous agents and a government. The government collects taxes, redistributes fiscal revenues, and undertakes public investment (in R\&D, infrastructure, etc.). Corruption is modeled as a fraction of tax revenues that is siphoned off and removed from the economy. We first establish the existence of a political-economic equilibrium. Then, using an a…

On Algorithmic Robustness of Corrupted Markov Chains
Jason Gaitonde, Elchanan Mossel
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.15176 https://arxiv.o…

On Algorithmic Robustness of Corrupted Markov Chains
We study the algorithmic robustness of general finite Markov chains in terms of their stationary distributions to general, adversarial corruptions of the transition matrix. We show that for Markov chains admitting a spectral gap, variants of the \emph{PageRank} chain are robust in the sense that, given an \emph{arbitrary} corruption of the edges emanating from an $ε$-measure of the nodes, the PageRank distribution of the corrupted chain will be $\mathsf{poly}(\varepsilon)$ close in total varia…

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/10/two-men-jailed-for-life-for-supplying-car-bomb-that-killed-daphne-caruana-galizia

Abuse and #Buddhism: Behind the Smiling Façade https://www.info-buddhism.com/Abuse_and_Buddhism-Behind_the_Smiling_Facade-Anna_Sawerthal.html

Abuse and Buddhism: Behind the Smiling Façade
Buddhism in the West is in a crisis. For years, it had benefited from a reputation too good to be true. Only now are victims of sexual abuse, corruption and cultic behaviour finally beginning to speak out.

Original post: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:eppsmw5nfmdzhfeymtzd3xbe/post/3lubhzycmkc2o

Well, this seems stupid - New Jersey is forcing the removal of many working NACS charging centers and replacing them with CCS charging.
That's already stupid. But it moves from stupid to destructive in that it NJ wants to expand the moribund CCS charge system while automobile makers are shifting away from CCS to NACS.
Perhaps we ought to remember that New Jersey is a major oil refining/gasoline producing state and thus there are political forces in NJ who abhor EVs.

In America, we don’t do kings
They’ve defied our courts, deported Americans, disappeared people off the streets, attacked our civil rights, and slashed our services. The corruption has gone too. far. No thrones. No crowns. No kings.
On June 14th, we rise up.
https://www.nokings.org/

No Kings
On June 14—Flag Day—Donald Trump wants tanks in the street and a made-for-TV display of dominance for his birthday. A spectacle meant to look like strength. But real power isn’t staged in Washington. It rises up everywhere else.

How did I miss this? Why didn't anyone tell me that #Mongolia's PM resigned? Why isn't this a bigger world story?
https://www.straitstimes.com/asi…

We did it. I played a small role in Bucharest, but I'm still proud of the work I did as part of the campaign. We now have an intelligent, pro-EU, clean president with no corruption scandals. But... this also means the mayorship of Bucharest is now open :)) Already planning the next steps in a more inclusive, less corrupt and more equitable Romania with my new friends in SENS.
#EU

Trump's pardons highlight Justice Department's pullback from public corruption cases https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/trumps-pardons-highlight-justice-departments-pullback-pu…

Trump's pardons highlight Justice Department's pullback from public corruption cases
WASHINGTON — The government's evidence against Scott Jenkins was compelling, including undercover video and other corroboration showing Jenkins, then the sheriff of Culpeper County, Virginia, accepting over $75,000 in exchange for giving law enforcement authority to local businessmen, as well as two undercover FBI special agents.

Interactions across multiple games: cooperation, corruption, and organizational design
Jonathan Bendor, Lukas Bolte, Nicole Immorlica, Matthew O. Jackson
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.03030

Interactions across multiple games: cooperation, corruption, and organizational design
It is socially beneficial for teams to cooperate in some situations (``good games'') and not in others (``bad games;'' e.g., those that allow for corruption). A team's cooperation in any given game depends on expectations of cooperation in future iterations of both good and bad games. We identify when sustaining cooperation on good games necessitates cooperation on bad games. We then characterize how a designer should optimally assign workers to teams and teams to tasks that involve varying arr…

"We are facing a hard battle against the clear enemy. Its name is greed. Greed that sows doubt, denies science, distorts truth, rewards corruption and destroys life for profit."
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DKuFyh7Rbg7

Channel 4 News on Instagram: ""Powerful interests" and "greed" are pushing the planet to a climate "tipping point", says United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres at the third UN Ocean Conference in France. #Climatechange #Climate #UnitedNations #Channel4News #C4News"
1,896 likes, 118 comments - channel4news on June 10, 2025: ""Powerful interests" and "greed" are pushing the planet to a climate "tipping point", says United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres at the third UN Ocean Conference in France. #Climatechange #Climate #UnitedNations #Channel4News #C4News".

Nonlinear Rank Scaling and Hidden Structure in NHS Expenditure Transparency Data
Animotu Mohammed, Golnaz Shahtahmassebi, Haroldo V. Ribeiro, Jack Sutton, Quentin S. Hanley
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.19520

Nonlinear Rank Scaling and Hidden Structure in NHS Expenditure Transparency Data
A variety of transparency initiatives have been introduced by governments to reduce corruption and allow citizens to independently evaluate effectiveness and efficiency of spending. In 2010, the UK government mandated transparency for many expenditures exceeding £25,000. The resulting data is dispersed across a range of governmental organizations and presents an opportunity to understand expenditure at scale, interrogate organizational structures and develop transparency measures. Here, we foc…

So the idea that Musk’s time in Washington is over is an obvious farce. To promulgate this notion is to be either ignorant or nefarious. The destruction that Musk set in motion remains running in the background as an ambient menace to our safety and livelihoods. Musk’s legacy is still being written.
Alex Shepard - The New Republic #USA

Elon Musk’s Reign of Terror Is Only Just Beginning
His “departure” from the government is anything but.

Opinion | Trump’s Self-Dealing Is More Alarming Than You Think - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/08/opinion/trump-corruption.html

Corruption & incompetence all in one!
Amtrak brings in Elon Musk's "Hyperloop" company to reassess plan for building new Northeast Corridor rail tunnel in Baltimore.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/12…

Elon Musk’s Boring Company Is in Talks With Government Over Amtrak Project
The Federal Railroad Administration has brought in the tunneling company to see if it could help with a multibillion-dollar rail project.

America Has Never Seen Corruption Like This (Casey Michel/The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/07/trump-corruption-foreign-regimes/683487/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250710/p81#a250710p81

Protest on Saturday, June 14th.
"They’ve defied our courts, deported Americans, disappeared people off the streets, attacked our civil rights & slashed our services. The corruption has gone too. far. No thrones. No crowns. No kings."
✅ No Kings - National Protests
https://www.nokings.org/

Corruption Has Flooded America. The Dams Are Breaking. (Ben Rhodes/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/08/opinion/trump-corruption.html?unlocked_article_code=1.NU8.jCkk.kM7pW4UtRZHq&smid=url-share
http://www.memeorandum.com/250608/p15#a250608p15

What, exactly, are we celebrating tomorrow?
Our cutting off healthcare to the needy to enrich the greedy?
Our new concentration camps?
Our dying economy?
Our ditching due process?
Our corruption?
Our broken legislature?
Our corrupt SCOTUS?
Our ridiculous buffoon president?
#FourthOfJuly
-- Mrs Betty Bowers

The human aspects of the Ukrainian operation Spider's Web i find the most amazing, driving all those trucks through Russia, having drone operators on site (!), evading all checks and controls within Russia. Very likely a lot of bribing was involved, the extreme level of corruption makes Russia weak.
#ukraine

Wake Up and Smell the Corruption (Paul Krugman)
https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/wake-up-and-smell-the-corruption
http://www.memeorandum.com/250606/p113#a250606p113

Since November 2024, Serbia had a sharp rise in attacks on journalists amid political unrest, including 23 physical assaults and 128 total attacks and threats (Attila Mong/Committee to Protect Journalists)
https://cpj.org/2025/06/alarming-escal

Alarming escalation in attacks on journalists amid political crisis in Serbia - Committee to Protect Journalists
Berlin, June 3, 2025—What journalists called a “witch hunt” atmosphere against government critics in Serbia one year ago has since escalated into a rise in attacks and threats against the press, following a deadly railway station collapse in November 2024 that triggered a widespread anti-corruption movement. Initial protests demanding accountability for the tragedy have turned...

11 killed at protest rallies in #Nairobi2025 as Kenyan police fire on crowds, struggle to deter protests
https://tribune.com.pk/story/2554607/k

Kenyan police fire on protesters as 11 killed in anti govt rallies
Heavy police presence in Nairobi follows youth led protests over tax hikes corruption police abuse and disappearances

NO KINGS Santa Barbara
Rally · Volunteer organized
Saturday, June 14
10:30am – 12pm PDT
Chase Palm Park
236 E Cabrillo Blvd.
Santa Barbara, CA 93103
Map
https://www.mobilize.us/nokings/event/788033

NO KINGS Santa Barbara · No Kings
**In America, we don’t put up with would-be kings.** NO KINGS is a national day of action and mass mobilization in response to increasing authoritarian excesses and corruption from Trump and his allies. We’ve watched as they’ve cracked down on free speech, detained people for their political views, threatened to deport American citizens, and defied the courts. They’ve done this all while continuing to serve and enrich their billionaire allies. 🚨**On Saturday, June 14, we’re takin…

Trump declared himself king - Unaccountable for his corruption, racism & immorality.
All you Trump voters are responsible for this.
Original post: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:tsksqpjisdvtusxq6ide5tzj/post/3lt5d7lnmek2s

‘The Corruption Is Beyond Brazen’: Trump Openly Admits He ‘Helped Out’ NYC Mayor Eric Adams In Dismissing Federal Bribery Charges Against Him
https://atlantablackstar.com/2025/07/02/elped-out-nyc-mayor-eric-adams/

AR2: Attention-Guided Repair for the Robustness of CNNs Against Common Corruptions
Fuyuan Zhang, Qichen Wang, Jianjun Zhao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.06332

AR2: Attention-Guided Repair for the Robustness of CNNs Against Common Corruptions
Deep neural networks suffer from significant performance degradation when exposed to common corruptions such as noise, blur, weather, and digital distortions, limiting their reliability in real-world applications. In this paper, we propose AR2 (Attention-Guided Repair for Robustness), a simple yet effective method to enhance the corruption robustness of pretrained CNNs. AR2 operates by explicitly aligning the class activation maps (CAMs) between clean and corrupted images, encouraging the model…

NO KINGS Santa Barbara
Rally · Volunteer organized
Saturday, June 14
10:30am – 12pm PDT
Chase Palm Park
236 E Cabrillo Blvd.
Santa Barbara, CA 93103
https://www.mobilize.us/nokings/event/788033/

NO KINGS Santa Barbara · No Kings
**In America, we don’t put up with would-be kings.** NO KINGS is a national day of action and mass mobilization in response to increasing authoritarian excesses and corruption from Trump and his allies. We’ve watched as they’ve cracked down on free speech, detained people for their political views, threatened to deport American citizens, and defied the courts. They’ve done this all while continuing to serve and enrich their billionaire allies. 🚨**On Saturday, June 14, we’re takin…

**A New Declaration of Independence from Tyranny: Effective July 4, 2025** from Andy Borowitz, via FB:
 
When in the course of human events it becomes necessary for a people to break from a leader who governs with cruelty, contempt, and corruption, a decent respect to the opinions of humankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

If you feel comfortable doing so, please register for this event at https://www.mobilize.us/nokings/event/788033/.
It helps us with our planning to have an idea how many people to expect. Thanks!

NO KINGS Santa Barbara · No Kings
**In America, we don’t put up with would-be kings.** NO KINGS is a national day of action and mass mobilization in response to increasing authoritarian excesses and corruption from Trump and his allies. We’ve watched as they’ve cracked down on free speech, detained people for their political views, threatened to deport American citizens, and defied the courts. They’ve done this all while continuing to serve and enrich their billionaire allies. 🚨**On Saturday, June 14, we’re takin…

“Siloviki” is perhaps the most borrowed word in Russian studies
— probably because it explains so much about Putin’s Russia.
Its members are the police, the border control, the army, the security services, the spies.
For their service to the regime, they are rewarded with early pensions,
plenty of cash and almost total immunity from investigation for corruption or brutality.
In truth, the American security state, with its qualified immunity, surveillance appar…

Opinion | Here’s What’s Happening in America, in Six (Mostly) Russian Terms
To help Americans name their new reality, we wrote a phrase book of authoritarianism.

The idea that Musk’s time in Washington is over is an obvious farce.
That narrative goes a long way toward letting Musk and Trump off the hook for a multitude of casualties
—those already in the ledger and those to be counted later.
It suggests that his reign of terror was actually ineffectual when,
in fact, it was massively successful;
Trump and Musk destroyed that which they’d planned to all along.
Most crucially, it suggests that reign of terror has …

Elon Musk’s Reign of Terror Is Only Just Beginning
His “departure” from the government is anything but.

Slovakia: Attacks on the media, judiciary and NGOs
Members of the European Parliament condemned the harsh rhetoric used by Slovak officials against judges, the media and NGOs, warning that it fosters aggression against journalists and restricts access to information.
Wilmès expressed concern over the recent restructuring of the public broadcaster STVR and the use of accelerated legislative procedures.
Concerns were also voiced about the dismantling of the anti-corruption a…

Turkish authorities ordered the detention of several opposition party members in Istanbul
and raided opposition-run municipalities on Saturday, state media said,
part of a widening legal crackdown against the opposition and city's jailed mayor.
Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, who is also President Tayyip Erdogan's main political rival and leads him in some polls, was jailed in March pending trial over charges of corruption and aiding a terrorist group, all of which h…

Turkish authorities order detention of dozens of opposition officials in widening crackdown
ANKARA (Reuters) -Turkish authorities ordered the detention of several opposition party members in Istanbul and raided opposition-run municipalities on...