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Two Parasites and a Corpse: Trump, Musk, and the Maggot Feud Inside America's Rotting Democracy: https://blog.rmendes.net/2025/06/06/two-parasites-and-a-corpse.html

M&S hackers sent abuse and ransom demand directly to CEO
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cr58pqjlnjlo

M&S hackers sent abuse and ransom demand directly to CEO
The criminals told the retailer's boss he could make things "fast and easy" if he complied with their demands.

As food insecurity creeps up, data helps food banks cater to those in need - Route Fifty
https://www.route-fifty.com/management/2025/06/food-insecurity-creeps-data-helps-food-banks-cater-those-need/405891/

If you have an interest in Nonconformist history, here is the story of the Salvation Army in Northampton, England.
https://edintone.com/salvation-army/

Salvation Army in Northampton No. 1 Corps - Miscellanea Edintone
Here is a brief Infographic on Northampton No. 1 Corps. In 1879, it was the 100th Corps founded nationally. There were two others No. 2 located at Market

The Hesse pencil of plane curves and osculating conics
Ewelina Nawara
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04662 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.046…

The Hesse pencil of plane curves and osculating conics
In this paper, we revisit the classical problem of determining osculating conics and sextactic points for a given algebraic curve. Our focus is on a particular family of plane cubic curves known as the Hesse pencil. By employing classical tools from projective differential geometry, we derive explicit coordinates for these special points. The resulting formulas not only clarify previous approaches but also lead to the construction of new families of free and nearly free curves, extending recent…

"The damage isn't theoretical. It's active. It's live. And it's reshaping the world. Trade routes are shifting. Investment is diversifying. Global power is rebalancing. China, Korea, and Japan are shaking hands. All of it is premised on a hard-earned truth: the United States cannot be trusted to lead. Not because of one man but because of what half the country has chosen to normalize. Not because of Trump alone but because every institution built to restrain him failed and then got in line."
#USPolitics
https://www.theindex.media/trust-is-dead-trump-keeps-selling-the-corpse/?ref=dispatches-newsletter

Two Parasites and a Corpse: #Trump, #Musk, and the Maggot Feud Inside America's Rotting Democracy
#Resist

An 8TB corpus of copyright-free text for training AI models. Comes with two 7B models trained as proof-of-concept.
https://github.com/r-three/common-pile/blob/main/paper.pdf
I'm glad somebody has finally done this. The "we need to break copyrig…

New Rotation Periods from the Kepler Bonus Background Light Curves
Zachary R. Claytor, Jamie Tayar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.03248 https://

New Rotation Periods from the Kepler Bonus Background Light Curves
The Kepler field hosts the best studied sample of field star rotation periods. However, due to Kepler's large 4" pixels, many of its light curves are at high risk of contamination from background sources. The new Kepler Bonus Background light curves are de-blended using a PSF algorithm, providing light curves of over 400,000 new background sources in addition to over 200,000 re-analyzed Kepler prime targets. These light curves provide the opportunity to search for new rotation periods. Here we …

Judge blocks Donald Trump administration's Job Corps shutdown
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5334454-judge-blocks-trump-job-corps/