The Orlando Sentinel got a cease-and-desist from Florida's DCF that claims its reporter coerced families for a story on a foundation tied to Gov. DeSantis' wife (Mike Schneider/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/orlando-sen
Jack Dorsey has launched a messaging app which doesn’t need internet, central servers, phone numbers or email.
https://www.computing.co.uk/news/2025/jack-dorsey-launches-decentralised-messaging-app
Combinatorics of descent algebras and graph coverings
Philippe Biane
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05528 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.0552…
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson defends blistering dissents: 'We have very different opinions' (Devin Dwyer/ABC News)
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/justice-ketanji-brown-jackson-defends-blistering-dissents-opinions/story?id=123538694
http://www.memeorandum.com/250708/p34#a250708p34
As Amazon Prime Day begins, some merchants say they can't afford to offer discounts due to Trump's tariffs; Adobe expects $23.8B in sales across the four days (Spencer Soper/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
Dissenter Headlines For June 9, 2025 https://thedissenter.org/dissenter-headlines-for-june-9-2025/
AI doesn't make you more efficient:
Thoughts after a year of working with LLMs and building Agent
Since everyone is in the business of giving their opinion on the whole AI craze at the moment I thought I’d throw mine out in the ether. […]
👉 https://byt3bl33d3r.substack.com/p/…
Decentralized Optimization with Amplified Privacy via Efficient Communication
Wei Huo, Changxin Liu, Kemi Ding, Karl Henrik Johansson, Ling Shi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.07102
Simple Convergence Proof of Adam From a Sign-like Descent Perspective
Hanyang Peng, Shuang Qin, Yue Yu, Fangqing Jiang, Hui Wang, Zhouchen Lin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.05966
On Monday, scores of scientists at the National Institutes of Health sent their Trump-appointed leader a letter titled the "Bethesda Declaration"
challenging “policies that undermine the NIH mission, waste public resources, and harm the health of Americans and people across the globe.”
It says: “We dissent.”
In a capital where insiders often insist on anonymity to say such things publicly,
92 NIH researchers, program directors, branch chiefs and scientific r…