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One of the saddest slogans ever: Make America great again.
America always was great. It was the land of our dreams.
Since Trump, it's a nightmare.
America was our friend.
Now, it's who we thougt to be our adversaries who speak the truth and you can't believe anything that Trump says.
Our world is changing.
Europe hopefully will grow up very fast.
And I pray that our world will be more peaceful, egalitarian and democratic in the future, anywa…

"With so much focus historically on spacecraft being made from the lightest, strongest and most heat-resistant materials available, it may seem counterintuitive to intentionally make some materials weaker. The key is making materials smarter, so they maintain their strength during their mission but weaken under the heat of reentry."

Auf Umwegen in den Krieg https://www.german-foreign-policy.com/news/detail/10484

🇺🇸 Car seeks energy partner to work together on exciting projects for the grid. A lasting partnership, based on equality that lifts both parties.
In Europe you could almost find the reverse contact ad:
🇪🇺 Smart energy partner seeks car for joint grid fun.
#V2G

"Consumers will be more motivated when given clear, appropriate incentives. Together, we can expand localized, time-of-use tariffs, allowing EV owners to charge cost-effectively during energy… | Jaap Burger
"Consumers will be more motivated when given clear, appropriate incentives. Together, we can expand localized, time-of-use tariffs, allowing EV owners to charge cost-effectively during energy surpluses and receive appropriate compensation when supporting the grid during peak strain or in times of need. This creates a rare economic alignment: a car becomes an asset that offsets its own operating costs while actively delivering benefits to the public system." A letter well worth reading from Wad…

Wirrwarr um Iran-Deal - „Nukleare Drohung“: Trump deutet Atomschlag an #News #Nachrichten

The Brain That Goes Quiet: Serving a Large Model's Knowledge at 131 Tokens per Second on an 8 GB Laptop by Removing the Large Model from the Runtime Path
Myeong Jun Jo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.12154 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2606.12154 https://arxiv.org/html/2606.12154
arXiv:2606.12154v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: In earlier work I showed that a 35B-class Mixture-of-Experts model can be loaded and executed on a consumer laptop with 8 GB of GPU memory. That result solved a placement problem and immediately exposed a different one: even correctly placed, the large model needed roughly four seconds to answer, because it was still being invoked at every query. This paper documents what happened when I stopped invoking it. During an offline phase, the large model reads source documents and writes verified answer entries into a structured knowledge store; at runtime, only a lightweight router, a deterministic renderer, and a 1B-class model are active. On the same 8 GB laptop, end-to-end response time fell from approximately 4,465 ms to 518 ms, effective end-to-end throughput rose from 15.7 to 131 tokens per second, and the small model's streaming decode rate held at 226-237 tokens per second with a time-to-first-token of 29-62 ms. The bottleneck is structural: three different large models (Qwen, Gemma, and GLM class) all showed the same multi-second runtime cost, and all three produced usable knowledge stores offline. On a 563-entry store built from seventeen real documents, keyword routing collapsed to 1.5% top-1 accuracy while BM25-based routing reached 92.8% (99.4% top-3), and a confidence gate raised effective top-1 to 98.0% by escalating 12.3% of queries. Exact-match fidelity of the small model ranged from 9/9 to 0/9 across envelope formats carrying identical content. A 16-case verification gate blocked all ten corrupted entries while admitting all six supported ones.
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Mexico will request criminal charges over 17 Mexicans who died in ICE custody or during immigration enforcement operations by the Trump administration, officials said Thursday.
Mexican Foreign Minister Roberto Velasco’s announcement Thursday morning further escalated tensions with the United States,
as Mexico’s government has sharply criticized the treatment of its citizens under U.S. President Donald Trump’s push to increase deportations.
The request, which carries no lega…

Mexico to request criminal charges over deaths following shooting of Houston man by ICE
Mexico plans to request criminal charges over the deaths of 17 Mexicans in ICE custody or during immigration operations under the Trump administration. Mexican Foreign Minister Roberto Velasco announced this Thursday, escalating tensions with the U.S. The request, which carries no legal weight, will be submitted to state prosecutors and the U.S. Department of Justice. It will be accompanied by civil lawsuits against the companies that operate the detention centers. President Claudia Sheinbaum s…

If I’m a screenwriter writing this US full invasion of Cuba scenario: Cuba acquires 20–50 Shahed drones (from Iran, Russia, or Venezuela) and launches them in a saturated wave, succeeds in hitting Florida 90 miles away with at least one.
Hitting U.S. soil is huge escalation and shifts everything.
#USpol #Cuba

Gosh, it's great to see corporations being so generous during a heat wave.
"Fans may bring in one factory-sealed plastic water bottle (20 ounces or less) to Henry Maier Festival Park, excluding the American Family Insurance Ampitheater."
https://onmilwaukee.com/articles/summe

Trump berated Senate Republicans face to face on Wednesday
for allowing a vote to block his war in Iran,
further escalating a feud that has diverted GOP efforts to focus on election-year affordability issues
and brought much of the chamber’s business to a halt.
Invited by Florida Sen. Rick Scott to speak at a GOP luncheon in the Capitol,
Trump had signaled ahead of time that he would use the closed-door meeting to push senators to pass his proof-of-citizenship v…

Trump holds tense GOP meeting at Capitol after scrapping bill signing
President Donald Trump has berated Senate Republicans during his visit to the Capitol for allowing a vote to block his war in Iran, further escalating a feud that has diverted GOP efforts to focus on election-year affordability issues and brought much of the chamber’s business to a halt. Trump had signaled ahead of time that he would use the closed-door meeting to push senators to pass his proof-of-citizenship voting bill. But the conversation was more focused on Tuesday’s vote to approve t…