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19-year-old Edward Coristine, a DOGE staffer known as "Big Balls" online, has joined the Social Security Administration days after resigning from the GSA (Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/big-balls-social-security-administration/

‘Big Balls’ Is Now at the Social Security Administration
Edward “Big Balls” Coristine’s placement at the SSA comes after a White House official told WIRED on Tuesday that the 19-year-old had resigned from his position in government.

Brad Lander, Unfiltered and Unplugged (Jessy Edwards/Hell Gate)
https://hellgatenyc.com/brad-lander-unfiltered-and-unplugged/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250628/p42#a250628p42

PhishKey: A Novel Centroid-Based Approach for Enhanced Phishing Detection Using Adaptive HTML Component Extraction
Felipe Casta\~no, Eduardo Fidalgo, Enrique Alegre, Rocio Alaiz-Rodr\'iguez, Raul Orduna, Francesco Zola
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21106

PhishKey: A Novel Centroid-Based Approach for Enhanced Phishing Detection Using Adaptive HTML Component Extraction
Phishing attacks pose a significant cybersecurity threat, evolving rapidly to bypass detection mechanisms and exploit human vulnerabilities. This paper introduces PhishKey to address the challenges of adaptability, robustness, and efficiency. PhishKey is a novel phishing detection method using automatic feature extraction from hybrid sources. PhishKey combines character-level processing with Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) for URL classification, and a Centroid-Based Key Component Phishing …

Snow widows by Katherine MacInnes focuses on the women left behind when Scott's expedition did not end as planned.
One of few #books that focus specifically on the lives of the women involved in the male business of antarctic exploration in class-sensitive Edwardian times.
#book

Inferring the efficiency of convective-envelope overshooting in Red Giant Branch stars
Lorenzo Briganti, Marco Tailo, Edoardo Ceccarelli, Andrea Miglio, Massimiliano Matteuzzi, Alessio Mucciarelli, Alessandro Mazzi, Angela Bragaglia, Saniya Khan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20794

Inferring the efficiency of convective-envelope overshooting in Red Giant Branch stars
The understanding of mixing processes in stars is crucial for improving our knowledge of the chemical abundances in stellar photospheres and of their variation with evolutionary phase. This is fundamental for many astrophysical issues on all scales, ranging from stellar evolution to the chemical composition, formation and evolution of stellar clusters and galaxies. Among these processes, convective-envelope overshooting is in dire need of a systematic calibration and comparison with predictions…

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https://mastodon.social/@edwardchampion/114738630098598870

A Hierarchical Deep Learning Approach for Minority Instrument Detection
Dylan Sechet, Francesca Bugiotti, Matthieu Kowalski, Edouard d'H\'erouville, Filip Langiewicz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21167

A Hierarchical Deep Learning Approach for Minority Instrument Detection
Identifying instrument activities within audio excerpts is vital in music information retrieval, with significant implications for music cataloging and discovery. Prior deep learning endeavors in musical instrument recognition have predominantly emphasized instrument classes with ample data availability. Recent studies have demonstrated the applicability of hierarchical classification in detecting instrument activities in orchestral music, even with limited fine-grained annotations at the instr…

I heard the same old food systems scholar on the radio this morning discussing Jamil Jivani's call to end temporary foreign workers. The host asked some interesting questions about the origins of the program but dude didn't have much to say beyond "when I was young and worked on a farm..." because he's not a historian.
For any journalists out there, try getting in touch with Edward Dunsworth instead. Ed's an excellent historian at McGill of migrant labour in C…

Edward Coristine, Key Player on Elon Musk's DOGE Team, Resigns (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/24/us/politics/big-balls-edward-coristine-musk-doge.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250624/p174#a250624p174

Sources: 19-year-old Edward Coristine, who has gone by "Big Balls" online and was one of the first technologists hired as part of DOGE, has resigned (Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/big-balls-coristine-doge-resigned-us-government/…

‘Big Balls’ No Longer Works for the US Government
The technologist Edward Coristine, a key operative in Elon Musk's so-called Department of Government Efficiency who's gone by the name "Big Balls" online, has resigned, the White House tells WIRED.