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Registered nurses are appalled by this latest executive order that seeks to strip federal employees
-- including 15,000 registered nurses with National Nurses United
-- of their protected union rights.
As union nurses, we know this is union busting

NNU statement on executive order seeking to strip federal employees of their protected union rights
"Registered nurses are appalled by this latest executive order that seeks to strip federal employees of their protected union rights. As union nurses, we know this is union busting. Our nurses have been on the front lines, calling out this administration's attempts to dismantle and privatize our VA system."

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Three cases against IF NOT EXISTS / IF EXISTS in PostgreSQL DDL.
https://postgres.ai/blog/20211103-three-cases-against-if-not-exists-and-if-exists-in-postgresql-ddl
saved 2021-11-12

Three Cases Against IF NOT EXISTS / IF EXISTS in Postgres DDL | Postgres AI

What is this about?

Many DDL statements in PostgreSQL support modified IF EXISTS / IF NOT EXISTS. For example:

 test=# create table if not exists mytable(); CREATE TABLE test=# drop table if exists mytable; DROP TABLE 

I recommend using `IF EXISTS` / `IF NOT EXISTS`…

Huge 2,000-Year-old Roman Leather Shoe Discovered Exquisitely Preserved–Worn by a Soldier https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/huge-2000-year-old-roman-leather-shoe-discovered-exquisitely-preserved-worn-by-a-soldier/…

Huge 2,000-Year-old Roman Leather Shoe Discovered Exquisitely Preserved–Worn by a Soldier
In fact, so many shoes have been found across the two sites, the Vindolanda archaeological trust maintains a "shoe specialist." 

Death of top Russian oil executive fuels fresh scrutiny of elite's 'window falls': https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/04/death-of-top-russian-oil.html

SEC filing: Uber appoints Palo Alto CEO Nikesh Arora to its board of directors following a broader executive shakeup this week (CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/04/uber-board-palo-alto-nikesh-arora.html

Uber adds Palo Alto CEO Nikesh Arora to its board after executive shakeup
Nikesh Arora, the CEO of Palo Alto Networks, is joining the board of Uber. Prior, he was COO of Softbank and also held positions at Google and T-Mobile.

Parallel CPU-GPU Execution for LLM Inference on Constrained GPUs
Jiakun Fan, Yanglin Zhang, Xiangchen Li, Dimitrios S. Nikolopoulos
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.03296

Parallel CPU-GPU Execution for LLM Inference on Constrained GPUs
Deploying large language models (LLMs) for online inference is often constrained by limited GPU memory, particularly due to the growing KV cache during auto-regressive decoding. Hybrid GPU-CPU execution has emerged as a promising solution by offloading KV cache management and parts of attention computation to the CPU. However, a key bottleneck remains: existing schedulers fail to effectively overlap CPU-offloaded tasks with GPU execution during the latency-critical, bandwidth-bound decode phase…

The existence of Fritos implies the existence of Non-fri-tos and Non-fri-firmware-tos

VisCoder: Fine-Tuning LLMs for Executable Python Visualization Code Generation
Yuansheng Ni, Ping Nie, Kai Zou, Xiang Yue, Wenhu Chen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.03930

VisCoder: Fine-Tuning LLMs for Executable Python Visualization Code Generation
Large language models (LLMs) often struggle with visualization tasks like plotting diagrams, charts, where success depends on both code correctness and visual semantics. Existing instruction-tuning datasets lack execution-grounded supervision and offer limited support for iterative code correction, resulting in fragile and unreliable plot generation. We present VisCode-200K, a large-scale instruction tuning dataset for Python-based visualization and self-correction. It contains over 200K exampl…

Cards on deck: Trump keeps stack of orders ready to play as needed
Throughout Trump’s second term, White House staff have maintained a stash of executive orders and proclamations they can deploy
depending on the themes of the moment and the narratives they want to shape,
a senior White House official said, speaking on the condition of anonymity to talk frankly about internal strategies.

Some orders are put into the calendar well in advance, the official said.
…

Cards in deck: Trump keeps stack of orders ready to play as needed
Trump has a large stack of executive orders prepared and ready — some written before he took office — that he can release whenever the mood strikes.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01991 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csDC_…

Investigating Timing-Based Information Leakage in Data Flow-Driven Real-Time Systems
Leaking information about the execution behavior of critical real-time tasks may lead to serious consequences, including violations of temporal constraints and even severe failures. We study information leakage for a special class of real-time tasks that have two execution modes, namely, typical execution (which invokes the majority of times) and critical execution (to tackle exceptional conditions). The data flow-driven applications inherit such a multimode execution model. In this paper, we i…