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A look at Starlink's plans to launch a cellphone service that some experts say will likely remain complementary to existing networks, focusing on rural coverage (Washington Post)

Elon Musk eyes next target after cars, rockets and robots
The tech entrepreneur has upended one business after another. Now he may be going after our phone networks.

On Sept. 2, Donald Trump did something shocking even for him:
ordering the cold-blooded murder of 11 people.
With his active approval, they were summarily executed by an air strike on a boat carrying them off the coast of Venezuela.
Trump said that the vessel was manned by “Tren de Aragua Narco terrorists” from Venezuela carrying illegal drugs to the U.S.
He also said, “We have tapes of them speaking” and that “we knew exactly who was in that boat” and “exactly wha…

Trump’s State Terrorism Against Venezuela Will Endanger American Lives
If the champion of the rules-based international order turns to violence as a first resort, so will other countries

Justice Department Releases Guidance on Implementing President Trump's Executive Order Designating English as the Official Language of the United States (US Department of Justice)
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-releases-guidance-implementing-president-trumps-executive-order
http://www.memeorandum.com/250714/p99#a250714p99

Automatically describe data and models as text using the {report} package. #rstats

Socialdemocracia en crisis existencial. Columna de Paula Escobar.
#Columnistas

Executable Ontologies: Synthesizing Event Semantics with Dataflow Architecture
Aleksandr Boldachev
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.09775 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2…

Executable Ontologies: Synthesizing Event Semantics with Dataflow Architecture
This paper presents boldsea, Boldachev's semantic-event approach -- an architecture for modeling complex dynamic systems using executable ontologies -- semantic models that act as dynamic structures, directly controlling process execution. We demonstrate that integrating event semantics with a dataflow architecture addresses the limitations of traditional Business Process Management (BPM) systems and object-oriented semantic technologies. The paper presents the formal BSL (boldsea Semantic Lang…

2025 Week 2 NFL score predictions, odds, best picks today: Expert unveils exact scores for each matchup

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/2025-we

Eight local newspapers in Wyoming will keep publishing after three newspaper executives reached a deal to buy them from Illinois-based News Media Corporation (Rebecca Huntington/WyoFile)
https://wyofile.com/longtime-wyoming-newspaper-execut…

Longtime Wyoming newspaper executives to buy, reopen eight shuttered newspapers
Overjoyed newsroom staff in communities across Wyoming are back on the job with pay after corporate closure laid off 30 employees.

Worth a read...
"What Exactly Is Required to Preserve Our Democracy?"
https://www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/archive/2025/07/what-exactly-is-required-to-preserve-our-democracy/683492/

What Exactly Is Required to Preserve Our Democracy?
It will take a “total mobilization of our forces,” in the words of new Autocracy in America host Garry Kasparov.

Filings: Bengaluru-based fintech Cred, which offers rewards for paying credit card bills and more, raised ~$72M at a $3.5B valuation, down from $6.4B in 2022 (The Economic Times)
https://ec…

Cred raises fresh funds from GIC, others; valuation cut by 45% to $3.5 billion
The fintech major was valued at $6.4 billion in 2022 during its last major fund infusion. The current fund infusion is in the form of primary capital, which means that existing investors have not sold any shares in this round. The drop in valuation was in line with the company's plans to list in India over the next two years, people in the know said.