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Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince said Google's ratio of pages crawled per visitor sent to a publisher fell from 2:1 10 years ago to 6:1 six months ago to 18:1 now (Christine Wang/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/06/19/ai-search-traffic-publishers

Publishers facing existential threat from AI, Cloudflare CEO says
Search traffic referrals have plummeted as people increasingly rely on AI summaries.

The Trump administration claims to be fighting an existential battle against insurrectionary forces in Los Angeles.
In truth, it created this cynical spectacle itself,
deploying troops and inflaming tensions to distract from its policy failures.
https://jacobin.com/2025/06/la-immigr…

Donald Trump Manufactured the Crisis in Los Angeles
The Trump administration claims to be fighting an existential battle against insurrectionary forces in Los Angeles. In truth, it created this cynical spectacle itself, deploying troops and inflaming tensions to distract from its policy failures.

Is there a name for the existential and physical agony one experiences when hearing "we prepared a Miro board"?

A New Grand Theory of Why Decarbonization Is So Hard - Heatmap News https://heatmap.news/podcast/shift-key-s2-e43-existential-politics

"The language of blood and soil, which has once again become central to public debate in many democracies, is very powerful. It helps many people explain a complex world. It cannot easily be defeated or dismissed in one electoral cycle."
https://www.theatlantic.co…

Every Election Is Now Existential
A nationalist’s narrow victory in Poland offers a preview of many knife-edge contests to come, all across the democratic world.

Sources: Meta's Scale AI deal was motivated by Mark Zuckerberg's desire to find new leadership for Meta's AI efforts, relationship with Alexandr Wang, and more (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/meta-betting-n…

Why Meta is Betting Nearly $15 Billion on Alexandr Wang
Meta Platforms CEO Mark Zuckerberg has tried to fix a seemingly existential problem in recent months. His company’s large language model, Llama, was falling behind competitors and struggling to perform as well as models from OpenAI, particularly on complex tasks. Increasingly, Zuckerberg turned ...

Substitutions of variables are finitely axiomatizable over quantifications and permutations
Hajnal Andr\'eka, Zal\'an Gyenis, Istv\'an N\'emeti
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12458

Substitutions of variables are finitely axiomatizable over quantifications and permutations
This paper proves that the equational theory of the class $RA_α^{csp}$ of representable polyadic algebras is finitely axiomatizable over its substitution-free reduct $RA_α^{cp}$, for finite $α$. That is, substitutions of variables in finite variable first-order logic can be described by finitely many axioms over the Boolean operations, existential quantifiers and permutations of variables.

Trump appears eager to create optics that support his claim that public dissent constitutes an existential threat to the nation.
He also apparently seeks to get the American public used to seeing our armed forces in a new light.
In the president’s version of America, the military should be seen less as an apolitical body loyal to the Constitution.
-- Rather, it should be viewed as an institution that serves at the behest of a leader and his ideological and political agen…

Opinion | Trump Wants You to Get Used to This
The president wants to get Americans used to seeing the armed forces in a new light.

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AI isn’t an existential threat to humanity, capitalism and corporations are.
You see, we created capitalism, a religion modeled on cancer, and the corporation, a new, artificial species; a parasite that co-opts human beings to do its bidding; an organism that’s psychopathic by design and grows by extracting from and exploiting us and our habitat.
And we now find ourselves ruled by this religion and driven to ruin by these parasites as they drain our humanity, destroy our habitat,…

The Education Vigilante - Existential Comics https://existentialcomics.com/comic/604

So look, if you talk to me about the job threat from the things we currently call “AI,” well…
…if where you’re going with that is “The concentration of wealth is an existential crisis! Establish UBI! 99% marginal tax rate! Capital gains tax! Wealth tax! Abolish billionaires!” then yes, I’m •all• ears. My pitchfork is already sharpened.
But if where you’re going is “Get in on it now while you still can! Buy the AI vendors’ products! Drink radium for that youthful glow!” then…kthanksbye. I am not going to be a vector for your marketing propaganda, no matter how agitated you are.
/end

Philippe Neau & Antonella Eye Porcelluzzi – Elephant
https://www.clongclongmoo.org/2025/06/05/philippe-neau-antonella-eye-porcelluzzi-elephant/

Beating the Logarithmic Barrier for the Subadditive Maximin Share Problem
Masoud Seddighin, Saeed Seddighin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05613 https://

Beating the Logarithmic Barrier for the Subadditive Maximin Share Problem
We study the problem of fair allocation of indivisible goods for subadditive agents. While constant-\textsf{MMS} bounds have been given for additive and fractionally subadditive agents, the best existential bound for the case of subadditive agents is $1/O(\log n \log \log n)$. In this work, we improve this bound to a $1/O((\log \log n)^2)$-\textsf{MMS} guarantee. To this end, we introduce new matching techniques and rounding methods for subadditive valuations that we believe are of independent …

OH – food for thought: “They've found ways to be successful critics – emphasis on successful. They get invited to conferences, win awards, maintain influence … that success might come from never truly threatening the system.
Maybe aggressive rhetoric and a bridge-burning approach isn’t a bug but a feature. When the house is on fire, you don’t negotiate with the arsonists about fire safety regulations. You sound the alarm, loudly and repeatedly.
In a truly existential fight, w…

Machine vs Machine: Using AI to Tackle Generative AI Threats in Assessment
Mohammad Saleh Torkestani, Taha Mansouri
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02046 https:…

Machine vs Machine: Using AI to Tackle Generative AI Threats in Assessment
This paper presents a theoretical framework for addressing the challenges posed by generative artificial intelligence (AI) in higher education assessment through a machine-versus-machine approach. Large language models like GPT-4, Claude, and Llama increasingly demonstrate the ability to produce sophisticated academic content, traditional assessment methods face an existential threat, with surveys indicating 74-92% of students experimenting with these tools for academic purposes. Current respon…

So look, if you talk to me about the job threat from the things we currently call “AI,” well…
…if where you’re going with that is “The concentration of wealth is an existential crisis! Establish UBI! 99% marginal tax rate! Capital gains tax! Wealth tax! Abolish billionaires!” then yes, I’m •all• ears. My pitchfork is already sharpened.
But if where you’re going is “Get in on it now while you still can! Buy the AI vendors’ products! Drink radium for that youthful glow!” then…kthanksbye. I am not going to be a vector for your marketing propaganda, no matter how agitated you are.
/end

Approximate Light Spanners in Planar Graphs
Hung Le, Shay Solomon, Cuong Than, Csaba D. T\'oth, Tianyi Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.24825 https://

Approximate Light Spanners in Planar Graphs
In their seminal paper, Althöfer et al. (DCG 1993) introduced the {\em greedy spanner} and showed that, for any weighted planar graph $G$, the weight of the greedy $(1+ε)$-spanner is at most $(1+\frac{2}ε) \cdot w(MST(G))$, where $w(MST(G))$ is the weight of a minimum spanning tree $MST(G)$ of $G$. This bound is optimal in an {\em existential sense}: there exist planar graphs $G$ for which any $(1+ε)$-spanner has a weight of at least $(1+\frac{2}ε) \cdot w(MST(G))$. However, as an {\em a…

The existential comics are all good but this one nails it. 😁
The Beginning and End of Philosophy - Existential Comics
https://existentialcomics.com/comic/593

Day 1:
tl;dr: ESM TS NestJS TypeORM is possible, but not recommended for the impatient.
Successfully bootstrapped NestJS TypeORM PostgreSQL stack using ESM.
It only took:
- 6 hours
- 17 cryptic errors
- 3 existential crises
Turns out, using modern JS modules with legacy decorators is... bold. But hey — it runs now.
#CloudNative

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