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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

What in the fresh hell is this movie?!

The unexplained death of a top Russian oilexecutive on July 4 is fueling renewed scrutiny over the rising number of high-profile Russian officials and businessmen who have died under mysterious circumstances -- specifically, have fallen out of windows.
Andrei Badalov, vice president of Transneft, Russia's largest state-controlled pipeline transport company, died after falling from the window of his apartment in Moscow.
Russian state news agency TASS, citing law enforcement sour…

Death of top Russian oil executive fuels fresh scrutiny of elite's 'window falls'
The unexplained death of a top Russian oil executive on July 4 is fueling renewed scrutiny over the rising number of high-profile Russian officials and businessmen who have died under mysterious circumstances, specifically, have fallen out of windows. Andrei Badalov, vice president of Transneft, Russia's largest state-controlled pipeline transport company, died after falling from the window of his apartment in Moscow. Russian state news agency TASS, citing law enforcement sources, claimed the

"For a couple o' pins," says Troll, and grins,
"I'll eat thee too, and gnaw thy shins.
A bit o' fresh meat will go down sweet!
I'll try my teeth on thee now.
Hee now! See now!
I'm tired o' gnawing old bones and skins;
I've a mind to dine on thee now."
But just as he thought his dinner was caught,
He found his hands had hold of naught.
Before he could mind, Tom slipped behing
And gave him the …

A new wave of publishers sign up for ProRata's revenue share program, bringing the total number of publishers to 500, including The Boston Globe and Vox Media (Sara Guaglione/Digiday)
https://digiday.com/media/boston-globe-f…

Boston Globe, Future, Vox Media join ProRata’s generative AI licensing model
A fresh wave of publishers have signed up for ProRata’s revenue share program, and some are adding its AI search engine to their sites.

"Fresh off an ego-crushing defeat and a heightened appetite for mind-altering drugs, what workplace debauchery he gets into next is anyone's guess." --Futurism
'In the comments section, users praised Mr Musk for his dedication to his work. "Elon is a bit bizarre, but that's exactly why he's so successful. Boring people prefer to seek security and comfort," wrote one user.' --NDTV

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#RoundMidnight
- Fresh from Finn Rees and Allysha Joy
Long-term collaborator duo Finn Rees and Allysha Joy are back with a heady new release.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002cp63

Fresh polling on Harris, Newsom after LA (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/california-playbook/2025/07/02/fresh-polling-on-kamala-newsom-favorability-00436899
http://www.memeorandum.com/250702/p66#a250702p66

5 free must-have Kontakt libraries for pop music
#MusicianTips #Sounds4MakingMusic

5 free must-have Kontakt libraries for pop music | Native Instruments Blog
Discover five free Kontakt libraries that will inject fresh inspiration into your music production. From lush pads to punchy drums, find your next go-to sound right here.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.09620 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@ar…

Melting of floating ice cylinders in fresh and saline environments
We experimentally investigated the melting of floating ice cylinders. Experiments were carried out in a tank, with ice cylinders with radii between 5 cm and 12 cm, floating horizontally with their axis perpendicular to gravity. The water in the tank was at room temperature, with salinities ranging from 0 g/L to 35 g/L. These conditions correspond to Rayleigh numbers in the range $10^5 \lesssim \mathrm{Ra} \lesssim 10^9$. The relative density and thus the floating behaviour was varied by employi…

Ich schlürfe meine Urlaubsaustern ja lieber mit spanischen Omas bei lokaler Blasmusik auf Ausflugsschiffen, aber Maine ist sicher auch nicht schlecht.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/04/travel/maine-oyster-tr…

Slurping Toward Nirvana on the Maine Oyster Trail
Savoring all things fresh and briny while on a mission to visit all four of Maine’s oyster regions in just one long weekend.

Joe Milton 'surprised' but 'blessed' for fresh start with Cowboys, praises QB room chemistry https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/joe-milton-surprised-but-blessed-for-fresh-start-with-cowboys-praise…

This author is invaluable to me because they always have a fresh take that I haven't seen anywhere else. Was a fave follow on the bad place.
In this case, re #LLMs
#AI #LLM

Beyond Nudge
LLMs ensure their survival by showing us that we can all find meaning in our lives so long as we keep talking with the LLMs.

George Kittle happy for former 49ers teammate Deebo Samuel's 'fresh start' in Washington https://www.nfl.com/news/george-kittle-deebo-samuel-happy-fresh-start-former-49ers-teammate-washington

Call for Submissions: “ Test Tube Theatre ” – An Anthology of One-Minute Plays Inspired by Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World Brave New World
https://ift.tt/jb973tT
updated: Wednesday, June 4, 2025 - 7:33pmfull name / name of organization: Fresh Words-An…
via Input 4 RELCFP

Cacaphony. The best food places are obviously close to, or in this case on top of, the market. Anything you want, fresh and exactly how you want it.
#photography day 12 of #30daysIRL

Re this from @…: YES.
My first job out of college, I successfully built several high-profile executive darling software projects. I was celebrated for it (someone once use the phrase “white knight,” yikes), which was heady for a 20-something fresh out of college.
Despite that, I don’t think a single one of those projects actually mattered diddly to the company in the long term.
1/2
https://hachyderm.io/@jenniferplusplus/114785755537309714

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Early
Mumu Fresh:
🎵 Be Good to You
#MumuFresh
https://thevintagebabies.bandcamp.com/track/be-good-to-you
https://open.spotify.com/track/4rbmNfAPaBvXC0UCCgj3du

#linktip
The Seven Deadly UX Sins of the #Fediverse Web Experience
https://www.timothychambers.net/2025/06/…

- Donald, are you wearing fresh diaper pants?
- Yes, Melania.
- Do I have to do the sniff test.
- No, Melania.
- All right. Well, go out there and knock 'em dead.
- Yes, Melania.

Whenever her phone rang or her doorbell sounded, Dorothy Parker would say, “What fresh hell is this?” I’ve taken to repeating it under my breath every time I open my social media apps.
This may sound dark, but it reminds me that I can approach the onslaught of news and opinion with my own attitude: with humor and, above all, with curiosity.

fresh_webs: Freshwater stream webs
A set of 26 networks of trophic-level species interactions in streams in New Zealand, Maine and North Carolina. Networks include the identities of aquatic insect, algae and fish species and their trophic interactions. Excel and plain text adjacency matrices available; webs can be downloaded individually or as a group.
This network has 71 nodes and 148 edges.
Tags: Biological, Food web, Unweighted, Metadata

A Logic For Fresh Labelled Transition Systems
Mohamed H Bandukara, Nikos Tzevelekos
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14538 https://arxiv.or…

A Logic For Fresh Labelled Transition Systems
We introduce a Hennessy-Milner logic with recursion for Fresh Labelled Transition Systems (FLTSs). These are nominal labelled transition systems which keep track of the history, i.e. of data values seen so far, and can capture fresh data generation. In particular, FLTSs generalise the computations of Fresh-Register Automata, which in turn are one of the simplest classes of history-dependent automata operating on infinite input alphabets. Each automaton comes equipped with a finite set of regist…

Raiders' Offensive Lineman Recalls Notable Steelers Veteran https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/maxx-crosby-las-vegas-pittsburgh-steelers-jackson-powers-johnson-cam-heyward

‪Andrew Spink€
The fresh green leaves on the trees are amazing again. Here is a new mountain bike blog about that: https://andrewspink.nl/mtb/en/mountainbike-blog/277-shocking-green

A while ago, I've followed the example given by #Fedora and unbundled ensurepip wheels from #Python in #Gentoo (just checked — "a while ago" was 3 years ago). This had the important advantage that it enabled us to update these wheels along with the actual pip and setuptools packages, meaning new virtual environments would get fresh versions rather than whatever CPython happened to bundle at the time of release.
I had considered using our system packages to prepare these wheels, but since we were already unbundling dependencies back then, that couldn't work. So I just went with fetching upstream wheels from PyPI. Why not build them from source instead? Well, besides feeling unnecessary (it's not like the PyPI wheels are actually binary packages), we probably didn't have the right kind of eclass support for that at the time.
Inspired by @…, today I've tried preparing new revisions of ensurepip packages that actually do build everything from source. So what changed, and why should building from source matter now? Firstly, as part of the wheel reuse patches, we do have a reasonably clean architecture to grab the wheels created as part of the PEP517 build. Secondly, since we're unbundling dependencies from pip and setuptools, we're effectively testing different packages than these installed as ensurepip wheels — and so it would be meaningful to test both variants. Thirdly, building from source is going to make patching easier, and at the very least enable user patching.
While at it, I've refreshed the test suite runs in all three regular packages (pip, setuptools and wheel — we need an "ensurepip" wheel for the last because of test suites). And of course, I hit some test failures in testing the versions with bundled dependencies, and I've discovered a random bug in #PyPy.
https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/pull/42882 (yes, we haven't moved yet)
https://github.com/pypy/pypy/issues/5306

Call for Submissions: “ Test Tube Theatre ” – An Anthology of One-Minute Plays Inspired by Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World Brave New World
https://ift.tt/15nbQW0
updated: Wednesday, June 4, 2025 - 7:33pmfull name / name of organization: Fresh Words-An…
via Input 4 RELCFP

Amsterdam-based Tebi, which offers a payments platform for hospitality companies, raised €30M led by CapitalG, after a €20M Series A in October 2024 (Anna Heim/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/10/tebi

Tebi, the new startup by Adyen's departed cofounder, raises a fresh $30M from Alphabet's CapitalG | TechCrunch
Co-founded by Adyen's former CTO, Tebi helps restaurants, bars and other hospitality businesses manage their operations with an all-in-one subscription-based platform that can handle payments, reservations, inventory, and more.

Dangerous Questions in Astronomy Education
Michael Fitzgerald, Rachel Freed, Dan Reichart, Kate Meredith, Kalee Tock, Daryl Janzen, Saeed Salimpour, Jennifer Lynn Bartlett, Matthew Beaky, Art Borja, Ken Brandt, Jim Buchholz, Patricia Craig, Anthony Crider, Richard Datwyler, Marta Dark-McNeese, Anna DeJong, Donovan Domingue, Debbie French, Oliver Fraser, Amy L. Glazier, Enrique Gomez, Erika Grundstrom, Nicole Gugliucci, Kevin Healy, Ardis Herrold, Ian Hewitt, Jack Howard, Katherine Hunt…

Dangerous Questions in Astronomy Education
As astronomy enters an era defined by global telescope networks, petabyte-scale surveys, and powerful computational tools, the longstanding goals of astronomy education, particularly introductory ``ASTRO101'', but equally encompassing both higher and lower level courses, warrant fresh examination. In June 2024, the AstroEdUNC meeting at UNC--Chapel Hill convened 100 astronomers, education researchers, and practitioners to synthesise community perspectives on the purpose, content, and delivery o…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.16423 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_hepp…

Theory of neutrino slow flavor evolution. Part II. Space-time evolution of linear instabilities
Slow flavor evolution (defined as driven by neutrino masses and not necessarily ``slow'') is receiving fresh attention in the context of compact astrophysical environments. In Part~I of this series, we have studied the slow-mode dispersion relation following our recently developed analogy to plasma waves. The concept of resonance between flavor waves in the linear regime and propagating neutrinos is the defining feature of this approach. It is best motivated for weak instabilities, which probab…

Stay Fresh, Cheese-bags :neocat_cool_fingerguns:

In which I recommend that if you’re building or upgrading a moderately serious music-listening system, you use Qobuz and include a cheap Mac Mini: https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2025/06/22/Qobuz-and-Others

Qobuz and Mac

❝Think! Think! What do people love? The warmth of sunshine on their skin? Fresh fruit? The smell of the top of a baby’s head? Doritos? Laughter? Joy? The feeling of being seen? No, no! These answers are all wrong. It needs to be something that you can access after the Event!❞ https://

Hey you, hold onto your humanity. You’ll thank me later.
Columnist and alum Alexandra Petri offers a little advice for the graduates — or, at least, for one of them (you know who you are).

A unified model of horizontal differentiation with general spaces and irrational consumers
Aldric Labarthe, Yann Kerzreho
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01985 …

A unified model of horizontal differentiation with general spaces and irrational consumers
We introduce a new microeconomic model of horizontal differentiation that unifies and extends previous developments inspired by the seminal work of Hotelling (1929). Our framework incorporates boundedly rational consumers, an unlimited number of firms, and arbitrary differentiation spaces with Riemannian manifolds. We argue that Riemannian geometry provides a natural and powerful tool for analyzing such models, offering fresh insights into firm behavior and market structure with complex product…

Hours after Trump's Tax and Spending bill passed the US Senate, the hashtag #MuskWantsToBuildAnAmericaParty
went viral on Weibo -- a Chinese social media platform similar to Musk’s X, receiving more than 37m views.
“If Elon Musk were to found a political party, his tech-driven mindset could inject fresh energy into politics. The potential for change is significant – a…

https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/27/prolific-cybercrime-gang-now-targeting-airlines-and-the-transportation-sector/
Prolific cybercrime gang now targeting airlines and the transportation sector

Prolific cybercrime gang now targeting airlines and the transportation sector | TechCrunch
The fresh wave of attacks targeting airlines comes soon after the hackers hit the U.K. retail sector and the insurance industry.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.11394 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arX…

Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking and Panic Escape
Panic-induced herding in individuals often leads to social disasters, resulting in people being trapped and trampled in crowd stampedes triggered by panic. We introduce a novel approach that offers fresh insights into studying the phenomenon of asymmetrical panic-induced escape. Our approach is based on the concept of Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking (SSB), a fundamental governing mechanism in the Physical Sciences. By applying the principles of SSB, we conjecture that the onset of disastrous effe…

I've discovered #BorrowBox today. I don't know if all #libraries are signed up, but through those that are, if you have a libary card, you get free access to books, magazines and papers through your phone. I've spent much of today ambling through The Rugby Paper, BBC History Magazine, a …

Maybe it wasn’t as fresh as the original #Connections, but I thought Connectin’ 2: Electric Boogaloo had some fly categories.
#Connections749
🟦🟦🟦🟦
🟪🟪🟪🟪
🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟨🟨🟨🟨

Interested in how you food gets to your table - read it and weep. #FoodSecurity
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06-29/foo

Food supply chain system costs farmers and regions millions of dollars
Most "fresh" food travels thousands of kilometres to be sorted, divvied up and, in some cases, sent back to the place it came from — at huge cost to farmers and shoppers. But some new options are starting to sprout.

After weeks of writing from news and social media, I decided to turn towards art for a while. I thought I’d be able to make an easy trade: from fresh hells to fresh heavens.
#Art
https://salrandolph.substack.com/p/…

What Fresh Heaven?
Writing in response to daily works of art instead of daily social media. It turns out heaven is harder than hell.

Blowing up NATO's foundation, right before its Summit:
"Trump refused to give a clear commitment to NATO’s Article 5 — its collective defense clause — as he departed for The Hague, raising fresh concerns about his stance on one of NATO’s core principles."
https://

Trump casts doubt on NATO defense pledge as alliance confronts Russian threat
Although Article 5 is central to NATO’s security framework, U.S. President Donald Trump has previously expressed skepticism about honoring it, often criticizing member states for not contributing enough to shared defense efforts.

So, what’s everyone drinking this morning? I bought a fresh bag of beans yesterday, and used them with my V60 this morning. Not the best beans, but at least I now contain caffeine!
We’ve also been experimenting with Cold Brew infusions using a Hario infuser bottle. So far, the best infusion we’ve found is Wittards Very berry. It’s so yummy!
#Coffee #Infusions #ColdBrew

A couple fresh peas
Somehow break free from their pod
And into my mouth.
#dailyhaikuprompt - fresh peas
#haiku
#poem

Dallas Cowboys 2025 Season Outlook: A Redemption Arc for the Cowboys https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/news/dallas-cowboys-2025-season-outlook-redemption-arc-cowboys/65730e90f8fcffb3b7e45d76

"Indian researchers develop fast-charging sodium-ion battery, promising over 3,000 cycles"
#India #Batteries #Energy

Indian researchers develop fast-charging sodium-ion battery, promising over 3,000 cycles
NAtrium Super Ionic CONductor (NASICON) materials continue to show their potential for sodium-ion anodes in high-performance batteries, with fresh research out of India delving more into the materials.

Sonnet 001 - I
From fairest creatures we desire increase,
That thereby beauty's rose might never die,
But as the riper should by time decease,
His tender heir might bear his memory:
But thou contracted to thine own bright eyes,
Feed'st thy light's flame with self-substantial fuel,
Making a famine where abundance lies,
Thy self thy foe, to thy sweet self too cruel:
Thou that art now the world's fresh ornament,
And onl…

Meadow magic.
(absolute highlight on yesterday's evening hike)
#SilentSunday #LandscapePhotography #NaturePhotography

You could have named one of these, @… 😉 https://mastodon.online/@davidwilkins/114731762274205784

David Wilkins (@davidwilkins@mastodon.online)
Attached: 1 image Today, we’re back at the Practical Classics resto show at the NEC in March with another Polish car, the FSO Polonez. When it was launched in 1978, it had quite a fresh modern look, especially compared with most other Eastern European cars of the time, although most of the under-the-skin bits were carried over from the older 125P, which FSO built under licence from Fiat. Endless updates and variations produced this blander look on later versions. #davidsdailycar #FSO #Weird…

Grrr CPC's webpage won't log me in, giving me a 'Recaptcha verification has failed' on both Firefox and Chromium, including from a fresh VM boot; it's not even showing me a Recaptcha.

💵 It’s time to pay the true value of tropical forest conservation (commentary)
https://news.mongabay.com/2025/06/its-time-to-pay-the-true-value-of-tropical-forest-conservation-commentary/

It’s time to pay the true value of tropical forest conservation (commentary)
Tropical forests help regulate the global climate, host irreplaceable biodiversity and provide fresh water resources. Plus forests in general are the source of livelihoods for more than a billion people — so our very existence depends on them. However, because their value is not reflected in markets, these areas are often converted to other uses. Conserving our tropical forests […]

Starz reports Q4 revenue down 6.2% YoY to $330.6M, an operating loss of $136.3M, up from $30.8M, and 13.04M streaming subscribers, up 470K from Q3 (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/starz-quarterly-…

Starz Quarterly Revenue Drops 6%, Takes $168M Content Impairment Charge
Starz, fresh off its separation from former parent company Lionsgate, reported results for the first three months of the year.

Rising sea levels: adaptation has never been more urgent https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/may/25/the-guardian-view-on-rising-sea-levels-adaptation-has-never-been-m…

fresh_webs: Freshwater stream webs
A set of 26 networks of trophic-level species interactions in streams in New Zealand, Maine and North Carolina. Networks include the identities of aquatic insect, algae and fish species and their trophic interactions. Excel and plain text adjacency matrices available; webs can be downloaded individually or as a group.
This network has 105 nodes and 343 edges.
Tags: Biological, Food web, Unweighted, Metadata

Thinking about this 1997 Edmund White quote on Fresh Air today, talking about casual gay sex in the 1970s.
Nor did all this sex preclude intimacy. For those who never lived through that period, and most of those who did, are dead, the phrase "anonymous sex" might suggest unfeeling sex, devoid of emotion. And yet, as I can attest, to hole up in a room at the baths with a body, after having opened it up and wrung it dry, to lie, head propped on a guy's stomach just where the tan line bisects it, smoke a cigarette, and talk to him late into the night and early into the morning about your childhood, his unhappiness and love, your money worries, his plans for the future. Well, nothing is more personal, more emotional.
(This is him reading a quote from his novel The Farewell Symphony)

11 Vegan Summer Lunches #plantbased

11 Vegan Summer Lunches
It's that time of year again and you're probably ready for some fresh ideas for vegan summer lunches. Here are eleven to try.

Fresh megabill text overnight: what's in and what's out (Katherine Tully-McManus/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/06/28/megabill-reconciliation-parliamentarian-00431082
http://www.memeorandum.com/250628/p40#a250628p40

Raiders Fresh Off Massive Offseason https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/las-vegas-john-spytek-los-angeles-chargers-pete-carroll

#AskFedi: meeting-booking software like Calendly or SimplyMeet.me
I need to set up one of those things where other people can pick a time for us to meet.
I only need it for a few meetings on a few days, so I don't want to have to maintain an entire online calendar up-to-date just so that it can see where the gaps are. I want one which is easy to use as follows: I go into the thing itself and select a few chunks of time which _are_ available, it turns those into bookable slots.
I'd also like it to be easy to remove unbooked slots manually without messing up any adjacent booked ones.
Previously I've not even used this type of software the other way round, as the person booking someone _else's_ available time - so I'm starting fresh with looking into it!
I've got my eye on SimplyMeet.me, because the below Zapier article said it was a nicely customisable one and can do intake questions, which would be nice. Has anyone else used that?
Any other recommendations or pointers?
Thanks in advance for clues!
(boosts very welcome)
#AskFedi #software #Calendly #SimplyMeetMe

This was fascinating — I think it came via @… . Everything I know about sociopathy is pop psych/culture, so this interview was just utterly fresh to me.
#MentalHealth #MentalIllness

Simulation and analysis of turbulent flame and its effect on the wall of aero engine combustor
A. Mokhtari, A. Abdallah-elhirtsi, F. Larbi, R. Renane, R. Allouche
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01892

Simulation and analysis of turbulent flame and its effect on the wall of aero engine combustor
The main objective of this study is to simulate the behavior of the reactive flow of the turbulent flame in aeronautical combustion chamber of the ALLISON-T56 turboprop, and contribute to the analysis of flame structure and determine for given pressure and temperature of fresh gas the behavior of the thermodynamic parameters of combustion. The numerical approach is based on the resolution of basic equations of turbulent combustion using Ansys-Fluent code where the turbulence model K-e is chosen…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.04080 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_…

AT 2018dyk: tidal disruption event or active galactic nucleus? Follow-up observations of an extreme coronal line emitter with the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument
We present fresh insights into the nature of the tidal disruption event (TDE) candidate AT 2018dyk. AT 2018dyk has sparked a debate in the literature around its classification as either a bona-fide TDE or as an active galactic nucleus (AGN) turn-on state change. A new follow-up spectrum taken with the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument, in combination with host-galaxy analysis using archival SDSS-MaNGA data, supports the identification of AT 2018dyk as a TDE. Specifically, we classify this ob…

Extending OpenMC Validation to Spent Fuel Canisters: A Criticality Benchmark Against MCNP
Javier Ruiz-Pineda, Jaime Romero-Barrientos, Francisco Molina, Marcelo Zambra, Franco L\'opez-Usquiano
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.22559

Extending OpenMC Validation to Spent Fuel Canisters: A Criticality Benchmark Against MCNP
OpenMC is an open-source Monte Carlo code with increasing relevance in criticality safety and reactor physics applications. While its validation has covered a broad range of systems, its performance in spent nuclear fuel storage scenarios remains limited in the literature. This work benchmarks OpenMC against MCNP for eleven configurations based on the KBS-3 disposal concept, involving variations in geometry, fuel composition (fresh vs spent), and environmental conditions (e.g., air, argon, floo…

According to a report published late Saturday night, the Senate version of the GOP budget bill would leave 💥 11.8 million more Americans uninsured by 2034.
Federal spending on Medicaid, Medicare and Obamacare would be reduced by more than💥 $1.1 trillion over that period
— with more than $1 trillion of those cuts coming from Medicaid alone.
The fresh estimates make official what many analysts had already predicted -- and some Republican lawmakers had feared.
The size an…

Senate Version of Trump’s Policy Bill Would Slash Medicaid Spending Even More
Analysis from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office found that Republicans’ new version of the legislation would make far deeper cuts and lead to more people becoming uninsured than previous proposals.

I continue my practice of writing back to posts on social media. Also its antidote: writing back to works of art served up at random. It’s a little like surfing, taking the waves as they come. It’s a little like dancing. It’s one way to reclaim my attention, one way to stay alive to the present.
https://

More Fresh Hells & A Few Heavens
Brief responses to social media posts (hells) and random paintings (heavens).

what if we kissed in the "fresh kills" estuary at staten island 👉👈

fresh_webs: Freshwater stream webs
A set of 26 networks of trophic-level species interactions in streams in New Zealand, Maine and North Carolina. Networks include the identities of aquatic insect, algae and fish species and their trophic interactions. Excel and plain text adjacency matrices available; webs can be downloaded individually or as a group.
This network has 71 nodes and 155 edges.
Tags: Biological, Food web, Unweighted, Metadata

Accidents will happen.
So I decided after the car crash to setup a, what I call, hybrid system: Slackware KDE, by @… , remove some things, install grub and decide to do all applications by flatpak. Except for those KDE apps obviously.
It's probably relief setting in, but it sure feels fresh and snappy again!

Try not to laugh reading #Trump's words about #ElonMusk:
"I'm amazed that he's endorsing me because that can't be good for him. I'm abolishing the EV mandate."
"He got a little bit strange."
✅ Puzzled Trump Says He Has No Idea Why Musk Support…

Puzzled Trump Says He Has No Idea Why Musk Supported Him in the First Place
Fresh off his feud with former ally Elon Musk, president Donald Trump has once again said the quiet part out loud. 

Coffee break time! Fuel up with delicious chocolate cake, cherry crumble, and fresh fruits in the partner area, generously sponsored by Qdrant. #bbuzz

The Debugging Decay Index: Rethinking Debugging Strategies for Code LLMs
Muntasir Adnan, Carlos C. N. Kuhn
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.18403 https://…

The Debugging Decay Index: Rethinking Debugging Strategies for Code LLMs
The effectiveness of AI debugging follows a predictable exponential decay pattern; most models lose 60-80% of their debugging capability within just 2-3 attempts, despite iterative debugging being a critical capability for practical code generation systems. We introduce the Debugging Decay Index (DDI), a mathematical framework that quantifies when debugging becomes ineffective and predicts intervention points. Our strategic fresh start approach shifts from exploitation to exploration at strateg…

📝🗃️ 𝗿𝗱𝗼𝗰𝗱𝘂𝗺𝗽: Dump ‘R’ Package Source, Documentation, and Vignettes into One File for use in LLMs #rstats #LLM is on CRAN https://www.ekotov.pro/rdocdum…

rdocdump: Dump R Package Documentation and Vignettes into One File
Dump R Package Documentation and Vignettes into One File

È uscito Sir Oliver Skardy - Biografia legalizzata dal poeta venessian, dai Pitura Freska ad oggi
IN LIBRERIA E IN EDICOLA IL LIBRO SIR OLIVER SKARDY - BIOGRAFIA LEGALIZZATA DAL POETA VENESSIAN, DAI PITURA FRESKA AD OGGI.
http…

The assumptions that restrain us from understanding consciousness
Jaan Aru
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21485 https://arxiv.org/pdf/250…

The assumptions that restrain us from understanding consciousness
The science of consciousness has been successful over the last decades. Yet, it seems that some of the key questions remain unanswered. Perhaps, as a science of consciousness, we cannot move forward using the same theoretical commitments that brought us here. It might be necessary to revise some assumptions we have made along the way. In this piece, I offer no answers, but I will question some of these fundamental assumptions. We will try to take a fresh look at the classical question about the…

Transient Concepts in Streaming Graphs
Aida Sheshbolouki, M. Tamer Ozsu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.17451 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.1…

Transient Concepts in Streaming Graphs
Concept Drift (CD) occurs when a change in a hidden context can induce changes in a target concept. CD is a natural phenomenon in non-stationary settings such as data streams. Understanding, detection, and adaptation to CD in streaming data is (i) vital for effective and efficient analytics as reliable output depends on adaptation to fresh input, (ii) challenging as it requires efficient operations as well as effective performance evaluations, and (iii) impactful as it applies to a variety of u…

A look at seven UX issues in the Fediverse web experience, including complex onboarding, the lack of a dedicated DM UI wrapper, and fragmented user discovery (Tim Chambers)
https://www.timothychambers.net/2025/06/18/113327.html

The Seven Deadly UX Sins of the Fediverse Web Experience (To Fix)
So, confession time: I was recently helping a new client get set up on the Fediverse—guiding them through their first steps into our glorious decentralized galaxy. And seeing it all again through fresh eyes? Reader, it was brutal. So much of what should be table stakes for any social media UX in the year of our Lord 2025 still is missing or deeply broken still. I know progress has been made and a good fight, fought.

Grüße gehen raus an @… Danke für das Rezept gestern 🙏🙌

Today I also cycled ~15km (with the bike trailer) to fetch some wood from the hardware store to build a new cupboard for our new kitchen block. A very nice ride over Donauinsel with lots of blossoms and fresh green leaves. It would have been even nicer without the constant drizzle and strong wind...

My niece, flabbergasted that there's no fresh bento in a small town convenience store in Ontario: "We can just get onigiri. Right?" 🫠

The arts and education — when they are at their best, anyway — have in common this deep root: they ask us to see and to think and to feel, to see with fresh eyes, to be aware of our own seeing, to be •active• in our seeing.
In that way, both the arts and education are antidotes to the AI hype cycle, and similar endeavors of capitalism run amok.
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Beautiful, fresh morning outside here in Cambridgeshire. Here's a patch of irises under a wild rose.
#BloomScrolling #SilentSunday

Tired from #Gmail sigh...I need to have a change, a fresh air.
My #mailbox are fulled of junk, messed mails, etc.
I'm wondering what #mail provider I can choose.
Or as always I…

Holy Linus Torvalds and Gabe Newel, I just played Clair Obscur on a fresh install of #Bazzite #Linux 🕺 I've always been happy with Linux, but this right here is astounded.
#gaming

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#RoundMidnight
- Fresh from Kokoroko
Soweto spins a single from the leading UK seven-piece ahead of their forthcoming album.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002d7hq

Coffee break time! Fuel up with delicious chocolate cake, cherry crumble, and fresh fruits in the partner area, generously sponsored by Qdrant. #bbuzz

AI-powered virtual physical therapy startup Sword Health raised $40M led by General Catalyst at a $4B valuation, up from its $3B valuation from June 2024 (Marina Temkin/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/17/sword-h…

Sword Health nabs $40M at $4B valuation, pushes IPO plans to at least 2028 | TechCrunch
The digital health startup says it secured the fresh capital to update its valuation and finance acquisitions.

LLMs in Coding and their Impact on the Commercial Software Engineering Landscape
Vladislav Belozerov, Peter J Barclay, Askhan Sami
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.16653

LLMs in Coding and their Impact on the Commercial Software Engineering Landscape
Large-language-model coding tools are now mainstream in software engineering. But as these same tools move human effort up the development stack, they present fresh dangers: 10% of real prompts leak private data, 42% of generated snippets hide security flaws, and the models can even ``agree'' with wrong ideas, a trait called sycophancy. We argue that firms must tag and review every AI-generated line of code, keep prompts and outputs inside private or on-premises deployments, obey emerging safet…

Rashod Bateman aims to 'flip that narrative' of Ravens WRs after extension https://www.nfl.com/news/rashod-bateman-aims-to-flip-that-narrative-of-ravens-wrs-after-extension

Solace! Spirit cleansing.
(Incredible light on our morning hike today. So very grateful for these experiences, especially these days... 🙏)
#LandscapePhotography #NaturePhotography #MorningWalk

My knee-jerk reaction to this article from @… was a cynical [citation needed] re “artists from all mediums emphatically support the use of AI.”
On further reflection…well, that’s still my response to the eyeball-grabbing lede, yes, but the actual article is what I wish we’d had instead of this inane hype avalanche:
Artists poking at the new thing, playing with it, finding its possibilities, critiquing it, problematizing it, asking us to ask what it is, helping us see it with fresh eyes from many angles. https://infosec.exchange/@adamshostack/114704865574139727

Old-growth forest logging resumed in Finland – Stora Enso breaking its sustainability promises https://www.greenpeace.org/finland/blogit/metsat/old-growth-forest-logging-resumed-in-finland-stora-enso-bre…

Old-growth forest logging resumed in Finland – Stora Enso breaking its sustainability promises - Greenpeace Suomi
In March we warned that forestry giant Stora Enso’s products may contain traces of old growth forests. Well now we know that they do, with fresh proof from Kainuu, Finland.…

Sonnet 001 - I
From fairest creatures we desire increase,
That thereby beauty's rose might never die,
But as the riper should by time decease,
His tender heir might bear his memory:
But thou contracted to thine own bright eyes,
Feed'st thy light's flame with self-substantial fuel,
Making a famine where abundance lies,
Thy self thy foe, to thy sweet self too cruel:
Thou that art now the world's fresh ornament,
And onl…

Spring water washes
The greenest part of the glade
Fresh, cool, clear, and clean.
#dailyhaikuprompt - spring water
#haiku
#poem

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.

Death toll mounts in Israel and Iran as both countries threaten further response after trading strikes overnight
https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/202

It's coffee break time! Head to the partner area for some delicious treats, kindly sponsored by Qdrant. Enjoy cream cheese lemon cake, apple pie, or a selection of fresh fruit. Plus, grab a special treat to celebrate our 15th birthday!
#bbuzz

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#RoundMidnight
- Fresh from Raquel Martins
The Portuguese-born, London-based guitarist and vocalist Raquel Martins is back with a new single.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002cyxh

Dobbins: 'No-brainer' joining ascending Broncos https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45494632/jk-dobbins-no-brainer-joining-forces-ascending-broncos

Thoughts on the major design overhaul of Apple's OSes with "Liquid Glass" UI elements, which will launch at WWDC and set the stage for fresh hardware products (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloombe…