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The House Rules Committee advances a bill that would claw back $1.1B in funding for public broadcasting, including $535M for CPB, over the next two fiscal years (Ted Johnson/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/06/pbs-npr-funding-rescinded-congress-12364…

House Committee Advances Bill To Rescind Funding For Public Broadcasting Stations, NPR And PBS
The legislation is expected to make it to the floor later this week.

London-based OneBalance, which lets developers integrate crypto features into their apps, raised a $20M Series A led by Cyber Fund and Blockchain Capital (Catherine McGrath/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/crypto/2025/06/11/

Crypto software company OneBalance raises $20 million from cyber•Fund and Blockchain Capital
Crypto company OneBalance plans to use the funding to support additional blockchains.

White House tweaks AIDS funding rollback to assuage skeptical Republicans (Meredith Lee Hill/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/06/10/congress/pepfar-cuts-rescissions-aids-funding-00396385
http://www.memeorandum.com/250610/p61#a250610p61

Russel Vought meets my definition of pure evil, through and through.
"Russell Vought, Director of the Office of Management and Budget, told appropriators last week that the administration is seeking to take “an analytical look” at Aids prevention and instead prioritize funding for “life-saving treatment” for sufferers as part of its scaling back of PEPFAR."
White House says it will spare some Aids programs that were on the chopping block | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/white-house-aids-prevention-funding-b2767327.html

“Crucial training pipeline for Deaf scientists dismantled by NIH funding cuts”
https://www.science.org/content/article/crucial-training-pipeline-deaf-scientists-dismantled-nih-funding-cuts

Was die Großen an den Kleinen finden https://weddingweiser.de/was-die-grossen-an-den-kleinen-finden/

Rückblick auf die re:publica aus Sicht des Weddingweisers: Was die Großen an den Kleinen finden
Rückblick auf die re:publica aus Sicht des Weddingweisers (v. li. na. re.: Joachim …

USC professor Allison Marsh writes this delightful short article for IEEE Spectrum about Marvin Minsky and Seymour Papert's British counterparts in Cambridge and how, in their case, a document (the Lighthill Report) precipitated cuts in British AI research funding in ways similar to how funding was temporarily cut in the U.S. following MIT's publishing of Minsky and Papert's "Perceptrons" in 1969.
"Freddy the Robot Was the Fall Guy for British AI"

Freddy the Robot Was the Fall Guy for British AI

Its creator lost a power struggle that led to an AI winter in the 1970s

A necessary condition for liftings of positive characteristic varieties with finite fundamental groups
Ruida Di, Runjie Hu, Siqing Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.07914

A necessary condition for liftings of positive characteristic varieties with finite fundamental groups
In this paper, we introduce a necessary condition for the existence of characteristic zero liftings of certain smooth, proper varieties in positive characteristic, using étale homotopy theory and Wall's finiteness obstruction. For a variety with finite étale fundamental group pi, we define a notion of mod-l finite dominatedness based on the F_l-chain complex of the universal cover of its l-profinite étale homotopy type. We prove that such a variety can be lifted to characteristic zero only i…

Was die Großen an den Kleinen finden https://weddingweiser.de/was-die-grossen-an-den-kleinen-finden/

Rückblick auf die re:publica aus Sicht des Weddingweisers: Was die Großen an den Kleinen finden
Rückblick auf die re:publica aus Sicht des Weddingweisers (v. li. na. re.: Joachim …

Trump Is Gutting Healthcare—But Women’s Health Was Already Disastrously Underfunded - Ms. Magazine
https://msmagazine.com/2025/06/10/trump-republicans-womens-health-funding-research-menopause-motherhood-abortion/