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“The US will…stop issuing work visas for commercial truck drivers, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Thursday.”
The prices of everything will go up.
Ain’t no inflation like maga inflation ‘cause maga inflation don’t stop.
https://www.dw.com/en/us-to-review-all-vis…

US to review all visa holders, stop truck driver visas
The Trump administration says it will vet millions of US visa holders for deportable offenses and halt truck driver visas. The moves are the latest in Trump's crackdown on immigration.

How MAGA Killed Foreign Influence Research, But Now Demands Social Media Stop Foreign Influence Campaigns | Techdirt
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/09/19/how-maga-killed-foreign-influence-research-but-now-demands-social-media-stop-foreign-influence-campaigns/

Involuntary Jailbreak
Yangyang Guo, Yangyan Li, Mohan Kankanhalli
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13246 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.13246

Involuntary Jailbreak
In this study, we disclose a worrying new vulnerability in Large Language Models (LLMs), which we term \textbf{involuntary jailbreak}. Unlike existing jailbreak attacks, this weakness is distinct in that it does not involve a specific attack objective, such as generating instructions for \textit{building a bomb}. Prior attack methods predominantly target localized components of the LLM guardrail. In contrast, involuntary jailbreaks may potentially compromise the entire guardrail structure, whic…

Disentangled Deep Smoothed Bootstrap for Fair Imbalanced Regression
Samuel Stocksieker, Denys pommeret, Arthur Charpentier
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13829 https://

Disentangled Deep Smoothed Bootstrap for Fair Imbalanced Regression
Imbalanced distribution learning is a common and significant challenge in predictive modeling, often reducing the performance of standard algorithms. Although various approaches address this issue, most are tailored to classification problems, with a limited focus on regression. This paper introduces a novel method to improve learning on tabular data within the Imbalanced Regression (IR) framework, which is a critical problem. We propose using Variational Autoencoders (VAEs) to model and define…

Nepo babies can be so stupid about their supposed familial expertise…
The Fed doesn't control long-term (i.e. federally-backed mortgage) rates.Those reflect what the credit market believes inflation will be over the long term and how much return they think they can get elsewhere. Lowering rates before inflation has absorbed the tariff shocks and settled down will increase long-term inflation expectations, raising long rates.

emptywheel (@emptywheel.bsky.social)
One reason I wrote this is bc the housing market is in pretty shitty shape. Pulte seems to think lowering rates will fix it which is not remotely true. Yet instead of doing something about that Pulte is off stoking witch hunts. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

"Federal police are still investigating whether the aircraft was involved in drug trafficking"
I'm sure there is a plausible alternative explanation that covers how a plane can have 180kg of cocaine on it but not be involved in drug trafficking.
Perhaps Mr Yaxley-Lennon has gone off on his hols now and needed an UberSpaceX top-up?

Texans' Jimmie Ward sued for allegedly assaulting mother of his child while under influence of crystal meth

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/texans-…

Tom Brady faces scrutiny over questionable influence in Raiders' game plan https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/news/tom-brady-scrutiny-questionable-influence-raiders-game-plan/c61e…

In a UK tribunal filing, ex-Meta employee Samujjal Purkayastha alleges Meta misled advertisers by inflating Shops ads' performance and bypassed Apple's ATT (Trishla Ostwal/Adweek)
https://www.adweek.com/media/whistleblower-alleges-m…

Whistleblower Alleges Meta Artificially Boosted Shops Ads Performance
Ex-Meta employee alleges the company inflated ad results to mask poor performance

Nothing will come of this.
NHTSA Probes Tesla Over Crash Data Reporting Involving Autopilot, FSD - Business Insider
https://www.businessinsider.com/nhtsa-probes-tesla-over-crash-data-reporting-involving-autopilot-fsd-2025-8