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Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon warns that the Trump administration is getting ready to
round up 500 immigrant children in a hasty effort to remove them from the country,
bypassing legal protections.
It would be their second attempt after a federal court intervened last year in an overnight plan to fly out hundreds of children on Labor Day weekend.

Senator warns Trump plans to deport over 500 immigrant children
A U.S. senator is warning of a Trump administration plan to remove over 500 children from the country, bypassing legal protections, in a letter sent to U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Wednesday. Sen. Ron Wyden details that in the coming days, the administration will fast-track the removal of the immigrant children who arrived in the U.S. without their parents to their countries of origin. The targeted children have been in long-term foster care under federal custody for more than…

Chairman of the Central Election Commission of the Russian Federation said, “I think there's no need to grumble [about Internet outages around russian elections], because let's put it on the scales: you not being able to access the Internet or saving people's lives. Problems with communication and the Internet will be in the interests of security.”
Right, putin enough thought, we’ll figure out whose security.
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Q&A with Claude Code creator and head Boris Cherny on how the title "software engineer" is disappearing, why AI may create more jobs than it destroys, and more (Casey Newton/Platformer)
https://www.platformer.news/boris-cherny-interview-ai-jobs/

Claude Code's creator on the end of the software engineer
Anthropic's Boris Cherny tells me major job loss due to automation really is coming — but job creation is, too. PLUS: the Pope's AI encyclical, and Trump abandons an AI executive order

A brain implant for depression is about to be tested in humans #BCI

A Brain Implant for Depression Is About to Be Tested in Humans
While many brain-computer interface companies are focused on helping paralyzed people communicate, Motif Neurotech is targeting mental health disorders.

Benedict Cumberbatch, Alan Cumming and Benedict Wong urge UK to intervene in Paramount-Warner Bros merger
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/ng-interactive/2026/jul/27/tv-cinema-…

A TV and cinema calamity could be disastrous for what you watch and what you know. Act now to stop that
The Paramount-Warner Bros merger is being fought on both sides of the Atlantic. Britain’s culture secretary knows the risks and can intervene. She should, say actors led by Alan Cumming, Benedict Cumberbatch and Benedict Wong

#bloomScrolling #tulips

Volador 1.0: A Data-Driven Air-Sea Full-Coupling Regional Forecast Model with Submesoscale-Permitting Based on MOE-Swin-Transformer Framework
Yuhang Zhu, Jianxin Wang, Yu-kun Qian, Yineng Li, Yahui Liu, Yankun Gong, Shilin Tang, Shiqiu Peng, Tao Song
https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.24032 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2605.24032 https://arxiv.org/html/2605.24032
arXiv:2605.24032v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: A data-driven air-sea full-coupling regional forecast model with submesoscale-permitting, named "Volador 1.0", is developed for the South China Sea (SCS). The model features a Swin-Transformer framework integrated with a Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) system, a latent space interaction architecture based on Cross-Grid Bidirectional Cross-Attention, and a fast-slow dual-branch architecture. Both the three-month hindcast test and the 15-day operational real-time forecasting demonstrate that Volador 1.0 has a very encouraging and promising performance in 0-72h forecasting of temperature and salinity in the 0-500m upper ocean as well as the sea surface height with root-mean-square-error (RMSE) or mean absolute error (MAE) smaller than or at least comparable to those from the reanalysis datasets REDOS V2.0 and GLORYS12 and the state-of-the-art regional numerical model Regional Ocean Modeling System (ROMS). In particular, Volador 1.0 demonstrates its capability of capturing/forecasting submesoscale processes including internal waves, with an energy spectrum well representing sub- to mesoscale energy cascade as expected by the classical turbulence theory. Further analysis based on ablation experiments shows that the air-sea full-coupling framework, which takes into account the dynamic exchanges of momentum and heat fluxes between the atmosphere and the ocean, indeed helps improve the model's performance compared to the non-full-coupling one. Volador 1.0, though still subject to refinement in the coming future with a large space for improvement, blazes a path for an accurate, fine and fast marine environment forecasting, and thus could help promote our capability of disaster prevention and mitigation in the SCS as well as in other coastal regions where these innovative techniques can be applied.
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Popular Front recently did a piece on the current conflicts in Ethiopia:
https://popularfront.substack.com/p/everything-you-didnt-know-about-the
It's a good primer for anyone who's unfamiliar, but is definitely lacking if you know any Ethiopian folks or pay attention to much news out of the Horn of Africa.
The interplay between authoritarian liberal nationalism, as represented by Abiy Ahmed and his government, and tribal federalism , represented by various tribal factions, reads to me very similarly to the liberalization of Europe (enclosure of the commons, a push to sacrifice ethnic identities for nationalist ones, etc). Like the liberalization of, say, France, it's a lot more complicated than "old thing bad, new thing good."
Liberalism was violent and authoritarian. It often sacrificed leftists. Liberalism's focus on borders and national identity led directly to pogroms and Nazism. Similarly, liberalization of Ethiopia has led to genocide and ethnic cleansing.
People think of "the terror" in France as a leftist thing, but it wasn't. It was a Liberal thing, centrist extremism, carried out against right and left.
I understand that tribal federalism is also not a good system, but I don't have a ton of depth so I'm not going to try to explain it. During the European Liberal revolutionary period of 1848, ethnic minorities would often side with some monarch or emperor against liberalism out of fear of liberal nationalism. It makes sense to support a system that's bad if your other option is a nationalism that erases your identity.
But even in Europe at that time, anarchism offered an alternative but that alternative often also drew from simply a different branch of liberalism that also suppressed culture and identity. Today the world is different. Democratic Confederalism offers a solution to *exactly* this problem, tested for more than a decade in Syria and developing now in Myanmar.
But the cross pollination between Syria and Myanmar in terms of fighters really made the ideological cross pollination possible. I don't think anything like that is happening now in Ethiopia.
Eurocentrism makes it easy to ignore what's happening now, but Addis Ababa is the seat of the African Union Commission. Ethiopia is a major military power in the region, so these developments carry a lot of weight. Especially as the US collapses and the world becomes more multipolar, the development of regional powers like Ethiopia will have a big impact on how that part of the continent develops.
If any folks are more familiar with Ethiopia than I am (which shouldn't be hard since I'm basically not), please correct me or add context if anything is missing or wrong.

Communication directors of 12 Dutch ministries: government should leave X, to stop exposing citizens to desinformation, racism, discrimination, misogyny, and antisemitism.
https://www.volkskrant.nl/politiek/topambtenaren-in-intern…

Topambtenaren in intern memo aan kabinet: Rijksoverheid moet van X
De Rijksoverheid moet zich grotendeels terugtrekken van het socialemediaplatform X. Dat adviseert de Voorlichtingsraad, die bestaat uit de directeuren communicatie van alle twaalf departementen, aan het kabinet-Jetten.

Dave Jorgenson's LNI is profitable with 49% of 2025 revenue coming from ads, 21% from consulting, 14% from the newsletter, and plans for a long-form show in Q3 (Christiana Sciaudone/A Media Operator)
https://www.amediaoperator.com/news/former

Dave Jorgenson Left The Washington Post to Start a Media Company. Now He's Ready for Expansion
Courtesy of David Robert Elliott It's been nearly a year since Dave Jorgenson left the Washington Post to start his own company, Local News International.