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Tax Cuts Now, Benefit Cuts Later:
The Timeline in the Republican Megabill
👉 Republicans deferred some of their most painful spending cuts until after the midterm election
To pay for the tax policies,
which confer their greatest benefits on the wealthy,
Republican lawmakers have looked to slash programs that are both popular and widely used,
discomfiting even some within their own ranks.
💥The savings from the safety net cuts still are not enough to of…

Tax Cuts Now, Benefit Cuts Later: The Timeline in the Republican Megabill
Republicans deferred some of their most painful spending cuts until after the midterm elections.

Jason Pierre-Paul reflects on the Fourth of July accident that took his fingers and changed his life. https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45582506/jason-pierre-paul-fourth-july-fingers-accident-ten-years-later-n…

The reading of IETF RFC 2119 going around reminded me that I had recorded myself reading the classic e2e paper and Clark's later design philosophy paper for my students. I certainly am not a trained voice actor, but I seem to recall at least a couple of students appreciating that format.
I'm pretty sure I did this around the mid 2000s when iPods were at their peak popularity, but the Wayback Machine doesn't have a record of them until much later.
If I ever teach agai…

Meta launches an Instagram app for the iPad, 15 years after its mobile app; it is slightly different than the mobile app, opening directly to a feed of Reels (Mia Sato/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/769460/instagram-ipad-app-launch-reels

Instagram is coming to iPad, 15 years later
Instagram is finally getting an iPad app, and it will feature Reels prominently on the homepage.

I'm a huge fan of shooting wide and cropping later...

Federal Courts Slow to Fix Vulnerable System After Repeated Hacking
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/us/politics/federal-courts-computer-hacks.html?mid=1#cid=3061919

Federal Courts Slow to Fix Vulnerable System After Repeated Hacking
After a 2020 breach thought to be Russia’s work, the courts told Congress that they would harden a system storing sealed documents. Five years later, the system was hacked again.

Tax Cuts Now, Benefit Cuts Later: The Timeline in the Republican Megabill (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/02/us/politics/tax-cuts-benefit-cuts.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250702/p117#a250702p117

@… It comes up a lot more in the later books. I think the TV show was axed before all that.

Late-night Trump brag shattered by 'damning' report issued just hours later - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-economy-report/

When I was little, I felt there was something massive and cosmic about the Hampster Dance song, like a hymn still sung centuries later, like the seasonal chants of an uncontacted tribe. My first exposure to it was its use in the Scratch platformer series "Cube World", this game where important characters go to space and tragically die, this game that no longer functions due to all the updates since Scratch 1.4.

It won't be an easy path. I think maybe they should consider merger with the Greens and an electoral alliance with PC. Maybe later
MP Zarah Sultana resigns from Labour to co-found a new party with Corbyn | Jeremy Corbyn | The Guardian
https://www.…

Maternal exposure to crude oil and flame retardants can affect later generations #health

Maternal exposure to crude oil and flame retardants can affect later generations
A tiny fish with transparent embryos is helping University of California, Davis, researchers shed light on how exposure to crude oil and flame retardants can affect behavior, skeletal growth, cardiac health and other internal functions in offspring and subsequent generations.

Raport from using my superpower today:
• KW 70837 Leszno — Poznań train, delayed 7 minutes in Kościan
• PR 78941 Poznań — Kołobrzeg train, delayed 8 minutes in Oborniki Wlkp., increased to 10 minutes
• PR 88311 Piła — Szczecin train, departed 6 minutes later because of waiting for a delayed train
• IC 88101 Piła — Szczecin train, cancelled because of train failure (I didn't have anything to do with this train, but I guess my proximity sufficed to break it)

It has, once again, been zero days since somebody tracked me down to buy my Microsoft account.
This time they had the gall to email me again a week later and suggest that I’m rude for not responding to their email.
People.

Jeg er #ActuallyAutistic, og partipolitikk er som å prŸve å fikse en evig feil i et system som aldri vil endre seg. Partiene i Norge later som de representerer meg, men mine virkelige problemer blir ignorert og knust under kapitalens og byråkratiets tyngde.
Jeg ser for meg et liv uten at alt styres av penger og profittjag. Jeg nekter å bli styrt av en sjef eller noen som tror d…

Me: puts towels in the washer and hits start
~~two minutes later~~
Me: what the hell is that running water from???

Updating my CloudNativePG Clusters to postgresql:17.5 broke wal archiving to my Ceph S3 Object Store. Here's a new blog post describing the fix:
https://www.beyondwatts.com/posts/debugging-barman-xamzcontents…

beyondwatts | Debugging Barman XAmzContentSHA256Mismatch error after upgrading to postgresql:17.5
In an effort to keep my home cluster up to date, I upgraded CloudNativePG to v1.26 and the associated database clusters to cloudnative-pg/postgresql:17.5. All seemed ok with the upgrade until a couple of days later when the cluster primary instance PVCs started to run out of space. wal archiving had stopped working with the error message:

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AfternoonShow
Eddie Vedder:
🎵 Save It for Later
#EddieVedder
https://open.spotify.com/track/2rs6UMzlu1pMGGVw60tiHm

⛽ Floating platform to produce synthetic fuels using wind, seawater, and air
#fuels

Floating platform to produce synthetic fuels using wind, seawater, and air
Off-grid, modular, and seaworthy: KIT (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology) and partners intend to produce synthetic fuels on a floating platform using wind energy, seawater, and ambient air. For this purpose, the "PtX-Wind" project was launched under the H2Mare lead project. A corresponding modular plant was installed on a barge and lies operational at anchor in Bremerhaven. Later this year, it will start producing synthetic fuel directly on the sea just off Helgoland Island.

6.5 hour drive ❌
3.5 hours for traffic ✅
Google Maps presented a secondary road shortcut. Looked like a good idea b/c it wasn’t colored deep red like the traffic jam in front of us.
However, I think they don’t calculate traffic delays on secondary roads. Everyone had the same idea.
I looked down & it said 35 minutes to go. Had to pee, but fine I can hold it.
15 min later, looked down… 35 min to go. 😱
For the next two hours, as we inched along… 35 min…

In the last few days, I"ve heard about TACO (Turnip Always Chickens Out). It's a reference to the fact that #POTUS47 often will make some bold move (e.g. declaring huge tariffs), only to back down a few days later when the move proves to be unpopular or unsuccessful.
Now it is reported that Trump Burger restaurant is getting flooded with inquiries about whether they serve chicken tac…

Texas ‘Trump Burger’ joint getting spammed by chicken taco comments online. Why?
Trump Burger has 4 locations in Texas with MAGA-themed menu items. Commenters have asked for a chicken taco, acronym for “Trump always chickens out.”

#ScribesAndMakers for July 3: When (and if) you procrastinate, what do you do? If you don't, what do you do to avoid it?
I'll swap right out of programming to read a book, play a video game, or watch some anime. Often got things open in other windows so it's as simple as alt-tab.
I've noticed recently I tend to do this more often when I have a hard problem to solve that I'm not 100% sure about. I definitely have cycles of better & worse motivation and I've gotten to a place where I'm pretty relaxed about it instead of feeling guilty. I work how I work, and that includes cycles of rest, and that's enough (at least, for me it has been so far, and I'm in a comfortable career, married with 2 kids).
Some projects ultimately lose steam and get abandoned, and I've learned to accept that too. I learn a lot and grow from each project, so nothing is a true waste of time, and there remains plenty of future ahead of me to achieve cool things.
The procrastination does sometimes impact my wife & kids, and that's something I do sometimes feel bad about, but I think I keep that in check well enough, and for things my wife worries about, I usually don't procrastinate those too much (used to be worse about this).
Right now I'm procrastinating a big work project by working on a hobby project instead. The work project probably won't get done by the start of the semester as a result. But as I remind myself, my work doesn't actually pay me to work during the summer, and things will be okay without the work project being finished until later.
When I want to force myself into a more productive cycle, talking to people about project details sometimes helps, as does finding some new tech I can learn about by shoehorning it into a project. Have been thinking about talking to a rubber duck, but haven't motivated myself to try that yet, and I'm not really in doldrums right now.

More talk about quantum computers breaking encryption in the near future... and of course there's that thing about nation states, and possibly other bad actors, already hoovering up packet logs to later decrypt.
So, given the Post Quantum Cryptography that's coming online, I'd really love a browser feature/extension to alert me to when a site is using PQC.
Why? Becaus then I can change my password, secure in the knowledge that it can't be fished out of past packe…

checking back on Gitter all these years later and wow it's still got more sharp edges than a bag of broken glass (there is no password field on the signin page)

The Forgotten Code: Validating a Century-Old Translation System with AI
Jean-Marie Le Ray
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.02506 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.02506…

The Forgotten Code: Validating a Century-Old Translation System with AI
A pioneering rule-based mechanical translation system (precursor of modern RBMTs) was first presented in December 1929 by its inventor, Federico Pucci, who later published the full method in a book titled "Il traduttore meccanico ed il metodo per corrispondersi fra Europei conoscendo ciascuno solo la propria lingua: Parte I", in Salerno (Italy), in 1931. This study illustrates how AI breathes new life into the system of international keys and ideograms devised by Pucci to translate from/into an…

SK Hynix and ASML say they assembled the industry's first Twinscan NXE:5200B High-NA EUV lithography system at SK's M16 fab, initially to test next-gen tech (Anton Shilov/Tom's Hardware)
https://www.tomshard…

ASML and SK hynix assemble industry-first 'commercial' High-NA EUV system at fab in South Korea
Initially for R&D use, until later this decade where it will transition to production

Just wrote an article about Presidential Incapacity, and you can read it (and while you're there, please subscribe to get articles and satire and other good stuff I write and make first).
https://stuff.davidaugust.com/presidential-incapacity/

Presidential Incapacity
We know already he can't do good things. Wag the Dog is a movie that was being made as Bill Clinton was doing the things he would later be impeached for. The impeachment timed out as taking place roughly when the movie came out. The movie depicts an American President

I wrote a review of 28 Years Later, but it's in BCS. If you want, give it a go: #28YearsLater

"28 Years Later": Coming-of-age u svijetu penisa i bijesa - ISK WEB MAGAZIN
Kao i prethodnici unutar sage, "28 Years Later" djeluje kao zasebna priča nepovezana likovima, već situacijom sa ostalim dijelovima. Prvi dio dešavao se 28

An oldie, but goldie for this rainy Saturday — once going, the deep floating perma strings, hypnotic main sequence, the drops and later some minimal 303 accents add some twist/interestingness to some otherwise fairly standard deep house...
Nhar - Wisdom (2010)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4sP0b5-UW

How Training Camp Has Changed for the Raiders https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/las-vegas-training-camp-pete-carroll-geno-smith-roger-goodell

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.19799 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mat…

New recursion formula for the interior polynomial based on non-expanding sets
The interior polynomial was originally defined for hypergraphs and later shown to coincide with the Ehrhart polynomial of the root polytope of an associated bipartite graph. In previous work, we derived an alternating cycle recursion formula for the interior polynomial. Here, we introduce a new, more transparent recursion formula based on the structure of non-expanding sets. This formula offers a clearer combinatorial interpretation of the interior polynomial and its connection to polyhedral ge…

Derk Sauer, a Dutch media entrepreneur who founded The Moscow Times and later supported Russian journalists in exile, died at 72 from sailing accident injuries (The Moscow Times)
https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2025/07/31/

Derk Sauer, Moscow Times Founder and Dutch Media Entrepreneur, Dies at 72
Derk Sauer, the Dutch media entrepreneur who founded The Moscow Times, died on Thursday at age 72, his family said in a statement.

My substitution for the Pocket read-it-later app has become Inoreader. As a mix of RSS Reader and read-it-later and archiving (with notes and tags function) app I think it's worth the pro plan. I have very little money but feel like a sustainable version of this is something I don't want to do without.

Forget all the bad news; THIS is happening! Joy!
RT: ‪William Gibson€
‪@greatdismal.bsky.social€
I imagined the Chatsubo in 1984. 41 years later I opened its door. Neuromancer is in production.

Spotted a Tesla Semi truck in the wild, pulling out of the Tesla lot onto Page Mill Rd. Driver in green safety vest sits in the middle of the cab (no passengers?). While stopped at a light it looked like the driver was fighting with trim falling off the left A pillar.
A few blocks later the truck blew through the red light! Particularly scary if Tesla's AI was "driving".

Where's that blog post about this song. It's seriously far more fascinating than you'd expect...
Ahh yes here we go. Bookmark and read later. It's great. #TOTP

Fruit stone vinegar.
The next time you have a bunch of peaches, plums, or cherries, instead of throwing out the pits, toss them in some white vinegar instead. Three to four weeks later you'll have a new ingredient in the kitchen. The odor and flavor are remarkably fruity.
#cooking

Verbraucherzentrale warnt: Jetzt kaufen, später zahlen führen in Schuldenfalle
Der Verbraucherzentrale Bundesverband mahnt den Schutz von Verbrauchern bei "Buy now, pay later"-Krediten an. Es gebe ein Überschuldungsrisiko.

"A tree a minute for 24 hours: the young Victorian forest that was planted in a day"
#Australia #Trees #Environment

Finite State Dimension and The Davenport Erd\H{o}s Theorem
Joe Clanin, Matthew Rayman
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02332 https://arxiv.…

Finite State Dimension and The Davenport Erdős Theorem
A 1952 result of Davenport and Erdős states that if $p$ is an integer-valued polynomial, then the real number $0.p(1)p(2)p(3)\dots$ is Borel normal in base ten. A later result of Nakai and Shiokawa extends this result to polynomials with arbitrary real coefficients and all bases $b\geq 2$. It is well-known that finite-state dimension, a finite-state effectivization of the classical Hausdorff dimension, characterizes the Borel normal sequences as precisely those sequences of finite-state dimens…

Buy Now, Pay Later loans will soon affect some credit scores | AP News
https://apnews.com/article/fico-score-buy-now-pay-later-6accd61da7b34c09407f5bdb0ac3100d

A Hierarchical Integer Linear Programming Approach for Optimizing Team Formation in Education
Aaron Kessler, Tim Scheiber, Heinz Schmitz, Ioanna Lykourentzou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02756

A Hierarchical Integer Linear Programming Approach for Optimizing Team Formation in Education
Teamwork is integral to higher education, fostering students' interpersonal skills, improving learning outcomes, and preparing them for professional collaboration later in their careers. While team formation has traditionally been managed by humans, either instructors or students, algorithmic approaches have recently emerged to optimize this process. However, existing algorithmic team formation methods often focus on expert teams, overlook agency in choosing one's teammates, and are limited to …

Early time hydrodynamic attractor in a nearly-unitary Fermi gas
Michal P. Heller, Clemens Werthmann
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.02838 https://

Early time hydrodynamic attractor in a nearly-unitary Fermi gas
The hydrodynamic attractors paradigm aims to explain fast applicability of hydrodynamics at ultrarelativistic nuclear collisions at RHIC and LHC in terms of the emergence of a universal behaviour across different initial states. The attractors observed in theoretical models are first driven by a rapid expansion of matter, which later gives way to the decay of exponentially damped transient excitations into the viscous fluid regime. Recently a theoretical proposal was made how to realize hydrody…

A Time-Series Model for Areal Data Using Spatially Correlated Gaussian Processes
Alejandro Rozo Posada, Oswaldo Gressani, Christel Faes, James Colborn, Baltazar Candrinho, Emanuele Giorgi, Thomas Neyens
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.01604

A Time-Series Model for Areal Data Using Spatially Correlated Gaussian Processes
Traditional spatio-temporal models for areal data typically begin with spatial structure imposed at the level of random effects and later extend to include temporal dynamics. We propose an alternative hierarchical modeling framework that captures temporal trends in areal data through Gaussian processes that share spatial information via correlated variance components. This allows the model to better capture shared patterns of variability across regions while preserving local temporal dynamics, …

Been playing “Lifeline” on tbe phone. It’s a text adventure but with an added time dimension. If something is going to take time the game pause and you get messages later once it’s done - whole thing is basically done via a text message like interface.
Well worth checking out

I still don’t understand how an institution can announce a new #CorporateDesign without having a CD manual ready, but still immediately start using the new logo. The manual has now been announced for September 22, 4 months later.
Apparently, somebody noticed that courses already start on September 15, so they scrambled to put together PowerPoint and Keynote templates, while at the…

I still don’t understand how an institution can announce a new #CorporateDesign without having a CD manual ready, but still immediately start using the new logo. The manual has now been announced for September 22, 4 months later.
Apparently, somebody noticed that courses already start on September 15, so they scrambled to put together PowerPoint and Keynote templates, while at the…

I still don’t understand how an institution can announce a new #CorporateDesign without having a CD manual ready, but still immediately start using the new logo. The manual has now been announced for September 22, 4 months later.
Apparently, somebody noticed that courses already start on September 15, so they scrambled to put together PowerPoint and Keynote templates, while at the…

Herwig 7 with the Lund String Model: Tuning and Comparative Hadronization Studies
Michaela Divisova, Miroslav Myska, Pratixan Sarmah, Andrzej Si\'odmok
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.02348

Herwig 7 with the Lund String Model: Tuning and Comparative Hadronization Studies
The modelling of the formation of colour-singlet hadrons from coloured partons, known as Hadronization, is crucial for generating realistic events in Monte Carlo Event Generators. Due to limited understanding of the non-perturbative regime, physically motivated phenomenological hadronization models with tunable parameters are used and later tuned to the experimental data. Modern Monte Carlo generators primarily employ one of two hadronization models: the Lund string model, which is the default …

Cowboys nearly took star rookie at No. 12 pick, but got him 32 picks later https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/dallas-cowboys/news/cowboys-nearly-took-star-rookie-no-12-pick-32-picks-later/461b4bc2402e12b9a8…

Alkali phenoxides in comets
M. Fulle, P. Molaro, A. Rotundi, L. Tonietti, A. Aletti, L. Buzzi, P. Valisa
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02343 https://

Alkali phenoxides in comets
Potassium was first detected in spectra of the sungrazer comet Ikeya-Seki at the heliocentric distance rh = 0.15 au and, 48 years later, in comets PanSTARRS and ISON at rh = 0.46 au. The alkali tail photoionization model provides a Na/K ratio close to the solar value. No lithium was detected in any comet: the lower limit of the Na/Li ratio was almost one order of magnitude greater than the solar ratio. Here we searched for the emissions of the alkali NaI, KI, and LiI in Comets C/2020 F3 and C/2…

Researchers tested 200 toddlers — 96 chemicals were lurking in their bodies #UnitedStates

Researchers tested 200 toddlers — 96 chemicals were lurking in their bodies
Researchers testing urine from 2- to 4-year-olds in four U.S. states uncovered 96 different chemicals, many of them unmonitored and linked to hormone and brain disruption. Legacy toxins like triclosan are slowly declining, yet replacements such as DINCH plasticizer and modern pesticides are rising. Toddlers—especially the youngest, later-born, and those from minority groups—often carried higher levels than their own mothers. Scientists urge expanded biomonitoring and stricter regulations be…

Young Americans are increasingly turning to BNPL loans from Affirm and others, as getting approved for credit cards becomes harder in today's economic climate (Angel Au-Yeung/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.

Forward cascade of large-scale primordial magnetic fields during structure formation
Molly Abramson, Emma Clarke, Tina Kahniashvili, Sayan Mandal, Salome Mtchedlidze, Jennifer Schober
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.00694

Forward cascade of large-scale primordial magnetic fields during structure formation
The origin of large scale magnetic fields in the Universe is widely thought to be from early Universe processes, like inflation or phase transitions. These magnetic fields evolve via magnetohydrodynamic processes until the epoch of recombination. When structures begin to form in the later Universe, the conservation of magnetic flux amplifies the magnetic fields via the adiabatic collapse of gravitationally bound gas clouds hosting the magnetic fields and moves them to smaller scales. In this wo…

Scattering norm estimate near the threshold for the energy-subcrtical NLS
Zuyu Ma
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.01505 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.01505

Scattering norm estimate near the threshold for the energy-subcrtical NLS
We consider the focusing energy-subcritical Schrödinger equations. In earlier works by Holmer-Roudenko \cite{holmer}, Duyckaerts-Holmer-Roudenko \cite{duyckaerts2}, Fang-Xie-Cazenave \cite{fang}, Guevara \cite{guevara} and later by Dodson-Murphy \cite{dodson1,dodson2} and Arora-Dodson-Murphy \cite{arora}, they proved that scattering is the only dynamical behavior if the $H^1$ initial data satisfies $M(u_0)^{1-s_c}E(u_0)^{s_c}

Almost through 28 Years Later now, forgot Ralph Fiennes is in it. This is the first of three Years films, apparently- they're making this the first of a new trilogy.
#horror #28YearsLater #2025Movies

When I added the threat-actor @… galaxy type on Mar 4, 2016, I didn’t expect that, years later, vendors would still invent new names for already known threat actors, avoid using UUIDs, reuse similar names for different actors, and create confusing names by mixing tools or software used by the actors.
That’s why we contin…

Journal of Ecumenical Studies: Religious Pluralism, Freedom, and the Founding of the Nation
https://ift.tt/lCkSPWV
Pirino on Suzuki, 'Humanitarian Internationalism Under Empire: The Global Evolution of the Japanese…
via Input 4 RELCFP

Waarom we 25 jaar geleden domweg gelukkig waren met de Nokia 3310 | Trouw
https://www.trouw.nl/duurzaamheid-economie/waarom-we-25-jaar-geleden-domweg-gelukkig-waren-met-de-nokia-3310~b7a70331/
'Wie wee…

A long time ago I ordered a product on a "kickstarter-like" setup. As is the case with many such things, there were numerous delays. Now more than a year later it is ready to be delivered. I got a link from DHL, which was shortly followed up with an offer to deliver to service point or automatic pickup location, instead.

7h hike. Results:
- It was a great tour!
- We underestimated the sun and have sunburn at our arms
- I'm really dehydrated - even though I had my water filter with me and plenty of opportunities to refill. I have some good headaches now 🤕
Pictures will come later

"Sooner or later, he will have to answer." (Verzweifelte Kolleginnen, die Rückmeldung eines Zeitschriftenherausgebers ersehnen.)

from my link log —
Towards fearless SIMD in Rust, 7 years later.
https://linebender.org/blog/towards-fearless-simd/
saved 2025-03-30

But, as legend has it, a long stream-of-consciousness manuscript later that month yielded "Like a Rolling Stone," an anthem of youthful restlessness and grit aimed at a world of know-it-all cynics. Dylan cut it early that summer above Al Kooper's roaring organ line, then headed to Newport to debut his electric band to a crowd incensed by his folk volte-face.
#Dylan

"He was arrested by Israeli police for questioning, but was later released on house arrest while an investigation continued."
Unfassbar.
"Basel Adra, the Palestinian co-director of the No Other Land documentary, wrote. “He was standing in front of the community centre in his village when a settler fired a bullet that pierced his chest and took his life. This is how Israel erases us – one life at a time.”"

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/sound-cards/legendary-sound-blaster-isa-sound-card-gets-a-driver-update-30-years-later-patch-squashes-first-bug-report-after-2…

Legendary Sound Blaster ISA sound card gets a driver update 30 years later — patch squashes first bug report after 25 years
Pesky DMA issues have been causing unexpected noise and freezes.

Pretty extreme @… forecast for this coming Tuesday 1 July, here in central the Netherlands (De Bilt).
A temperature of 35°C was only reached 7 times before (1901-2024) in July, all of those on 19 July or later.

Characterizing circle graphs with binomial partial Petrial polynomials
Ruiqing Feng, Qi Yan, Xuan Zheng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.02421 https://

Characterizing circle graphs with binomial partial Petrial polynomials
The partial Petrial polynomial was first introduced by Gross, Mansour, and Tucker as a generating function that enumerates the Euler genera of all possible partial Petrials on a ribbon graph. Yan and Li later extended this polynomial invariant to circle graphs by utilizing the correspondence between circle graphs and bouquets. Their explicit computation demonstrated that paths produce binomial polynomials, specifically those containing exactly two non-zero terms. This discovery led them to pose…

Guatemala is ready and willing to receive about 150 unaccompanied children of all ages each week from the United States, the country’s president has said,
a day after a US federal judge halted the deportation of 10 Guatemalan children.
Those children had already boarded a plane when a court responded to an emergency appeal on Sunday.
They were later returned to the custody of the Office of Refugee Resettlement.
On Monday, Guatemala’s president, Bernardo Arévalo, told j…

Senate strikes AI provision from GOP bill after uproar from the states
https://apnews.com/article/congress-ai-provision-moratorium-states-20beeeb6967057be5fe64678f72f6ab0

Senate strikes AI provision from the Republican tax bill after uproar
A proposal to deter states from regulating artificial intelligence for a decade was soundly defeated in the U.S. Senate on Tuesday, thwarting attempts to insert the measure into President Donald Trump’s big bill of tax breaks and spending cuts. The Senate voted 99-1 to strike the AI provision after weeks of criticism from both Republican and Democratic governors and state officials. Originally proposed as a 10-year ban on states doing anything to regulate AI, lawmakers later tied it to federa…

The never ending justice journey : the trial for the OKC Tibetan Buddhist "community" aka toxic cult, almost a decade later, the survivors are still seeking Justice, now in France
https://www.brusselstimes.com/36129/tc-bru

"Israel controls the flow of food into Gaza. It has calculated how many calories Palestinians need to stay alive. Its data shows only a fraction has been allowed in"
' “The idea is to put the Palestinians on a diet, but not to make them die of hunger,” a senior adviser to the then prime minister, Ehud Olmert, said in 2006. An Israeli court ordered the release of documents showing the details of those macabre sums two years later.'
And how many Democratic senator…

"Israel controls the flow of food into Gaza. It has calculated how many calories Palestinians need to stay alive. Its data shows only a fraction has been allowed in"
' “The idea is to put the Palestinians on a diet, but not to make them die of hunger,” a senior adviser to the then prime minister, Ehud Olmert, said in 2006. An Israeli court ordered the release of documents showing the details of those macabre sums two years later.'
And how many Democratic senator…

Raiders’ Tom Brady Set to Get Ultimate Gift from Patriots This Week https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/tom-brady-get-ultimate-gift/?adt_ei=[email]

I thought I'd try out Open WebUI, so I installed it via pip. 20 minutes later we're at 8 gigabytes and compiling a bunch of code from scratch. Folks, it's just a simple chat-style web interface to LLM APIs. I'm wondering if the whole thing was coded by AIs who didn't care at all about footprint.

Deploying U.S. marines to Chicago isn’t just stupid and illegal.
20 years later, the Marine Corps can still learn from Fallujah https://www.marinecorpstimes.com/news/your-marine-corps/2024/11/07/20-years-later…

20 years later, the Marine Corps can still learn from Fallujah
History provides lessons for the next urban fight, but it may be much worse.

When you propose a change to some larger #OpenSource project, you are bound to sooner or later receive a response which could be paraphrased as: "I am sorry for not replying either but I had to receive clearance to speak about our VERY IMPORTANT internal project. I am THOROUGHLY DISAPPOINTED that the proposed changes are even being seriously considered. We have built a whole business around exploiting your volunteer work, and now you're proposing something that may actually require us to do some work and update our tooling."
#FreeSoftware

Growth of block diagonal operators and symmetry-resolved Krylov complexity
Pawel Caputa, Giuseppe Di Giulio, Tran Quang Loc
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.02033

Growth of block diagonal operators and symmetry-resolved Krylov complexity
This work addresses how the growth of invariant operators is influenced by their underlying symmetry structure. For this purpose, we introduce the symmetry-resolved Krylov complexity, which captures the time evolution of each block into which an operator, invariant under a given symmetry, can be decomposed. We find that, at early times, the complexity of the full operator is equal to the average of the symmetry-resolved contributions. At later times, however, the interplay among different charg…

A US immigration judge grants bond to Spanish-language journalist Mario Guevara, after he was arrested by police while covering a protest and turned over to ICE (Kate Brumback/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/journalist-

Bond granted for Spanish-language journalist arrested during protest and turned over to ICE
An immigration judge in Georgia has granted bond for a well-known Spanish-language journalist arrested while covering a protest last month. That means he will be free as the government seeks to deport him from the United States. Mario Guevara, who's from El Salvador, was arrested by local police on June 14 while covering a protest just outside Atlanta. He was turned over to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement several days later and was being held in a south Georgia immigration detention ce…

The Influence of Cold Jupiters in the Formation of Close-in planets. II. Collisional Growth of Planetesimals
Marcela Best, Antranik A. Sefilian, Carolina Charalambous, Kedron Silsbee, Cristobal Petrovich
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.02745

The Influence of Cold Jupiters in the Formation of Close-in planets. II. Collisional Growth of Planetesimals
Exoplanet observations have shown that the occurrence and orbital architectures of close-in super-Earths and sub-Neptunes are shaped by the presence of outer gas giant planets. This influence may emerge during the formation stage or from later dynamical evolution by a yet elusive physical process. In this work, we investigate the early stages of planetesimal accretion, modeling the joint collisional and dynamical evolution of planetesimals under the gravitational influence of a cold Jupiter and…

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Method of Weighted Words on Cylindric Partitions
Burcu Barsak\c{c}{\i}
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.02435 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.02…

Method of Weighted Words on Cylindric Partitions
We study the generating functions of cylindric partitions having profile $c=(c_1, c_2, \ldots, c_r)$ with rank $2$ and levels $2, 3$ and $4$. As a result, we give expressions alternative to Borodin's formula for these generating functions. We use the method of weighted words which was first introduced by Alladi and Gordon, later was applied by Dousse in a new version to prove some partition identities and to get infinite products. We adopt the method to our subject with a more combinatorial app…

Micah Parsons timeline: As Cowboys star requests trade, here's how contract talks with Jerry Jones broke down

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/micah…

Google says it will preserve "actively used" goo.gl URLs, after announcing earlier that all existing goo.gl links would stop working in August 2025 (Abner Li/9to5Google)
https://9to5google.com/2025/08/01/google-goo-gl-links-shortener/

Google now keeping ‘actively used’ goo․gl links, others will stop in August
After originally planning to have all goo.gl links stop working later this month, Google will now “preserve actively used links.”

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Hurricane Katrina's 20-year anniversary prompts at least seven new documentaries, as well as reflections on criticisms of the press coverage after the storm (Jon Allsop/Columbia Journalism Review)
https://www.cjr.org/the_media_today/hurric

Katrina and the Press, Twenty Years On
Race, climate, and the media legacy of an “unnatural” disaster.

Cowboys QB Dak Prescott Breaks Silence on Micah Parsons Trade https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/dak-prescott-micah-parsons-trade-comment/?adt_ei=[email]

When JD Vance arrived in the Senate in 2023, he backed a raft of proposals that were characterized as reflecting a new brand of economic populism for the Republican Party.
He championed higher taxes on some businesses, increased support for families and a willingness to interfere in free markets that bordered on the heretical in the modern GOP.

Two years later, the now-vice president’s distinctive policy ideas are hard to find in the tax legislation now advancing through Congres…

JD Vance’s prior vision for populism is largely absent from GOP tax bill
The GOP tax bill advancing through Congress does not include key proposals championed by JD Vance, including a $5,000 child tax credit and a tax on executives of large banks that fail.

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Todd Bowles: Buccaneers LT Tristan Wirfs will 'be ready sooner than later' https://www.nfl.com/news/todd-bowles-buccaneers-lt-tristan-wirfs-will-be-ready-sooner-than-later

"Palo Alto Networks could finalize a deal for CyberArk as soon as later this week, the people said. Assuming a typical deal premium, a deal could value CyberArk well above its $20 billion market value."
Palo Alto Networks Nears Over $20 Billion Deal for Cybersecurity Firm CyberArk

Apple will delay rolling out some iOS 26 features in the EU later this year, including "visited places", citing the difficulty of complying with the DMA (Edith Hancock/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/apple-to-delay-so

One hundred years ago today, downtown Santa Barbara was devastated by an earthquake centered just offshore.
The main commercial district, State Street, was in ruins. Some buildings completely collapsed
— the vulnerability in their designs laid bare by the power of Mother Nature. Around a dozen people died.
Yet, despite the destruction, the great Santa Barbara earthquake remains relatively obscure, seismically speaking,
even in a state notorious for its shaking.

Quake devastated Santa Barbara 100 years ago. What can it teach us?
In California, where the next “Big One” is an always-looming threat, some lessons learned from the 1925 Santa Barbara quake resonate even 100 years later, experts say.

Sources: Menlo Ventures targets ~$1.5B for new funds to invest in AI ventures, including $650M for early-stage startups, and $850M for later-stage companies (Yuliya Chernova/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/articles/menlo-venture

Mary Edith Barnes became aware of the work of the Glaswegian psychiatrist and countercultural figure, Dr RD (Ronnie) Laing,
author of "The Divided Self: An Existential Study in Sanity and Madness "(1960).
This led her to Kingsley Hall, a radical therapeutic community in Bow in East London.
Established in 1965 and headed up by Laing, it was an unconventional centre where mental-health professionals and those experiencing mental illness lived together. Drug-taking …

MARY BARNES
First published: Summer 2025 For English artist Mary Barnes, it was psychosis, radical treatment and an unorthodox relationship with her doctor that began her creative journey Mary Edith Barnes was born in Portsmouth, on England’s south coast, in 1923. She trained as a nurse, later joining the British Army and working

A profile of Luke Farritor, a 23-year-old Thiel Fellow who gained recognition for using AI to help decipher the Herculaneum papyri and later joined DOGE (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2025-luke-farritor-doge/

Why DOGE’s Luke Farritor Followed Elon Musk to DC
Luke Farritor could have been an artist, or a builder, or someone dedicated to seeing a great historical mystery through. Instead he wound up at the Department of Government Efficiency, slashing, dismantling, undoing.