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Sisters In Law - CAWLS
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: #GreatAusPods

"New law to tackle 'nature emergency' in Wales - where 'one in six species at risk of extinction'"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Wales

New law to tackle 'nature emergency' in Wales - where 'one in six species at risk of extinction'

Brazil’s ANPD Preliminary Study on Generative AI highlights the dual nature of data protection law: balancing rights with technological innovation
https://fpf.org/blog/brazils-anpd-prel

Abuse in Buddhism: The Law of Silence https://openbuddhism.org/library/videos/2022/elodie-emery-wandrille-lanos-present-buddhism-the-unspeakable-truth/

“Just three people” took on Ohio education law — and sparked a movement | Salon.com
https://www.salon.com/2025/06/07/just-three-people-took-on-ohio-education-law--and-sparked-a-movement/

Proud Boys Leaders Sue U.S. Over Jan. 6 Prosecutions (Khadeeja Safdar/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/law/proud-boys-leaders-sue-u-s-over-jan-6-prosecutions-90f9f4ce?st=qbdV5i&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
http://www.memeorandum.com/250606/p106#a250606p106

With the Trump’s domestic policy law signed,
states will have to administer many of the cuts
and decide how much they can spend to keep their citizens insured and fed.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/04/us/poli

States Brace for Added Burdens of Trump’s Tax and Spending Law
With the president’s domestic policy law signed, states will have to administer many of the cuts and decide how much they can spend to keep their citizens insured and fed.

Support Good Law Project’s High Court case against Farage's Reform for ignoring voters who asked them what data they hold about them.
https://goodlawproject.org/s/c2e765

We’re suing Farage’s Reform in the High Court | Good Law Project
Update (25 March 2025): We’ve just filed a landmark legal claim against Reform UK at the High Court.

On-the-job learning in fields like law and banking faces a dual threat as hybrid work limits juniors' exposure to seniors and gen AI replaces key routine tasks (Emma Jacobs/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/071089b8-839a-4f96-af79-394c08a146d1

FTC chair implores Congress to strengthen children’s online privacy protection law https://therecord.media/ftc-chair-implores-congress-to-strengthen-childrens-privacy-law

„Die Wissenschaftlichen Dienste des Bundestages machen erhebliche Zweifel an der Rechtmäßigkeit der israelischen und US-amerikanischen Angriffe auf den Iran geltend.“
Aber Law and Order gelten ja immer nur für die anderen.
https://www.

Jon G. in Glasgow (UK, not KY) on Psalm 1.
#Bible

First Law of the Internet
Every person shall be free to use the Internet in any way that is privately beneficial without being publicly detrimental.
- The burden of demonstrating public detriment shall be on those who wish to prevent the private use.
- Such a demonstration shall require clear and convincing evidence of public detriment.
- The public detriment must be of such degree and extent as to justify the suppression of the private activity.
…

This week is building up to a crescendo of critical cybersecurity developments, so don't miss today's Metacurity for the top infosec news stories you should know, including
--CISA nominee Plankey pulled from Senate confirmation hearing,
--The Com has been hacking Salesforce tools,
--Chinese hackers broke into US telecoms in 2023,
--Law enforcement busts up BidenCash,
--China issues warrants for 20 alleged Taiwanese hackers,
--Feds are probing CrowdS…

CISA nominee Plankey pulled from Senate confirmation hearing
The Com has been hacking Salesforce tools, Chinese hackers broke into US telecoms in 2023, Law enforcement busts up BidenCash, China issues warrants for 20 alleged Taiwanese hackers, Feds are probing CrowdStrike's 2024 outage, Reddit sues Anthropic for scraping comments, much more

Unfortunately & conversely, this (below) is the same framing tech bros (and parts of the population) are finding so attractive to anthropomorphize LLMs: These are not machines, and them making mistakes is normal and expected... At the same time, the other card being played (by politics, military & law enforcement) is that AI-driven insights and decision making are _already_ considered superior, infallible and unchallengeable... in the middle of this two pronged rhetoric is the fate o…

Time to fight, mobilise everybody you know, to stop the creation of backdoors in E2E encryption.
#encryption

Possible End to End to End Encryption: Come Help - Bert Hubert's writings
tl;dr: The European Commission is honestly asking for experts to advise them on ways to institute “effective and lawful access to data for law enforcement”. If you are an expert, I urge you to apply to join this group. You have until September 1st. Do read on for more details! The never-ending battle where police and intelligence services demand more/total access to communications shows no sign of stopping, even in the face of mathematical and practical impossibilities.

Sources: TikTok plans to launch a new version of its app in the US on September 5, ahead of the Sept. 17 deadline for the US to enforce the divest-or-ban law (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/tiktok-building-n…

TikTok Building New Version of App Ahead of Expected U.S. Sale
TikTok is building a new version of its app for users in the U.S. ahead of a planned sale of the app to a group of investors. The company has developed a plan to launch the new TikTok app, known internally as “M2,” to U.S. app stores on September 5, according to two people with knowledge of the ...

Those mushrooms your brother-in-law found? Don't eat them.

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Roisín Murphy:
🎵 Murphy's Law
#NowPlaying #RoisínMurphy
https://simondunmore.bandcamp.com/track/murphys-law-extended-mix
https://open.spotify.com/track/5pVk9zx3qrtmx3ya8hyanZ

Once he had one leg in the White House and the nation trembled under his
roars. Now he is a tinpot pope in the Coca-Cola belt and a brother to the
forlorn pastors who belabor halfwits in galvanized iron tabernacles behind
the railroad yards."
-- H. L. Mencken, writing of William Jennings Bryan,
counsel for the supporters of Tennessee's anti-evolution
law at the Scopes "Monkey Trial" in 1925.

Via OccupyDemocrats on FB: 'a formal complaint was filed with the Florida Bar accusing Pam Bondi of "serious professional misconduct" in her current job. ~70 law professors, attorneys, and former FL Supreme Court justices Pariente and Quince filed the complaint. In it, they accuse the AG of violating her ethical duties and engaging in "serious professional misconduct that threatens the rule of law and the administration of justice." '

The EU wants to decrypt your private data by 2030 https://www.techradar.com/vpn/vpn-privacy-security/the-eu-wants-to-decrypt-your-private-data-by-2030
The EU Commission unveiled the first step in its security strategy…

I saw an F-150 in Texas that had a Trump bumper sticker along with a decal that reads, "When tyranny becomes law, resistance becomes duty," along with an image of a gun.
How does someone drive around with all that cognitive dissonance?

Conservation Laws and Boundedness for Linearised Einstein--Maxwell Equations on the Reissner--Nordstr\"om Black Hole
Marios A. Apetroaie, Sam C. Collingbourne, Elena Giorgi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04812

Conservation Laws and Boundedness for Linearised Einstein--Maxwell Equations on the Reissner--Nordström Black Hole
We study the linearised Einstein--Maxwell equations on the Reissner--Nordström spacetime and derive the canonical energy conservation law in double null gauge. In the spirit of the work of Holzegel and the second author, we avoid any use of the hyperbolic nature of the Teukolsky equations and rely solely on the conservation law to establish control of energy fluxes for the gauge-invariant Teukolsky variables, previously identified by the third author, along all outgoing null hypersurfaces, for…

Good Morning #Canada
Last night, we attended a wedding dinner where they celebrated 5 years of marriage, 2 kids, and family finally sharing the event. Marriage trends in Canada are shifting with it happening later or simply deciding on common law. As an institution or cultural phenomenon it may be disappearing.
#CanadaIsAwesome #Marriage
https://madeinca.ca/marriage-statistics-canada/

Is it really "law enforcement" if they're wearing a goddamned mask and breaking the law? https://bsky.app/profile/taylr.bsky.social/post/3lqpqppldv22s

taylr (@taylr.bsky.social)
law enforcement at lake and bloomington

Imagine if #Laravel, the company, actually shared news on their own website instead of X.
It would be like all the people everywhere could read it.
https://oldfriends.live/@paul/11480878

China sees Trump's new law as 'one of the greatest acts of strategic self-harm': analyst (Carl Gibson/Alternet.org)
https://www.alternet.org/trump-china-law/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250704/p72#a250704p72

Lipschitz stability for Bayesian inference in porous medium tissue growth models
Tomasz D\k{e}biec, Piotr Gwiazda, B{\l}a\.zej Miasojedow, Katarzyna Ryszewska, Zuzanna Szyma\'nska, Aneta Wr\'oblewska-Kami\'nska
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04769

Lipschitz stability for Bayesian inference in porous medium tissue growth models
We consider a macroscopic model for the dynamics of living tissues incorporating pressure-driven dispersal and pressure-modulated proliferation. Given a power-law constitutive relation between the pressure and cell density, the model can be written as a porous medium equation with a growth term. We prove Lipschitz continuity of the mild solutions of the model with respect to the diffusion parameter (the exponent $γ$ in the pressure-density law) in the $L_1$ norm. While of independent analytica…

Law of physics: corporate entities are incapable of writing any text containing the phrase 'we are increasing the price'

Sources: the UK has delayed proposals to regulate AI, with plans to introduce an AI bill in 2026 to address concerns about issues like safety and copyright (The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/202

law_firm: Lazega law firm network
Multiplex network with 3 edge types representing relationships (coworkers, friendship, advice) between partners and associates of a corporate law firm. Data hosted by Manlio De Domenico.
This network has 71 nodes and 2571 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Multilayer, Unweighted
https://net…

"In America, the wealthiest 1% are protected by the law but not bound by it, and the bottom 99% are bound by the law but not protected by it." Pop quiz: in which other countries that same thing is true? ->
Galloway: 'I don't think there's that much difference between us and Germany in the 20s and 30s'
https://…

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson is "breaking the fourth wall, speaking beyond the court,”
said Melissa Murray, a law professor at New York University.
💥“She is alarmed at what the court is doing and is sounding that in a different register,
one that is less concerned with the appearance of collegiality and more concerned with how the court appears to the public.”
Her slashing critiques sometimes seemed to test her colleagues’ patience,
culminating in an unchar…

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson Makes Herself Heard, Prompting a Rebuke
In solo dissents this term, the justice accused the conservative majority of lawless bias. On the term’s last day, Justice Amy Coney Barrett fired back.

De Morgan's law in toposes I
Olivia Caramello, Yorgo Chamoun
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01869 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.01869

De Morgan's law in toposes I
We study toposes satisfying De Morgan's law, in particular we give characterizations of geometric theories whose classifying topos is De Morgan, clarifying the link with the amalgamation property of the category of models of such theory. We then give several ways of turning a topos into a De Morgan topos.

Turning to Online Forums for Legal Information: A Case Study of GDPR's Legitimate Interests
Lin Kyi, Cristiana Santos, Sushil Ammanaghatta Shivakumar, Franziska Roesner, Asia Biega
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04260

Turning to Online Forums for Legal Information: A Case Study of GDPR's Legitimate Interests
Practitioners building online services and tools often turn to online forums such as Reddit, Law Stack Exchange, and Stack Overflow for legal guidance to ensure compliance with the GDPR. The legal information presented in these forums directly impact present-day industry practitioner's decisions. Online forums can serve as gateways that, depending on the accuracy and quality of the answers provided, may either support or undermine the protection of privacy and data protection fundamental rights…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.02541 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arX…

Modelling power-law ultrasound absorption using a time-fractional, static memory, Fourier pseudo-spectral method
We describe and implement a numerical method for modelling the frequency-dependent power-law absorption of ultrasound in tissue, as governed by the first order linear wave equations with a loss taking the form of a fractional time derivative. The (Caputo) fractional time derivative requires the full problem history which is contained within an iterative procedure. The resulting numerical method requires a fixed (static) memory cost irrespective of the number of time steps. The spatial domain is…

Maryland passes EWA law | Payments Dive
https://www.paymentsdive.com/news/maryland-passes-ewa-law/749305/

Intrinsic local Gauss's law preserving PIC method: A self-consistent field-particle update scheme for plasma simulations
Zhonghua Qiao, Zhenli Xu, Qian Yin, Shenggao Zhou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02407

Intrinsic local Gauss's law preserving PIC method: A self-consistent field-particle update scheme for plasma simulations
In order to perform physically faithful particle-in-cell (PIC) simulations, the Gauss's law stands as a critical requirement, since its violation often leads to catastrophic errors in long-term plasma simulations. This work proposes a novel method that intrinsically enforces the Gauss's law for the Vlasov-Ampère/Vlasov-Poisson system without requiring auxiliary field corrections or specialized current deposition techniques. The electric field is managed to get updated locally and consistently …

"It’s a set of impudent and improbable goals: the rule of law and equality before it, liberty, freedom of speech and conscience, decency. We have always fallen short of them and always will, but we wrote them down and decided to dedicate ourselves to pursuing them. That’s worth something."
The Fourth Of July, Rethought
https://www.popehat.com/p/the-fourth-of-july-rethought

- You have been found guilty and are sentenced to death. In accordance with the law, you may choose the means of your execution.
- I choose . . . the Brannock Device! (courtroom gasps)

Trump Signs 'Big, Beautiful Bill' Into Law (Alex Leary/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/trump-signs-big-beautiful-bill-into-law-302edba6
http://www.memeorandum.com/250704/p62#a250704p62

An emergence-oriented approach to cyclic pursuit
Zhaozhan Yao, Yuhua Yao, Xiaoming Hu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05157 https://arxiv.…

An emergence-oriented approach to cyclic pursuit
In this paper, we explore the cyclic pursuit problem of unicycles and study circular formation from an emergence perspective. We first establish a systematic study on such formation and derive a necessary and sufficient condition for its existence. Building on this theoretical foundation, we design a distributed control law that enables the spontaneous formation of circular formations through only local interactions. Notably, key geometric features -- including the radius and agent spacing -- a…

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initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@ar…

Rational constitutive law for the viscous stress tensor in incompressible two-phase flows: Derivation and tests against a 3D benchmark experiment
We analyze the representation of viscous stresses in the one-fluid formulation of the two-phase Navier-Stokes equations, the model on which all computational approaches making use of a fixed mesh to discretize the flow field are grounded. Recognizing that the Navier-Stokes-like equations that are actually solved in these approaches imply a spatial filtering, we show by considering a specific two-dimensional flow configuration that the proper representation of the viscous stress tensor requires …

An Intermittent Model for the $1/f$ Spectrum in the Pristine Solar Wind
Maia Brodiano, Fouad Sahraoui, Davide Manzini, Lina Z. Hadid, Facundo Pugliese, Pablo Dmitruk, Nahuel Andr\'es
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04366

An Intermittent Model for the $1/f$ Spectrum in the Pristine Solar Wind
We present a statistical, observational study of the $1/f$ range of solar wind turbulence, where $f$ denotes frequency, using in situ data from the Parker Solar Probe (PSP). We compute the energy cascade rate using the third order law of incompressible magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence, incorporating expansion terms to account for solar wind dynamics. Our results reveal a $1/τ$ dependence of the energy cascade rate, where $τ$ is the temporal lag, within the $1/f$ range, in contrast to the …

“For the whole law is summed up in a single commandment, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.””
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#dw4jc

Galatians 5:14 For the whole law is summed up in a single commandment, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” | New Revised Standard Version (NRSV) | Download The Bible App Now
For the whole law is summed up in a single commandment, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”

There should be a law that says a smart watch MUST at all times, regardless of anything, at some place on screen, show time.
It's beyond me that both Apple and Garmin don't follow this rule. I walk somewhere, right hand busy with holding something and this thing decides to show me some notification for the next 30 seconds.
Well fuck you watch! As the name suggests (Uhr, zegarek) your main job is to show time. Not AliExpress notification about my package leaving the tarif…

hope this will lead to lots of garages and driveways being eliminated!
https://missionlocal.org/2025/07/sf-adu-condos-in-laws/

S.F. passes law to let homeowners sell new in-law units as condos
The legislation aims to benefit "house-rich, cash-poor" homeowners, while adding to the city's supply of "affordable, entry-level" homes.

Apple says it is appealing the EU's €500M DMA fine, levied in April 2025 over App Store steering rules, and claims it goes "far beyond what the law requires" (Juli Clover/MacRumors)
https://www.macrumors.com/2025/07/07/apple-appeals-eu-500m-euro…

Apple Challenges 'Unprecedented' €500M EU Fine Over App Store Steering Rules
Apple is appealing the 500 million euro ($570 million) fine that it is facing in the European Union for allegedly violating the Digital Markets...

Legal Requirements Translation from Law
Anmol Singhal, Travis Breaux
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.02846 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.0284…

Legal Requirements Translation from Law
Software systems must comply with legal regulations, which is a resource-intensive task, particularly for small organizations and startups lacking dedicated legal expertise. Extracting metadata from regulations to elicit legal requirements for software is a critical step to ensure compliance. However, it is a cumbersome task due to the length and complex nature of legal text. Although prior work has pursued automated methods for extracting structural and semantic metadata from legal text, key l…

Fast Luminous Extragalactic Transients in the VLA Sky Survey: Implications for the rates of Accretion-Induced Collapse Events, Fast Blue Optical Transients and Gamma Ray Burst Afterglows
Kritti Sharma, Vikram Ravi, Dillon Z. Dong, Gregg Hallinan, Casey Law, Delina Levine, Jean J. Somalwar, Jessie Miller, Nikita Kosogorov, Steven T. Myers
https://

Fast Luminous Extragalactic Transients in the VLA Sky Survey: Implications for the rates of Accretion-Induced Collapse Events, Fast Blue Optical Transients and Gamma Ray Burst Afterglows
Radio wavelengths offer a unique window into high-energy astrophysical phenomena that may be obscured or too rapidly evolving to be captured at other wavelengths. Leveraging data from the Very Large Array Sky Survey, we perform a systematic search for fast, luminous transients with characteristic timescales $\lesssim 3$ years in the nearby universe ($z \leq 0.3$). We report the discovery of five such transients, and classify them based on their synchrotron emission energetics and host galaxy pr…

Stochastic thermodynamics for classical non-Markov jump processes
Kiyoshi Kanazawa, Andreas Dechant
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04726 https://

Stochastic thermodynamics for classical non-Markov jump processes
Stochastic thermodynamics investigates energetic/entropic bounds in small systems, such as biomolecular motors, chemical-reaction networks, and quantum nano-devices. Foundational results, including the second law and thermodynamic uncertainty relations, predominantly rely on the Markov assumption -- neglecting history dependence of physical systems. However, while physicists recognise that the Markov assumption is dubious in real experimental setups, extending stochastic thermodynamics to gener…

Stabilization of Linear Switched Systems with Long Input Delay via Average or Averaging Predictor Feedbacks
Andreas Katsanikakis, Nikolaos Bekiaris-Liberis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.03908

Stabilization of Linear Switched Systems with Long Input Delay via Average or Averaging Predictor Feedbacks
We develop delay-compensating feedback laws for linear switched systems with time-dependent switching. Because the future values of the switching signal, which are needed for constructing an exact predictor-feedback law, may be unavailable at current time, the key design challenge is how to construct a proper predictor state. We resolve this challenge constructing two alternative, average predictor-based feedback laws. The first is viewed as a predictor-feedback law for a particular average sys…

Companies too. Like my gym. https://oldfriends.live/@paul/114808787833782813

"Today, the America Party is formed to give you back your freedom."
The announcement from Musk comes after Trump signed a tax-cut and spending bill into law on Friday, which the billionaire chief executive officer of Tesla fiercely opposed.
Musk said previously that he would start a new political party and spend money to unseat lawmakers who supported the bill.

Trump Claims the Power to Nullify the Law – Mother Jones
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/07/trump-claims-the-power-to-nullify-the-law/

Trump signs big tax cut and spending bill into law in July Fourth ceremony (Scott Wong/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/trump-signs-big-tax-cut-spending-bill-law-july-fourth-ceremony-rcna216753
http://www.memeorandum.com/250704/p59#a250704p59

Sources: TikTok plans to launch a new version of its app in the US on September 5, ahead of the Sept. 17 deadline for the US to enforce the divest-or-ban law (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/tiktok-building-n…

TikTok Building New Version of App Ahead of Expected U.S. Sale
TikTok is building a new version of its app for users in the U.S. ahead of a planned sale of the app to a group of investors. The company has developed a plan to launch the new TikTok app, known internally as “M2,” to U.S. app stores on September 5, according to two people with knowledge of the ...

Insanity: Louisiana Passes Law To Stop 'Chemtrails' | Crooks and Liars
https://crooksandliars.com/2025/06/louisiana-passes-law-chemtrails

https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2025/06/05/trump-pardoned-corellium-founder-now-selling-cyber-business-to-cellebrite/
Trump Pardoned Him. Now He’s Selling His Cyber Business For $200 Mil…

Cellebrite To Acquire Phone Forensics Startup Corellium For $200 Million
Corellium founder and CEO Chris Wade is selling his startup to Cellebrite, law enforcement’s favorite cellphone forensics business.

Sources: the FTC is investigating whether roughly a dozen advertising and advocacy groups violated antitrust law by coordinating boycotts among advertisers (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/…

F.T.C. Investigates Ad Groups and Watchdogs, Alleging Boycott Collusion
The regulator is looking into whether roughly a dozen groups violated antitrust law by coordinating boycotts among advertisers.

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

BidenCash darknet forum taken down by US, Dutch law enforcement https://therecord.media/bidencash-cybercrime-darknet-market-takedown-us-netherlands

Top GOP Map-Drawer and Right-Wing Law Firm Team Up to Target Texas Minority Voters - Democracy Docket
https://www.democracydocket.com/analysis/top-gop-map-drawer-and-right-wing-law-firm-team-up-to-target-minority-voters-in-texas/

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.09920 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_grqc_…

Black-bounce solutions in a k-essence theory under the effects of bumblebee gravity
In the present study, we analyze the effects of violation of Lorentz symmetry for black-bounce solutions in a $k$-essence theory that has the form of a power law for the configuration $n=1/3$. We perform such analysis for a known model explored in previous work $Σ^2=x^2+a^2$ and complement the proposal with a new black-bounce model for the area functions $Σ^2_1=\sqrt{x^4+d^4}$. This model has the Schwarzschild-de Sitter asymptomatic behavior for $x\to{-\infty}$, and we investigate the scalar …

Sources: the FTC has opened an in-depth investigation of SoftBank's $6.5B acquisition of Ampere, which could take a year or more to conclude (Bloomberg Law)
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/tech-and-telecom-law/soft…

SoftBank’s Ampere Deal Now Faces a More In-Depth Review by FTC
SoftBank Group Corp.’s acquisition of semiconductor designer Ampere Computing LLC is facing a potentially lengthy probe by the US government.

'Judges sometimes violate the law': Trump admin implores Trump-appointed judge to enjoin entire federal district court over automatic stays barring deportations in habeas cases
https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/judges-sometimes-violate-the-law-trump-admin-implores-trump-appointed-judge-to-enjoin-entire-federal-district-court-over-automatic-stays-barring-deportations-in-habeas-cases/

Musk forms new political party after split with Trump over president's signature tax cuts law (Michelle L. Price/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/elon-musk-political-party-92353942308fee929a937b17113e077e
http://www.memeorandum.com/250706/p35#a250706p35

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.10505 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@ar…

On sloshing in containers with porous baffles
Sloshing eigenvalues are studied for containers with porous baffles extending throughout the constant (possibly infinite) depth. The fluid transmission across the baffles is described by Darcy's law, and so the spectral problem is nonself-adjoint. In particular, much attention is paid to vertical cylinders with circular walls and radial baffles. Explicit solutions are obtained, whose crucial feature is that the corresponding pressure difference vanishes across the baffle. These real solutions c…

US Supreme Court won't consider reviving Montana abortion parental consent law | Reuters
https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/us-supreme-court-wont-consider-reviving-montana-abortion-parental-consent-law-2025-07-03/

Check out today's Metacurity for the most critical infosec developments you might have missed over the weekend, including
--German police ID Trickbot's "Stern,"
--BitMEX thwarts Lazarus Group attack,
--Shin Bet thwarted 85 Iranian cyberattacks aimed at civilians,
--Vibe coding app Lovable failed to fix critical flaw,
--China's quantum satellite Micius has a severe security flaw,
--Russia's GRU Unit 29155 has a hacker team,
--…

Law enforcement took down cybercriminal malware testing service AVCheck
German police ID Trickbot's "Stern," BitMEX thwarts Lazarus Group attack, Shin Bet thwarted 85 Iranian cyberattacks aimed at civilians, Vibe coding app Lovable failed to fix critical flaw, China's quantum satellite Micius has a security flaw, Russia's Unit 29155 has a hacker team, much more

While it may not feel like it since January,
the rule of law still matters.
The U.S. remains a signatory to dozens of international agreements related to the use of force,
which ultimately protect our national security interests.
We have a raft of U.S. laws, including a Constitution and Bill of Rights,
that determine how and when our nation may legally engage in conflict abroad.
We are ill-served as a public when the most crucial decision a government can …

Trump endangers US by ignoring rule of law – Marin Independent Journal - EUROPE SAYS
Congressional approval for military engagement still matters. Here’s why.

Court rejects transgender teacher's challenge to Florida law
https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/within-the-four-walls-of-a-classroom-appeals-court-rejects-transgender-teachers-first-amendment-challenge-to-florida-law-restricting-use-of-preferred-pronouns/

A federal judge temporarily blocks Florida from enforcing a law banning social media accounts for children under 14, saying the law is "likely unconstitutional" (Kate Payne/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/florida-soc

Denmark plans to clamp down on AI-generated deepfakes by changing copyright law to give its citizens rights to their own body, facial features, and voice (Miranda Bryant/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/202

Off-brand IoT devices are still vulnerable to BadBox botnet, FBI says https://therecord.media/iot-devices-vulnerable-to-badbox-botnet-fbi

Can Gravitational Wave Data Shed Light on Dark Matter Particles ?
Parthasarathi Majumdar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04905 https://arx…

Can Gravitational Wave Data Shed Light on Dark Matter Particles ?
Gravitational wave (GW) data from observed binary black hole coalescences (BBHC), proven to validate the Hawking Area Theorem (HAT) for black hole horizons, has been demonstrated to unambiguously pick theoretically computed logarithmic corrections to the Bekenstein-Hawking Area Formula, which have a {\it negative} coefficient, when combined with the Generalized Second Law of thermodynamics. We propose a composite, `hybrid' approach to quantum gravity black hole entropy calculation, additively c…

Elon Musk’s team of Texas lobbyists during the 2025 legislative session did not rival those of huge energy and telecommunications companies,
which typically employ dozens of people to represent them.
⭐️But Musk and his companies still hired more lobbyists this year than any other since 2021, according to data from the Texas Ethics Commission.
❌Musk, the billionaire businessman behind carmaker Tesla and aerospace company SpaceX, influenced several new Texas laws this year. …

Elon Musk Hired a Dozen Texas Lobbyists This Year. State Law Keeps the Extent of Their Influence Under Wraps.
Musk, the billionaire businessman behind Tesla and SpaceX, influenced several new Texas laws this year. How his lobbyists came about these wins, however, is more of a mystery.

The Danish government will clamp down on the creation and dissemination of AI-generated deepfakes by changing copyright law to ensure that everybody has the right to their own body, facial features and voice.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/202

Elon Musk Hired a Dozen Texas Lobbyists This Year. State Law Keeps the Extent of Their Influence Under Wraps. (Lauren McGaughy/ProPublica)
https://www.propublica.org/article/elon-musk-texas-lobbyists-influence-law
http://www.memeorandum.com/250703/p45#a250703p45

Donald Trump’s budget bill is set to make ICE the single largest federal law enforcement agency in US history.
The mass deportations the far right fantasizes about will remain unrealistic,
-- but not for lack of funds.
https://jacobin.com/2025/07/ice-trump-

ICE Is About to Get More Money Than It Can Spend
Donald Trump’s budget bill is set to make ICE the single largest federal law enforcement agency in US history. The mass deportations the far right fantasizes about will remain unrealistic, but not for lack of funds.

Spineless Biglaw Firms Featured In Sunday Funny Pages - Above the Law
https://abovethelaw.com/2025/07/spineless-biglaw-firms-featured-in-sunday-funny-pages/

Porn-site age checks will be harder to fight after ruling on Texas law, experts say https://therecord.media/supreme-court-ruling-texas-porn-age-check-law-privacy-data-security

Sources: the FTC is investigating whether roughly a dozen advertising and advocacy groups violated antitrust law by coordinating boycotts among advertisers (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/…

F.T.C. Investigates Ad Groups and Watchdogs, Alleging Boycott Collusion
The regulator is looking into whether roughly a dozen groups violated antitrust law by coordinating boycotts among advertisers.

This Is a Shameful Way to Make Law -- Senate Republicans hope to pass their mega-trillion-dollar spending law this morning. (The Bulwark)
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/this-is-a-shameful-way-to-make-law-trump-republicans-senate-congress-big-beautiful-bill-medicaid-spending-debt-deficit
http://www.memeorandum.com/250701/p35#a250701p35

"Georgian falsely accused in '2000 Mules' of voting fraud wants filmmaker to pay" - Election Law Blog
https://electionlawblog.org/?p=150271

Legal Marijuana's Disastrous Legacy (Charles Fain Lehman/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/legal-marijuanas-disastrous-legacy-policy-law-7c727c22
http://www.memeorandum.com/250704/p2#a250704p2

A former leader of the Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights during the Obama and Biden administrations
called the Trump administration’s targeting of undefined diversity, equity and inclusion legally spurious
and urged colleges and universities to stand up for their values.
At a panel last week at the annual Education Writers Association conference here,
Catherine Lhamon said it’s “enormously frustrating to me to see the federal government use its voice to sa…

Biden Civil Rights Chief: Trump Anti-DEI Orders Aren’t Law
Catherine Lhamon joined the American Council on Education’s president and a student in criticizing the current federal administration’s targeting of universities over diversity, equity and inclusion.

Denmark plans to clamp down on AI-generated deepfakes by changing copyright law to give its citizens rights to their own body, facial features, and voice (Miranda Bryant/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/202

Clients dump law firms that rolled over for Trump: 'Don't know how to fight' - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-law-firms-2672250140/s

The Trump people have just announced that they have sent a letter to Columbia’s accreditor, the Middle States Commission on Higher Education, accusing Columbia of being in violation of civil rights law.
My initial reaction is that this is good news since it implies both that Columbia hasn’t further caved-in yet and makes clear that the Trump people have run out of ammunition

The Situation at Columbia XXIII
This week I’m very happy to not be at Columbia, and not in the US, enjoying spending the week at the Perimeter Institute at a conference in honor of Lee Smolin. Since there’s a little b…

Judge transfers new case challenging South Sudan deportations (Chris Geidner/Law Dork)
https://www.lawdork.com/p/breaking-judge-issues-administrative
http://www.memeorandum.com/250704/p64#a250704p64

RNC sues over Arizona voter registration law (Elizabeth Crisp/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/5377332-gop-sues-arizona-overseas-voting-law/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250630/p116#a250630p116

Colorado passed a law to protect trans people. These pastors repeatedly lied about it.
https://www.friendlyatheist.com/p/colorado-passed-a-law-to-protect

A Stephen Miller Staffer and Tough Talk: Inside Trump's Latest Attack on Harvard (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/02/us/politics/harvard-law-review-investigation-trump.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250602/p154#a250602p154

"German lawyers who work with any of the nine U.S. law firms that made deals with the Trump administration could be in breach of the German legal professional code of conduct, the German Bar Association (DAV) has warned."
German Bar Association Warns That Working With Yellow-Bellied Firms Could Violate Professional Codes Of Conduct - Above the Law
https://abovethelaw.com/2025/06/german-bar-association-warns-that-working-with-yellow-bellied-firms-could-violate-professional-codes-of-conduct/

"Loyalists just want a pretext to void Biden’s legacy — and centralize power under Trump."
Opinion | The autopen outrage is about MAGA politics, not law - The Washington Post
https://archive.ph/2025.06.05-131426/https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/06/05/autopen-biden-legality-pardons-maga/

Thousands march in Rome against security clampdown law
https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2025/05/31/thousands-march-in-rome-against-security-clampdown-law_6741874_4.html

'[T]the standard it proposes has no fixed boundaries. No definition of danger. No threshold for entry. No requirement that the belief be verified, or even verifiable. If the court adopts it, ICE will will be one of the many law enforcement agencies not needing a warrant. It will only need a justification. A welfare call. A safety tip. A closed door. A silence misread or claimed as threat.'
The Supreme Court might turbocharge ICE more than Trump’s big bill.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/07/supreme-court-ice-trump-big-bill-deportations.html

Homeland Security’s list of ‘sanctuary cities’ pulled down after sheriffs object - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-administration-takes-down-sanctuary-city-list-following-law-enforcement-ba/