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Senate Republicans remove pension overhaul provisions from megabill text (Lawrence Ukenye/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/06/28/congress/senate-gop-removes-pension-overhaul-from-megabill-00430853
http://www.memeorandum.com/250628/p29#a250628p29

Senate Republicans release updated text for most of their megabill (Jordain Carney/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/06/27/congress/senate-republicans-release-updated-text-megabill-lindsey-graham-00430647
http://www.memeorandum.com/250628/p7#a250628p7

MegaFold: System-Level Optimizations for Accelerating Protein Structure Prediction Models
Hoa La, Ahan Gupta, Alex Morehead, Jianlin Cheng, Minjia Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20686

MegaFold: System-Level Optimizations for Accelerating Protein Structure Prediction Models
Protein structure prediction models such as AlphaFold3 (AF3) push the frontier of biomolecular modeling by incorporating science-informed architectural changes to the transformer architecture. However, these advances come at a steep system cost, introducing: compute- and memory-intensive operators, 2D attention mechanisms, and retrieval-augmented data pipelines, which collectively hinder the scalability of AF3 training. In this work, we present MegaFold, a cross-platform system to accelerate AF…

The popular meaning of "luddite" is a straw-man. It's a sloppy word with a sloppy meaning now, and it's one we'd do well to watch out for.
The actual reality of who the Luddites were is far more interesting, the center of the hard-fought struggles against owners of factories disrupting entire towns and cities economies with massively terrible results, centralizing power and money and leaving a great number of people without any control of their work, formerly artisans who'd had a hand in their own work, and many automated out of jobs. Luddites destroyed automated looms not because they hated technology. They destroyed automated looms because they were taking the livelihood they depended on, with no recourse, and it was a disaster for a good while, and then millwork has gone from those places probably forever.
The problem now with LLMs and automated research systems is there's very little way for workers and creators to stick their shoes in the machinery. They've tried (https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.12281) but mostly failed, since unlike a factory full of textile workers, the equipment is remote, the automation virtual, an intangible software object that few can access in any meaningful way.

Alaskan whaling captains score special tax cut in GOP megabill (Brian Faler/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/06/28/congress/alaskan-whaling-captains-score-special-tax-cut-in-gop-megabill-00431077
http://www.memeorandum.com/250628/p37#a250628p37

Senate GOP adds SNAP waivers for Alaska, Hawaii in new megabill text (Samuel Benson/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/06/28/congress/senate-gop-snap-waivers-alaska-hawaii-megabill-00430999
http://www.memeorandum.com/250628/p28#a250628p28

Fresh megabill text overnight: what's in and what's out (Katherine Tully-McManus/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/06/28/megabill-reconciliation-parliamentarian-00431082
http://www.memeorandum.com/250628/p40#a250628p40

Republicans restore bill language eliminating $200 fees for silencers and short-barrel rifles (Alexander Bolton/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5374948-senate-gop-gun-silencer-short-barrel-rifle-fees-gop-megabill/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250628/p35#a250628p35

Thune faces brewing megabill mutiny (Jordain Carney/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/06/25/congress/megabill-senate-mutiny-00424389
http://www.memeorandum.com/250625/p114#a250625p114

Trump Signals July 4 Deadline Could Slip on Tax Megabill (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/trump-tax-bill-july-4-deadline-3ce83a97
http://www.memeorandum.com/250628/p9#a250628p9