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The US Senate confirms Olivia Trusty to the FCC, giving Republicans a 2-1 majority after the recent departures of two members (Ted Johnson/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/06/trump-fcc-majority-olivia-trusty-senate-1236436125/

Donald Trump And Republicans To Gain A Majority On FCC As Senate Confirms Olivia Trusty
The Republicans will have a 2-1 majority.

scotus_majority: SCOTUS majority opinions
Network of legal citations among majority opinions written by the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS), from 1754-2002 (2008 version) and 1792-2006 (2007 version). In addition to the citation network, node metadata is included giving some description of each opinion.
This network has 25417 nodes and 216738 edges.
Tags: Informational, Legal, Unweighted, Metadata, Temporal

The US Senate confirms Olivia Trusty to the FCC, giving Republicans a 2-1 majority after the recent departures of two members (Ted Johnson/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/06/trump-fcc-majority-olivia-trusty-senate-1236436125/

Donald Trump And Republicans To Gain A Majority On FCC As Senate Confirms Olivia Trusty
The Republicans will have a 2-1 majority.

scotus_majority: SCOTUS majority opinions
Network of legal citations among majority opinions written by the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS), from 1754-2002 (2008 version) and 1792-2006 (2007 version). In addition to the citation network, node metadata is included giving some description of each opinion.
This network has 34613 nodes and 202167 edges.
Tags: Informational, Legal, Unweighted, Metadata, Temporal

Not good
MPs back assisted dying bill in historic Commons vote - BBC News
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cgeqj1egxvyo

MPs back assisted dying bill by majority of 23
The bill would allow terminally ill adults in England and Wales to end their own lives.

6/20/25 ☀️ AM: ... The Senate just started a long weekend, but Senate Majority ... (Punchbowl News)
https://punchbowl.news/archive/62025-am/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250620/p4#a250620p4

"The biased random number generator deleted my production database", people just really want to fool themselves into believing "AI" is real.
For years now I've said that no one would dare cross bridges or board a plane if civil/aerospace engineers worked like the majority of software engineers, and this whole hype just makes me point better than I ever could 😅
https://bsky.app/profile/lookitup.baby/post/3lufqktym522f

I still see no signs that indicate that the D-party has the ability to win seats in 2024 or win the presidency (or house or senate majority) in 2028.
I am perceiving the D-party eroding-itself away leaving individual candidates to run their own campaigns.
Although I am much in favor of the goals of much "identity" based campaign messaging I feel that emphasis on those has cost the progressive/liberal voice too many seats. Those messages, valid and important as they are…

@… @… Political parties in an electoral system that enables a party to win a majority is the traditional means of overcoming this. The US currently has a system of one disciplined political party and one party composed of individual…

How about non Europeans? Can they safely bath in EU's waters as well?
https://flipboard.com/@euronews/green-news-8pjijreoz/-/a-jJtjBPzBTfaTHp1LnzHMFQ:a:89340020-/0

Safe summer swimming: Europeans can confidently bathe in the majority of the EU's waters, report
Some 95 per cent of coastal waters in Greece and Cyprus are safe for swimming, a new report has found. From the Atlantic to the Mediterranean, …

For a moment last week, Donald Trump’s Justice Department appeared to throw a metaphorical life vest to Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s public relations team.
As search and rescue operations continued, the Republican governor was under fire for suggesting that
survivors and the media were using the “word choice of losers”
when asking him who was to blame for the state’s handling of the flash flood that claimed at least 134 lives over the July 4 weekend.
Abbott also compared…

Texas Plays Cynical Racial Gerrymandering Game to Save House Majority for Trump
Trump’s Justice Department gave political cover for Gov. Greg Abbott to mingle gerrymandering with disaster relief.

I see so many young kids now just constantly staring and scrolling through reels, tiktok, youtube clips when we are out and about. Everywhere. It's disgusting and extremely sad at the same time. Initially I was wondering how the hell parents are allowing this, but when you notice grown people just doing the same thing. It's insane how that has become a majority, not a minority, behavior.

Efficient space reduction techniques by optimized majority rules for the Kemeny aggregation problem
Xuan Kien Phung, Sylvie Hamel
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.15097

Efficient space reduction techniques by optimized majority rules for the Kemeny aggregation problem
The Kemeny aggregation problem consists of computing the consensus rankings of an election with respect to the Kemeny-Young voting method. These aggregated rankings are the geometric medians as well as the maximum likelihood estimators in the Mallows model of the rankings in the election under the Kendall-tau distance which counts the number of pairwise disagreements. The problem admits fundamental applications in various domains such as computational social choice, machine learning, operations…

Trump's only real policy is revenge against his perceived enemies, which at this point means the vast majority of Americans.
We are all targets.

Many people have this sense that the price of books is primarily linked to the cost of materials, manufacture, & distribution. But the majority of the cost of publishing books are in the labor leading up to the 1st copy: editorial & editorial production work, before any reproduction in whatever format. Addition labor happens later, for marketing. When you buy a book, you’re mainly paying for these kinds of labor.
From: @…

Krispy Kreme: Over 160,000 people had data stolen during November 2024 cyberattack https://therecord.media/krispy-kreme-reports-data-breach-from-2024-attack

Windows 11 on Arm now has enough native apps that most users are spending the majority of their time in them, says Arm https://www.windowscentral.com/software-ap…

Self-Adaptive and Robust Federated Spectrum Sensing without Benign Majority for Cellular Networks
Ngoc Duy Pham, Thusitha Dayaratne, Viet Vo, Shangqi Lai, Sharif Abuadbba, Hajime Suzuki, Xingliang Yuan, Carsten Rudolph
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.12127

Self-Adaptive and Robust Federated Spectrum Sensing without Benign Majority for Cellular Networks
Advancements in wireless and mobile technologies, including 5G advanced and the envisioned 6G, are driving exponential growth in wireless devices. However, this rapid expansion exacerbates spectrum scarcity, posing a critical challenge. Dynamic spectrum allocation (DSA)--which relies on sensing and dynamically sharing spectrum--has emerged as an essential solution to address this issue. While machine learning (ML) models hold significant potential for improving spectrum sensing, their adoption …

Why is #Labour blind to the urgent need for PR?
When there are more than 2 parties, FPTP allows parties to get an overwhelming majority of seats on a smallish vote. Labour just did it. Next time, it could be Farage. Is Labour too arrogant to recognise that possibility?

Majority of Voters Oppose Trump's “Big, Beautiful Bill,”
With Just 27 Percent Backing It
The bill would gut billions of dollars in health care spending,
and redistribute wealth from the poor to the rich.
https://truthout.org/articl…

Majority of Americans Oppose Trump’s “Big, Beautiful Bill,” With Just 27 Percent Backing It
The bill would gut billions of dollars in health care spending, and redistribute wealth from the poor to the rich.

Characterizing asymmetric and bimodal long-term financial return distributions through quantum walks
Stijn De Backer, Luis E. C. Rocha, Jan Ryckebusch, Koen Schoors
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.13019

Characterizing asymmetric and bimodal long-term financial return distributions through quantum walks
The analysis of logarithmic return distributions defined over large time scales is crucial for understanding the long-term dynamics of asset price movements. For large time scales of the order of two trading years, the anticipated Gaussian behavior of the returns often does not emerge, and their distributions often exhibit a high level of asymmetry and bimodality. These features are inadequately captured by the majority of classical models to address financial time series and return distributio…

Theoretical Tensions in RLHF: Reconciling Empirical Success with Inconsistencies in Social Choice Theory
Jiancong Xiao, Zhekun Shi, Kaizhao Liu, Qi Long, Weijie J. Su
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12350

Theoretical Tensions in RLHF: Reconciling Empirical Success with Inconsistencies in Social Choice Theory
Despite its empirical success, Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF) has been shown to violate almost all the fundamental axioms in social choice theory -- such as majority consistency, pairwise majority consistency, and Condorcet consistency. This raises a foundational question: why does RLHF perform so well in practice if it fails these seemingly essential properties? In this paper, we resolve this paradox by showing that under mild and empirically plausible assumptions on the pre…

Immigration raids leave crops unharvested and California farms at risk
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/07/01/markets/immigration-raids-california-farms/
🆓

Immigration raids leave crops unharvested and California farms at risk
In the vast agricultural lands north of Los Angeles, farmers and field supervisors have said that ICE raids have led a majority of workers to stop showing up.

«people’s options for mainstream (and an alarming amount of industry) news are somewhere between “I’m smarter than you,” “something happened!” “sneering contempt,” “a trip to the principal’s office,” or “here’s who you should be mad at,” which I realize also describes the majority of the New York Times opinion page.»
https://www.wheresyoured.at/sic/

“I have a hypothesis: all of these [Women in Tech] initiatives are operating in closed and exclusive spaces, which is sending a strong signal to the male majority with the power to affect real change that they are not welcome here, and it is not their problem to solve.” —@…

Why Women in Tech isn't enough
Women in Tech spaces help, but fall short in the long run. Real progress needs systemic change and active involvement from men in positions of power.

@… The Supreme Court majority is now lawless.

Efficient Adaptation of Pre-trained Vision Transformer underpinned by Approximately Orthogonal Fine-Tuning Strategy
Yiting Yang, Hao Luo, Yuan Sun, Qingsen Yan, Haokui Zhang, Wei Dong, Guoqing Wang, Peng Wang, Yang Yang, Hengtao Shen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13260

Efficient Adaptation of Pre-trained Vision Transformer underpinned by Approximately Orthogonal Fine-Tuning Strategy
A prevalent approach in Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning (PEFT) of pre-trained Vision Transformers (ViT) involves freezing the majority of the backbone parameters and solely learning low-rank adaptation weight matrices to accommodate downstream tasks. These low-rank matrices are commonly derived through the multiplication structure of down-projection and up-projection matrices, exemplified by methods such as LoRA and Adapter. In this work, we observe an approximate orthogonality among any two ro…

Congressional sanctions on hold as Trump threatens Russia with 'severe' tariffs: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/15/congressional-sanctions-on-hold-as.html

Four wealthy nations
—the United States, Canada, Norway, and Australia
—account for the majority of planned oil and gas expansion over the next decade,
according to new data published by Oil Change Internationalon Monday, the first day of the Bonn Climate Change Conference in Germany.
Oil Change's analysis,
titled Planet Wreckers,
notes that if those four Global North nations stopped their planned new oil and gas extraction,
32 billion tons of carb…

'Planet Wreckers': 4 Rich Nations Plotting Nearly 70% of New Oil and Gas Over Next Decade | Common Dreams
"This is not just hypocrisy," said one climate campaigner. "It is a death sentence for communities on the frontlines of the climate crisis."

More than 80% of content on Civitai AI image platform is overtly sexual, much of it non-consensual imagery of real living people.
And it's not governments trying to control that, but payment providers.
https://www.404media.co/a16z-backed-ai-sit

An All-sky Survey of White Dwarf Merger Remnants: Far-UV is the Key
Mukremin Kilic, Pierre Bergeron, Warren R. Brown, Simon Blouin, Gracyn Jewett, Adam Moss, Patrick Dufour, Olivier Vincent
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.12655

An All-sky Survey of White Dwarf Merger Remnants: Far-UV is the Key
The majority of merging white dwarfs leave behind a white dwarf remnant. Hot/warm DQ white dwarfs with carbon-rich atmospheres have high masses and unusual kinematics. All evidence points to a merger origin. Here, we demonstrate that far-UV + optical photometry provides an efficient way to identify these merger remnants. We take advantage of this photometric selection to identify 167 candidates in the GALEX All-Sky Imaging Survey footprint, and provide follow-up spectroscopy. Out of the 140 wit…

Majority bootstrap percolation on the permutahedron and other high-dimensional graphs
Maur\'icio Collares, Joshua Erde, Anna Geisler, Mihyun Kang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.06597

Majority bootstrap percolation on the permutahedron and other high-dimensional graphs
Majority bootstrap percolation is a model of infection spreading in networks. Starting with a set of initially infected vertices, new vertices become infected once half of their neighbours are infected. Balogh, Bollobás and Morris studied this process on the hypercube and showed that there is a phase transition as the density of the initially infected set increases. Generalising their results to a broad class of high-dimensional graphs, the authors of this work established similar bounds on th…

haha real funny how the vast majority of interactions with my art and film related posts come from people like twice my age haha, surely all the other zoomers on this network aren't too irony poisoned and or dead inside to care about these things haha

A majority of six of the 11 judges on Brazil's Supreme Court have voted to hold social media companies liable for some types of users' content seen as illegal (Ricardo Brito/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/…

An investigation into the nonconformity of homogeneous gas limit for kinetic energy density of atomic systems
Priya, Anuvab Panda, Saswata Basu, Mainak Sadhukhan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.15393

An investigation into the nonconformity of homogeneous gas limit for kinetic energy density of atomic systems
Developing a reliable kinetic energy density functional within orbital-free density functional theory remains a long-standing challenge, particularly for atomic and molecular systems. A major difficulty lies in the absence of a systematic approach to accurately compute the kinetic energy density in such contexts. In our recent work, we introduced an analytical Green's function-based framework to address this issue. Majority of the existing efforts to construct an approximate kinetic energy dens…

Einstein Probe Discovery of EP J182730.0-095633: A New Black Hole X-ray Binary Candidate in Faint Outburst?
Huaqing Cheng, Qingchang Zhao, L. Tao, H. Feng, F. Coti Zelati, H. W. Pan, A. L. Wang, Y. N. Wang, M. Y. Ge, A. Rau, A. Marino, L. Zhang, W. J. Zhang, F. Carotenuto, L. Ji, C. C. Jin, D. Y. Li, B. F. Liu, Y. Liu, E. L. Qiao, N. Rea, R. Soria, S. Wang, Z. Yan, W. Yuan, B. Zhang, G. B. Zhang, S. N. Zhang, W. D. Zhang, A. Beardmore, J. S. Bright, X. L. Chen, Z. Fan, S. Y. Fu, J. P. …

Einstein Probe Discovery of EP J182730.0-095633: A New Black Hole X-ray Binary Candidate in Faint Outburst?
Black hole X-ray binaries (candidates) currently identified in our galaxy are mainly transient sources, with the majority discovered through the detection of their X-ray outbursts. Among these, only four were found during faint outbursts exhibiting peak X-ray luminosities $L_{\rm X}\lesssim10^{36}~{\rm erg~s^{-1}}$, likely due to the previous lack of sensitive, wide-field monitoring instruments in the X-ray band. In this Letter, we present the discovery of an intriguing X-ray transient, EP J182…

One of the problems with vibe coding is that the hardest part of software engineering is not writing the code, rather it's *choosing* what to code, and designing the system (and, later on, maintaining the code/operations/etc)
The barriers and investment cost to writing code is itself a *desirable* aspect of software engineering because it forces you to make careful, good choices before you invest in building something
Because the majority of the time spent writing, say, curl,…

scotus_majority: SCOTUS majority opinions
Network of legal citations among majority opinions written by the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS), from 1754-2002 (2008 version) and 1792-2006 (2007 version). In addition to the citation network, node metadata is included giving some description of each opinion.
This network has 25417 nodes and 216738 edges.
Tags: Informational, Legal, Unweighted, Metadata, Temporal

The vast majority of the plastic flotsam and jetsam in the North Pacific subtropical gyre (the North Pacific Garbage Patch) consists of discarded fishing gear.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-16529-0

Industrialised fishing nations largely contribute to floating plastic pollution in the North Pacific subtropical gyre - Scientific Reports
The subtropical oceanic gyre in the North Pacific Ocean is currently covered with tens of thousands of tonnes of floating plastic debris, dispersed over millions of square kilometres. A large fraction is composed of fishing nets and ropes while the rest is mostly composed of hard plastic objects and fragments, sometimes carrying evidence on their origin. In 2019, an oceanographic mission conducted in the area, retrieved over 6000 hard plastic debris items > 5 cm. The debris was later sorte…

Good electoral reforms. But it's VERY disappointing that Labour clings to first-past-the-post. Not only does FPTP make no sense when there are more than 2 parties, but, most importantly, change to PR could be the only way to prevent a far-right majority in 2029. Wake up!
https:…

16 year olds to be given right to vote through seismic government election reforms
Sixteen year olds will be given the right to vote in all UK elections as part of seismic changes to modernise UK democracy

"Just Because You Lost The Battle, It Doesn't Mean You've Lost The War: Justice Sonia Sotomayor's dissent shows there is a way forward."
Sotomayor Outlawyers Supreme Court Majority In Shadow Docket Deportation Ruling - Above the Law
https://abovethelaw.com/2025/06/sotomayor-outlawyers-supreme-court-majority-in-shadow-docket-deportation-ruling/

Nearly half of Israelis support army killing all Palestinians in Gaza, poll finds.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/majority-israelis-support-expulsion-palestinians-gaza-poll

Nearly half of Israelis support army killing Palestinians in Gaza, poll finds
An overwhelming number of Israelis, including seculars, back the forced transfer of Palestinians from Gaza and Israel

Surprised no one in my timeline highlighted this source probs, maybe the majority of the fedi collectivity shrugs? https://status.cloud.google.com/incidents/ow5i3PPK96RduMcb1SsW

Met someone from the #Philippines who knew nearly nothing about #Indonesia but was convinced it must be much more conservative than their home country only because it's #Muslim majority...

Bears TE Colston Loveland: Shoulder injury progressing, but won’t really know until training camp https://www.nfl.com/news/bears-te-colston-loveland-shoulder-injury-progressing-but-won-t-really-know-until-training-camp…

#Children collecting water are majority of the 10 dead Sunday after Israeli missile strike in #Gaza . #IDF claim "technical error" "under review" as they were only seeking to kill a "militant" dozens of metres b…

🌮 Corn after soy: New study quantifies rotation benefits and trade-offs
#corn

Corn after soy: New study quantifies rotation benefits and trade-offs
While the majority of Midwestern farmers rotate corn and soybeans, commodity prices and corn yield advantages compel some to plant corn year after year. Although foundational research on the benefits of corn-soybean rotation goes back decades, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign scientists are working to address remaining holistic questions about crop yield, environmental impacts, and economic returns under various crop rotation scenarios.

New poll on "abundance agenda" shows majority still support local decision-making.
Do you support or oppose limiting local zoning rules to build more homes? Yes 28% No 43%
https://www.gelliottmorris.com/p/trump-approval-at-42-democrats-up
BUT…

Only a year until the start of the next men's world cup! We've got 365 days (plus the tournament itself) to watch FIFA sink to new lows as it works hard to please its authoritarian (majority) host, all the while lining its pockets and those of its officials. Fans will once again pass the time desperately applying the sausage principle - don't ask how it's made - to the largest sporting event on the planet.

Towards culturally-appropriate conversational AI for health in the majority world: An exploratory study with citizens and professionals in Latin America
Dorian Peters, Fernanda Espinoza, Marco da Re, Guido Ivetta, Luciana Benotti, Rafael A. Calvo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01719

Towards culturally-appropriate conversational AI for health in the majority world: An exploratory study with citizens and professionals in Latin America
There is justifiable interest in leveraging conversational AI (CAI) for health across the majority world, but to be effective, CAI must respond appropriately within culturally and linguistically diverse contexts. Therefore, we need ways to address the fact that current LLMs exclude many lived experiences globally. Various advances are underway which focus on top-down approaches and increasing training data. In this paper, we aim to complement these with a bottom-up locally-grounded approach bas…

Scaling the memory wall using mixed-precision -- HPG-MxP on an exascale machine
Aditya Kashi, Nicholson Koukpaizan, Hao Lu, Michael Matheson, Sarp Oral, Feiyi Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11512

Scaling the memory wall using mixed-precision -- HPG-MxP on an exascale machine
Mixed-precision algorithms have been proposed as a way for scientific computing to benefit from some of the gains seen for artificial intelligence (AI) on recent high performance computing (HPC) platforms. A few applications dominated by dense matrix operations have seen substantial speedups by utilizing low precision formats such as FP16. However, a majority of scientific simulation applications are memory bandwidth limited. Beyond preliminary studies, the practical gain from using mixed-preci…

scotus_majority: SCOTUS majority opinions
Network of legal citations among majority opinions written by the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS), from 1754-2002 (2008 version) and 1792-2006 (2007 version). In addition to the citation network, node metadata is included giving some description of each opinion.
This network has 34613 nodes and 202167 edges.
Tags: Informational, Legal, Unweighted, Metadata, Temporal

Pairwise similarity method for majority domination problem
N. I. Shushko, D. V. Lemtyuzhnikova
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08886 https://

Pairwise similarity method for majority domination problem
The paper considers the problem of finding the number of dominant voters in two-level voting procedures. At the first stage, voting is conducted among local groups of voters, and at the second stage, the results are aggregated to form a final decision. The goal is to determine the minimum proportion of voters supporting a proposal for it to be accepted. The paper uses the method of pairwise comparisons to analyze the structure of the problem and develop heuristic algorithms with guaranteed accu…

SCOTUS majority appears likely to OK nation's first religious charter school https://www.lawdork.com/p/scotus-oklahoma-religious-charter-school-arguments?r=e32bm&utm_campaign=post&amp…

SCOTUS majority appears likely to OK nation's first religious charter school
A ruling for Oklahoma's charter school board would further increase the role of religion in public life — and change public education in America.

Me, at the start of the semester: In order to pass this course, you need to complete the majority of the weekly exercises.
Student at the end of the semester: I had no idea that 4 exercises would not be enough!!
The semester has 14 weeks of courses.
#AcademicChatter

Me, at the start of the semester: In order to pass this course, you need to complete the majority of the weekly exercises.
Student at the end of the semester: I had no idea that 4 exercises would not be enough!!
The semester has 14 weeks of courses.
#AcademicChatter

Me, at the start of the semester: In order to pass this course, you need to complete the majority of the weekly exercises.
Student at the end of the semester: I had no idea that 4 exercises would not be enough!!
The semester has 14 weeks of courses.
#AcademicChatter

No Midcost Democracy
Hans Gersbach, Arthur Schichl, Oriol Tejada
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.07300 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.07300

No Midcost Democracy
Which level of voting costs is optimal in a democracy? This paper argues that intermediate voting costs - what we term a "Midcost democracy" - should be avoided, as they fail to ensure that electoral outcomes reflect the preferences of the majority. We study a standard binary majority decision in which a majority of the electorate prefers alternative A over alternative B. The population consists of partisan voters, who always participate, and non-partisan voters, who vote only when they believe…

Just read through "Sanctuary" by Paola Mendez & Abby Sher, which was electrifying as I read news about ICE kidnappings in local towns, including one in Waltham today where they left a kid alone on the sidewalk:
#ICE #kidnappings

Predicting the response of structurally altered and asymmetrical networks
Melvyn Tyloo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14609 https://arxiv…

Predicting the response of structurally altered and asymmetrical networks
We investigate how the response of coupled dynamical systems is modified due to a structural alteration of the interaction. The majority of the literature focuses on additive perturbations and symmetrical interaction networks. Here, we consider the challenging problem of multiplicative perturbations and asymmetrical interaction coupling. We introduce a framework to approximate the averaged response at each network node for general structural perturbations, including non-normal and asymmetrical …

Optimal Debiased Inference on Privatized Data via Indirect Estimation and Parametric Bootstrap
Zhanyu Wang, Arin Chang, Jordan Awan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.10746

Optimal Debiased Inference on Privatized Data via Indirect Estimation and Parametric Bootstrap
We design a debiased parametric bootstrap framework for statistical inference from differentially private data. Existing usage of the parametric bootstrap on privatized data ignored or avoided handling the effect of clamping, a technique employed by the majority of privacy mechanisms. Ignoring the impact of clamping often leads to under-coverage of confidence intervals and miscalibrated type I errors of hypothesis tests. The main reason for the failure of the existing methods is the inconsisten…

❝Cloudflare, along with a majority of the world's leading publishers and AI companies, is changing the default to block AI crawlers unless they pay creators for their content.❞
Oh!
❝But that's just the beginning. Next, we'll work on a marketplace where content creators and AI companies, large and small, can come together.❞
Oh.
First quote sounds like a strike. Second quote sounds more like a company trying to situate itself as an unavoidable middle player who can control both sides of a market.
https://mastodon.acm.org/@avandeursen/114799313365332691

Suddenly the political outlook looks very grim in Spain as the majority coalition party, Sšnchez's PSOE is mired in a corruption scandal.
Sšnchez himself not implicated but his judgement in appointing ministers is.
Minority parties could withdraw.
Election not due til 2027 but how long can he hold on?
Alliance of post Franco PP and neofascist Vox is the nightmare scenario.
El día en que colapsó la legislatura

El día en que colapsó la legislatura
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A Bayesian Incentive Mechanism for Poison-Resilient Federated Learning
Daniel Commey, Rebecca A. Sarpong, Griffith S. Klogo, Winful Bagyl-Bac, Garth V. Crosby
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.12439

A Bayesian Incentive Mechanism for Poison-Resilient Federated Learning
Federated learning (FL) enables collaborative model training across decentralized clients while preserving data privacy. However, its open-participation nature exposes it to data-poisoning attacks, in which malicious actors submit corrupted model updates to degrade the global model. Existing defenses are often reactive, relying on statistical aggregation rules that can be computationally expensive and that typically assume an honest majority. This paper introduces a proactive, economic defense:…

Jordan is TIED with Susan Collins in the country's closest Senate race
This is Dems' BEST chance to flip the Senate.
Help Jordan Wood WIN
https://j4me.org/l
Democrats have no other way to win the majority in the Senate in 2026 without beating Collins.
To win the majority, they would n…

Chip in now to elect Jordan Wood >>
Help Jordan defeat Susan Collins

New poll on "abundance agenda" shows majority still support local decision-making.
Do you support or oppose limiting local zoning rules to build more homes? Yes 28% No 43%
https://www.gelliottmorris.com/p/trump-approval-at-42-democrats-up
BUT…

Majority dynamics on finite trees
Itai Benjamini, Georgii Zakharov, Maksim Zhukovskii
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.04714 https://arxiv.…

Majority dynamics on finite trees
For an arbitrary finite tree $T$, we find the exact value of the wort-case stabilisation time of majority dynamics on $T$. We also prove that for a perfect rooted cubic tree $T$ with diameter $D$ and uniformly random initial opinions, the dynamics stabilises in time $τ\in(D/4,D/3)$ with high probability.

More time should be devoted about the (near) future businessmodels of AI and how it collects data/content. Just trying to prevent AI models from scraping data will be futile.
https://blog.cloudflare.com/content-independence-day-no-ai-crawl-without-compen…

Content Independence Day: no AI crawl without compensation!
It’s Content Independence Day: Cloudflare, along with a majority of the world's leading publishers and AI companies, is changing the default to block AI crawlers unless they pay creators for content.

Viele europäische #Landwirt*innen zeigen mehr #Klimaskepsis als andere Berufsgruppen, vor allem in wohlhabenderen Ländern mit geringerem #Klimarisiko.
Das erschwert

Climate change skepticism of European farmers and implications for effective policy actions - Communications Earth & Environment
The majority of farmers in European Union countries are more skeptical about climate change impact and attribution than the general population, and more so in more innovative and higher-income countries, according to an analysis of European-level surveys.

It's not a security alert, my dear Google. It's by design.
@…
#Proton #degoogleAdventures

This graphic showing that Cursor now has the majority market share over GitHub Copilot is fascinating. I’m curious if it’s because Cursor is an individual’s tool (so people are spending their own money). In contrast, GitHub Copilot is an enterprise tool (your corporate sugar daddy typically buys it for you).

Pretty amazing. And yet, the majority of Americans won’t see this story because the truth is paywalled but the bullshit is free. Which feels more and more to me like one of the world’s most important problems.
https://masto.ai/@Nonilex/114580574368958399

"The vast majority of arrests have been for failing to leave the area in defiance of requests from law enforcement, according to police."
The Latest: Los Angeles police have made nearly 400 arrests and detentions since Saturday - SooLeader
https://www.sooleader.com/michigan-news-ap/the-latest-los-angeles-police-have-made-nearly-400-arrests-and-detentions-since-saturday-10793135

Brazil's Supreme Court rules that social media companies are accountable for some types of user content seen as illegal, a decision that could result in fines (Ricardo Brito/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/bra

Meta said it supports proposals for an EU-wide age of digital adulthood, below which minors would need parental consent to use social media (Brian O'Donovan/RTÉ)
https://www.rte.ie/news/2025/0704/1521746-meta-eu/

Meta backs EU digital majority age
Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, has said it supports proposals for a common digital majority age across EU member states.

$GW$ 2SOSEX self-energy made positive semi-definite
Fabien Bruneval, Arno F\"orster, Yaroslav Pavlyukh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13293 https://

$GW$+2SOSEX self-energy made positive semi-definite
The formulation of vertex corrections beyond the $GW$ approximation within the framework of perturbation theory is a subtle and challenging task, which accounts for the wide variety of schemes proposed over the years. Exact self-energies are required to satisfy the mathematical condition of positive semi-definiteness. The $GW$ self-energy fulfills this property, but the vast majority of the vertex-corrected self-energy approximations do not. In this study, we devise a positive semi-definite ext…

The asylum seeker bashers in Dutch parliament - a 2/3 majority - just voted to end priority status of recognised refugees in allocating housing.
The govt organization responsible for shelter is worried about the consequences. Keeping refugees in emergency locations for years will cost billions.

SCOTUS majority appears likely to OK nation's first religious charter school https://www.lawdork.com/p/scotus-oklahoma-religious-charter-school-arguments?r=e32bm&utm_campaign=post&amp…

SCOTUS majority appears likely to OK nation's first religious charter school
A ruling for Oklahoma's charter school board would further increase the role of religion in public life — and change public education in America.

Efficient Branch-and-Bound for Submodular Function Maximization under Knapsack Constraint
Yimin Hao, Yi Zhou, Chao Xu, Zhang-Hua Fu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11107

Efficient Branch-and-Bound for Submodular Function Maximization under Knapsack Constraint
The submodular knapsack problem (SKP), which seeks to maximize a submodular set function by selecting a subset of elements within a given budget, is an important discrete optimization problem. The majority of existing approaches to solving the SKP are approximation algorithms. However, in domains such as health-care facility location and risk management, the need for optimal solutions is still critical, necessitating the use of exact algorithms over approximation methods. In this paper, we pres…

It can be useful to remember who are these national guard troops. You may be surprised to realize that the majority of our men (and a few of our women) are already subject to Federal control by FFOTUS as commander-in-chief of the militia.
They are defined by our Federal law https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/te…

"As we approach the coming jobs cliff, we're entering a period where a college isn't going to be worth it for the majority of people, since AI will take over most white-collar jobs. Combined with the demographic cliff, the entire higher education system will crumble."
This is the kind of statement you don't hear that much from sub-CEO-level #AI boosters, because it's awkward for them to admit that the tech they think is improving their life is going to be disastrous for society. Or if they do admit this, they spin it like it's a good thing (don't get me wrong, tuition is ludicrously high and higher education absolutely could be improved by a wholesale reinvention, but the potential AI-fueled collapse won't be an improvement).
I'm in the "anti-AI" crowd myself, and I think the current tech is in a hype bubble that will collapse before we see wholesale replacement of white-collar jobs, with a re-hiring to come that will somewhat make up for the current decimation. There will still be a lot of fallout for higher ed (and hopefully some productive transformation), but it might not be apocalyptic.
Fun question to ask the next person who extols the virtues of using generative AI for their job: "So how long until your boss can fire you and use the AI themselves?"
The following ideas are contradictory:
1. "AI is good enough to automate a lot of mundane tasks."
2. "AI is improving a lot so those pesky issues will be fixed soon."
3. "AI still needs supervision so I'm still needed to do the full job."

#Global surveys by #Pew Research finds confidence in #DJT as a world leader by majority of respondents in only three countries: Israel, Hungary & India, for a total approval rating of 34% across 24 surveyed nations. While ranking higher in …

U.S. Image Declines in Many Nations Amid Low Confidence in Trump
More than half of adults in 19 of 24 countries surveyed lack confidence in Trump’s leadership on the world stage.

a16z-Backed AI Site Civitai Is Mostly Porn, Despite Claiming Otherwise https://www.404media.co/a16z-backed-ai-site-civitai-is-mostly-porn-despite-claiming-otherwise/

NFL minicamp 2025 live updates: Browns rookie QBs look sharp https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45460351/nfl-minicamp-live-updates-2025-news-notes-depth-charts

Mike Johnson warns Senate GOP they're fucking the House majority - National Zero
https://nationalzero.com/2025/06/25/mike-johnson-warns-senate-gop-theyre-fucking-the-house-majority/

On the $h$-majority dynamics with many opinions
Francesco d'Amore, Niccol\`o D'Archivio, George Giakkoupis, Emanuele Natale
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20218

On the $h$-majority dynamics with many opinions
We present the first upper bound on the convergence time to consensus of the well-known $h$-majority dynamics with $k$ opinions, in the synchronous setting, for $h$ and $k$ that are both non-constant values. We suppose that, at the beginning of the process, there is some initial additive bias towards some plurality opinion, that is, there is an opinion that is supported by $x$ nodes while any other opinion is supported by strictly fewer nodes. We prove that, with high probability, if the bi…

WBD's split is set to close in mid-2026; CFO Gunnar Wiedenfels says he assumes "the majority" of WBD's ~$37B debt will exist with the spun off Global Networks (Tony Maglio/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollyw…

“Majority” of Warner Bros. Discovery’s $37 Billion in Debt Will Be Spun Off With TV Networks, Its CEO Says
But “a not-insignificant portion” will remain with Streaming & Studios — and with David Zaslav.

There has been an increase of arrests by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement since Trump began his second term,
with reports of raids across the country.
-- Yet the majority of people currently detained by ICE have no criminal convictions.
Of those who do, relatively few have been convicted of high-level crimes
— a stark contrast to the chilling nightmare Trump describes to support his border security agenda.
“There’s a deep disconnect between the rhetoric …

Trump says he's deporting 'worst of the worst.' Data tells a different story
President Donald Trump has pledged to target "the worst of the worst" as he moves to deport millions of people from the U.S. But government data contradicts this narrative. As of June 29, 71.7% of people detained by ICE had no criminal convictions, and only a small fraction were classified as high-level threats. Research has consistently shown that immigrants, including those who have entered the country illegally, are less likely to be incarcerated than native-born citizens and that immigratio…

Dutch @… opinion editor selects letter from reader claiming that Wilders' far-right PVV has an 'enormous majority' in parliament, and that this mirrors the country.
In real life, PVV got 23.5% of the votes and almost 25% of the seats in parliament.

«Sure, people from Latin-language-majority countries also list their “pronouns” in e-mail signatures and on social-media profiles, but this is, I think, largely the subconscious acceptance of the English-speakers’ hegemony over social norms (and queerness?).»
🔥 by @….
I'd even go one further and say "USian English's hegemony, both for online social norms generally and queerness in particular 🙈
https://blog.achintyarao.in/post/the-english-language/

The MAGA era
— and the three latest Trump appointees to the Court
— has resulted in a new, gruesome project:
❌giving Trump whatever he wants.
🔥This toxic combination of bigotry and fealty has created a Court that uses all its might to attack the less powerful
while coddling those who already have it all — particularly Donald Trump.
It’s a Court with a very clear vision of who matters and who needs protection.
The majority opinion in "Trump v. C…

A corrupted Supreme Court sinks to new lows
The Trumpist majority closed the term with a ruling that could rip the nation apart.

A deep dive into Apple TV's privacy features shows that Apple's streaming device is more private than the vast majority of alternatives, save for dumb TVs (Scharon Harding/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/0

Breaking down why Apple TVs are privacy advocates’ go-to streaming device
Using the Apple TV app or an Apple account means giving Apple more data, though.

"Maryland House of Delegates Majority Leader David Moon (D) told host Alicia Menendez that two bills he's introduced would enable his state to begin withholding state funds meant for the federal government. Moon defended the bills as necessary due to the Trump administration's recent announcement withholding $7 billion from K-12 schools across the country."
'Act like a collections agency': Democrat reveals blue states' secret weapon against Trump - Alternet.org
https://www.alternet.org/blue-states-trump/

The Trump administration knew
that the vast majority of the
238 Venezuelan immigrants
it sent to a maximum-security prison in El Salvador in mid-March
had not been convicted of crimes in the United States
before it labeled them as terrorists and deported them,
according to U.S. Department of Homeland Security data
that has not been previously reported.

Trump Administration Knew Vast Majority of Venezuelans Sent to Salvadoran Prison Had Not Been Convicted of U.S. Crimes
Homeland Security records reveal that officials knew that more than half of the 238 deportees were labeled as having no criminal record in the U.S. and had only violated immigration laws.

A group of 17 GOP governors write to Senate majority leader and House speaker urging for the state AI bill moratorium to be removed from the reconciliation bill (Ashley Gold/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/tech-policy/2025

Exclusive: Republican governors want state AI pause out of budget bill
Many Republican-run states have passed AI-related laws and don't want to see them knocked down.

During the election campaign, Trump and his cronies declared they would deport the allegedly massive numbers of “criminal aliens.”
When Trump came into office, however, he faced a problem:
The vast majority of undocumented immigrants are law abiding.
But Trumpists came up with an answer:
Create fake crimes and thereby turn the law abiding into criminals.
Trump announced the US is
“under invasion” by a foreign power
in order to invoke the rarely us…

A felon in the White House is making crime legal
Meanwhile, he's creating fake crimes to punish the law abiding.

We are the revolution, apparently, so dangerous only a seasoned military can stop us.
The only problem, of course, is that Los Angeles is not in chaos on this particular sunny Sunday
and the vast majority of Angelenos are just trying to enjoy the weekend without becoming a federal prisoner.

The insurrection that wasn't, and other Trump fantasies
President Trump has sent the National Guard into Los Angeles, claiming the city is in chaos and rioters have taken over. Meanwhile, Angelenos continue to brunch.

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.