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Hawley introduces bill to reverse Medicaid cuts he voted for (Sareen Habeshian/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/07/15/medicaid-cuts-hawley-trump-megabill-missouri
http://www.memeorandum.com/250715/p142#a250715p142

This story is cute: A malicious "Solidity" (that's the smart contract language Ethereum and other blockchains use) extension for Cursor, the Vibe-Coding Editor included code that steals your tokens/coins.
I find it funny for two reasons:
- Blockchainers love talking about how you need to verify things you interact with but someone wasn't checking if they have the right extension
- Programming smart contracts is hard because it's a massively hostile envir…

Code highlighting with Cursor AI for $500,000
Kaspersky GReAT experts uncover malicious extensions for Cursor AI that download the Quasar backdoor and a crypto stealer.

Moki Mcfly – Divin(e)tion: Music in the key of zero
https://www.clongclongmoo.org/2025/05/13/moki-mcfly-divinetion-music-in-the-key-of-zero/

MExplore: an entity-based visual analytics approach for medical expertise acquisition
Xiao Pang, Yan Huang, Chang Liu, JiYuan Liu, MingYou Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.12337

MExplore: an entity-based visual analytics approach for medical expertise acquisition
Acquiring medical expertise is a critical component of medical education and professional development. While existing studies focus primarily on constructing medical knowledge bases or developing learning tools based on the structured, private healthcare data, they often lack methods for extracting expertise from unstructured medical texts. These texts constitute a significant portion of medical literature and offer greater flexibility and detail compared to structured data formats. Furthermore…

Good Morning #Canada
It has been well reported that OTD in 1880 Dr. Emily Stowe became the first woman licensed to practice medicine in Canada. But actually she was the 2nd as Jennie Kidd Trout (born Gowanlock; April 21, 1841 – November 10, 1921) was the first woman in Canada to become a licensed medical doctor on March 11, 1875. Not sure why Trout was misplaced in the history books for a few years, but perhaps she was overshadowed by Stowe's much more public lifetime dedication to fighting for women's rights. Regardless, both were pioneers that helped establish educational opportunities in medicine for women in Canada.
#CanadaIsAwesome #CanadianHeroes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jennie_Kidd_Trout

Asymmetric Effects Underlying Dynamic Heterogeneity in Miscible Blends of Poly(methyl methacrylate) with Poly(ethylene oxide)
Shannon Zhang, Michael A. Webb
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12143

Asymmetric Effects Underlying Dynamic Heterogeneity in Miscible Blends of Poly(methyl methacrylate) with Poly(ethylene oxide)
The emergence of spatially variable local dynamics, or dynamic heterogeneity, is common in multicomponent polymer systems. Such heterogeneity is understood to arise from differences between the intrinsic dynamical fluctuations associated with one component versus another. However, the nature of the dynamic coupling between these components and how it depends on composition, temperature, and environmental fluctuations is not fully understood. Here, we use molecular dynamics simulations to charac…

Tax portion of Senate megabill expected Monday (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/06/13/congress/tax-portion-of-senate-megabill-expected-monday-00406045
http://www.memeorandum.com/250614/p60#a250614p60

Good Signal tips for activism.
#signal

Using Signal groups for activism
Things are heating up. Millions of people are taking to the streets against Trump's rising authoritarianism. Communities around the US are organizing to defend against ICE raids, to protest Israeli genocide, for mutual aid, and for other forms of fighting fascism. Signal can help people safely organize in all of

Vance Tries to Sell the Benefits of Trump's Megabill but Ignores the Costs (Zolan Kanno-Youngs/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/16/us/politics/vance-trump-pennsylvania-legislation.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250716/p167#a250716p167

Senate Judiciary releases megabill text to bolster immigration enforcement, rein in judges (Hailey Fuchs/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/06/12/congress/senate-judiciary-releases-megabill-text-to-bolster-immigration-enforcement-rein-in-judges-00404596
http://www.memeorandum.com/250613/p18#a250613p18