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Top House Democrats are calling on Brendan Carr,
chair of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC),
to resign over the indefinite suspension of Jimmy Kimmel’s late night show.
The congressional leaders accuse Carr – who runs the US’ media watchdog
– of engaging in a “corrupt abuse of power”
by “bullying ABC” and forcing the media company to “bend the knee to the Trump administration”.
Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries, Minority whip Katherine Clark, Demo…

CBS says The Late Show with Stephen Colbert is ending in May 2026 and that this was "purely a financial decision against a challenging backdrop in late night" (Peter White/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/07/the-late-show-with-ste…

‘The Late Show With Stephen Colbert’ Ending Next Year With CBS Retiring Late-Night Franchise
In a shocking move, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert is ending in May 2026. “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert will end its historic run in May 2026 at the end of the broadcast season.  We consider Stephen Colbert irreplaceable and will retire The Late Show franchise at that time.  We are proud that Stephen […]

I'll gonna take some time today to personalize the message and send out emails from my own account to hopefully ditch filtering on the target side and make my voice heard. Allowing chat control does not only put privacy and democracy in danger. At times of constant digital attacks from rogue states like Russia, the US, North Korea and China etc. it should be obvious that having weak encryption and standard backdoor access to secure communications channels is an invitation for any malici…

Fight Chat Control (@chatcontrol@mastodon.social)
Angehängt: 1 Bild Germany's position has been reverted to UNDECIDED. Despite expressing concerns about breaking end-to-end encryption, Germany refrained from taking a definitive stance on the Chat Control proposal during the September 12th LEWP meeting. A willingness to negotiate and compromise remains. This is an unfortunate development as Germany is crucial to defeating Chat Control. Please make your voices heard! https://fightchatcontrol.eu/ Source: https://netzpolitik.org/2025/chatko…

I’m so proud of my little brother.
I just spoke to him in his dorm room at a top 30 college here in the US, he just arrived for freshman orientation.
He got in on a full ride - tuition, housing, food, books, travel, stipend for daily expenses. Won a competitive scholarship to do so.
More than that, he’s had a tougher road than most to get there:
- he had to suddenly move away from Manila, Philippines (where he grew up) in middle school because of COVID restrictions that didn’t let kids go outside (2020)
- then, just as he adjusted to school and a different language in our home country, Ukraine, Russia invaded (2022)
- he stayed in Greece for a month while I was calling our congressional representative here in NY and negotiating with the US embassy to get them a visa ASAP to enter the US and be with me and my husband. There were no paths for Ukrainian refugees yet, we just wanted them with us temporarily for a few months to figure out what options they even had next.
- he had to wait, not going to school, with no clue where they’d move next, until TPS became available to Ukrainians and they got to stay here in the US
- then he had to continue high school in yet another system, yet another country, amidst news of bombings and destruction back home
- my mother wasn’t allowed to work for months while their documents were pending, so we had to raise money with a public GoFundMe campaign and my husband and I maxed out our credit cards to help them get by
- they shared a one-room cottage for the first year, graciously hosted for free by an elderly local couple
- he saw a therapist who also graciously took him in for free while they didn’t have insurance
- he had to graduate high school amidst news of other immigrant students getting arrested, detained, and deported at their own graduations around the country
- he wasn’t sure if he would even make it to college as this administration publicly considered canceling TPS for Ukrainians and cutting off their pathway to maintaining legal status.
We don’t know what tomorrow holds. But he’s there. He’s on campus. He got to go to college.
I love him so much.

Trump adds new level of scrutiny to wind and solar projects
The Interior Department said Thursday that it would add additional layers of review for wind and solar energy projects,
following Donald Trump’s executive order aimed at
ending any “preferential treatment” for renewable energy.

The new requirement threatens to trip up the approval process
as wind and solar projects race to begin construction by a deadline next July to qualify for tax credits,
whi…

Trump adds new level of scrutiny to wind and solar projects
The new requirement threatens to slow the approval process for renewable energy projects as they race to begin construction before the deadline for tax credits.

The Netherlands' first major Carbon Capture and Storage project is progressing. Its CO2 collection pipeline through the Port of Rotterdam industrial area is under construction now, with 11 valve stations to connect users.
Porthos should start to store 2.5 million tonnes/year of CO2 in a depleted offshore gas field from next year.

#porthos #energietransitie #duurzaamheid #carboncapture #ccs #co2 #co2transport #co2opslag #co2injection #co2storage #carbontransport #carbonstorage | Porthos
➡️𝐍𝐢𝐞𝐮𝐰𝐞 𝐟𝐚𝐬𝐞 𝐏𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐬: 𝐚𝐟𝐬𝐥𝐮𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐚𝐚𝐧𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐰🚧 De Porthos-verzamelleiding is gereed. Deze landleiding volgt grotendeels het tracé langs de A15, van Pernis tot de Maasvlakte, en heeft een lengte van circa 30 kilometer. Via deze leiding wordt de afgevangen CO₂ uit industriële installaties in het Rotterdamse havengebied getransporteerd naar het compres…

$D$-wave dimeson resonance interpretation to the $Z_c/Z_{cs}/Z_b$ states
Kan Chen, Jun-Zhang Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.11127 https://arxiv.org/pdf/25…

$D$-wave dimeson resonance interpretation to the $Z_c/Z_{cs}/Z_b$ states
In this work, we construct the $S$-wave, $P$-wave, and $D$-wave $D^{(*)}\bar{D}^{*}_{(s)}$/$B^{(*)}\bar{B}^{*}_{(s)}$ interactions by considering the lowest order contributions from the leading order (LO), next-to-leading order (NLO), and next-to-next-to-next-to-leading order (N$^3$LO) contact terms, respectively. After solving the corresponding Lippmann-Schwinger equation (LSE), we obtain the typical pole trajectory for the $S$-wave/$P$-wave/$D$-wave state. We adjust the $P$-wave low energy co…

From Next Token Prediction to (STRIPS) World Models -- Preliminary Results
Carlos N\'u\~nez-Molina, Vicen\c{c} G\'omez, Hector Geffner
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13389 h…

From Next Token Prediction to (STRIPS) World Models -- Preliminary Results
We consider the problem of learning propositional STRIPS world models from action traces alone, using a deep learning architecture (transformers) and gradient descent. The task is cast as a supervised next token prediction problem where the tokens are the actions, and an action $a$ may follow an action sequence if the hidden effects of the previous actions do not make an action precondition of $a$ false. We show that a suitable transformer architecture can faithfully represent propositional STR…

When next to a "she build it" billboard (that happens to be an ad for a certain "construction toy" brand that happens to be loaded with stereotypes about girls), there is a huge ship docked — and the punchline suddenly suggests something better.

Sad to see Trump Tariffs kill off a US-based small business that offers a unique product that works perfectly but will no longer be available because it’s now too costly to produce: the Starling Home hub that magically made your Google Nest devices play friendly with Apple Home and HomeKit. Will remain supported but no longer available for purchase because of tariffs. https://…

Starling Hub | Nest HomeKit Bridge | Complete Smart Home Control
Connect Nest to Apple HomeKit and AirPlay. Perfectly integrate Thermostat, Protect, Cameras, Speakers, Secure and Nest x Yale Lock with Home, iOS, Siri and other smart home devices and HomeKit apps.