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I see Secretary of State Marco Rubio as a good man doing bad things,
but perhaps he thinks even worse of me: He recently suggested that I was a liar.
While testifying before Congress, Rubio claimed that the Trump administration’s dismantling of the United States Agency for International Development had not cost any lives.
“No children are dying on my watch,” he asserted.
At another point in the hearing, he broadened his statement to include adults as well: “No one has d…

Opinion | Really, Secretary Rubio? I’m Lying About the Kids Dying Under Trump?
Many thousands of children are dying because of cuts in American humanitarian aid, and denials by Elon Musk and Marco Rubio don’t change that reality.

✊ Jean-Luc Mélenchon: “We Need a New Civic Morality”
#politics…

Jean-Luc Mélenchon: “We Need a New Civic Morality”
As he visits the US for the first time, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, leader of La France Insoumise, writes about the collapse of triumphal capitalist narratives and sets out an alternative vision for humanity that can save us from a dystopian future.

Hugging Face unveils two open-source humanoid robots, the $3,000 full-sized HopeJR and a $250-$300 Reachy Mini desktop unit, expected to ship by the end of 2025 (Rebecca Szkutak/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/29/hugging-face-unveils-two-…

Hugging Face unveils two new humanoid robots | TechCrunch
Hugging Face hopes to start shipping two new open-source humanoid robots by the end of 2025.

❝Think! Think! What do people love? The warmth of sunshine on their skin? Fresh fruit? The smell of the top of a baby’s head? Doritos? Laughter? Joy? The feeling of being seen? No, no! These answers are all wrong. It needs to be something that you can access after the Event!❞ https://

Hey you, hold onto your humanity. You’ll thank me later.
Columnist and alum Alexandra Petri offers a little advice for the graduates — or, at least, for one of them (you know who you are).

We're recruiting on our MSc Sociology and Data Analytics for next September at the University of Limerick @…

This MSc offers in depth knowledge of sociological analysis, research… | Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Limerick
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As the death toll of Palestinians continues to rise and more than a half a million people in Gaza are on the brink of famine,
U.S.-based Veterans For Peace and several allied organizations have launched a
40-day “Fast for Gaza.”
From May 22 to June 30, 600 people in the U.S. and abroad are fasting
and demanding full humanitarian aid to Gaza under UN authority
and an end to U.S. weapons shipments to Israel.
Mary Kelly Gardner, a teacher from Santa Cruz, Calif…

Veterans launch 40-day fast to protest Israel’s starvation of Gaza
“Having seen what war does … I simply have to do more than hold a sign at a demonstration,” said one veteran organizer.

The idea is to provide a safe haven and a fertile ground for the next generation of scientists to work in peace and freedom to solve the most significant challenges of our time; but the geopolitical argument will prevail. As Jorge Luis Borges said in his short story “Nathaniel Hawthorne” from his book “Other Inquisitions” (1952):
“The past is indestructible; sooner or later all things return, and one of the things that return is the project to abolish the past.”

William Aspray
There was a moment in which Kurt Gödel, Albert Einstein, and John von Neumann were all roaming the halls of the Institute for Advanced Studies in Princeton at the same time. Let that information sink in. Humanity experiences such gatherings of brilliant minds in a remote location of the space-time continuum only every so often; maybe the ancient Greeks and the men of the Renaissance witnessed such periods in time, as did the IAS staff at the end of World War II. How much will we have to wait f…

Free Circle Actions on the Product of Three Spheres
Dimpi, Hemant Kumar Singh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.21993 https://arxiv.org/pdf/…

Free Circle Actions on the Product of Three Spheres
The orbit spaces of free S^0-actions on the mod 2 cohomology product of three spheres, S^n x S^m x S^l, 1 <= n <= m <= l have been determined in [6]. In this paper, we extend these findings to free S^1-actions on the rational cohomology product of three spheres. This extension also builds upon the work of Dotzel et al. [7], who studied free circle actions on the rational cohomology product of two spheres. Additionally, we establish Borsuk-Ulam type theorems.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.02208 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csDC_…

Grassroots Federation: Fair Governance of Large-Scale, Decentralized, Sovereign Digital Communities
Grassroots Federation aims to address the egalitarian formation and the fair democratic governance of large-scale, decentralized, sovereign digital communities, the size of the EU, the US, existing social networks, and even humanity at large. A grassroots federation evolves via the grassroots formation of digital communities and their consensual federation. Such digital communities may form according to geography, jurisdiction, affiliations, relations, interests, causes, and more. Small communi…

Dinner Party Orecchiette #Eggs, #Pasta

Dinner Party Orecchiette
Orecchiette is one of my favourite ways to use (and preserve) eggs. This batch is for a dinner party. Homemade orecchiette, frozen ahead of time and just cooked straight from frozen while the guest…