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President Trump's spending bill could limit local control over zoning and environmental regulations for AI data centers, worrying state lawmakers (Molly Taft/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/a-political-battle-is-brewing-over-data-centers/…

A Political Battle Is Brewing Over Data Centers
An AI-related provision in the “Big Beautiful Bill” could restrict state-level legislation of energy-hungry data centers—and is raising bipartisan objections across the US.

Senate's school choice provision includes opt-in, disappointing advocates
https://thehill.com/homenews/education/5392855-big-beautiful-bill-trump-budget-gop-megabill-school-choice/

After voting for Trump's megabill, GOP Sen. Josh Hawley wants to prevent a key provision from going into effect (NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/trump-megabill-vote-medicaid-josh-hawley-republican-rcna217596
http://www.memeorandum.com/250709/p105#a250709p105

Senate strikes AI provision from GOP bill after uproar from the states
https://apnews.com/article/congress-ai-provision-moratorium-states-20beeeb6967057be5fe64678f72f6ab0

Senate strikes AI provision from the Republican tax bill after uproar
A proposal to deter states from regulating artificial intelligence for a decade was soundly defeated in the U.S. Senate on Tuesday, thwarting attempts to insert the measure into President Donald Trump’s big bill of tax breaks and spending cuts. The Senate voted 99-1 to strike the AI provision after weeks of criticism from both Republican and Democratic governors and state officials. Originally proposed as a 10-year ban on states doing anything to regulate AI, lawmakers later tied it to federa…

Planned Parenthood sued the Trump administration on Monday over a provision in Trump’s sweeping domestic policy bill that would strip funding from health centers operated by the reproductive healthcare and abortion provider.
In a complaint filed in Boston federal court, Planned Parenthood said the provision was unconstitutional,
and its clear purpose is to prevent its nearly 600 health centers from receiving Medicaid reimbursements.

NFLPA on Cowboys, Parsons Talks: 'We Enforce Every Provision' of CBA as Needed https://www.foxsports.com/stories/nfl/nflpa-cowboys-parsons-negotiations-we-enforce-every-provision-cba

Wer das gut sein lässt, dass Jens #Spahn der Tochter von FJ Strauss 48 Millionen Euro als Provision für seine korrupte Handhabung des Maskenmanagements zuschustert, der sollte sich mal fragen, ob er oder sie noch klar bei Verstand und Moral ist.
#Tandler

CA state Senator Scott Wiener releases amendments to SB 53, which has transparency requirements for AI companies but omits SB 1047's provision on liability (Shirin Ghaffary/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

250 years, wars on multiple continents, millions sworn to protect and uphold it, and Mango Zedong decides to Barbara Streisand Effect it by removing key sections.
At least the Seize-her Geezer is bad at being a monstrous dictator.

https://techcrunch.com…

Key sections of the US Constitution deleted from government's website | TechCrunch
Internet sleuths say the U.S. Constitution's website is now missing key sections from its website, including a key legal provision relating to habeas corpus, which protects citizens from unlawful detention.

Optimal Exit Time for Liquidity Providers in Automated Market Makers
Philippe Bergault, S\'ebastien Bieber, Leandro S\'anchez-Betancourt
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.06510

Optimal Exit Time for Liquidity Providers in Automated Market Makers
We study the problem of optimal liquidity withdrawal for a representative liquidity provider (LP) in an automated market maker (AMM). LPs earn fees from trading activity but are exposed to impermanent loss (IL) due to price fluctuations. While existing work has focused on static provision and exogenous exit strategies, we characterise the optimal exit time as the solution to a stochastic control problem with an endogenous stopping time. Mathematically, the LP's value function is shown to satisf…

Key sections of the US Constitution deleted from government’s website;
Changes in Article 1 of the U.S. Constitution: Large parts of Section 8 have been removed, and Sections 9 and 10 have been deleted altogether.
https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/06/key-

Key sections of the US Constitution deleted from government's website | TechCrunch
Internet sleuths say the U.S. Constitution's website is now missing key sections from its website, including a key legal provision relating to habeas corpus, which protects citizens from unlawful detention.

The Republican budget measure that Donald Trump signed into law late last week contains a provision that analysts say will
🔥allow private jet owners to write off the full cost of their aircraft in the first year of purchase,
❌a boon to the ultra-rich that comes as millions of people are set to lose healthcare under the same legislation.
FlyUSA, a private aviation provider, gushed in a blog post that with final passage of the unpopular budget reconciliation package,
…

The Return of 100% Bonus Depreciation: How 2025 Made Private Aircraft Ownership More Valuable Than Ever
The One Big Beautiful Bill Act (H.R.1) was permanently reinstated 100% bonus depreciation for capital equipment, including business & aviation aircraft.

From my LinkedIn post: “Telling your dev team to use AI coding tools is like telling your 2010 ops team to use AWS. They didn’t know how to code, they were ticket and click-it VMware people… developers who don’t have product management mindset or have never managed a dev team will fail by trying to micromanage the output of the tool rather than specifying the outcome of the product and managing the agent team to deliver that outcome.”

Back in 2010 when we first started using AWS to run Netflix, the AWS services were very incomplete, somewhat unreliable, had scaling issues, but were super fast to provision compared to filing… | Adrian Cockcroft
Back in 2010 when we first started using AWS to run Netflix, the AWS services were very incomplete, somewhat unreliable, had scaling issues, but were super fast to provision compared to filing tickets and waiting for data center ops teams to do what we need. We worked around the issues, built a new cloud native developer driven architecture and scaled Netflix at speed. At the time many people said we were crazy to run a large enterprise on cloud and would be back in datacenters when it failed. …

The latest version of the Senate's OBBB has a provision removing the 6 GHz band's protection from spectrum auctions; Wi-Fi 6E and Wi-FI 7 utilize the 6 GHz band (Jon Brodkin/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20…

Senate GOP budget bill has little-noticed provision that could hurt your Wi-Fi
Cruz bill could take 6 GHz spectrum away from Wi-Fi, give it to mobile carriers.

Planned Parenthood sues over Trump megabill 'defunding' provision (Nathaniel Weixel/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5388133-planned-parenthood-sues-medicaid-funding/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250707/p114#a250707p114

From Digital Distrust to Codified Honesty: Experimental Evidence on Generative AI in Credence Goods Markets
Alexander Erlei
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.06069 https://

From Digital Distrust to Codified Honesty: Experimental Evidence on Generative AI in Credence Goods Markets
Generative AI is transforming the provision of expert services. This article uses a series of one-shot experiments to quantify the behavioral, welfare and distribution consequences of large language models (LLMs) on AI-AI, Human-Human, Human-AI and Human-AI-Human expert markets. Using a credence goods framework where experts have private information about the optimal service for consumers, we find that Human-Human markets generally achieve higher levels of efficiency than AI-AI and Human-AI mar…

A QoS Framework for Service Provision in Multi-Infrastructure-Sharing Networks
Quang Minh Nguyen, Eytan Modiano
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.01694 https://ar…

A QoS Framework for Service Provision in Multi-Infrastructure-Sharing Networks
We propose a framework for resource provisioning with QoS guarantees in shared infrastructure networks. Our novel framework provides tunable probabilistic service guarantees for throughput and delay. Key to our approach is a Modified Dirft-plus-Penalty (MDP) policy that ensures long-term stability while capturing short-term probabilistic service guarantees using linearized upper-confidence bounds. We characterize the feasible region of service guarantees and show that our MDP procedure achieves…

HRIPBench: Benchmarking LLMs in Harm Reduction Information Provision to Support People Who Use Drugs
Kaixuan Wang, Chenxin Diao, Jason T. Jacques, Zhongliang Guo, Shuai Zhao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.21815

HRIPBench: Benchmarking LLMs in Harm Reduction Information Provision to Support People Who Use Drugs
Millions of individuals' well-being are challenged by the harms of substance use. Harm reduction as a public health strategy is designed to improve their health outcomes and reduce safety risks. Some large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated a decent level of medical knowledge, promising to address the information needs of people who use drugs (PWUD). However, their performance in relevant tasks remains largely unexplored. We introduce HRIPBench, a benchmark designed to evaluate LLM's accu…

Senate Votes 99-1 to Strip AI Provision From Trump's Tax Bill (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-07-01/senate-removes-tax-bill-provision-limiting-state-ai-regulation
http://www.memeorandum.com/250701/p44#a250701p44

#Drumpf bait & switch alleged #American service industry workers would have #NoTaxOnTips but reality is far more convoluted, with list of professions even applicable for promised

Trump's 'no tax on tips' sparks questions for workers: 'We're looking at a crystal ball,' expert says
President Donald Trump's "big beautiful bill" includes a section for "no tax on tips." Now that the provision is enacted, here's what experts know so far.

Several sections of Article 1 of the U.S. Constitution
appear to have been removed from the official U.S. government website,
as pointed out by sleuths on the internet and as seen by TechCrunch.
These sections largely relate to the powers that Congress has and does not have,
as well as limitations on the powers of individual states.
The removal includes sections relating to habeas corpus,
the powers that protect citizens from unlawful detention. 
S…

Key sections of the US Constitution deleted from government's website | TechCrunch
Internet sleuths say the U.S. Constitution's website is now missing key sections from its website, including a key legal provision relating to habeas corpus, which protects citizens from unlawful detention.

Gamblers will have to pay taxes on their losses thanks to provision in Trump spending bill | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-bill-tax-gambling-losses-b2783057.html

People concerned with abuse of the UK asylum process (the provision of which is an *obligation*) should be demanding a more efficient and effective administrative process.
But since investing in a better bureaucracy isn't "being tough", our deranged media is incapable of calling for it.

Parliamentarian reverses course, allows orphan drug provision in megabill (David Lim/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/06/30/congress/parliamentarian-reverses-course-allows-orphan-drug-megabill-provision-in-megabill-00433884
http://www.memeorandum.com/250630/p117#a250630p117

The Senate votes 99-1 to remove a Trump tax bill provision that would have barred states from regulating AI if they got funding from a $500M broadband program (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025…

Two-Stage TSO-DSO Services Provision Framework for Electric Vehicle Coordination
Yi Wang, Dawei Qiu, Fei Teng, Goran Strbac
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.18110 https://

Two-Stage TSO-DSO Services Provision Framework for Electric Vehicle Coordination
High renewable penetration has been witnessed in power systems, resulting in reduced system inertia and increasing requirements for frequency response services. Electric vehicles (EVs), owing to their vehicle-to-grid (V2G) capabilities, can provide cost-effective frequency services for transmission system operators (TSOs). However, EVs that are inherently connected to distribution networks may pose voltage security issues for distribution system operators (DSOs) when supporting TSO frequency. T…

Positioning AI Tools to Support Online Harm Reduction Practice: Applications and Design Directions
Kaixuan Wang, Jason T. Jacques, Chenxin Diao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.22941

Positioning AI Tools to Support Online Harm Reduction Practice: Applications and Design Directions
Access to accurate and actionable harm reduction information can directly impact the health outcomes of People Who Use Drugs (PWUD), yet existing online channels often fail to meet their diverse and dynamic needs due to limitations in adaptability, accessibility, and the pervasive impact of stigma. Large Language Models (LLMs) present a novel opportunity to enhance information provision, but their application in such a high-stakes domain is under-explored and presents socio-technical challenges…

Recurrent visitations expose the paradox of human mobility in the 15-Minute City vision
Xiuning Zhang, Alexei Poliakov, Henrikki Tenkanen, Elsa Arcaute
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.00919

Recurrent visitations expose the paradox of human mobility in the 15-Minute City vision
In the transition towards sustainability and equity, proximity-centred planning has been adopted in cities worldwide. Exemplified by the 15-Minute City, this emerging planning paradigm assumes that spatially proximate provision translates into localised use, yet evidence on actual behaviour remains limited. We advance a behaviourally grounded assessment by introducing the K-Visitation framework, which identifies the minimal set of distinct visited places needed to cover essential amenities unde…

Modeling Loss-Versus-Rebalancing in Automated Market Makers via Continuous-Installment Options
Srisht Fateh Singh, Reina Ke Xin Li, Samuel Gaskin, Yuntao Wu, Jeffrey Klinck, Panagiotis Michalopoulos, Zissis Poulos, Andreas Veneris
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.02971

Modeling Loss-Versus-Rebalancing in Automated Market Makers via Continuous-Installment Options
This paper mathematically models a constant-function automated market maker (CFAMM) position as a portfolio of exotic options, known as perpetual American continuous-installment (CI) options. This model replicates an AMM position's delta at each point in time over an infinite time horizon, thus taking into account the perpetual nature and optionality to withdraw of liquidity provision. This framework yields two key theoretical results: (a) It proves that the AMM's adverse-selection cost, loss-v…

So I had this terrible idea a few years ago to write some infrastructure automation that provisions a new compute instance, sets up secrets storage, configures IAM roles, authorizes the new instance to be able to provision new instance and roles via infra-as-code automation, and then the new instance tears down the instance and roles that created it, before then creating its own new compute instance, etc
Like a self-propagating glider in Conway's Game of Life, except with cloud inf…

Upstream competition and exclusive content provision in media markets
Kiho Yoon
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.15063 https://arxiv.org/pd…

Upstream competition and exclusive content provision in media markets
With a multilateral vertical contracting model of media markets, we examine upstream competition and contractual arrangements in content provision. We analyze the trade of content by the Nash bargaining solution and the downstream competition by the Hotelling location model. We characterize the equilibrium outcomes and the contractual arrangements for various vertical structures. We show that the possibility of exclusive contracts rises when the value of the premium content increases, the degre…

FFOTUS' new big awful ugly bill has a rarely noticed provision to effectively eliminate taxes on startup founder's income. It is a gift of prodigious size to the mega-$billionaires who kow tow to FFOTUS.
I am wondering if one could structure a consulting (or other) business as a startup in which you are are the sole holder of voting stock and also the sole holder of a pool of non-voting stock (yup, that's not only allowed, it is rather common practice.)
Then as you d…

Deep Reputation Scoring in DeFi: zScore-Based Wallet Ranking from Liquidity and Trading Signals
Dhanashekar Kandaswamy, Ashutosh Sahoo, Akshay SP, Gurukiran S, Parag Paul, Girish G N
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.20494

Deep Reputation Scoring in DeFi: zScore-Based Wallet Ranking from Liquidity and Trading Signals
As decentralized finance (DeFi) evolves, distinguishing between user behaviors - liquidity provision versus active trading - has become vital for risk modeling and on-chain reputation. We propose a behavioral scoring framework for Uniswap that assigns two complementary scores: a Liquidity Provision Score that assesses strategic liquidity contributions, and a Swap Behavior Score that reflects trading intent, volatility exposure, and discipline. The scores are constructed using rule-based bluepri…

Stochastic urban planning for housing: Reduce regulations with no provision to provide housing supporting the mix of incomes in California.
After all, in our system, return on capital plays no role in determining what price developers demand for building./s
https://www.s…

Stochastic urban planning for housing: Reduce regulations with no provision to provide housing supporting the mix of incomes in California.
After all, in our system, return on capital plays no role in determining what price developers demand for building./s
https://www.s…

@… Are you using Nix to provision GHC C deps, then Cabal to get Haskell deps? Or using cabal2nix?

Right-wing pastor Ralph Drollinger, leads Bible studies for members of Congress and the Trump administration via his Capitol Ministries organization.
The purpose of Capitol Ministries is to transform public officials in “disciples”
who will turn founder Drollinger’s very conservative interpretation of scripture into public policy,
such as his belief that the Bible mandates support for right-wing economic, social, environmental, immigration, and criminal justice policies.

How Ralph Drollinger's Right-Wing Bible Study Is Quietly Steering The Ship Of State
Right-wing pastor Ralph Drollinger brags that a new work requirement provision was inserted into the Republican spending bill because of the Bible studies he hosts of members of Congress.

BESS Participation Planning for Provision of Grid Services in Energy and Regulation Markets
Zeenat Hameed, Chresten Traeholt
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08472

BESS Participation Planning for Provision of Grid Services in Energy and Regulation Markets
This paper presents a stochastic optimization model for planning the participation of battery energy storage systems (BESSs) in energy and regulation markets. The proposed model quantifies and compares the business value of single and multi-market BESS services by accounting for their bid submission and acceptance procedures, pricing mechanisms and revenue streams, and penalty payments and degradation costs. By modelling the price uncertainties using market price scenarios (MPSs) and considerin…

Senate bill allowed to 'defund' Planned Parenthood (Nathaniel Weixel/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5377656-senate-gop-provision-planned-parenthood/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250630/p147#a250630p147

A Novel Tunable Controller for Grid Forming Converters towards Critical Services Application
Yangyadatta Tripathy, Barjeev Tyagi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.01748 https://…

A Novel Tunable Controller for Grid Forming Converters towards Critical Services Application
This paper demonstrates the key features of a control system applicable to inverter-based resources (IBR), which is based on grid-forming technology. Such resources are classified as grid-forming or grid-following converters based on the type of output with or without grid connection. With rapid growth in the energy sector to adopt carbon-free generation, Grid Forming Converter (GFC) seems suitable for power provision to remote or islanded operation of converters. A fully-fledged bulk power gri…

Machine Learning-Driven Anomaly Detection for 5G O-RAN Performance Metrics
Babak Azkaei, Kishor Chandra Joshi, George Exarchakos
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.03290 https://…

Machine Learning-Driven Anomaly Detection for 5G O-RAN Performance Metrics
The ever-increasing reliance of critical services on network infrastructure coupled with the increased operational complexity of beyond-5G/6G networks necessitate the need for proactive and automated network fault management. The provision for open interfaces among different radio access network\,(RAN) elements and the integration of AI/ML into network architecture enabled by the Open RAN\,(O-RAN) specifications bring new possibilities for active network health monitoring and anomaly detection.…

Symmetry-breaking bifurcation of periodic solutions for a free-boundary tumor model
Wenhua He, Mingxin Wang, Ruixiang Xing
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.19954 https://

Symmetry-breaking bifurcation of periodic solutions for a free-boundary tumor model
In this paper, we consider a free boundary multi-layer tumor model that incorporates a $T-$periodic provision of external nutrients $Φ(t)$. The simplified model contains three parameters: the mean of periodic external nutrients $Φ(t)$, the threshold concentration $\widetildeσ$ for proliferation and the cell to cell adhesiveness coefficient $γ$. We first study the flat solution and give a complete classification about $\frac{1}{T} \int_0^T Φ(t) d t$ and $\widetildeσ$ according to global st…

GOP tax bill includes a $6,000 ‘senior deduction.’ Here’s who qualifies.
Under current law, most taxpayers claim the standard deduction of $15,000 (or $30,000 for couples)
to reduce their tax liability,
though the GOP tax bill would increase those amounts slightly.
Additionally, seniors already qualify for an additional deduction of $2,000 (or $3,600 for couples).

The Senate bill would create a third category that gives seniors an additional $6,000 (or $12,000) off…

GOP tax bill includes a $6,000 ‘senior deduction.’ Here’s who qualifies.
The provision emerged from President Donald Trump’s campaign pledge to end taxes on Social Security. But experts say many are excluded.

After criticism, Senator Marsha Blackburn backs off her own AI provision compromise, saying "we can't block states from making laws that protect their citizens" (Kate Knibbs/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/ai-moratorium-trump-megabill-blackburn…

Senator Blackburn Pulls Support for AI Moratorium in Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ Amid Backlash
After critics called the bill a “get-out-jail-free-card” for Big Tech that could make it nearly impossible to rein in social media platforms, Senator Marsha Blackburn killed her own compromise.

Anchoring-Based Causal Design (ABCD): Estimating the Effects of Beliefs
Raanan Sulitzeanu-Kenan, Micha Mandel, Yosef Rinott
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.01677 https://

Anchoring-Based Causal Design (ABCD): Estimating the Effects of Beliefs
A central challenge in any study of the effects of beliefs on outcomes, such as decisions and behavior, is the risk of omitted variables bias. Omitted variables, frequently unmeasured or even unknown, can induce correlations between beliefs and decisions that are not genuinely causal, in which case the omitted variables are referred to as confounders. To address the challenge of causal inference, researchers frequently rely on information provision experiments to randomly manipulate beliefs. Th…

Replaced article(s) found for econ.TH. https://arxiv.org/list/econ.TH/new
[1/1]:
- Public Good Provision with a Governor
Chowdhury Mohammad Sakib Anwar, Alexander Matros, Sonali SenGupta

GOP Senators agree to change a provision in the tax bill from a 10-year ban on state AI regulation to a 5-year ban with carve outs for issues such as copyrights (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20…

Hackers hit Dell product demo platform, but impact is limited https://therecord.media/hackers-hit-dell-product-demo-platform-limited-impact

Urban Green Governance: IoT-Driven Management and Enhancement of Urban Green Spaces in Campobasso
Antonio Salis, Gabriele Troina, Gianluca Boanelli, Marco Ottaviano, Paola Fortini, Soraya Versace
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.12106

Urban Green Governance: IoT-Driven Management and Enhancement of Urban Green Spaces in Campobasso
The efficient design and management of public green spaces is a key factor in promoting the health and well-being of urban population, as emphasized by the WHO, UNEP, and EEA. These areas serve as the "green lungs" of the urban ecosystem, playing a vital role in enhancing quality of life thanks to the provision of ecosystem services. In this context, the Smart Green City use case in Campobasso municipality, funded by the Italian Ministry of Enterprises (MIMIT), emerges as an innovative model fo…

Time Profile of U.S. Neighborhoods: Datasets of Time Use at Social Infrastructure Places
Yan Wang, Ziyi Guo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13295 https://arxiv.…

Time Profile of U.S. Neighborhoods: Datasets of Time Use at Social Infrastructure Places
Social infrastructure plays a critical role in shaping neighborhood well-being by fostering social and cultural interaction, enabling service provision, and encouraging exposure to diverse environments. Despite the growing knowledge of its spatial accessibility, time use at social infrastructure places is underexplored due to the lack of a spatially resolved national dataset. We address this gap by developing scalable Social-Infrastructure Time Use measures (STU) that capture length and depth o…

A provision in the recently passed Wisconsin state budget that diverts $2.2 million annually from schools to fund 12 Milwaukee County prosecutors may violate the Wisconsin Constitution.
The positions had previously been paid for with federal funding that is set to expire.
The budget act redirects all traffic fines and forfeiture revenues in Milwaukee County to the Milwaukee County District Attorney’s Office to fund 12 positions.

State Budget Shifts Money from Schools to Milwaukee Prosecutors
$2.2 million per year diverted from city schools could violate state constitution.

Collins, Murkowski vote with Democrats on striking Planned Parenthood provision from GOP megabill (Alexander Bolton/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5377830-collins-murkowski-planned-parenthood/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250630/p133#a250630p133

Optimal Fees for Liquidity Provision in Automated Market Makers
Steven Campbell, Philippe Bergault, Jason Milionis, Marcel Nutz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.08152 https://

Optimal Fees for Liquidity Provision in Automated Market Makers
Passive liquidity providers (LPs) in automated market makers (AMMs) face losses due to adverse selection (LVR), which static trading fees often fail to offset in practice. We study the key determinants of LP profitability in a dynamic reduced-form model where an AMM operates in parallel with a centralized exchange (CEX), traders route their orders optimally to the venue offering the better price, and arbitrageurs exploit price discrepancies. Using large-scale simulations and real market data, w…

Replaced article(s) found for eess.SY. https://arxiv.org/list/eess.SY/new
[1/1]:
- Probabilistic Flexibility Aggregation of DERs for Ancillary Services Provision
Matthieu Jacobs, Mario Paolone

Senate parliamentarian rejects GOP's attempt to limit courts' contempt powers (Alexander Bolton/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5363225-senate-parliamentarian-rules-out-contempt-provision/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250622/p65#a250622p65

Didi reports Q2 revenue up 10.9% YoY to ~$7.8B, overseas revenue up 28% YoY, and a ~$350M net loss, driven by a one-off ~$740M charge in a shareholder lawsuit (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/technology/didi-posts-q2-los…

QoE-Aware Service Provision for Mobile AR Rendering: An Agent-Driven Approach
Conghao Zhou, Lulu Sun, Xiucheng Wang, Peng Yang, Feng Lyu, Sihan Lu, Xuemin Shen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.08627

QoE-Aware Service Provision for Mobile AR Rendering: An Agent-Driven Approach
Mobile augmented reality (MAR) is envisioned as a key immersive application in 6G, enabling virtual content rendering aligned with the physical environment through device pose estimation. In this paper, we propose a novel agent-driven communication service provisioning approach for edge-assisted MAR, aiming to reduce communication overhead between MAR devices and the edge server while ensuring the quality of experience (QoE). First, to address the inaccessibility of MAR application-specific inf…

Transient-Stability-Aware Frequency Provision in IBR-Rich Grids via Information Gap Decision Theory and Deep Learning
Amin Masoumi, Mert Korkali
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13265

Transient-Stability-Aware Frequency Provision in IBR-Rich Grids via Information Gap Decision Theory and Deep Learning
This paper introduces a framework to address the critical loss of transient stability caused by reduced inertia in grids with high inverter-based resource (IBR) penetration. The proposed method integrates a predictive deep learning (DL) model with information gap decision theory (IGDT) to create a risk-averse dispatch strategy. By reformulating the conventional virtual inertia scheduling (VIS) problem, the framework uses early predictions of post-fault dynamics to proactively redispatch resourc…

Sen. Mike Lee is trying to shoehorn a provision into
Trump’s Tax Bill that would bring
🆘 federal public land sales for hundreds of thousands of acres.
If passed, this bill would give radicals in the Trump administration the power to declare our land “excess” 
and sell it to private developers and fossil fuel interests.
⭐️Public Lands Warriors is trying to bring attention to Mike Lee and his billionaire buddies attempts to sneak this crap into the Senate bill.

Let Congress know you OPPOSE the MAGA land grab »

Wyoming and South Dakota Age Verification Laws Could Include Huge Parts of the Internet https://www.404media.co/wyoming-and-south-dakota-age-verification-laws/

A provision within Trump’s so-called “Big Beautiful Bill,” will allocate an extra
$300 million for protecting Mar-a-Lago and other properties owned by Trump
— money that Trump could partially profit from, if history is any indicator.
The bill provides that funding in the form of reimbursements to local and state law enforcement whenever Trump travels to his properties, such as Mar-a-Lago in Florida or his Bedminster estate in New Jersey, for example.
Those local agen…

Ok #mastoadmin #selfhost #S3 aficionados. I don’t have any experience with object storage providers. I am looking to move my self-host mastodon account here from local storage on my 2007 #footimac to my account at leaseweb. Could you help me with the answers to their queries? I suggested, completely off the top of my head and without experience, i would need 1.5TB and low bandwidth. Not knowing if that makes any sense.
“ for a 1.5 TB provision with low bandwidth usage, we can provide an estimate once we have more context on access patterns, regions, and any specific requirements.”
Thanks for any help!
#askfedi #fedihelp
ping: @…

GOP Provision That Makes Trump A King Breaks Senate Rules, Says Parliamentarian (Jennifer Bendery/HuffPost)
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/gop-tax-bill-courts-bonds-trump-senate-rules_n_685806dee4b05236097fb6ac
http://www.memeorandum.com/250622/p37#a250622p37

Stability and Performance of Online Feedback Optimization for Distribution Grid Flexibility
Florian Klein-Helmkamp, Tina M\"ollemann, Irina Zettl, Andreas Ulbig
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13280

Stability and Performance of Online Feedback Optimization for Distribution Grid Flexibility
The integration of distributed energy resources (DERs) into sub-transmission systems has enabled new opportunities for flexibility provision in ancillary services such as frequency and voltage support, as well as congestion management. This paper investigates the stability and performance of Online Feedback Optimization (OFO) controllers in ensuring reliable flexibility provision. A hierarchical control architecture is proposed, emphasizing safe transitions between system states within the Feas…

Network Heterogeneity and Value of Information
Kota Murayama
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.17660 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.17660…

Network Heterogeneity and Value of Information
This paper studies how payoff heterogeneity affects the value of information in beauty contest games. I show that public information provision is detrimental to welfare if and only if agents' Katz-Bonacich centralities exhibit specific forms of heterogeneity, stemming from the network of coordination motives. A key insight is that agents may value the commonality of information so differently that some are harmed by their neighbors knowing what others know. Leveraging this insight, I also show …

Task Offloading and Resource Allocation for MEC-assisted Consumer Internet of Vehicle Systems
Yanheng Liu, Dalin Li, Hao Wu, Zemin Sun, Weihong Qin, Jun Li, Hongyang Du, Geng Sun
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.15795

Task Offloading and Resource Allocation for MEC-assisted Consumer Internet of Vehicle Systems
Mobile edge computing (MEC)-assisted internet of vehicle (IoV) is emerging as a promising paradigm to provide computing services for vehicles. However, meeting the computing-sensitive and computation-intensive demands of vehicles poses several challenges, including the discrepancy between the limited resource provision and stringent computing requirement, the difficulty in capturing and integrating the intricate features of the MEC-assisted IoV system into the problem formulation, and the need …

Educational Intervention Re-Wires Social Interactions in Isolated Village Networks
Marios Papamichalis, Laura Forastiere, Edoardo M. Airoldi, Nicholas A. Christakis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10496

Educational Intervention Re-Wires Social Interactions in Isolated Village Networks
Social networks shape behavior, disseminate information, and undergird collective action within communities. Consequently, they can be very valuable in the design of effective interventions to improve community well-being. But any exogenous intervention in networked groups, including ones that just involve the provision of information, can also possibly modify the underlying network structure itself, and some interventions are indeed designed to do so. While social networks obey certain fundame…

Federal prosecutors now charging immigrants who don’t submit fingerprints under dormant 1940s law
The Alien Registration Act requires non-citizens to register with the federal government.
That provision hadn’t been enforced in 75 years
https://www.polit…

Varying reference-point salience
Alex Krumer, Felix Otto, Tim Pawlowski
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13382 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.1…

Varying reference-point salience
The salience of reference points and expectations may significantly influence the loss aversion mechanism in effort provision. We exploit a natural experiment where highly professional and incentivized individuals perform their task in a setting with exogenous variation of reference-point salience. While a relevant reference point is salient in some cases, where it influences individuals' expectations, it is obscured in others. This enables us to examine the interplay between reference-point sa…

Republican senators,
who had been in a mad rush to see Trump’s tax and spending legislation passed by the Fourth of July,
admitted that they didn’t know what the provision was.
“If you’re asking me how it got in there, no, I don’t know,” said Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley during an interview on Tuesday.
Texas Senator John Cornyn admitted, “I don’t know anything about it. I’m not sure what it does.”
“I was so focused on Medicaid, I wasn’t looking for other reasons to…

GOP Senators Stunned by Terrible Rule in Budget Bill They Voted For
Did these senators actually read the bill?

Dynamic Non-Bayesian Persuasion
Masanori Kobayashi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.12328 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.12328

Dynamic Non-Bayesian Persuasion
We study a multi-step persuasion problem involving a Bayesian sender and a non-Bayesian receiver. When the receiver deviates from Bayesian updating, the sender may benefit from -- or be harmed by -- gradually revealing information over time. We show that under divisible updating rules (Cripps, 2018), delaying information provision does not affect the sender's ex-ante value. Focusing on the $α$--$β$ rule of Grether (1980), we derive the necessary and sufficient conditions under which the sende…

What every citizen of BC should know about the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act is that at the end, it has a section that essentially argues that *any* and *all* government information *must* be disclosed if it is in the public interest.
“Division 4 -- Public Interest Paramount”
It has just one Section:
*Information must be disclosed if in the public interest*
25 (1)Whether or not a request for access is made, the head of a public body must, without delay, disclose to the public, to an affected group of people or to an applicant, information
(a)about a risk of significant harm to the environment or to the health or safety of the public or a group of people, or
(b)the disclosure of which is, for any other reason, clearly in the public interest.
(2)Subsection (1) applies despite any other provision of this Act.
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