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DOGE Flacks Work To Ax Dozens Of Gun Regulations - Joe.My.God.
https://www.joemygod.com/2025/06/doge-flacks-work-to-ax-dozens-of-gun-regulations/

I just ran across this on LinkedIn: yet another study showing that LLMs embed and amplify human biases in the training data—this time in resume screening.
Yet this is the technology Trump, Musk, and DOGE want to use to rewrite things like HUD regulations and to replace human support agents.

Gender, race, and intersectional bias in AI resume screening via language model retrieval
Kyra Wilson and Aylin Caliskan examine gender, race, and intersectional bias in AI resume screening and suggest protective policies.

Yes, I support Trump's big, beautiful bill. Just not this one part. (Sarah Huckabee Sanders/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/06/26/state-ai-regulations-ban-obbb/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250626/p83#a250626p83

Sources: Senate Parliamentarian raised concerns that the tax bill's ban on states from enforcing AI regulations may violate Senate rules, advising a rewrite (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025…

Tesla stock jumped Friday because Trump's Department of Transportation scrapped some safety regulations that were preventing approval of Tesla's Full Self Driving.
I hope prospective buyers learn this fact and extract its key implication: "Elon admits that Tesla's Full Self Driving is unsafe and unfixable".
#Tesla

I just ran across this on LinkedIn: yet another study showing that LLMs embed and amplify human biases in the training data—this time in resume screening.
Yet this is the technology Trump, Musk, and DOGE want to use to rewrite things like HUD regulations and to replace human support agents.

Gender, race, and intersectional bias in AI resume screening via language model retrieval
Kyra Wilson and Aylin Caliskan examine gender, race, and intersectional bias in AI resume screening and suggest protective policies.

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Ontario NDP, Liberals successfully stall Bill 5 after filibustering until midnight Thursday | CBC News
Bill 5 would create so-called "special economic zones" where the government can exempt companies or projects from complying with provincial laws or regulations. It would also replace the province's endangered species act, replacing it with an new law that critics say waters down protections.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ontario-ndp-liberals-stall-bill-5-after-filibuster-1.7546691

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DOGE enters ATF with mandate to slash gun regulations - The Washington Post
https://wapo.st/44FHrsk

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Query, Don't Train: Privacy-Preserving Tabular Prediction from EHR Data via SQL Queries
Electronic health records (EHRs) contain richly structured, longitudinal data essential for predictive modeling, yet stringent privacy regulations (e.g., HIPAA, GDPR) often restrict access to individual-level records. We introduce Query, Don't Train (QDT): a structured-data foundation-model interface enabling tabular inference via LLM-generated SQL over EHRs. Instead of training on or accessing individual-level examples, QDT uses a large language model (LLM) as a schema-aware query planner to g…

Ich nutze #AI täglich, im wesentlichen für meine Arbeit. AI dafür manchmal gut genug und manchmal nicht. Und es bleibt eine Black Box.
Was mich stört, ist unter anderem, daß die besten Modelle nicht offen sind und sich in den Händen weniger Player befinden. Daher spielt die AI Gesetzesinitiative der Republikaner in den #USA

🐞 Nebraska residents call for tighter insecticide regulations after contamination event
https://www.thenewlede.org/2025/04/nebraska-residents-call-for-tighter-insecticide-regulations-after-contamination-event/…

Nebraska residents call for tighter insecticide regulations after contamination event
By Shannon Kelleher More than four years after a massive contamination event tied to pesticide-coated farm seeds rocked a rural Nebraska community, environmental and public health advocates are calling on state officials to remove regulatory exemptions for the coated seeds, and to monitor waterways for the pesticide pollutants.

EU competition chief Teresa Ribera rejects claims DMA enforcement could be traded to avoid Trump's tariffs, and urges mutual respect for each side's regulations (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Trump is upset that in the lower courts his administration has lost 96 percent of the time so far, accordingto one analysis.
The president’s apologists have asserted that this shows that the courts are biased against Trump.
In reality it is the law that is biased against actions that defy the web of statutes, regulations, rules, contracts, and case law that have long been part of our legal system.
Trump has even suggested that he may not be bound by the oath he swore on …

Trump’s stunning streak of losses in lower courts
Read more here.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #AmyLamé
Fuzzbox:
🎵 Rules And Regulations
#Fuzzbox
https://open.spotify.com/track/6VVvIL9IHjux3MiJ3ew5ZV

Exclusive: Thune urges "light touch" on AI regulations (Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/06/25/thune-ai-moratorium-big-beautiful-bill
http://www.memeorandum.com/250625/p6#a250625p6

Query, Don't Train: Privacy-Preserving Tabular Prediction from EHR Data via SQL Queries
Josefa Lia Stoisser, Marc Boubnovski Martell, Kaspar M\"artens, Lawrence Phillips, Stephen Michael Town, Rory Donovan-Maiye, Julien Fauqueur
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.21801

Query, Don't Train: Privacy-Preserving Tabular Prediction from EHR Data via SQL Queries
Electronic health records (EHRs) contain richly structured, longitudinal data essential for predictive modeling, yet stringent privacy regulations (e.g., HIPAA, GDPR) often restrict access to individual-level records. We introduce Query, Don't Train (QDT): a structured-data foundation-model interface enabling tabular inference via LLM-generated SQL over EHRs. Instead of training on or accessing individual-level examples, QDT uses a large language model (LLM) as a schema-aware query planner to g…

Choosing the Right Battery Model for Data Center Simulations
Paul Kilian, Philipp Wiesner, Odej Kao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.17739 https://

Choosing the Right Battery Model for Data Center Simulations
As demand for computing resources continues to rise, the increasing cost of electricity and anticipated regulations on carbon emissions are prompting changes in data center power systems. Many providers are now operating compute nodes in microgrids, close to renewable power generators and energy storage, to maintain full control over the cost and origin of consumed electricity. Recently, new co-simulation testbeds have emerged that integrate domain-specific simulators to support research, devel…

Companies like Amazon, Google , Microsoft, Apple are incompatible with the kind of democracies and states I like to live in. They are too large and powerful, there is no healthy market, they don't care about the law, ethics etc, it's just about power and money.
Maybe more of their services should be forbidden in Europe combined with a large investment in European companies that deliver services that can comply with our laws and regulations? 🤔

Tree-Based Text Retrieval via Hierarchical Clustering in RAGFrameworks: Application on Taiwanese Regulations
Chia-Heng Yu, Yen-Lung Tsai
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13607

Tree-Based Text Retrieval via Hierarchical Clustering in RAGFrameworks: Application on Taiwanese Regulations
Traditional Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems employ brute-force inner product search to retrieve the top-k most similar documents, then combined with the user query and passed to a language model. This allows the model to access external knowledge and reduce hallucinations. However, selecting an appropriate k value remains a significant challenge in practical applications: a small k may fail to retrieve sufficient information, while a large k can introduce excessive and irrelevant c…

“Microsoft has no magical 'get out of US surveillance law' card to play, and its sovereign private cloud is writing checks it cannot cash."
https://www.computing.co.uk/news/2025/microsoft-announces-new-sov…

Microsoft has announced new 'sovereign cloud' services - but just how sovereign can they be?
Microsoft has announced new ‘sovereign cloud’ services for Europe in response to regulations and concerns about control, security and privacy.

OH – food for thought: “They've found ways to be successful critics – emphasis on successful. They get invited to conferences, win awards, maintain influence … that success might come from never truly threatening the system.
Maybe aggressive rhetoric and a bridge-burning approach isn’t a bug but a feature. When the house is on fire, you don’t negotiate with the arsonists about fire safety regulations. You sound the alarm, loudly and repeatedly.
In a truly existential fight, w…

The South Coast Air Quality Management District will hold a public hearing Friday on two proposed regulations designed to limit key pollutants that form smog.
If adopted, the rules would phase out the sale of gas-powered furnaces and water heaters in the region.
Officials say the plan is crucial for reducing air pollution and improving public health, while opponents fear higher consumer costs.

Regulators seek to phase out gas-powered appliances in Southern California
The South Coast Air Quality Management District is poised to vote on regulations that would limit emissions of nitrogen oxides — the key pollutants that form smog.

Switzerland 🇨🇭 to ease #EV charging in apartment buildings: The Ständerat has voted in favour of the 'Unverbietbarkeit' of installing home EV charging points, which means that owner's associations cannot prohibit them.
The same applies to rental properties. This is a major step that will help more Swiss to switch.
The Bundesrat must now amend law(s) and regulations.

#DrumpfEra #EPA moves to end limits on #greenhouse gas emissions by US power plants

EPA moves to repeal limits on greenhouse gas emissions by power plants
The EPA announced proposals to significantly loosen Biden-era regulations on pollution from power plants, including mercury and carbon dioxide.

Don't guess -- check your security regulations.

Designing a Custom Chaos Engineering Framework for Enhanced System Resilience at Softtech
Ethem Utku Aktas, Burak Tuzlutas, Burak Yesiltas
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14281

Designing a Custom Chaos Engineering Framework for Enhanced System Resilience at Softtech
Chaos Engineering is a discipline which enhances software resilience by introducing faults to observe and improve system behavior intentionally. This paper presents a design proposal for a customized Chaos Engineering framework tailored for Softtech, a leading software development company serving the financial sector. It outlines foundational concepts and activities for introducing Chaos Engineering within Softtech, while considering financial sector regulations. Building on these principles, t…

Between Regulation and Accessibility: How Chinese University Students Navigate Global and Domestic Generative AI
Qin Xie, Ming Li, Fei Cheng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14377

Between Regulation and Accessibility: How Chinese University Students Navigate Global and Domestic Generative AI
Despite the rapid proliferation of generative AI in higher education, students in China face significant barriers in accessing global tools like ChatGPT due to regulations and constraints. Grounded in the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology 2 (UTAUT2) model, this study employs qualitative interviews to investigate how Chinese university students interact with both global and domestic generative AIs in the learning process. Findings reveal that engagement is shaped by accessibilit…

Which part of the Oath of Enlistment do you think Marines in LA will uphold?
"I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; and that I will obey the orders of the President of the United States and the orders of the officers appointed over me, according to regulations and the Uniform Code of Military Justice. So help me God."

Fatigue - Übermüdung bei Seeleuten nimmt zu. Das bestätigt auch eine Studie der Uni Cardiff.
Schon die erlaubte Arbeitszeit von bis zu 90 Stunden pro Woche führt zu Übermüdung.
Diese Zeiten werden teils noch überschritten
https://splash247.com/fatigue-among-se

Fatigue among seafarers on the rise
Work-related fatigue among cargo ship crews is growing worse, despite international regulations and onboard monitoring aimed at ensuring sufficient rest for seafarers, according to a new study from Ca

Exploring the Effectiveness of Deep Features from Domain-Specific Foundation Models in Retinal Image Synthesis
Zuzanna Skorniewska, Bartlomiej W. Papiez
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11753

Exploring the Effectiveness of Deep Features from Domain-Specific Foundation Models in Retinal Image Synthesis
The adoption of neural network models in medical imaging has been constrained by strict privacy regulations, limited data availability, high acquisition costs, and demographic biases. Deep generative models offer a promising solution by generating synthetic data that bypasses privacy concerns and addresses fairness by producing samples for under-represented groups. However, unlike natural images, medical imaging requires validation not only for fidelity (e.g., Fréchet Inception Score) but also…

Last boost: I like — or at least appreciate — regulation, and that's why I initially resisted using rideshare apps or other similar services. And I'd say that all the information that's come out about those companies since they launched has only shown that regulations are, overall, a net benefit for a working society.

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Compliance-to-Code: Enhancing Financial Compliance Checking via Code Generation
Nowadays, regulatory compliance has become a cornerstone of corporate governance, ensuring adherence to systematic legal frameworks. At its core, financial regulations often comprise highly intricate provisions, layered logical structures, and numerous exceptions, which inevitably result in labor-intensive or comprehension challenges. To mitigate this, recent Regulatory Technology (RegTech) and Large Language Models (LLMs) have gained significant attention in automating the conversion of regula…

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Spatial Network Calculus: Toward Deterministic Wireless Networking
This paper extends the classical network calculus to spatial scenarios, focusing on wireless networks with differentiated services and varying transmit power levels. Building on a spatial network calculus, a prior extension of network calculus to spatial settings, we propose a generalized framework by introducing regulations for stationary marked point processes. The regulations correspond to two key constraints: the total transmit power of all transmitters within a spatial region and the cumul…

"Fixer les prix des livres au détail est une politique commune en Europe, mais comment la prévention de la concurrence affecte-t-elle les libraires et les acheteurs ? Christos Genakos, Lorien Sabatino et Tommaso Valletti constatent que lorsque la possibilité d'offrir des prix plus bas aux clients est limitée, les vendeurs se tournent vers la concurrence sur le service Š la clientèle et la variété des livres - améliorant ainsi l'expérience des acheteurs."

Remember, Trump’s DoE is trying to roll back accessibility requirements for buildings (Section 504).
@… wrote about this and her 9 June update links to a newer comment template:
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New Attempt to Roll Back Accessibility Requirements - Comments Needed
For over forty years the United States has had regulations that say new buildings must be accessible to people with disabilities if the building is built by an organization that receives federal funds. Now the trump administration is taking the first steps to undo this long history of access in the

Chatbots in Check: Utah’s Latest AI Legislation
https://fpf.org/blog/chatbots-in-check-utahs-latest-ai-legislation/
@…

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.

#Drumpf admin announces "temporary" closure of 60,000 acres of #BlackRock desert in #Nevada around area where #BurningMan takes place…

Black Rock Field Office | Bureau of Land Management
Contact your local field office for questions related to permits, regulations, access, and ways you can get involved. The Black Rock Field Office, a sub-part of the Winnemucca District Office, carries out the local operations of land management. In most cases, these local offices will provide the best information about how we manage your public lands.

Researchers have discovered a breakthrough link between
organ failure and long Covid
after overcoming contentious Covid-era autopsy regulations
and one of the medical profession’s most high-profile legal disputes.
https://archive.md/TrZ32

Sources: Peter Thiel-backed crypto exchange Bullish has confidentially filed for a US IPO amid surging demand for digital assets under the Trump administration (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/1f0442f9-48f5-4fe3-890b-9acbb7057d2f

Peter Thiel-backed crypto group Bullish files for Wall Street IPO
Group seeking to tap a wave of enthusiasm for digital assets as Trump vows to cut regulations

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RIVCoin: an alternative, integrated, CeFi/DeFi-Vaulted Cryptocurrency
This whitepaper introduces RIVCoin, a cryptocurrency built on Cosmos, fully stabilized by a diversified portfolio of both CeFi and DeFi assets, available in a digital, non-custodial wallet called RIV Wallet, that aims to provide Users an easy way to access the cryptocurrency markets, compliant to the strictest AML laws and regulations up to date. The token is a cryptocurrency at any time stabilized by a basket of assets: reserves are invested in a portfolio composed long term by 50% of CeFi ass…

Industrial Flexibility Investment Under Uncertainty: A Multi-Stage Stochastic Framework Considering Energy and Reserve Market Participation
Amund Norland, Lasse Skare, Ole Jakob Viken, Stian Backe
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08638

Industrial Flexibility Investment Under Uncertainty: A Multi-Stage Stochastic Framework Considering Energy and Reserve Market Participation
The global energy transition toward net-zero emissions by 2050 is expected to increase the share of variable renewable energy sources (VRES) in the energy mix. As a result, industrial actors will encounter more complex market conditions, characterized by volatile electricity prices, rising carbon costs, and stricter regulations. This situation calls for the industry to capitalize on opportunities in both spot-price arbitrage and reserve market participation, while also meeting future regulatory…

Vector fields as a framework for modelling the mobility of commodities
Sima Farokhnejad, Ang\'elica S. da Mata, Mariana Macedo, Ronaldo Menezes
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02047

Vector fields as a framework for modelling the mobility of commodities
Commodities, including livestock, flow through trade networks globally, with trajectories that can be effectively captured using mobility pattern modelling approaches similar to those used in human mobility studies. However, documenting these movements comprehensively presents significant challenges; it can be unrealistic, costly, and may conflict with data protection regulations. As a result, mobility datasets typically contain uncertainties due to sparsity and limitations in data collection. …

Novel Benchmark for NER in the Wastewater and Stormwater Domain
Franco Alberto Cardillo, Franca Debole, Francesca Frontini, Mitra Aelami, Nan\'ee Chahinian, Serge Conrad
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01938

Novel Benchmark for NER in the Wastewater and Stormwater Domain
Effective wastewater and stormwater management is essential for urban sustainability and environmental protection. Extracting structured knowledge from reports and regulations is challenging due to domainspecific terminology and multilingual contexts. This work focuses on domain-specific Named Entity Recognition (NER) as a first step towards effective relation and information extraction to support decision making. A multilingual benchmark is crucial for evaluating these methods. This study deve…

Explainable AI Systems Must Be Contestable: Here's How to Make It Happen
Catarina Moreira, Anna Palatkina, Dacia Braca, Dylan M. Walsh, Peter J. Leihn, Fang Chen, Nina C. Hubig
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01662

Explainable AI Systems Must Be Contestable: Here's How to Make It Happen
As AI regulations around the world intensify their focus on system safety, contestability has become a mandatory, yet ill-defined, safeguard. In XAI, "contestability" remains an empty promise: no formal definition exists, no algorithm guarantees it, and practitioners lack concrete guidance to satisfy regulatory requirements. Grounded in a systematic literature review, this paper presents the first rigorous formal definition of contestability in explainable AI, directly aligned with stakeholder …

Common Corpus: The Largest Collection of Ethical Data for LLM Pre-Training
Pierre-Carl Langlais, Carlos Rosas Hinostroza, Mattia Nee, Catherine Arnett, Pavel Chizhov, Eliot Krzystof Jones, Ir\`ene Girard, David Mach, Anastasia Stasenko, Ivan P. Yamshchikov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01732

Common Corpus: The Largest Collection of Ethical Data for LLM Pre-Training
Large Language Models (LLMs) are pre-trained on large amounts of data from different sources and domains. These data most often contain trillions of tokens with large portions of copyrighted or proprietary content, which hinders the usage of such models under AI legislation. This raises the need for truly open pre-training data that is compliant with the data security regulations. In this paper, we introduce Common Corpus, the largest open dataset for language model pre-training. The data assem…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.05393 has been replaced.
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RIVCoin: an alternative, integrated, CeFi/DeFi-Vaulted Cryptocurrency
This whitepaper introduces RIVCoin, a cryptocurrency built on Cosmos, fully stabilized by a diversified portfolio of both CeFi and DeFi assets, available in a digital, non-custodial wallet called RIV Wallet, that aims to provide Users an easy way to access the cryptocurrency markets, compliant to the strictest AML laws and regulations up to date. The token is a cryptocurrency at any time stabilized by a basket of assets: reserves are invested in a portfolio composed long term by 50% of CeFi ass…