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The Rehearsal State: When Governance Becomes Performance
There is a scene in every disaster movie where the official steps to the podium, adjusts the microphone, and assures the public that resources are being mobilized, plans are being activated, and the full weight of the institution is being brought to bear. The audience in the theater knows the official is lying or incompetent or both. The audience at home, watching the real version of the same press conference…

The Rehearsal State: When Governance Becomes Performance | David Boles, Blogs
There is a scene in every disaster movie where the official steps to the podium, adjusts the microphone, and assures the public that resources are being mobilized, plans are being activated, and th…

ByteDance's Seedance 2.0 AI model is held back by limited compute resources that create a bottleneck, forcing users to wait hours to generate a single video (Zeyi Yang/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/made-in-china-bytedances-…

ByteDance’s AI Ambitions Are Being Hampered by Compute Restraints and Copyright Concerns
ByteDance’s new Seedance 2.0 AI video model seemed unstoppable—until heavy demand strained the company’s compute capacity and copyright complaints began piling up.

Ukraine to provide US with 'necessary resources' to counter Iranian drones, Zelensky says: https://benborges.xyz/2026/03/05/ukraine-to-provide-us-with.html

For over 25 years,
Valerie Olson has worked tirelessly to protect the treasured sensitive habitats, scenic beauty, and recreational resources of More Mesa from harmful development.
As President of the More Mesa Preservation Coalition, a long-time client of EDC,
Valerie has monitored pending development threats, lobbied Santa Barbara County Supervisors, and encouraged the County Planning and Development Department and Coastal Commission to fulfill their obligations to prote…

The exact cause of the outage remains unclear, but several Russian media outlets, including Forbes Russia, initially suggested it could be linked to government attempts to block internet resources, specifically the blocking of IP addresses used in banking infrastructure.
https://therecord.media/outage-hits-ru

Major outage hits Russian banking apps, metro payments across regions
The disruption on Friday affected apps from some of the country’s largest banks, including Sberbank, VTB, Alfa-Bank, T-Bank and Gazprombank.

Explosive Misinformation: A Guide to Mushroom Clouds, ‘Sonic Weapons’ and Disintegration - bellingcat https://www.bellingcat.com/resources/2026/03/30/explosive-misinformation-a-guide-to-mushroom-clouds-sonic-weap…

Explosive Misinformation: A Guide to Mushroom Clouds, ‘Sonic Weapons’ and Disintegration - bellingcat
Explosives test in Canada. Source: Defence Research and Development Canada.

Helping in defense against attacks from Iran should be the maximum that Europe does, no involvement in any actions against Iran, on or above it's territory or anything like that. We need maximum resources for security on our own continent and for the war against Russia. It would be typical Trump to first destroy Iran and then ask Europe to clean up his mess...
#iran

If you don’t have the resources to write and understand the code yourself, you don’t have the resources to maintain it either.
Any monkey with a keyboard can write code. Writing code has never been hard. People were churning out crappy code en masse way before generative AI and LLMs. I know because I’ve seen it, I’ve had to work with it, and I no doubt wrote (and continue to write) my share of it.
What’s never been easy, and what remains difficult, is figuring out the right probl…

A new monthly Libraries ACT newsletter. Each edition will bring a curated snapshot of what’s happening across our libraries, from upcoming events and programs to new collections, digital resources, behind the scenes stories, and much more.
https://comms.accesscanberra.act.gov.a

Libraries ACT Monthly Newsletter 2
Libraries ACT Monthly Newsletter 2

Short-term survival of #tardigrades (Ramazzottius cf. varieornatus and Hypsibius exemplaris) in #martian #regolith simulants (MGS-1 and OUCM-1): https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/international-journal-of-astrobiology/article/shortterm-survival-of-tardigrades-ramazzottius-cf-varieornatus-and-hypsibius-exemplaris-in-martian-regolith-simulants-mgs1-and-oucm1/8A91986096FB533FB264DD056F549DF2 -> ‘Water bears’ reveal potential for adapting, protecting Martian resources: https://www.psu.edu/news/research/story/water-bears-reveal-potential-adapting-protecting-martian-resources - microscopic tardigrades help inform how simulated Martian soil might support plant life and mitigate contaminants shedding from human explorers, researchers report -> Scientists Finally Found Something Tardigrades Can’t Survive: https://gizmodo.com/scientists-finally-found-something-tardigrades-cant-survive-2000728358 - tardigrades are practically invincible on Earth, so scientists looked to outer space in search of their kryptonite.

Ranking every NFL team by salary cap space and draft capital ahead of free agency https://www.nfl.com/news/2026-ranking-every-nfl-team-by-salary-cap-space-and-draft-capital-ahead-of-free-agency

SAP is perhaps the antithesis of flexibility, which is why it is often used in complex administrative systems, such as those found in many energy companies. So it's good news that there is now a module available to link Enode's flexibility engine, which works with a wide range of consumer devices.

Enode x SAP: SAP has chosen Enode to enable residential flexibility within SAP Distributed Energy Resources | Enode
Energy retailers are moving from experimentation to long-term decisions about residential flexibility. Today, flexibility needs to operate as part of day-to-day business, not as a side initiative. SAP sees that shift clearly. That’s why SAP has chosen Enode to enable SAP Distributed Energy Resources, a solution supporting residential distributed energy resource (DER) flexibility within SAP environments. The partnership brings Enode’s full product capabilities into the SAP ecosystem, allow…

"Mantello characterized Flock opposition as anti-police ... declared a state of emergency allowing her to mobilize whatever city resources are needed to continue paying Flock for use of its technology .... "
Small-town yokel mayors know that 2% of the entire electorate showing to protest something (not just to vote, but physically showing up out in the street) is "a small but highly vocal group [...] much of it rooted in intimidation tactics and misinformation"

When you have the ambition and the money, but you lack the natural resources to use them on.
#Poniec, near Gostyń, Poland.

Steve Dublanica, “Waiter Rant: Thanks for the Tip—Confessions of a Cynical Waiter”. https://mastodon.social/@michelestrider/116519464040867905

GÉANT selected as candidate Node in the EOSC Federation 🎉
As one of the pan-European e-infrastructure Nodes, GÉANT will help scale up Europe's open science ecosystem, providing trusted access, secure data exchange and high-performance connectivity for researchers across borders.
🔗 Read more: htt…

I just recovered the project information of the atusb IEEE 802.15.4 USB adapter since qi-hardware is now defunct. The page and all other resources/binaries/... (full backup) now live at https://people.osmocom.org/werner/wpan/web/ and a git repo with compiling tools can be found at

A New Explanation for Tariffs and Bombings.
Our Finite World | Exploring how oil limits affect the economy
https://ourfiniteworld.com/

Our Finite World
Resources per capita have fallen too low in key areas, including diesel fuel and critical minerals needed for electrification. Leads to conflict & tariffs.

I’m glad the Wisconsin Bike Fed is getting in front of the ebike issue.
#bikeTooter

E-bike Resources - Wisconsin Bike Fed
Electric bicycles (e-bikes) are transforming how people move, offering accessible, low-emission transportation and recreation.

North Korea-linked hackers stole ~$577M across the Drift Protocol and KelpDAO hacks in April, accounting for 76% of total crypto hack losses so far in 2026 (TRM Insights)
https://www.trmlabs.com/resources/blog/north-korea-sto…

North Korea Stole 76% of All Crypto Hack Value in 2026 — With Just Two Attacks | TRM Blog
North Korea stole USD 577M in just two crypto hacks in 2026 — Drift Protocol and KelpDAO — accounting for 76% of all hack losses through April.

november17: November17 members (2009)
A network representing connections among members of the November 17 (N17) Greek terrorist group. Nodes are members, and an edge exists if two members have some connection in the past. Metadata include role, function, resources. Some attributes are missing.
This network has 22 nodes and 66 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Metadata

Donald Trump said this past weekend he wants to “take the oil in Iran”
by seizing control of a key export hub,
echoing a refrain he has returned to for over a decade.
It’s a sign of his disregard for international law -- and belief in “fossil-fuel imperialism”, experts say.
“Trump truly believes that the US is entitled to whatever resource it so desires,”
said Patrick Bigger, co-director of the Transition Security Project, a research initiative focused on the cli…

Wildfires accelerate winter snowmelt in Oregon's western Cascades, study finds #Oregon

Wildfires accelerate winter snowmelt in Oregon's western Cascades, study finds
The Pacific Northwest has seen below-normal snow this season—and new research from Portland State University suggests that the region's snowmelt-dependent water resources could face growing challenges in the years ahead as forest fires and winter rainstorms become more frequent.

LECTURE> Janet Gyatso on “Being With Animal Kin: Buddhist Resources for a Posthuman Ethics” - Tue Mar 3, 4-5:30 PT https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20142905/janet-gyatso-being-animal-kin-buddhist-resourc…

Why the Raiders' Resources Will Come in Handy This Offseason https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-why-resources-will-come-in-handy-this-offseason

After 17 years of many manuscripts cleaned submitted to #arxiv, I finally automated and wrote down the process, see: https://github.com/NERDSITU/research-resources/blob/main/a…

On that topic, see my text in the “Software in Context” section at the bottom of this reading assignment from one of the courses I teach:
“Generating code is the easiest part of software development.”
https://comp127.macalester.digital/f25/resources/classes_objects_state_behavior/

from my link log —
UKI: unified kernel images for booting Linux from UEFI.
https://uapi-group.org/specifications/specs/unified_kernel_image/
saved 2026-02-28

Paramount says there are "no plans to divest or spin off a package of cable assets at this time", after merging with Warner Bros. Discovery for $110B (Lucas Manfredi/The Wrap)
https://www.thewrap.com/industry-news/busine…

Paramount Will Combine HBO Max and Paramount+, Won't Sell or Spin Off Cable Assets
CEO David Ellison added that HBO would continue tohave "the resources and independence to do what it does best"

In the rush to pursue #digitalsovereignty , there must be a temptation to consider whatever isn't foreign-owned and -controlled to be sovereign. But sovereignty is only real if it supports the foundational values of the nation; Canadian digital resources that erode charter rights or democratic principles must be considered anti-sovereignty.

Pinterest reports Q1 revenue up 18% YoY to $1B, vs. $966M est., MAUs up 11% YoY to 631M, and forecasts Q2 revenue above estimates; PINS jumps 17% after hours (Jonathan Vanian/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/04/pinterest-pins-q1-earnings-report-2026.html…

Pinterest surges 17% after earnings beat as company posts strong guidance
Pinterest cut nearly 15% of the company's workforce and reduced office space in January as it pushes more resources into AI.

🤑 Would you take the bigger share? Study shows people can learn to say no
#behavior

Would you take the bigger share? Study shows people can learn to say no
A new study co-authored by McGill University researchers suggests people can be taught to reject unfair advantages. "We often benefit personally from an unequal distribution of resources, a phenomenon known as advantageous inequity—for example, receiving a higher salary than a colleague with the identical role," said senior author Ross Otto, a psychology professor. "Here we ask whether people can learn to punish advantageous inequity merely by observing the inequity-averse preferences of anot…

Statement in Response to DOJ Demand to Drop Ballroom Lawsuit (Carol Quillen/@SavingPlaces)
https://savingplaces.org/press-center/media-resources/statement-from-nationaltrust-4-27-2026
http://www.memeorandum.com/260427/p92#a260427p92

"H&M Foundation launches open-source toolkit to cut textiles emissions"
#Clothes #Fashion #Emissions

H&M Foundation launches open-source toolkit to cut textiles emissions
Philanthropic entity the H&M Foundation has launched a new open-access set of resources helping businesses across the textiles and fashion industry to identify and enact opportunities to cut emissions.

Closed-Loop Integrated Sensing, Communication, and Control for Efficient Drone Flight
Jingli Li, Yiyan Ma, Bo Ai, Wei Chen, Weijie Yuan, Qingqing Cheng, Tongyang Xu, Guoyu Ma, Mi Yang, Yunlong Lu, Wenwei Yue, Christos Masouros, Zhangdui Zhong
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.29220 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2603.29220 https://arxiv.org/html/2603.29220
arXiv:2603.29220v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Low-altitude wireless networks (LAWN) require drones to follow specific trajectories controlled by ground base stations (GBSs). However, given complex low-altitude channel conditions and limited spectrum and power resources, sensing errors and wireless link unreliability cannot be ignored, leading to trajectory deviations that threaten flight safety. To address this issue, this paper proposes an integrated sensing-communication-control (ISCC) closed-loop trajectory tracking approach, aiming to reveal the coupling mechanisms among communication, sensing, and control during drone flight. In detail, we incorporate sensing errors in trajectory state estimation, packet losses in control command transmission, and finite blocklength transmission effects into the closed-loop dynamics. First, through theoretical analysis, we identify the dominant role of the time-frequency resources allocated to control in ensuring system stability and derive a lower bound on the resources required to guarantee stable operation. Second, to minimize tracking error, we formulate a time-frequency resource allocation optimization problem for the sensing, communication, and control components, subject to constraints on communication rate and closed-loop stability. Accordingly, a solution algorithm based on successive convex approximation is proposed. Third, simulation results indicate that once stability is ensured, system performance is primarily determined by sensing accuracy, with the trajectory tracking error exhibiting an approximately linear dependence on the position error bound. Finally, it is shown that the proposed ISCC scheme avoids trajectory divergence under FBL transmission compared with ISCC designs ignoring control packet loss, and could achieve decimeter-level average tracking accuracy, reducing the error to only 17.37% of that observed in the baseline global navigation satellite system scheme.
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3am on a public holiday is a good time for posting bug reproducers...
https://github.com/kube-rs/envtest/issues/58

listing resources often gets 429 "storage is (re)initializing" errors in envtest · Issue #58 · kube-rs/envtest
Just for tracking/understading, here are the rough details now; I'll add a reproducer later. I have a controller with a reconciler operating on CRDs from Envoy Gateway and Kubernetes Gateway. Rust ...

"They literally told them, 'Get what you can get in the backpack. You've got to go,'" he said.
"They came with no uniforms, nothing. The three we met first, they came with the clothes on their back, what they could fit in that backpack."
The Navy has provided services including "crisis counseling, financial and legal assistance, relocation support, educational resources, coordination for child and youth programs,"
according to Lt. Cm…

In case you missed it: our April newsletter. Evolution and experimentation! 🦠🔬
https://support.getgrist.com/newsletters/2026-04/

LinkedIn Is Scanning Your Browser Extensions. This Is How They Use the Data.
https://404privacy.com/blog/linkedin-is-scanning-your-browser-extensions-this-is-how-they-use-the-data/

LinkedIn Is Scanning Your Browser Extensions. This Is How They Use the Data. — 404
When companies get caught doing this sort of thing, the response is almost always the same: "we're using this technology to combat fraud," or "ensure positive user experience," or "save computing resources," or some other hog wash. The simple truth, there's no reason to be collecting data that can be used to identify a user across the web if they're not signed in to your service. The harm of companies like Experian or LinkedIn being able to correlate all of your web traffic back to you is not

The war in Iran is threatening the global supply of helium, an essential component in cooling chip-making tools.
https://www.computing.co.uk/news/2026/chips-components/iran-war-chokes…

Iran war chokes helium supply, tying up even more AI resources
The war in Iran is threatening the global supply of helium, an essential component in cooling chip-making tools.

"Marking Gender: A Critical Analysis of Gender Representation in Library of Congress Subject Headings"
https://doi.org/10.5860/lrts.70n2.8680
"Although the problem of bias, prejudice, and marginalization has long been a subject of critical reflection and inquiry in library knowl…

On Building a New Efficient Home in the South of England (2017) - Where to start, what to remember, and useful resources. Save your wallet, warm toes, and the planet! #greenBuilding #lowCarbon #frugal

On Building a New Efficient Home in the South of England (2017)
Where to start, what to remember, and useful resources. Save your wallet, warm toes, and the planet! #greenBuilding #lowCarbon #frugal

The Purpose of Protocols
https://connectedplaces.online/the-purpose-of-protocols/

The Purpose of Protocols
Every open social protocol generates shared resources, but none has produced a governance framework adequate to those resources. So who fills that vacuum?

LECTURE> Janet Gyatso on “Being With Animal Kin: Buddhist Resources for a Posthuman Ethics” - Tue Mar 3, 4-5:30 PT https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20142905/janet-gyatso-being-animal-kin-buddhist-resourc…

Gemeinsam mit vielen anderen habe ich den Offenen Brief von @… gegen die "Chat-Kontrolle 1.0" an das Europäische Parliament unterschrieben.
Auch in der #ePrivacy Verordnung darf die Überwachung der Messenger nicht umgesetzt werden.

Kind of a dud article, given it promises mid than it delivers about the actual spawning process, but it contains an amazing fact:
Apparently Sigmund Freud did an unsuccessful stint as a marine biologist and was tasked with dissecting 400 male eels to try to find their reproductive organs, which he couldn't because despite being adults they aren't sexually mature until they migrate to their spawning grounds.
I feel like this explains a LOT about Freud's theories' focus on sexual organs (especially of the eel-shaped variety), in light of... Freud's theories.
https://fediscience.org/@tksst/116119712700119977
Link to source linked by article on the Freud factoid:
https://www.freud.org.uk/schools/resources/freud-the-physician/the-young-anatomist/

Gee, I wonder who we can blame for this?
The US auto industry is capable of building decent EVs. We have plenty of examples, some of which have been withdrawn from the market.
Most of us here in the US who drive EV's haven't been affected much (directly) by the Iran war increase in gasoline prices. But everyone with a gas/diesel motor is affected. And it appears that the US Congress and the trumpies are celebrating our dependence, our wasted resources, and our inability…

Space Force guardians provided critical support during high-profile U.S. military operations in Iran and Venezuela
— experience that underscores the need for additional resources to prepare the service for future conflicts,
a senior official told DefenseScoop in an exclusive interview Friday.
Operation Midnight Hammer and Operation Absolute Resolve were carried out by the joint force in June 2025 and January 2026, respectively.
Pentagon leadership have touted the rai…

EXCLUSIVE: Space Force’s role in Iran, Venezuela raids fueling push for more resources
Space Force guardians provided critical support during high-profile U.S. military operations in Iran and Venezuela — experience that underscores the need for additional resources to prepare the service for future conflicts, a senior official told DefenseScoop in an exclusive interview.

Progress in #Firefox for #JpegXL: While the latest nightly for Android still needs image.jxl.enabled=true in about:config, it now renders
https://

JPEG XL Test Page – JPEG XL
Try if your browser supports JPEG XL images.

The State of #Java on #Kubernetes 2026: Why Defaults are Killing Your #Performance

EarlySciRev: A Dataset of Early-Stage Scientific Revisions Extracted from LaTeX Writing Traces
L\'eane Jourdan, Julien Aubert-B\'educhaud, Yannis Chupin, Marah Baccari, Florian Boudin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.28515 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2603.28515 https://arxiv.org/html/2603.28515
arXiv:2603.28515v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Scientific writing is an iterative process that generates rich revision traces, yet publicly available resources typically expose only final or near-final versions of papers. This limits empirical study of revision behaviour and evaluation of large language models (LLMs) for scientific writing. We introduce EarlySciRev, a dataset of early-stage scientific text revisions automatically extracted from arXiv LaTeX source files. Our key observation is that commented-out text in LaTeX often preserves discarded or alternative formulations written by the authors themselves. By aligning commented segments with nearby final text, we extract paragraph-level candidate revision pairs and apply LLM-based filtering to retain genuine revisions. Starting from 1.28M candidate pairs, our pipeline yields 578k validated revision pairs, grounded in authentic early drafting traces. We additionally provide a human-annotated benchmark for revision detection. EarlySciRev complements existing resources focused on late-stage revisions or synthetic rewrites and supports research on scientific writing dynamics, revision modelling, and LLM-assisted editing.
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Two big threat intel firms released their annual reports this morning: Palo Alto Networks and Dragos.
One Palo Alto finding that jumps out: nearly half (48%) of their observed intrusions in 2025 involved browser-based activity.
https://www.paloaltonetworks.com/resources

2026 Unit 42 Global Incident Response Report
Read the 2026 Unit 42 Global Incident Response report to discover attacker tactics and get real-world insights and expert recommendations to safeguard your business.

A hierarchy of spatial predictions across human visual cortex during natural vision #neuroscience

I actually think that governments should be acting to allow copper lines to be replaced, but just the language choice of "divert precious resources to the maintenance of deteriorating legacy networks" screams regulatory capture.
https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/30/fcc

FCC says it's making it easier for US telcos to ditch legacy lines
: But critics say stopping some engineering tests is not the sort of corner you want to cut

LECTURE> Janet Gyatso on “Being With Animal Kin: Buddhist Resources for a Posthuman Ethics” - Tue Mar 3, 4-5:30 PT https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20142905/janet-gyatso-being-animal-kin-buddhist-resourc…

Working on extending features for Warlock, and this round of features requires a backend web service running in a centralized, controlled environment due to the requirement of privileged access to partner network resources, (aka, they require an API key and prior authorization to access certain data, thus cannot be distributed in an open source project).
SO, since this is a traditional web service, I opted to use the traditional technologies to power it, but wanted to try out Symfony s…

Yale Divinity School contributes powerfully to the nation’s strength and the common good. We do this through the religiously trained leaders we send into churches and communities across America, through the direct provision of educational resources to lay leaders and lifelong learners, and through the creation of deeper knowledge of God and the application of theology to the pressing issues of our day.
Learn more at our newly published impact report.

Explore NutritionFacts.org Resources #nutrition

Explore NutritionFacts.org Resources | NutritionFacts.org

The #Medieval Genealogy is one of the most useful portals to Medieval historical resources. Now with its 114th update. https://www.medievalgenealogy.org.uk/updates/update.shtml…

Noem's use of Coast Guard resources strains her relationship with the military branch, sources say (NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/noems-use-coast-guard-resources-strains-relationship-military-branch-s-rcna258904
http://www.memeorandum.com/260217/p17#a260217p17

There are international and national issues to follow, but there are always local ones too. Here in MN, the legislative fight over mining in the Boundary Waters is a big deal. It feels like salt in the wound to threaten the crown jewel of MN’s outdoor resources while also messing everything else up. #nokings

The other day, my friend shared this video on consulting collectives, which is when "a small group of independent consultants or freelancers share clients, resources, and revenue on specific projects while maintaining their independence on others" :
https://www.instagram.com/p/DUDtOqGkTmY/…

JANEL ABRAHAMI | Career Advice for the Future of Work on Instagram: "Are you already doing this? How does it work for you? ⚡️ Consulting Collective (noun): when a small group of independent consultants or freelancers share clients, resources, and revenue on specific projects while maintaining their independence on others. Like the Avengers, but for client work. The solo consultant life is lonely and limiting, because you can only take on so much work, you have no backup when you’re sick or on vacation, and big clients often want teams, not individuals. But going back to a traditional agency or corporate job means giving up your autonomy + flexibility. So, consulting collectives are the clever middle ground no one’s talking about. Here’s how they actually work. @freelancingfemales @dreamersdoers @linkedinnews @entrepreneur @entreprenistas"
55K likes, 1,355 comments - janelabrahami on January 28, 2026: "Are you already doing this? How does it work for you? ⚡️ Consulting Collective (noun): when a small group of independent consultants or freelancers share clients, resources, and revenue on specific projects while maintaining their independence on others. Like the Avengers, but for client work. The solo consultant life is lonely and limiting, because you can only take on so much work, you have no backup when you’re sick or o…

New Mexico's Meta lawsuit: some police officers testify that Meta's AI is sending a flood of "junk" CSAM reports that are draining resources and slowing cases (Katie McQue/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/feb/25/…

Why the Raiders' Resources Will Come in Handy This Offseason https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-teams-have-major-issue-with-maxx-crosby-stance

Trump administration no longer has enough lawyers left to do its dirty work.
Whoever hasn’t been purged for not being loyal enough or exited ahead of the purges has been asked to clean up a mess with extremely limited amounts of resources and manpower.
To make things worse, Trump’s handpicked prosecutors keep being kicked out of court because Trump bypassed the appointment process essential to them remaining employed.
Then there’s the self-inflicted reputational damage Tr…

#Python is just doing great. We're not having impossible constraints, as some projects need old #setuptools for pkg_resources, and other projects are starting to require newer setuptools for some fancy new features. And ofc after promising to release pkg_resources standalone over a month ago, setuptools upstream didn't deliver.
#Gentoo

Kristi Noem is a monster...
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/noems-use-coast-guard-resources-strains-relationship-military-branch-s-rcna258904

"Wildfire-friendly weather nearly triples: Will outbreaks leave countries scrambling for resources?"
#Wildfires #Environment #Weather

Wildfires increasingly likely in several countries at once
The risk of synchronous wildfires is rising - and help won't be as likely to come from neighbouring countries busy with their own flames.

LECTURE> Janet Gyatso on “Being With Animal Kin: Buddhist Resources for a Posthuman Ethics” - Tue Mar 3, 4-5:30 PT
https://ift.tt/ZL3eBsI
H-Net Job Guide Weekly Report for H-NC: 15 February - 22 February H-Net Job Guide 02/25/2026 -…
via Input 4 RELCFP

How some independent tech reporters are using AI, which they say allows them to do more reporting and recreate newsroom resources like editors and fact-checkers (Maxwell Zeff/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/tech-reporters-using-ai-write-edit-stories/

Meet the Tech Reporters Using AI to Help Write and Edit Their Stories
Independent writers are using AI agents all throughout their reporting process. What’s the value of a human journalist, anyway?

I mean... how about always removing ads?
They waste my precious time.
"This ad used too many resources for your device, so Chrome removed it."

november17: November17 members (2009)
A network representing connections among members of the November 17 (N17) Greek terrorist group. Nodes are members, and an edge exists if two members have some connection in the past. Metadata include role, function, resources. Some attributes are missing.
This network has 22 nodes and 66 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Metadata

Why the Raiders' Resources Will Come in Handy This Offseason https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-look-have-interest-in-1-elite-free-agent

Working on extending features for Warlock, and this round of features requires a backend web service running in a centralized, controlled environment due to the requirement of privileged access to partner network resources, (aka, they require an API key and prior authorization to access certain data, thus cannot be distributed in an open source project).
SO, since this is a traditional web service, I opted to use the traditional technologies to power it, but wanted to try out Symfony s…

'New' consumer energy resources like EVs, heat pumps, batteries can help support the local grid - if we allow them to.
Lowering minimum bid sizes, allowing aggregation and using standard platforms increases participation. The more participating network users – including consumers – the more liquid the market, and the more effective the deployment can be at lower costs.
#Flexibility

Replaced article(s) found for cs.CL. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.CL/new
[3/5]:
- Can Small Language Models Handle Context-Summarized Multi-Turn Customer-Service QA? A Synthetic D...
Lakshan Cooray, Deshan Sumanathilaka, Pattigadapa Venkatesh Raju
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.00665 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_bot/116006686092324902
- SEAD: Self-Evolving Agent for Multi-Turn Service Dialogue
Dai, Gao, Zhang, Wang, Luo, Wang, Wang, Wu, Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.03548
- OmniRAG-Agent: Agentic Omnimodal Reasoning for Low-Resource Long Audio-Video Question Answering
Yifan Zhu, Xinyu Mu, Tao Feng, Zhonghong Ou, Yuning Gong, Haoran Luo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.03707
- GreekMMLU: A Native-Sourced Multitask Benchmark for Evaluating Language Models in Greek
Zhang, Konomi, Xypolopoulos, Divriotis, Skianis, Nikolentzos, Stamou, Shang, Vazirgiannis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.05150
- Using LLMs for Knowledge Component-level Correctness Labeling in Open-ended Coding Problems
Zhangqi Duan, Arnav Kankaria, Dhruv Kartik, Andrew Lan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.17542 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_bot/116102514058414603
- MetaState: Persistent Working Memory Enhances Reasoning in Discrete Diffusion Language Models
Kejing Xia, Mingzhe Li, Lixuan Wei, Zhenbang Du, Xiangchi Yuan, Dachuan Shi, Qirui Jin, Wenke Lee
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.01331 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_bot/116165314672421581
- A Browser-based Open Source Assistant for Multimodal Content Verification
Milner, Foster, Karmakharm, Razuvayevskaya, Roberts, Porcellini, Teyssou, Bontcheva
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.02842 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_bot/116170368271004704
- Nw\=ach\=a Mun\=a: A Devanagari Speech Corpus and Proximal Transfer Benchmark for Nepal Bhasha ASR
Sharma, Shrestha, Poudel, Tiwari, Shrestha, Ghimire, Bal
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.07554 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_bot/116204797995674104
- Model Merging in the Era of Large Language Models: Methods, Applications, and Future Directions
Mingyang Song, Mao Zheng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.09938 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_bot/116210189810004206
- AgentDrift: Unsafe Recommendation Drift Under Tool Corruption Hidden by Ranking Metrics in LLM Ag...
Zekun Wu, Adriano Koshiyama, Sahan Bulathwela, Maria Perez-Ortiz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.12564 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_bot/116237800898328349
- GhanaNLP Parallel Corpora: Comprehensive Multilingual Resources for Low-Resource Ghanaian Languages
Gyamfi, Azunre, Moore, Budu, Asare, Owusu, Asiamah
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.13793 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_bot/116243544688031749
- sebis at ArchEHR-QA 2026: How Much Can You Do Locally? Evaluating Grounded EHR QA on a Single Not...
Ibrahim Ebrar Yurt, Fabian Karl, Tejaswi Choppa, Florian Matthes
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.13962 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_bot/116243646346563497
- ExPosST: Explicit Positioning with Adaptive Masking for LLM-Based Simultaneous Machine Translation
Yuzhe Shang, Pengzhi Gao, Yazheng Yang, Jiayao Ma, Wei Liu, Jian Luan, Jinsong Su
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.14903 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_bot/116243711232778054
- BanglaSocialBench: A Benchmark for Evaluating Sociopragmatic and Cultural Alignment of LLMs in Ba...
Tanvir Ahmed Sijan, S. M Golam Rifat, Pankaj Chowdhury Partha, Md. Tanjeed Islam, Md. Musfique Anwar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.15949 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_bot/116249122231759766
- EngGPT2: Sovereign, Efficient and Open Intelligence
G. Ciarfaglia, et al.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.16430 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_bot/116249228411487178
- HypeLoRA: Hyper-Network-Generated LoRA Adapters for Calibrated Language Model Fine-Tuning
Bartosz Trojan, Filip G\k{e}bala
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.19278 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_bot/116277612915482857
- Automatic Analysis of Collaboration Through Human Conversational Data Resources: A Review
Yi Yu, Maria Boritchev, Chlo\'e Clavel
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.19292 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_bot/116277620779254916
- Alignment Whack-a-Mole : Finetuning Activates Verbatim Recall of Copyrighted Books in Large Langu...
Xinyue Liu, Niloofar Mireshghallah, Jane C. Ginsburg, Tuhin Chakrabarty
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.20957 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_bot/116283538317671552
- KG-Hopper: Empowering Compact Open LLMs with Knowledge Graph Reasoning via Reinforcement Learning
Shuai Wang, Yinan Yu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.21440 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_bot/116283595007808076
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Google researchers warn that quantum computers may crack elliptic-curve cryptography, which helps secure crypto wallets, with 20x fewer resources than expected (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-31/g…

LECTURE> Janet Gyatso on “Being With Animal Kin: Buddhist Resources for a Posthuman Ethics” - Tue Mar 3, 4-5:30 PT
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Treaties and Empire Seminar Series: Trần Thị Xuân (Hamburg University) - Interpreters and Foreign…
via Input 4 RELCFP

"COSiE: Community for Open Science in Education" @ OSCU (Open Science Community Utrecht)
https://openscience-utrecht.com/cosie/
"COSiE is an interdisciplinary community of UU and UMC staff members who want to make the process of sharing and using Open Education Resources (OERs) …

Why the Raiders' Resources Will Come in Handy This Offseason https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-everything-fans-need-know-after-combine

There are some changes for the 2026 tax filing season that people who are 65 years of age and older should be aware of.
The most recent being the enhanced deduction for seniors
https://www.irs.gov/newsroom/2026-filing-season-updates-and-resources-for-…

Aaand we're seeing the first '#setuptools < 82' runtime dependencies in random packages because they are trying hard to workaround breakage due to pkg_resources removal.
#Python

ScaleOps, which makes automated cloud spend tools, raised a $130M Series C led by Insight Partners at an $800M valuation, bringing its total funding to $210M (Meir Orbach/CTech)
https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/skywz1dowe

ScaleOps secures $130 million Series C at $800 million valuation as AI compute demand explodes
The Israeli startup targets inefficiencies in how enterprises manage cloud and GPU resources. 

Sony Pictures plans to close VFX and virtual production company Pixomondo and integrate some of its resources into other areas; Sony purchased Pixomondo in 2022 (Jon Creamer/Televisual)
https://www.televisual.com/news/sony-pictures-to-wind-down-pixomondo/

Sony Pictures to wind down Pixomondo - Televisual
Sony Pictures-owned vfx and virtual production company, Pixomondo, is to be “wound down” by Sony.

Field staff at the federal agency that enforces civil rights laws in the workplace
say they are under intense pressure from leadership to bring in cases that fit the Trump administration’s priorities,
i.e. charges of discrimination against white men and charges of antisemitism on college campuses.
That pressure has led investigators and lawyers at the agency,
the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission,
to focus its thin resources on pursuing and fast-tracking c…

EEOC Is Prioritizing Job Discrimination Cases That Match Trump’s Agenda
Field staff at the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission say they are being pressured to bring politically charged cases, even with little evidence.

Why the Raiders' Resources Will Come in Handy This Offseason https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-1-move-reportedly-interested-in-makes-complete-sense

After Cleveland.com faced backlash for posting AI-generated videos to promote its podcasts, an editor said "we don't have resources to do it any other way" (Sean Keeley/Awful Announcing)
https://awfulannouncing.com/newspapers/clevela…

Cleveland.com slammed for using AI slop videos to promote podcasts
Cleveland.com received significant negative responses to AI-generated videos on social media to promote their podcasts.

Nvidia discloses $3.5B in guarantees to companies leasing land, power, and data center facilities, up 4x on Q3; the move may help firms without credit ratings (Miles Kruppa/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/nvidia-dis…

Nvidia Discloses $3.5 Billion in Data Center Lease Guarantees
Nvidia said it has provided $3.5 billion in guarantees to companies leasing land, power and data center facilities, four times the amount it disclosed the previous quarter. The guarantees could help companies without credit ratings, such as AI cloud startups, secure coveted power resources and debt financing to build data centers. Nvidia said it provided the guarantees to “early-stage

Raiders GM John Spytek Talks Maxx Crosby, No. 1 Pick From Combine https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-1-move-john-spytek-still-have-up-their-sleeve

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DV6Us8pMwpy/?igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==

Yuval Noah Harari on Instagram: "The past few decades have been the first time in human history that states have consistently spent more on their citizens’ health than on war. With the threats to Greenland and Taiwan, and the wars in Ukraine and Iran, are we entering a new imperial era where countries must again focus their resources on weapons? From Building Trust in the Age of Disinformation – What Future Awaits Us? With Prof. Marijana Grbeša in October 2025. Watch the whole thing via link in bio. #YuvalNoahHarari #NewWorldOrder #Iran #Israel #Ukraine"
13K likes, 272 comments - yuval_noah_harari on March 15, 2026: "The past few decades have been the first time in human history that states have consistently spent more on their citizens’ health than on war. With the threats to Greenland and Taiwan, and the wars in Ukraine and Iran, are we entering a new imperial era where countries must again focus their resources on weapons? From Building Trust in the Age of Disinformation – What Future Awaits Us? With Prof. Marijana Grbeša in October 20…

Amid a contentious feud with Pope Leo XIV regarding U.S. military interventions over the past several months,
including the war in Iran,
the Trump administration has
⚠️ended an $11 million contract with the Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Miami.
The contract through the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) gave funds to the organization to provide housing and other resources for migrant childrenwho entered the country without parents or adult family members.

Trump Admin Cuts $11 Million in Grant Funds to Catholic Org Amid Feud With Pope
The funds went to an organization that provides shelter and other resources to unaccompanied migrant children.

In Los Angeles, where more than two-thirds of residents identify as Hispanic, Black or Asian,
a vast majority of schools were found to have extraordinarily diverse student bodies.
And in an effort to combat segregation, the school district has afforded those diverse schools with smaller class sizes and other benefits.
But last month, a conservative group sued the school district, saying the decades-old program has become a mechanism of
“overt discrimination against a…

RE: https://c.im/@cdarwin/116122409126446401
For here’s the most important bit of news in all this - if we win these twelve races the House will flip - period.
So we need to be all in now, and give these great candidates the early resources that will allow the…

Legal activist Emily Galvan Almanza chronicles the many ways in which the justice system targets the poor.
It’s not news that judicial outcomes are often tied to the wealth and influence of a defendant:
Not only do the well-to-do have the resources to hire good lawyers,
but juries themselves tend to be made up of older, wealthier, white people.
A predictable result, writes Galvin Almanza, is that defendants of color, represented by appointed public defenders, pull lo…

THE PRICE OF MERCY | Kirkus Reviews
A legal activist chronicles the many ways in which the justice system targets the poor.

The California Values Act (SB 54) ensures that no state and local resources are used to assist federal immigration enforcement and that our schools, our hospitals, and our courthouses are safe spaces for everyone in our community.
SB 54 was signed into law on October 5, 2017 and went into effect January 1, 2018.
POLICE AND SHERIFFS:
Cannot ask about your immigration status.
Cannot arrest you only for having a deportation order or for most other immigration violations.

California Values Act (SB 54) - ACLU of Socal
The California Values Act (SB 54) ensures that no state and local resources are used to assist federal immigration enforcement and that our schools, our hospitals, and our courthouses are safe spaces for everyone in our community. SB 54 was signed into law on October 5, 2017 and went into effect January 1, 2018. POLICE […]

Thousands of public schoolteachers in San Francisco went on strike on Monday,
the first public schoolteachers strike in the city in nearly 50 years.
The strike comes after teachers and the district failed to reach an agreement over higher wages,
health benefits and more resources for special needs students.
The San FranciscoUnified School District closed all its 120 schools
and said it would offer independent study to some of the district’s 50,000 students.

Why Hasn’t Trump Mentioned Iran’s Oil?
Usually he encourages the seizure of natural resources as repayment for war
https://www.theatlantic.com/national-security/2026/03/trump-oil-iran-venezuela/686271/

Why Hasn’t Trump Mentioned Iran’s Oil?
Usually he encourages the seizure of natural resources as repayment in war.