2026-07-19 11:15:35
Those seeking to join Trump’s second administration had to pass a key litmus test:
Did they believe the 2020 election was stolen from Trump?
With like-minded allies now positioned in key roles throughout the government,
Trump has trained the full arsenal of the federal government on one of his most persistent obsessions:
sowing doubt about the security of the country’s election systems.
Major agencies such as the Justice Department, the F.B.I., the Homeland Secu…
A federal grand jury indicted two men for their alleged roles in a scheme to steal money from multiple ATMs located in Reno and Sparks, Nevada, using jackpotting devices.
https://www.justice.gov/usao-nv/pr/two-men-indicted-alleged-roles-atm-jackpottin…
My latest podcast is all about #SelfCare and the benefits of looking to do less, not more.
Self-care often implies doing additional activities. And this can feel difficult or even overwhelming!
But we can also take care of ourselves by stripping out commitments, tasks and roles.
Ep 216 of My Pocket Psych is available wherever you get your podcasts, or via worklifepsych…
Pass catchers headline list of NFC rookies picked after Day 1 who could earn key roles
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/2026-nfl-rookies-nfc/
I've witnessed this myself: Few CFOs/COOs have the capability of being a CEO/CVO.
▶️ How To Balance the Roles of the C-Suite - Simon Sinek
https://youtube.com/watch?v=Gp8Od0tYCF0&si=xc72DMr9y2b-N5B-
Foreign Operators and Technical Superintendent of M/V Dali Indicted for Roles in Key Bridge Crash (US Department of Justice)
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/foreign-operators-and-technical-superintendent-mv-dali-indicted-roles-key-bridge-crash
http://www.memeorandum.com/260512/p48#a260512p48
Donno what’s worse, the verse itself or DuckDuckGo’s generated explanation of it. @… https://partyon.xyz/@nando161/116925119988965039
A discrete Boltzmann model with state-dependent power-law relaxation time for nonequilibrium transport in compressible flows
Demei Li, Zhongyi He, Huilin Lai, Yanbiao Gan, Hailong Liu, Pengfei Lin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.18216 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2605.18216 https://arxiv.org/html/2605.18216
arXiv:2605.18216v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Thermodynamic nonequilibrium effects play a central role in momentum and energy transport in compressible flows. In conventional BGK kinetic models, the relaxation time $\tau$ is taken as a constant, which neglects the dependence of the relaxation process on local macroscopic states. To overcome this limitation, we develop a discrete Boltzmann model with a density- and temperature-dependent power-law relaxation time, termed DTRT-DBM, in which $\tau=\tau_0(\rho/\rho_0)^a(T/T_0)^b$. This formulation extends the discrete Boltzmann framework to flows with spatially varying nonequilibrium intensity. The model is validated by the Sod shock tube and by analytical solutions for viscous stress and heat flux, demonstrating accurate recovery of both macroscopic wave structures and nonequilibrium quantities across shock waves, rarefaction waves, and contact discontinuities. On this basis, phase diagrams of viscous stress and heat flux are constructed to examine how these quantities depend on the power-law exponents $a$ and $b$. The extrema of these quantities depend exponentially on the model parameters and exhibit regime-dependent behaviour. The roles of $a$ and $b$ are not symmetric: the nonequilibrium response is more sensitive to $a$ when density gradients dominate, but more sensitive to $b$ when temperature gradients dominate. Within the parameter range and flow configurations examined here, higher-order viscous stress increases the growth rate of the total viscous-stress extremum, whereas higher-order heat flux reduces the growth rate of the total heat-flux extremum. These results show that the proposed model can capture different higher-order nonequilibrium responses in compressible flows and provides a framework for the modelling and analysis of multiscale nonequilibrium processes.
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ZipRecruiter: IT and CS job postings are up 14.2% YoY in April; entry-level roles fell from 8.1% a year ago to 7.4%, while senior roles grew from 38.8% to 43.1% (Katherine Bindley/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/the-tech-jobs-that-are-safe-…
Let's hope the Senate's not as stupid.
GOP lawmakers axe provision to limit the use of JAGs in civilian roles - Defense One
https://www.defenseone.com/policy/2026/06/gop-lawmakers-axe-provision-limit-use-jags-civilian-roles/413992/
Amy Langenberg outlines a research agenda using Mahāsāmghika-lokottaravādin nun's Vinaya texts in order to document women's roles as health practitioners in South Asia. This looks like amazing research - "peering around the archival bulge" of patriarchal sources and conclusions.
https://
Thomson Reuters says it is cutting "a small number of" engineering roles; a source says it plans to cut up to 500 jobs, or 5.2% of its operations and tech unit (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/thomson-reuters-…
messal_shale: Messel Shale food web (2014)
A network of feeling links among taxa based on the 48 million years old uppermost early Eocene Messel Shale. Edge property 'certainty' denotes the certainty of the edge. Metadata include evidence, habitat, and trophic roles. The edge direction goes from consumer to resource.
This network has 700 nodes and 6444 edges.
Tags: Biological, Food Web, Uncertain, Weighted, Metadata
These Raiders Rookies Have Clear Paths to Roles https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-these-rookies-have-clear-paths-roles
Jurassic Park, Hunt For The Wilderpeople, Event Horizon, The Dish, In The Mouth Of Madness, The Hunt For Red October - how many actors have a CV as varied as #SamNeill?
And how many were as consistently brilliant across so many genres and roles, big or small?
I really am gonna miss him.
🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#OperaOn3
- Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier
In tribute to the late soprano Dame Felicity Lott, a chance to hear her in one of her signature roles, the Marschallin, in Der Rosenkavalier from the Royal Opera House in 2004.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002xdwd
How every rookie QB fits with his new NFL team: Wh... https://www.espn.com/nfl/draft2026/story/_/id/48742531/2026-nfl-rookie-quarterbacks-team-fits-projections-draft
Sources: Microsoft security chief Hayete Gallot, who took over in February, has prioritized AI tools, cut several hundred roles, replaced senior execs, and more (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/microsofts-new…
Oh Giles 😢
British actor Anthony Head, known for Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Ted Lasso, dies aged 72 - ABC News
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06-06/anthony-head-dies-aged-72/106767200
Cowboys Headlines: Malachi's motor; why Jerry didn't hire Aikman in FO https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2026/05/08/news-headlines-may-7-2026-malachi-l…
Two Scattered Spider members who pleaded guilty in the UK to an August 2024 cyberattack on Transport for London are jailed for five and a half years (Joe Tidy/BBC)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4gyg0y6yg2o
These Raiders Rookies Have Clear Paths to Roles https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-these-rookies-have-clear-paths-roles
crime: Rosenfeld crime network (1991)
A network of associations among suspects, victims, and/or witnesses involved in crimes in St. Louis in the 1990s. Data are derived from police records, via snowball sampling from five initial homicides. Left nodes are people, right nodes are crime events, and edges connect people to particular crimes events they were associated with. Metadata includes names, genders, and roles (suspects, victims, and/or witnesses).
This network has 1380 nodes…
Trying an old nav pattern with `focusgroup` and `role` on the `<ul>` in Chrome 150 and getting unexpected results:
https://cdpn.io/aardrian/debug/myRpKpg
`focusgroup=menubar`:
• no roles change.
`role=menubar`:
• child `<li>`s lose role.
Both:
• child `&…
In a lengthy Truth Social post on Sunday evening, Donald Trump lambasted two Supreme Court justices he had personally appointed to the bench for not being “loyal” enough to him.
Trump berated Justices Neil Gorsuch and Amy Coney Barrett, deriding their roles in a majority ruling earlier this year that overturned his massive global tariffs.
He also denounced them for appearing skeptical during recent oral arguments over his attempt to issue an executive order last year to reinterp…
Today's Gist covers the efforts required to try to stand up the appearance of widespread far right activity in Ireland.
https://www.thegist.ie/the-gist-sunshine-and-lollipops/
Single-molecule #m6A profiling reveals position-dependent #mRNA regulation and non-canonical roles for Ythdf2 in early embryogenesis
#zebrafish
I’ll admit it. I can’t wait to see The Odyssey this summer—it seems like a perfect summer blockbuster.
But now I really want someone—Greta Gerwig? Katherine Bigelow? Other suggestions?—to make a movie of Clare North’s Song of Penelope books. It would be very cool if it were with the same cast in the main roles, too.
🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#TheEarlyMusicShow
- Senesino - Handel's castrato
Hannah French traces the life of the Italian castrato Francesco Bernardi (otherwise known as Senesino), for whom Handel wrote many operatic roles during his time working in London.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002ylbg
Boston Consulting Group study suggests 'embedding AI agents into formal organizational roles can reduce managerial oversight in AI-mediated work, and should be understood as a governance decision rather than a mere labeling choice' - i.e. more mistakes get through https://www.emmawiles.com/storage/ai_emplo
Vance or Rubio? Trump Muses on Successor as the 'Kids' Fill Bigger Roles. (Katie Rogers/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/10/us/politics/vance-rubio-trump-succession.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260510/p5#a260510p5
Open source isn’t free. We’re just not paying for it: Who maintains the maintainers?
A lot of things don’t add up in the world of software. The skills gap remains stubbornly wide, with IT and data skills the hardest to recruit for five consecutive years. Yet, at the same time, entry level roles are declining as employers redeploy existing employees rather than hiring new ones.
🧑💻
Overheard at the office: "I'm skeptical. Are you sure your 'wonderful opportunity for many of our employees to grow into new roles as we transition' isn't more like corporate speak for 75% of us will have to abandon any sense of work/life balance to cover the work of the 25% you are about to layoff?"
#OfficeWorkerGripes
The UK is one gigantic theatre, in which every citizen is an actor, performing their roles every day. King Charles underscored this with his speech to the US Congress the other day. That's also why the UK has the best stage and film actors in the world; they have been practicing from birth.
Suno hires ex-YouTube exec Christian Bowne as head of music business development and ex-Atlantic Records exec Grace James as VP and head of artist marketing (Corbin Bolies/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/music/news/suno-hires-grace-james-ch…
Hübsches Projekt zur Reflexion künstlicher Intelligenz, Deepdive in Prompt Injection:
#artificialIntelligence
Heat waves increase wildfire risk—a new study explains how much, and it's not a small number #environment
Those on the right side don't need 3 concurrent instances. A single instance can play those roles sequentially.
"Fundamental smarter design" would not be explainable in one share pic.
Still more reasons the AI boosters are full of as much shit as the AI itself.
#Sexism
As the country’s population rapidly ages
— with adults over 65 set to outnumber children by 2034
— more Americans will find themselves in need of care.
Many families remain wholly unprepared to shoulder the weight of this demographic shift,
even if they must
https://www.
Trump's America needs to be flushed. Add this to the list of reasons why:
Disable javascript to bypass the paywall:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2026/06/23/alleged-antifa-members-texas-get-maximum-sentences-ic…
Wanna know why #psycholinguistics is so fascinating?
In a 2001 #experiment participants saw sentences like
"While Mary dressed the baby played in the crib."
Then they had to answer the question:
"Did Mary dress the baby?"
Up to 51% of all answers where "Yes!" – and participants were *very* confident about their answers.
🤯
Original paper:
Christianson, Kiel & Hollingworth, Andrew & Halliwell, John F. & Ferreira, Fernanda (2001). Thematic Roles Assigned along the Garden Path Linger. Cognitive Psychology 42(4). 368–407. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1006/cogp.2001.0752
Also a fascinating read:
Ferreira, Fernanda & Bailey, Karl G.D. & Ferraro, Vittoria (2002). Good-Enough Representations in Language Comprehension. Current Directions in Psychological Science 11(1). 11–15. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8721.00158
Analysis: the share of entry-level hiring in India's tech sector fell to ~15% in 2025 from 28% in 2024 as companies shifted focus to AI and automation roles (Tanya Pandey/The Economic Times)
https://economictimes.i…
Cowboys long-armed lawmen, once revered, now longshots for key roles https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2026/06/24/defying-gravity-dallas-cowboys-shavon-revel-devin-moore-…
Teens who hacked TfL were known to police years before cyber-attack
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx2kx8jr244o?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=rss
Craig Abbott believes “Our CSS isn’t opinionated enough”:
https://www.craigabbott.co.uk/blog/2026/our-css-isnt-opinionated-enough/
Which of course I agree with and link from on of my posts:
Opendoor says it is shutting down its India operations and laying off nearly 250 employees, replacing them with smaller, AI-enabled teams in the US (Moneycontrol)
https://www.moneycontrol.com/technology/op
The AV Club pulls away from gaming coverage, eliminating three roles, including two full-time staffers who ran video games coverage, to refocus on film and TV (Ethan Gach/Kotaku)
https://kotaku.com/paste-media-puts-the-final-nail-in-the-…
Things I'd like to talk about: what it feels like to know the lives/roles/personalities I have left may be limited.
Maybe only 2, 3 more?
And if I want to look like my own version of Iris Apfel, I'll need to up my game soon
#aging
Produced and directed by Ken Burns, Sarah Botstein, and David Schmidt,
“The American Revolution”
is a fantastic, six-part series that focuses almost exclusively on the war.
Burns and his team deftly use war narratives as a trojan horse to subtly
— and sometimes not-so-subtly
— smuggle onto viewers’ screens the message that women, slaves, and Native Americans also played vital roles in the fight for independence.
When “Revolution” was released last autumn,…
crime: Rosenfeld crime network (1991)
A network of associations among suspects, victims, and/or witnesses involved in crimes in St. Louis in the 1990s. Data are derived from police records, via snowball sampling from five initial homicides. Left nodes are people, right nodes are crime events, and edges connect people to particular crimes events they were associated with. Metadata includes names, genders, and roles (suspects, victims, and/or witnesses).
This network has 1380 nodes…
Tom Brady's honest answer on Bill Belichick ends years of NFL speculation https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/news/tom-brady-bill-belichick-new-heights-patriots-debate/9280d731aba29b6bca5…
RE: https://mas.to/@patrickbrosset/116792761131396334
Generally I’ve been frustrated by browser support for ARIA roles in SVG, especially the ARIA Graphics Module / AAM, and forced-colors / WHCM behavior across contexts (inline, embedded, referenced, via `&l…
Raiders’ Michael Mayer Gets Stark Message for 2026 Season https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/michael-mayer-stark-message-2026-season/
How does an LLM know the difference between its own thoughts
and someone else's words?
https://role-confusion.github.io/
A look at Politico's Dasha Burns, soon to be its Global Anchor in addition to other journalistic roles, as the outlet molds her into a creator-like figure (Corbin Bolies/The Wrap)
https://www.thewrap.com/media-platforms/journalism/dasha-burns-politico-i…
OpenAI unveils new Codex plugins for tasks related to public equity investment, banking and sales, and other roles, and plans to integrate Codex into ChatGPT (Shirin Ghaffary/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
crime: Rosenfeld crime network (1991)
A network of associations among suspects, victims, and/or witnesses involved in crimes in St. Louis in the 1990s. Data are derived from police records, via snowball sampling from five initial homicides. Left nodes are people, right nodes are crime events, and edges connect people to particular crimes events they were associated with. Metadata includes names, genders, and roles (suspects, victims, and/or witnesses).
This network has 1380 nodes…
Box says it created 13 new AI-focused roles, like AI architect and AI solutions manager, and plans to grow its staff to 3,000 by early 2027, up from 2,900 (Kalley Huang/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/technology/box-13-new-types-jobs-ai.html
White House officials appointed
Gregg Phillips in December to lead FEMA’s Office of Response and Recovery,
-- one of the agency’s most consequential leadership roles,
-- apparently due to his history of promoting election conspiracy theories, particularly in the aftermath of the 2020 election.
He came under national scrutiny in March after CNN reported on a cache of outlandish comments from his appearances on right-wing podcasts, -- including the bizarre claim that h…
Sources: Microsoft plans to announce job cuts next week affecting less than 2.5% of its 220,000-person workforce, including roles in sales, consulting, and Xbox (Ashley Stewart/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-job-cuts-layoffs-sal…
A report by LA officials estimates that the Paramount-WBD deal places about 2.5K jobs in LA and 6K jobs globally at risk due to duplicative roles (Erik Hayden/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bu…
crime: Rosenfeld crime network (1991)
A network of associations among suspects, victims, and/or witnesses involved in crimes in St. Louis in the 1990s. Data are derived from police records, via snowball sampling from five initial homicides. Left nodes are people, right nodes are crime events, and edges connect people to particular crimes events they were associated with. Metadata includes names, genders, and roles (suspects, victims, and/or witnesses).
This network has 1380 nodes…
Mailbag: Trade down for more Tier 2 players? https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/mailbag-trade-down-for-more-tier-2-players
Meta will lay off 10% of its staff in May,
according to an internal memo which was published by Bloomberg.
A Meta spokesperson confirmed the report's accuracy to NPR.
The layoffs will take place on May 20 and affect some 8,000 workers.
Meta will also not hire for 6,000 open roles that it had intended to fill.
In the memo, Meta's chief people officer Janelle Gale wrote,
"We're doing this as part of our continued effort to run the company more…
messal_shale: Messel Shale food web (2014)
A network of feeling links among taxa based on the 48 million years old uppermost early Eocene Messel Shale. Edge property 'certainty' denotes the certainty of the edge. Metadata include evidence, habitat, and trophic roles. The edge direction goes from consumer to resource.
This network has 700 nodes and 6444 edges.
Tags: Biological, Food Web, Uncertain, Weighted, Metadata
UK hospitals are using nurses to cover for doctors because of an NHS-wide shortage of medics, raising fears that “substitute doctors” may provide inferior care.
Health professionals known as advanced practitioners – who are mainly senior nurses – are undertaking roles usually performed by doctors in A&E, neonatal units, critical care and other areas.
Almost half of hospitals in the UK are deploying APs to cover gaps in doctors’ rotas.
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/apr/25/safety-fears-as-uk-hospitals-use-nurses-to-cover-for-doctors-due-to-shortage-of-medics?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
Memo: Meta plans to cut 10% of workers, or ~8,000 jobs, on May 20 and won't fill 6,000 open roles, in an effort to offset its AI spending and boost efficiency (Kurt Wagner/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
Mailbag: Trade down for more Tier 2 players? https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/mailbag-trade-down-for-more-tier-2-players
crime: Rosenfeld crime network (1991)
A network of associations among suspects, victims, and/or witnesses involved in crimes in St. Louis in the 1990s. Data are derived from police records, via snowball sampling from five initial homicides. Left nodes are people, right nodes are crime events, and edges connect people to particular crimes events they were associated with. Metadata includes names, genders, and roles (suspects, victims, and/or witnesses).
This network has 1380 nodes…
Staffing experts say India's IT sector is seeing a rise in replacement hiring as companies adapt to Gen Z staff leaving jobs faster than previous generations (Tanya Pandey/The Economic Times)
https://economictimes.indiatimes…
crime: Rosenfeld crime network (1991)
A network of associations among suspects, victims, and/or witnesses involved in crimes in St. Louis in the 1990s. Data are derived from police records, via snowball sampling from five initial homicides. Left nodes are people, right nodes are crime events, and edges connect people to particular crimes events they were associated with. Metadata includes names, genders, and roles (suspects, victims, and/or witnesses).
This network has 1380 nodes…
Raiders Exec Named Potential Candidate for Vikings GM Job https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/exec-potential-candidate-vikings-gm-job/
crime: Rosenfeld crime network (1991)
A network of associations among suspects, victims, and/or witnesses involved in crimes in St. Louis in the 1990s. Data are derived from police records, via snowball sampling from five initial homicides. Left nodes are people, right nodes are crime events, and edges connect people to particular crimes events they were associated with. Metadata includes names, genders, and roles (suspects, victims, and/or witnesses).
This network has 1380 nodes…
messal_shale: Messel Shale food web (2014)
A network of feeling links among taxa based on the 48 million years old uppermost early Eocene Messel Shale. Edge property 'certainty' denotes the certainty of the edge. Metadata include evidence, habitat, and trophic roles. The edge direction goes from consumer to resource.
This network has 700 nodes and 6444 edges.
Tags: Biological, Food Web, Uncertain, Weighted, Metadata
messal_shale: Messel Shale food web (2014)
A network of feeling links among taxa based on the 48 million years old uppermost early Eocene Messel Shale. Edge property 'certainty' denotes the certainty of the edge. Metadata include evidence, habitat, and trophic roles. The edge direction goes from consumer to resource.
This network has 700 nodes and 6444 edges.
Tags: Biological, Food Web, Uncertain, Weighted, Metadata
messal_shale: Messel Shale food web (2014)
A network of feeling links among taxa based on the 48 million years old uppermost early Eocene Messel Shale. Edge property 'certainty' denotes the certainty of the edge. Metadata include evidence, habitat, and trophic roles. The edge direction goes from consumer to resource.
This network has 700 nodes and 6444 edges.
Tags: Biological, Food Web, Uncertain, Weighted, Metadata
crime: Rosenfeld crime network (1991)
A network of associations among suspects, victims, and/or witnesses involved in crimes in St. Louis in the 1990s. Data are derived from police records, via snowball sampling from five initial homicides. Left nodes are people, right nodes are crime events, and edges connect people to particular crimes events they were associated with. Metadata includes names, genders, and roles (suspects, victims, and/or witnesses).
This network has 1380 nodes…
crime: Rosenfeld crime network (1991)
A network of associations among suspects, victims, and/or witnesses involved in crimes in St. Louis in the 1990s. Data are derived from police records, via snowball sampling from five initial homicides. Left nodes are people, right nodes are crime events, and edges connect people to particular crimes events they were associated with. Metadata includes names, genders, and roles (suspects, victims, and/or witnesses).
This network has 1380 nodes…