Texas Democrats are tearing up “permission slips” they signed in order to leave the chamber,
joining state representative Nicole Collier ahead of Wednesday’s vote on the controversial Texas congressional redistricting maps.
The slips are part of new surveillance protocols set by Texas Republicans in the house chamber,
🆘 stating that Democrats would “be granted written permission to leave only after agreeing to be released into the custody of a designated [Texas department o…
Atlassian acquires developer productivity platform DX for $1B in cash and restricted stock; DX has 350 enterprise customers and raised less than $5M (Rebecca Szkutak/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/18/atlassian-acquires-dx-a-devel…
ReviewGraph: A Knowledge Graph Embedding Based Framework for Review Rating Prediction with Sentiment Features
A. J. W. de Vink, Natalia Amat-Lefort, Lifeng Han
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13953
Yeah, this is not surprising…
“Airlines and Trump Administration Backpedal on Protections for Travelers With Wheelchairs”
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/20/travel/wheelchair-flights-delta-united-american.html
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Sequential sample size calculations and learning curves safeguard the robust development of a clinical prediction model for individuals
Amardeep Legha, Joie Ensor, Rebecca Whittle, Lucinda Archer, Ben Van Calster, Evangelia Christodoulou, Kym I. E. Snell, Mohsen Sadatsafavi, Gary S. Collins, Richard D. Riley
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.1513…
In the latest act of retributIion targeting public servants in the federal government’s intelligence community
— the Trump administration moved Tuesday to revoke the security clearances of 37 current and former national security officials
A memo posted online by Tulsi Gabbard, the director of national intelligence,
accuses the targeted officials of having engaged in the “politicization or weaponization of intelligence” to advance partisan goals,
as well as failure to …
Over the past few months, we have seen the Trump administration engage not only in medical misinformation, but in active censorship of scientific discourse.
Since he took the helm at HHS, Kennedy’s unscientific views on vaccines and some other medical matters
-- coupled with the agency’s widespread research and staff cuts,
-- have prompted protests from scientists inside and outside HHS plus lawsuits.
Medical experts say Kennedy’s policies are helping “sow distrust in …
A young female bear caused a stir after wandering out of the forest and into the leafy suburbs of the Lithuanian capital.
For two days, the brown bear ambled through the neighborhoods of Vilnius,
trotted across highways and explored backyards
— all while being chased by onlookers with smartphones and, eventually, drones.
The government then issued a permit for the bear to be shot and killed.
That did not go down well with Lithuania’s hunters who refused, aware …