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Ukraine says drones destroyed Russia’s helicopters, air defences in Crimea | Russia-Ukraine war News | Al Jazeera
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/6/28/ukraine-says-drones-destroyed-russias-helicopters-air-defences-in-crimea?traffic_source=rss

Sen. Graham says there will be a 'change in strategy' in Gaza 'to destroy Hamas' (NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/video/sen-graham-says-there-will-be-a-change-in-strategy-in-gaza-to-destroy-hamas-243905605826
http://www.memeorandum.com/250727/p47#a250727p47

From ⁨⁨⁨⁨⁨#AnnafromUkraine⁩⁩⁩⁩⁩ @AnnafromUkraine@youtube.com
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UKRAINIAN #SWARM DRONES: #RUSSIA AIR DEFENCE DESTROYED IN CRIMEA Vlog 1087: War in

The popular meaning of "luddite" is a straw-man. It's a sloppy word with a sloppy meaning now, and it's one we'd do well to watch out for.
The actual reality of who the Luddites were is far more interesting, the center of the hard-fought struggles against owners of factories disrupting entire towns and cities economies with massively terrible results, centralizing power and money and leaving a great number of people without any control of their work, formerly artisans who'd had a hand in their own work, and many automated out of jobs. Luddites destroyed automated looms not because they hated technology. They destroyed automated looms because they were taking the livelihood they depended on, with no recourse, and it was a disaster for a good while, and then millwork has gone from those places probably forever.
The problem now with LLMs and automated research systems is there's very little way for workers and creators to stick their shoes in the machinery. They've tried (https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.12281) but mostly failed, since unlike a factory full of textile workers, the equipment is remote, the automation virtual, an intangible software object that few can access in any meaningful way.

Today's SCOTUS ruling on the maximum scope of district and circuit (appellate) court rulings is going to create a hierarchy of zones in the US.
These zones will align with the boundaries of the Federal courts (and thus may be altered by Congress).
Some of these zones will have more freedom - such as those in California - and some will will have less - such as those in Texas.
We are slowing moving the US away from the Constitution and back towards the failed Articles of …

Bochner-type theorems for distributional category
Ekansh Jauhari, John Oprea
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.21763 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2…

Bochner-type theorems for distributional category
We show that in the presence of a geometric condition such as non-negative Ricci curvature, the distributional category of a manifold may be used to bound invariants, such as the first Betti number and macroscopic dimension, from above. Moreover, à la Bochner, when the bound is an equality, special constraints are imposed on the manifold. We show that the distributional category of a space also bounds the rank of the Gottlieb group, with equality imposing constraints on the fundamental group. …

Is Exchangeability better than I.I.D to handle Data Distribution Shifts while Pooling Data for Data-scarce Medical image segmentation?
Ayush Roy, Samin Enam, Jun Xia, Vishnu Suresh Lokhande, Won Hwa Kim
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.19575

Is Exchangeability better than I.I.D to handle Data Distribution Shifts while Pooling Data for Data-scarce Medical image segmentation?
Data scarcity is a major challenge in medical imaging, particularly for deep learning models. While data pooling (combining datasets from multiple sources) and data addition (adding more data from a new dataset) have been shown to enhance model performance, they are not without complications. Specifically, increasing the size of the training dataset through pooling or addition can induce distributional shifts, negatively affecting downstream model performance, a phenomenon known as the "Data Ad…

StreamLink: Large-Language-Model Driven Distributed Data Engineering System
Dawei Feng, Di Mei, Huiri Tan, Lei Ren, Xianying Lou, Zhangxi Tan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.21575

StreamLink: Large-Language-Model Driven Distributed Data Engineering System
Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown remarkable proficiency in natural language understanding (NLU), opening doors for innovative applications. We introduce StreamLink - an LLM-driven distributed data system designed to improve the efficiency and accessibility of data engineering tasks. We build StreamLink on top of distributed frameworks such as Apache Spark and Hadoop to handle large data at scale. One of the important design philosophies of StreamLink is to respect user data privacy by ut…

From ⁨⁨⁨⁨⁨#AnnafromUkraine⁩⁩⁩⁩⁩ @AnnafromUkraine@youtube.com
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TWO RUSSIAN SU-34 FIGHTER-BOMBERS BURNED OUT IN VOLGOGRAD Vlog 1088: War in Ukraine
The Special Operations Forces and the Security Service of #Ukraine destroyed two

Colorado lawmaker says Gabbard has become 'weapon' for Trump (Cheyanne M. Daniels/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/07/27/crow-gabbard-weapon-of-mass-destruction-00479152
http://www.memeorandum.com/250727/p51#a250727p51