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Flipping Iran’s playbook
by launching reverse-engineered,
Shahed-like weapons as part of a coordinated air campaign,
the U.S. military’s initial wave of strikes in Operation Epic Fury
marked the first confirmed deployment of American-made, long-range,
one-way attack drones in real-world combat.
Capt. Tim Hawkins, a spokesperson for U.S. Central Command,
told DefenseScoop on Monday that
the operation demonstrates how warfighters are rapidly adop…

After first combat appearance, LUCAS drones ‘remain ready’ for future Epic Fury strikes against Iran
The U.S. has additional Low-cost Uncrewed Combat Attack System (LUCAS) drones that could be used to strike Iran during Operation Epic Fury.

¿Os acordšis de la idiotez esa de The Line que iban a hacer en Arabia Saudi y que iba a ser "la ciudad del futuro" y "ecológica" y no se sabe cuantas cosas mšs? Bueno, pues no va a llegar ni a aldea: un cochino CPD es lo que va a terminar siendo. https://www.mk.co.kr/en/world/11943642

Sequential Counterfactual Inference for Temporal Clinical Data: Addressing the Time Traveler Dilemma
Jingya Cheng, Alaleh Azhir, Jiazi Tian, Hossein Estiri
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.21168 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.21168 https://arxiv.org/html/2602.21168
arXiv:2602.21168v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Counterfactual inference enables clinicians to ask "what if" questions about patient outcomes, but standard methods assume feature independence and simultaneous modifiability -- assumptions violated by longitudinal clinical data. We introduce the Sequential Counterfactual Framework, which respects temporal dependencies in electronic health records by distinguishing immutable features (chronic diagnoses) from controllable features (lab values) and modeling how interventions propagate through time. Applied to 2,723 COVID-19 patients (383 Long COVID heart failure cases, 2,340 matched controls), we demonstrate that 38-67% of patients with chronic conditions would require biologically impossible counterfactuals under naive methods. We identify a cardiorenal cascade (CKD -> AKI -> HF) with relative risks of 2.27 and 1.19 at each step, illustrating temporal propagation that sequential -- but not naive -- counterfactuals can capture. Our framework transforms counterfactual explanation from "what if this feature were different?" to "what if we had intervened earlier, and how would that propagate forward?" -- yielding clinically actionable insights grounded in biological plausibility.
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The Jackson Hole region has long been a refuge for the rich,
but an explosion of new affluence has allowed a growing cadre of extraordinarily wealthy people to ⛔️dominate both the local economy and Wyoming state politics.
Teton County is not merely the richest county in the country, per capita -- by far;
⭐️it is a window into America’s near future, as the country enters a new #gilded

America’s Billionaires Continue to Flock to Wyoming
Jackson, Wyo., has long been a refuge for the rich. But the last five years saw a boom in wealth of a kind never before seen. Across the country, the 2017 tax cuts minted hundreds of new billionaires.