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The Supreme Court on July 8 lifted a federal judge's order pausing the Trump administration's large-scale staffing cuts and agency restructuring,
boosting the president's campaign to bleed the federal bureaucracy to death
In an unsigned and brief opininon, the justices said they are not ruling on the legality of a specific reorganization plan.
But, the court said, the judge was wrong to stop the administration from moving ahead with such plans.
The mass fe…

Supreme Court lets Trump move forward with large-scale staff cuts for now — USA TODAY
A U.S. district judge in San Francisco had temporarily blocked large-scale federal layoffs known as "reductions in force."

as a transit advocate, I would like to be able to embrace Scott Wiener as a champion for transit funding, but unfortunately he has also regularly attacked and defamed pro-Palestine activists. his actions have contributed to a neo-McCarthyist atmosphere around this issue that was immediately seized upon by Trump on coming back to power

Doctor Says UCSF Fired Her Due to Pressure From Wiener, Dillers Over Pro-Palestinian Speech
CA State Senator Scott Wiener and UCSF’s largest donor, the Diller Foundation, are named in new allegations by Dr. Rupa Marya, prominent physician, activist, and musician, who is suing UCSF over her recent termination stemming from public criticism of Israel.

“Gaza: Doctors Under Attack review – this crucial film is the stuff of nightmares. But the world needs to see it”
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2025/jul/03/gaza-doctors-under-attack-review-channel-4-c…

The President who
• ruining/ruined economy
• ex-best friend says he's in Epstein files
• increasing unemployment
• not giving people due process before sending to foreign prisons for life
• ignoring & trying to destroy courts
• arrested & handcuffed Congresspeople & staffs
• destroying millions' health insurance
• destroying Social Security
• making an intelligence file for every American w/Palantir
also wants to…

going through my months-old screenshots and this motherfucker is a recurring pattern

The connection of the stability of the binary choice model with its discriminatory power
M. Pomazanov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.04866 https://

The connection of the stability of the binary choice model with its discriminatory power
The key indicators of model stability are the population stability index (PSI), which uses the difference in population distribution, and the Kolmogorov-Smirnov statistic (KS) between two distributions. When deriving a binary choice model, the question arises about the real Gini index for any new model. The paper shows that when the Gini changes, the real Gini index should be less than the obtained Gini index. This type is included in the equation using a formula, and the PSI formula in KS is a…

Got slammed by an unidentified but certainly "#AI"-related #distributed #crawler this week, it drove one site's traffic to 10× average. Today I tired of playing Whac-a-Mole and blocked the two bigge…

Theseus: A Distributed and Scalable GPU-Accelerated Query Processing Platform Optimized for Efficient Data Movement
Felipe Arambur\'u, William Malpica, Kaouther Abrougui, Amin Aramoon, Romulo Auccapuclla, Claude Brisson, Matthijs Brobbel, Colby Farrell, Pradeep Garigipati, Joost Hoozemans, Supun Kamburugamuve, Akhil Nair, Alexander Ocsa, Johan Peltenburg, Rub\'en Quesada L\'opez, Deepak Sihag, Ahmet Uyar, Dhruv Vats, Michael Wendt, Jignesh M. Patel, Rodrigo Arambur\'u

Theseus: A Distributed and Scalable GPU-Accelerated Query Processing Platform Optimized for Efficient Data Movement
Online analytical processing of queries on datasets in the many-terabyte range is only possible with costly distributed computing systems. To decrease the cost and increase the throughput, systems can leverage accelerators such as GPUs, which are now ubiquitous in the compute infrastructure. This introduces many challenges, the majority of which are related to when, where, and how to best move data around the system. We present Theseus -- a production-ready enterprise-scale distributed accelera…

Meanwhile in Dwarf Fortress, construction of the temple to Bisek Cavernmoth, god of darkness and the night, has hit a stumbling block when my stonemason took it upon himself to decorate it with a statue of a slug.
Even more disturbingly, this appears to be a therapeutic endeavour for young Vutok.
#DwarfFortress

Best way to destroy US tech leadership is to put import taxes (tariffs) on everything they sell overnight.
https://apnews.com/article/apple-trump-computer-tariff-c01b5ce0265b0d294dd10b8966be4436#

Trump plans 100% tariff on computer chips, unless companies build in US
President Donald Trump says he's imposing a 100% tariff on computer chips— a move that raises the specter of higher prices for electronics, autos, household appliances and other essential goods that depend on the processors. Companies making computer chips in the U.S. or planning to do so will be spared the import taxes. During the pandemic, a shortage of computer chips increased the price of autos and contributed to higher inflation. Investors continued to bet that Big Tech companies such as…