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1,700 #California workers, including 500 #Teamsters, left in lurch to be laid off as the buyer of major CA alcoholic #beverages distributor for 2,500 beverage brands, quickly winds down operations and ditches state to consolida…

RNDC to 'Withdraw' from California By End of Summer (Developing)
Not even halfway into 2025, Republic National Distributing Company (RNDC) has hemorrhaged key supplier accounts in markets across the country, and especially in California. Now, VinePair has learned, the country’s second-largest wine-and-spirits distributor will be departing the Golden State entirely at the beginning of September. Over the weekend, social media was abuzz with versions of this rumor.

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Composable Building Blocks for Controllable and Transparent Interactive AI Systems
Sebe Vanbrabant, Gustavo Rovelo Ruiz, Davy Vanacken
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02262

Composable Building Blocks for Controllable and Transparent Interactive AI Systems
While the increased integration of AI technologies into interactive systems enables them to solve an equally increasing number of tasks, the black box problem of AI models continues to spread throughout the interactive system as a whole. Explainable AI (XAI) techniques can make AI models more accessible by employing post-hoc methods or transitioning to inherently interpretable models. While this makes individual AI models clearer, the overarching system architecture remains opaque. To this end,…

Loving Vampire lore and being a big fan of #BtVS Buffy The Vampire Slayer I went in to #Netflix The Discovery Of Witches as yeah, seen that, done that. But now into the 2nd season I'm really getting the vibe and story line. Both Theresa Palmer and Matthew Goode excel in their roles and bring …

For my next modern culture and media studies work, I'd like to use "THE SIMPLE NEW SOCIO-ECONOMICGEOPOLITICALBIO-HISTORICAL APPROACH" (TSR 1987)
(The eighties were a very weird time, y'all.)
(I found this in WCA #26, ZODIAC ATTACK)