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One of my takeaways from reading _War and Peace_ last year was that Napoleon, whose warmongering killed millions across Europe, was basically a buffoon, a clown. Many of the most destructive men in history were ridiculous and laughable, and it just added insult to injury for contemporaries watching them come to power. There's nothing new under the sun.

Visited my 95-year-old Mom in Saskatchewan and came away with Prairie pictures and thoughts on memory and topography and Google color science and healthcare economics. https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2025/07/09/Saskatchewan

Memory in Saskatchewan

Very early in the commercial registrar era, some registrars priced domains in harmony with their costs: no teaser marketing, just discounts on buying multiple future years at once. Even after everyone stopped giving out-year discounts explicitly, the fact of inflation in upstream fees made it wise for legitimate domain holders to buy many years in advance.
I am close to wanting a return to the InterNIC model. DNS Marxism.

The Spamhaus Project (@spamhaus@infosec.exchange)
Attached: 1 image Over the past 30 days, six gTLDs have ranked in the Top 10 for being associated with botnet C2s - all showing significant increases in detections 📈: .tech (+4,000%), .icu (+433%), .today (+429%), .fun (+400%), .digital (+314%), and .life (+258%). 🌐 Full stats over at: https://www.spamhaus.org/reputation-statistics/gtlds/domains/ These TLDs are all cheap to register (as low as $0.98 using a promo code 🤑), but expensive to renew. Perfect conditions for throwaway dom…

"Musk and his allies systematically built a false narrative of widespread fraud at the Social Security Administration based on misinterpreted data, using their claims to justify an aggressive effort to gain access to personal information on millions of Americans."
Gift link.

Inside DOGE’s Chaotic Takeover of Social Security
The drama offers a case study in how Elon Musk’s team sought to run a critical government agency through misinformation and social media blasts — and how longtime employees responded.

In the before times we used to run a festival called 'algomech' in Sheffield UK. The pandemic put paid to that but we're now coming back with a new small festival called Alpaca (festival of Algorithmic Patterns in the Creative Arts). If you are curious about strange patterns in different forms then this one is for you!
There'll be a top notch algorave with people writing code to make electronic dance music, also a concert with pattern-based instrumental music and closin…

Mutual-Supervised Learning for Sequential-to-Parallel Code Translation
Changxin Ke, Rui Zhang, Shuo Wang, Li Ding, Guangli Li, Yuanbo Wen, Shuoming Zhang, Ruiyuan Xu, Jin Qin, Jiaming Guo, Chenxi Wang, Ling Li, Qi Guo, Yunji Chen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11153

Mutual-Supervised Learning for Sequential-to-Parallel Code Translation
The rise of GPU-based high-performance computing (HPC) has driven the widespread adoption of parallel programming models such as CUDA. Yet, the inherent complexity of parallel programming creates a demand for the automated sequential-to-parallel approaches. However, data scarcity poses a significant challenge for machine learning-based sequential-to-parallel code translation. Although recent back-translation methods show promise, they still fail to ensure functional equivalence in the translate…

The origin of the most recently ejected OB runaway star from the R136 cluster
Simon Portegies Zwart, Michel Stoop, Lex Kaper, Alex de Kooter, Steven Rieder, Tomer Shenar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11795

The origin of the most recently ejected OB runaway star from the R136 cluster
The $\sim 60\,000$ solar-mass (\MSun) star-cluster R136 (NGC~2070) in the Tarantula Nebula in the Large Magellanic Cloud is the host of at least 55 massive stars ($M \apgt 10$\,\MSun) which move away from the cluster at projected velocities $\gteq 27.5$\,km/s \cite{2024Natur.634..809S}. The origin of the high velocities of such runaway stars have been debated since the 1960s, resulting either from dynamical ejections \citep{1961BAN....15..265B,1961BAN....15..291B} or from supernova explosions \…

Join us on June 26th in Mannheim for the Sylius meetup! We have an exciting lineup of speakers, including Max Pesch, who will share a post-mortem analysis of Brille24, Jacques Bodin-Hullin, who will dive into Sylius and automation, and Stephan Hochdörfer, who will introduce the Sylius stack.
Register here: https://www.

PHPUGMRN 03/25 (The Sylius Meetup), Thu, Jun 26, 2025, 7:00 PM | Meetup
**Agenda:** 19:00 CET - Intro 19:05 CET - Brille24 - Post Mortem, Max Pesch 19:50 CET - Break 20:00 CET - Sylius & Automation, let's dive in!, Jacques Bodin-Hullin 20:50 CE

A Fast, Reliable, and Secure Programming Language for LLM Agents with Code Actions
Stephen Mell, Botong Zhang, David Mell, Shuo Li, Ramya Ramalingam, Nathan Yu, Steve Zdancewic, Osbert Bastani
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12202

A Fast, Reliable, and Secure Programming Language for LLM Agents with Code Actions
Modern large language models (LLMs) are often deployed as agents, calling external tools adaptively to solve tasks. Rather than directly calling tools, it can be more effective for LLMs to write code to perform the tool calls, enabling them to automatically generate complex control flow such as conditionals and loops. Such code actions are typically provided as Python code, since LLMs are quite proficient at it; however, Python may not be the ideal language due to limited built-in support for p…