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CBS Late Show host Stephen Colbert condemns parent company Paramount Global settling President Trump's lawsuit over a 60 Minutes story as a "big fat bribe" (David Bauder/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/colbert-ste

The Paramount comics, Colbert and Stewart, are sharp critics of the '60 Minutes' deal
Stephen Colbert returned from vacation loaded for bear. The CBS late-night comic referred to the settlement between his parent company, Paramount Global, and President Donald Trump over a “60 Minutes” interview as a “big, fat bribe.” The deal was made while Paramount is awaiting Trump administration approval of its sale to Skydance Media. Colbert's comments on his show Monday came a week after Jon Stewart of Comedy Central, another Paramount-owned company

Filing: Intel is laying off 5,000 employees across California, Oregon, Texas, and Arizona; California cuts affect 1,935, more than double the initial estimates (Nathan Owens/Manufacturing Dive)
https://www.manufacturingdive.com/news/int

Intel layoffs exceed 5,000 across US
The chipmaker more than doubled its anticipated job cuts in California, adding to its overall downsizing across four states.

Dark Energy Survey Year 3 results: $w$CDM cosmology from simulation-based inference with persistent homology on the sphere
J. Prat (DES Collaboration), M. Gatti (DES Collaboration), C. Doux (DES Collaboration), P. Pranav (DES Collaboration), C. Chang (DES Collaboration), N. Jeffrey (DES Collaboration), L. Whiteway (DES Collaboration), D. Anbajagane (DES Collaboration), S. Sugiyama (DES Collaboration), A. Thomsen (DES Collaboration), A. Alarcon (DES Collaboration), A. Amon (DES Collabor…

Dark Energy Survey Year 3 results: $w$CDM cosmology from simulation-based inference with persistent homology on the sphere
We present cosmological constraints from Dark Energy Survey Year 3 (DES Y3) weak lensing data using persistent homology, a topological data analysis technique that tracks how features like clusters and voids evolve across density thresholds. For the first time, we apply spherical persistent homology to galaxy survey data through the algorithm TopoS2, which is optimized for curved-sky analyses and HEALPix compatibility. Employing a simulation-based inference framework with the Gower Street simul…

arxiv_collab: Scientific collaborations in physics (1995-2005)
Collaboration graphs for scientists, extracted from the Los Alamos e-Print arXiv (physics), for 1995-1999 for three categories, and additionally for 1995-2003 and 1995-2005 for one category. For copyright reasons, the MEDLINE (biomedical research) and NCSTRL (computer science) collaboration graphs from this paper are not publicly available.
This network has 16706 nodes and 121251 edges.
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This strikes me as not only a good idea but a necessary idea...
"California bill proposes misdemeanor for officers who cover their face on duty"
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/16/california-officers-face-c…

Way to go California!
Use of deadly force by police down in California,
while increasing in red states.
Interesting article. 👇
https://www.sfchronicle.com/california/article/deadly-force-police-20763666.php

Following Trump cut to LGBTQ youth suicide hotline, California steps up to fill the gap | Governor of California
https://www.gov.ca.gov/2025/07/16/following-trump-cut-to-lgbtq-youth-suicide-hotline-california-steps-up-to-fill-the-gap/

California is still the state to beat on corporate emissions (Jordan Wolman/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/california-climate/2025/07/15/california-is-still-the-state-to-beat-on-corporate-emissions-00455434
http://www.memeorandum.com/250716/p85#a250716p85

arxiv_collab: Scientific collaborations in physics (1995-2005)
Collaboration graphs for scientists, extracted from the Los Alamos e-Print arXiv (physics), for 1995-1999 for three categories, and additionally for 1995-2003 and 1995-2005 for one category. For copyright reasons, the MEDLINE (biomedical research) and NCSTRL (computer science) collaboration graphs from this paper are not publicly available.
This network has 31163 nodes and 120029 edges.
Tags: Social, Collaborati…

‘L.A.’s too hot for ICE'
Smaller but determined crowds march downtown as heat rises
https://www.latimes.com/california/live/los-…

Tensions rise as immigration raids continue across Southern California
Federal authorities raided a swap meet in Santa Fe Springs Saturday as tens of thousands of ‘No Kings’ protesters flooded the streets of downtown Los Angeles in opposition to President Trump’s policies.