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Substack's legal support program wins its first federal court case, helping SpyTalk EIC Jeff Stein beat a defamation lawsuit filed by ex-CIA official Keith Bass (Sara Fischer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/08/04/substack-defender-legal-support-creators…

Substack scores legal win
Substack's cut of creator subscription revenue helps fund backend services such as legal protections.

#Spectacles

Spectacles — America Almost Had 3 Presidents
This is the story of the Presidency That Almost was. | Citations always in captions. Sources always in description.

2026 NFL fantasy football: Seven safest players to draft after Round 3 https://www.nfl.com/news/2026-nfl-fantasy-football-seven-safest-players-to-draft-after-round-3

A detailed recap of the real-world target hacks by OpenAI's and Anthropic's models, exposing failures in AI alignment training and meaningful supervision (Zvi Mowshowitz/Don't Worry About the Vase)
https://thezvi.substack.com/p/further-developments-about-interna…

Further Developments About Internal AI Models Hacking Things
If I had a nickel for every major leading AI lab that sheepishly admitted that the model it thought was sandboxed had, during a cybersecurity evaluation with its safeguards lowered, successfully hacked outside companies, I would have two nickels.

An unidentified absorption feature at 5.11 μm on the surface of #Titan and #Pluto from #JWST spectroscopy: https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.13350 -> James Webb telescope may have discovered a mysterious, never-before-seen substance on Pluto and Titan: https://www.livescience.com/space/astronomy/james-webb-telescope-may-have-discovered-a-mysterious-never-before-seen-substance-on-pluto-and-titan

The US has always been a nation of immigrants. The early US had debates on how long you had to have been here a citizen you could serve in the US Houses. This letter by Ben Franklin summarizes the debate (whose vote ended up very much pro-).
https://bjpryor.substack.com/p/immigra

Immigrants in Congress
Letter 101

Burklund-Lin-Wang-Xu Methods in the Cofiber-of-Tau Formalism and Applications to Equivariant Slice Differentials
Yuchen Wu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.02779 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2606.02779 https://arxiv.org/html/2606.02779
arXiv:2606.02779v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: We reinvestigate the theory of spectral sequences by studying the $(\infty,1)$-category of filtered spectra through the cofiber-of-$\tau$ formalism of Burklund-Isaksen-Pstragowski-Wang-Xu. In this framework, we define and analyze hidden extensions along arbitrary maps of filtered spectra, establishing computational principles that extend the generalized Leibniz rule and the generalized Mahowald trick of Lin-Wang-Xu, as well as Burklund's Leibniz rule for total differentials, from the Adams spectral sequence to this broader setup. Our formulation uses a more refined, layered notion of extension, which slightly sharpens these statements even for the Adams spectral sequence. As an application, we study equivariant slice spectral sequences and obtain new families of "exotic transfer" differentials in the $C_4$-slice spectral sequences for the Hill-Hopkins-Ravenel theories $\mathrm{BP}^{((C_4))}\langle m\rangle$ for every $m \ge 1$.
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Bundesbeauftragte: Informationsfreiheit soll ins Grundgesetz
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Bundesbeauftragte: Informationsfreiheit soll ins Grundgesetz
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G. Elliott Morris (G. Elliott Morris/Substack)
https://substack.com/@gelliottmorris/note/c-269482494?r=a9pj
http://www.memeorandum.com/260603/p50#a260603p50