The Pentagon is moving to dismiss the publisher, editor-in-chief and a reporter at Stars and Stripes, citing insubordination. The notices reportedly stem from interviews in which Editor-in-Chief Erik Slavin and reporter Lara Korte defended the publication’s editorial independence and said Pentagon interference in news coverage would cross a red line. The move comes after Stars and Stripes reported on difficult conditions aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln, including concerns about sailors’ mental health during its extended deployment—reports that Pentagon leadership and President Trump disputed. Publisher Max Lederer, who has led the paper for 19 years, had already announced plans to retire in September, citing fundamental differences with the administration over the publication’s mission. Source:

The office printer at my job jams every single time a specific coworker, Reyansh, tries to use it, and only him, a pattern so consistent that IT eventually just gave up troubleshooting it as a coincidence. "It's not personal," the IT guy told him, the fourth time he'd been called down for the exact same jam. "Machines don't have preferences." "This one does," Reyansh said, dead serious, staring at the printer like it had wronged him personally. I didn't think much of it until I noticed he was the only person in the office who consistently loaded paper the wrong way, upside down, against the little diagram taped right there on the tray, every single time, for reasons nobody could explain including him. "You've seen the diagram," I said, showing him for maybe the tenth time. "I have seen it," he agreed. "I don't understand it. I've never understood it. In my last job someone else always loaded the paper." Turns out he'd worked in a much smaller office previously where he'd simply never once had to do this task himself, and four years into his current job, too embarrassed to ask directly, he'd just been guessing wrong on a coin flip basis every single time. I showed him properly, slowly, like teaching an actual child, and the jams stopped completely within a week. He still blames the printer sometimes, out of habit, mostly as a bit now. The printer, for what it's worth, has never once jammed on him again.

The Paper: We noted that some foreign media outlets coined the word “Chinese squeeze,” saying that Chinese manufacturing not only sends shockwaves to Western countries, but also squeezes out space for Global South countries who seek industrial development. What is your comment? Mao Ning: The so-called “Chinese squeeze” narrative is apparently inconsistent with facts and I believe Global South countries will not buy it. As a member of the Global South, China always shares its development experience without reservation and helps advance the development of Global South countries. By conducting fruitful cooperation in infrastructure, investment and technology, China has helped Global South countries build up their own capacity for development. By opening up its market, China has helped Global South countries expand quality product export to China, which in turn boosts our industrial development with trade revenue. By providing accessible and affordable green products, China has helped Global South countries improve resource allocation and accelerate industrial transformation and upgrading. All these prove that China and Global South countries are partners in the pursuit of modernization. A country’s greatness lies in serving the greater good. China, with its own development, will offer more opportunities to the world for common prosperity.

The paper argues that for any ensemble whose final output must be one of the member models' answers, including routing, voting, and MoA, the accuracy is fundamentally capped by the co-failure rate β: acc ≤ 1 − β. It also shows that the commonly reported mean pairwise error correlation (ρ) is insufficient to characterize β, so low correlation alone does not imply large ensemble gains. When Does Combining Language Models Help? A Co-Failure Ceiling on Routing, Voting, and Mixture-of-Agents