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Rich Hawkins
A reminder of what Nigel Farage said following the murder of Sarah Everard by a serving police officer.
Can’t explain why but this reminds me of that old joke with GB choosing national animals:
England: “I’ll go first! A lion!”
Scotland: “UNICORN”
England: “wait”
Wales: “LOL DRAGON”
as a longtime telecom beat reporter I spent years tracking how telecom monopolies dominated markets then nickeled and dimed users with predatory usage surcharges
so it's wild to see a market that isn't even established or profitable yet jump right to the fee enshittification
I could not love @edzitron.com’s latest newsletter edition more. We should shout this from the rooftops.
www.wheresyoured.at/the-revenge-...
Every second, the Sun ejects 1.5 million tons of material into space at hundreds of miles per second, but Earth's magnetic field protects it from the solar wind.
📽: NASA Goddard
"The students who cannot read a 20-pg article today are the voters who will not be able to read a bill or the jurors who cannot follow a closing argument, tomorrow."
The most important argument against AI in education is that it's incompatible with a free society.
www.chronicle.com/article/my-s...
🚨NEWS: The Trump administration quietly waived key longstanding investor protection rules ahead of the IPO for Elon Musk's SpaceX, according to government documents reviewed by @levernews.com.
The exemption "has never been provided before," according to one financial watchdog.
🚨BREAKING: The U.S. Supreme Court (SCOTUS) has allowed Alabama to select a different map for this year’s congressional elections in a stunning, last-minute move to interfere with another state primary election that has already begun. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Entirely related, because nobody does effective policy around tech. Nobody.
Some report burning through their whole monthly "AI credit" allotment in a single day.
As Wall Street gears up for SpaceX’s record-breaking IPO, regulators quietly granted brokerages an extraordinary exemption from rules protecting customers if markets turn volatile.
The order means that Alabama will discard its court-ordered congressional map for the 2026 primary elections and use a 2023 map that courts previously struck down as a violation under Section 2 of the...
www.democracydocket.com
Wonder of Science
Christopher W. Jones
David Sirota
Marc Elias
Russell Garner
Listening to a @theresthistory.bsky.social episode where the presenters suggest that Belgium and (checks notes) Italy are “made up countries” as opposed to England and (checks notes again) the United States. So it’s time for this:
