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Krise in Europa - deutsch-französische Freundschaft auf Tiefpunkt
Bundeskanzler Friedrich #Merz sieht in den Gesetzen von Nicolas Carnot († 24.8.1832) einen Angriff auf die deutsche Verbrennerindustrie und wirft Emanuel #Macron vor, elektrische Kleinwagen gegenüber deutschen Maximalverbrauchern bevort…

Will Brandon Aiyuk return for the 49ers this season? Answering five top questions https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47172027/will-brandon-aiyuk-return-san-francisco-49ers-season-faq

SF protest against the bombings in Venezuela, via a group chat. 1pm at Market and Powell

The Chevy Chase documentary really gets details wrong about his time and firing from Community.
It claims that Chevy refused to return to Community without Dan Harmon. In reality Dan was fired at the end of season 3 while Chevy kept going until he got fired during season four.
It also claims that Chevy was angry about some lines Dan wrote for him when he had the outburst that got him fired. Dan simply wasn't there.
Outside the doc I've seen him quoted as having been…

"The most effective kind of propaganda is defined as the kind where the subject moves in the direction you desire for reasons which he believes to be his own."
– Frances Stonor Saunders, The Cultural Cold War: The CIA and the World of Arts and Letters (published January 1, 1999).

Tell me this is not exactly what tech companies are doing. And UX, my own industry, has a lot to answer for.

When people talk about the Enlightenment as if it were an intellectual garden party where everyone sipped wine and agreed about reason, they're missing the part where producing and distributing ideas was (in fact) dangerous and thankless work.
Today we have more information than any civilization in history.
But aside from Wikipedia, we've organized the sum total of our collective knowledge into formats optimized for making people angry at strangers in pursuit of private …

Cowboys’ Jerry Jones Gets Blunt About NFL Trade Deadline https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/jerry-jones-gets-blunt-about-nfl-trade-deadline/?adt_ei=[email]

Kash Patel fires head of #FBI’s critical incident response group, the 3rd head of this key transportation focused unit to be dismissed since Patel was confirmed in February.
Patel's anger apparently stems from embarassing press reports that the nation's top law enforcement agency head had flown in an FBI jet to attend a #VinceMcMahon

"You scored 9 out of 10. Nicely done! Your knowledge is impressive. But there's still room to improve! Of everyone who has taken the quiz, 6 percent had more correct answers, and 91 percent had fewer correct answers."
Got a lucky guess on one.
https://missionl…

"So the next time you find yourself asking why you're being inundated with AI wherever you go, remember that the answer is that someone with millions of dollars to spare paid for it on the off chance that it will yield a nice return."
(Original title: a16z Is Funding a 'Speedrun' to AI-Generated Hell on Earth)