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Politico shuts down two AI-driven products following a November 2025 arbitration ruling that found they violated the union's collective bargaining agreement (Kathleen Floyd/Washington-Baltimore News Guild)
https://wbng.org/2026/05/22/politico-ai-arbitration-victory/…

VICTORY: POLITICO agrees to shut down both AI tools at center of landmark arbitration - Washington-Baltimore News Guild
The POLITICO and E&E News Guild (PEN Guild) members have earned a resounding final victory in one of the most significant labor-AI disputes in American journalism: following months of negotiations between PEN Guild leadership, WBNG, and POLITICO management, the company has agreed to shut down both artificial intelligence products at the heart of last November’s landmark arbitration ruling.

A Mysterious Golden Orb Was Discovered Under the Sea. We Finally Know What It Is. https://www.404media.co/a-mysterious-golden-orb-was-discovered-under-the-sea-we-finally-know-what-it-is/

Filing: Anthropic spent $1.6M and OpenAI $1M on lobbying in Q1, vs. $360K and $560K in Q1 2025, respectively; Meta topped Big Tech lobbying spending with $7.1M (Ashley Gold/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/04/21/anthropic-outspends-openai-biggest-lobbyin…

Anthropic outspends OpenAI in biggest-ever lobbying quarter
Both Anthropic and OpenAI posted their biggest-ever lobbying spends in the first quarter of 2026.

Irgendwann mal schreibe ich selbst AGB, welche auf private Regelwerke verweisen, die nur kostenpflichtig verfügbar sind 🤬
So was wie "Für die Gültigkeit dieses Vertrags und der daraus entstehenden Pflichten gelten, sofern nicht schriftlich anders vereinbart, ausschliesslich die Regeln des Handbuchs DMG D&D 5e 2024 in der deutschen Fassung."
#Recht

Laos can do more to mitigate chemical pollution of rivers flowing into Vietnam (analysis) https://news.mongabay.com/2026/04/laos-can-do-more-to-mitigate-chemical-pollution-of-rivers-flowing-into-vietnam-analysis/…

Laos can do more to mitigate chemical pollution of rivers flowing into Vietnam (analysis)
Southeast Asia’s growing demand for rare earth elements and gold, driven by global needs in electronics, renewable energy, defense and high-value commodities, has accelerated mining across the region. While Myanmar’s unregulated mines have drawn attention for contaminating Mekong River tributaries, monitored by the Mekong River Commission, an equally pressing but less scrutinized issue exists along […]

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Ik vraag me trouwens af of een overheid er bij buitenlandse bestedingen ook rekening mee houdt dat hetzelfde bedrag hier of daar besteden netto eem groot verschil maakt.
Van binnenlandse bestedingen komt een flink deel weer terug in belastingen en premies die werkgever en werknemers betalen.
Voor buitenlandse bestedingen geldt een kleine tot grote mate van: 'weg=weg'.
#DigitaleSoevereiniteit #DigiD

Grand-dog has gone home after an 8 day sojourn and I have a 24 hour window until the wee one arrives tomorrow.
Side note: The house is deliciously quiet, no one followed me to the toilet, and I ate chocolate without feeling guilty.

I grew up in Southern California - so the concept of continuously free flowing fresh water all year was a thing of hard-to-believe imagination.
All these decades later, now that I live in the mountains around the Monterey Bay, I look with daily amazement at at the ever-running stream that runs past my garden.
I kinda wonder whether climate change will cause my stream to dry up or become larger.
I'm glad my house is roughly 40 to 60 feet above (and well back from) the cr…

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Patriots draft pick Quintayvious Hutchins arrested on assault charge, pleads not guilty

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/patriots-quintayvious-hutchins-arrested-charged/…