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One of the nice things about not having ads or any kind of revenue from my site is that I no longer get the diamond-pressure bum-hole puckering feeling I used to get when I had a hosting company and a site would go down. I don’t even have monitoring set up and it’s freeing.
But go kick an LLM in the dick for stealing so much of my shit that you can’t read it except in some inaccessible pay-for-wrongness shitty chat venue.

Statements of interest allow the government to declare an official position on a legal matter in private lawsuits.
While not binding, they can hold significant weight and help persuade cases.
The New York Times' lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft argues AI firms illegally stole their copyrighted works to train their large language models,
and that AI-generated outputs unlawfully produced market substitutions.
The DOJ's SOI argues copyrighted works to train mo…

sp_high_school_new: High school dynamic contacts (2011-2012)
These datasets contain the temporal network of contacts between students in a high school in Marseilles, France. The first dataset gives the contacts of the students of three classes during 4 days in Dec. 2011, and the second corresponds to the contacts of the students of 5 classes during 7 days (from a Monday to the Tuesday of the following week) in Nov. 2012.
This network has 126 nodes and 28561 edges.
Tags: Soc…

Analysis: OpenAI and Anthropic employees are donating to campaigns more heavily and cohesively than Google, Meta, and Airbnb employees did post-IPO (Alexandra Lindsay/The San Francisco Standard)
https://sfstandard.com/2026/07/18/ai-s-…

AI’s new political donor class is already outspending Big Tech’s last one
Campaign filings show AI employees donating faster, more heavily, and more in sync than three prior tech-IPO donor classes. Here’s where the money is going.

Halfway the EU gas storage filling season, the Netherlands is lagging. Our storages are only at 31% now, way behind the EU average of 53%, and other major storage countries like France (52%), Germany (45%) and Italy (71%).
Based on security of supply advice by Gasunie, Dutch government had set a target of 80% by 1 November 2026. Our EU obligation is 74%. Both would practically seem out of reach by now, which is unfortunate in view of our dependence on LNG imports in an unstable world.

Just another place we visited in the Fränkische Schweiz. We just walked along a little stream and suddenly passed through this rock-gate with all the lush green on either side.
Just beautiful.
https://www.franzgraf.de/blog/2026/caves-and-meadows-d…

Finally some #NoctilucentClouds over Bochum, Germany, again Thursday evening: extended but pretty faint, so I had to crank up the contrast a lot here. See also webcam views at https://webcam.wetternetz-hagen.de/webcam/Sternwarte-ERT/#/2026/07/16/2308 and https://www.foto-webcam.eu/webcam/ettelsberg/2026/07/16/2320 and https://www.foto-webcam.eu/webcam/flensburg/2026/07/16/2320 (and forward the frames to enjoy more timesteps).

"CyberScoop spoke with several Secretaries of State who said that the number one threat facing elections in their state is not from a foreign country or AI but their own federal government."
https://cyberscoop.com/trump-administration-eac-firin…

Hier zwei Bilder vom Abriss Anfang Dezember 2025 im Bereich #FrankensteinerWeg und #BlumenhallerWeg in #osnabruck.
Aktuell wächst die Fläche zu, liegt brach. Neuer Wohnraum Fehlanzeige.

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