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Folk who've been following me for a long time will remember that last autumn I was posting pictures of doing the joinery for a new workshop. And then I went mad, and got ill, and for most of this year there's been no progress.
But my friend Lucy has been here for a week, and between the two of us the frame is now erected. Now I need to sort the timber stack (which hasn't been improving while I've been ill), erect a roof, and build some walls. But the bit I couldn't …

"The wheels are coming off."
"The IRS and Social Security are now run by the same person, which I think is a red flag, right?" Don Moynihan says.
"These are like two huge, complicated federal agencies, and one guy is running both of them."
Moynihan notes that a recent Inspector General report found that the agency is collecting much less revenue than it should from its audits.
Elon Musk's DOGE fired scores of tax audit specialists, …

The federal government is falling apart
Don Moynihan on what's been broken within the federal government.

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 180 nodes and 45047 edges.
Tags: Soc…

India issues a notice to Telegram, asking it to curb the spread of pirated films and other copyrighted content, and seeks an action-taken report within 15 days (Sejal Sharma/Hindustan Times)
https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/

15-day govt notice for Telegram to act on piracy channels
The Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (MIB) issued a notice to Telegram on Saturday, asking the messaging platform to take stronger action against the spread of pirated films, OTT content and other copyrighted audio-visual material on its platform | India News

This article is utter nonsense. The planning system does not prevent building.
1) The NPPF has a presumption for sustainable development, where 'sustainable' is nothing of the sort.
2) Sure councils can refuse planning applications but a) if they are the sponsors, why would they, and b) if they do then the planning inspectorate / Secretary of State will overturn the decision.
/contd.

Without radical planning reform, Burnham cannot build the houses he’s promising | LSE British Politics
Governments keep promising more houses, and keep failing to build them. If Burnham is to keep his promise, there needs to be a radical reform to planning rules.

India issues a notice to Telegram, asking it to curb the spread of pirated films and other copyrighted content, and seeks an action-taken report within 15 days (Sejal Sharma/Hindustan Times)
https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/

15-day govt notice for Telegram to act on piracy channels
The Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (MIB) issued a notice to Telegram on Saturday, asking the messaging platform to take stronger action against the spread of pirated films, OTT content and other copyrighted audio-visual material on its platform | India News

Das #USMilitär hat #Werbetracking auf dienstlichen Smartphones und Computern deaktiviert.
Hintergrund sind Berichte, wonach ausländische Akteure kommerziell verfügbare #Standortdaten

US military disabled ad tracking on troops' devices following reports of targeted attacks | TechCrunch
A senator's letter confirms the U.S. military moved to prevent the tracking after foreign adversaries used location data to target troops.

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 180 nodes and 45047 edges.
Tags: Soc…

The Justice Department’s updated position stunned industry stakeholders.
The Department of Justice spent years favoring copyright owners.
That changed Wednesday.
With the Trump administration filing in support of OpenAI amid its legal fight with The New York Times,
the administration departed from the status quo position of Washington politicians
— one that had long cast its lot closer to the entertainment industry in matters of copyright legalities
— to …

‘Darn Unusual’ DOJ Filing Has the Trump Administration on Different Path
The administration's support for OpenAI in its legal fight against The New York Times departed from historic norms and could save AI companies billions of dollars.

twitter: Twitter followers (2010)
A directed network of following relationships from Twitter, from a snowball sample crawl across "quality" users in 2009. A directed edge (i, j) indicates that user i follows user j.
This network has 465017 nodes and 834797 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted
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