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California Attorney General Rob Bonta today led a coalition of 26 states, counties, and cities
 in filing a lawsuit against the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA)
challenging its final rule weakening corporate average fuel economy (CAFE) standards for new passenger cars and light trucks.
Historically, NHTSA’s standards have reduced consumer costs by improving fuel efficiency for vehicles,
placed downward pressure on gas prices by reducing fuel cons…

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.

Had quite an adventure in hardware debugger land at @… Mesh Night, last night, but we managed to get the bootloader onto this board by way of a Pi Pico Zero and the debugprobe firmware (after failing to make the Tigard do what we needed—certainly our fault, not Tigard’s).
Fun little project. Really rewarding to see it work, despite being way out of our depth on …

Anton Hill (@anthill@zeroes.ca)
Attached: 1 image Bought a RAK19713 card on a whim for a #meshcore or #meshtastic hobby project. Seems that it needs to be flashed with a GPIO harness once to enable loading custom firmware over the PCI-express USB. Am I reading this right? @foulab@chaos.social is this something I could do at your workshop? https://docs.rakwireless.com/product-categories/wislink/rak19713/firmware/#flash-the-arduino-bootloader

messal_shale: Messel Shale food web (2014)
A network of feeling links among taxa based on the 48 million years old uppermost early Eocene Messel Shale. Edge property 'certainty' denotes the certainty of the edge. Metadata include evidence, habitat, and trophic roles. The edge direction goes from consumer to resource.
This network has 700 nodes and 6444 edges.
Tags: Biological, Food Web, Uncertain, Weighted, Metadata

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…

alpena has a great used record store, noise & toys, and i usually come home with an inch or two of LPs, but not this year bc they’re in the middle of moving to a new space #alas
they don’t sort by categories, just alphabetically. i usually spend hours rummaging for vintage jazz among all the rest, picking up where i left off the following year.
i have found so many gems there
any…

messal_shale: Messel Shale food web (2014)
A network of feeling links among taxa based on the 48 million years old uppermost early Eocene Messel Shale. Edge property 'certainty' denotes the certainty of the edge. Metadata include evidence, habitat, and trophic roles. The edge direction goes from consumer to resource.
This network has 700 nodes and 6444 edges.
Tags: Biological, Food Web, Uncertain, Weighted, Metadata

All the Major Social Media Networks Are Reportedly Refusing Ads for ‘Musk’
YouTube, TikTok, and Meta's Facebook and Instagram all seem to be either chickening out or taking Elon Musk's side.
This is exactly the kind of thing that might piss off Elon Musk, who has a notoriously thin skin and needs no excuse to slip into a fit of rage.
Musk already has: he responded by tweeting Gibney has “ZERO integrity” and is a “horrible human.”
Musk’s webs of companies and …

Watch the New Trailer for the Explosive Documentary on Elon Musk
The tech oligarch has threatened legal action against the filmmakers.

messal_shale: Messel Shale food web (2014)
A network of feeling links among taxa based on the 48 million years old uppermost early Eocene Messel Shale. Edge property 'certainty' denotes the certainty of the edge. Metadata include evidence, habitat, and trophic roles. The edge direction goes from consumer to resource.
This network has 700 nodes and 6444 edges.
Tags: Biological, Food Web, Uncertain, Weighted, Metadata

This next part could give you nightmares:
“The mouthparts of biting midges consist of a fleshy sheath inside of which are four, minute cutting blades that lacerate the skin, inflicting sharp, burning pain.
Observant victims may notice tiny red ‘spots’ that are biting midges filling with blood.”
https://www.mosquitomagnet.com/