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Military vehicle crashes into car in DC as states send more national guard troops;
Incident comes as six states pledge to send at least 1,200 troops to Washington DC despite falling crime rate
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/20/military-vehicle-cras…

I'm almost through The Shepherd's Crown and it's better than I feared - definitely better than Raising Steam, in my opinion.
There are only two things that I find jarring: Nanny Ogg sounds WAY folksier than it does normally, and it's clear he would've edited it massively ("dainty" appears every second page).
Other than that, I have the feeling he wrote the same book in the Good Timeline, the one where the Embuggerance left him alone.

Human resources software giant Workday has disclosed a data breach following a social engineering attack that compromised a third-party customer relationship management (CRM) platform.
https://www.computing.co.uk/news/2025/secu

Workday confirms data breach amid wave of Salesforce-linked cyberattacks
Human resources software giant Workday has disclosed a data breach following a social engineering attack that compromised a third-party customer relationship management (CRM) platform.

Scam alert: ACCC phone numbers spoofed by scammers
The National Anti-Scam Centre (NASC) is warning Australians following reports that scammers have been impersonating phone numbers belonging to the ACCC in an attempt to steal personal information.
The ACCC and the NASC (which operates under the ACCC) have become aware of scammers using publicly available ACCC phone numbers, which are listed on the agency’s official website.
The ACCC phone numbers have been spoofed, which me…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #LaurenLaverne
Cerrone & Rahim Redcar:
🎵 Catching feelings
#Cerrone #RahimRedcar
https://cerroneofficial.bandcamp.com/track/catching-feelings

Crime Keeps Falling. Here's Why. (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/14/opinion/crime-statistics-washington-dc.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250814/p43#a250814p43

Disney and Lucasfilm settle with Gina Carano, who sued for discrimination over her firing from The Mandalorian after she shared controversial social media posts (Katcy Stephan/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/biz/news/gina-carano-disney-settle-mand…

Gina Carano, Disney Settle Legal Dispute Over 'Mandalorian' Firing
Lucasfilm and the Walt Disney Company have reached an agreement in their legal dispute with Gina Carano following her firing from "The Mandalorian."

„Die Auflösung der #Straflager war un­auf­halt­bar: Am 1. August 1953 verließ der letzte Transport von Sträflingen, die nach #Frankreich zurückkehren wollten, #Guayana. Aber nun sind die …

All Eyes, no IMU: Learning Flight Attitude from Vision Alone
Jesse J. Hagenaars, Stein Stroobants, Sander M. Bohte, Guido C. H. E. De Croon
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11302

All Eyes, no IMU: Learning Flight Attitude from Vision Alone
Vision is an essential part of attitude control for many flying animals, some of which have no dedicated sense of gravity. Flying robots, on the other hand, typically depend heavily on accelerometers and gyroscopes for attitude stabilization. In this work, we present the first vision-only approach to flight control for use in generic environments. We show that a quadrotor drone equipped with a downward-facing event camera can estimate its attitude and rotation rate from just the event stream, e…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #NickGrimshaw
Cerrone & Rahim Redcar:
🎵 Catching feelings
#Cerrone #RahimRedcar
https://cerroneofficial.bandcamp.com/track/catching-feelings
https://open.spotify.com/track/5WZL03aLF9GVNaa5Q6ATNe