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Survey: 52% of Americans say they are more concerned than excited about increased AI use in daily life, up from 37% in 2021, including 55% of those under 30 (Pew Research Center)
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/20

Young adults in the U.S. are increasingly wary of AI, concerned it will take jobs
About half of Americans say they're more concerned than excited about AI, and young adults' concern is rising.

from my link log —
GhostCell: separating permissions from data in Rust.
http://plv.mpi-sws.org/rustbelt/ghostcell/
saved 2021-05-23 https://

BBC lawyers want to subpoena Donald Trump Jr., Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner for both documents and deposition testimony
-- arguing all three have direct knowledge of Trump's intentions behind his January 6, 2021, speech at the Ellipse.
Citing testimony gathered by the House January 6 Committee, the BBC claimed Trump Jr. and Ivanka were present as their father revised the speech and were with him when he delivered it,
while Kushner reportedly drafted a statement condem…

BBC forcibly turned away trying to serve papers to Ivanka and Kushner: report
The BBC's legal team got physically blocked by police while trying to hand court papers to Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner at their own Miami home.The incident, reported by Politico, is part of an escalating fight to force President Trump's family into his $10 billion defamation suit against the Brit...

The BBC is seeking to subpoena Donald Trump’s son Donald Trump Jr.,
his daughter Ivanka Trump
and son-in-law Jared Kushner
in connection with a $10 billion defamation lawsuit the president is pressing against the U.K. broadcaster.
Lawyers for the BBC say the Trump family members “without question have personal knowledge” about Trump’s intentions in delivering the speech at the heart of the case:
his Jan. 6, 2021, address to supporters at the Ellipse as the Capit…

cofe: Collaboration in Financial Economics (2021)
Network of authors and commenters of papers in finantial economics, obtained from the acknowledgement sections of over 5,000 published research papers.
This network has 13967 nodes and 102039 edges.
Tags: Social, Directed, Weighted, Online, Collaboration
https://networks.ske…

The AI frenzy has divided the VC market, as the gap between top and bottom performers has more than doubled for 2024 funds compared to funds from 2017 to 2021 (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2026-08-04/big…

from my link log —
New Ansible data validation module(s).
https://blog.ipspace.net/2021/03/ansible-validation.html
saved 2021-03-05 https://

New Ansible Data Validation Module(s) « ipSpace.net blog
A few months ago I described how you could use JSON Schema to validate your automation data models, host/group variable files, or even Ansible inventory file. I had to use a weird toolchain to get it done – either ansible-inventory to build a complete data model from various inventory sources, or yq to convert YAML to JSON… and just for the giggles jsonschema CLI command requires the JSON input to reside in a file, so you have to use a temporary file to get the job done.

Airtable sold for over a billion dollar
I don't imagine they will keep this generous free plan for a very long time now..
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/04/bending-spoons-to-buy-airtable-for-1-28b/

Five years after the Taliban took power, an increasing number of countries are renewing ties or scaling up diplomatic contacts with the hardline Islamists, who seized power in Kabul in 2021 after 20 years of brutal insurgent warfare.
Campaigners fear that the individual contacts by different countries risk undermining “coherent, consistent” demands for an improvement in human rights in return for any diplomatic concessions.
The United Nations described a recent “cascade of [Talib…

Concerns grow over increased global ties with Taliban in Afghanistan
Campaigners fear deeper diplomatic contacts are undermining demands for improvements in human rights

Let me post yet again this brilliant French-language version of the old blues standard, "Poor Boy, Long Ways From Home":
Myriam Gendron, "Poor Girl Blues" (2021)
https://myriamgendron.bandcamp.com/track/poor-girl-blues

Sicherheitsbedenken, umfangreiche Umbauten und ein Unfall Ende 2025 haben Lindes Produktion von grünem #Wasserstoff im Chemiepark #Leuna um Jahre verzögert.
Der 2021 angekündigte PEM-Elektrolyseur sollte bereits 2022 starten und jährlich rund 3.200 Tonnen Wasserstoff produzieren. Bund und Sa…

Chemiepark Leuna: Sicherheitsvorfälle bremsen grünen Wasserstoff aus - Golem.de
Umbauten aus Sicherheitsgründen und ein Unfall haben die Produktion von grünem Wasserstoff von Linde in Sachsen-Anhalt um Jahre verzögert. Die Öffentlichkeit hat davon bislang nichts erfahren.

Dolphins trade WR Tutu Atwell to Rams for RB Jarquez Hunter: Source https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7543947/2026/08/27/dolphins-rams-trade-tutu-atwell-jarquez-hunter/

cofe: Collaboration in Financial Economics (2021)
Network of authors and commenters of papers in finantial economics, obtained from the acknowledgement sections of over 5,000 published research papers.
This network has 13967 nodes and 102039 edges.
Tags: Social, Directed, Weighted, Online, Collaboration
https://networks.ske…

from my link log —
Clojure from a Schemer's perspective.
https://www.more-magic.net/posts/thoughts-on-clojure.html
saved 2021-03-05 http…

Five years ago, the West risked a
full-blown diplomatic crisis with NATO ally Turkey
when 10 ambassadors called for the release of a man they saw as a political prisoner,
prompting an angry President Tayyip Erdogan to order their expulsion.
After two frantic days in 2021,
the sides stepped back from the brink with the U.S., ‌French, German, Canadian and other envoys issuing conciliatory statements
and Erdogan saying they would be more careful in the future…