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Google Bankrolled Secret Summit For Key State Lawmakers (Luke Goldstein/The Lever)
https://www.levernews.com/google-bankrolled-secret-summit-for-key-state-lawmakers/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251211/p144#a251211p144

Today in #BanCars / #FuckCars news. https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/12/10

A Car Driver Ripped Off a Woman’s Leg in Broad Daylight - Streetsblog New York City
A Brooklyn driver drove onto a busy sidewalk in central Williamsburg and maimed a 33-year-old pedestrian. Why can't our officials prevent this kind of predictable incident?

Exactly where it belongs. https://noc.social/@todayilearned/115699073964279612

Today I learned (@todayilearned@noc.social)
Attached: 1 image TIL that Hitler’s bunker in Berlin is now under a gravel parking lot for an apartment complex. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F%C3%BChrerbunker #til #todayilearned https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1pjnwk5/til_that_hitlers_bunker_in_berlin_is_now_under_a/

This graffiti covered bunker in on top of a huge earth berm and would have been used to target two pairs of 16 inch guns had German ships approached the coast in WWI or WWII.
#photo #photography #military

Omfg
"NSO’s new executive chairman, David Friedman, a former U.S. ambassador to Israel and onetime bankruptcy lawyer for President Trump, said he wants to use his ties to the Trump administration to help rebuild the company’s spyware business in the U.S."
Israeli Spyware Maker NSO Gets New Owners, Leadership and Seeks to Mend Reputation

Another solid rap banger from this year - 'The Pryce You Pay' by Slik Jak & Vincent Pryce: https://slikjack.bandcamp.com/album/the-pryce-you-pay
This is gritty and grimy, super solid from front to back. Some excellent wordplay, beats and samples all over the plac…

I’m somewhat annoyed by big parts of the “AI” discourse (“it’s useless” is patently wrong/wishful thinking and “it’s morally wrong” won’t convince anyone) so this banger by Cory Doctorow was godsend:
> [S]ome people will be on the workers' side because of politics or aesthetics. […] But if you want to win over all the people who benefit from your labor, you need to understand and stress how the products of the AI will be substandard.

Furcht vor Bunkerkeim - Tödliche Krankheit breitet sich an der Front aus #News #Nachrichten

Trump Goon Delivers Bonkers Excuse for Grim Jobs Report (Vic Verbalaitis/The Daily Beast)
https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-goon-kevin-hassett-delivers-bonkers-excuse-for-grim-jobs-report/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260109/p114#a260109p114