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An arbitrator orders Uber to pay $40M to the parents of a woman fatally hit by a car after an Uber driver ordered her out of his car in 2023 (Christine Hauser/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/18/business/uber-payment-woman-killed-f…

Uber to Pay $40 Million to Parents of Woman Fatally Hit by Car
Emily Normandin-Parker, 23, was struck and killed on a California freeway after an Uber driver ordered her and a friend out of his car in August 2023.

16WW Hot Noon Garden Ambient (2023-09) - Back garden noises with temperature hitting 32 Celsius; birds, bees, cars, planes, sirens. #fieldRecording #London #heatWave -

16WW Hot Noon Garden Ambient (2023-09)
Back garden noises with temperature hitting 32 Celsius; birds, bees, cars, planes, sirens. #fieldRecording #London #heatWave

#TIL vimeo staff picks still exist: https://www.europeanfilmawards.eu/staff-picks/

Staff Picks
Back Staff Picks Search CategoriesAds and CommercialsAnimationBranded ContentComedyDocumentaryExperimentalMusicNarrativeSportsTravel Sort byMost RecentAlphabetically (A-Z)Alphabetically (Z-A)Duration (Longest first)Duration (Shortest first) IN THE SHADOW OF THE CYPRESS Shirin Sohani | Hossein Molayemi Motherland Christina Yoon Boat People National Film Board of Canada ILY, BYE Taylor James FILE Sonia K.Hadad Retour à Hairy Hill (Return to Hairy Hill, 2023) Daniel […]

In the summer of 2023, gearing up for his bid for a second term, President Joe Biden gathered with a cadre of wealthy donors at a $7.5 million mansion in Greenwich, Connecticut.
As the $25,000-a-seat fundraising dinner began, the president turned to thank his host:
Stephen Mandel,
a billionaire hedge fund manager and devoted Democratic donor.
“I wouldn’t be here, standing here as president of the United States, without a lot of you in this room,”
Biden told the…

How A Hedge Fund Billionaire Became The Democrats’ New Kingmaker
Stephen Mandel is bankrolling a new political apparatus built to “redefine” the Democratic Party — but what does he actually want?

July was the second warmest on record globally, tied with 2024, and just behind 2023.
The global average temperature for July 2026 was 16.90°C, 0.67°C above the 1991-2020 average for July and 1.47°C above the estimated pre-industrial average for the month.
From https://climate.copernicus.eu/surface-

from my link log —
Historical notes on computer word and byte sizes.
https://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb/blog/2023-03/2023-03-07.html
saved 2023-03-08

#Steady #Klimacrew
Bereits im Jahr 2023 erregten zwei Anwälte in New York wegen Missbrauchs von ChatGPT Aufsehen. Sie hatten den Chatbot für die Anfertigung von Dokumenten für das Gericht benutzt und es unterlassen, die Ausgaben auf Korrektheit zu prüfen.
Kann man daraus nun etwas lerne…

Anwälte: In Deutschland nichts dazugelernt.
KI im Anwaltsberuf: Warum ungeprüfte Schriftsätze gegen die Sorgfaltspflicht verstoßen können.

Publishers in Similarweb's Top 100 Media index spent $113M on paid search in July, up 41% YoY and 274% since 2023, due to the shift to zero-click search (Mark Stenberg/Adweek)
https://www.adweek.com/media/publishers-buying-search-traffic/

Publishers Are Spending Hundreds of Millions a Month Buying Traffic
Exclusive data reveals that publishers’ paid search budgets have risen 274% in the last three years, part of an industry-wide response to traffic declines

FPF and Leading Companies Release Risk Assessment Framework and Updated Best Practices for AI in Hiring & Employment
https://fpf.org/press-releases/fpf-and-leading-companies-release-risk-ass…

thoughtful & sweet essay by court carney on bob dylan's friendships with jerry garcia & johnny cash & "the vulnerability of brotherhood" https://thedylanreview.org/2025/03/02/questions-on-masculinit…

Questions on Masculinity – Wanted Men: Bob Dylan and the Vulnerability of Brotherhood
“Wanted Men: Bob Dylan and the Vulnerability of Brotherhood” By Court Carney, Stephen F. Austin State University In June 2023, in a concert in Barcelona, Spain, Bob Dylan deviated from his establis…