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I updated “Don’t Disable Form Controls” with a suggestion on what to do with submit buttons:
https://adrianroselli.com/2024/02/dont-disable-form-controls.html#SubmitInstead
And no, making them read-only is not it, so don’t:

Don’t Disable Form Controls
Just another usability and accessibility pro telling authors not to do the thing they continue to do. It’s Ok to Disable Buttons There are plenty of cases where you want to disable a button until a user takes a conscious action to enable it, such as when launching nuclear missiles.…

In 2024, the FBI sought to launch a sweeping "pay-to-play" investigation examining interactions between Sen. Susan Collins and a top donor, records and emails show.

Confession: The donor, an ex-defense contractor, told agents his company won millions in federal contracts by bankrolling campaigns of powerful politicians.

Shutdown: After Donald Trump returned to office, the investigation died, a casualty of his purge of the FBI.
Its closure shut a poten…

The FBI Anti-Corruption Squad Was Circling Susan Collins — Until Trump Got in the Way
After the FBI caught a defense contractor’s CEO making illegal campaign contributions, it sought to launch a sweeping political bribery probe involving Collins and others. Then the second Trump administration dismantled the unit handling the inquiry.

NJ Governor says a software error at DMV led to the improper voter registration of ~6,600 noncitizens between June 2023 and June 2024; 400 of those cast ballots (Tracey Tully/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/21/nyregion/noncitizen-voting-new…

D.M.V. Error Led to 400 Noncitizens Voting in New Jersey, Governor Says
A software glitch in 2023 at the New Jersey Department of Motor Vehicles led to roughly 6,600 noncitizens being registered to vote, Gov. Mikie Sherrill announced on Tuesday.

from my link log —
It's always TCP_NODELAY. Every damn time.
https://brooker.co.za/blog/2024/05/09/nagle.html
saved 2024-05-09 https://

VidCon is leaving Anaheim and combining with Lions Creators to hold VidCon x Lions Creators events, starting in Nashville in 2027; Informa bought VidCon in 2024 (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/digital/news/vidcon-leaving-anaheim-li…

VidCon's Annual Creator Confab Is Leaving Anaheim After Merging With LIONS, Parent of Cannes Lions
VidCon is leaving its home of Anaheim after 16 years in Southern California after merging with the digital creator business of LIONS, parent of Cannes Lions.

In what environmental advocates describe as
“another gift to the fossil fuel industry,”
🆘the Trump administration plans to end rules limiting the release of planet-heating emissions from power plants that burn coal and gas.
🔥Power plants are considered the largest industrial source of greenhouse gas emissions in the US and account for about a quarter of the nation’s climate pollution, according to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
In 2024, the EPA under the B…

‘Actively malevolent’: Trump EPA to eviscerate rules on planet-heating pollution from power plants
“This is full-throated climate denial while the climate crisis happens in real time and a shocking betrayal of the American public.”

PSA: if you're in the US and bought an iPhone 15 Pro/Pro Max or any iPhone 16 as the original owner between June 2024 and March 2025, there's a class action settlement and you can probably get like $25 for filling out a form: https://smartphoneaisettlement.com

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-

Häufigkeitsverteilung der Bruttoleistung von #Balkonkraftwerk​en in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 31.08.2026.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten vor 2018 durch Registrierungsdatum ersetzt. Sonderregelungen nach

Aaron Donald works out for Rams as he eyes potential return to NFL https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7495221/2026/08/05/aaron-donald-rams-tryout-retirement/

RIPOSTE POPULAIRE - Porcherie 2024 - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRhLCT5nV1Q&list=RD2kU_aJ4BHiU&index=7

Alaska US Senate candidate Mary Peltola has rejected the support of Kamala Harris, her fellow Democrat,
after the 2024 presidential candidate sent out a seemingly unsolicited fundraising appeal on Peltola’s behalf.
Harris, who lost Alaska – typically a Republican-voting state – by 13 points during her unsuccessful White House run, on Wednesday sent an email from her political organization to supporters of Peltola, a former US House member.
“If there’s anyone who can flip Al…

Home - Mary Peltola
It's simple: The fight for Fish, Family, Freedom depends on fixing the rigged system in DC.

In case anyone wants to know what mosquito buckets are: https://colinpurrington.com/2024/08/bti-honeypot-traps/

Sources detail Intel's turnaround under Lip-Bu Tan as AI demand for CPUs boosts business; Intel's deal to make Arm's AI data center chip fell through in 2024 (Michael Acton/Financial Times)

Häufigkeitsverteilung der Bruttoleistung von #Balkonkraftwerk​en in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 31.07.2026.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten vor 2018 durch Registrierungsdatum ersetzt. Sonderregelungen nach

Schon die Einleitung beeindruckt. Die heutige USA reiht sich nahtlos in die Aufzählung der Autokratien der Welt ein. Das konnte Applebaum 2024 nicht wissen, aber in der Rückschau erschüttert das schon sehr. Ich bin gespannt auf ihr Buch „Die Achse der Autokraten“ in der Ausgabe der #büchergildegutenberg

Burgum was considered the
not-completely-crazy candidate for the GOP nomination in 2024.
https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3mpvq5so5qu2o

Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)
BASH: But it peeled off. Why did that happen? BURGUM: It didn't peel off. There was vandalism. There was box cutters. There have been 7 arrests. BASH: There are photographs of people cutting a 350 foot gash in the reflecting pool? BURGUM: Dana, I'm not sure why you keep questioning it

Beyond headcount and human capital: The Effective Cognitive Population as a decomposable capacity unit for AI-era planning
Kwan Soo Shin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.09642 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2608.09642 https://arxiv.org/html/2608.09642
arXiv:2608.09642v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: National planning counts population, human capital, and artificial-intelligence preparedness in separate ledgers. Demographic accounting has advanced from headcount to skills-adjusted stocks and still debates how much age structure retains once skills are modeled, yet no existing unit carries the conditions under which preparedness becomes productive capacity. This study introduces the Effective Cognitive Population (ECP), a decomposable unit that weights population by capability and by the conditions under which capability is deployed, anchored to the World Bank Human Capital Index Plus (HCI ) and the non-overlapping dimensions of the IMF AI Preparedness Index. The architecture is portable in principle; the case tested here is artificial intelligence, which has a published preparedness index. For 144 countries, HCI becomes a productivity level, AI opportunity uses digital infrastructure and innovation integration, conversion governance uses regulation and ethics, and the benchmark is ECP = N H(1 AC). Against 2024 total output on identical population bases, ECP raises criterion R-squared from 0.849 for the HCI -adjusted stock to 0.882 and lowers leave-one-country-out RMSE from 0.723 to 0.641, with the working-age comparison identical and bootstrap intervals excluding zero. Eighty-nine of 144 countries move at least ten rank positions from headcount, mostly through the human-capital adjustment itself. Results are stable across denominators, vintages, aggregation forms, and a 27-rule multiverse. The direct A by C interaction is not statistically supported, so the conjunction is a planning rule rather than causal complementarity. ECP is a diagnostic ledger whose scope excludes forecasts of population decline and estimates of AI's causal productivity effect.
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Renner's 2027 NFL Draft scouting series: Ranking the top 10 safeties, including the next Kyle Hamilton?

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/draft/news/2027-nfl-draft-safety-rankings/…

#introduction
After a very long break, I'm (finally) back on Mastodon.
I'm gonna re-introduce myself: My name is Mark Zhou / EnmakaiDev. I'm a hobbyist developer and FOSS advocate who's been daily driving Linux since 2024.
I make projects primarily with Rust, and for myself but still decide to share (some of) them with the world only to leave a mark (ge…

Organizational Technology Ladders: Remote Work and Generative AI Adoption
Gregor Schubert
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.11626 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2608.11626 https://arxiv.org/html/2608.11626
arXiv:2608.11626v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: This study proposes that firms move along an "organizational technology ladder": adopting one technology transforms hiring and work processes and builds skills and organizational capital that change the cost of adopting subsequent technologies. I study how firms' adoption of remote work technology during the COVID-19 period shaped later uptake of generative AI. Using U.S. job-posting data and an instrumental-variables strategy based on predicted differences in labor-market pressure to offer remote work, I estimate that a 10 percentage point increase in remote hiring in 2021-2022 increases the share of job postings mentioning generative AI in 2023-2024 by 0.4 percentage points across firms and 0.7 percentage points across occupations within firms. I provide evidence on mechanisms consistent with a technology-ladder channel: remote work adoption shifts hiring toward technical and managerial capabilities that predict faster conversion of generative AI exposure into adoption. Firms with return-to-office mandates---interpreted as revealing low remote productivity---exhibit a substantially larger response of generative AI adoption to remote work, consistent with an organizational frictions channel.
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#Streudiagramm der #Bruttoleistung von #Balkonkraftwerk​en in #Deutschland mit …

Die Diskussion über teuren #Diesel & #Benzin ist erneut unangemessen aufgeregt und daher Faktenfrei.
Rechnung hoher #Spritpreis:
Wer bspw. mit einem sparsamen Auto 40 Cent/Liter mehr zahlt, hat (bei 10t-km/Jahr) monatlich Mehrkosten von 20€. Das ist für Normalos keine extreme Belastung.
Das entspricht übrigens fast den Preissteigerungen für das #Deutschlandticket innerhalb von 2 Jahren (2024 auf 2027). Da hat niemand in der Politik Sonderzahlungen an Bus- und Bahnfahrer verschenken wollen.

#Streudiagramm der #Bruttoleistung von #Balkonkraftwerk​en in #Deutschland mit …