"Notably, after police union resistance to ending pretextual stops over claims that the policy would jeopardize their ability to keep “dangerous criminals” off the streets, that has not happened: Crime was down almost 44 percent from 2023 to 2025." And "Traffic stops turned up few guns either way: Officers recovered 17 firearms in 2024 and 16 in 2025, “about the same as the numbers in 2022 and 2023”
San Francisco police stopping drivers far less for minor offenses
"Notably, after police union resistance to ending pretextual stops over claims that the policy would jeopardize their ability to keep “dangerous criminals” off the streets, that has not happened: Crime was down almost 44 percent from 2023 to 2025." And "Traffic stops turned up few guns either way: Officers recovered 17 firearms in 2024 and 16 in 2025, “about the same as the numbers in 2022 and 2023”
San Francisco police stopping drivers far less for minor offenses
"Anthropic lost $42 billion on revenue of $4.6 billion last year, according to the report, with losses surging 425% from 2024 even as revenue grew 12-fold over the same period. About $7.33 billion was on compute and infrastructure last year, a threefold surge from 2024."
Let me reiterate that, their loses increased 42.5x, while revenue grew 12x year-to-year... A unicorn!
Invest fast or be left behind 😭
Don’t look now, but suddenly the U.S. Senate is in play
At the start of this election cycle,
it looked like winning control of the Senate was all but out of Democratic reach.
There are 35 contests on the ballot in November.
Of those, nearly two dozen are effectively over before they’ve even started,
given the advantage one party holds over the other.
Of the remainder, most are being held in states Trump won in 2024,
which makes them, broadly speaki…
Survey: 77% of US adults support in-class cellphone bans for middle and high school students, up from 74% in 2025 and 68% in 2024; just 18% oppose such bans (Jeffrey Gottfried/Pew Research Center)
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/20
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NSCopyObject, the griefer that keeps on griefing.
https://wadetregaskis.com/nscopyobject-the-griefer-that-keeps-on-griefing/
saved 2024-07-19
The nearly decade-long case of a Black Texas woman who was sentenced to five years in prison
in a controversial illegal voting case
will end with an acquittal, the state’s highest criminal court said in a 5-4 decision on Thursday.
The woman, Crystal Mason, has been appealing against the case ever since her 2018 conviction
for casting a provisional ballot that ultimately wasn’t counted.
In 2024, the Texas court of criminal appeals acquitted her in the case.
Robert Reich, always on point. 🎯
African defense tech company Terra Industries, founded in 2024, raised a $52M seed round from 8VC and others, and says it's on track to book $100M in contracts (Dominic-Madori Davis/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/17/terr
Ein äußerst anregender Dialograum ist entstanden auf der Karlshöhe der @… zum kontroversen Thema Palästina-Israel in der Laubhütte des Friedens. Mit dabei Yad be Yad (https://www.
Der Dänemark-Krimi: Das Mädchen im Kirchturm • Fernsehfilm Deutschland 2024 -#ARD
#crimi #krimi #DerDänemarkKrimi
A national poll released this week by The New York Times and Siena University found that Democrats entered the fall with an advantage of nearly nine percentage points over Republicans on the congressional ballot
— an edge similar to 2018, the last time there was a so-called blue wave.
“Republicans are panicking and are on the brink of losing the House, with the Senate not far behind,” Representative Hakeem Jeffries of New York, the minority leader, said in an interview.
But…
Häufigkeitsverteilung der Bruttoleistung von #Balkonkraftwerken in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 31.07.2026.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten vor 2018 durch Registrierungsdatum ersetzt. Sonderregelungen nach
Major Space Weather Risks Identified via Coupled Physics-Engineering-Economic Modeling: #SolarSuperstorm Drained Earth’s Radiation Belt: https://eos.org/research-spotlights/how-the-2024-solar-superstorm-drained-earths-radiation-belt - researchers dig into storm processes linked to dramatic electron loss from the outer Van Allen belt.
Bin über ein Windpark-Thema bei der Bayernpartei gelandet und wollte wissen, wie weit die von der AfD weg ist. Also beide Programme gelesen.
Grundsatzprogramm 2011/17: „deutlich verstärkte Nutzung von regenerativen Energiequellen", ausdrücklich Ausbau von Windkraft. Dazu Atomausstieg.
Wahlprogramm 2024: „Im windarmen Bayern ist Windkraft leider nicht zielführend." Nein zu „überdimensionierten Windparks".
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Ich verstehe das nicht. Wir haben aus guten Gründen den Art. 22 GG, welcher Deutschland davor schützen sollte, dass gegen die freiheitlich demokratische Grundordnung oder dem Bestand der Bundesrepublik Deutschland agiert wird.
Die AfD ist laut Verfassungsschutz gesichert Rechtsextrem, es gibt ein Gutachten dass einen Erfolg im Verbotsverfahren sieht, 2024 gingen mehr als eine Millionen Menschen gegen Rechtsextremismus auf die Straße, 2025 sind in 60 Städten mehrere 10-tausende Menschen…
"Some designs of emojis are very different for the same codepoint, especially the ones depicting emotions/reactions. Examples coming to mind are 😨, 🔫. What are your thoughts on this?" - The (water) pistol 🔫 was originally a hand gun which looked a lot more real. In response to its frequent use in criminal or other unsavory contexts (e.g., as a threat), most platforms replaced it with the colorful plastic toy gun design in 2018. (In 2024, Elon Musk had it turned back into a realistic hand gun for the Twemoji design 🙄)
I'm torn. On the one hand, I don't think we can stay on top of all potential uses of emojis (or should even try to limit them) and people who want to use emojis for threats probably can still do so. On the other hand, I do find it rather hard to imagine that the green plastic 🔫 could be used as a threat... so... I guess good job, designers/tech firms? #emojis #linguistics #WorldEmojiDay
https://emojipedia.org/pistol#designs
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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