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#tool Stefanik Files Ethics Complaint Against Jack Smith - Joe.My.God.
https://www.joemygod.com/2024/04/stefanik-files-ethics-complaint-against-jack-sm…

Stefanik Files Ethics Complaint Against Jack Smith
Fox News reports: House GOP Conference Chair Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., is filing an ethics complaint against special counsel Jack Smith on Tuesday, accusing him of violating Department of Justice (DOJ)

On Greg Olear's Prevail podcast, Dahlia Lithwick talks about #SCOTUS - court packing, judicial mindsets, the Federalist Society, term limits, issues before the court, and more.
"No other constitutional democracy is in thrall to a court the way the United States is."

‎Prevail with Greg Olear: Feelingsball: The Leonard Leo Industrial Complex, SCOTUS Nihilism, and the Doctrine of Sad (with Dahlia Lithwick) on Apple Podcasts
‎Show Prevail with Greg Olear, Ep Feelingsball: The Leonard Leo Industrial Complex, SCOTUS Nihilism, and the Doctrine of Sad (with Dahlia Lithwick) - Mar 1, 2024

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/exclusive-israel-planning-ring-checkpoints-prevent-men-fleeing-rafah

Exclusive: Israel planning ring of checkpoints to prevent men from fleeing Rafah
Israel is setting up 'complex network' of checkpoints to prevent 'military age' men from fleeing Rafah assault, senior western official tells MEE

This is Constant’s dream, New Babylon as it should be.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2871370/New-winter-blunderland-tourist-attraction-closes-day-following-barrage-complaints…

Yorkshire's 'Magical Winterland' closes after less than a day following complaints
Yorkshire's 'Magical Winterland' in Harrogate was forced to close after families complained about rubbish-strewn hallways, creepy-looking mannequins and poorly-constructed exhibitions.

Peter Gabriel's complete catalogue, since 1977, is up on #Bandcamp - includes some German releases...
https://petergabriel.bandcamp.com/music

Peter Gabriel
Peter Gabriel is best known as a musician. He started his solo work in 1975 after leaving his old school group: Genesis. He has released eleven solo albums and written soundtracks for three films. Peter is now writing and recording, and working on a plan to create a streaming service for digital medicine and an Interspecies Internet.

I've completely reinstalled my own #Pixelfed instance at @… ... I used the same APP_KEY as before. Looks like some Mastodon accounts are still following me on the new instance on my original Username. So far so good.

Dynamics of particle aggregation in dewetting films of complex liquids
J. Zhang, D. N. Sibley, D. Tseluiko, A. J. Archer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.19701 h…

Dynamics of particle aggregation in dewetting films of complex liquids
We consider the dynamic wetting and dewetting processes of films and droplets of complex liquids on planar surfaces, focusing on the case of colloidal suspensions, where the particle interactions can be sufficiently attractive to cause agglomeration of the colloids within the film. This leads to an interesting array of dynamic behaviours within the liquid and of the liquid-air interface. Incorporating concepts from thermodynamics and using the thin-film approximation, we construct a model consi…

“A sign of the scale of #’Twitter’s bot problem is the thriving #botindustry. Bot makers from around the world advertise their services on freelancer websites.
A computer scientist in Pakistan, sells "ChatGPT Twitter bots" for $30 to $500, depending on complexity.
In an interview with the ABC …he said could make a "fully fledged" bot that could "like comments o…

Twitter is becoming a 'ghost town' of bots as AI-generated spam content floods the internet
The internet is filling up with machine-generated "zombie content" designed to game algorithms and scam humans. Experts call it the "great AI flood".

#Fraudwatch
A big-money helicopter deal is just the latest crisis to hit Monaco, one of the tiniest, wealthiest and most unusual countries on the planet
[Unpaywalled via my sub]

Monaco Royal Nephews’ Business Deals Bring More Scrutiny on Prince Albert
Prince Albert’s government, already under scrutiny for failing to clamp down on financial crime, faces a police investigation into corruption and conflicts of interest. The rest of Europe has had about enough.

I've completely reinstalled my own #Pixelfed instance at @… ... I used the same APP_KEY as before. Looks like some Mastodon accounts are still following me on the new instance on my original Username. So far so good.