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No Labels will not mount third-party 2024 bid after failing to find candidate
The centrist group says it won’t field a ‘unity ticket’ in US presidential election after reaching out to 30 potential people and raising $60m

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Russian patrol vessel Sergey Kotov damaged in Ukrainian naval drone strike: https://benborges.xyz/2024/03/05/russian-patrol-vessel.html

and five and a half hours later, I think I am running exactly what I'd intended! I /can/ have Dolphin drag and drop to add archival files (it's slow) or use rsync as www-data from the #Nextcloud machine, and a BIG caution to members using desktop apps to un-check 'Shared' unless they want a few terabytes of surprise on their laptop!
plus, while waiting, I watched the 1979 Shape of Things to Come, one of the very worst sci-fi films ever made, so bad, and it's not even camp, but it's Canadian!

✌🏿 Uber Eats courier’s fight against AI bias shows justice under UK law is hard won
#uber…

Uber Eats courier's fight against AI bias shows justice under UK law is hard won | TechCrunch
On Tuesday, the BBC reported that Uber Eats courier Pa Edrissa Manjang, who is Black, had received a payout from Uber after "racially discriminatory" News this week that an Uber Eats courier accepted a payout to settle legal action after accusing the company of unlawful racial discrimination -- following repeated failures of its facial recognition checks -- raises questions about how fit for purpose UK law is to deal with rising use of AI systems.

Die Seite der Täter:innen von "Innen" zu vergegenwärtigen, ist Topic der intelligenten Montage des Films #TheZoneofInterest. Ein Beobachterblick des ungefilmten, nur zur rekonstruierenden Banalen (Hannah Arendt), mit dem Zuschauer ihres aktiven Schauens gewärtig werden können. Das Grauen der Shoa und der Vernichtung am Synonym Auschwitz, dem Synonym für den eliminatorischen Faschism…

“The German government’s failings in protecting Muslims from hatred and discrimination start with a lack of understanding that Muslims experience racism and not simply faith-based hostility,” said Almaz Teffera, researcher on racism in Europe at Human Rights Watch.
“Without a clear understanding of anti-Muslim hate and discrimination in Germany and strong data on incidents and community outreach, a response by the German authorities will be ineffective.”

The Conservative Partnership Institute,
a nonprofit whose funding skyrocketed after it became a nerve center for President Donald J. Trump’s allies in Washington,
has paid at least $3.2 million since the start of 2021 to corporations led by its own leaders or their relatives, records show.
In its most recent tax filings, the nonprofit’s three highest-paid contractors were all connected to insiders.
One was led by the institute’s president,

Trump-Allied Nonprofit Paid Millions to Companies Run by Insiders
The Conservative Partnership Institute’s three highest-paid contractors had connections to the group’s leaders or their relatives, raising concerns about self-dealing.

Prosecutor aims to show Trump at center of personal and company finances as Trump Organization controller testifies – live
Trump lawyer McConney acknowledged that Cohen’s reimbursement for $180,000
– which prosecutors allege was falsely recorded as “legal expenses”
– was the only expense in his roughly 35 years at Trump Org he knew of that was grossed up for tax purposes.

What's particularly muddy right now is
how a rising number of cattle infections are impacting farm workers,
beyond the Texas case that occurred back in March.
Veterinarians and physicians in states with dairy cattle outbreaks told The Associated Press there are multiple reports of farm workers falling sick,
but confirming cases is proving challenging for one key reason:
Many workers are reluctant to get tested.
"You have groups of individuals that…

What would it take to spark an H5N1 bird flu pandemic? And how bad would it be? | CBC News
For several decades, scientists have rung alarms that a dangerous form of bird flu had pandemic potential. As H5N1 spreads to more species, including U.S. dairy cattle, how likely is that worst-case scenario?