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Donald Trump has a hang-up about Pluto.
As far back as 2019, his appointed NASA administrator was making noise about reclassifying it as a planet,
a status it lost when in 2006 the International Astronomical Union created a new system of nomenclature for all those weird and wacky bodies hurtling around the sun.
Pluto, long a staple of the Big Nine and a famous childhood acrostic, was now a "mere" dwarf planet.
Trump's back on his weird horse again, makin…

Kids say they can beat age checks by drawing on a fake mustache
https://www.theregister.com/2026/05/04/uk_online_safety_act_age_checks_subvert/

Kids say they can beat age checks by drawing on a fake mustache
: 46% say age checks are easy to bypass, and nearly a third admit getting around them

#Hamburg #Armut
Demo am Samstag, den 6. Juni
https://www.hinzundkunzt.de/protest-gegen-

Sozialpolitik: Protest gegen Kürzungspläne und steigende Armut
Laut Armutsbericht leben in Hamburg besonders viele Menschen in Armut. Dennoch soll bei Sozialem gekürzt werden. Nun regt sich Protest.Hamburg hat unter den Bundesländern die dritthöchste Armutsquote, fast jede:r fünfte Hamburger:in ist von Armut betroffen – ein Anstieg um mehr als 18 Prozent im Vergleich zum Vorjahr. Das geht aus dem jetzt vorliegenden Armutsbericht des Paritätischen Gesamtverbandes hervor. „Wir sehen eine Gesellschaft, die sozial weiter auseinanderdriftet“, komment…

The CEO of PLOS on What AI Asks of Open Access: 'The most interesting question isn’t how to make existing published articles more trustworthy for AI use, it’s whether the article itself is still the right unit of scientific communication, and whether the infrastructure we’ve built around it is actually serving science or just serving a publishing system that science has grown accustomed to.'

What AI Asks of Open Access - The Scholarly Kitchen
As AI systems increasingly reason from the scientific literature, the integrity signals that make research trustworthy - open data, structured metadata, robust retraction processes - matter more than ever. PLOS CEO Alison Mudditt on why open access publishers have a different set of obligations in an AI world.

The AI hype as summarized by Hannah Arendt 45 years ago
“[They] did not judge; they calculated… an utterly irrational confidence in the calculability of reality [became] the leitmotif of the decision making.”

Trees and greenery can cool cities by as much as 18°C—but only if they're the right type #cities…

Trees and greenery can cool cities by as much as 18°C—but only if they're the right type
Cities around the world are planting more trees to cope with rising urban heat. But our research shows trees alone are often not enough. In some cases, the wrong kind of greening can even make streets feel less comfortable on a hot day.

This is a fantastic take on coding agents and the value and where it sits.
I used to be pretty down on engineering as a career a few months ago but came around to thinking this way also and it’s not all doom and gloom for engineering as a practise
https://rakyll.org/coding-agents/

I ragazzi dicono di poter eludere i controlli sull'etŠ disegnandosi dei baffi finti
Il 46% afferma che i controlli sull'etŠ sono facili da eludere e quasi un terzo ammette di riuscire a aggirarli.
@…

My Money Circle Podcast
This podcast is all about real, honest conversations around money without the jargon, pressure, or one-size-fits-all advice...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/my-money-circle/

Internet age verification proposals restrict the fundamental rights of young people to speak to each other and to access information.
They also force all internet users,
not just those under a certain age,
to upload private data
—like a face scan or passport
—in order to access a website or service.
In considering the vast scope of privacy issues pertaining to the collection, storage, and sharing of this personal information,
the problems of age veri…

Internet Age-Gates Are a Growing Global Threat
The internet is an essential resource for young people and adults to access information, explore community, and find themselves—both inside countries and across continents. Yet governments around the world continue to introduce and implement legislation requiring all online users to verify their ages before accessing the digital space.