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@cdarwin@c.im
2025-06-14 18:40:43

The Supreme court ruled
in Humphrey’s Executor v. United States
that the Constitution did not grant the president an “illimitable power of removal,”
at least over certain types of officials.
This included the head of the Federal Trade Commission, whose firing by President Franklin Roosevelt had sparked the case.
Humphrey’s Executor stood basically untouched for decades, until Justices John Roberts and Samuel Alito – both of whom had previously served in the exe…

Supreme Court ignores precedent instead of overruling it in allowing president to fire officials whom Congress tried to make independent
Can the president fire leaders of more than 50 independent agencies overseen by Congress because he wants to? The Supreme Court may say yes, upending decades of constitutional law.

@privacity@social.linux.pizza
2025-07-14 16:05:23

Data-Driven Pricing: Key Technologies, Business Practices, and Policy Implications
fpf.org/blog/data-driven-prici
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Data-Driven Pricing: Key Technologies, Business Practices, and Policy Implications
In the U.S., state lawmakers are seeking to regulate various pricing strategies that fall under the umbrella of "data-driven pricing": practices that use personal and/or non-personal data to continuously inform decisions about the prices and products offered to consumers. Using a variety of terms—including "surveillance," "algorithmic," and "personalized" pricing—legislators are targeting a range of practices that often look different from one another, and carry different benefits and risks.

@jake4480@c.im
2025-06-13 20:35:20

How hunter-gatherers slept: sleep and rest in the prehistoric era lithub.com/how-exactly-did-hun

How Exactly Did Hunter-Gatherers Sleep? On Rest and Relaxation in the Prehistoric Era
“…human vanity cherishes the absurd notion that our species is the final goal of evolution.” Richard Dawkins, The Blind Watchmaker (1986) * Sleep was a mystery to our distant ance…

@seeingwithsound@mas.to
2025-07-14 22:07:32

Amorphous silicon resistors enable smaller pixels in photovoltaic retinal prosthesis biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/20 retinal implant

Amorphous silicon resistors enable smaller pixels in photovoltaic retinal prosthesis
Objective Clinical trials of the photovoltaic subretinal prosthesis PRIMA demonstrated feasibility of prosthetic central vision with resolution matching its 100µm pixel size. To improve prosthetic acuity further, pixel size should be decreased. However, there are multiple challenges, one of which is related to accommodating a compact shunt resistor within each pixel that discharges the electrodes between stimulation pulses and helps increase the contrast of the electric field pattern. Unfortun…

@cowboys@darktundra.xyz
2025-07-14 15:42:31

Cowboys QB Dak Prescott's spot in Top 100 Players of 2025 revealed si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/dallas

Dallas Cowboys QB Dak Prescott's spot in Top 100 Players of 2025 revealed
Quarterback Dak Prescott finds his place on the list of Top 100 players of 2025 in the NFL. A spot Prescott would rather not see.

@NFL@darktundra.xyz
2025-06-14 18:05:26

Cowboys QB Dak Prescott focused on winning Super Bowl: 'The legacy will take care of itself' nfl.com/news/cowboys-qb-dak-pr

Cowboys QB Dak Prescott focused on winning Super Bowl: 'The legacy will take care of itself'
Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott knows time keeps marching on, and he's singularly focused on delivering a long-awaited Super Bowl championship for Dallas heading into his 10th season.

@cowboys@darktundra.xyz
2025-06-15 17:30:31

The 3 Keys Behind Dak Prescott’s Potential 2025 Breakout insidethestar.com/the-3-keys-b

The 3 Keys Behind Dak Prescott’s Potential 2025 Breakout
Dallas Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott is heading into his tenth and most important NFL season. The 31-year-old is set to break franchise records, return

@cowboys@darktundra.xyz
2025-06-13 21:14:46

Cowboys' Dak Prescott: 'Legacy be damned; I want to win a championship' foxsports.com/stories/nfl/cowb

Cowboys' Dak Prescott: 'Legacy be damned; I want to win a championship'
Dallas Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott made it clear that his legacy is secondary: He wants "to win a championship."

@cowboys@darktundra.xyz
2025-06-15 18:24:47

Cowboys QB Dak Prescott wants Super Bowl championship: Legacy 'be damned' usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/

Cowboys QB Dak Prescott wants Super Bowl championship: Legacy 'be damned'
Dak Prescott is one of the top quarterbacks in Dallas Cowboys history but he makes his intentions clear on wanting to win a Super Bowl.

@cowboys@darktundra.xyz
2025-07-14 23:11:24

Cowboys' Dak Prescott plummets out of NFL executive's golden graces in latest ranking cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story…

Cowboys' Dak Prescott plummets out of NFL executive's golden graces in latest ranking
The Cowboys had a rough year in 2024, and Dak Prescott didn't avoid the slump.