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The suit is expected to return to the court on an official appeal, instead of emergency requests from drug manufacturers, in another term.
Medication accounts for approximately two-thirds of abortions in the US. In large part because of mailed medication, abortion rates have stayed steady in the US despite bans in several states.
Years of research have shown that abortion medications are safe and effective.
The recent legal challenges, after the Dobbs decision that upended n…

Alito dissents from rejection of anti-abortion student's appeal in free speech case (Jordan Rubin/MS NOW)
https://www.ms.now/deadline-white-house/deadline-legal-blog/alito-dissent-free-speech-anti-abortion-student-supreme-court
http://www.memeorandum.com/260615/p93#a260615p93

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker signs a state budget with new taxes on social media giants, digital ads, and prediction and crypto markets, all likely facing lawsuits (Mitchell Armentrout/Chicago Sun Times)
https://chicago.suntimes.com/springfie

Gov. JB Pritzker signs $55.9B affordability-focused state budget with tax on social media companies
The eighth state spending plan of Pritzker's tenure includes additional funding for food assistance in the wake of deep federal funding cuts under President Donald Trump.

The Trump administration has repeatedly claimed without evidence that the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool’s peeling lining was the work of vandals.
An independent analysis has concluded otherwise.
After reviewing photographs and satellite imagery, and speaking with experts,
The Washington Post found that the extensive gashes in the pool liner were likely the result of improper application.
The Thursday report noted that the tears appeared in at least seven places

Reflecting Pool peeling probably caused by application flaws, experts say
President Donald Trump has blamed vandals, but a Washington Post analysis finds that the peeling tracks closely with stages of the renovation process.

L'intelligenza artificiale locale deve diventare la norma
Una delle tendenze attuali nel software moderno è che gli sviluppatori inseriscano chiamate API a OpenAI o Anthropic per integrare funzionalitŠ nelle proprie app. Si potrebbe discutere sull'effettivo valore aggiunto che queste funzionalitŠ apportano agli utenti, ma ciò di cui voglio parlare è il concetto fondamentale di dipendenza da un modello di intelligenza artificiale ospitato nel cloud per le applicazioni.
Que…

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/116726575162112584
And even for the most optimal of use cases, code generation, which gives an LLM every possible advantage (huge amounts of self-similar training data with millions of iterations of the same problems and solutions, strictly deterministic symbol sequences in highly simplified languages), LLMs are starting to approach local maxima; they’re even regressing when context windows get too large (so more capable hardware doesn’t help).
I still strongly believe that they’re useless for 99% of tasks they’re marketed for and for the rest (like coding) there will be locally run solutions that are affordable.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Reporters at Schneps Media, which owns 100 newspapers, sites, and other media properties across NYC, including amNewYork, vote to form a union (Nick Pinto/Hell Gate)
https://hellgatenyc.com/schneps-editorial-staff-form-a-union/

The Journalists at NYC's Largest Local News Print Chain Are Unionizing
Reporters at Schneps Media, which includes amNew York, Queens Courier, and the Brooklyn Paper, say they can’t afford to live on their salaries.

from my link log —
Support for IPv6 link local addresses in browsers.
https://ungleich.ch/u/blog/ipv6-link-local-support-in-browsers/
saved 2021-11-18

University of California’s frontline workers have canceled the
system-wide strike originally planned to begin on Thursday after reaching a tentative agreement with the UC on Wednesday night. 
These 42,000 service and patient care workers
— represented by the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Local 3299 (AFSCME)
— have worked without a ratified contract since 2024, due to “stalled” negotiations with the UC, according to union leadership.