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Kommunikation mit dem Arzt: TI-Messenger TIM startet für gesetzlich Versicherte
Ab heute sollen gesetzlich Versicherte den TI-Messenger TIM testen können – zumindest, wenn sie über eine App für die elektronische Patientenakte verfügen.

Q&A with researcher Petter Törnberg on his pre-print study showing how social media's structural architecture creates problematic outcomes like echo chambers (Jennifer Ouellette/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/08/study-social-medi…

Study: Social media probably can’t be fixed
“The [structural] mechanism producing these problematic outcomes is really robust and hard to resolve.”…

US ethnic cleansing and what to do about it
Reposting link to source article instead of screenshot of tweet that had no alt text:
Data on arrests shows that ICE was heavily engaged in racial profiling in LA, because their arrest numbers fell by ~66% after that were ordered to stop making arrests based just in factors like skin color, with place, or language spoken.
#ICE #USPol

This is awesome! 🤩
From: @…
https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/114851881549053554

Ars Technica (@arstechnica@mastodon.social)
Attached: 1 image Two guys hated using Comcast, so they built their own fiber ISP Brothers-in-law use construction knowledge to compete against Comcast in Michigan. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/07/two-guys-hated-using-comcast-so-they-built-their-own-fiber-isp/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

"..arrestees included four vicars, a lawyer, a civil servant, a social worker, a mechanical engineer and the daughter of a Polish resistance fighter."
London police arrest over 40 supporters of Palestine Action – DW – 07/12/2025
https://www.dw.com/en/london-polic…

London police arrest over 40 supporters of Palestine Action
Protesters have gathered for a second straight week to support the banned Palestine Action. Its outlawing means support for the group is now a crime.

🌳 ‘It has a heroic, Roman quality’: how Arkansas’s timber university building could revolutionise architecture
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2025/aug/26/it-has-a-heroic-rom…

Another Woman Arrested For Her Pregnancy Loss
All of these women—including ‘B’—are women of color.
Three of the four are Black women.
As is often the case, racism and misogyny skewed these women’s interactions with police, hospitals—even the media.
All had their mugshots splashed across local media outlets, for example,
and their pregnancy losses turned into crime stories with salacious headlines.
Reporting in Ohio claimed Watts had “clogged” her toilet …

Another Woman Arrested For Her Pregnancy Loss
A South Carolina woman has been charged for “desecration of human remains”

This is not a surprise 😐
From: @…
https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/114852457035271688

Ars Technica (@arstechnica@mastodon.social)
Attached: 1 image New Grok AI model surprises experts by checking Elon Musk’s views before answering Grok 4's "reasoning" shows cases where the chatbot consults Musk posts to answer divisive questions. https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2025/07/new-grok-ai-model-surprises-experts-by-checking-elon-musks-views-before-answering/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

Reddit says it has started verifying UK users' ages before letting them "view certain mature content", in order to comply with the country's Online Safety Act (Jon Brodkin/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20

Reddit’s UK users must now prove they’re 18 to view adult content
Reddit hires company to verify user age with selfie or photo of government ID.

Trump’s all-out assault on immigrant communities and the rule of law
escalated to new heights when federal agents beat and arrested
David Huerta, a prominent labor leader and president of the Service Employees International Union
– United Service Workers (West),
while Huerta and others were observing an ICE raid in Los Angeles, CA, on June 6.
Huerta was released from federal custody, but he is still being charged with felony conspiracy to impede an officer,

EXCLUSIVE: David Huerta, union leader beaten & arrested at ICE raid, speaks out
In his first public interview since he was beaten and arrested by federal agents in June, David Huerta, president of the Service Employees International Union - United Service Workers (West), speaks about the status of his case and the roles unions must play in the fight against fascism.