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BOOM: Senate Votes to Block Private Equity from Buying Homes (Matt Stoller/BIG)
https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/boom-senate-votes-to-block-private
http://www.memeorandum.com/260314/p31#a260314p31

Today I woke up to see a leading Science Fiction author
re-posting the toot of another well-known Science Fiction author,
criticising the statement of A BANK for being poor-quality -
yes, you guessed - Science Fiction.

Copaganda watch: Here's a story about a struggling restaurant in SoMa, owned by two women of color.
Then there's a sharp pivot to Supervisor Matt Dorsey's solutions, all based on coercion and punishment: "a multi-layered strategy of business curfews, higher police staffing and a new sobering center." This would only continue to make conditions worse.

‘We are still trying’: Bini’s Kitchen holds on in SoMa
As San Francisco officials debate crime reduction measures, two South of Market restaurateurs question whether help will come in time.

The gulf between the utopian (or sometimes dystopian, all publicity being good publicity in an attention economy) visions propagated by those at the bleeding edge of technology and the – for want of a better word - mundanities of real-world implementations has never been wider, as our latest research shows.
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Everyone’s using GenAI, few are truly benefiting
In the third part of our coverage of IT trends in 2026, we look at the LLMs used in business and how they are being ...

For those who have been hearing of a Fly Brain being uploaded, the work you've been hearing of is impressive, yet as always the pop science media has warped what happened a bit:
„The Fly Brain Breakthrough Is Real. The “First Brain Upload” Narrative Is Not.”
https://…

The Fly Brain Breakthrough Is Real. The “First Brain Upload” Narrative Is Not.
Scientists mapped a fruit fly’s 139,255 neurons in extraordinary detail. Then a startup turned that milestone into a story about brain…

😕 Questions are being raised about microplastics studies—here's what's solid science and what isn't
https://phys.org/news/2026-01-microplastics-solid-science-isnt.html

Questions are being raised about microplastics studies—here's what's solid science and what isn't
Over the past few years, studies have suggested that plastic particles from bottles, food packaging and waste have been detected in human blood, lungs, placentas, arteries and even the brain. But a recent investigation by The Guardian suggests that some of these claims may be less robust than they first appeared.

Selbstgebaute #Pflanzkasten-Bänke für den #Balkon:
Aus preiswerten #Kiefer-Leimholzbrettern kann man robuste #Bänke

Pflanzkasten-Bänke für den Balkon selber bauen: eine Schritt-für-Schritt-Anleitung
DIY: Pflanzkasten-Bänke aus Holz für Balkon und Terrasse

I used one of my pretzel buns to make a cheese toasty with a few slabs of mozzarella and it turned out pretty damn good.
#food #baking

We're having our hallway replastered and painted by a property maintenance company. It's taking weeks, with painters turning up to paint walls that haven't been stripped yet, or with the wrong equipment, and people showing up for a few hours before being told to do another half day the other side of Sheffield so they have to spend ages sitting in traffic for no apparent reason, or no-one turning up for a week halfway through a job.. The person running the business is absolutely o…

Quite pleased with these pretzel buns I’ve been making and hopefully it’s one more thing I can make in my own kitchen instead of buy from the grocery store.
#baking