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Republicans, Braced for Losses, Push More Voting Restrictions in Congress
Legislation that would require proof of citizenship to register to vote was only the beginning
as the G.O.P. presses to sharply limit voting in line with Trump’s false claims of widespread fraud
MAGA rep Bryan Steil’s "Make Elections Great Again "bill would ban universal voting by mail
and prohibit the counting of ballots received after Election Day.
It would ban ranked-choice v…

Republicans, Braced for Losses, Push More Voting Restrictions in Congress
Legislation that would require proof of citizenship to register to vote was only the beginning as the G.O.P. presses to sharply limit voting in line with President Trump’s false claims of widespread fraud.

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.”
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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…

Wildberger vergibt die Bürger-App ohne Ausschreibung an SAP und Telekom. Pragmatisch ja — aber wer kontrolliert das? Frankreich macht's konsequenter, Bayern kauft weiter Microsoft. Höchste Zeit, mehr Frankreich zu wagen. #Wildberger #Deutschland

Mehr Frankreich wagen — Wildberger braucht Kontrolle, Mut und Verbündete
Wildberger gibt Gas bei der Digitalisierung — und vergibt die Bürger-App ohne Ausschreibung an SAP und Telekom. Während Frankreich auf Linux umstellt, schließt Bayern Milliardenverträge mit Microso…

Another #Brexit bonus. British-born dual citizen cannot enter the UK on their non-UK passport. Unlike foreigners they cannot travel to Britain on a visa or an ETA, but they must have a UK passport. Yet lapsed UK passports may not be renewed in case of name change, particularly for women (e.g. married vs. maiden name). It's a fine mess.

New UK border rules for dual nationals are discriminatory against women, campaigners say
British women in Spain and Greece face ‘huge problems’ entering UK because of differing surname rules

I think often of a story my composer friend Todd Harper told of the days when he taught 4th grade.
He brought in a piece music every day to play for the kids — widely varied in style, origin, and era, almost always something unfamiliar to them.
One day he brought in an Erik Satie march that they all •hated•. It’s a sort of wildly repetitive and maddening, bores its way into your brain, and the kids flipped out.
So he started playing it again every day.
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A really long (8,000-word) investigation by Reuters claims it has discovered the elusive street artist
Banksy’s true identity,
-- which backs up claims made by the "Mail on Sunday" British tabloid almost two decades ago that he is a
52-year-old Bristol-born man called
Robin Gunningham,
-- now going by the name of David Jones.
Wait … didn’t we already know that?
Or was it supposed to be the guy from Massive Attack?
Sort of. Previous repo…

It's disasters and infrastructure week in my "History of Here," a course focused on #Mississauga and #Toronto. So we'll discuss the largest pre-Katrina peacetime evacuation in North America - the Mississauga train derailment.
As usual, I'll begin class with some music from the period a…

Elster - Puls 180 - Grundsteuer Änderungsanzeige
Die Nerven liegen blank ...
https://blog.watzmann.social/vernichtender-bericht-uber-die-elster-grundsteuererklarung-bayern-die-abga…

Vernichtender Bericht über die ELSTER‑Grundsteuererklärung (Bayern) - Die Abgabe einer einfachen Fortschreibung zur Grundsteuer
Die Abgabe einer einfachen Fortschreibung zur Grundsteuer – in diesem Fall lediglich die Ergänzung eines Gartenhauses – entwickelt sich in ELSTER zu einem Paradebeispiel dafür, wie man Bürgerinnen und Bürger mit einem digitalen Verfahren maximal frustriert. Was eigentlich ein Routinevorgang sein sollte, wird durch eine Kombination aus unlogischer Menüführung, fehleranfälligen Formularen und

Apropos Volkstheater in Bezirken: https://sound.orf.at/radio/oe1/beitrag/3220317/volkstheater-in-bezirken-state-of-the-union

Volkstheater in Bezirken: "State of the Union"'
In "State of the Union" von Nick Hornby geht es um die Ehe zwischen zwei Leuten, die unter anderen Umständen nicht einmal miteinander befreundet wären, und nun vor den Scherben ihrer Liebe stehen. Volkstheaterdirektor Jan Phlipp Gloger bringt Hornbys Stück mit Johanna Wokalek und Tjark Bernau in Wien auf die Bühne - oder besser, auf die Bühnen. Denn nach der Premiere heute Abend in der Volkshochschule Brigittenau ist "State of the Union" an insgesamt 15 verschiedenen Spielstätten in ganz …