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i’ve been slowly reading through admiral cloudbberg’s analysis of the helicopter / airliner collision over washington dc in jan 2025 https://admiralcloudberg.medium.com/reaping-the-whirlwind-inside-the-potomac-river-midair-collision-…

Reaping the Whirlwind | Inside the Potomac River Midair Collision
How America’s golden age of aviation safety came to an end

LCDS closed its investigation and shared results with the attorney general, then never heard back.
In its motion to dismiss, the school argued that it had no duty to report the images to local police because it’s only required to report tips on actual child abuse,
-- and AI images don’t qualify as that in the state, at least not yet

High school defends staying silent while boys made AI nudes of 59 classmates
Gaps in laws may help Pennsylvania high school escape AI nudes scandal.

from my link log —
Solving for faster SHA-1 collision detection.
https://sam.dev/blog/faster-sha1-collision-detection
saved 2026-10-02 https://…

Solving for faster SHA-1 collision detection — sam reis
SHA-1 with collision detection doesn't have to be so slow. How a code generator that moves the checks to SIMD can narrow the gap to plain SHA-1 to ~20–30%.

I just made @…'s checklists a little smarter.
#PWA

How fast do drugs work? A new review, with James Higham, now on arXiv https://arxiv.org/pdf/2609.01228 . Supplementary stuff at

RE: #Fernsehgarten

Meta says it is letting go of employees it hired from AI safety startup Virtue AI four months after they joined the company, citing clashing work styles (Ashley Gold/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/10/02/2026/meta-parts-ways-with-virtue-ai

Exclusive: Meta parts ways with Virtue AI
“Unfortunately, the arrangement didn’t work out as planned,” a Meta spokesperson told Semafor.

RE: https://ard.social/@BR24/117024273247813679
Wann wird die ARD/BR Redaktion endlich aufhören, Tatsachen in Form von oberflächlichen, zweifelhaften rhetorischen Fragen als Schlagzeilen zu formulieren?
Der öffentlich-rechtliche Rundfunk hat den gesetzlichen…

Go for an excellent (but not cheap) meal to #Caylend #Graz! (btw, brilliant play of word in their name!)
They're closing for good mid September after 12 years. 😢
Until then, they offer the best #food in t…

I absolutely relate to Porter (#3). I felt the same way in the evening 2 days ago, after closing out FY26.
#dogs
https://bsky.app/profile/weratedogs.com/post/3mpqqhvk2hc23…