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Corto-Planner navigiert Drohne schneller, ruhiger und sicherer um Hindernisse
Autonome Drohnen sollen möglichst schnell von A nach B um Hindernisse und durch enge Lücken fliegen können. Mit dem Corto-Planner soll es besonders gut klappen.

Corto-Planner navigiert Drohne schneller, ruhiger und sicherer um Hindernisse
Autonome Drohnen sollen möglichst schnell von A nach B um Hindernisse und durch enge Lücken fliegen können. Mit dem Corto-Planner soll es besonders gut klappen.

More than half of Americans disapprove of how the Supreme Court is doing its job,
while 46 percent believe that the court is ruling on Trump’s policies based on ideology rather than the law,
according to a Washington Post-Ipsos poll.

The approval numbers, gathered this month, are among the court’s lowest in recent memory
and reflect an ongoing trend of Americans viewing the court’s decisions as partisan.
In the term that ended in June, the high court gave the …

Nearly half of Americans in poll say Supreme Court bases rulings on politics
A majority of Americans disapprove of the job the court is doing, a Washington Post-Ipsos survey finds. Still, it fares better than the president or Congress.

Kaum ist der Urlaub mit @… wieder vorbei, falle ich wieder in die AST-Zeitzone (Axel Standard Time 😉) zurück: Kurz vor Mitternacht zu einer #Radtour mit dem #BromptonElectricGLine

A US Court of Appeals rules that the DOD's policy requiring government escorts for journalists working at the Pentagon could stand, a blow for the NYT's case (Scott Nover/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/20

Appeals court keeps Pentagon’s escort policy for journalists in place
A trio of judges sided with the government over the New York Times in a major press freedom case.

Hey folx! You probably see a lot of stuff from other social networks mirrored to Mastodon, how about we do it the other way around?
Recently, I've starred to mirror my posts to Instagram, Reddit, and other platforms, and I've had quite the success. My biggest post on Instagram, which is just one screenshot of a Mastodon post, has 44.5k likes and 256k views. My

Erik Uden on Instagram: "Babe, wake up. New man-made horrors beyond comprehension dropped!! In the end of the day, these companies probably realized that, just like with AI, they can somehow use scare tactics to attract venture capital. It's still a horrifying thing to think of, but possibly overblown to get money. The headline of the Science article reads: Not alive, but not dead: disembodied human brains used for drug testing By restoring some functions to intact brains from deceased donors, the startup Bexorg hopes to create a better drug development test bed for neurodegenerative diseases, written by Sara Reardon, published on the 20th of May 2026. Though, reading this Science article made me think: aren't we the brain? Am I missing something here? Now, of course the devil lies in the detail and the article makes it clear that this startup only restores “some functions”, which is certainly more complex in action than it is in theory written here, but certain language of the article makes me question the author's understanding of what is a human. The article writes: “Just a day ago, the brain was in a living person. Now, hours after its owner died, it sits on a cart draped in tubes [...]” What do you mean “it's owner” — isn't the brain it's owner? Isn't that where it's owner is? I mean, certainly the brain had no more activity, the person must've been declared brain dead by all standards before being sent to this startup, still it's odd hearing someone donated their brain instead of saying they've donated... themselves? Also “using a set of proprietary brain-sustaining machines” is a terrible sentence I always thought the people who don't donate their full body to hospitals are religious lunatics, but this is the first time I wrote something on my organ donor card. They can take my brain, but not as one piece."
45K likes, 971 comments - erik.uden on May 21, 2026: "Babe, wake up. New man-made horrors beyond comprehension dropped!! In the end of the day, these companies probably realized that, just like with AI, they can somehow use scare tactics to attract venture capital. It's still a horrifying thing to think of, but possibly overblown to get money. The headline of the Science article reads: Not alive, but not dead: disembodied human brains used for drug testing By restoring some functions to inta…

Mastodon looks to newsletters to help revive the open social web
@…, the open, decentralized alternative to Big Tech apps like X and Threads, is betting that email could help solve the open social web’s biggest problem: audience growth.
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Mastodon looks to newsletters to help revive the open social web | TechCrunch
Mastodon’s newly launched newsletter feature lets anyone subscribe to creators by email, even without a Mastodon account.

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries said Sunday he wants to see
“dramatic reform” to the Supreme Court,
heeding a growing clamor within the Democratic Party for changes.

Speaking on “Meet the Press,” Jeffries said an overhaul could start with the creation of an ethical code of conduct for justices,
but he stopped short of backing a proposal popular with some Democrats to expand the number of justices on the court.

Jeffries said that Rep. Jamie Raskin (Maryland…

Hakeem Jeffries says he wants to see ‘dramatic reform’ of Supreme Court
Hakeem Jeffries supports aggressive changes to the Supreme Court.

Adieu Palantir: Berlin und Paris planen eigenes digitales Rückgrat
Mit neuen KI-Sicherheitsinstituten und gemeinsamer Rüstungs-IT wollen Deutschland und Frankreich die Abhängigkeit von US-Technologie deutlich reduzieren.

Adieu Palantir: Berlin und Paris planen eigenes digitales Rückgrat
Mit neuen KI-Sicherheitsinstituten und gemeinsamer Rüstungs-IT wollen Deutschland und Frankreich die Abhängigkeit von US-Technologie deutlich reduzieren.

Hiring a hit man is not a crime of violence -- even in cases where the killer fulfills his contract and his employer is convicted in the conspiracy, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled this week.
In a unanimous decision, a three-judge panel vacated two felony convictions that stemmed from a pair of contract killings negotiated to settle an oil well dispute in North Dakota.
The court found that although trucking and drilling magnate James Henrikson had paid Timothy Suckow tens of…

Hiring a hit man isn't always a 'crime of violence,' the 9th Circuit rules
A federal appeals court has issued a ruling that sounds absurd on its face: arranging a contract killing is not automatically a 'crime of violence' under federal law. The decision, which threw out several convictions of a notorious murder-for-hire defendant, is a case study in how a technical legal test can collide with common sense.

It’s been a brutal tactic deployed by local and federal law enforcement officials time and time again over the past year:
using teargas, rubber bullets and pepper spray to control protests outside ICE detention centers or during enforcement operations.
Now, a new report lays bare the scale of the use of these crowd-control weapons during
anti-immigration demonstrations across the US,
including hundreds of incidents that resulted in lasting and traumatic injuries.

ICE ‘Crowd Control’ Led to Blindings and Traumatic Brain Injuries
It’s been a brutal tactic deployed by local and federal law enforcement officials time and time again over the past year: using teargas, rubber bullets and pepper spray to control protests outside ICE detention centers or during enforcement operations. Now, a new report lays bare the scale of the use of these crowd-control weapons during anti-immigration demonstrations across the US, including hundreds of incidents that resulted in lasting and traumatic injuries.