Tootfinder

What is the purpose of news?
Air pollution kills 10 million people each year and causes untold additional illness and suffering.
It kills at least 100,000 people in the United States alone annually
— about five times the number of police-reported homicides.
But it rarely features in daily news stories.
Police and prosecutors ignore pollution, much of which is criminal,
and so do most journalists.
For example, federal prosecutors charged 23 people…

Media Panics About “Crime Waves” — But Downplays Crime Committed by Corporations
The news emphasizes low-level theft instead of corporate crime, pollution, and other predatory behavior.

Aha, #gold. Sollte man weiter verfolgen https://home.cern/news/news/physics/alice-detects-conversion-lead-gold-lhc

crime: Rosenfeld crime network (1991)
A network of associations among suspects, victims, and/or witnesses involved in crimes in St. Louis in the 1990s. Data are derived from police records, via snowball sampling from five initial homicides. Left nodes are people, right nodes are crime events, and edges connect people to particular crimes events they were associated with. Metadata includes names, genders, and roles (suspects, victims, and/or witnesses).
This network has 1380 nodes…

A felon in the White House is making crime legal (David R. Lurie/Public Notice)
https://www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-making-crime-legal
http://www.memeorandum.com/250609/p17#a250609p17

Kanada: Erreichen NATO-Ziel früher
Kanada wird die NATO-Richtlinie für Militärausgaben bis Anfang nächsten Jahres erfüllen und die Verteidigungsausgaben von den Vereinigten Staaten abkoppeln, die nach Ansicht von Premierminister Mark Carney auf der Weltbühne keine vorherrschende Rolle mehr spielen. Carney sagte, Kanada werde das Zwei-Prozent-Ziel der NATO fünf Jahre früher erreichen als bisher gepla…
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NATO-Minister beschließen gewaltiges Aufrüstungsprogramm
Die NATO-Verteidigungsminister haben sich in Brüssel auf neue Fähigkeitsziele für die Mitgliedsstaaten geeinigt, die eine gewaltige Aufrüstung bedeuten. Die konkreten Vorgaben sind dabei streng geheim.

What they don't say (but is clear to all):
In order to protect themselves against the US.
https://assortedflotsam.com/@NewsBot/114654374046615933

AMD says it has acquired the team behind AI inference chip developer Untether AI, a day after announcing it acquired AI software optimization startup Brium (Dylan Martin/CRN)
https://www.crn.com/news/components-periph

Exclusive: AMD Acquires Team Behind AI Chip Startup Untether AI
AMD confirmed on Thursday to CRN that it has acquired the employees behind AI chip startup Untether AI.

Combinatorial quantization of 4d 2-Chern-Simons theory II: Quantum invariants of higher ribbons in $D^4$
Hank Chen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05785 https:/…

Combinatorial quantization of 4d 2-Chern-Simons theory II: Quantum invariants of higher ribbons in $D^4$
This is a continuation of the first paper (arXiv:2501.06486) of this series, where the framework for the combinatorial quantization of the 4d 2-Chern-Simons theory with an underlying compact structure Lie 2-group $\mathbb{G}$ was laid out. In this paper, we continue our quest and characterize additive module *-functors $ω:\mathfrak{C}_q(\mathbb{G}^{Γ^2})\rightarrow\mathsf{Hilb}$, which serve as a categorification of linear *-functionals (ie. a state) on a $C^*$-algebra. These allow us to cons…

During the election campaign, Trump and his cronies declared they would deport the allegedly massive numbers of “criminal aliens.”
When Trump came into office, however, he faced a problem:
The vast majority of undocumented immigrants are law abiding.
But Trumpists came up with an answer:
Create fake crimes and thereby turn the law abiding into criminals.
Trump announced the US is
“under invasion” by a foreign power
in order to invoke the rarely us…

A felon in the White House is making crime legal
Meanwhile, he's creating fake crimes to punish the law abiding.

A look at the intensifying race for super apps in the Gulf, as Careem, Talabat, Amazon, Botim, and Noon consolidate various services into single platforms (Divsha Bhat/Rest of World)
https://restofworld.org/2025/middle-east-super-apps/

Tech giants in the Gulf are building super-apps to dominate digital life
From Dubai to Riyadh, apps are consolidating ride-hailing, payments, and delivery into single platforms.