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…
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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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
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:/…
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 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/