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Justice on hold: India court crippled by a million-case backlog
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/justice-hold-india-court-crippled-235801345.html

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Pink Floyd:
🎵 Careful With That Axe, Eugene
#PinkFloyd
https://theunmentionablesband.bandcamp.com/track/careful-with-that-axe-eugene
https://open.spotify.com/track/60WujjVzXLbbx4D6pSVg56

​🚨 A massive cyberattack has crippled #Mikord, the key developer behind Russia’s Unified Military Registry, wiping out over 40TB of infrastructure, including source code and backups.
https://substack.com/@jaanika/note/c-1

#Kiel bekommt mit der #Blücherstraße14 25 neue Wohnungen in zwei Mehrfamilienhäusern:
Drei 1,5-, sechs 2-, 3- und 4-, drei 3,5- und eine 5-Zimmer-Wohnung. Sozial geförderte Wohnungen wird es nicht geben.
Dazu kommen 40 Pkw-Stellplätze in einer Tiefgarage. „Vierzig“ an einem Ort…

Wohnungen wichtiger als Parkplätze? Debatte über Neubauprojekt am Blücherplatz in Kiel
An einem Neubauprojekt am Blücherplatz in Kiel scheiden sich die Geister: Durch Nachverdichtung auf einem Garagenhof entsteht dringend benötigter Wohnraum. Dafür verschwinden allerdings Parkplätze. Das sorgt für Kritik bei den Anwohnern.

French online carpooling marketplace BlaBlaCar says India now accounts for ~33% of its carpool passengers and expects to reach ~150M passengers globally in 2025 (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/25/india-the-marke…

India, the market BlaBlaCar once walked away from, is now its biggest | TechCrunch
BlaBlaCar is seeing rapid growth in India, with 20 million passengers expected this year — up 50% from last year.

General Motors killt CarPlay und Android Auto in allen Autos
General Motors alias GM will seinen Kunden nur noch sein eigenes Entertainmentsystem verkaufen. CarPlay muss weg – aber auch Android Auto.
https://ww…

This is attributed to H.G. Wells:
'The work of woman in prehistoric communities, when carefully analyzed from the fossils with which archaeology, folklore, and philology provide us, assumes somewhat large proportions as compared with the work of men. '
https://skywriter.blue…

I was asking Claude Sonnet 4.5 some questions about how to transfer some old Fortran 90 progs into R. It's the sort of simple rules based question that AI is supposed to be good at. It's helpful on the rules of R, but took a lot of prompting to get it right -it would not have worked for someone who didn't understand the maths.
But it sure knows how to be creepily sycophantic. It's a machine and shouldn't pretend to be human.

At the National Institutes of Health, big changes to its communications operations were already underway before Trump’s return to the White House.
But the new administration scrapped those carefully laid plans in favor of haphazard downsizing.
In January, more than 600 people worked in communications offices spread across the NIH.
Today, there are fewer than 100.
Officials, including Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., justified the deep cuts as…

As dangerous eugenic ideas spread, NIH falls silent
Federal research agencies are pulling back from fostering public discussions about science after the hollowing out of government communications offices.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Gabriel Jacoby:
🎵 Be Careful
#GabrielJacoby
https://gabrieljacoby.bandcamp.com/track/be-careful
https://open.spotify.com/track/2fqJrp3PktgwVUzRnTBc2Z