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Street homelessness went up in Los Angeles.
In Nithya Raman’s district, it was nearly cut in half
Los Angeles City Councilmember Nithya Raman, who is running for mayor against incumbent Karen Bass, seized on significant decreases in street homelessness in her district Friday while blasting increases citywide.
Street homelessness
— people living outdoors or in their vehicles
— went down by 49% in Raman’s district compared to the previous year, she said at a pre…

Street homelessness went up in Los Angeles. In Nithya Raman's district, it was nearly cut in half
Street homelessness — people living outdoors or in their vehicles — went down by 49% in Raman’s district compared to the previous year, she said at a press conference Friday.

Le Monde hat eine ständig aktualisierte Karte der Brände in Europa und Nordafrika.
https://www.lemonde.fr/les-decodeurs/article/2026/07/23/la-carte-en-temps-reel-des-incen…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Audioasis
Destroyer:
🎵 Savage Night at the Opera
#Destroyer
https://destroyer.bandcamp.com/track/savage-night-at-the-opera
https://open.spotify.com/track/0SAlVVzVOfYtecOYuLlfGV

Alex Bores, a NY congressional candidate at the center of a proxy war over AI regulation involving millions in AI PAC spending, was defeated by Micah Lasher (Ben Kamisar/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2026-electi…

New York Democrat Micah Lasher wins House primary that drew big spending from AI groups
NBC News projects that Lasher, who was backed by retiring Rep. Jerry Nadler, emerged from a crowded field in the Manhattan-based 12th District.

When you think big tech/ai heads won't make you more angry, you learn they go after rare books, scan them and destroy original copy...
And this is considered "fair use" of course 🤦
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/07/23/ai-vendors-ar…

AI vendors are destroying rare books to feed the chatbot
Every AI vendor trains their chatbots on the Common Crawl, a copy of the whole public internet. But that’s just the starting point. AI vendors are desperate for more data — in the hope of making th…

Elektronische Patientenakte: Zwischen KI-Ambitionen und Kritik am Ausbautempo
Beim parlamentarischen Abend der E-Rezept-Enthusiasten diskutierten Vertreter aus Politik und Gematik, wie es mit der elektronischen Patientenakte weitergeht.

Elektronische Patientenakte: Zwischen KI-Ambitionen und Kritik am Ausbautempo
Beim parlamentarischen Abend der E-Rezept-Enthusiasten diskutierten Vertreter aus Politik und Gematik, wie es mit der elektronischen Patientenakte weitergeht.

Last year, we featured a lengthy interview with tech journalist/science fiction author
Cory Doctorow about his book,
Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What To Do About It.
The prolific Doctorow is back with a provocative new book that serves as a follow-up of sorts,
focusing on AI and related issues:
The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Life After AI.
Doctorow doesn’t actually enjoy talking about AI, but he’s constantly being asked to comme…

How to burst the AI bubble: Strike at its roots
Sci-fi author/tech journalist Cory Doctorow on his new book, The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI.

Streit um Datenschutzaufsicht: „Absurd, das zentral aus Berlin oder Bonn zu tun“
Verfassungsrechtler sehen große Hürden für die Abschaffung der Landesdatenschutzbeauftragten. Darüber wurde im nordrhein-westfälischen Landtag diskutiert.

Streit um Datenschutzaufsicht: „Absurd, das zentral aus Berlin oder Bonn zu tun“
Verfassungsrechtler sehen große Hürden für die Abschaffung der Landesdatenschutzbeauftragten. Darüber wurde im nordrhein-westfälischen Landtag diskutiert.

Last year, we covered how Anthropic was buying physical books,
scanning them,
and destroying them to feed their Claude chatbot.
Judge William Alsup ruled this fair use.
In particular, he said mulching the books was perfectly fine because making them digital was
“exceedingly transformative”: [Order on Fair Use, 2025, PDF]
The print original was destroyed.
One replaced the other.
And, there is no evidence that the new, digital copy was shown, s…

AI vendors are destroying rare books to feed the chatbot
Every AI vendor trains their chatbots on the Common Crawl, a copy of the whole public internet. But that’s just the starting point. AI vendors are desperate for more data — in the hope of making th…

Hear Marlene Galšn-Woods' opening statement at Arizona Congressional District 1 primary debate
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Hear Marlene Galán-Woods' opening statement at Congressional District 1 primary debate
Marlene Galán-Woods vows to push for economic prosperity for all Arizonans during the Democratic Congressional District 1 primary debate on June 23, 2026.