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Toxic Pfas above proposed safety limits in almost all English waters tested https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jul/11/toxic-pfas-above-proposed-safety-limits-in-almost-all-english-waters-tested

Bahn-Sanierung fatal: „Einzelwagenverkehr nicht abschaffen“
ÖDP gegen „Schnapsidee“ der Deutschen Bahn: Sparprogramm auf Kosten von Umwelt- und Klimaschutz
https://www.oedp.de/aktuelles/pressemitteilungen/…

Justiz: Erste Klagen vor dem Amtsgericht sollen rein digital möglich sein
Wer vor dem Amtsgericht eine Geldforderung einklagen will, dem wird dafür laut einem Gesetzentwurf künftig ein durchgängig digitales Verfahren offenstehen.

Translating 🇩🇪 to #English will most of the time end up with shorter text because English just has so many short words. Like "die" or "lie" or... hm... weird... why isn't English making better use of their 3-letter words for verbs? There's a whole cosmos of unused opportunities there! I think you (the royal "400 million" of you) should seize them! Here's …

‘Whoa’: Pope Leo XIV Shock to Learn He Has Black Grandparents, Celebrity Cousins and Enslaved Ancestors
https://atlantablackstar.com/2025/07/12/finding-your-roots-uncovers-wild-truth-about-new-pope-including-ties-to-enslaved-people-and-a-list-celebrities-like-justin-bieber/

"Labour housing plans could destroy 215,000 hectares of nature in England, analysis shows"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Nature

🥊 US joins Colombia’s right in denouncing ‘lawfare’ over ex-president Álvaro Uribe’s bribery conviction
https://english.elpais.com/international/2025-07-29/us-joins-colombias-right-in-d…

US joins Colombia’s right in denouncing ‘lawfare’ over ex-president Álvaro Uribe’s bribery conviction
American officials and senators back the accusations about the ‘weaponization of the judiciary.’ Gustavo Petro replies that these remarks are ‘an intrusion into national sovereignty’

A lot of people making fun of the Environment Agency suggesting "deleting emails" to fight drought.
People also made fun of it when they put it in a press release two months ago. I don't know if it's a deliberate attempt to get attention, or just something their LLM keeps suggesting.

England faces 5 billion litre public water shortage by 2055 without urgent action
England faces 5 billion litre a day shortfall for public water supplies by 2055 – and a further 1 billion litre a day deficit for wider economy.

The Emergence of Abstract Thought in Large Language Models Beyond Any Language
Yuxin Chen, Yiran Zhao, Yang Zhang, An Zhang, Kenji Kawaguchi, Shafiq Joty, Junnan Li, Tat-Seng Chua, Michael Qizhe Shieh, Wenxuan Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09890

The Emergence of Abstract Thought in Large Language Models Beyond Any Language
As large language models (LLMs) continue to advance, their capacity to function effectively across a diverse range of languages has shown marked improvement. Preliminary studies observe that the hidden activations of LLMs often resemble English, even when responding to non-English prompts. This has led to the widespread assumption that LLMs may "think" in English. However, more recent results showing strong multilingual performance, even surpassing English performance on specific tasks in other…

Gute Arbeit beginnt bei dir – Denkanstoß mit Marion King
Wie kann echte Veränderung in unserer Arbeitswelt gelingen – und welche Rolle spielt jede einzelne Person dabei?
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