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Germany was long content to ignore space as a military frontier.
But now, the Merz government is investing 35 billion euros in an array of new systems.
The race for lucrative contracts has begun.
https://derspiegel.substack.com/p/germany-goes-big-in-the-milit…

Germany Goes Big in the Military Space Race
Berlin was long content to ignore space as a military frontier. But now, the Merz government is investing 35 billion euros in an array of new systems. The race for lucrative contracts has begun.

This research by Viktoria Kleinschmidt, Felix Roesel and Stefanie Gaebler from Deutsches Zentrum für Schienenverkehrsforschung (DZSF, german centre for railway research) analyzed 120 West German cities between 1948 and 1990 to study how the removal of tram networks shaped long-term urban mobility in Germany.
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“The vast majority of German political science scholars and the German international relations community have made virtually no analytical contribution to the discussion.
Either they refrained from taking a stance, or they went so far as to use their own academic authority to justify Israeli warfare or to endorse official Israeli perspectives on the conduct of the war. Such justifications were offered without any substantive engagement with the available analyses and documentation of wa…

Hanno Hauenstein on Twitter
Read full article HERE: https://hannohauenstein.substack.com/publish/post/201012022?back=%2Fpublish%2Fposts%2Fscheduled

A German court rules that Google is directly liable for what AI Overviews say after AI Overviews falsely tied two publishers to shady business practices (Matthias Bastian/The Decoder)
https://the-decoder.com/landmark-germa

Landmark German ruling declares Google's AI Overviews are Google's own words and makes it liable for false answers
A German regional court has ruled that Google is directly liable for the content of its AI search overviews. According to the court, previous limited liability protections for search engine operators don't apply to AI overviews. In this case, Google's AI had falsely linked two publishers to fraud and made claims that didn't appear in any of the linked sources. The ruling could set a precedent for AI-generated content liability worldwide.

"German mayors call for night-time ban on robot lawnmowers to protect hedgehogs"
#Germany #Hedgehogs #Animals

Missouri Supreme Court hears challenges to GOP gerrymander (Jen Rice/Democracy Docket)
https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/missouri-supreme-court-hears-challenges-to-gop-gerrymander/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260512/p81#a260512p81

93 % of battery-electric truck users in Germany are (very) satisfied with the vehicle, @… survey finds.
Favorable road toll, low energy costs for depot charging and high reliability are seen as biggest advantages.

93% of battery-electric truck users are highly satisfied - electrive.com
The German Oeko-Institut surveyed 57 transport companies in Germany that have been using heavy-duty electric trucks in daily operations for at least one year.

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.)
said Monday that he’s confident
Democrats will still win back the House of Representatives,
despite Republicans now being poised to come out ahead in Donald Trump’s redistricting war.
“The failed GOP majority will not be able to gerrymander themselves back into power,”
Jeffries wrote in a new letter to House Democrats
Jeffries said the House Democratic caucus would meet Thursday as they plot next steps.
…

‘We remain undeterred’: Hakeem Jeffries says gerrymandering won’t save House Republicans
“The failed GOP majority will not be able to gerrymander themselves back into power."

South Carolina redistricting: Lawmakers reject gerrymander in blow to Trump (Matt Cohen/Democracy Docket)
https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/south-carolina-redistricting-lawmakers-reject-gerrymander-in-blow-to-trump/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260512/p87#a260512p87

Infineon plans to open a €5B chip factory in Germany backed by EU subsidies, its largest single investment, on July 2 as Europe seeks to boost chip production (Christina Kyriasoglou/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20