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“The Founders of This New Development Say You Must Be White to Live There”
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/19/realestate/arkansas-white-housing-return-to-land.html
I may be ok with these folks self-selecting out of the broader communit…

Rechte haben ein kindisches Faible für Flaggen, Fackeln, Feinde, Flüchtlinge, Fake News und so weiter.
Da hat wohl jemand die wehenden Fahnen der #Nazis mit Hakenkreuz als Vorbild vor Augen.
Man sollte sich zweimal überlegen, wem man welches Gebäude verkauft.
#AfD

Bützow in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern: Großer Bahnhof für die AfD
Wer mit dem Zug zwischen Rostock und Schwerin unterwegs ist, passiert einen Kleinbahnhof, der seit Kurzem AfD-Optik trägt. Fahrgäste sind schockiert, der Eigentümer des Gebäudes sieht den »Bürgerwillen« repräsentiert, die Bahn zeigt sich machtlos.

Deutschland und KI-Infrastruktur: Die Welt baut Rechenzentren, wir bauen Antragsformulare. Während Hyperscaler Datenwölkchen blasen, werkeln Telekom & Co. an der Allianzenmodell-Eisenbahn. Morgen vielleicht schon gestern | Mirjam Hecking: Rechenzentren: Wieso Deutschland bei der KI-Infrastruktur zurückfällt #ManagerMagazin

Basis für KI: Rechenzentren – so fallen Deutschland und Europa zurück
Für KI-Anwendungen braucht es große Rechenzentren, die viel Strom, Platz und Wasser benötigen. Von den Top 15 steht nur eines in Europa – und auch Deutschland fällt weiter zurück, wie der Überblick zeigt.

Q&A with Hugging Face Chief Ethics Scientist Margaret Mitchell on aligning AI development with human needs, the "illusion of consensus" around AGI, and more (Melissa Heikkilä/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/7089bff2-25fc-4a25-98bf-8828ab24…

Margaret Mitchell: artificial general intelligence is ‘just vibes and snake oil’
One of the pioneers of AI ethics explains why human needs should be the central driver in the development of the technology

Dynamical Horizons and Black Hole Soft Hair
Albert Huber
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.16939 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.16939

Dynamical Horizons and Black Hole Soft Hair
In the present work, quasilocal Brown-York charges are derived that coincide in the large sphere limit with the conserved supertranslation hair and superrotation charges introduced by Hawking, Perry and Strominger in [45, 46]. Given these charges, a general scenario is outlined in which a non-rotating black hole completely evaporates after its collapse due to particle creation effects, whereby a genuine one-way traversable event horizon is never formed, but merely a two-way traversable dynamica…

Housing, food and energy security are “more important now than ever with climate change,”
Haíɫzaqv Hereditary Chief λšλíya sila, Frank Brown, says. 
“Housing is a human right.
It’s imperative we make some progress around ensuring people have adequate housing and that it’s appropriate for the threats that are coming.”
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Heiltsuk Nation is building for the climate crisis | The Narwhal
The B.C. First Nation is building energy efficient, affordable homes grounded in culture

TransLight: Image-Guided Customized Lighting Control with Generative Decoupling
Zongming Li, Lianghui Zhu, Haocheng Shen, Longjin Ran, Wenyu Liu, Xinggang Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.14814

TransLight: Image-Guided Customized Lighting Control with Generative Decoupling
Most existing illumination-editing approaches fail to simultaneously provide customized control of light effects and preserve content integrity. This makes them less effective for practical lighting stylization requirements, especially in the challenging task of transferring complex light effects from a reference image to a user-specified target image. To address this problem, we propose TransLight, a novel framework that enables high-fidelity and high-freedom transfer of light effects. Extract…

**This is unconstitutional; the law itself has no such cap.** HUD did this same b.s. 'enforcing' the Brooke Amendment, which prevented increases in rent due to increases in taxes and utilities; HUD put an arbitrary cap on how many increases, and the court said (*Howard v. Pierce*) 're-write the regulation to conform to enabling legislation'
'So disrespectful': This Trump proposal could throw 1.4 million people out of their homes - Alternet.org
https://www.alternet.org/hiousing-trump-homeless/?utm_source=Iterable&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Jul.17.2025_8.32pm

Source: the CEO and the chief people officer of Astronomer were put on leave after a video of them cuddling on a kiss cam at a Coldplay concert went viral (Eleanor Hawkins/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/07/18/coldplay-kiss-cam-astronomer

Scoop: Astronomer execs on leave after viral Coldplay concert scandal
The company's slow response created space for spoof accounts, phony statements and memes.

Astronomer CEO Andy Byron resigns after a video of him cuddling with chief people officer Kristin Cabot at a Coldplay concert went viral (Eleanor Hawkins/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/07/19/astronomer-ceo-andy-byron-resigns-coldplay-kisscam

Astronomer CEO Andy Byron resigns following Coldplay concert scandal
"Andy Byron has tendered his resignation, and the Board of Directors has accepted," the company said Saturday.