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Schleichwerbung auf Instagram: 37.000 Euro Bußgeld für Beauty-Influencerin
Die Medienanstalt Baden-Württemberg zieht Konsequenzen aus unzureichenden Werbelabels und verhängt ein hohes Bußgeld gegen Hanadi Diab, die Insolvenz anmeldete.

Schleichwerbung auf Instagram: 37.000 Euro Bußgeld für Beauty-Influencerin
Die Medienanstalt Baden-Württemberg zieht Konsequenzen aus unzureichenden Werbelabels und verhängt ein hohes Bußgeld gegen Hanadi Diab, die Insolvenz anmeldete.

How lifestyle influencers are having to pivot to retain attention as brands become more selective about who they work with and demanding about post performance (Rebecca Jennings/Vulture)
https://www.vulture.com/article/influencer-recession-audrey-peters-inte…

How Influencers Like Audrey Peters Have to Pivot
Once upon a time, lifestyle influencers could post cute photos and make millions. Now they are forced to pivot.

Noch ein paar der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Schleichwerbung auf Instagram: 37.000 Euro Bußgeld für Beauty-Influencerin

Beauty-Influencerin nach Bußgeld wegen Schleichwerbung insolvent
Die Medienanstalt Baden-Württemberg zieht Konsequenzen aus unzureichenden Werbelabels und verhängt ein hohes Bußgeld gegen Hanadi Diab, die Insolvenz anmeldete.

When you are a Swift compiler contributor, every day is Xmas!
https://forums.swift.org/t/dropping-the-requirement-for-c-only-bootstrapping/87739/

Dropping the requirement for C++-only bootstrapping
Dear compiler developers, I'm happy to announce that from now on "mandatory" parts of the compiler can be implemented in Swift (on the main branch). So far we only used Swift as an implementation language in parts of the compiler which are not strictly necessary for correct code generation of the standard library, like some optimization passes. Now, we can use Swift in all parts of the compiler, including the parser, AST, type checker or mandatory SIL passes. We are dropping the requirement…

Contrary to Elon Musk's claims about Neuralink Blindsight, ReVision Implant admits about their V1 implant that it will not work for congenitally blind adults, i.e. "blindness contracted from birth as then the visual cortex does not develop normally" https://www.revision-implant.com/faq

16WW Impulse Heating Test - A bit of research to understand the thermal behaviour of part of 16WW better! - https://www.earth.org.uk/impulse-heating-test.html

16WW Impulse Heating Test
A bit of research to understand the thermal behaviour of part of 16WW better!

When the United States ratified the 13th amendment in 1865, federal lawmakers very nearly outlawed slavery for good
— but not entirely.
Tucked within arguably the most important corner of the US constitution is a massive caveat:
“neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States”
In the 160-some years since that amendment, a quieter type of forced servitu…

The Diarrhea Lettuce Company Has Been Linked to Forced Labor
The lettuce-producing Taylor Farms was linked to the widespread use of prison labor before its involvement in a cyclospora outbreak.

* A law to sell [parts of] Argentina to the ultra-rich of the world *
On Aug 6, the Argentine Senate plans to vote on Milei's new bill,
the Private Property Inviolability Law.
If approved, tech tycoons like Peter Thiel will be able to keep the water, energy & climate of Patagonia
-- By F. Gomez, 7/31/26
(h/t. Jenny Cohn)

Jenny Cohn (@jennycohn.bsky.social)
😳 “A law to sell [parts of] Argentina to the ultra-rich of the world *** On Aug 6, the Senate plans to vote on Milei's new bill, the Private Property Inviolability Law. If approved, tech tycoons like Peter Thiel will be able to keep the water, energy & climate of Patagonia” By F. Gomez, 7/31/26… 1/

Meta dekodiert getippte Sätze aus Hirnströmen – ohne Operation
Metas KI-Modell Brain2Qwerty rekonstruiert getippte Sätze aus EEG- und MEG-Hirnströmen – ohne Implantate. Die KI erreicht im Schnitt 61 Prozent Wortgenauigkeit.

Meta dekodiert getippte Sätze aus Hirnströmen – ohne Operation
Metas KI-Modell Brain2Qwerty rekonstruiert getippte Sätze aus EEG- und MEG-Hirnströmen – ohne Implantate. Die KI erreicht im Schnitt 61 Prozent Wortgenauigkeit.

Missouri’s initiative petition process has long served as one of the ways people can shape public policy when statewide voters and the Missouri state legislature reach different conclusions.
It is part of the constitutional balance that ensures governing authority ultimately remains accountable to the people.
Amendment 4 would not eliminate that constitutional authority, but it would make exercising it nearly impossible.
Missouri is one of 26 states that uses a citizen-in…

Missouri Ballot Measure Attempts to Undermine Voters’ Influence Over Policy
If passed, Amendment 4 could make it substantially more difficult for citizen-led constitutional amendments to succeed.