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An interview with Gaia Marcus, director of the UK-based think tank Ada Lovelace Institute, on AI regulation in the UK and Europe, AI safety, bias, and more (Melissa Heikkilä/Financial Times)

Ada Lovelace Institute’s Gaia Marcus: regulation would increase people’s comfort with AI
The head of the UK-based think-tank talks about her hopes and fears for future oversight of AI

Mahmoud Khalil details psychological pain and reputational harm in new legal filings: ‘Efforts to erase my humanity’ | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/mahmoud-khalil-charges-trump-judges-columbia-b2764841.html

from my link log —
Crossness pumping station: seduced by symmetry.
https://www.anthonybaines.co.uk/blog/2021/9/2/crossness-pumping-station-seduced-by-symmetry
saved 2025-05-15

Crossness Pumping Station: seduced by symmetry — Anthony Baines Photography
Last week, I was lucky enough to visit the Crossness Pumping Station in South-East London . It is variously known as the "Cathedral in the Marshes" or, more bluntly, the "Cathedral of Sewage". It is a former Victorian sewage pumping station, opened in 1865; it continued to ope

Fabien Daubet Via https://mirkokosmos.tumblr.com/post/779244693760458752/by-fabien-daubet
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Marcus v. Marcus: in the Campidoglio on Capitoline Hill vs in the Brown campus on College Hill. #Italy25

Differences between Neurodivergent and Neurotypical Software Engineers: Analyzing the 2022 Stack Overflow Survey
Pragya Verma, Marcos Vinicius Cruz, Grischa Liebel
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.03840

Differences between Neurodivergent and Neurotypical Software Engineers: Analyzing the 2022 Stack Overflow Survey
Neurodiversity describes variation in brain function among people, including common conditions such as Autism spectrum disorder (ASD), Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), and dyslexia. While Software Engineering (SE) literature has started to explore the experiences of neurodivergent software engineers, there is a lack of research that compares their challenges to those of neurotypical software engineers. To address this gap, we analyze existing data from the 2022 Stack Overflow De…

Set precedent, and it might come back to bite yer ass:
Trump orders investigation into Biden presidency claiming aides hid his ‘serious cognitive decline’ | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-biden-investigation-cognitive-decline-autopen-b2764004.html

Sources: Apple may announce new features for AirPods at WWDC, including iPhone camera control, new head gestures, and sleep detection for pausing playback (Marcus Mendes/9to5Mac)
https://9to5mac.com/2025/06/04/exclusive-airpods-ios-26-wwdc-features/…

Exclusive: AirPods to get camera control, sleep detection, new gestures - 9to5Mac
Today, we are sharing a five previously unreported AirPods features that may be announced as early as Monday, during the WWDC25 keynote.

‘She’s sold out’: Meghan McCain accused of going ‘full grift’ after promoting COVID vaccine ‘detox’ | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/meghan-mccain-detox-covid-vaccine-reaction-b2764455.html

‘By the way, I think that the more she lies, the bigger her cross gets’
Karoline Levitt ditches religious necklace after Jon Stewart’s brutal joke: ‘Some sort of weird Pinocchio cross’ | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/karoline-leavitt-cross-necklace-jon-stewart-b2764053.html