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A more sensible approach to #tax, from #GettingReal
"In short, the government can use taxation to shift away from economic activity that's damaging, reducing poverty and inequality,  and raising needed revenue for needed things.
It needn't fall on most people but must hit the weal…

Jonathan Kanter, the US DOJ's assistant AG for antitrust, says he is examining "monopoly choke points and the competitive landscape" in AI and microchips (Financial Times)
https://t.co/pP9LAQ51wJ

David Hogg here with good and bad news.
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FAFSA meltdown hit students that needed financial aid the most
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/investigations/2024/06/06/fafsa-issues-hardest-low-income-students/73784745007/

For low-income students, FAFSA can be a lifeline. When it didn't work, they were hardest hit.
USA TODAY’s analysis shows a sharper drop in processed applications among low-income schools compared to their high-income counterparts.

France to supply Ukraine with Mirage 2000 jets and train pilots, announces President Macron: https://benborges.xyz/2024/06/07/france-to-supply.html

“Providing consumers with hands-on experience … can act as a gateway to additional electrification measures,” Sussman noted. “If you’re looking to increase the number of people that have all-electric homes … then encouraging this first step of [adopting] solar or electric lawn mowers might be an effective way to do that.”

Electric lawn equipment, solar could be home-electrification ‘gateways’
People with firsthand home electrification experience are much more interested in cutting fossil fuels from other areas of their lives, per a new survey.

Traditionen schon lange vor der #bibliocon24 begründet (und ohne das das jetzt eine Kritik sein soll)
- one Stop Shop
- aufbau eines speziellen Suchraums für x
- Definition eines Standards für y
- Bau eines neuen Portals für z
- föderierte Suche
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Adobe faces a backlash over its terms of service that say Adobe may access user content via "automated and manual methods" to improve its services and software (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)
https://venturebeat.com/ai/adobe-respo…

Adobe responds to vocal uproar over new Terms of Service language
Sources close to Adobe noted that the company did not and could technically not analyze Adobe file formats saved locally.

Senate Republicans block bill to recognize legal right to contraception
The anti-abortion movement has quietly worked to redefine the meaning of “abortifacient”, or drugs that induce abortions, for years.
In 2014, the US supreme court permitted Hobby Lobby, a Christian-owned chain of craft stores, to avoid covering their employees’ morning-after pills and intrauterine devices (IUDs) because their religious beliefs deemed them abortifacients
– even though scientists disagre…

Regulators are concerned that the nascent AI sector is
“at the high-water mark of competition, not the floor”
and must act “with urgency”
to ensure that already dominant tech companies do not control the market, Kanter said.
“Sometimes the most meaningful intervention is when the intervention is in real time,” he added.
“The beauty of that is you can be less invasive.”
Kanter, now in his third year at the Department of Justice, has
alongside the …