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Missouri Sen. Eric Schmitt openly promoted white supremacism in a public speech • Missouri Independent https://missouriindependent.com/2025/09/15/missouri-sen-eric-schmitt-openly-promoted-white-supremacism-in-a-public-speec…

That question is in itself dishonest, but of course even more so if you just recently made the maps very specifically not be to be open source any longer! 😂
So you can have some non-openly licensed maps, developed on GitHub. Or you could have some openly licensed maps, developed on @…, by choosing @… 😉
https://fosstodon.org/@organicmaps/115203780434338817

FAQ zum EU Data Act – mehr Rechte für Verbraucher?
Hersteller müssen offenlegen, welche Daten Geräte sammeln – und wie Nutzer darauf zugreifen können. Vorteile für Verbraucher? Zumindest theoretisch.
https://www.

Interessanter kurzer Bericht zu den Problemen von #Verwaltungsdigitalisierung aus Perspektive der Bevölkerung, in Spanien. Samt Hinweis auf ein interessantes Urteil zur Offenlegung von Algorithmen.
#DigitaleTeilhabe
Digitale Verwaltung in Spanien – Wenn der Al…

Bad year for bicycling at the California State Capitol. Caltrans quick-build bill died, among others.
https://www.calbike.org/bike-friendly-bills-bite-the-dust/

Bike-Friendly Bills Bite the Dust - CalBike
After several years of successful campaigns, including passing the Freedom to Walk Act,the Complete Streets Bill, and securing $1 billion for the Active Transportation Program, 2025 is shaping up to be a dismal year for active transportation efforts in Sacramento. A combination of budget shortfalls, literal and metaphorical fires, and a federal government openly hostile […]

PIPES: A Meta-dataset of Machine Learning Pipelines
Cynthia Moreira Maia, Lucas B. V. de Amorim, George D. C. Cavalcanti, Rafael M. O. Cruz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.09512 http…

PIPES: A Meta-dataset of Machine Learning Pipelines
Solutions to the Algorithm Selection Problem (ASP) in machine learning face the challenge of high computational costs associated with evaluating various algorithms' performances on a given dataset. To mitigate this cost, the meta-learning field can leverage previously executed experiments shared in online repositories such as OpenML. OpenML provides an extensive collection of machine learning experiments. However, an analysis of OpenML's records reveals limitations. It lacks diversity in pipeli…

Generative AI for Software Project Management: Insights from a Review of Software Practitioner Literature
Lakshana Iruni Assalaarachchi, Zainab Masood, Rashina Hoda, John Grundy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.10887

Generative AI for Software Project Management: Insights from a Review of Software Practitioner Literature
Software practitioners are discussing GenAI transformations in software project management openly and widely. To understand the state of affairs, we performed a grey literature review using 47 publicly available practitioner sources including blogs, articles, and industry reports. We found that software project managers primarily perceive GenAI as an "assistant", "copilot", or "friend" rather than as a "PM replacement", with support of GenAI in automating routine tasks, predictive analytics, co…

"“They openly confessed to killing 11 people,” Venezuela’s interior minister said on state television. “We have done our investigations here in our country and there are the families of the disappeared people who want their relatives, and when we asked in the towns, none were from Tren de Aragua, none were drug traffickers."
**Venezuela says 11 killed in US boat strike were not gang members amid reports vessel was returning to shore** | Venezuela | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/sep/11/venezuela-boat-strike-tren-de-aragua-trump

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Reddit post in r/OpenAl by u/me_z 3d:
Title: Wow... we've been burning money for 6 months
Discussion:
So... because I am such a hard worker, I spent my weekend going through our openai usage and we're at ~$1200/month.
I honestly thought that was just the cost of doing business then i actually looked at what we're using gpt-4 for, and its seriously a waste of money: extracting phone numbers from emails, checking if text contains profanity, reformatting json and literally just uppercasing text in one function.
I ended up just moving all the dumb stuff to gpt-4o-mini. Same exact outputs, bill dropped to ~$200
Am I an idiot? How much are you guys spending?
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Excited to see the rewrite of the @… backend now in public beta! If you use Google Scholar, Scopus, of Web of Science you should really checkout this open (source & data) alternative.
https://blog.openalex.org/openalex-rewrite-enters-beta-🎉/
COI: I volunteer on the board of OpenAlex because they build awesome things