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On The Political Roots of Academic Freedom — Crooked Timber https://crookedtimber.org/2025/06/03/on-the-political-roots-of-academic-freedom/

Pornhub's parent company plans to stop serving adult content in France as soon as June 4, in protest of government measures forcing it to verify visitors' ages (Politico)
https://www.politico.eu/article/pornhub-suspend-porn-france/

Pornhub to suspend porn in France
Porn industry giant protests Paris’ measures to verify the age of users.

"The administration’s claims to monarchical power are a real threat to America’s constitutional order. But its executive orders and policy feints are so haphazard and poorly articulated that they amount to a kind of autocratic takeover written in smudge-able crayon: terrifying, cartoonish, and vulnerable to erasure, all at once.
This is not to say that Americans should ignore Trump’s efforts to make confetti of the Constitution. Rather, when evaluating any one Trump policy, one has to keep front of mind the possibility that it simply won’t exist by the end of the week. Despite an energetic effort by some right-wing intellectuals to make Trump out to be some kind of 14-dimensional-chess player, his approach doesn’t resemble chess so much as a denial-of-service attack on a functioning government."
#USPolitcs
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/06/trump-self-destructive-agenda/683013/

Pornhub's parent company plans to stop serving adult content in France as soon as June 4, in protest of government measures forcing it to verify visitors' ages (Politico)
https://www.politico.eu/article/pornhub-suspend-porn-france/

Pornhub to suspend porn in France
Porn industry giant protests Paris’ measures to verify the age of users.

The First Casualty of the Big Beautiful Bill? (David Dayen/American Prospect)
https://prospect.org/politics/2025-06-04-first-casualty-of-the-big-beautiful-bill/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250604/p45#a250604p45

❗ "Massey is the 13th councillor in Scotland, out of a total of 1,226, to have defected to Reform"
- I can't help wondering if Farage, who has access to large sums of right-wing American money, is PAYING those councillors to defect, literally BUYING THEM.

Stochastic Modeling of Road Hazards on Intersections and their Effect on Safety of Autonomous Vehicles
Peter Popov, Lorenzo Strigini, Cornelius Buerkle, Fabian Oboril, Michael Paulitsch
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02688

Stochastic Modeling of Road Hazards on Intersections and their Effect on Safety of Autonomous Vehicles
Autonomous vehicles (AV) look set to become common on our roads within the next few years. However, to achieve the final breakthrough, not only functional progress is required, but also satisfactory safety assurance must be provided. Among those, a question demanding special attention is the need to assess and quantify the overall safety of an AV. Such an assessment must consider on the one hand the imperfections of the AV functionality and on the other hand its interaction with the environment…

“‘It’s very difficult to not take corporate money … we’ve hired grant writers who have asked, “Well, how about Bank of America, how about Apple?” How about no,’ laughed Sullivan, who explained, ‘Even if a sponsor never asks you to edit any of your work, you are going to be censoring yourself, like, “If we say this, maybe they won’t give us money next year.”’”

Microsoft says it didn't cut services to the International Criminal Court, after an AP report in May said it "cancelled" the email of ICC prosecutor Karim Khan (Sam Clark/Politico)
https://www.po…

Microsoft didn’t cut services to International Criminal Court, its president says
Chief prosecutor’s email issues have spurred fears in Europe that Trump could trigger a “kill switch” through U.S. tech giants abroad.

Some of Trump's Biggest Inaugural Donors Benefit From Early Government Actions (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/trump-inauguration-donors-benefit-2ff3121f
http://www.memeorandum.com/250603/p145#a250603p145