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.@… and Francesca Policarpio will be at @… tomorrow to talk about the Church Street Pedestrianization Pilot

This is the *other* #asteroid visited by an Asian spacecraft this month: tiny (469219) Kamo`oalewa - the bar measures 10 meters - as seen by China's #Tianwen2 from 20 km distance ahead of a #SampleReturnMission: https://www.facebook.com/Spacewalk2021/posts/pfbid02JKYdMnWPGRxxShDj6U6d6M2vs5qUkVL55v97CBgAHJ6KTnCvM6TkSTyDVEFGqk23l (see also the paper https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.24017 about JWST observations of the asteroid).

Sources: US officials discussed the government taking stakes in major AI companies after Sam Altman pitched the idea; Altman met Bernie Sanders on Wednesday (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/u-s-officials-discuss-taking-financ…

AI tools are twisting online messages on sensitive political topics about everything from abortion to climate change in ways that could snowball to reshape long-term public opinion, experts have said.
As tech companies push AI tools as convenient ways to redraft and summarise the massive influx of daily messages,
many inject their own political biases
– some leaning distinctly rightwing, others more liberal,
according to a study from Oxford and Potsdam universities.…

AI altering meaning of users’ drafts on issues from abortion to climate, study finds
Researchers say small changes in drafting could spread rapidly and create long-term shifts in public opinion

Roll Or Die
BJJ Podcast hosted by Kim Potgieter and Brent Dry bringing on guests from across the globe who have interesting life stories or journeys...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/roll-or-die/

What. WHAT. #FuckYeahMamdani
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:nx7znvoex7ev3wcxn3tipovm/post/3mla3dhamrs27

Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani (@mayor.nyc.gov)
I joined NY’s Cutest on the Bergen Bike Bus that they ride to school every Wednesday, rain or shine. We’re adding bike boulevards and more pedestrian space on Bergen and Dean Street, from Court Street to East New York Ave. It was a wonderful kind of day.

petster: Pet owner social networks (2016)
A network of friendships among users on catster.com and dogster.com. Node represents a user, and edge exists if two users self-identify as friends on either website. The dogster/catster network also contains family links between dog and dog, cat and cat, as well as dog and cat.
This network has 623766 nodes and 15699276 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted

Liebe Stiftungen👋,
wir laden herzlich ein zur #2MR, dem Festival für demokratiestärkende soziale Medien, 4. Mai, Hamburg:
👉️️ https://2mr.social
Gern weitergeben!🙏
AIP_Potsdam@astrodon.social
DESYnews@helmholtz.social
ktstiftung@mastodon.social
histmuseenhh@troet.cafe
geomar_en@helmholtz.social
HumboldtStiftung@wisskomm.social
bstiftung@bewegung.social
BWBStiftung@social.bund.de
BeilsteinInstitut@hessen.social
DBU@home.social
BKHS_Stiftung@social.bund.de
kelly_stiftung@gruene.social
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Sources: US officials have held talks with AI companies about the government acquiring shares; Sam Altman first pitched the concept directly to Trump in 2025 (NOTUS)
https://www.notus.org/technology/trump-ai-stake-openai

Senior U.S. Officials Eye Government Shares in AI Giants
An agreement to give the U.S. government equity stakes in AI companies could have seismic consequences.