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‘The court now grants’: Judge finally agrees to toss Jan. 6 defendant’s gun case in light of Trump pardon and decisions on where the government’s ‘resources are best spent’
https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/the-court-now-grants-judge-finally-agrees-to-toss-jan-6-defendants-gun-case-in-light-of-trump-pardon-and-decisions-on-where-the-governments-resources-are-best-spent/

DEFICIT SPENDING IS WRONG, WRONG, WRONG!
UNLESS IT'S FOR SOMETHING ESSENTIAL,
LIKE TAX CUTS FOR MILLIONAIRES

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MorningShow
Sharon Van Etten:
🎵 Seventeen
#SharonVanEtten
https://longdissonance.bandcamp.com/track/sharon-van-etten-seventeen
https://open.spotify.com/track/5jZoYp0P8ML7AxkS3tQz3j

Mario Kart Wii: chasing ghosts
As mentioned in my post on the closing of Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection, I spent a fair amount of time online playing Mario Kart Wii. I had intended to spend time playing multiplayer games, tying to improve my fairly rubbish ranking of 5100, but in fact I found that the online time trials were a bigger draw. The way the ghost races were set up was very clever.

Johnson brushes off Musk campaign spending threats: 'It doesn't concern me' (Filip Timotija/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5338311-mike-johnson-elon-musk-donald-trump-spending-bill-public-feud/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250607/p33#a250607p33

Geldwäscheverdacht: Tschechiens Justizminister tritt wegen Bitcoin-Spende zurück
In der Tschechischen Republik erschüttert ein Skandal um die Bitcoin-Spende eines Verurteilten die Regierung. Nun kündigte ein Minister seinen Rückzug an.

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Spoon:
🎵 Got Nuffin
#NowPlaying #Spoon
https://spoontheband.bandcamp.com/track/got-nuffin
https://open.spotify.com/track/0n2tnCMIlM8Z58NPdXzlQe

arxiv_authors: Arxiv authors (1993-2003)
Scientific collaborations between authors of papers submitted to arxiv.org, under 5 categories: gr-qc, astro-ph, cond-mat, hep-ph, and hep-th categories, spanning January 1993 to April 2003. If an author i co-authored a paper with author j, the graph contains a undirected edge from i to j. If the paper is co-authored by k authors this generates a completely connected (sub)graph on k nodes.
This network has 89209 nodes and 237010 edges.

The Trump administration’s spending cuts and restrictions on foreign students are triggering a brain drain — and American scientists are panicking.
U.S. researchers' fears are coming true.
America’s science pipeline is drying up,
and countries like China are seizing the opportunity to surge ahead.

“This is such a race for being the science powerhouse that you never fully recover,”
says Marcia McNutt, president of the National Academy of Sciences.

The great poaching: America's brain drain begins
China and Europe are recruiting heavily from U.S. labs.

Microsoft spendiert Bing einen KI-Video-Ersteller
Microsoft hat Bing nun auch einen KI-Video-Ersteller verpasst. Der lässt sich kostenlos nutzen und erstellt 5-Sekunden-Schnipsel mit Sora.
https://www.