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POL-CUX: Verkehrsunfallflucht auf der BAB27 im Bereich Schwanewede - Zeugenaufruf Cuxhaven (ots) - Schwanewede/BAB27. Am gestrigen Mittwoch (24.06.2026) kam es gegen 14:35 Uhr auf der BAB27 in Fahrtrichtung Walsrode zwischen den Anschlussstellen Uthlede und Schwanewede zu einem Verkehrsunfall. Der 20-jährige Fahrzeugführer aus ... https://www.…

Even in France, nuclear isn't 100% reliable: three sites taken off-line because of the extreme heat
https://www.franceinfo.fr/environnement/ev

Trois réacteurs nucléaires sont à l'arrêt en France en raison de la canicule
Après la centrale de Golfech (Tarn-et-Garonne), deux autres réacteurs nucléaires ont été arrêtés, au Bugey (Ain) et à Nogent-sur-Seine (Aube).

https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/this-is-the-part-of-your-babys-cochlear-implant-procedure-where-i-show-them-angine-de-poitrine

This Is the Part of Your Baby’s Cochlear Implant Procedure Where I Show Them Angine de Poitrine
“It can be an overwhelming experience for your baby when the external sound processor is first turned on. It’s a lot for her brain to acclimate to. That’s wh...

Study: rate of fabricated references in biomedical papers has grown 12x since 2023; in early 2026, one in 277 papers had at least one non-existent reference (Tristan Bove/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2026/05/24/ai-hallucinations-scient…

AI hallucinations are infiltrating expert work—and entering the permanent body of knowledge
AI-generated errors are slipping past expert authors, researchers, and lawyers and embedding themselves in the permanent record.

Ggf müssen wir uns auch vergegen­wärtigen, wie Herbert und Erna von nebenan, also Menschen, die jetzt nicht meine Timeline oder andere linksgrünversiffte Medien konsumieren, ihren Alltag wahrnehmen.
Da sind keine Straßen­schlachten wie vor 100 Jahren zwischen SA und Rotfront, alles ist ruhig und friedlich, die Polizei der „Freund und Helfer“¹, der Hand­taschen­diebe schnappt, „anständige Menschen“ werden auch anständig behandelt und haben nichts zu befürchten. Vielleicht finden sie die…

Dear generative AI enthusiasts,
Look, I know the tokens you're burning right now don't actually use *that*much energy (even though it's somewhat substantial already and disastrous when we take into account the quality of the crap it's being used for) but what's more important is the appearance (or not) of that token spend on the quarterly earnings report of OpenAI/Anthropic/etc. lays the foundation necessary for those companies to go ahead with their plans for datacenters on a truly ridiculous scale, and those datacenters, if built, ate indeed a climate nightmare which *my kids* will have to live through even if they never benefit from any of it at all. That's (one of many reasons) why I personally need you to stop using generative AI right now.
The fact that the output is crap, the way it erodes your intelligence, and the ways in which it plagiarizes and actively undermines good citation practices are among many other practical reasons not to use it, but what's personal to me is the way that your frivolous sloperation is making the future worse for the baby I'm feeding blueberries to as I type this, and half the time I interact with people like you the conversation begins with some form of "putting aside the ethical issues..."
#AI #GenAI #LLMs

The Senate's Clarity Act, a crypto industry-backed bill set for a vote this summer, is mired in debate over rules to stop Trump from selling digital currencies (David Yaffe-Bellany/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/22/t…

Clarity Act Mired In Debate Over Whether to Bar President From Selling Crypto
Democrats and Republicans are haggling about the Clarity Act, a major bill pushed by the crypto industry, as it moves closer to a Senate vote.

Fun story about a 100 mile (well, almost) bike ride. Milwaukee Record is the best!
https://milwaukeerecord.com/food-drink/sunday-sauce-a-98-3-mile-bike-ride-to-chicago-fueled-by-meatballs-pizza-and-italian-beef/…

Sunday Sauce: A 98.3-mile bike ride to Chicago fueled by meatballs, pizza, and Italian beef
The goal: bike from Milwaukee to Chicago on a Super Sunday Sauce ride, all while immediately canceling out those burned calories with Italian food.

Viele Tote befürchtet - Stärke 7,2 und 7,5: Erdbeben erschüttern Venezuela #News #Nachrichten

Personalization systems are actually the AI technology I have the most beef with: I don't think we've fully reckoned with the algorithmic manipulation of information they do. Suddenly the info sphere is not an object you can interrogate, but you become the object, and the infosphere around us is made into a mirror.
Weirdly, LLMs used well are actually _better_ about this because they're somewhat more able to be interrogated (though naive questioning is not probing so much why as one would hope). But the breadth of the corpus and the freedom we have to query within it are currently new capabilities. Not to say that some companies aren't well on their way to researching how to personalize that into a reflection again. Google must be stopped, and I trust OpenAI just as little. People's chats still end up adding quite a reflective lens on things, but the raw access is still there if we want to make use of it.