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More than 30 staffers from OpenAI and Google, including DeepMind chief scientist Jeff Dean, file an amicus brief in support of Anthropic in its fight with DOD (Maxwell Zeff/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/openai-deepmind-employees-file-amicus…

OpenAI and Google Workers File Amicus Brief in Support of Anthropic Against the US Government
Google DeepMind chief scientist Jeff Dean is among the AI researchers and engineers rushing to Anthropic's defense.

A brief notice from the
Office of Personnel Management
could dramatically change which personally identifiable medical information the agency obtains,
giving it the power to see prescriptions employees had filled or what treatment they sought from doctors.
The regulation would require 65 insurance companies that cover more than 8 million Americans
— including federal workers, retired members of Congress, mail carriers, and their immediate family members
— …

Trump’s Personnel Agency Is Asking for Federal Workers’ Medical Records - KFF Health News
The administration is asking insurers that cover federal employees and retirees to hand over details about their medical visits, their pharmacy claims, and more.

Heute ein gelber Brief vom Amtsgericht.
Erster Gedanke: was könnte ich wieder ausgefressen haben?
Was war drin? Beschluss vom Amtsgericht zu einer freiheitsentziehenden Maßnahme für meine 92-jährige Mutter nach Beckenbruch. Verordnung einer sog. Sitzhose, damit sie sich nicht selbstständig auf den Weg machen kann, um so die Sturzgefahr zu minimieren.
Kann man so etwas nicht in einem normalen Brief zustellen? Diese gelben Briefe können einen wirklich in Angst und Schrecken v…

Wow look at the dark patch of red background behind the thin spindles — the Bravia 9 struggles — and that’s their most PREMIUM model! Their prototype is killing it.
Screenshot from Vincent Teoh’s HDTVTest channel on the (annual?) invitation tour of Sony HQ in Japan for tech press and YouTubers https://youtu.be/BVcTeXdZjV4

Terwijl duidelijk wordt dat gemeenten en provincies geen staalslakken meer op hun grondgebied willen, ondanks doe brief vsn het rijk, wordt ook duidelijk waarom het Rijk (lees: Tata) er zo gespitst op is:
'Tata wil op een groenere manier staal gaan produceren, maar daar komen nog meer slakken bij vrij.'
In de toekomst komt nog veel meer van dat spul...
Zeeland ligt dwars: provincie wil geen staalslakken, ministerie wel - Omroep Zeeland
#Staalslakken #Tata

"A brief notice from the Office of Personnel Management could dramatically change which personally identifiable medical information the agency obtains, giving it the power to see prescriptions employees had filled or what treatment they sought from doctors. "
Trump’s Personnel Agency Is Asking for Federal Workers’ Medical Records - Cobb Courier
https://cobbcountycourier.com/2026/04/trumps-personnel-agency-is-asking-for-federal-workers-medical-records/

Tomorrow is my lecture on the history of pizza in Canada. Mrs. Brady (1957) will make a brief appearance.
#histodons

From Carbon Brief daily briefing.
UK printed media really is shithouse.
"The climate-sceptic Sun has an editorial entitled: “We're in an energy crisis…Starmer must cut fuel duty and utilise the North Sea now.”
The Independent’s political commentator John Rentoul explores why chancellor Rachel Reeves and energy secretary Ed Miliband are “locked in a dispute” around the response to the energy crisis." (OK that one's at least relevant)
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