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A Georgia judge on Tuesday tossed out racketeering charges against dozens of defendants accused of a yearslong "conspiracy" to halt the construction of a police and firefighter training facility that critics call “#Cop #City.”
Fulton County Judge

Charges against dozens of 'Cop City' protesters tossed
A Georgia judge has tossed racketeering charges against dozens of defendants accused of a yearslong conspiracy to halt the construction of a police and firefighter training facility. Critics call it “Cop City.” Fulton County Judge Kevin Farmer tossed the charges Tuesday. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports that Farmer said Republican Attorney General Chris Carr didn’t have the authority to secure the 2023 indictments. Carr’s office said they plan to appeal. The 61 defendants faced …

Computer scientists: The Turing test is a test of a machine's ability to exhibit intelligent behavior equivalent to that of a human.
Reality: The Turing test is a test of a human's ability not to be fooled by themselves that a machine is mimicking a human.
(Because the test uses a human to decide if something else is a human, it essentially explores the gullibility limit of an individual human—and says nothing about machine intelligence.)

D-Ticket-App endlich mit Apple-Wallet-Support – wenn man weiß wo
Seit 2023 hatten Nutzer der D-Ticket-App von HanseCom auf Apple-Wallet-Unterstützung gehofft. Nun ist sie da – nach etwas Suchen.
https://www.…

Critical minerals dropped from final text at COP30
https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2025/12/critical-minerals-dropped-from-final-text-at-cop30/

Critical minerals dropped from final text at COP30
Delegates at last month’s U.N. climate change summit, or COP30, adopted a new mechanism to coordinate action on a just energy transition worldwide toward a low-carbon economy, away from fossil fuels. However, a proposal at the conference in Brazil to include language on critical minerals within the mechanism’s scope was scrapped at the last minute […]

Never thought about this. Use the good ol' image maps to provide alt text for possibly more complicated images https://www.w3.org/WAI/tutorials/images/imagemap/
The `href` attribute for `<area>` may be omitted too

Omg, there is a new Simon the Sourcerer game?
https://stadt-bremerhaven.de/simon-the-sorcerer-origins-im-test-prequel-des-klassikers-will-erneut-verzaubern/

Simon the Sorcerer Origins im Test: Prequel des Klassikers will erneut verzaubern
Um den Charakter Simon the Sorcerer zu kennen, muss man wahrscheinlich ein Kind der 1980er- oder der 1990er-Jahre sein. Das erste Spiel der ...

Moody Urbanity - Life Details ⚜️
情绪化城市 - 生活细节 ⚜️
📷 Nikon FE
🎞️ Ilford HP5 Plus 400, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

Google has teased 60-second AI videos from Veo, which sounds impressive until you realize that requires not 10x, but 100x the energy of a 6-second clip.
Analysis confirming quadratic scaling of AI video footprint: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jonipp…

"Chimpanzees revise their beliefs if they encounter new information, a hallmark of rationality that was once assumed to be unique to humans"
(Original title: Chimps Are Capable of Human-Like Rational Thought, Breakthrough Study Finds)
https://www.404med…

Republicans are sweating Tuesday’s special election in Trump country

The surprisingly competitive race
in Tennessee’s ruby-red 7th Congressional District
is a high-profile test of voters’ attitudes about the president’s agenda.
https://www.washingtonpo…

Why Republicans are sweating Tuesday’s special election in Trump country
The surprisingly competitive race in Tennessee’s ruby-red 7th Congressional District is a high-profile test of voters’ attitudes about the president’s agenda.