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Reminded someone that not only did #accessiBe’s overlay not help a site, it may have been a factor in the lawsuit against that site (PDF):
https://archive.org/details/gov.uscourts.paw…

MONTANO v. RESTAURANT EQUIPPERS, INC. : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
This item represents a case in PACER, the U.S. Government's website for federal case data. If you wish to see the entire case, please consult PACER directly.

Open burning of plastic is an escalating public health threat, say experts https://news.mongabay.com/2025/07/open-burning-of-plastic-is-an-escalating-public-health-threat-say-experts/

Open burning of plastic is an escalating public health threat, say experts
When Tiwonge Mzumara-Gawa was a child, her mother sent her to market with a basket woven from grasses. “But now we don’t do that,” she says, because plastic has taken over most utilitarian purposes in today’s Malawi. “You go and you get a plastic carrier, and they’re usually not reusable plastics.” In many Malawi communities, […]

I would just like to express solidarity with trans folks on #bluesky and others who are being suspended on that corporate platform for "wishing ill will" on J.K. Rowling.
Rowling is an objectively terrible human being that has repeatedly expressed discriminatory and disgusting opinions towards trans people.
She has earned every ounce of ill will that she gets.
saw this from @…

Meta has announced that it will begin rolling out advertising on messaging app WhatsApp that has long been touted as an ad-free experience.
https://www.computing.co.uk/news/2025/meta-introduces-ads-on-whatsapp-in-global-revenue-push

Meta introduces ads on WhatsApp in global revenue push
Meta has announced that it will begin rolling out advertising on messaging app WhatsApp that has long been touted as an ad-free experience.

This story is cute: A malicious "Solidity" (that's the smart contract language Ethereum and other blockchains use) extension for Cursor, the Vibe-Coding Editor included code that steals your tokens/coins.
I find it funny for two reasons:
- Blockchainers love talking about how you need to verify things you interact with but someone wasn't checking if they have the right extension
- Programming smart contracts is hard because it's a massively hostile envir…

Code highlighting with Cursor AI for $500,000
Kaspersky GReAT experts uncover malicious extensions for Cursor AI that download the Quasar backdoor and a crypto stealer.

Familien fra Frankrig er taget videre til min svigerinde i Slagelse, og vi har nu en rolig eftermiddag inden vi henter dem der i morgen og kŸrer til Blåvandshuk.
Nu nyder jeg at der er god tid til en #fredagsbog: jeg genlæser Laurie R. Kings Mary Russell-bŸger om den unge Marys mŸde og eventyr med den midaldrende Sherlock Holmes. Det er ganske herligt at se den gamle stivstikker blive …

Nearly 800,000 mpox vaccine doses
the U.S. government had promised to donate to African countries experiencing an outbreak of the rash-causing disease
🆘 cannot be shipped because they’re expiring in less than six months,
according to the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention.
“For a vaccine to be shipped to a country, we need a minimum of six months before expiration to ensure that the vaccine can arrive in good condition
and also allow the country t…

50 years ago today, at 16:09 UTC on 17 July 1975, the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project culminated in the first docking of the spacecraft - but afterwards an interesting experiment took place: after they separated again Apollo (the final one; no number) occulted the Sun from the point of view of Soyuz 19. Images obtained show mostly outgassing from Apollo forward-scattering light from the hidden Sun but allegedly there is also some outer corona in the images of which #eclipse experiment was described in the mission press kit https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/static/history/astp/documents/astp press kit (us).pdf on PDF pages 37-39 and the outcome is discussed in the didactical NASA brochure https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/19780019206/downloads/19780019206.pdf on PDF pages 20-27; there is apparently also a more technical paper in a mission science report but I couldn't find that one online.

Now out in #TMLR:
🍇 GRAPES: Learning to Sample Graphs for Scalable Graph Neural Networks 🍇
There's lots of work on sampling subgraphs for GNNs, but relatively little on making this sampling process _adaptive_. That is, learning to select the data from the graph that is relevant for your task.
We introduce an RL-based and a GFLowNet-based sampler and show that the approach perf…

Lawyers Just Discovered Something About Meta's AI That Could Cost Zuckerberg Untold Billions of Dollars https://futurism.com/lawyer-zuckerberg-ai?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_content=topic/artificial…

Lawyers Just Discovered Something About Meta's AI That Could Cost Zuckerberg Untold Billions of Dollars
A legal expert found that Meta's AI is able to spit out entire portions of books verbatim — and if he's right, Meta is in huge trouble.