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Frankreich streicht eigene Paketsteuer für Kleinsendungen nach geringem Ertrag
Für kleine Pakete aus Nicht-EU-Staaten waren in Frankreich 2 Euro fällig. Doch asiatische Händler haben die Gebühr ausgetrickst. Jetzt verzichtet Paris darauf.

Frankreich streicht eigene Paketsteuer für Kleinsendungen nach geringem Ertrag
Für kleine Pakete aus Nicht-EU-Staaten waren in Frankreich 2 Euro fällig. Doch asiatische Händler haben die Gebühr ausgetrickst. Jetzt verzichtet Paris darauf.

Please help our cards against surveillance travel to your place. It's easy.
DM us your address or download the print file.
https://imagenotfound.writeas.com/the-cameras-are-watching-the-postcards-are-now-available
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The cameras are watching. The postcards are now available.
TL;DR: Paint the Cameras Dead (read more) asks people to notice the surveillance infrastructure disappearing into the background of our c...

To make it easier esp. for junior folks (students, postdocs, jr faculty) to talk to me, I'm trying a new thing: open office hours at conferences! Come find me at PLDI 2026, using the public calendar linked to the page below. Please feel free to reshare!
https://cs.brown.edu/people/sk/Contact

This is an excellent realtalk in the impacts of AI, based on history.
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/steven-langbroek-09a9973b8_techworkers-aidisplacement-politicaleconomy-activity-7455166495271182336-R6L…

#techworkers #aidisplacement #politicaleconomy | Steven Langbroek
"Revolutions have happened before. People were fine. Life was better after." If you've said something along these lines about AI, I need you to stick with me through 4 hard-to-hear realities: 1. Pre-industrial displacement happened against a backdrop of commons, kin networks, parish relief, subsistence agriculture as a fallback. Inadequate, maybe, but real. Those structures were deliberately dismantled (enclosure, Poor Law reform, criminalization of vagrancy) so labor would have no alternativ…

from my link log —
Why writing correct software is hard.
https://pron.github.io/posts/correctness-and-complexity
saved 2024-05-18 https://

Why Writing Correct Software Is Hard
We try to understand the relationship between programs and correctness, and in particular, why writing correct programs must be hard. We will review results from computability theory and complexity theory, and see that programs and complete understanding – which is required for correctness – are fundamentally at odds.

Mittwoch: Apple wegen Epic vor US-Höchstgericht, Aus für Frankreichs Paketsteuer
Prüfung auf Apples Gerichte-Missachtung Zoll auf Chinas Mini-Pakete wirkungslos Telemedizin auch mit Apotheken KI-Agenten als AWS-Strategie Bit-Rauschen

Mittwoch: Apple wegen Epic vor US-Höchstgericht, Aus für Frankreichs Paketsteuer
Prüfung auf Apples Gerichte-Missachtung + Zoll auf Chinas Mini-Pakete wirkungslos + Telemedizin auch mit Apotheken + KI-Agenten als AWS-Strategie + Bit-Rauschen

Pesticide widespread in blood of French Indies adults: Study #France

Pesticide widespread in blood of French Indies adults: Study
Eight in 10 adults in the French West Indies have a toxic pesticide in their blood decades after banana growers stopped using it, a study said Wednesday.

Thanks to Brendan Schlagel, who got me thinking about this.
#blog

A personal canon site - The Good Work
How to tell your story.It was through Brendan that I came up with the idea of creating a personal canon site. A personal canon site is a curated digital space,...