The shock gloves, he went on to explain, allow their wearer to inflict pain without leaving the sort of marks that could look bad to witnesses or leave an officer vulnerable to lawsuits.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/08/i…
A look at Privacy Act lawsuits against the government that result in journalists being subpoenaed to reveal their sources, and their impact on press freedom (Riddhi Setty/Columbia Journalism Review)
https://www.cjr.org/analysis/private-matte
How mature is this repository? My long quest for open-source software metrics
When I discover an open-source software project for the first time, how can I estimate whether it is mature, healthy and usable?
I just released OSSTRL - Open Source Software Technology Readiness Level to help me calculating the maturity of open-source projects.
#opensource
Israel-based Hemispheric, whose AI model can analyze brain activity measured non-invasively and turn it into quantitative metrics for diagnoses, raised $52M (Meytal Vaizberg/Globes)
https://en.globes.co.il/en/article-neuroai-diagnostic-co-hemispheri…
Wie verzint dit:
"De maatregel heeft een limiet: zodra het budget van 118 miljoen euro op is, stopt de verkoop van het tijdelijke abonnement."
Neem zo'n maatregel of neem hem niet maar dit heeft het karakter van de verkoop van concertkaartjes.....
https://www.
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MorningShow
The Sugarcubes:
🎵 Motorcrash
#TheSugarcubes
https://thesugarcubes.bandcamp.com/track/motorcrash
https://open.spotify.com/track/7BJ59jvWy4VhNhAnvsNWbv
#MeteorScatter Science - another #HamSci 2026 talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vOfv4Kp7hs (at https://www.youtube.com/@ARRLHQ/videos many more from that March meeting - https://hamsci.org/hamsci2026 - are available).
ICE Took Mom and Dad. Now the Perez Kids Are Home Alone. (Samantha Michaels/Mother Jones)
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/06/trump-family-separations-data-us-citizens-children-immigrant-parents-ice-obama-biden-policies/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260615/p95#a260615p95
Energy Matters: Road To Zero
Where we dive head-first in to all things renewable...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: #AusPods
For over 40 years Scottish man Andrew Whitley has been on a mission to change the way our bread is made.
He says the spongy white stuff that dominates supermarket bread aisles,
originally developed to fuel hungry mill and factory workers through the Industrial Revolution,
just isn't nutritious or healthy.
So to fight back he co-founded Bread Matters,
and more recently Scotland The Bread, a collaborative project to grow better grain and bake better bread with…