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Trotzdem beliebt: Waymo-Robotaxis sind teurer, kommen später als die Konkurrenz
Die autonomen Taxis von Waymo sorgen zumindest bislang nicht für einen Preisverfall bei Taxifahrten in Los Angeles. Laut einer Studie sind sie merklich teurer.

We see cops going crazy.
There will be lawsuits.
Cops and the places that hire them will incur legal costs and even higher payouts for damages.
This is likely to force cities to raise taxes to cover those costs or, more likely, to cover the massive increase in insurance premiums that cities will have to pay in the future.
Of course, ultimately it will be you and me - taxpayers - who foot these bills for the insane excesses of cops.

Now personally, I'm not invested in the law and I reject the logical underpinnings of the whole thing. The US is founded on land that already had people on it, that already had multiple systems of authority, so there can be no claim that it has any legal authority to exist at all.
But it's hard to ignore the inconsistency here. Accepting the logic from the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, there is no way in which the current state can be legitimate and which Trump has the authority to do anything. The last legal president, again, following the logic that assumes such a thing even possible, was Barak Obama. Since the transfer of power, the country has failed to enforce the law.
If the executive cannot complete their oath, then they are considered vacant under the 25th amendment. If the cabinet fails to invoke article 4, then they too are involved in the insurrection (again, simply following the logic outlined pretty clearly here) as are any who would fail to support the invocation.
Since a full takeover of the federal government by insurrectionists wasn't really planned for, I'm guessing that it would necessarily go to the states, being the only remaining legal authority.

U.S. Department of Education Ends Taxpayer Subsidization of Postsecondary Education for Illegal Aliens (U.S. Department of Education)
https://www.ed.gov/about/news/press-release/us-department-of-education-ends-taxpayer-subsidization-of-postsecondary-education-illegal-aliens
http://www.memeorandum.com/250710/p135#a250710p135

State Attorney General Angry That AI Doesn’t Love Trump More, Will Waste Taxpayer Money Until It Does! - Dealbreaker
https://dealbreaker.com/2025/07/state-attorney-general-angry-that-ai-doesnt-love-trump-more-will-waste-taxpayer-money-until-it-does

I've written up a few words about the #iNaturalist backlash in light of them wanting to do "generative 'AI'", and how it ties into better shared decision making: #citizenscience

The US taxpayer is going to be on the hook for all the soldiers, tanks, and planes that appear in Donald Trump’s military parade.
But several major tech companies are paying for the festivities along the parade route.
According to recent statements from America250, #Oracle, #Amazon,

Big Tech quietly sponsors Trump’s military parade party
Though big tech companies have downplayed their involvement in funding this weekend’s military parade, the event’s organizer, America250, has released statements confirming involvement from Amazon, Palantir and Oracle.

»Generative KI in der ­Softwareentwicklung – ein Realitätscheck:
Die Integration von künstlicher Intelligenz (KI) in die Softwareentwicklung bietet neue Möglichkeiten zur Effizienzsteigerung und Qualitätsverbesserung, bringt jedoch auch Herausforderungen wie Datenschutz und ethische Fragen mit sich.«
Ich pers. kenne keine Coder*innen die KI professionell in ihrer Firma einsetzen dürfen, heißt aber noch nichts.
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Pistorius: Manifest zu Russland "Realitätsverweigerung"
Verteidigungsminister Boris Pistorius hat Forderungen prominenter Politiker aus seiner SPD nach einer Kehrtwende in der Russland-Politik scharf zurückgewiesen. "Dieses Papier ist Realitätsverweigerung. Es missbraucht den Wunsch der Menschen in unserem Land nach Ende des furchtbaren Krieges in der Ukraine. Nach Frieden", sagte er.
Pistorius mac…
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Vorstoß aus der SPD zu Außenpolitik: Auch die SPD-Fraktion geht auf Distanz
Das Positionspapier von mehr als 100 SPD-nahen Personen zu einer anderen Sicherheits- und Verteidigungspolitik und Gesprächen mit Russland sorgt für Wirbel. Reaktionen aus der Partei fallen teils sehr scharf aus.

Microsoft: Windows-11-24H2-Update durch Update außer der Reihe ersetzt
Microsoft hat das Patchday-Update für Windows 11 24H2 wegen Kompatibilitätsproblemen gestoppt und ersetzt es nun mit einem ungeplanten Update.