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As Wisconsin cities flee Flock, its shared camera network loses value

As Wisconsin cities flee Flock, its shared camera network loses value

"Network effect" can run in reverse.

Ars Technica
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Supreme Court rejects Verizon bid for $47 million refund of FCC fine

Supreme Court rejects Verizon bid for $47 million refund of FCC fine

Despite loss, carriers still claim selling device-location data isn't illegal.

Nieman Lab
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Claude is changing how it generates prose to be more detectable (and maybe worse?)

It was in 1964 that Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart, asked to define obscenity for the purposes of law, wrote his famous heuristic: “I know it when I see it.” But when it comes to AI-generated content, we may think we know it when we see it — but our methods are far from perfect....

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Text • Jon Brodkin

Supreme Court rejects Verizon bid for $47 million refund of FCC fine

Supreme Court rejects Verizon bid for $47 million refund of FCC fine

Despite loss, carriers still claim selling device-location data isn't illegal.

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Petlibro accused of “gaslighting” users over smart pet feeder outage

Petlibro accused of “gaslighting” users over smart pet feeder outage

Petlibro says feeders perform scheduled feedings offline. Users report otherwise.

The Warning with Steve Schmidt
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A new American leader

Donald Trump is systematically attempting to dismantle the Constitution.

@factpostnews.bsky.social - FactPost
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RFK Jr claims his generation "did not have huge outbreaks of infectious disease"

Political Wire
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Planned Parenthood to Spend Against Susan Collins

“Planned Parenthood’s political action committee Monday announced new ads attacking Sen. Susan Collins (R) of Maine, the first of a campaign totaling more than $600,000 to oppose the vulnerable incumbent,” the Washington Post reports. “The ad buy is the largest investment from Planned Parenthood Votes across any state this cycle.”

smays.com
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Twelve Ways to Mark Up A Book

From a 2006 post (by Bert Webb) that has stood the test of time. A new — or new looking — book is a treasure.  In my experience, however, I have found that a well-marked book, becomes more like a … Continue reading →

The Wolf – Hudson Valley’s New Country
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These New York Hometowns Have Cameras That Track Every Vehicle

Some call it "Big Brother on steroids." Continue reading…

McSweeney’s
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Trickle-Down Economics Sues Third Law of Motion for Being a Thing

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOME SUNNY DISTRICT IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA NEAR A HORSE RANCH TRICKLE-DOWN ECONOMICS, (plaintiff) V. THE THIRD LAW OF MOTION, (defendant) STATEMENT OF CLAIM 1. THE THIRD LAW OF MOTION, which has been debunked time and time again by people who say...

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Jackson Pollock, Ritual Scene, c. 1937 #museumofmodernart #jacksonpollock

The New Stack | DevOps, Open Source, and Cloud Native News
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Claude can now delete your production voice agent from a chat window

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Developers can now ask Claude to inspect a production voice agent, revise its system prompt, change the voice entirely, or

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The New Stack | DevOps, Open Source, and Cloud Native News
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Anthropic defined the standards inside Agent Plugins. So why isn’t it helping govern the format?

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Earlier this month, Vercel released Agent Plugins 1.0.0 with core maintainers from AWS, Cursor, Microsoft, and OpenAI. Google announced the

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The number of Trump appointees worth at least $100 million is over 4 times the combined total under the 3 previous presidents.

Political Wire
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Ethics Panel Investigating Lawmaker for Sexual Misconduct

“The House Ethics Committee announced Monday that it is investigating Rep. Jimmy Gomez (D-CA) over allegations of sexual misconduct,” Axios reports. “Gomez said in a statement that he’s made ‘personal mistakes outside my marriage,’ but said his actions were ‘consensual’ and did not violate the law or House Ethics rules.”

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GOP Congressman Dismisses Sailors Trying To Jump Ship: 'I Don't Make Much Of It'

Rep. Pat Fallon (R-TX) was asked point-blank about a colleague's call for congressional oversight of the USS Abraham Lincoln and the mounting reports that multiple crew members have tried to go overboard during its record-breaking deployment. His answer: never mind all that...

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Incendie en Belgique : le feu dans les Hautes-Fagnes provoque un débat sur l’impréparation du pays au changement climatique (lemonde.fr)

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Trump Lashes Out as Preliminary Deal With Iran Expires (Gift Article) (nytimes.com)

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Kevin Lamour, key FIFA official who criticised Infantino’s World Cup plans, leaves role (Gift Article) (nytimes.com)

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