California lawmakers kill plans to curb AI-manipulated prices: calmatters.org/economy/technolโฆ
> A secretive appropriations process killed or reined in three bills regulating the use of pricing algorithms. A bill to monitor data center electricity use was also culled.
A crackdown on predictive software that sets prices and can rip you off seemed to be brewing in the California Legislature earlier this year, but today lawmakers eased up, voting to kill bills that would have kept software from setting the price of apartment rentals and other goods and services. Another bill, which sought to bar the use of personal information to set prices, was reined in to apply only to grocery stores.
Lawmakers also killed a bill that aimed to protect electric utility customers from bearing higher costs associated with data center proliferation [โฆ] The measure would have required data centers to publicly disclose how much energy they use.
California gives AI price discrimination some breathing room
Three bills to regulate AI price discrimination died or were scaled back in the state legislature during a secretive appropriations process.Khari Johnson (CalMatters)
Maine congressional candidate Graham Platner just scored Bernie Sanders's endorsement
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Gaza, economia sotto assedio: tra embargo, ricostruzione e il business della guerra
Gaza, economia sotto assedio: tra embargo, ricostruzione e il business della guerra
La Striscia di Gaza รจ oggi il teatro di una crisi umanitaria e sociale senza precedenti. Mentre il conflitto israelo-palestinese continua a...Antonio Marano (Blogger)
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Analyzing Hostile Data
Analyzing hostile data and hostile code, finding interesting patterns in the machine instructions.Bob's Pages of Travel, Linux, Cybersecurity, and More
The City of Cassville pushes barges up the Mississippi River
Quincy, Illinois, USA
#Photography #quincy #illinois #barge #tow #river #mississippi #mississippiRiver #BlackAndWhite #blackandwhitephotography #blackandwhitephoto
Vice-presidente da Venezuela desafia EUA: โSeremos o seu pior pesadeloโ - Gazeta Brasil- Notรญcias do Brasil
A vice-presidente da Venezuela, Delcy Rodrรญguez, elevou o tom contra os Estados Unidos apรณs o envio de navios de guerra norte-americanos ao Caribe, prรณximosGazeta Brasil
La โguerraโ del nuovo ponte. Baccelli: โCโรจ chi costruisce e chi fa comunicati stampaโ
Lโassessore regionale, sotto il cui mandato come presidente della Provincia furono mossi i primi passi 13 anni fa per lโimportante opera, ricostruisce le fasi che hanno permesso di arrivare al risultato finale.
Xi and Modi Signal Diplomatic Thaw at Tianjin SCO Summit
#XiModi #SCO2025 #ChinaIndia #GlobalDiplomacy #Geopolitics
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Xi and Modi Signal Diplomatic Thaw at Tianjin SCO Summit
Xi and Modi Signal Diplomatic Thaw at Tianjin SCO Summit ...chy (Blogger)
US reportedly suspends visa approvals for nearly all Palestinian passport holders | Trump administration | The Guardian
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#Palestine #Israel #USA
@palestine
US reportedly suspends visa approvals for nearly all Palestinian passport holders
Restrictions to prevent travel for healthcare and college and come after denying visas to Palestinian Authority leadersGuardian staff reporter (The Guardian)
Nรฃo compre uma air fyer: conheรงa 5 eletros mais รบteis para sua cozinha
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I took this at the Mine Manager's residence in Queenstown, Tasmania, Australia.
Photographed and edited by Kev.
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โScientists Warn Planet Unsafeโ: Report Reveals 60% Of Global Land Now Beyond Limits As Governments Struggle With Escalating Environmental Threats
A groundbreaking study reveals that human activities have pushed Earth's biosphere to a critical tipping point, threatening the planet's ability to sustain life and prompting urgent calls for immediate global action.
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โScientists Warn Planet Unsafeโ: Report Reveals 60% Of Global Land Now Beyond Limits As Governments Struggle With Escalating Environmental Threats
The integrity of Earth's biosphere is under unprecedented threat, according to a recent study that sheds light on the planet's declining ability to maintainEirwen Williams (Sustainability Times)
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US-Richterin blockiert Abschiebungen von Kindern nach Guatemala
Die US-Regierung will hunderte unbegleitete Minderjรคhrige nach Guatemala abschieben, nach Angaben ihrer Anwรคlte rechtswidrig. Teils sitzen die Kinder und Jugendlichen schon im Flugzeug. Doch eine Richterin stoppt die Abschiebungen - vorerst.
The SCO Summit in Tianjin and Turkeyโs dilemma
The SCO and BRICS have a value that lies not in institutional effectiveness, but in the formation of a new symbolic center: an โorder withoutโฆStrategic Culture Foundation
Well, still #blogging about #gaming!
Here are some honorable mentions that didn't make it to the #top25games, at least right now.
This is post 31 of #Blaugust2025
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Top 25 Games Honorable Mentions
Games that didn't make it to the Top 25 but I'll talk about them anywayjoelchrono.xyz
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My only suggestion to this informative list would be to include what platforms you played these games on and/or what platforms theyโre available to play on. I seemed to have a pretty low batting average trying to find them on iOS, for instance. But itโd be good to know where else I COULD play them.
Checking out your top 25 list nowโฆ
Como chegamos tรฃo rรกpido ร beira do abismo? leandroruschel.substack.com/p/โฆ
Como chegamos tรฃo rรกpido ร beira do abismo?
Uma carta para aqueles que cansaram do BrasilLeandro Ruschel
Sport, amicizia e territorio: a Viareggio nasce una nuova societร di calcio
Si chiama Nhul (Non ho una lira) e graviterร intorno al Bistrot della Cittadella. Non solo sport, ma anche attivitร sociali
Cade dalla bici elettrica e sbatte la testa: in elisoccorso a Cisanello
L'incidente a Torre del Lago nella zona del ponte dell'Arcobaleno. Primi soccorsi dagli operatori dell'auto medica
Overgrown Garage
Quincy, Illinois, USA
#Photography #StreetPhotography #streetscapephotography #quincy #illinois #garage #overgrown
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There are new phishing attempts that are making their rounds around the Fediverse, asking people to verify their accounts.
I have reported two this morning.
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Il y a de nouvelles tentatives dโhameรงonnage qui font leur tour du fรฉdivers, demandant aux gens de vรฉrifier leurs comptes.
J'en ai signalรฉ deux ce matin.
Accounts/Comptes:
(at)adilsonjobs(at)mastodon.social
(at)nuestrasculturaseidiomas(at)mastodon.social
blast-info.fr/articles/2025/auโฆ
Et pour celleux qui ne savent pas quoi faire, plein de pistes sur ce site Internet : soutenirpalestine.wordpress.coโฆ
Et toujours la pรฉtition Gaza a faim sur le site de l'Assemblรฉe qui devrait รชtre ร 2 millions depuis belle lurette.
petitions.assemblee-nationale.โฆ
#freegaza #stopgenocide #journalismisnotacrime #breakthesiege #gazaafaim #stopfamine #petition
Au rythme oรน l'armรฉe israรฉlienne tue les journalistes dans la bande de Gaza, il n'y aura bientรดt plus personne pour vous informer - Communiquรฉ
Nous, sociรฉtรฉs des journalistes, nous joignons ร la mobilisation internationale initiรฉe par Reporters sans frontiรจres (RSF), Avaaz et le โCommittee to Protect journalistsโ (CPJ) en solidaritรฉ avec nos confrรจres et consลurs journalistes palestiniens dโฆwww.blast-info.fr
Two Arguments Against Libertarianism
Libertarianism โ in a coarse telling โ is political philosophy that places primacy on individual freedom over all other values. As such, itโs often placed in contrast to traditionโฆOckham's Beard
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The UN should immediately move out of the US. Unthinkable how a world government, who believes to be the top democracy of the world, could be so corrupt! #Landgrabbing #corruption
All UN Security Council members, except US, say famine in Gaza is 'man-made crisis'
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