A little to post this here but: for the third time in less than a year, President Trump on Monday issued an executive order that calls for American children to be routinely immunized against fewer diseases, as they are in countries like Denmark. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/10/w...

Trump Signs Executive Order Calling for Fewer Childhood Vaccines (Gift Article)

It is not clear whether the order, the president’s third to address the topic in less than a year, has any legal power.

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In July, BLS estimates show employment falling among women while rising among men, accompanied by a sizable decline in women's labor-force participation. Men, 16+ +124,000 employed. Woman, 16+ -211,00 employed

*I agree with you, but the worldview of "AI Miracle Doom-Shoggoth" doesn't mix at all well with the worldview of "AI civil asset forfeiture" "Your criminal AI bit me, so I'm confiscating your giant data center," maybe that works, or maybe Pavel Durov just shoots you the finger. #LawAndDisorder

eschneider@eschneider.bsky.social · 5d ago

Charging "things" with crimes is pretty common. That's the whole basis of civil asset forfeiture.

IFPI: Principles to govern eligibility of recordings developed with GenAI for inclusion in official music charts. Framework will establish boundary between human-led creativity and works that are purely synthetic, or generated by unauthorized AI models. www.ifpi.org/ifpi-rolls-o...

IFPI Rolls Out Global Principles for the Eligibility of Recordings Developed Using AI in Official Music Charts Worldwide - IFPI

~ New principles to be applied across IFPI’s network of official charts ~ 30 July 2026, London – IFPI, the organisation representing the recording industry worldwide, today announced the roll out of a...

ifpi.org

The map, part of a presentation Sunday at the AIDS 2026 summit in Rio de Janeiro, purports to show six African countries that are receiving U.S. health funding. It gets each of them wrong. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/0...

State Dept. apologizing for Africa map that mislabeled every country

The map, part of a presentation Sunday at the AIDS 2026 summit in Rio de Janeiro, purports to show six African countries that are receiving U.S. health funding. It gets each of them wrong.

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More Trump socialism. Government taking ownership stakes in the means of production. thehill.com/policy/techn...

Commerce Department quietly announces 7 new equity stakes in private companies

The Department of Commerce quietly announced this week it will designate more than $870 million in federal incentives for semiconductor manufacturing in exchange for a minority equity stake in seve…

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...Palantir CEO Alex Karp went further, telling CNBC earlier this month that something had gone “completely wrong.” He said he was channeling the voice of American businesses privately “livid” about paying so much for tokens that create no value. apnews.com/article/ai-t...

Workplaces look for cheaper AI as ‘tokenmaxxing’ fades as a corporate fad

A corporate fad of “tokenmaxxing” on artificial intelligence technology is hitting its limits as workplaces throwing AI at everything are seeing the costs rise without a similar spike in productivity.

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Is NY Times going to report on sex lives of every democratic candidate, going back decades? Is there any sense that the sex lives of politicians are not the most important issues? I get the fact that voyeurism appeals to some, but the associated hypocrisy alone is off-putting.

Elon has been melting down and raging nonstop since his interview with The Economist and Chef Andres is one of the best and kindest humans on planet earth.

“Cuba is not an enemy of the United States,” Carlos Fernández de Cossio, Cuba’s deputy foreign minister, said in an interview. “What we would like is a constructive and respectful relationship.” www.nytimes.com/2026/07/27/w...

WELKER: Is America backing away from a larger attack bc our stockpile has been depleted? WALTZ: We have to take a step back. A lot of our stockpiles were depleted because of Biden WELKER: But you acknowledge they're depleted? WALTZ: No. And the people leaking this nonsense deserve to be in jail

Trump: "I owned the Miss Universe pageant. And Miss Venezuela always did very well in that pageant. So I know something about the country."

Trump: "As far as elections in Venezuela, they're not really ready for them yet ... Delcy has been doing a fantastic job. The amount of oil coming out of Venezuela ... we're taking a lot"

Sorry having trouble trusting the guy hammering a generator and his friends who have a lantern burning in the daytime

Lyse@lyse.myatproto.social · 3w ago

Men? You guys okay?

Mike Gonzalez from the Heritage Foundation. Congressional testimony attacking the Smithsonian. oversight.house.gov/wp-content/u...

JUST IN: A federal judge has paused the Paramount/Warner Bros. merger, saying it likely violates antitrust laws. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

This on the WHO negotiations on the Pathogen Access and Benefit Sharing Annex.

Congrats to Bhattacharya on his “anti-woke” crusade! In 2025, the no. of investigators funded by NIH fell for the 1st time in a decade—a 4% fall in research grant PIs, a 10% fall in fellowship recipients 🚨There was a 10% fall in Black research grant PIs & a 41% fall in Black fellows ja.ma/4vnpzMY

The 38 page complaint by 12 states, opposing the Paramount acquisition of Warner Bros Discovery. oag.ca.gov/system/files...

Would really love to know how they arrived at this figure of $1tr a year to create a non-China critical minerals supply chain, which seems off by several orders of magnitude. The entire global fossil fuels sector takes in less than $1tr/yr of investments! www.ft.com/content/c6c1...

Cutting China reliance would cost the west $23tn, research suggests

Study highlights challenge facing US and EU as they try to reduce Beijing’s dominance over strategic supply chains

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Public procurement is quietly becoming one of EU's industrial policy tools of choice. We are not the first to try this, and the evidence is sobering, warns Judith Arnal.

EU’s new ‘Made in Europe’ push is a costly patchwork: one label, four policies, no design

Public procurement is quietly becoming one of EU's industrial policy tools of choice. We are not the first to try this, and the evidence is sobering, warns Judith Arnal.

euobserver.com

EU concludes revised free trade agreement with Mexico www.consilium.europa.eu/en/press/pre...

EU-Mexico: Council gives final approval to modernised trade agreement

The Council authorised the formal conclusion of the EU-Mexico Interim Trade Agreement, following the European Parliament’s consent.

consilium.europa.eu

"China accounted for 30 percent of novel drugs in the worldwide pipeline last year." wpintelligence.washingtonpost.com/topics/gener...

Briefing Recap | The biotech race: Can America stay ahead of China? - WP Intelligence

China now accounts for nearly one-third of the world’s drug development pipeline. What will it take for the U.S. to remain the global leader in drug discovery?

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This is what I'm doing at the WHO this week, on the negotiation over an Annex on benefit sharing for pandemics. www.keionline.org/41368

De-linking equitable sharing of Pandemic production obligations from access to PABS materials and data - Knowledge Ecology International

I’m in Geneva this week and next, and Brussels on Monday. The WIPO General Assembly meets this week. A two week WHO negotiation on an Annex to the Pandemic Agreement on Pathogen Access and Benefit Sha...

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Geneva, people watching France, Morocco. Just before Mbappe scores a goal.

Crowd at Corner Pub Geneva, waiting for Switzerland Colombia match

If you use PACER, your social responsibility is to include the RECAP extension on your browser to that every court document you pay to examine gets uploaded to CourtListener for free access by others. free.law/recap/

RECAP Suite — Turning PACER Around Since 2009

RECAP is an online archive and free extension for Firefox, Chrome and Safari that improves the experience of using PACER, the electronic public access system for the U.S. Federal District and Bankrupt...

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Free Law Project ⚖@free.law · 2mo ago

The federal judiciary just announced that its raising PACER fees to pay to modernize the system. They are estimating about $125,000,000 per year to do the work. That number is simply unmoored from reality. It's enough money to pay over 600 people $200k salaries! 1/3 www.uscourts.gov/data-news/ju...

It is infuriating that even after being ordered to reduce their illegal fees the court system hasn't done so

Free Law Project ⚖@free.law · 2mo ago

The federal judiciary just announced that its raising PACER fees to pay to modernize the system. They are estimating about $125,000,000 per year to do the work. That number is simply unmoored from reality. It's enough money to pay over 600 people $200k salaries! 1/3 www.uscourts.gov/data-news/ju...