The Parliament of Estonia is orders of magnitude smarter than whoever is in the Parliament of Canada (including Mark Carney).
"Europe should regulate Big Tech instead of banning kids from social media, Estonia says"
I am so angry and disappointed at all the left- and center-wing commentators who bought into the right-wing framing of "parent's rights" as being more important than children's rights.
Like, I'm sorry, but parents have *responsibilities to* kids, not *rights over* kids. Kids aren't property, they're living, breathing *people* who deserve care and love and privacy and dignity.
Canada: "Hospitalization rates for illnesses like COVID, flu have doubled since pre-pandemic, report finds"
"Vaccine-preventable respiratory infections sending thousands to hospital, all while vaccine uptake is dropping"
“People assume that COVID-19 is done … but what our data is showing is that it’s still having a big impact on our hospitals”
Source: https://archive.md/jmZg5
People in the Middle Ages Slept Not Once But Twice Each Night: How This Lost Practice Was Rediscovered
The importance of a good night's sleep has been featured now and again here on Open Culture. But were a medieval European to visit our time, he'd probably ask — among other questions — if we didn't mean a good night's sleeps, plural.
Yesterday: “This is someone who maybe had one speeding ticket in the last 30 years and [is] being treated like a notorious criminal.”
Texas' only licensed Hindi, Punjabi, and Urdu translator taken by #ICE. https://www.texasobserver.org/immigration-court-interpreter-arrested-ice-south-texas-airport/
#Texas #politics #USpol #immigration #Trump #SouthTexas #border
Look at what happened with Claude Code. We learned via the source code leak that the whole thing is a Rube Goldberg machine of shoddy regexes and Markdown snippets telling Claude to lie, and yet proverbial moments later, Anthropic announces a new product that *totally works this time I swear* and all of a sudden discourse about AI tools "working" is completely reset.
Getting stuck in that discourse loop opens you up to being perpetually distracted from the far more important ethical problems.
For the first time in New York State history: a tax on pied-à-terres.
NYC Mayor Mamdani just negotiated a landmark agreement, any second home in NYC valued at $5M+ will now be taxed at a higher rate. This means money back to the people, not billionaires who treat the city like a luxury storage unit.
100 days in. That is all it took. And here’s how we must keep building.
In 100 days, New York’s mayor proved that bold, principled politics doesn’t just drive mass mobilization — it delivers results Let me tell you what “impossible” looks like when you stop being afraid of it. In just 100 days, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani has: * Secured free childcare
Deadline extended to apply for waiting list for senior housing in #PleasantHill , California.
Hookston Senior Apartments
80 W. Hookston Road,
Pleasant Hill, CA 94523
Phone: (833) 497-4473
California Relay Service (CRS): 711
Eligibility
All household members must be age 62 or older at the time of application.
Minimum income requirement is $35,952 per year. (There is no minimum income requirement for households with Section 8 assistance. Minimum income figures are subject to change. See https://www.sahahomes.org/apply for more details.)
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