Look, I was willing to believe I was wrong after the merger deal was done. Maybe Elon Musk was serious about a change! Maybe he really wanted to have a social network that works too! Maybe Musk was really looking forward to giving himself ulcers over content restriction issues! People have done weirder things for power, and I think we can all agree that Elon Musk is deeply interested in power....
Un juge d’un tribunal spécialisé en droit des affaires de l’État du Delaware (est des États-Unis) devra donc déterminer si oui ou non le multimilliardaire peut résilier l’accord de rachat, qui prévoit la dissolution de milliards de dollars. “La stratégie de sortie d’Elon Musk est un modèle d’hypocrisie” et “un modèle de mauvaise foi”, estiment les avocats de la plateforme. “Il a affirmé avoir +suspendu+ l’accord en attendant de respecter des conditions fictives, manqué à son obligation de trouver un financement (…), violé le devoir de réserve (et) utilisé des informations confidentielles à de mauvaises fins”, affirment-ils....
From now on, the history of American pop culture will be divided into two parts: before Lea Michele joined Broadway’s Funny Girl revival, and after. On Monday, the Broadway production announced that the former Gleek would be replacing Beanie Feldstein as Fanny Brice, sending Twitter into a flurry of Glee memes and hot shots. Lea Michele has been campaigning to star in Funny Girl for years, ever since she sang “Don’t Rain on My Parade” on the season one finale of Glee in 2009....
Von: Tanja Kipke Teilen Der Ballermann-Hit „Layla“ wurde vom Würzburger Rathaus wegen seines vermeintlich sexistischen Inhalts verboten, trotzdem schafft er es ins Bierzelt, wie ein Video zeigt. Ballermann-Hit „Layla“: Würzburg verbietet Song auf Kiliani-Volksfest. Sexismus-Vorwürfe in Songtext von „Layla“: Experten positionieren sich klar. Nach Verbot von Schlager-Hit: Bundesjustizminister hält Entscheidung für übertrieben. Debatte um „Layla“-Verbot spaltet Bayern: Jetzt spricht ein Festwirt Update vom 14. Juli, 10.44 Uhr: Die Seximus-Debatte um den Schlager-Song „Layla“ scheint kein Ende nehmen zu wollen....
The Information Commissioner’s Office said AI discrimination could have “harmful consequences for people’s lives” and lead to someone being turned down for a job or wrongfully denied a bank loan or welfare. It will investigate the use of algorithms to screen job applications amid concerns they are affecting employment opportunities for people from ethnic minorities. “We will investigate concerns about the use of algorithms to review recruitment applications, which could adversely affect the employment opportunities of those from different backgrounds,” the ICO said....
Comment Britain braced for its hottest day on record on Monday as French authorities warned of a “heatwave apocalypse” and emergency services across Europe grappled with wildfires spreading and the death toll rising. British authorities declared a state of emergency and for the first time issued a “red” warning for extreme heat across large parts of England, while France’s weather service put part of the Atlantic coast on its highest possible alert level....
Home to 280,000 people before the February 24 invasion of Ukraine, Kherson was the first major population center in the war-torn country to fall to Russian troops, and its Russian-appointed administrators have stepped up efforts to erase all signs of Ukrainian rule. . They issued Russian passports to residents, introduced Russian banks, brought in Russian mobile phone companies and made the ruble legal currency, replacing the Ukrainian hryvnia. But with the war days away from entering its sixth month, Ukrainian authorities are signaling that the time is fast approaching when its army will try to retake the city it captured and drive out its Russian occupiers....
Article rédigé par Publié le 16/07/2022 16:07 Temps de lecture : 1 min. Deux incendies ont éclaté ces derniers jours sur la commune de Sernhac, dans le Gard. Vendredit 15 juillet, un feu a notemment parcouru 5 000 m2 de végétaux. Un largage précoce depuis un avion Dash a permis de limiter la propagation, appuyé ensuite par des largages de l’hélicoptère bombardier d’eau et le travail des sapeurs-pompiers au sol....
Energy It promised to be a momentous – and dynamic – week in the energy industry as long-running battles came to a head. A decision to approve £165 million plans for Britain’s first new coal mine in decades, near Whitehaven in west Cumbria, was expected but delayed. A review on fracking, originally expected last week, has yet to appear. A decision was due on Friday to approve planning for the Sizewell C nuclear reactor in Suffolk, which was opposed by environmental campaigners....
Britain is bracing for an unprecedented heat wave expected to send temperatures soaring above 40C this week and wreak havoc on the railways lines, schools and other public services. And scientists are warning that this kind of heat wave could become the norm in the UK due to climate change. The Met Office, or Met, has issued the first red warning for extreme heat. Temperatures across much of central England, an area stretching from London to Manchester and York, could reach 43C on Tuesday....
“No Uvalde police officers saw the shooter on May 24 before he entered the school,” McLaughlin said in a statement. “No Uvalde police officer had a chance to shoot the gunman.” The gunman eventually killed 19 young students and two teachers inside a classroom before authorities finally breached the classroom more than an hour later. The pain surrounding the tragedy has been compounded by finger-pointing and blame-shifting by the various agencies investigating the school shooting — one of the deadliest in US history — and its aftermath....
Published: 00:00, 14 July 2022 | Updated: 00:26, 14 July 2022 It is a painting admired by art lovers around the world. Now it has been discovered that Vincent van Gogh’s Head Of A Peasant Woman is even more special than first thought – it has a self-portrait of the artist on the other side of the canvas. The 1885 image kept its secret for 137 years before an X-ray ahead of a new exhibition in Edinburgh found the portrait of the tragic Dutch painter who took his own life in 1890 aged 37....
Im Falle einer weiteren Eskalation der Energiekrise mit deutlich höheren Preisen hält Verbraucherschutzministerin Lemke ein Moratorium für Strom- und Gasausfälle für notwendig. Der Städte- und Gemeindebund schlug die Schaffung von Heizflächen vor. Verbraucherschutzministerin Steffi Lemke kündigte für den Fall weiterer Energiepreiserhöhungen ein Moratorium für Strom- und Erdgasabschaltungen an. „Im absoluten Krisenfall könnte es passieren, dass die Bundesnetzagentur den Energieunternehmen erlaubt, Preiserhöhungen trotz Preisgarantie an die Verbraucher weiterzugeben“, sagte Lemke der „Bild am Sonntag“....
Culture Critic: We’re hitting ‘Peak Wokeness’, but . . . In the age of America’s Great Awakening, some political strategies “involve trying to persuade people,” while others seek to “practically gain power,” observes Oliver Traldi in the City Journal. As for the former, “vigilance is on the decline.” It separates the institutions from the inside, and “politically ambitious progressives are tired of it.” Market forces also suggest “we have woken up to the peak” as evidenced by the many authors who have moved to Substack....
DETROIT (FOX 2) – It’s been two days since friends, family and colleagues have come to terms with the tragic death of Detroit police officer Lauren Courts, who was shot and killed in the line of duty. On Wednesday night, he was shot and killed in an ambush by a 19-year-old man with a long criminal history and an assault weapon on the city’s west side. His wife, Kristine, son Darian, 15, and daughter Devyn, 9, spoke about what it meant to them....
In der Folge kam es zu Kollisionen mit zwei weiteren Lkw und fünf Pkw in Gegenrichtung. Vier Personen wurden leicht verletzt. Die genauen Unfallursachen werden von der Kantonspolizei Zürich untersucht. Nach ersten Erkenntnissen steht eine technische Ursache im Vordergrund der Ermittlungen. Aufgrund des Unfalls war die A1 Richtung Bern bis gegen 17 Uhr komplett gesperrt. Danach konnte der Verkehr die Unfallstelle einspurig umfahren. In Richtung St. Gallen war der Verkehr meist einspurig....
Dès lors, Bercy choisit de suivre la proposition de la Banque de France, qui est chargée de calculer semestriellement le taux du Livret A. Ces augmentations “contribuent à soutenir la rémunération des épargnants face à la hausse des prix”, indique un communiqué de presse de la banque centrale. . Inférieur à l’inflation Produit d’épargne détenu par la plupart des Français, le Livret A est automatiquement calculé deux fois par an....
During the many iterations of the Marvel Cinematic Universe since 2008, rarely has a project been as personal as “Ms. Marvel,” the six-episode series that aired its season (perhaps series) finale on Wednesday. The series serves as the origin story for its eponymous superhero, a teenage girl named Kamala Khan (Iman Vellani), whose powers are unlocked after she places an ancient family bracelet on her wrist. Over the course of the series, Kamala learns that the origins of her powers link her to the Stowaways, a group of supernatural beings – including her great-grandmother – who are trapped on Earth from an alternate dimension and are desperate to use Kamala’s bracelet to to return home....
