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Stop incentivizing surface parking lots

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💥 Discover this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: The other week, I visited Syracuse, New York to meet with city officials and organizers about their land policies. Syracuse, despite its history of de-industrialization, still has a charming and nicely developed downtown. Nevertheless, Syracuse shares a problem endemic to most modern American cities: excessive parking lots in prime downtown locations.This came as no surprise to me; at the Center for Land Economics I am constantly modeling urban areas across the United States, viewing them through the lens of property tax data records and GIS…

A misconduct complaint against the judge who handled the CECOT deportation case has been dismissed

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✨ Check out this trending post from PBS NewsHour - Politics 📖 📂 **Category**: cecot,deportations,El Salvador,james boasberg ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal appeals court judge has dismissed a misconduct complaint filed by the Justice Department against a judge who clashed with President Donald Trump's administration over deportations to a notorious prison in El Salvador. The complaint against U.S. District Judge James E. Bossberg on December 19 by Jeffrey S. Sutton, Chief Judge of the U.S. Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals, but the matter only came to light over the weekend. Read more: Fact-checking the misleading claims…

Melania debuts at number 29 at the UK box office | Melania

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🔥 Read this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Melania,Film industry,Film,Culture 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: "Melania," director Brett Ratner's documentary about the current First Lady of the United States, opened at No. 29 at the UK box office on its first weekend of release. The film, which cost Amazon $40 million to buy and $35 million to promote, opened in 155 cinemas across the UK and Ireland, where it took a gross of £32,974, with a site average of £212.80.This result will make distributors breathe a sigh of relief, as - despite the modest takeovers -…

Firefox will soon let you block all of its generative AI features

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💥 Read this must-read post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: AI,Apps,Enterprise,Firefox,Generative AI,Mozilla ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Firefox will start catering to those who don't want AI in their browser. Mozilla announced on Monday that Firefox will soon allow users to block all current and future artificial intelligence features. Users will also have the option to block some AI features in Firefox, while keeping others. Starting with Firefox 148, which will be released on February 24, users will find a new AI Controls section within the desktop browser's settings. People who don't want to access any Firefox AI features can turn…

Kalvin Phillips: Manchester City midfielder signs on loan with Sheffield United for the rest of the season

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🚀 Explore this trending post from BBC Sport 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Phillips's trajectory has stalled since joining City from Leeds for £45m in 2022 and he is looking to reignite his career once again.He has played just seven minutes of football this season, back in September in the Carabao Cup at Huddersfield, and this will be his third loan move after spells at West Ham and Ipswich.Phillips, aged just 30, was a key part of the England squad that reached the final of the 2020 European Championship, where they lost on penalties to Italy.He was named…

The NFL will make its debut in France and approve more games in Spain

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✨ Read this trending post from BBC Sport 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: The NFL will make its debut in France with a regular season match later this year - and has agreed a deal to play more games in Spain.The Stade de France in Paris will welcome the NFL to action next season, with the New Orleans Saints confirmed as one of the participating teams. Date not yet confirmed.On the opening day of Super Bowl week, the NFL also announced a multi-year partnership to stage matches at Real Madrid's Bernabeu stadium.The Miami Dolphins beat the Washington Commanders…

The largest number representable in 64 bits

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💥 Explore this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: This post is a rewrite of my earlier blog post from Nov 2023 with many new insights and updates. ┬─┬ ┬─┬────────── ┬─┬─┬ ┬─┬──────────── └─┤ │ │ ──┬────── └─┤ │ │ │ ──┬──────── │ │ │ ┬─┼────── └─┤ │ │ ──┼─┬────── │ │ │ └─┤ ┬─┬── │ │ │ ┬─┼─┼────── │ │ │ │ ┼─┼─┬ │ │ │ └─┤ │ ┬─┬── │ │ │ │ │ ├─┘ │ │ │ └─┤ ┼─┼─┬ │ │ │ │ ├─┘ │ │ │ │ │ ├─┘ │ │ │…

Democrat Christian Menefee wins election to the US House of Representatives in Texas, narrowing the GOP’s slim majority

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💥 Check out this awesome post from PBS NewsHour - Politics 📖 📂 **Category**: Christian Menefee,House of Representatives,texas ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Democrat Christian Menefee won a US House of Representatives seat from Texas in a special election on Saturday that will narrow the already thin Republican majority, telling President Donald Trump that the Democratic district was "throwing out corrupt presidencies." Read more: Texas Democrat Taylor Rahmat flips the Republican Senate seat that Trump won by 17 points Menefee, the Harris County district attorney, won a runoff against Amanda Edwards, a former Houston City Council member. He will replace the…

Swing this way! The sign design genius that kept Britain’s drivers (and ducks) safe | design

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💥 Check out this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Design,Art and design,Culture 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: SMargaret Calvert's studio, filled with a barrage of road signs, trendy chairs and all the tools of her trade, occupies the ground floor of her ornate home in Islington, London. She still draws by hand with colored pencils, felt-tip pens and gouache, echoes of a simpler time when there were neither computers nor large numbers of Pantone color options. “There was also no such thing as graphic design at that time,” she says. “It was just called commercial art.”There…

What Snowflake’s deal with OpenAI tells us about the enterprise AI race

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✨ Check out this insightful post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: AI,Enterprise,TC,Analysis,Anthropic,artificial intelligence,OpenAI,ServiceNow,Snowflake 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Cloud data company Snowflake closed a multi-year, $200 million AI deal with OpenAI on Monday, the latest sign that the enterprise AI competition continues to heat up. Under the deal, Snowflake's 12,600 customers will be able to access OpenAI models across all three major cloud providers. Snowflake employees can access OpenAI's ChatGPT Enterprise as well. The two companies are also collaborating to build new AI agents and other AI products. “By bringing OpenAI models to enterprise data, Snowflake enables organizations to build and…