Fast 100.000 Einträge im Organspende-Register seit Mitte März
Wer zu Organspenden nach dem Tod bereit ist, kann dies seit einem Monat auch online dokumentieren. Seit dem Start des Portals haben sich rund 100.000 Menschen eingetragen. Künftig sollen Kliniken diese Erklärungen abrufen können.
Thurs, the #Biden admin announced they are closing what is known as the #"GunShowLoophole," by tightening up the definition of what it means to be "engaged in the business" of selling #firearms.
The #ATF has just implemented a change in the federal register language, which was previously more specific to who was selling guns, & the agency did it in accordance w/the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act, passed in 2022.
The admin rolled out the proposed rule in Sept 2023, taking in over 300k comments from the public.
Prior to the passage of the Bipartisan #SaferCommunities Act, those "engaged in the business" of #firearms dealer were required to #register to become a federally #licensed firearm dealer, acc/to the language previously used. The definition that #ATF is implementing on Thurs is more specific to better #regulate the market in accordance w/the new federal #law, acc/to the WH.
Organspende-Register - Hoffnung auf mehr Spender und bessere Information
Seit heute ist es online - das zentrale Organspende-Register. Es soll die Bereitschaft zur Organspende in Deutschland erhöhen. Doch es gibt auch Zweifel, ob die Hoffnung erfüllt wird. Von A.Braun und S. Zerbst.
Derzeit warten in Deutschland rund 8.400 Menschen auf ein neues Herz, eine Leber, eine Niere oder andere Organe. Mit dem neuen Online-Register sollen mehr Organtransplantationen möglich werden.
3rd episode of the #Register Podcast (@sfb1412 ) is online!
They present 3 interviews (with with Carol Aru, Jocelyn Aznar @zas_berlin and Miriam Meyerhoff (U Oxford)) about #linguistic fieldwork and the social and #sociolinguistic situation in #Vanuatu
Die zweite Folge des #Register -Podcasts ist online! (created by @sfb1412 ).
In dieser Folge erklären Manfred Krifka und Tonjes Veenstra ihre Forschung zu Kreolsprachen und Register!
Yeah. I’m betting this person isn’t American at all. Anyone who isn’t a blind partisan hack can see the stark difference in the two parties. It’s fun that they brought up the supermajority that Obama had for about a year that was used to forge the ACA (which Lieberman fucked up on behalf of the insurance industry) and promptly lost in the 2010 election where the Republicans gerrymandered everything six ways from Sunday. Oh, well.
#register, get everyone you know to register, and vote Republicans out next year.
「 Mojo is a new programming language for AI developers that will grow into being a superset of Python over time. It already supports integrating with arbitrary Python code seamlessly and has a scalable programming model to target performance-critical systems, including accelerators (e.g. GPUs) that are pervasive in AI 」
I am truly looking forward to #Mojo; it sounds like it will make a lot of things a whole lot easier. Keeping access to the huge Python ecosystem is amazing.
But as long as you need to #register before you can look at the #SDK, and there is no published #license for it, it's not "here" in any meaningful sense of the word.
Here is your reminder to submit an abstract for the working group “Evaluating register(s)” at the Annual Conference of the German Linguistic Society #DGfS2024! Deadline: 25 August 2023. I’ll be an invited discussant at this one 😊
California bar suspends 1,600 attorneys for violating rules set up after Tom Girardi allegedly stole millions
More than 1,600 attorneys have been #suspended by the #California#State#Bar for violating rules about client trust accounts that were set up after disgraced L.A. attorney Thomas Girardi allegedly stole millions of dollars from his clients.
After the reporting component is fulfilled, the state bar will then begin compliance reviews and investigative audits when appropriate.
Originally, more than 1,700 attorneys were found in violation of the rules and enrolled as “inactive” with the bar, meaning they’re not legally allowed to practice law. As of Thursday afternoon, that number has dropped to 1,641 after some of the attorneys fulfilled their requirements, according to Special Counsel Steven Moawad, who works for the bar’s attorney #discipline#system.
Registrations are open for Flock! Grab your ticket now and maybe let us know what you're looking forward to seeing or doing. #Fedora#FlockToFedora#FlockIreland
In the past I've found #problems in #software, problems with #websites, with bureaucratic processes, some of which were significant, but they all pale in comparison to this one.
Biden drafts $100 billion foreign aid package, including money for Israel and Ukraine (abcnews.go.com)