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African swine fever outbreaks increase in pigs and wild boar across the EU https://www.efsa.europa.eu/en/news/african-swine-fever-outbreaks-increase-pigs-and-wild-boar-across-eu

African swine fever outbreaks increase in pigs and wild boar across the EU
In 2025, African swine fever (ASF) outbreaks increased across the European Union in both domestic pigs (+76%) and wild boar (+44%) compared to 2024, according to EFSA’s latest annual epidemiological report. The disease reemerged in Spain after 31 years without detections, raising the number of affected Member States to 14.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #SeekAndDestroy
Agriculture:
🎵 Bodhidharma
#Agriculture
https://agriculturemusic.bandcamp.com/track/bodhidharma
https://open.spotify.com/track/1NoYnWzMQ1mY67jo7gDakq

A new funding round of the EU's Connecting Europe Facility:
The EV charging budget (AFIF) is €130 million, shared with electrifying airport operations, and this time only for public HDV 🚛🚚 megawatt charging
minimum 4 x 1 Megawatt charging 🔌, but site can have a lower overall ⚡ connection

CEF Transport: €1.1 billion available for infrastructure projects across the EU
CEF Transport: €1.1 billion available for infrastructure projects across the EU

Et si, finalement, c'était ça ce fameux "éco-terrorisme" ?
La Coordination rurale, galvanisée par l’adoption de la loi d’urgence agricole, appelle les agriculteurs Š ne pas respecter les restrictions d’eau
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La Coordination rurale, galvanisée par l’adoption de la loi d’urgence agricole, appelle les agriculteurs à ne pas respecter les restrictions d’eau
Les appels à ne pas respecter les restrictions des arrêtés sécheresse des préfectures se sont multipliés de la part de responsables locaux de la CR dans le Sud-Ouest, au grand dam des autorités.

AI advice suppresses people’s willingness to say “I don’t know”, even when the advice is wrong and accuracy is incentivized.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.13562v1

AI advice suppresses people's willingness to say "I don't know", even when the advice is wrong and accuracy is incentivized
Knowing when to say "I don't know" is fundamental to human judgment, yet AI assistants offer a fluent answer to almost any question. In five experiments (N = 3,132; four preregistered, one direct replication), participants answered difficult questions and could always decline to respond. We engineered the questions so that AI advice was wrong, separating AI use from its accuracy. Merely having access to AI nearly eliminated participants' willingness to suspend judgment, and this held whether th…

Vance says Iran agrees to nuclear inspections, as under Obama deal (Isaac Arnsdorf/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/06/22/vance-says-iran-agrees-inspections-nuclear-talks-move-ahead/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260622/p35#a260622p35

Source: Penske Media is in talks to acquire Vox Media's unsold brands, including Eater, The Verge, SB Nation, Popsugar, and The Dodo, in an all-or-nothing deal (Mark Stenberg/Adweek)
https://www.adweek.com/media/penske-media-acquires-vox-media-brands/

Penske Media Is in Talks to Acquire Unsold Vox Media Brands
The deal would transfer the remaining portfolio as a single package, with president Ryan Pauley moving to PMC

Fossil fuel subsidies and high costs stall energy transition across rural Indonesia https://news.mongabay.com/2026/04/fossil-fuel-subsidies-and-high-costs-stall-energy-transition-across-rural-indonesia/

Fossil fuel subsidies and high costs stall energy transition across rural Indonesia
DENPASAR, Indonesia — Renewable energy uptake has yet to gather momentum across Indonesia’s more than 84,000 villages, a new report concludes, as the government of the world’s fourth-largest country pledges to achieve a radical energy transformation over the next decade. “Village street lighting has increased, while household use has declined due to high initial costs, […]

What a terrible indictment of all the UK's news media!
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/21/voters-across-parties-believe-uk-net-migration-is-rising-despite-sharp-drop
As with a few mother…

Voters across parties believe UK net migration is rising despite sharp drop
Study, published as latest migration figures are released, shows incorrect perceptions driving immigration debate

Brazil takes its National Civil Defense warning platform offline after suspected hackers send an unauthorized alert to mobile phones in several states (Mariana Catacci/CNN)
https://www.cnn.com/2026/06/20/americas/brazil-hackers-unauthorized-alert-latam

Hackers suspected to be behind unauthorized alert sent to cell phones across Brazil
An unauthorized alert bearing a mysterious message that was sent to cell phones in several states across Brazil on Saturday morning is suspected to be the work of hackers, the Brazilian government said.