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🇺🇦 #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

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

The federal government took a major step forward Friday toward opening more than 2,800 acres of Ohio’s only national forest to oil and gas development.
The U.S. Bureau of Land Management announced a lease sale scheduled for Sept. 15 of 41 parcels of land in the Wayne National Forest totaling 2,840 acres.
Although some bureaucratic hurdles remain, a lease sale brings fracking the forest for the first time
– the subject of political effort since at least 2016
– far clos…

Feds advance plan to open Ohio’s Wayne National Forest to fracking
The U.S.

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.

Rivers across the European continent,
including some of its most important waterways,
are drying up as an unrelenting heatwave refuses to go away.
The Danube, Rhine, Elbe and Loire have all dried up
as the continent has baked through this summer,
leaving a question mark on drinking water supplies, trade via navigation and even recreational activities.
The Danube, the second-longest river in Europe after the Volga, has fallen to its lowest level in 30 years…

Rhine, Danube, Elbe, Loire. Some of Europe’s biggest rivers are going dry this summer
Europe’s major rivers – the Rhine, Danube, Elbe and Loire – are drying up amid a relentless summer heatwave, threatening drinking water supplies, disrupting trade routes and halting ferry and cargo traffic across the continent.