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Discord suspends livestreams in Brazil, after the country's data protection authority ordered it last week, saying Discord failed to protect children and teens (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/brazil-discord-children-social-me…

Discord suspends Brazil livestreams after suicide raises child protection concerns
Discord, the popular platform for gamers to communicate online, said it suspended its livestreams in Brazil. The move Monday takes place in the wake of a suicide case and after a body of the country’s justice ministry accused it of failing to protect for children and adolescents. Discord said in a statement that it is implementing the suspension of livestreams after a decision by Brazil’s national agency of data protection last week and added it is in conversations “to seek a solution tha…

Illegal mining threatens Ghana’s first marine protected area #Ghana

Illegal mining threatens Ghana's first marine protected area
Ghana’s land ministry is failing to act against illegal gold mining in the Greater Cape Three Points Forest Reserve, say conservationists. Their call comes as pollution threatens vulnerable and endangered species in both the protected forest and the adjacent waters of a newly declared marine protected area. Mining activity is causing toxic chemicals, including mercury, […]

Discord suspends livestreams in Brazil, after the country's data protection authority ordered it last week, saying Discord failed to protect children and teens (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/brazil-discord-children-social-me…

Discord suspends Brazil livestreams after suicide raises child protection concerns
Discord, the popular platform for gamers to communicate online, said it suspended its livestreams in Brazil. The move Monday takes place in the wake of a suicide case and after a body of the country’s justice ministry accused it of failing to protect for children and adolescents. Discord said in a statement that it is implementing the suspension of livestreams after a decision by Brazil’s national agency of data protection last week and added it is in conversations “to seek a solution tha…

from my link log —
It is high time we let go of the Mersenne Twister.
https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.06437
saved 2020-11-20 https://dotat.at/:/6EPK8.html…

It is high time we let go of the Mersenne Twister
When the Mersenne Twister made his first appearance in 1997 it was a powerful example of how linear maps on $\mathbf F_2$ could be used to generate pseudorandom numbers. In particular, the easiness with which generators with long periods could be defined gave the Mersenne Twister a large following, in spite of the fact that such long periods are not a measure of quality, and they require a large amount of memory. Even at the time of its publication, several defects of the Mersenne Twister were …

Water levels in Lake Powell,
the second-biggest reservoir on the beleaguered Colorado River,
are in danger of falling so low that its dam can no longer generate hydropower,
according to a federal analysis released Wednesday.

The new “most probable” forecast from the Bureau of Reclamation projects that
the height of water in Lake Powell,
which sits on the border of Utah and Arizona,
will fall to 3,491 feet by March.
That’s just one foot above

A major Colorado River reservoir is getting ‘perilously’ low
A new federal analysis predicts that water levels in Lake Powell will fall almost to the point that its dam can no longer produce power.

My mental health is falling apart again. This is both really annoying and very boring. I am unlikely to be as active on social media for a while, and, in particular, I won't be responding to private messages from people I don't know.
If I can't keep myself reasonably sane I can't help anyone.
I need to concentrate on regaining my balance and putting in place the things I need for my personal wellbeing.

Hey all
We have a new retrofit demo to share:
https://retrofit.sh/demos/manually-test-schema-changes/
Imagine your team has been using retrofit for the past couple weeks and now every branch to be reviewed has a schema change that will require a migration in pr…

Review schema-change branches against a production snapshot without reloading it · retrofit
Three branches, one snapshot of a production PostgreSQL database. See make db-up put each branch's schema change on the snapshot from its own dump, make db-down take it back off, a branch that drops a column refused before anything runs, and the clean branches merged with the snapshot following main.

Zu EU-Kommission und Geschwindigkeitskontrolle:
Wieso produziert man eigentlich noch Autos, welche ab Werk >130 km/h fahren können? Ausser in Deutschland darf man doch nirgendwo schneller fahren. Alle schwächer und günstiger machen. Dann einfach noch eine Deutschland-Edition, die schneller fährt, aber einen Schalter hat, der vor der Grenze umgelegt werden muss, und dessen Einstellung vom Fahrtenschreiber aufgezeichnet wird.
Im Ausland aktiv?
Auto weg, da Typ so nicht zug…

Sources: American Idol is moving production from Los Angeles to Georgia, which offers a tax credit up to 30% for unscripted shows that spend at least $500K (Peter White/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2026/09/american-idol-moving-production-georgia-1237101843/…

‘American Idol’ Moving Production To Georgia As ABC Series Becomes Latest To Leave California
The ABC music competition series is the latest show to move production out of California, following The Masked Singer's move to New Jersey.

Nick Blair, a 40-year-old former football agent, and son of ex-Prime Minister Tony Blair,
is seeking funding for a military technology startup called “Pyra”
to the tune of 200 million dollars.
It’s not clear what, exactly, Pyra needs all that money to do:
its website only says “Deploying Summer 2026…Stand By.”
Blair is at the moment the only active officer of the company, according to UK government filings.
In an article published this week, an unnamed sour…

Tony Blair's son is launching yet another military tech company
Nick Blair is seeking $200 million for a project with no product.