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Copper boom fueling energy transition puts Earth’s wildlands at risk https://news.mongabay.com/2026/09/copper-boom-fueling-energy-transition-puts-earths-wildlands-at-risk/

Copper boom fueling energy transition puts Earth’s wildlands at risk
In the high Andes of Peru, Bolivia, Chile and Argentina, you can still find the vicuña, a shy, elusive camelid, revered by Indigenous people. It has reasons to be cautious of humans. Long-prized for its fine wool, European colonists hunted it relentlessly. Flocks in the millions were reduced to 6,000 individuals by the 1960s. Indigenous-driven […]

"“There is that sense of theatre with fire and flames,” says Jeremy Pang, a third-generation Chinese chef in London and founder of the School of Wok. “It feels quite traditional and exciting. But we have found that we can get just as high temperatures, and just as good cooking, with electric.”
The secret to traditional Chinese cookery lies in the “wok hei” – literally, the breath of the wok, meaning the smoke and heat that the chef must master, to give all ingredients the right de…

The chefs turning down the heat by switching from gas to electric
As well as being quieter, cheaper to run and easier to clean, induction cookers can cut kitchen temperatures by up to 10C

"“There is that sense of theatre with fire and flames,” says Jeremy Pang, a third-generation Chinese chef in London and founder of the School of Wok. “It feels quite traditional and exciting. But we have found that we can get just as high temperatures, and just as good cooking, with electric.”
The secret to traditional Chinese cookery lies in the “wok hei” – literally, the breath of the wok, meaning the smoke and heat that the chef must master, to give all ingredients the right de…

The chefs turning down the heat by switching from gas to electric
As well as being quieter, cheaper to run and easier to clean, induction cookers can cut kitchen temperatures by up to 10C

Check out today's Metacurity, which cuts through the clutter left by the endless buzzsaw of cyber news to deliver the critical infosec developments you should know, including
--ExfilSquad claims theft of 740,000 records from UK education, police databases,
--Analog Devices probes ExfilSquad breach claim,
--UK report blames systemic failures for Afghan data leak,
--Senators urge Apple to shun Chinese memory chips,
--Australia sues Telegram over terror content,
--OpenAI breach sparks AI controls talk in Washington,
--Amazon links North Korea to four npm supply chain attacks,
--Kremlin hackers hijack Bluesky accounts for disinformation,
--South Korea warns of evolving Lazarus phishing campaigns,
--KT fined $37m over customer data breach,
--Flying Eagle powers mobile malware-as-a-service,
--Republicans push to rebuild CISA,
--CISA updates minimum SBOM requirements,
--ChatGPT, Roblox face tougher EU oversight,
--Health-ISAC warns of rising ShinyHunters attacks,
--Laundry Bear expands zero-day email campaign,
--Cisco patches actively exploited Secure Firewall flaw,
--Study finds AI jailbreaks remain cheap and effective,
--OpenAI breach hype obscures real security lessons,
--Onyx Security lands $113m,
--Okta to acquire Permiso Security,
--Seminary launches doctorate in AI and moral agency,
--Missing underscore sends innocent man to prison for 18 months
https://www.metacurity.com/exfilsquad-claims-theft-of-740-000-records-from-uk-education-police-databases/

"""
[…] and I opened the case (politely examined by the guards of the Palace at four stages of my approach to the Red Hall) that held my ansible and some pictures. The pictures—films, photos, paintings, actives, and some cubes—were a little gallery of Man: people of Hain, Chiffewar, and the Cetians, of S and Terra and Alterra, of the Utter-mosts, Kapteyn, Ollul, Four-Taurus, Rokanan, Ensbo, Cime, Gde and Sheashel Haven … The king glanced at a couple without interest. “What’s this?”
“A person from Cime, a female.” I had to use the word that Gethenians would apply only to a person in the culminant phase of kemmer [a cyclical period of heightened sexual activity during which secondary gender characteristics emerge], the alternative being their word for a female animal.
“Permanently?”
“Yes.”
He dropped the cube and stood swinging from foot to foot, staring at me or a little past me, the firelight shifting on his face. “They’re all like that—like you?”
This was the hurdle I could not lower for them. They must, in the end, learn to take it in their stride.
“Yes. Gethenian sexual physiology, so far as we yet know, is unique among human beings.”
“So all of them, out on these other planets, are in permanent kemmer? A society of perverts? So Lord Tibe put it; I thought he was joking. Well, it may be the fact, but it’s a disgusting idea, Mr. Ai, and I don’t see why human beings here on earth should want or tolerate any dealings with creatures so monstrously different. […]”
"""
(Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness)

[OT] With IPOs coming up, "AI doomsday" talk distracts us from lack of revenue growth https://mindmatters.ai/2026/09/ai-doomsday-talk-distracts-us-from-lack-of-revenue-growth-for-hyperscalers/ on the

“AI Doomsday” Talk Distracts Us From Lack of Revenue Growth
Apparently, paid usage of AI models has not risen sufficiently to cover the falling token prices.

i live in a small apartment without a lot of storage space. for LPs, i have two three-foot shelves, one for jazz, the other for everything else. last week, i made a new resolution to play at least one non-jazz record every day. here's how it's going.
#vinyl #OldVinyl

German farmers warn drought will spell heavy crop losses.
The head of the German Farmers Association: "We farmers have have been feeling the effects of climate change for a long time now."
He also has a recommendation for government: make diesel cheaper.
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2 snaps from roughly the same spot in a stream. (britain) spring and summer.
a) 27th March 2026
b) 18th August 2026
#nature #climate