"Growing cocktail of medicines in world’s waterways could be fuelling antibiotic resistance"
#Water #Pollution #Environment
My plans to hike the Tongariro Alpine Crossing were derailed by two days of rain and high winds, so we made a plan B: the Tama lakes track, which has somewhat less exposure but still gets up over 1400m. We’re lucky we didn’t try Tongariro given how tough the conditions were at Tama lakes – driving snow and winds on the ridge. But we were rewarded with good views and improving weather on the return trip. #hiking
Ankar, which develops LLM-powered AI tools to streamline the process of drafting patent applications for patent attorneys, raised a $20M Series A led by Atomico (Jeremy Kahn/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2025/12/17/exclusi
Man films Border Patrol agents smashing his car window in Charlotte (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/video/man-films-car-window-being-smashed-by-agents-as-immigration-enforcement-starts-in-charlotte-nc-63df61299b4d49e2935dc6b0a1b824b9
http://www.memeorandum.com/251116/p10#a251116p10
Over 6,000 truck drivers have been pulled from the road for failing Trump’s demand they be proficient in English | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-truck-drivers-english-proficiency-b2846877.html
“Do not be daunted by the enormity of the world’s grief.
You are not obligated to complete the work,
but neither are you free to abandon it.”
https://amandalitman.substack.com/p/50-things-you-can-actually-do
Inspections by Taiwan's National Security Bureau (NSB) of five Chinese generative AI apps -- Deepseek, Doubao (豆包), Yiyan (文心一言), Tongyi (通義千問), and Yuanbao (騰訊元寶) -- found violations of users' communication security across several indicators.
https://focustaiwan.tw/cross-strait/2025…
Filing: Comcast's offer to merge NBCUniversal with WBD valued Comcast's media and theme-park assets at about $81B; Comcast's overall valuation is about $111B (Christopher Palmeri/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
I knew since I was young id be falling down this road (my eroded and distorted memories are falling in line, there is nothing to prove anything, yet sometimes narrative is all we have)
Delivery Hero Chair Kristin Skogen Lund backs CEO Niklas Östberg as the group explores asset sales amid shareholder pressure over its falling stock price (Kieran Smith/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/e256c32a-be7e-46ba-b863-0e2238b2f787