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"Millions of hectares are still being cut down every year. How can we protect global forests?"
#Environment #Trees #Environment

Millions of hectares are still being cut down every year. How can we protect global forests?
We are still logging and degrading global forests at terrifying speed. How can we slow this destruction, including in Australia?

WIRED, 2004: The long tail https://www.wired.com/2004/10/tail/ Will The vOICe vision BCI cover more of the long tail of blindness cases than brain implants, retinal implants and optogenetics combined? Think of developing countries, types of blindness, device lifetime, etc. Economy of abundance vs Pareto…

The Long Tail
Forget squeezing millions from a few megahits at the top of the charts. The future of entertainment is in the millions of niche markets at the shallow end of the bitstream.

Sources: Anthropic is in talks to buy developer tool startup Bun for low hundreds of millions, its first acquisition; Claude Code hit $1B in annualized revenue (Sri Muppidi/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/an

Anthropic in Advanced Talks to Buy Developer Tool Startup in First Acquisition
Anthropic is in advanced discussions to buy Bun, a maker of software used to run and manage code more efficiently, according to a person with knowledge of the deal. The artificial intelligence company is in talks to pay in the low hundreds of millions of dollars for the startup, which would be ...

If local police enforced traffic law against #ICE their whole operation would pretty much stop, seriously, for moving violations alone. Most egregiously, they routinely blow through red lights and stopsigns. This is common knowledge among people observing ICE.
Now ICE reportedly caused a serious crash in St Paul that, because the ICE agent also went to the hospital, may be the first absolutely k…

@… I'm using groups.io for the first time. (I know! Sorry, I usually avoid mailing lists.) It's very good, thank you for running this valuable service.
I found the locked topics feature very interesting. It never occurred to me to have that in a mailing list, since the underlying tech doesn't allow it. Does it work well in practice? Do people use it? The group I'm on uses it extensively.

Cheap air fares have allowed millions of Europeans to travel longer distances, boosting tourism and helping migrant workers keep close links to home.
They’ve also come with a heavy environmental toll.
"Thanks, Brussels, for that €9 flight" by #europeancorrespondent

Thanks, Brussels, for that €9 flight
Forty years ago, Ryanair’s first flight was a 15-seater aircraft that ferried businessmen from a small Irish city to London. Last year, the airline sa

Australia's ban on social media for users aged under 16 comes into effect; platforms that do not comply risk fines of up to AU$49.5M (Josh Taylor/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/dec/09/australia-u…

I bought my first modem at a post-Christmas sale in December 1992, and spent a few shot months discovering BBS’s and the text-based net before getting Mosaic and discover WWW in 1993. It opened up a whole new world! https://mastodon.archive.org/@internetarchive/11565105…

internetarchive (@internetarchive@mastodon.archive.org)
Attached: 1 image Mosaic was the first web browser to hit the mainstream in 1993, built by NCSA at Illinois. 🌐 It integrated text, images, data, audio & video, sparking a web boom. Not the first browser, but the one that made the web usable for millions. Its legacy? Every browser since. Visit its old website using your modern browser using the #WaybackMachine ⤵️ https://web.archive.org/web/19961220041605/http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/SDG/Software/Mosaic/NCSAMosaicHome.html #Wayback1T #In…

Wishing all our readers a peaceful weekend, but before you head out, don't forget to read today's Metacurity for the most crucial cybersecurity developments you should know, including
--US ODNI ignores her remit and is investigating 2020 election fraud claims,
--US law enforcement are probing if WhatsApp employees can read users' messages,
--Popular AI app exposes millions of users' private messages,
--Darkweb market Empire Market creator pleads guilty,…

US ODNI drops her remit to investigate 2020 election fraud claims
US law enforcement are probing if WhatsApp employees can read users' messages, Popular AI app exposes millions of users' private messages, Darkweb market Empire Market creator pleads guilty, US seizes $400m in darknet crypto mixer Helix's assets, UK safety charity warns about The Com, much more

Australia's ban on social media for users aged under 16 comes into effect; platforms that do not comply risk fines of up to AU$49.5M (Josh Taylor/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/dec/09/australia-u…