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The Golden Path
2021

❔ How can climate mobility function as a proactive strategy for women and marginalised groups? What influences decision-making processes to migrate or to stay? What do governments and stakeholders need to do to increase women's agency?
📝 New Paper Published:
Human mobility as a climate and disaster risk management strategy: Addressing intersectional vulnerability and enhancing women's agency
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Trump Administration Fails to Protect Endangered Wildlife From Atrazine https://biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press-releases/trump-administration-fails-to-protect-endangered-wildlife-from-atrazine-2026-05-18…

Trump Administration Fails to Protect Endangered Wildlife From Atrazine
The Trump U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has finalized a review of atrazine that concludes the potent, cancer-linked endocrine disruptor does not pose an extinction risk to any threatened or endangered animals or plants. The court-ordered final review, which came in response to a legal challenge by the Center for Biological Diversity, was released to the Center late Friday afternoon. The controversial finding contrasts sharply with a 2021 Environmental Protection Agency determination that the …

Visibility nowcasting in South Korea: a machine learning approach to class imbalance and distribution shift
Bong Gyun Shin, Chan Sik Lee, Hyesun Suh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.21507 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2605.21507 https://arxiv.org/html/2605.21507
arXiv:2605.21507v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Atmospheric visibility is a critical variable for transportation safety and air quality management, however, accurate prediction remains challenging due to the complex interactions between meteorological conditions and air pollutants, as well as the rarity of low-visibility events. This study introduces a machine learning framework to nowcast visibility in six major South Korean cities. To handle the imbalance in the 2018-2020 training data, we applied the Synthetic Minority Over-sampling Technique with Nominal and Continuous (SMOTENC) and Conditional Tabular Generative Adversarial Network (CTGAN). An ensemble approach combining machine learning and deep learning models was then used and evaluated on a 2021 test dataset. The results revealed a marked decline in predictive performance in the test set compared to the cross-validation phase. This degradation was attributed to a distributional shift between training and testing periods, which was quantitatively confirmed by measuring the Wasserstein distance of the most influential feature identified by SHAP analysis. In general, this study presents a methodology that aims to simultaneously address the dual challenges of data imbalance and temporal distributional shifts, and emphasizes the necessity of accounting for evolving external environmental factors when implementing nowcasting models on time-series data.
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4 people convicted of conspiracy in US trial tied to 2021 assassination of Haiti's president (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/05/08/4-people-convicted-of-conspiracy-in-us-trial-tied-to-2021-assassination-of-haitis-president-00913186
http://www.memeorandum.com/260508/p95#a260508p95

Quantic Dream: Streik soll „Star Wars Eclipse“ und 115 Stellen retten
Beim Studio Quantic Dream sind 115 Stellen bedroht. Die Belegschaft streikt, um das seit 2021 angekündigte „Star Wars Eclipse“ zu retten.

Quantic Dream: Streik soll „Star Wars Eclipse“ und 115 Stellen retten
Beim Studio Quantic Dream sind 115 Stellen bedroht. Die Belegschaft streikt, um das seit 2021 angekündigte „Star Wars Eclipse“ zu retten.

from my link log —
DART: the Disability Attitude Re-adjustment Tool.
https://www.kingqueen.org.uk/dart/
saved 2021-09-15 https://dotat.at/:/XV51Q.htm…

DART – the Disability Attitude Re-adjustment Tool
I’ve written a Guide for Disabled People to Sue Service Providers for Disability Discrimination, as Unrepresented Litigants in Person in England. (Otherwise known as DART – the Disabili…

Second Enphase AC Battery Home Storage (2021-09-15) - And then there were two! 40 minutes to double our grid-coupled storage. #storage #grid #selfConsumption -

Second Enphase AC Battery Home Storage (2021-09-15)
And then there were two! 40 minutes to double our grid-coupled storage. #storage #grid #selfConsumption

Two officers who defended the Capitol on January 6, 2021,
have filed a lawsuit in federal court to block the creation of a
$1.8 billion "anti-weaponization fund".
Former Capitol Police officer
Harry Dunn and Metropolitan Police Department officer
Daniel Hodges are bringing the lawsuit because the fund could be used to compensate the Capitol rioters who attacked them and their colleagues.
Both officers say they have faced continuous credible threa…

Capitol Police Officers Sue Trump over Slush Fund for Jan. 6 Rioters & Other Allies
Two officers who defended the Capitol on January 6, 2021, have filed a lawsuit in federal court to block the creation of a $1.8 billion so-called anti-weaponization fund. Former Capitol Police officer Harry Dunn and Metropolitan Police Department officer Daniel Hodges are bringing the lawsuit because the fund could be used to compensate the Capitol rioters who attacked them and their colleagues. Both officers say they have faced continuous credible threats since that day. “This slush fund is …

Craig Abbott believes “Our CSS isn’t opinionated enough”:
https://www.craigabbott.co.uk/blog/2026/our-css-isnt-opinionated-enough/
Which of course I agree with and link from on of my posts:

Our CSS isn't opinionated enough
Why styling on semantics and roles could make accessibility harder to skip

RE: https://social.heise.de/@heisec/116646700691189432
Angesichts der Meldung ist es gut, dass wir (von @…) seit 2021 ei…

#LB "Lennon would play Gollum, Paul McCartney would play Frodo, George Harrison would be Gandalf and Ringo Starr would play Sam." Imagina a bizarrice que teria sido um Senhor dos Anéis com os Beatles rs.
https://…

Siri (Beta) is really interesting.
On one hand, I don't have to trust any new parties with my data. Apple already has it since they have my mobile devices, so if they were going to maliciously steal (e.g.) my email contents, they could already do that. This opens the door to a whole bunch of LLM data based interrogation that I wouldn't trust with other providers.
…on the other hand, the "on-device only" Siri falls over immediately when disabling the internet c…

Wie können, wie wollen wir in der #Zukunft leben?
In den Fängen von marktbeherrschenden #Internetkonzernen wie #Freemee oder als

from my link log —
Benchmarking symmetric encryption (AEAD) in Rust.
https://kerkour.com/rust-symmetric-encryption-aead-benchmark/
saved 2021-11-11

Benchmarking symmetric encryption (AEAD) in Rust
As we saw last week, when performing symmetric encryption you should use Authenticated Encryption with Additional Data (AEAD) which provides stronger guarantees than block ciphers.