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This post gets regular inline updates:
https://adrianroselli.com/2024/04/what-you-can-do-as-a-web-builder-on-earth-day.html
Today I added a Nature article, the Web Sustainability Guidelines Impact Ratings, and the Carbon in Context calcula…

What You Can Do as a Web Builder on Earth Day
One easy thing you can do for the earth is not use “AI” tools. Consider this as a programmer, web developer, web designer, copywriter, webmaster, etc. The tools include anything branded as generative AI, LLMs, computer vision tools, Copilot, ChatGPT, Bard, Grok, Dall-e, Midjourney, and so on. If you are…

African defense tech company Terra Industries, founded in 2024, raised a $52M seed round from 8VC and others, and says it's on track to book $100M in contracts (Dominic-Madori Davis/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/17/terr

Terra Industries closes $52M seed round to build defense infrastructure for the Global South | TechCrunch
African defense tech company Terra Industries announced an additional $18 million in funding, bringing its seed round to $52 million.

Did Trump Make Up “Bill Jones” to Justify Costly Overhaul of Navy Ships?
Speaking at a campaign rally in January 2024, Trump told a story about a sailor aboard the USS Gerald R. Ford aircraft carrier
who argued on behalf of steam catapults over their more modern electromagnetic counterparts.
Trump had been telling the same story since at least 2019
—but this time he gave his source a name: Bill Jones.
Trump claimed that “Bill Jones” had lamented the shift to el…

Did Trump Make Up “Bill Jones” to Justify Costly Overhaul of Navy?
Donald Trump claims a sailor named Bill Jones asked him to ensure the Navy kept using steam catapults on aircraft carriers.

Inducing lucid dreaming with multisensory stimulation: a preregistered multi-center study #SSILD

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Elon Musk has been in regular contact with Putin for two years, says report
Alleged talks between the billionaire and Russian president could have enormous security implications
“If people like Musk get Trump re-elected, they’ll expect all kinds of regulatory gifts in their favour,”
said Fiona Hill,
who is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, the chancellor of Durham University and a defence adviser to the UK governm…

Elon Musk has been in regular contact with Putin for two years, says report
Alleged talks between billionaire and Russian president could have enormous security implications

Jets get first interception since 2024 season, snapping record 20-game streak https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7614160/2026/10/04/new-york-jets-interception-streak-snapped/

The US DOJ and TikTok reach a $400M settlement to resolve allegations TikTok violated COPPA; the DOJ filed the lawsuit in 2024 (Ashley Gold/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/08/21/doj-tiktok-biden-lawsuit-settlement

Scoop: DOJ, TikTok settle for $400 million in children's privacy suit
The settlement ends a lawsuit filed by the Biden administration.

"As yellow-eyed penguins disappear, conservationists focus on deaths in fishing nets"
#Penguins #Animals

As yellow-eyed penguins disappear, conservationists focus on deaths in fishing nets
OTAGO PENINSULA, Aotearoa New Zealand — Sandfly Bay was long a key nesting area for yellow-eyed penguins (Megadyptes antipodes), noisy, pink-footed birds that spend long days foraging at sea. But this wild beach on the Otago Peninsula, like others nearby, has gone quiet. In 2024, the last breeding-age female at Sandfly Bay, who’d been consistently […]

Aided by AI, young people in China launched 7M one-person startups in 2025 to escape a bleak job market, up ~42% from 2024, as they face fierce competition (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj…

Did that '9 games that shaped me' thing (do yours at https://my9games.net). Many of these won't be surprises, I've written about most of these (here:

Four million users of Seoul's public bike-sharing service Ttareungi who had their data stolen in a breach will receive a 30-day pass worth a measly $3.40.
https://www.koreajoongangdaily.com/korea/seoul-to-compensate-4-mi…

Seoul Ttareungi data breach: 4 million users to get free 30-day bike pass
Seoul’s Ttareungi bike-sharing service will give a free 30-day pass to about 4 million users affected by a 2024 data breach. The leak exposed personal information of roughly 4.62 million users, city officials said.

https://management.curiouscatblog.net/2024/06/26/design-your-organization-to-serve-customers-well/
"Bill discusses how focusing on improving quality is the best way to reduce costs and increase productivity. Improving process…

ZeroHeight readers should be aware AudioEye is a litigious company that sues detractors:
https://adrianroselli.com/2024/01/audioeye-has-dropped-its-suit-against-me.html
They should also know its overlay never worked, a signal its services are p…

#AudioEye Has Dropped Its Suit Against Me
AudioEye has dropped its lawsuit against me as part of a settlement agreement. The specific legal details are at the end of this post. Index for this post: Joint Statement Impact, Abridged SLAPP Everybody Lost Legal Details Wrap-up Related CAO Hire: 8 February 2024 Talk References (Added 7 July 2024)…

Singapore-based Ant International, a payments company which spun out of Ant Group in 2024, raised $1.2B from investors including Ant Group and Alibaba (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/ant-international-raise…

Titans waive QB Will Levis, ending 3-year tenure with franchise: Source https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7550710/2026/08/30/will-levis-titans-waive-nfl/

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #ChrisHawkins
SPRINTS:
🎵 Shadow Of A Doubt (6 Music Session, 8 Jan 2024)
#SPRINTS
https://sprintsmusic.bandcamp.com/track/shadow-of-a-doubt
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