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EU electric car sales in April up 34% compared to last year, but Tesla sales *down* 53%, an even stronger fall than in the first quarter of the year.
https://www.electrive.com/2025/05/27/electric-cars-overtake-diesel-in-new-eu-veh…

Electric cars overtake diesel in new EU vehicle registrations - electrive.com
According to the industry association ACEA, new registrations of electric cars in the EU rose by 26 per cent year-on-year to just under 560,000 units in the

"Half a million hectares of rainforest were saved — in part thanks to journalism"
#Rainforest #Environment

Half a million hectares of rainforest were saved — in part thanks to journalism
Founder’s Briefs: An occasional series where Mongabay founder Rhett Ayers Butler shares analysis, perspectives and story summaries. In a packed event held in Palo Alto, California, at the end of SF Climate Week in April, Willie Shubert, the vice president of programs and executive editor at Mongabay, shared a compelling example of how Mongabay’s journalism […]

https://www.thebaltimorebanner.com/community/local-news/archdiocese-baltimore-berkeley-research-hack-KGQ6WS73GVBRRNNE2P2C5VGI5M/
Hey guys, good news! The threat actor who stole the data from the Archd…

Firm in Archdiocese of Baltimore bankruptcy case says stolen data was deleted after hack
Berkeley Research Group LLC on April 29 filed a notice of data security incident in the case.

Camphor Tree (Laurel Family). LA Arboretum, Arcadia, California, USA. April, 2025. #laarboretum #camphortree #laureltree

Grève Š Zaventem : la planète et les générations futures remercient les grévistes
https://bx1.be/communes/zaventem/laeroport-de-bruxelles-annule-mardi-au-moins-30-des-v…

University of Chicago Becker-Friedman Institute of Economics just published research this April 2025 of how Generative AI has had "almost no significant wage or labor impact so far".
✅ Large Language Models, Small Labor Market Effects
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf

arxiv_authors: Arxiv authors (1993-2003)
Scientific collaborations between authors of papers submitted to arxiv.org, under 5 categories: gr-qc, astro-ph, cond-mat, hep-ph, and hep-th categories, spanning January 1993 to April 2003. If an author i co-authored a paper with author j, the graph contains a undirected edge from i to j. If the paper is co-authored by k authors this generates a completely connected (sub)graph on k nodes.
This network has 89209 nodes and 237010 edges.

From DeSmog International
Top Free-Market Think Tank Unsure That Canada Needs More Pipelines
While Alberta premier Danielle Smith demands new oil corridors, the Macdonald Laurier Institute notes that pipeline capacity is currently ‘sufficient.’
This pro-oil and gas organization stated in an April report that there is currently “sufficient pipeline capacity” for western Canadian oil

Top Free-Market Think Tank Unsure That Canada Needs More Pipelines
While Alberta premier Danielle Smith demands new oil corridors, the Macdonald Laurier Institute notes that pipeline capacity is currently ‘sufficient.’

Microsoft is pushing for bulk email senders to use addresses that can be replied to. (ie not "no-reply@")

Strengthening Email Ecosystem: Outlook’s New Requirements for High‐Volume Senders | Microsoft Community Hub
April 29th Update - Changes have been made to the action take on messages that do not meet requirements, please see details below. Introduction In an era...

Canada Goose on guard duty. LA Arboretum, Arcadia, California, USA. April, 2025. #laarboretum #bird #birdphotography