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The Portland Tribune and two sister papers will cease their print editions after major newsroom layoffs, while the Gresham Outlook will reduce its print output (Mike Rogoway/Oregonian)
https://www.oregonlive.com/business/2025/0

Portland Tribune will cease print publication after major newsroom layoffs
Papers in Milwaukie and Oregon City will stop printing, too, while the Gresham Outlook will move from two editions a week to one.

"Parents say a non-charging Clean Air Zone (CAZ) - confirmed by the government earlier this year - ‘lacks ambition and won’t go nearly far enough to cut illegal levels of pollution’ plaguing the city."
Andy Burnham defends scrapping Clean Air Zone charges after parents slam 'epidemic' - Manchester Evening News
It's the parents who are right, of course. The evidence from other cities, including London is clear.

Andy Burnham defends scrapping Clean Air Zone charges after parents slam 'epidemic'
The number of children admitted to Manchester hospitals with breathing problems has soared by hundreds in just one year

States can cut off Medicaid funding to Planned Parenthood, the Supreme Court rules (Lindsay Whitehurst/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-planned-parenthood-abortion-medicaid-e056395b9e5646d13539e76605027a1f
http://www.memeorandum.com/250626/p73#a250626p73

Sources: Uber is in talks with Travis Kalanick to help fund his acquisition of Pony.ai's US arm; Pony.ai has permits to operate robo taxis in the US and China (Mike Isaac/New York Times)

Uber in Talks With Travis Kalanick to Fund Self-Driving Car Deal
The ride-hailing company is in talks to help Mr. Kalanick, who was forced out in 2017, purchase an autonomous vehicles start-up as robot taxi service Waymo gains momentum.

Just saw this:
#AI can mean a lot of things these days, but lots of the popular meanings imply a bevy of harms that I definitely wouldn't feel are worth a cute fish game. In fact, these harms are so acute that even "just" playing into the AI hype becomes its own kind of harm (it's similar to blockchain in that way).
@… noticed that the authors claim the code base is 80% AI generated, which is a red flag because people with sound moral compasses wouldn't be using AI to "help" write code in the first place. The authors aren't by some miracle people who couldn't build this app without help, in case that influences your thinking about it: they have the skills to write the code themselves, although it likely would have taken longer (but also been better).
I was more interested in the fish-classification AI, and how much it might be dependent on datacenters. Thankfully, a quick glance at the code confirms they're using ONNX and running a self-trained neural network on your device. While the exponentially-increasing energy & water demands of datacenters to support billion-parameter models are a real concern, this is not that. Even a non-AI game can burn a lot of cycles on someone's phone, and I don't think there's anything to complain about energy-wise if we're just using cycles on the end user's device as long as we're not having them keep it on for hours crunching numbers like blockchain stuff does. Running whatever stuff locally while the user is playing a game is a negligible environmental concern, unlike, say, calling out to ChatGPT where you're directly feeding datacenter demand. Since they claimed to have trained the network themselves, and since it's actually totally reasonable to make your own dataset for this and get good-enough-for-a-silly-game results with just a few hundred examples, I don't have any ethical objections to the data sourcing or training processes either. Hooray! This is finally an example of "ethical use of neutral networks" that I can hold up as an example of what people should be doing instead of the BS they are doing.
But wait... Remember what I said about feeding the AI hype being its own form of harm? Yeah, between using AI tools for coding and calling their classifier "AI" in a way that makes it seem like the same kind of thing as ChatGPT et al., they're leaning into the hype rather than helping restrain it. And that means they're causing harm. Big AI companies can point to them and say "look AI enables cute things you like" when AI didn't actually enable it. So I'm feeling meh about this cute game and won't be sharing it aside from this post. If you love the cute fish, you don't really have to feel bad for playing with it, but I'd feel bad for advertising it without a disclaimer.

My fair city of Roanoke attained “Bee City USA” status in 2022, which aims to “promote healthy, sustainable habitats for bees and other pollinators, responsible for the reproduction of nearly 90% of the world’s flowering plant species and one in every three bites of food we eat.”
Last night, a couple of garden clubs teamed up with the city to screen a new PBS Nature documentary, “My Garden of a Thousand Bees”.

My Garden of a Thousand Bees
New PBS documentary following wildlife filmmaker Martin Dohrn as he films more than 60 species of bees in his urban garden in Bristol, England, during the COVID-19 2020 lockdown.

I’m going to try the Dia AI browser:
https://www.diabrowser.com/
More on:
Begun, the AI Browser Wars Have
https://spyglass.org/ai-browser-wars/

Meet Dia – the AI Browser Where You Can Chat with Your Tabs
Dia is the AI browser from The Browser Company. Chat with your tabs, write in your own voice, learn and plan faster, shop, and more — all with privacy that you control.

Niemand sollte die @… Senior*innen unterschätzen. Zum Abschied gestern nach einer ziemlich breit gefächerten Diskussion über Verwaltungsdigitalisierung, Überwachung, IT-Sicherheit, Gesundheitsdigitalisierung und und und gab's nicht die üblichen Pralinen, sondern die Erstauflage des "Chaos Computer Buchs" von 1988. <3
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A very simple code to describe emotions or how does this work in real life?!?? ;)
```rust
#[allow(warnings)]
fn main() {
let mut emo: &str;
match 1 1 == 0b10 {
true => emo = "🤓",
_ => emo = "😵‍💫",
};
println!("Perception: {}", emo);
}
```
Play 🦀:

Well I still suck at it, but thus far I'm really happy with the 1.0.1 build of FreeCAD. They simplified the build procedure so you don't have to keep bouncing between Sketch mode and Part mode. I even figured out how to cut multiple sketches into a part, and the auto-constraint feature is pretty useful.
Progress on this Heltec case is progressing slowly, but it's coming along.
As a side note, I'm starting to see why folks are installing transistors on their GPS …

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