60,000 African penguins starved to death after sardine numbers collapsed – study https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/dec/05/african-penguins-starve-to-death-south-africa-sardine-population-aoe
World’s leading sardine exporter halts frozen supply to rest of world | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/morocco-frozen-sardine-exports-zakia-driouich-b2896258.html
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🥳 New Kitten Release
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You can now use the simple `on:` prefix instead of `hx-on:htmx:` to define inline event handlers for HTMX events¹.
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Putin can fund war for 18 months, but tougher sanctions could shorten the timeline, expert says: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/09/putin-can-fund-war-for.html
The US CBP proposes vetting five years of social media history for travelers from the UK, France, Germany, and more; the current system only requires basic info (Christine Chung/New York Times)
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Coupang is facing scrutiny after a data leak revealed that major portions of its Korean-language service were built and maintained by Chinese devs--the main suspect in its recent breach is a former Chinese employee who worked on the company’s authentication systems.
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U.S. Plans to Scrutinize Foreign Tourists' Social Media History (Christine Chung/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/travel/social-media-tourists-visa-border-patrol.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251209/p140#a251209p140
More than 60,000 penguins have starved to death off the coast of South Africa
as a result of collapsing sardine numbers, according to a new study.
From 2004 to 2011, more than 95 per cent of the African penguins on Dassen Island and Robben Island died.
Researchers said they probably died during the moulting period, the annual event where they replace all their feathers at once over a number of weeks.
The climate crisis and overfishing have been attributed to driving…