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Biologists drove 19 burrowing owls evicted by a Phoenix housing project
50 miles into a 10,000-acre solar complex
and lowered them into 40 plastic burrows
— every female laid eggs within a month,
and 29 chicks fledged the first summer,
because any predator stands out on open ground under panels

Biologists drove 19 burrowing owls evicted by a Phoenix housing project 50 miles into a 10,000-acre solar complex and lowered them into 40 plastic burrows — every female laid eggs within a month, and 29 chicks fledged the first summer, because open ground under panels hides no predator from an owl
A solar farm designed to fight climate change became an unexpected refuge for an endangered owl when scientists discovered that panels cast the perfect shadow for ground-nesting predators to hunt.

Private companies know there’s no business case for more pipelines when renewables have never been cheaper, cleaner, and faster to deploy. So the government is investing OUR money instead.

Most Canadians agree: NO taxpayer-funded pipelines.

Will you join me in adding your name to this petition?

https://act.gp/3RvZ75Y

Even the oil companies don't want to pay for new pipelines!
Our government shouldn’t gamble our money and our future on pipelines.

Royal Bank of Canada and Bank of Montreal agree to sell payments company Moneris to PE firm Francisco Partners for CA$2B in cash, splitting proceeds equally (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-10/f…

Since it was relevant to a discussion I just had on here and is something most people probably haven't thought about much (unless you've taken one of a handful of philosophy classes), I thought I'd try to lay out a key piece of Descartes' Meditations (#philosophy

Proofs!
So this article will finally be published soon (after quite some delays)
"Governing Refugee Mobility – Contrasting Genealogies of
Encampment in Uganda and Kenya (1930s to 1990s)"
in the Journal of Internal Displacement
#histodons #africa

Gente, estou ficando analfabeto. Agora foi o terceiro que escrevo aqui, revejo alguns minutos depois e preciso reescrevê-lo quase totalmente, de tão mal escrito. Eu hein...

«Face Š la rapidité des progrès, Yoshua Bengio invite Š ne pas céder Š la passivité. ‹Il faut se dire qu'on a la possibilité de choisir›, insiste-t-il, en comparant la situation au mouvement climatique. Si suffisamment de citoyens et citoyennes prennent le sujet au sérieux, les gouvernements finiront par agir, Š condition que la mobilisation soit mondiale, avance-t-il.»
Mwahahaha! Oui, ça marche bien pour le climat.

L'expert Yoshua Bengio alerte sur les dérives de l'IA à Genève
Yoshua Bengio, un des pionniers de l'intelligence artificielle, était l'invité de Tout un Monde mercredi depuis le sommet "AI for Good" à Genève. Il y explique en quoi l'IA développe des comportements risqués et comment tenter d'y remédier.

Fisher Forecasting for the DESC with $\texttt{Augur}$
Paul Rogozenski, Sankarshana Srinivasan, Javier S\'anchez, Nora Elisa Chisari, Arthur Loureiro, Marc Paterno, Rebekah Polen, Heather Prince, Biancamaria Sersante, An\v{z}e Slosar, Sandro Vitenti, Carlos Garc\'ia-Garc\'ia, Eric Gawiser, Christos Georgiou, C. Danielle Leonard, Ayan Mitra, Jeremy Neveu, The LSST Dark Energy Science Collaboration
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.03876 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2608.03876 https://arxiv.org/html/2608.03876
arXiv:2608.03876v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: The Vera C. Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) has begun its ten-year survey of the entire visible southern hemisphere. To ensure robust cosmological measurements, computationally inexpensive investigations of modeling choices must be made to gauge the performance of proposed cosmological analyses. In this paper, we introduce the $\texttt{Augur}$ tool of the Dark Energy Science Collaboration (DESC), which provides Fisher forecasts for cosmological inference for the LSST using software frameworks designed for DESC science. We test the pipeline by comparing it to forecasts produced by external code and direct sampling of the posterior via nested sampling methods, finding good agreement between all methods. We additionally investigate a range of modeling and hyperparameter choices for a 3$\times$2pt investigation in harmonic space, providing users with diagnostics to obtain reliable forecasts. $\texttt{Augur}$ will be continually updated to be compatible with the other tools in the DESC software ecosystem as additional probes and functionality become available.
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Sources: the Trump administration is pressing Meta to submit its AI models for voluntary review; Meta is the only major US AI developer without an agreement (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/23/busines

U.S. Presses Meta to Agree to A.I. Reviews
Federal officials are urging the lone major tech company holdout to allow government safety evaluations, weeks after ordering Anthropic to pull its latest model.

True to the promise of
“drill, baby, drill,”
leaders in Washington are doubling down on attacks
against Alaska’s wildlands
and the clean water, wildlife and ways of life they sustain.
Here’s how the administration is advancing drilling and mining attacks on public lands:
->> Opened every acre of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge’s fragile coastal plain  to oil and gas leasing
->> Approved and reissued permits to move forward on the cont…

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