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🎍 Bamboo-based plastic can be made to biodegrade quickly, but still holds up in tough conditions
https://phys.org/news/2025-10-bamboo-based-plastic-biodegrade-quickly.html

Bamboo-based plastic can be made to biodegrade quickly, but still holds up in tough conditions
A new method to produce strong, biodegradable plastic from bamboo is reported in Nature Communications this week. The bioplastic resembles oil-based plastics in strength, shapability, and thermal stability but can biodegrade in soil within 50 days, presenting a new pathway toward sustainable plastic alternatives.

China can't keep
Its Hands Clean in Myanmar’s Scam Cities
Ties between organized crime syndicates and Chinese intelligence run deep
https://foreignpolicy.com/2025/10/23/myanmar-china-pig-butchering-scams-slavery/

China Can’t Keep Its Hands Clean in Myanmar’s Scam Cities
Ties between organized crime syndicates and Chinese intelligence run deep.

TIL that 'vegetarian meat' brands Vegetarische Slager ( butcher) and Vivera belong to Brazilian mega meat company JBS, accused of massive deforestation, built on bribing politicians, and brought to the stock market via a Dutch holding company.
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Omstreden vleesgigant JBS gaat naar beurs via Nederlandse brievenbusmaatschappij
JBS, het grootste vleesbedrijf ter wereld, vestigt zich in Nederland. Via een brievenbusmaatschappij in Amstelveen krijgt het omstreden Braziliaanse miljardenbedrijf beursnoteringen in zowel São Paulo als New York.

Former Badgers tight end Jake Ferguson having huge season as Cowboys prepare for Packers https://www.jsonline.com/story/sports/nfl/packers/2025/09/24/ex-wisconsin-te-jake-ferguson-starts-fast-cowboys-packers/863323…

"MPs condemn badger cull as ineffective – Badger Trust urges cattle-focused TB measures"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Badgers #Animals

MPs condemn badger cull as ineffective – Badger Trust urges cattle-focused TB measures
Badger Trust welcomes MPs’ condemnation of the badger cull and calls for urgent, cattle-focused action to tackle bovine TB

Amigas y amigos de mastodon y el fediverso interplanetario, me enorgullezco en presentarles mi nuevo centro de operaciones en internet «La bitšcora de un Eterno Aprendiz», mi regreso a los blogs. Estš federado, así que pueden comentar con su cuenta del fediverso.
Lo pueden seguir en @….
Estoy emocionado 🥹

Tja, volgens de grote blonde schreeuwer zijn die demonstranten de baas en niet de burgemeester/politie.
Politie grijpt in bij demonstratie tegen azc in Doetinchem https://nos.nl/l/2584048

Politie grijpt in bij demonstratie tegen azc in Doetinchem
Voor het gemeentehuis verzamelden zich eerder op de avond honderden betogers, terwijl binnen een raadsvergadering plaatsvond over de opvang van asielzoekers.

Part of me wants to hop in the car and drive west to find a "dangerous" beach for some bodysurfing.
That part does not include my right side chest wall, in which some number of muscles did something painful and abrupt when I lifted Kyle into his chair. I can feel the endorphins trying to spare me...
#IAmOld

WX Story (bot) (@wxstory_bot@m.ai6yr.org)
Attached: 1 image National Weather Service - Grand Rapids, MI #MIwx #GRR #NWS #WX

Völlig absurde Situation: Sitze mit meiner Familie im Kölner Brauhaus Gaffel am Dom. Auf dem Großbidschirm gegenüber unseres Tisches läuft #BMGHSV.
Um uns herum siegestrunkene Effzehfans.
Das Musical "Moulin Rouge" fand ich toll vorhin.

CorIL: Towards Enriching Indian Language to Indian Language Parallel Corpora and Machine Translation Systems
Soham Bhattacharjee, Mukund K Roy, Yathish Poojary, Bhargav Dave, Mihir Raj, Vandan Mujadia, Baban Gain, Pruthwik Mishra, Arafat Ahsan, Parameswari Krishnamurthy, Ashwath Rao, Gurpreet Singh Josan, Preeti Dubey, Aadil Amin Kak, Anna Rao Kulkarni, Narendra VG, Sunita Arora, Rakesh Balbantray, Prasenjit Majumdar, Karunesh K Arora, Asif Ekbal, Dipti Mishra Sharma

CorIL: Towards Enriching Indian Language to Indian Language Parallel Corpora and Machine Translation Systems
India's linguistic landscape is one of the most diverse in the world, comprising over 120 major languages and approximately 1,600 additional languages, with 22 officially recognized as scheduled languages in the Indian Constitution. Despite recent progress in multilingual neural machine translation (NMT), high-quality parallel corpora for Indian languages remain scarce, especially across varied domains. In this paper, we introduce a large-scale, high-quality annotated parallel corpus covering 1…