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"A baby boom for North Atlantic right whales, but extinction still a threat"
#Animals #Whales

A baby boom for North Atlantic right whales, but extinction still a threat
23 North Atlantic right whales were born this year, the most since 2009 but it's still short of the 50 births per year needed to save the critically endangered species.

Midlife Reclaimed: A Podcast For Women Over 40 Navigating Midlife Burnout
The podcast centres on the unique experiences of women in midlife—those feeling overwhelmed, stressed, disconnected, or simply stretched too thin...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/burnou

Connect-One: Early feasibility study of #Connexus brain-computer interface #Paradromics

« Mes rapports ont peu Š peu dérivé vers la corvée ordinaire » : quand la sexualité aussi fait son burn-out
https://www.lemonde.fr/m-perso/article/2026/05/10/mes-rappor…

« Mes rapports ont peu à peu dérivé vers la corvée ordinaire » : quand la sexualité aussi fait son burn-out
Le surmenage peut également se manifester dans la sphère érotique. En cas de saturation, sexologues et psychologues conseillent de s’accorder une pause. Objectif : redéfinir ses besoins propres, loin des pressions relationnelles et sociétales.

I've been wondering lately if my job is #bullshit.
I've given it a lot of thought, and I think it's not directly bullshit. I'm doing stuff that's meaningful, at least in a narrow scope, both in my dayjob and my #FreeSoftware / #Gentoo work.
That said, with the arrival of all the bullshit CEOs, CTOs, all their bootlickers, wannabe bootlickers, and all the CEO/CTO/bootlicker cosplayers, the whole software industry is becoming filled with bullshit to the brim.
Even if my work is meaningful, it contributes more and more to software that's either scam in itself, used to scam people or pure unadulterated bullshit. Even if the tools used to be useful, they either gain bullshit parts or bullshit dependencies.
I hate this, and it's making me hate what I'm doing.

Spotify launches Save to Spotify, a command-line tool that allows AI agents to upload generated audio summaries and personal podcasts to a user's account (Terrence O'Brien/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/entertainment/925916/save-to-spotify-ai-podcasts…

OpenClaw and Claude can put your AI-generated podcasts in Spotify
Save to Spotify is a new command-line tool that lets AI agents save audio alongside your other podcasts.

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#TheEssay
- Music Rediscovered
Charles Burney (1726-1814) was the author of the first history of music ever published In the English language. Sophie Coulombeau has been reading it and his letters and diaries.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002s3y7

Spotify launches Save to Spotify, a command-line tool that allows AI agents to upload generated audio summaries and personal podcasts to a user's account (Terrence O'Brien/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/entertainment/925916/save-to-spotify-ai-podcasts…

OpenClaw and Claude can put your AI-generated podcasts in Spotify
Save to Spotify is a new command-line tool that lets AI agents save audio alongside your other podcasts.

⚡ Newly identified brain circuit and cells link prior experiences to appetite
#brain

Newly identified brain circuit and cells link prior experiences to appetite
Our past experiences shape how much we eat and where and what we choose to eat. Using preclinical models, researchers from Mass General Brigham and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard have identified brain cells that translate contextual information into appetite control.

I've been talking before why money won't solve the burnout problem. But let's for a minute assume that you really wanted to help people maintaining #FreeSoftware by paying them. The problem is that:
1. You have to pay them a living wage.
While all monetary help is appreciated by developers, they need a living wage. Not "that should prevent you from starving to death" but the kind of money that can support a honest (but not lavish) lifestyle: pay the bills, feed your family, cover other living costs such as repairs, clothes, appliances, and let you save enough for future emergencies.
It's simple as that. If you can't do that, they're going to need a dayjob. If they're lucky, it won't collide with their #FLOSS work. If they're not, it will kill them. Or they'll fall somewhere in the middle, slowly burning out until they can neither maintain their projects, nor work.
2. You need to guarantee that the payouts will continue.
People need security. They're not going to stay unemployed, let alone quit their job or turn down a job offer, unless they either have good guaranties or substantial savings (or they're in a really bad shape and wouldn't be able to handle the job anyway). The job market is hell, and people just know that when the payments stop, they may not be able to find a job soon, let alone a good job. Even "passively" looking for a job can burn you out.
So yeah, one-off payments and pinky swears won't do. And it isn't even a matter of whether we can trust you; it's a matter if you'll actually be able to continue paying us. And honestly, I don't really know how to solve that. Perhaps by paying up front, but for how long? Finding a job may take more than a year, finding a good job may be once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.
3. It can't end up being a job.
Perhaps most difficult of all, these payments can't really come with explicit obligations. I mean, that's the whole point: you want to support FLOSS, not turn it into a corporate project. You want the maintainer to remain free and enjoy the work. That is unlikely to happen if their livelihood is now dependent on your satisfaction. And even if it isn't, I for example would still feel indebted to whoever's paying me to do FLOSS, even if they really didn't expect anything in return, and would fall into a spiral of guilt-inflicted burnout if I failed to maintain the software satisfactorily.
#OpenSource