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Children’s health at risk in south Borneo as El Niño intensifies Indonesia wildfires https://news.mongabay.com/2026/09/childrens-health-at-risk-in-south-borneo-as-el-nino-intensifies-indonesia-wildfires/

Children’s health at risk in south Borneo as El Niño intensifies Indonesia wildfires
BANJARMASIN, Indonesia — Siti Sarah slept in fits and starts through August as the fires broke out around her village and surrounding peatlands. One fire on Aug. 18 at first seemed a safe distance away, but in a heartbeat the flames were within 100 meters (330 feet) of her home in Pengayuan, a village in […]

AWS SVP Dave Brown is leaving after 19 years for a new job; he led compute and machine learning services and is a member of the S-team advising Andy Jassy (Greg Bensinger/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/technology/amazon-aws-ex…

Das heutige #Rausgeschafft war, bei einer Dienstreise mit der #SBB ins Bundesbern, nicht wie die anderen für innerstädtische Verbindungen in #Bern vor Ort den Ö(PN)V zu nehmen, sondern das kleine Rote … 16" …

Forest fires likely to continue to burn twice as much without ‘serious action’ on climate change https://news.mongabay.com/podcast/2026/08/forest-fires-likely-to-continue-to-burn-twice-as-much-without-serious…

Forest fires likely to continue to burn twice as much without ‘serious action’ on climate change
Elizabeth Goldman is a co-director of Global Nature Watch, previously known as Global Forest Watch, a database measuring forest loss that’s frequently cited in Mongabay reporting. She joins this week’s podcast to detail GNW’s updated 25-year analysis of global forest fire trends. The picture is stark: Forest fires burn twice as much forest today as […]

Hitler leistete sich u. a. ein Reichs-Symphonieorchester. Eine Reihe Musiker aus diesem Orchester spielten nach dem Krieg im 1945 von Kurt Graunke gegründeten "Symphonie-Orchester Graunke" in München. Seit 1990 heißt dieses Orchester "Münchner Symphoniker". Braune Scheiße von Anfang an. Die Dokumentation dazu gibt's von ARTE, Rundfunkbeitrag bei der Arbeit:

Just saw that #genAI models now have a "how to protect the environment" suggestion... which suggests to use different genAI models 😇🤣🤦
You want to know the best way to save energy and protect the environment?

• do not use genAI (use your own brain, or your friends')
• while you're at it, protest all the data centers that are getting built to support all that "energy-saving"…

I've seen one of the candidates for my ward's city council seat a lot lately. Sometimes doing campaign stuff - like handing out leaflets in front of the subway (Kid2 and I enjoyed the sudoko). But also just wandering around. I've never seen our current councilor, who's hoping to get ahold of the mayor's office to ensure that the low-tax city gets back to crumbling as fast as possible, outside a highly scripted event. Anyways, I really, really hope she wins and not just be…

That's why you don't Southgate the final minutes. The sub to put Burn on made sense, but O'Reilly for Rice did not. Now what?
#ENGARG #WorldCup #fedifc

Sources: Dave Brown, former SVP of AWS Compute, AI, and Platform, will join Meta in the coming weeks, where he will work on the company's data center build-out (Anissa Gardizy/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.ws…

What a total drag. I met Jennifer a few times in 1991. What I recall most is how down to earth she was. A real people connector too. I reconnected with her in the late 90s when she was promoting her band Other Star People. She remembered me, which is totally unusual for a rock star. Great person.
Let's help her beat this horrible disease.