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"Le Monde – En France, une transition climatique laissée pour compte"
https://www.lemonde.fr/idees/article/2025/10/27/en-france-une-transition-climatique-laissee-pour-compte_6649812_3232.html

En France, une transition climatique laissée pour compte
Avec une planification écologique à l’arrêt depuis 2023, le personnel politique accrédite l’idée qu’il est incapable de penser le long terme, même sur des enjeux aussi importants que ceux du changement climatique et de l’effondrement de la biodiversité.

“AI has brought the cost of disinformation down to nothing. It has automated bullshit.”
#ArtificialStupidity https://www.desmog.com/2025/08/27/ai-slop-…

AI ‘Slop’ Websites Are Publishing Climate Science Denial
At the start of June, MSN, the world’s fourth-largest news aggregator, posted an article from a new climate-focused publication, Climate Cosmos, entitled: “Why Top Experts Are Rethinking Climate Alarmism”. The article – by “Kathleen Westbrook M.Sc Climate Science” – cited a finding from the “Global Climate Research Institute” that “65 percent of surveyed climate professionals […]

"‘I worry about the future of my daughter’: the ‘silent majority’ who care about the climate crisis"
#Climate #ClimateChange

The oceans are overheating—and scientists say a climate tipping point may be here #ocean

The oceans are overheating—and scientists say a climate tipping point may be here
In 2023, the world’s oceans experienced the most intense and widespread marine heatwaves ever recorded, with some events persisting for over 500 days and covering nearly the entire globe. These searing ocean temperatures are causing mass coral bleaching and threatening fisheries, while also signaling deeper, system-wide climate changes.

Dame Stella Rimington, the first woman to head MI5,
has passed away.
The Daily Express obituary highlights her trailblazing career.
Appointed director general in 1992, she was globally recognized as the first female head of an intelligence agency.
Rimington joined MI5 in 1967 as a part-time typist at the British High Commission in New Delhi,
transitioning from what she described as a “bored housewife”.
Throughout her career, she confronted Russian spie…

Press Review - Serious mood and fewer perks: Silicon Valley enters its 'hard tech' era
PRESS REVIEW – Tuesday, August 5: As the plastic pollution summit begins in Geneva, Libération highlights the little-known but devastating scourge of plastic pellets ravaging the planet. Also, Silicon Valley’s shift into a new “hard tech” era reflects a changing political climate; former CNN journalist Jim Acosta sparks controversy after interviewing an AI avatar of a school massacre victim. And, the press pays tribute to Stella Rimington, the first woman chief of MI5.

I carry both an iphone and a pixel these days. I think one of the best things about Android is the ability to set your own launcher. I've falled in love with Kvaesitso https://github.com/MM2-0/Kvaesitso - an open source launcher with good configurability and an awesome search. However in general it still feels like android is lagging behind iOS on the app side. I'm specially missing Shellfish (https://secureshellfish.app/) when i'm on the pixel. I even have juicessh pro and it's not nearly as good. I'm actually surprised the ssh client situation is so bad given the higher perceived nerd ratio for Android.

Sources: AI image generation startup Black Forest Labs is exploring raising $200M-$300M at a $4B valuation, after a prior undisclosed round at a $1B valuation (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/299ddb72-1ae7-4691-bf6b-cd0229bbb04f

Book Review “The End” by Joel Wainwright
This book is unlike the majority of books I have reviewed here. It is a very serious, academic treatise. The reason I wanted to read it was not because I am a communist (I'm not) but because the blurb I got suggests that it "confronts the planetary climate crisis". I did my due diligence and flogged my way through the entire book - which was a bit like going back to university.

Book Review “The End” by Joel Wainwright
This book is unlike the majority of books I have reviewed here. It is a very serious, academic treatise. The reason I wanted to read it was not because I am a communist (I’m not) but because …

Seriously, can we talk about how awesome #TeamSpeak 6 is for a moment?
- 1440p 60 FPS Video Steaming
- Run your own server on your own machine
- Backwards compatible all the way to TeamSpeak 3 (Server ↔ Client!)
- DMs are interoperable with #Matrix
- Nearly unlimited file transf…

Tussell: UK government contracts for AI-related projects have reached £573M in 2025 to July 15, up from £468M for the whole of 2024, as it seeks efficiency (Josh Gabert-Doyon/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/70559d0c-5fb7-472e-b7c5-3735c6ba2da7