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Bye, Felicia.
Fort Collins, CO, City Council has voted to immediately cancel its contract with Flock Safety, ending the city's participation in the company's automated license plate reader system. The 6-1 vote during a June 16 council meeting follows six months of public pushback on the use of the system. Council directed staff to immediately stop the collection of Flock data, immediately initiate the cancellation of the Flock contract, and remove cameras as expeditiously as pos…

‘Chemical cocktail’ of pharmaceuticals found in Djibouti coastal waters https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2026/06/chemical-cocktail-of-pharmaceuticals-found-in-djibouti-coastal-waters/

‘Chemical cocktail’ of pharmaceuticals found in Djibouti coastal waters
Common medications that billions of people take for ailments like pain, fever and infections were detected in several sites along Djibouti’s Gulf of Tadjourah in East Africa, according to a recent study. Researchers found that untreated urban wastewater contained dangerous concentrations of anti-inflammatory medicine like ibuprofen, caffeine, and the antiepileptic drug carbamazepine, which were contaminating […]

So the upcoming NPM publish token changes are a potential lock-out scenario for people who're not using CI-based "Trusted Publishing" (TP) and cannot switch to "Staged Publishing" (SP) for reasons of practicality or feasibility.
https://github.blog/changelog/2026-07-

npm install-time security and GAT bypass2fa deprecation - GitHub Changelog
npm v12 is now generally available and tagged latest. This major release turns on the install-time security defaults we announced in June, and it’s also where we begin a deprecation…

A group of six immigration rights activists and local political figures known as
"The Broadview Six" are calling on a judge to appoint a special counsel to investigate the Justice Department for criminal contempt.
They
According to the Chicago Sun Times federal courts reporter Jon Seidel, the lawyer for the six made the request to U.S. District Judge April Perry, a former federal prosecutor herself.
The six were targeted as part of the arrests around the im…

Activists targeted by DOJ ask judge for special counsel to investigate prosecutors
A group of six immigration rights activists and local political figures known as "The Broadview Six" are calling on a judge to appoint a special counsel to investigate the Justice Department for criminal contempt. According to the Chicago Sun Times federal courts reporter Jon Seidel, the lawyer for ...

Trump Administration to Pay $765 Million to Cancel 4 More Wind Projects (Brad Plumer/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/17/climate/trump-wind-farms-cancel-millions.html?unlocked_article_code=1.q1A.geNd.zne4IT6RpsDO&smid=nytcore-ios-share
http://www.memeorandum.com/260617/p137#a260617p137

"Sharp drop in ‘forever chemicals’ in seabird eggs hailed as win for regulation"
#PFAS #ForeverChemicals #Birds

The Consult By The Australian Specialist Hub
Brings together Australia's leading medical specialists and the legal professionals who rely on their work...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/the-consult/

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
The Chemical Brothers:
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#TheChemicalBrothers
https://kiwamusic.bandcamp.com/track/the-chemical-brothers-go-kiwa-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/2cNjgoSh1TBHFQIhfzRJUE

An invisible forever chemical rain is falling across the planet #environment

An invisible forever chemical rain is falling across the planet
A surprising study suggests that chemicals introduced to protect the ozone layer may have unintentionally created a growing global pollution problem. Researchers found that refrigerants and certain anesthetic gases have generated more than 335,000 tonnes of trifluoroacetic acid (TFA), a highly persistent "forever chemical," that has been deposited across Earth's surface since 2000. The pollutant is now showing up everywhere from rainwater to remote Arctic ice, and scientists expect levels to ke…

The Interior Department said on Wednesday that it would pay the energy developer Invenergy hundreds of millions of dollars
to abandon plans to build wind farms in the Atlantic and Pacific,
in the third such deal struck by the Trump administration to cancel offshore wind leases.
Under the agreement Invenergy will voluntarily surrender four leases in federal waters for wind farms that would have been located in the New York Bight, off the Central Coast of California and in th…

Trump Administration to Pay $765 Million to Cancel 4 More Wind Projects
It’s the third such deal the Interior Department has struck to pay firms to abandon plans for offshore turbines, spending roughly $2.5 billion to get companies to abandon their wind projects.