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Amazon's Ring cancels its partnership with Flock that would have let law enforcement agencies request footage from Ring doorbell users, following backlash (Jennifer Pattison Tuohy/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/878447/ring-flock-partnership-canceled

Ring cancels its partnership with Flock Safety after surveillance backlash
Amazon-owned Ring has canceled its proposed integration with Flock

Adelaide Festival board resigns and Adelaide Writers’ Week cancelled after 180 authors pull out in protest of Zionist board decision to disinvite Palestinian author.
Remember this, if you’re a Zionist: like the Nazis before you, you are committing genocide, you are on the wrong side of history, and – as long as there are people of good moral character and conscience to oppose you – you will not succeed. Your only allies are the MAGAs of the world and those too spineless to stand up to …

Adelaide Writers' Week cancelled after week of escalating controversy around author Randa Abdel-Fattah
The remaining members of the Adelaide Festival board will step down and this year's Writers' Week event has been cancelled, after days of furore regarding the decision to cancel a scheduled appearance by Palestinian Australian author Randa Abdel-Fattah.

After surveillance backlash
Ring cancels its partnership with Flock Safety
Following mounting pressure and a questionable Super Bowl ad,
the Amazon-owned company walked back its plan to integrate with the controversial
law-enforcement technology company.
https://www.theverge.co…

Ring cancels its partnership with Flock Safety after surveillance backlash
Amazon-owned Ring has canceled its proposed integration with Flock

Our new ASL Consulting page is now live:
#asl #deaf

Chemical traces of 2023 Canadian wildfires detected in Maryland months after smoke subsided https://phys.org/news/2025-12-chemical-canadian-wildfires-maryland-months.html

Chemical traces of 2023 Canadian wildfires detected in Maryland months after smoke subsided
In 2023, Canada's worst wildfire season on record produced so much smoke that it spilled across national borders into the United States. At times, a thick haze enveloped much of the U.S. East Coast and triggered "Code Purple" and "Code Maroon" alerts—the most hazardous air quality warning categories—in the Washington, D.C. region.

German chancellor warns Putin won’t stop at Ukraine, urges united European response: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/14/german-chancellor-warns-putin-wont.html

Good.
Never submit to #Racisn, or to the apologists of #Genocide.
#GazaGenocide

Adelaide Writers' Week cancelled after week of escalating controversy around author Randa Abdel-Fattah
The remaining members of the Adelaide Festival board will step down and this year's Writers' Week event has been cancelled, after days of furore regarding the decision to cancel a scheduled appearance by Palestinian Australian author Randa Abdel-Fattah.

Still too damned many not showing up. Left work at 15:30 should be at home at just after 16:00. Arrived at home at almost 17:00!
https://www.ctvnews.ca/ottawa/article/oc-transpo-cancels-fewer-trips-as-more-buses-hit-the-roads/

Amazon's Ring cancels Flock partnership amid Super Bowl ad backlash
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/12/amazons-ring-cancels-flock-partnership-amid-super-bowl-ad-backlash.html

Federal immigration agents detained an employee of the New York City council on Monday,
sparking outrage from the city’s leaders and renewed rebukes against the Trump administration’s immigration actions.
“This is an assault on our democracy, on our city, and our values,”
Mayor Zohran Mamdanisaid in a statement on X.
“I am calling for his immediate release and will continue to monitor the situation.”
The employee was taken in during a “routine immigration appointm…