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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…

... 2050 😣
"La France, éreintée par les canicules, adopte une feuille de route pour être neutre en carbone en 2050, qui devra démontrer sa crédibilité"
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La France, éreintée par les canicules, adopte une feuille de route pour être neutre en carbone en 2050, qui devra démontrer sa crédibilité
Mercredi, le ministère de la transition écologique a présenté la troisième stratégie nationale bas-carbone, le document qui fixe le cap de la réduction des émissions de gaz à effet de serre jusqu’en 2050. Les objectifs sont très ambitieux au regard des politiques menées jusqu’à présent.

Army leaders in hot seat over Poland deployment cancellation (Patricia Kime/Military Times)
https://www.militarytimes.com/news/your-military/2026/05/15/army-leaders-in-hot-seat-over-poland-deployment-cancellation/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260515/p99#a260515p99

"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/

In what I’m telling myself is in no way feature creep, I just added experimental TypeScript support to Kitten in a dev branch.
I’m actually surprised how easy it was to do. Given I’m already using esbuild to create the Kitten bundle and already using a custom module loader, the change was basically making esbuild a dependency instead of a dev dependency, lazily transforming .ts files in the loader, and updating a few places in the code to ensure that you can use .ts as an extension in …

app/CHANGELOG.md at stateful-components-api-breaking-change
app - A web development kit that’s small, purrs, and loves you.

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

An Ultra-Faint, Chemically Primitive #Galaxy Forming in the Reionization Era: https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11846 -> Astronomers Find Most Chemically Primitive Galaxy in Early Universe / Clues to the Mysterious Origins of Ultra-Faint Dwarfs: https://www.nao.ac.jp/en/news/science/2026/20260514-dos.html / https://www.kanazawa-u.ac.jp/en/miraichi/183006/ / https://www.icrr.u-tokyo.ac.jp/en/news/17894/