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With Germany’s help, Ukrainian communities keep kindergartens and hospitals running through blackouts: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/25/with-germanys-help-ukrainian-communities.html

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The Feds keep saying "We did not" or "We will not" buy this or that empty warehouse for use as an ICE prison.
What they are hiding is that in order for a warehouse to be an ICE/CBP prison that the warehouse need not be "owned" by the Feds.
Rather the warehouse could be bought by a maga-friend, like Elon or Ellison etc and then leased to the government.
The Feds would not bey lying when they say they are not buying the warehouse. But they will …

ICE is quietly buying warehouses for its detention expansion
At least 20 communities with large warehouses across the U.S. have become stealth targets for Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s $45-billion expansion of detention centers. Communities are objecting to mass detentions and raising concerns that the facilities could strain water supplies and other services while reducing local tax revenue. In many cases, mayors, county commissioners, governors and members of Congress learned about ICE’s ambitions only after the agency bought or leased spac…

“Direct-to-cell satellite internet can bypass censorship and internet shutdowns, connecting ordinary smartphones directly to satellites—no special equipment needed. This technology could save lives in Iran and beyond.”
#d2c #iran

add_health: Adolescent health (ADD HEALTH) (1994)
A directed network of friendships obtained through a social survey of high school students in 1994. The ADD HEALTH data are constructed from the in-school questionnaire; 90,118 students representing 84 communities took this survey in 1994-95. Some communities had only one school; others had two. Where there are two schools in a community students from one school were allowed to name friends in the other, the "sister school".

I’ve had this contingent of the language police show up in my replies a few times now over the word “cosplay,” and look…
OK, I get it, I get the instinct to say “Don’t drag me into this!” and I applaud the effort to push fascists out of communities, yes to all that…
…and also we need to recognize that what ICE is doing absolutely •is• cosplay. The word means “costume play.” It refers to assembling and wearing costumes that are not necessarily functional, but show affinity for a particular subculture by reproducing characters from that subculture’s popular narratives.
ICE are cosplaying Call of Duty. That is an accurate description of what’s happening. (Listen to “Gear.”)
I make software and I make music. I don’t think either one of those things •should• be about violence. I don’t •want• them to be about violence. But both are used in the service of violence, like it or not. I shout the violence out whenever it shows up. But would be ridiculous for me to point at what Palantir does and say “That’s not software!” Unfortunately, it •is• software. To deny that would be beyond self-defeating; it would be irresponsible.
ICE •is• doing cosplay, and we hate it. It’s an insult to the cosplay subculture. It is an insult to the whole of humanity. Fascism creeps into all of our spheres, into every beloved craft and community, and the response is never to pretend it’s not there. The response is to drive it out.
@…
https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@wildrikku/115956545807535535

Donald Trump’s call to annex Greenland has roiled markets and flabbergasted half the world.
But the felon-president’s supporters in conservative communities
– to the degree that this issue has their attention at all
– are apt to accept his political argument as genuine.
Some conservative leaders have been critical of the Trump administration’s demands for Greenland,
but more often challenge the provocative process than the underlying rationale.
Knuckle-dra…

"12 environmental & climate justice reads"
#Books #Environment
https://yalec…

12 environmental & climate justice reads
These books and reports span topics of migration, indigenous movements, African-American communities, and the Disability Rights movement.

I live in Bergen, Norway. I’m not a fan of political parties, and I really value living in shared, cooperative communities.
Lately, I’ve felt guilty for not taking part in the recent protests in solidarity with Rojava, I wish I’d done my part.
Don’t be like me, get out there, protest, support your community, and don’t stay quiet.
#Rojava

Chile declares emergency as wildfires kill at least 15 #Chile

Chile declares emergency as wildfires kill at least 19
Uncontrolled wildfires tore through communities in southern Chile, leaving charred ruins in their wake and at least 19 dead, authorities said, announcing the latest toll on Sunday.

Colorado just released a roadmap for coal communities facing an uncertain future.
The state's new report shows how carbon capture, geothermal, hydrogen, and battery storage could replace lost coal jobs and tax revenue in rural areas. Wind and solar are already cost-effective, while emerging tech could create new economic opportunities.

Colorado outlines how clean energy could benefit coal communities
Emerging technologies like carbon capture and hydrogen combustion could help replace the economic activity lost after coal plants close, according to a

Yale Divinity School contributes powerfully to the nation’s strength and the common good. We do this through the religiously trained leaders we send into churches and communities across America, through the direct provision of educational resources to lay leaders and lifelong learners, and through the creation of deeper knowledge of God and the application of theology to the pressing issues of our day.
Learn more at our newly published impact report.

Every time I see that mural showing what Scheels is going to have, I think that it is going to be a good addition to Mayfair.
"The city's Community Development Authority closed on a land transfer agreement on the parcel with the mall property owner Brookfield Properties, which will subsequently transfer the property to Scheels, the city said in a news release Dec. 19."
#Mayfair #Milwaukee #Tosa

heise | Nach Deepseek: So geht es mit der chinesischen Open-Source-KI weiter
Die offenen Modelle, die vor allem in China vorangetrieben werden, setzen sich weltweit immer mehr durch, auch in Universitäten und Entwickler-Communities.

Senate offices are closed today,
but you can email your senators and demand that they use their vote later this week to rein in ICE and CBP death squads:
https://act.indivisible.org/sign/ice-out-for-good-senate/?source=mastodon

Tell your senators to rein in ICE NOW
On Wednesday, January 7, Renee Good was killed by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Then, on January 24, Border Patrol killed Alex Pretti. These deaths were a direct result of unchecked violence, impunity, and abuse carried out by federal immigration enforcement agencies against members of our communities. And yet, the DHS appropriations bill that just passed the House would hand MORE funding to ICE and Border Patrol, and do little to rein in their abuses. So …

Christmas means nothing for Trump, pure evil.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/white-house-says-no-catholic-bishops-call-christmas-pause-immigration-enforcement

White House says no to Catholic bishops' call for Christmas pause in immigration enforcement
Florida Catholic bishops appealed to President Donald Trump for a Christmas pause on immigration raids, citing fear in communities during the holiday season.

The true cost of Ecuador’s perfect roses: how the global flower trade poisons workers https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/feb/20/true-cost-ecuador-roses-global-flower-trade-poison-water-workers-land

#Chiapas

15,000 people singing to call on ICE to leave their jobs!
🎵🎵🎵
Oh-h-h, It's okay to change your mind,
Show us your courage,
Leave this behind,
It's okay to change your mind,
And you can join us,
Join us here any time
🎵🎵🎵
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DVEuV1hkvjG/

Singers on Instagram: "15,000 people singing to call on ICE to: quit your jobs! Show your courage! Lay down your weapons! Leave this behind! 🧊 Singing with Brandi Carlile was awesome - but what we’re really about is taking it to the streets. Join us for our National Weekend of Action Feb. 28 / March 1 by find your local group at tinyurl.com/groupslistSR (linked in bio) and contact them directly to join an action near you. ⭐️ We sing to protect and care for our communities in the face of rising authoritarianism. Always and forever we say: ABOLISH ICE. Who in your life can you start a conversation with about abolishing ICE? Send them this video and invite them to join you at a Singing Resistance action near you! 💌 Song: Annie Schlaefer It’s okay to change your mind Show us your courage Leave this behind It’s okay to change your mind And you can join us Join us here anytime"
31K likes, 307 comments - singingresistance on February 22, 2026: "15,000 people singing to call on ICE to: quit your jobs! Show your courage! Lay down your weapons! Leave this behind! 🧊 Singing with Brandi Carlile was awesome - but what we’re really about is taking it to the streets. Join us for our National Weekend of Action Feb. 28 / March 1 by find your local group at tinyurl.com/groupslistSR (linked in bio) and contact them directly to join an action near you. ⭐️ We sing to prot…

"…immigration officers…asserting sweeping power to forcibly enter…homes without a judge’s warrant...collides w/4th Amendment protections & upends years of advice given to immigrant communities."
https://apnews.com/article/ice-arrests

#CFP: Anthropology at the End of Worlds
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Anthropology at the End of Worlds Due February 23, 2026 Northeastern University will host…
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#CFP: Anthropology at the End of Worlds
Anthropology at the End of Worlds Due February 23, 2026 Northeastern University will host “Anthropology at the End of Worlds” on March 27–28, 2026! The conference explores how anthropologists can continue their work amid political turmoil, financial precarity, environmental ruination, and other conditions that foreclose access to communities and reshape ethnographic practice.

ICE is quietly buying warehouses for its detention expansion | AP News https://apnews.com/article/immigration-detention-centers-pushback-24e702da67281a672b0f77287aaa87ba

ICE is quietly buying warehouses for its detention expansion
At least 20 communities with large warehouses across the U.S. have become stealth targets for Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s $45-billion expansion of detention centers. Communities are objecting to mass detentions and raising concerns that the facilities could strain water supplies and other services while reducing local tax revenue. In many cases, mayors, county commissioners, governors and members of Congress learned about ICE’s ambitions only after the agency bought or leased spac…

🚀 CfP: For all those who are interested in the development of systematic approaches and advanced technologies for handling heterogeneous, diverse and challenging humanities data:
📅 Until March 3rd you can apply for the International Workshop of Semantic Digital Humanities (@https://sigmoid.social/@semdh). This event enables a collaboration and networking across diverse fields and all members of Semantic Web, CH and DH communities.
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The fact that communities are bound to private platforms is a really fucked up human reality.
How true was this if we go 100 years back? Was the community defined by the pub and the church?

Washington's carbon market is proving climate policy can pay for itself—literally.
In just two years, it's generated $4.3 billion, with $2.8 billion already funding hybrid ferries, free transit, and other green projects. The best part? Over half the money goes to lower-income communities.

Washington carbon market generates billions for climate projects
Nearly $2.8 billion is set for state projects ranging from hybrid ferries to bicycle rebates.

@… @… same, fully moving all infrastructure to EU companies is the goal for 2026. 80% should be doable before H2 tbh. Finding good communities has also been very helpful staying sane.

How the huge data center buildout is heating up local politics in US towns across red and blue states on issues like water, electricity, and noise (Evan Halper/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2026/01/06/da…

The data center rebellion is here, and it’s reshaping the political landscape
As the buildout of AI infrastructure alarms communities, it is fast emerging as a potent electoral issue across the political divide.

As US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents wreak havoc on American communities,
big tech companies have been making themselves indispensable to the increasingly tyrannical state.
Among them is Amazon subsidiary Ring,
the company behind those AI doorbell cameras that have exploded in popularity over the last few years.
Back in October, Ring announced that its devices would soon be looped into a network of Flock AI surveillance cameras.
That network, an inv…

Fury as Amazon Ring Cameras Are Hooked Up to ICE System
Online activists are telling owners of Ring Doorbell cameras that it's time to get rid of their devices, which can be used by ICE.

"Right now, too many newcomers default to the largest servers. We want to change that - because Mastodon is best when communities are spread across many independent servers, each with its own character and focus." - Mastodon blog
https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/02/

Francesca Hong interview…
“This campaign is about reclaiming the power of sewer socialism — how much it delivered for communities in terms of climate and clean water and investing in public education. This was a time where people saw that there can be a government for good.”
https://jacobin.…

Francesca Hong Is a Socialist Running for Wisconsin Governor
In Wisconsin, state assembly member and democratic socialist Francesca Hong has announced she is running for governor. We spoke to her about the campaign.

The People’s Consultation on AI is a collaborative civil society initiative meant to:
1. Help [share] insights, experiences, and comments to inform a “national strategy” on AI that is truly in the public interest;
2. [Be] a more accurate representation of the range of views and concerns about AI that are present across Canada; and
3. Provide […] a wider range of affected communities, with a genuine opportunity to have a voice in AI issues and policy.

Acabado surveys terraced mountain agriculture - humans have been shaping montane landscapes and creating habitats worldwide for a very long time.
https://phys.org/news/2026-01-mountain-terraces-indigenous-peoples-climate.html

SplatBus: A Gaussian Splatting Viewer Framework via GPU Interprocess Communication
Yinghan Xu, Th\'eo Morales, John Dingliana
https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.15431 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2601.15431 https://arxiv.org/html/2601.15431
arXiv:2601.15431v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Radiance field-based rendering methods have attracted significant interest from the computer vision and computer graphics communities. They enable high-fidelity rendering with complex real-world lighting effects, but at the cost of high rendering time. 3D Gaussian Splatting solves this issue with a rasterisation-based approach for real-time rendering, enabling applications such as autonomous driving, robotics, virtual reality, and extended reality. However, current 3DGS implementations are difficult to integrate into traditional mesh-based rendering pipelines, which is a common use case for interactive applications and artistic exploration. To address this limitation, this software solution uses Nvidia's interprocess communication (IPC) APIs to easily integrate into implementations and allow the results to be viewed in external clients such as Unity, Blender, Unreal Engine, and OpenGL viewers. The code is available at https://github.com/RockyXu66/splatbus.
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Here is a list of fundraisers for Minneapolis school communities:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1W2RAD545vGkewQhAVUwOQ2VTc101_zoHHMUZqv07HYg/edit
Some of these have pretty low bank accounts. Anything helps.

Vanuatu communities move to protect taro, an ancestral climate-resilient crop (analysis)
https://news.mongabay.com/2026/01/vanuatu-communities-move-to-protect-taro-an-ancestral-climate-resilient-crop-analysis/…

Vanuatu communities move to protect taro, an ancestral climate-resilient crop (analysis)
The packed-earth trail winds through the dense and tangled forest of Vanuatu, the ocean crashing just meters to our right. Richard Rojo’s feet don’t mind the stones and stumps, and he carries a bush knife and a repurposed rice sack. It’s a path well-trodden for Rojo, who’s lived here in the village of Tasmate on […]

The EU Commission is currently gathering feedback from open source communities in order to tailor its open source funding accordingly. Wouldn’t that also be something for @…?

38 coastal, remote, and island communities are getting a lifeline for their fragile energy grids.
Through the Energy Technology Innovation Partnership Project, they're designing microgrids, exploring local renewable generation, and hardening systems against extreme weather. The goal: reliable, affordable power that can withstand the next storm.

38 Coastal, Remote, & Island Communities To Pursue Energy Reliability via Energy Technology Innovation Partnership Project - CleanTechnica
Support CleanTechnica's work through a Substack subscription or on Stripe. Latest Cohort Is Program’s Biggest Yet, With Broad Geographic Representation By Justin Daugherty, NLR Remote and island communities face unique energy challenges—but these challenges also present unique opportunities to increase energy affordability, reliability, and security. In their efforts to address ... [continued]

Spot Diagnosis
The series provides evidence-based, up-to-date medical education and information aimed at upskilling medical practitioners in treating skin complaints, in order to improve the skin health of our communities...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/spot-d<…

♜ The Most Chess-Obsessed Country in the World
#chess

The Most Chess-Obsessed Country in the World
Local clubs in India are providing education and helping communities turn the humble 'game of kings' into a route out of poverty.

“You cannot lead a congregation while directing an agency whose actions have cost lives and inflicted fear in our communities,”
#Levy #Armstrong said.
“When officials protect armed agents,
repeatedly refuse meaningful investigation into killings like Renee Good’s,
and signal they may pursue peacef…

It Seems White House Used AI to Edit Photo of ICE Protester’s Arrest
Two Black women were arrested for a protest at a church in Minneapolis. Trump’s team is now making a mockery of them.

Bay Area Faith Communities Shut Down ICE’s San Francisco Field Office : Indybay
https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2025/12/16/18882269.php

End fracking and LNG expansion
Beyond a petition — become part of a community for change.
The B.C. government needs to end fracking and liquified natural gas (LNG) expansion now. We know that consistent, concerted pressure from as many people as possible moves decision-makers, and our aim is to make it easy for tens of thousands of people to raise their voices together.
Sign the petition and join the collective people-powered movement to end fracking and LNG in B.C.

End fracking and LNG expansion | Wilderness Committee
Sign our petition and call on B.C. to protect communities from climate disasters by ending fracking in the province!

And yet, there is a strange paradox in all of this. My home, the community that nourishes me taking the place of the religious communities my ancestors lost, is that same anarchist one.
Going to anarchist spaces always feels like home. It always feels like I'm among "my people." It feels safe. It's a safety and a familiarity that I don't find outside, in the "real world."

Good Morning #Canada
Tod Maffin, former #CBC Broadcaster, is now referred to as an expert on Canadian culture and Identity, and a viral content creator. If you have followed Tod over the past few years you have seen a progression from explaining Canadians to our southern neighbours to becoming politely militant in the face of an increasingly hostile U.S. government. His latest contribution deserves the Order of Canada and a superhero cape. He launched a social media campaign to attract American #Healthcare workers to his community and from there the Healthcare Infusion Organization was born. There are now 20 chapters across Canada focused on recruiting and supporting doctors, nurses, and healthcare professionals in local communities facing staff shortages. He has done more to improve Canadian Healthcare than any level of government in this country.
Follow him at @…
#CanadaIsAwesome #CanadianHeroes
https://youtube.com/shorts/K6HOJyoHrpo

I'm in something like 13 different #Slack communities, mostly for various #journalist groups.
Lots of discussion in many about ICE.
Discussions about leaving slack due its ties to #Salesforce, …

what matrix communities are you in? I want to use matrix/element more.

Local leaders in Social Circle—a town that voted overwhelmingly for Donald Trump—have been begging for answers.
They have asked for engineering reports. They have asked for security plans.
Homeland Security has responded by dodging calls and skipping scheduled meetings with city officials.
They aren't even pretending to care about the communities they are overwhelming to build #industrial

I just gave to the Save America Movement!
Join the fight »

There’s a lot communities (for example specific types of disability or various minorities) which are only found on Twitter or Facebook.
Please get off your high horse and don't blame victims of abuse.

Happy birthday @…
25 years of Wikipedia -- a decades-long story of language communities growing together
https://www.wikifunctions.org/wiki/Wikifun

‘A serious amount of rain’: central Queensland flooding could isolate some communities for months https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/jan/12/rain-central-queensland-flooding-could-isolate-some-communities…

TBH, I'd love to part ways with #facebook. The negatives are well known and too many.
Only a handful people and communities I'd like to keep in touch with are still there.
Strangely, the thing that brings me back, are the reels: Feel-good #music like Avie Sheck's cover of Creep and …

How US citizens, clergy, and elected officials in conservative communities like Missouri are leading a grassroots rebellion against the Trump-backed AI boom (Joe Miller/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/0c9ec7b1-f9a6-41db-9493-3ff09f6943ef

"But they stop short of examining the forces that may be actually driving the minerals agenda: tech billionaires like Peter Thiel and Elon Musk, who see Greenland not just as a source of rare earths, but as a laboratory for their libertarian economic and social experiments. These tech-billionaires envision unregulated “freedom cities” in Greenland, free from democratic oversight, environmental laws, and labor protections."

"Elon Musk’s xAI faces second lawsuit over toxic pollutants from datacenter"
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Environment

Communities in the DRC are building something remarkable: a 1-million-hectare biodiversity corridor connecting two major protected areas.
Strong Roots Congo has already secured 23 community forest concessions covering nearly 600,000 hectares. The project does double duty—allowing wildlife to move safely between habitats while supporting local livelihoods and protecting Indigenous peoples from land grabbing.

Congo’s communities are creating a 1-million-hectare biodiversity corridor
Dominique Bikaba’s family was once displaced from vibrant rainforests in the Congo Basin to make way for a sweeping national park. Today, a conservationist who also champions the protection of endangered gorillas in these forests, Bikaba is embarking on a journey to conserve this ecosystem — in a way he says is more just. His […]

RE: https://mastodon.social/@firefoxwebdevs/115740501470592801
I agree in theory that "assume good faith“ is the right way to go and a very pragmatic maxim for communities, but Mozilla has been testing that assumption for quite a while now.

Entangled Encounters: Material and Social Transformations of Religious Communities in Europe
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Since the turn of the millennium, migration to Europe has significantly increased. Individuals have…
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Entangled Encounters: Material and Social Transformations of Religious Communities in Europe
Since the turn of the millennium, migration to Europe has significantly increased. Individuals have come to this continent often fleeing conflict and political instability as well as seeking improved social and economic wellbeing. For migrants, engagement in religious practice is a key resource in the post-migration period. Religious activities and infrastructure offer practical and spiritual support, as well as being a source of social belonging for newly arriving migrants. These factors often…

“I know that none of us set out wanting or intending to exclude people. But I’ve also seen how too often in our stratified communities — segregated by access to wealth, by race, immigration status and language access — it’s too easy to assume that the world we encounter reflects the experiences (and access needs) of others.”
…

🚀 Ein ausführlicher Rückblick auf unser 5. CCP vom 24.– 26.09. 2025 in Mainz – einschließlich der Stimmen von Euch, unseren Communities – ist jetzt auf unserem #4CulturePortal verfügbar: https://nfdi4culture.de/id/E6647

Babble POP!
Celebrate our diverse communities with the newest pop and dance music from around the world, in languages other than English...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/babble-pop/

Until Sen. Bernie Sanders began holding rallies in Republican-held districts to address DOGE’s destructive impact on federal workers and programs,
most progressives had not dared to dream of rural America as fertile ground for a backlash.
But it’s central to the concept of the "Rural Urban Bridge Initiative" ( #RUBI ),
a group determined to breathe new life into rural organizing st…

Sowing a Rural Insurgency
New organizing groups agitate for a healthy share of resources to rebuild the Democratic image in left-behind communities.

All of this is just to say that "no gods, no masters" lacks the nuance we need to meet this time, for those who still embrace it.
I feel like there's an essay that needs to come out of this wondering text, but to some degree I'm also just processing my own severed connection to my ancestors (both pagan and Jewish) and to the communities I wish I had...

Systemic racism drives maternal health crisis in America | AFRO American Newspapers
https://afro.com/maternal-care-deserts-black-communities/

There's a default assumption baked into how Silicon Valley builds products,
and it tracks against how urban planners redesign neighbourhoods: that communities are interchangeable,
and if you "lose" one, you can manufacture a replacement;
that the value of a group of people who share space and history can be captured in a metric and deployed at scale.
Economists have a word for assets that can be swapped one-for-one without loss of value: fungible.

Communities are not fungible
There's a default assumption baked into how Silicon Valley builds products, and it tracks against how urban planners redesign neighbourhoods: that communities are interchangeable, and if you "lose" one, you can manufacture a replacement; that the value of a group of people who share space and history can be captured

🪸 Tree rings of the sea: How environmental conditions influence microalgae and coral communities
https://phys.org/news/2025-11-tree-sea-environmental-conditions-microalgae.html

Tree rings of the sea: How environmental conditions influence microalgae and coral communities
An international research team led by marine biologist Prof. Dr. Maren Ziegler from Justus Liebig University Giessen (JU) has developed an innovative method for reconstructing the past of corals and their symbiosis with algae by drilling into coral skeletons. The results, published in Global Change Biology, offer new insights into changes in symbiotic single-celled algae species that are crucial to the survival of coral reefs.

add_health: Adolescent health (ADD HEALTH) (1994)
A directed network of friendships obtained through a social survey of high school students in 1994. The ADD HEALTH data are constructed from the in-school questionnaire; 90,118 students representing 84 communities took this survey in 1994-95. Some communities had only one school; others had two. Where there are two schools in a community students from one school were allowed to name friends in the other, the "sister school".

The US EPA rules that xAI acted illegally by using dozens of methane gas turbines to power its Colossus 1 and Colossus 2 data centers in the Memphis area (Dara Kerr/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jan/15/elon-musk-xai-datacenter-m…

Entangled Encounters: Material and Social Transformations of Religious Communities in Europe #acrel #Religidons #AARSBL

Entangled Encounters: Material and Social Transformations of Religious Communities in Europe
Since the turn of the millennium, migration to Europe has significantly increased. Individuals have come to this continent often fleeing conflict and political instability as well as seeking improved social and economic wellbeing. For migrants, engagement in religious practice is a key resource in the post-migration period. Religious activities and infrastructure offer practical and spiritual support, as well as being a source of social belonging for newly arriving migrants. These factors often…

Abby Tighe thought she had landed her forever job.
She joined the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in December 2023,
managing a national youth substance abuse prevention program.
The project focused on rural communities, and Tighe, whose family is from Appalachia, was proud to be using her public health training to support often-overlooked parts of the country.
“The CDC was different than anywhere else I’ve worked,” says Tighe.
“People didn’t …

Climate funding isn't reaching the people who need it most. The Global South House is changing that.
This coalition of locally rooted funds puts Indigenous Peoples, traditional communities, and youth at the center of decision-making. Their approach: democratic, transparent, and built from the ground up—ensuring resources actually reach frontline communities.

Interview: Putting global South communities at the centre of climate and nature funding conversations
As COP30 kicks off, Juliana Tinoco, who conceived the idea of the Global South House, a platform for philanthropic actors, sets out her ambition for the platform and the stronger global South leadership she hopes will come out of it

When the working class organizes on the basis of solidarity and direct action, workers and communities can collectively manage and control the means of production, while federations of workers and local communities coordinate production and social life through mutual aid and federalist principles, without bosses or the state.
In an era marked by automation, precarity, and deepening inequality, the struggle for workers’ self-management, economic democracy, and social liberation remains …

Extreme rainfall is worsening algal blooms along South Korea's coast #SouthKorea

Extreme rainfall is worsening algal blooms along South Korea's coast
Extreme rainfall is reshaping coastal waters along South Korea's shoreline, flushing nutrients from land into the sea and fueling the growth of algal blooms. A new multi-year study, published in Frontiers in Marine Science, tracked water quality in and around a major river estuary and shows how intense downpours can shift where and when these blooms appear, with consequences for marine ecosystems and coastal communities.

In a conversation at this year's
Billionaire's convention
—aka the World Economic Forum
—Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella warned that AI will lose public support
unless it's used to "do something useful that changes the outcomes of people and communities and countries and industries."
"We will quickly lose even the social permission to take something like energy,
which is a scarce resource,
and use it to generate these tokens,

Microsoft CEO warns that we must 'do something useful' with AI or they'll lose 'social permission' to burn electricity on it
Workers should learn AI skills and companies should use it because it's a "cognitive amplifier," claims Satya Nadella.

📢 Achtung, liebe Communities – diese beiden CfPs könnten für euch interessant sein
🚀 Call for Papers: 13. Internationale Konferenz über digitale Bibliotheken für Musikwissenschaft 2026 (ENG)
📝 Full und Short Paper 👉 23.01.2026
📅 02.07.2026, Thessaloniki, Griechenland
➡️ https://dlfm.web.ox.ac.uk/2026-cfp

Towards the end of Dawn of Everything, Graeber/Wengrow talk about how a clan system within tribes allowed individuals to move between tribes. These clan/moiety systems meant that there was always a "family" to be adopted into, and a common frame of reference. The authors posited that these systems evolved partially to resist authoritarian centralization.
What they didn't talk about is the fact that religious communities serve a similar function within the context of the modern nation state...

Entangled Encounters: Material and Social Transformations of Religious Communities in Europe https://relcfp.com/cfp/religion/europe/migration/2026/02/18/entangled-encounters/

Entangled Encounters: Material and Social Transformations of Religious Communities in Europe
Since the turn of the millennium, migration to Europe has significantly increased. Individuals have come to this continent often fleeing conflict and political instability as well as seeking improved social and economic wellbeing. For migrants, engagement in religious practice is a key resource in the post-migration period. Religious activities and infrastructure offer practical and spiritual support, as well as being a source of social belonging for newly arriving migrants. These factors often…

School communities — parents, educators, and neighbors — are working overtime right now to provide escorts and legal observers, every single day at every single school.
That is a •massive• operation. It is operation of a scale that ordinary people with their own lives can reasonably be expected to take up. But we’re taking it up anyway. We’re making it happen.
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Over 100 people from Bay Area faith communities
🔥 shut down ICE’s San Francisco Field Office at 630 Sansome Street this morning,
chaining themselves across the two main entrances to stop ICE from kidnapping community members at their immigration check-ins.
 
Between May and October 2025, ICE arrested over 120 immigrants at the San Francisco ICE Field Office and San Francisco immigration court.
 
"We can no longer stand by and watch as our neighbors a…

Bay Area Faith Communities Shut Down ICE’s San Francisco Field Office : Indybay
Call for an End to ICE Kidnappings

Digg, rebooted under original founder Kevin Rose and Alexis Ohanian, launches its open beta; the site had been open to 67,000 users on an invite-only basis (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/14/digg-launches-its-new-reddit-rival-to-the…

Digg launches its new Reddit rival to the public | TechCrunch
Digg, a reboot of an earlier social news site, is now relaunching as a Reddit competitor focused on communities.

Entangled Encounters: Material and Social Transformations of Religious Communities in Europe https://relcfp.com/cfp/religion/europe/migration/2026/02/18/entangled-encounters/

Entangled Encounters: Material and Social Transformations of Religious Communities in Europe
Since the turn of the millennium, migration to Europe has significantly increased. Individuals have come to this continent often fleeing conflict and political instability as well as seeking improved social and economic wellbeing. For migrants, engagement in religious practice is a key resource in the post-migration period. Religious activities and infrastructure offer practical and spiritual support, as well as being a source of social belonging for newly arriving migrants. These factors often…

No Blood for Oil: Demand a Fossil-Free Future! #environment

No Blood for Oil: Demand a Fossil-Free Future!
2026 should be the year we transition away from oil, coal and gas – not launch conflicts to drill for them. Clinging to fossil fuels locks us into a cycle of violence, volatility, and authoritarianism. Every new fossil fuel project adds fuel to a climate crisis already displacing millions. True security doesn't come from controlling pipelines; it comes from renewable energy that serves communities, not billionaires. Over 80 countries are committed to a roadmap for a fossil-free future. Let’…

‘No water, no life’: Iraq’s Tigris River in danger of disappearing https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/dec/16/no-water-no-life-iraqs-tigris-river-in-danger-of-disappearing

Every republican needs to be asked how this keeps our communities safe.
Explain it to us. Show their work.
And then they need to be called on their bullshit.
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Ruth Zakarin (@ruthz.bsky.social)
Every republican needs to be asked how this keeps our communities safe. Explain it to us. Show their work. And then they need to be called on their bullshit. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

Amazon Pharmacy plans to bring same-day prescription delivery to ~4,500 cities by end of 2026, adding ~2,000 new communities to its network (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/11/amazon-pharmacy-to-expand-same-day-de…

Amazon Pharmacy to expand same-day delivery to nearly 4,500 US cities | TechCrunch
The expansion will cover customers in newly served states such as Idaho and Massachusetts.

Senator Marsha Blackburn said
“I look forward to introducing the
"TRUMP AMERICA AI Act"
in the new year to create one federal rulebook for AI
to protect children, creators, conservatives, and communities"
Combats the consistent pattern of bias against conservative figures demonstrated by Big Tech and AI systems by requiring:
Audits of high-risk AI systems to undergo regular bias evaluations to prevent discrimination based on protected characte…

Blackburn Unveils National Policy Framework for Artificial Intelligence

Twin Cities postal workers with the "National Association of Letter Carriers" (NALC) Branch 9
gathered at the post office on
Lake Street in South Minneapolis on January 18 to demand U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) discontinue its use of postal property—and leave Minnesota
Postal workers are seeing the effects of ICE’s activity on the communities they serve.
“People are scared to shovel the snow, to grab a package.
No one deserves to be t…

"Protect Our Routes, Get ICE Out": Postal Workers Rally in Minneapolis - Workday Magazine
Twin Cities postal workers with the National Association of Letter Carriers (NALC) Branch 9 gathered at the post office on Lake Street in South Minneapolis on January 18 to demand U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) discontinue its use of postal property—and leave Minnesota. The crowd of over 200 union members and allies marched down […]

The joy and promise of the Internet is that marginal and marginalized people can find each other
and form communities.
If you're the only goth klezmer fan in Toad Suck, Arkansas, you can find others.
If you're het up about a neglected social issue, you can find others.
The trouble is a lot of communities used to be marginalized for extremely good reasons,
and it probably would have been better if they stayed that way.
Dumb pipes can't tel…

A broad retreat is underway in the nonprofit world.
After Donald Trump ordered his administration to root out “illegal” diversity, equity and inclusion efforts earlier this year,
opening the door to investigations and funding cuts for offenders,
more than 1,000 charities rewrote their mission statements in forms they filed this year with the Internal Revenue Service,
removing or minimizing language tied to race, inequity and historically disadvantaged communities.<…

Deleting DEI
As the Trump administration ordered agencies to eradicate “illegal” diversity, equity and inclusion efforts, we identified more than 1,000 nonprofits that removed such language from the mission statements in their tax filings.

Members of the American Indian Movement (AIM) and of the Many Shields Warrior Society (an Indigenous community security group) have been patrolling the streets of Minneapolis’s Phillips neighborhood since the start of the occupation, and they do not plan to stop.
“We all have a place. My place is to make sure people are fed and get a cup of coffee,” Rice said.
As is the case with many Minneapolis residents who do not imagine themselves as demonstrators — much less radicals — gett…

Indigenous-Led Collectives Are Keeping Minnesotan Communities Safe From ICE
Members of the American Indian Movement and the Many Shields Warrior Society are patrolling the streets of Minneapolis.

Axon Enterprise Inc. is working with a Canadian police department to test the addition of face recognition technology (FRT) to its body-worn cameras (BWCs).
This is an alarming development in government surveillance that should put communities everywhere on alert. 
FRT brings a rash of problems.
It relies on extensive surveillance and collecting images on individuals, law-abiding or otherwise.
Misidentifications can cause horrendous consequences for individuals, includ…

Axon Tests Face Recognition on Body-Worn Cameras
Axon Enterprise Inc. is working with a Canadian police department to test the addition of face recognition technology (FRT) to its body-worn cameras (BWCs). This is an alarming development in government surveillance that should put communities everywhere on alert. As many as 50 officers from the...

The U.S. State Department has ordered certain public libraries nationwide
to cease processing passport applications,
-- disrupting a long-standing service that librarians say their communities have come to rely on
and that has run smoothly for years.
The agency, which regulates U.S. passports, began issuing cease and desist orders to not-for-profit libraries in late fall,
informing them they were no longer authorized to participate in the Passport Acceptance Fac…

US State Department halts passport services at nonprofit libraries
The State Department has ordered nonprofit public libraries to stop taking passport applications, cutting off a popular local service. In late fall, the agency started sending cease and desist orders, which take effect on Feb. 13. It says these libraries cannot collect and keep passport processing fees under federal rules. Librarians say the service has worked for years and residents still call every day. Members of Congress from several states pushed back in a letter to Secretary of State Marc…

Like today’s ICE,
Depression-era INS agents indiscriminately rounded up Mexicans,
presuming they were here illegally.
In Los Angeles, they targeted parks, hospitals, and work sites in Mexican communities,
demanding proof of citizenship.
High-profile raids and media campaigns announcing impending roundups served as tools of intimidation,
creating widespread fear that led to “voluntary” deportation via free one-way train tickets to Mexico.
Entire famil…

Opinion | When deportation was called repatriation: The US once expelled 1.8 million people to Mexico
Like today, Americans in the 1930s were reeling from economic hard times. Leaders made Latinos scapegoats and deported immigrants and some US citizens.