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Long-term study finds widespread lithium in drinking water across communities in the western U.S. https://phys.org/news/2026-07-term-widespread-lithium-communities-western.html

Long-term study finds widespread lithium in drinking water across communities in the western U.S.
Lithium in drinking water is a widespread and persistent source of human exposure across Tribal communities in the Western United States, according to a new study from Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health. The findings document substantial regional variation in exposure and provide some of the strongest evidence to date that household drinking water is a major contributor to lithium levels measured in the body.

The human rights organisation
Survival International estimates there are 196 Indigenous communities living like the Sentinelese, in voluntary isolation.
Most are in South America, in the Amazon rainforest and the Gran Chaco region of Paraguay and Bolivia,
with a few more across Indonesia, West Papua and elsewhere in India’s Andaman and Nicobar Islands.
Though fundamentally diverse, these communities have all chosen to reject outsiders and the industrialised world, a…

‘This is colonialism for clicks’: the influencers attempting to meet and film the world’s most isolated tribes
A new breed of adventurer is chasing internet fame by targeting uncontacted peoples. Critics say they are risking the wellbeing of these remote communities – and their own lives

Squeezed one last optimization in after the v0.2-rc1 release that should land in the final v0.2.
Filters now return a bitmask of flags that include the ability to advertise whether they can be appended to an existing command buffer (i.e. they are entirely or primarily GPU based and do not call begin() on the command buffer), and whether they can be appended to (primarily GPU based, and record into the command buffer but do not submit it).
The scheduler now tries to identify as ma…

« Opération Pouchkine » : des livres anciens, des escrocs géorgiens et l’ombre du Kremlin
https://www.lemonde.fr/m-le-mag/article/2026/06/06/operation-pouchkine-des-livres-anciens-des-es…

« Opération Pouchkine » : des livres anciens, des escrocs géorgiens et l’ombre du Kremlin
Durant deux ans, des truands géorgiens ont organisé le vol de précieuses éditions d’Alexandre Pouchkine dans de grandes bibliothèques européennes. Le procès de cinq d’entre eux, qui débute à Paris le 9 juin, pourrait permettre d’en savoir plus sur les commanditaires. Tous les regards se tournent vers la Russie, où le poète du XIXᵉ siècle est vénéré.

Who were the Luddites? Their legacy ripples through politics, cultural commentary and literature. https://theconversation.com/who-were-the-luddites-their-legacy-ripples-through-politics-cultural-commentary-and-litera…

Who were the Luddites? Their legacy ripples through politics, cultural commentary and literature
In the age of AI we are once again hearing about Luddites, the 19th-century textile workers who sought to protect their livelihoods in early industrial England.

AT-Communities #1: the Concierge, the Vault, and the Fuck-ass Astro Website https://www.essentialrandomness.com/posts/the-concierge-and-the-vault

AT-Communities #1: the Concierge, the Vault, and the Fuck-ass Astro Website – Essential Randomness
In which I try to make sense of communities on ATproto.

Such is Trump’s narcissism that he would see a Democratic victory as proof that he’s indispensable
– meanwhile, his every decision spells calamity for voters
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/sep/04/d…

How much does Donald Trump care about winning the midterms? Apparently, not much at all
Such is the US president’s narcissism that he would see a Democratic victory as proof that he’s indispensable – meanwhile, his every decision spells calamity for voters, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland

This photo is from a post by a Waukesha newspaper. The comments are hilarious and are like "I don't see anyone in the photo" or "He was in my prayer group at the time" and "It's the Hamburglar!"
My comment was: "I didn't see a damn thing and neither did you."
And some weird gun-nut dude I knew years ago even messaged me "Hey, at least we agree on these Flock cameras!"

Planned Parenthood and other reproductive health clinics
regained access to Medicaid funding on Saturday
after a provision in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act defunding the organizations expired.
The provision depriving Planned Parenthood was touted as a major victory for the anti-abortion movement when the bill was signed on July 4, 2025,
but, due to Senate rules, the defunding only lasted for one year,
and Congress failed to renew it before their summer recess.

Planned Parenthood Can Access Medicaid Funds Again as Congress Lets Ban Expire | Common Dreams
​Reproductive healthcare advocates vowed to keep up the fight as conservative activists pressure Congress to make the funding ban permanent.