Tootfinder

Portnov reportedly met controversial Zelensky staffer, Ukraine's investigations chief before being killed in Madrid: https://benborges.xyz/2025/05/29/portnov-reportedly-met-controversial-zelensky.html

Google's emissions are up over 50%, Amazon builds huge data centers powered by 75% natural gas.
Remember all those posts telling us that "AIs climate impact isn't that bad" supported by some really funky math/perspective and/or numbers Sam Altman invented?
Here's the actual impact.
"AI" is a fossil fuel technology.

At Amazon’s Biggest Data Center, Everything Is Supersized for A.I.
On 1,200 acres of cornfield in Indiana, Amazon is building one of the largest computers ever for work with Anthropic, an artificial intelligence start-up.

I've seen 51 of these top 100 movies from the nytimes
https://www.worldofreel.com/blog/2025/6/23/nyts-best-films-of-the-21st-century-polls-over-500-filmmakers

Detection of X-ray Emission from a Bright Long-Period #RadioTransient: https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.16606 -> Eccentric 'Star' Defies Easy Explanation, NASA's Chandra Finds: https://chandra.si.edu/press/25_releases/press_052825.html and https://chandra.si.edu/photo/2025/lprt/

Pro & Contra: Brauchen wir ein Bugfix-macOS?
Redesign-Gerüchte sorgen bei manchen für Augenrollen. Statt neuer Funktionen wünschen sie sich mehr Stabilität. Muss Apple auf die Feature-Bremse treten?
https://www.…

‘Extinction crisis’ could see 500 bird species vanish within a century – report https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jun/24/extinction-crisis-could-see-500-bird-species-vanish-within-a-century-report-aoe

"For more than half a century, Argentina has tried as hard as it could to push intellectuals out of the country, committing a slow institutionalized suicide. This almost imperceptible rotting process is at the root of the decadence of what was considered one of the richest and most advanced countries at the beginning of the 20th century."
Watching the US repeating this pattern in real time is unbearable yet completely predictable.

The Argentine Brain Drain
Argentina is currently experiencing a brain drain so strong that it made the headlines on Swiss television.

"Earth is heading for 2.7°C warming this century. We may avoid the worst climate scenarios – but the outlook is still dire"
#Climate #ClimateChange

Earth is heading for 2.7°C warming this century. We may avoid the worst climate scenarios – but the outlook is still dire
The world seems to have avoided truly catastrophic climate scenarios, and global emissions may be about to peak. But we’re by no means out of danger

"‘Extinction crisis’ could see 500 bird species vanish within a century – report"
#Birds #Animals

"Coral reef research dominated by rich countries, plagued with inequities: Study"
#Coral #CoralReef #Oceans

Coral reef research dominated by rich countries, plagued with inequities: Study
Most of the world’s coral reefs, and the communities that directly depend on them, are in the tropics, so one might imagine the research on them being led by scientists and institutions based in tropical countries. The reality, however, is far different, a new study shows. Coral reef science is actually dominated by researchers from […]