"Although Ecosia is a not-for-profit, they seem to be re-enacting the for-profit erosion of human knowledge and the active murder of the open web currently being orchestrated by Google and the other tech giants."
(Original title: Ecosia’s “Green AI”: false hope for corrosive tech)
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How Skövde, a small Swedish city of 58,000, built a local video game ecosystem via a degree for game developers at University of Skövde and a startup incubator (Ralph Jones/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/games/2025/dec/12/sko…
"The fragility of Africa’s coasts is further exacerbated by the deteriorating condition of its marine ecosystems... under mounting pressure from both climate anthropogenic stressors, including unregulated development, dam-induced sediment trap habitat degradation"
https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-025-02965-z
House probe slams D.C. police chief for 'ecosystem of fear, retaliation, and toxicity' (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2025/12/14/dc-police-chief-crime-statistics-house-investigation/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251214/p29#a251214p29
"AI for Nature Restoration Tools: How Companies are Transforming Ecosystem Recovery Projects"
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Nature
YouTube's creative ecosystem added over €7B to the EU's GDP in 2024 and supported 200K full-time equivalent jobs, according to advising firm Oxford Economics (David Wheeldon/YouTube Official Blog)
https://blog.youtube/inside-youtube/2025-youtube-europe-impact-…
Pentagon plan calls for major power shifts within U.S. military (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/12/15/military-command-plan-caine-hegseth/?pwapi_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJyZWFzb24iOiJnaWZ0IiwibmJmIjoxNzY1Nzc0ODAwLCJpc3MiOiJzdWJzY3JpcHRpb25zIiwiZXhwIjoxNzY3MTU3MTk5LCJpYXQiOjE3NjU3NzQ4MDAsImp0aSI6IjRhM2JmMjRiLTlmNDQtNDQ2NS1iM2MxLWExZDQ2ZTBiOTAzMCIsInVybCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3Lndhc2hpbmd0b25wb3N0LmNvbS9uYXRpb25hbC1zZWN1cml0eS8yMDI1LzEyLzE1L21pbGl0YXJ5LWNvbW1hbmQtcGxhbi1jYWluZS1oZWdzZXRoLyJ9.FRMyTRxJAZJ__ViceDNiXgmrj9QwJpkrgKTdxn7edW0&itid=gfta
http://www.memeorandum.com/251215/p113#a251215p113
India officially notifies its first data protection law to establish a framework for data processing, protection, and governance, including verifiable consent (The Economic Times)
https://economictimes.indiatimes.c…
Trump administration indefinitely pauses immigrant visa processing for 75 nations (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2026/01/14/trump-immigration-visa-processing-pause/?pwapi_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJyZWFzb24iOiJnaWZ0IiwibmJmIjoxNzY4MzY2ODAwLCJpc3MiOiJzdWJzY3JpcHRpb25zIiwiZXhwIjoxNzY5NzQ5MTk5LCJpYXQiOjE3NjgzNjY4MDAsImp0aSI6IjgwNmI2ZjI1LWVlNWYtNDBlYS1hNmZhLTcyNzY2ZGU1ZGUwNiIsInVybCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3Lndhc2hpbmd0b25wb3N0LmNvbS9pbW1pZ3JhdGlvbi8yMDI2LzAxLzE0L3RydW1wLWltbWlncmF0aW9uLXZpc2EtcHJvY2Vzc2luZy1wYXVzZS8ifQ.yK2tzz4Wq0IbYG9zt9mc_Wz4KM09TgPEFBCFQFVpdcs&itid=gfta
http://www.memeorandum.com/260115/p4#a260115p4