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There’s no rain in the forecast for Flin Flon, Manitoba over the next week as crews there fight a wildfire that’s raging nearby.
Temperatures throughout the weekend are expecting to range from the low to high 20s, before cooling off.
Thousands have evacuated the northwestern Manitoba city, including municipal government officials and health-care professionals.

No rain forecast as crews battle Flin Flon wildfire
Thousands have evacuated the northwestern Manitoba city, including municipal government officials and healthcare professionals. So far, the wildfires have displaced over 17,000.

@… So, as you might know from our interaction, I am also a web hobbyist, though I'm not up-to-speed in this decade—or maybe century. 🤔 I learn fast when I can understand a presentation. But I fumble madly to start. I just installed Joomla! 5.3.1 on one of my sites, languagearts.de, and it took me part of the weekend to get it up and part of another day …

Treatment, evidence, imitation, and chat
Samuel J. Weisenthal
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.23040 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.23040

Treatment, evidence, imitation, and chat
Large language models are thought to have potential to aid in medical decision making. We investigate this here. We start with the treatment problem, the patient's core medical decision-making task, which is solved in collaboration with a healthcare provider. We discuss approaches to solving the treatment problem, including -- within evidence-based medicine -- trials and observational data. We then discuss the chat problem, and how this differs from the treatment problem -- in particular as it …

The RFKJr. situation is generally terrible and all, but apparently CDC managed to keep enough conditions in the "high risk" qualifications to cover just about everyone.
#Covid #Vaccines

Gestern noch:
Hinsichtlich ihrer Hoffnungen legte sich die Finanzministerin nicht fest. «Ich hoffe natürlich, dass wir kein schlechteres Resultat haben. Das wäre für uns keine gute Neuigkeit», sagte sie angesprochen auf die 15 Prozent Zoll, auf welche sich die USA und die Europäische Union am vergangenen Wochenende verständigt hatten.
Beobachtern in Washington zufolge könnte Trump nun einen Kompromiss mit einem Satz zwischen 15 und 20 Prozent ankündigen.
https://www.blick.ch/politik/trumps-zoelle-keller-sutter-hofft-dass-schweiz-nicht-schlechter-als-eu-wegkommt-id21100911.html


Kari Lake, sent termination notices to more than 500 employees at the broadcaster and its parent agency Friday night.

The agency sent out notices late Friday night ahead of the Labor Day long weekend, with a termination date of Sept. 30, multiple recipients told The Washington Post.

Lake — the acting CEO of the U.S. Agency for Global Media — has faced legal challenges amid allegations that she is overstepping her statutory authority,
and was blocked earlier this week from firi…

Kari Lake lays off more than 500 staff at Voice of America parent agency
Amid a contentious court battle, the Trump administration official sent long-awaited termination notices to staffers who have been waiting on administrative leave for months.

“In an era of online misinformation, declining trust and paywalled services, the [Australian Dictionary of Biography] keeps fact-based, scholarly information in the public domain. Its continued high quality and availability supports our shared mission of making knowledge freely and reliably accessible to all. #Wikimedia #Australia

Why the Australian Dictionary of Biography matters to Wikimedians (and the world)
The ADB powers Wikipedia and protects our past

Last weekend, I stood where some of my ancestors fought and died, and I wondered what the ghosts thought about things. #familyhistory #WestVirginia #Mallow

The Ghosts of West Virginia – Bob Mueller
Stories, sorrow, and legacy—reconnecting with family and remembering the lives lost at Fort Seybert leaves a lasting impact.

You know what I really have about "long weekends"?
Not just the timetable changes — but the fact that for smaller bus companies, you just can't find any information whether they follow the regular timetable or the weekend timetable. And both timetables are so disjoint that you can't simply choose one bus that would run either way.
#PublicTransport

This is rather nice. #sound
https://www.mixcloud.com/FamilyTreeRadioShow…

Tony Regan #FTRS372
Sunshine, bassline and, erm, batty whine. Yes, its Famz Tree's favourite weekend of the year, when all the best bits of our community cram together in London W10, filling our body and soul with chicken, rum and the loudest, sweetest, life affirming music that we all live for. The fact that, in doing so, we manage to wind up the assorted Mail journos, Tory councillors, online rage baiters and pricks like Farage only adds to the fun. Big up all those who made it down there. Here's to years more t…