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At around five o’clock on a winter evening in 2013, then college student Sam Forstag was driving through a snowstorm toward his third job of the day, making sandwiches at the Subway inside a Walmart.
“I was always late,” Forstag recalled with a laugh more than a decade later.
Halfway there, the gray sedan in front of him lost traction. It spun across the icy road and slid nose-first into a ditch.
Forstag’s first instinct was to pull over.
Growing up in a tight-knit c…

Sam Forstag for Montana
Sam Forstag is a smokejumper and union leader — a working Montanan who understands the struggle of breaking your back trying to get ahead and still barely getting by.

It has happened to the best of us: You forgot the name of a function or the package that function was in but you are sure its there somewhere and does exactly what you need! Introduce {forgot}, it helps you find that function: https://github.com/parmsam/forgot

The West Forgot How to Build. Now It's Forgetting Code
#ai

The West Forgot How to Build. Now It's Forgetting Code
The defense industry lost the ability to make weapons when crisis hit. The same pattern is eroding software engineering skills. The timelines are identical.

Sehr gute Hintergrundinformationen zu Waldbränden, Landschaftsbränden, den Ursachen (Hitze) und wann wir das Feuer nicht löschen können.
(Und natürlich auch mit dem unfreiwillig witzigen Zitat: "Brandenburg ist das Waldbrand-Bundesland schlechthin.")
https://taz.de/Forstwissenschaftler-ue…

Nintendo reports Q1 revenue down 10% YoY to ~$3.3B, above $2.8B est., net income of ~$933M, above ~$495M est., and Switch 2 sales down 34.4% YoY to 3.82M (Jenny Lee/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/08/06/nintendo-first-quarter-earnings-switch2.html

Nintendo's fiscal first-quarter profit and revenue beat estimates, despite Switch 2 sales slump
Nintendo reported fiscal first-quarter earnings Thursday.

"Introduced fish thrive amid Kasmir’s freshwater habitat degradation"
#India #Fish #Animals

Introduced fish thrive amid Kasmir’s freshwater habitat degradation
Native fish in the lakes and rivers of India’s Kashmir Valley are under increasing pressure from pollution, habitat loss, dam construction and other human activities, a recent review finds. These same threats are also likely giving exotic fish introduced to these freshwater habitats an edge, researchers say. “Our indigenous fishes are becoming vulnerable, endangered and […]

Major orangutan study finds Sumatran population fell nearly 20% despite slower forest loss https://news.mongabay.com/2026/07/major-orangutan-study-finds-sumatran-population-fell-nearly-20-despite-slower-forest-loss/

Major orangutan study finds Sumatran population fell nearly 20% despite slower forest loss
JAKARTA — The number of Sumatran orangutans has declined by nearly 20% in the past decade and the critically endangered Tapanuli orangutan remains perilously close to extinction despite years of conservation efforts, according to a new study. The study, published in Global Ecology and Conservation, also suggests that habitat loss alone cannot explain the species’ […]

The last resorts for unaffected forest in the word are constantly reduced. None of them is left in Europe. The last one was in Romania, but it disappeared by 2013.
The leading drivers of reduction changed from timber harvesting and agricultural expansion (2000 to 2013). Yet since 2020, fire has become the leading driver. Also the proportion of intact forest landscape reduction caused by mining, drilling and exploration has increased substantially.

The rulebooks that decide how your national forests get run, who gets a grazing permit, how a timber sale gets reviewed for damage to water and wildlife, what deadline you have to object before a decision goes final, aren’t written by Congress.
They’re written inside the Forest Service, in a system of manuals and handbooks most people never see.
And for decades, the law has treated the important parts of that system as public business, something the agency can’t change without …

Forest Service to Remove Your Voice from Public Lands Decisions
A new proposal would shrink the public’s right to comment on the rulebooks that govern grazing, logging, and permits across the national forests. Comment now.

Trump is considering candidates to replace the Army Secretary
and possibly the Deputy Defense Secretary
as frustrations over the Iran conflict persist,
though officials deny a formal review of the Deputy role.
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Trump eyes Pentagon leadership changes as frustration over Iran war grows: Report
At least four candidates have reportedly emerged as potential replacements for former US army secretary Dan Driscoll, as the Trump administration moves to fill the post following his resignation.