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Mines, dams move in as protection slips in a Cambodian wildlife sanctuary https://news.mongabay.com/2026/02/mines-dams-move-in-as-protection-slips-in-a-cambodian-wildlife-sanctuary/

Mines, dams move in as protection slips in a Cambodian wildlife sanctuary
In Sre Chhuk village, a quiet patch in northeast Cambodia where the Mekong’s smaller veins trace the edge of a fading wildlife sanctuary, Vorn Pang and Sao Thorn once believed their land was safe. By 2018, officials and conservation groups had formalized their farmland as part of the Veal Kambor Community Protected Area (CPA), under […]

Ever wondered what it would be like to live in a neighborhood that wasn’t designed around cars?
Well - in most of the country that’s actually illegal.
But in Tempe, AZ there’s a new development called Culdesac
that has managed to make it happen.
This community is designed around alternative transit first,
which means more land is freed up for housing, retail and open space
- and it seems to be working
As more modes of transportation become avail…

Mango season! First batch of green mango pickles with home grown mango and mostly homegrown spices. These are Indian style pickles in oil. Good as a cndiment to spice up a curry or dahl, or wonderful with a sharp cheddar on crackers or sourdough. I try to make some every year, but not every year is a good mango year. This year there'll be lots extra to give away. #cookingfromthegarden

Back when I worked at SDC in Santa Monica (roughly 1971 through 1980) one of our department's projects was an early AI project.
We had an entire IBM 370 mainframe running CP/67 (which became IBM's VM) running LISP based AI code.
I think that the group may have been using it for continuous speech recognition - which we knew our "national security' customer was planning to use to automate wiretaps.
(I used the speech recognition project's soundproof room …

Plastic household waste burned as fuel on rise in Global South, risking health https://news.mongabay.com/2026/02/plastic-household-waste-burned-as-fuel-on-rise-in-global-south-risking-health/

Plastic household waste burned as fuel on rise in Global South, risking health
Burning plastic waste for household fuel, or to manage household waste, may be far more prevalent in poor urban areas in developing countries than previously thought, raising serious environmental pollution and public health concerns for individuals, families and communities. That’s according to a new global study that surveyed more than 1,000 “key informants,” including researchers, […]

Series C, Episode 06 - City at the Edge of the World
VILA: The air's as fresh as ever. Do you know what that means?
KERRIL: We're going to die of exhaustion.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/306/452 B7B2

A look at various quirks in AI-generated prose, mainly influenced by "overfitting" in AI models, as humans increasingly mimic AI language in writing and speech (Sam Kriss/New York Times)
https://www.ny…

Why Does A.I. Write Like … That?
If only they were robotic! Instead, chatbots have developed a distinctive — and grating — voice.

As Trump suggests the federal government should “nationalize”
and take over the elections process from the states,
we speak with Arizona Secretary of State #Adrian #Fontes.
He is the former county recorder for Maricopa County, Arizona, and oversaw elections there in 2020.
The Justice Department ha…

“No Means No”: AZ Secretary of State Calls for Resistance as Trump Pushes to “Nationalize” Voting
As President Trump suggests the federal government should “nationalize” and take over the elections process from the states, we speak with Arizona Secretary of State Adrian Fontes. He is the former county recorder for Maricopa County, Arizona, and oversaw elections there in 2020. The Justice Department has sued Arizona and over 20 other states for their full voter registration lists. “No means no,” Fontes says in response to the Trump administration’s encroachment on state authority. …

Just learned that Symfony 7.4 ships with Multi -Step form support.
That's exactly what I need for my current project. Nice!
https://symfony.com/blog/new-in-symfony-7-4-multi-step-forms

New in Symfony 7.4: Multi-Step Forms (Symfony Blog)
Symfony 7.4 introduces form flows, a new way to build and manage multi-step forms using the same familiar concepts as regular Symfony forms.

Can two Amazons survive? Invisible e-waste is poisoning the world https://news.mongabay.com/2025/12/can-two-amazons-survive-invisible-e-waste-is-poisoning-the-world/

Can two Amazons survive? Invisible e-waste is poisoning the world
“I live in Accra, Ghana,” says Isaac Dinwe, who works for Closing the Loop, a Dutch NGO that’s seeking to increase recycling in the electronics industry. “The e-waste problem in my country is so huge we are unable to manage it. Most of our e-waste ends up in city centres. Informal workers extract what they […]