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El Instituto Meteorológico Nacional de Costa Rica #IMNCR avisa que la onda tropical #40 podría convertirse en ciclón (ya sea tormenta tropical o incluso huracšn) y que viene hacia Centroamérica

Just my luck to be visiting Antigua and Dominica on day #Drumpf admin declares the two islands as subject to US Travel Ban?
https://www.imidaily.com/north-america/ant

Antigua and Dominica PMs Respond to US Travel Ban - IMI Daily
Antigua PM calls US travel ban an error, says program presents no risk whatsoever to security. Dominica seeks urgent clarity.

🧊 Intense groundwater flow destabilizes ice in North America's Great Lakes, simulations show
https://phys.org/news/2025-09-intense-groundwater-destabilizes-ice-north.html

Intense groundwater flow destabilizes ice in North America's Great Lakes, simulations show
Powerful pulses of groundwater flow up from beneath Lakes Michigan and Huron, which together form one of the largest freshwater systems in the world. This groundwater flux may dramatically alter how and where ice forms, with important implications for ice-climate models. As climate change pressures the system, new research suggests that conventional models may underestimate how groundwater can destabilize lake ice along its shorelines (coasts).

LAT Media Group reports a net loss before taxes of $48.1M in 2024, up from $30M in 2023, with a $21.5M loss in H1 2025; 50% of revenue still came from print (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/north-america/los…

Los Angeles Times reveals $50m loss as it seeks $500m investment
The Los Angeles Times Media Group made a loss of almost $50m (£37m) in 2024, according to newly-published unaudited accounts.

Breaking #Wikimedia news! The ongoing WikiConference North America in New York City was severely disrupted when a man went on stage and threatened to kill himself during the keynote of Wikimedia Foundation CEO Maryana Iskander. @…, the President of Wikimedia NYC, managed to …

Wikipedia Conference Disrupted by Gun Threat in NYC
Man arrested after waving loaded gun, threatening suicide at Wikipedia conference in NYC; no shots fired.

The Adoption Paradox: A Comparative Analysis of Veterinary AI Adoption in China and the North America
Shumin Li, Xiaoyun Lai
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11758 https://

The Adoption Paradox: A Comparative Analysis of Veterinary AI Adoption in China and the North America
This study compares the perception, adoption, and application of artificial intelligence (AI) among veterinary professionals in China and North America (NA), testing the hypothesis that adoption patterns are shaped by regional market and demographic factors. A descriptive, cross-sectional survey was conducted with 455 veterinary professionals in China between May and July 2025. The results were compared with published data from a 2024 survey of 3,968 veterinary professionals in the United State…

The FBI estimates that North Koreans posing as IT workers, using stolen IDs and AI-fabricated work, funneled up to $1B into the country over the past five years (Amanda Gerut/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/article/north-korean-it-workers-k…

North Korean agents pretending to be IT guys have funneled up to $1 billion into Kim Jong Un’s nuclear program
Using AI to create fake identities, they get remote jobs, then hide in plain sight—in Slack, on Zooms, and in corporate infrastructure.

Anxiety over North America Trade Deal:
The prospect of a U.S. withdrawal from the
U.S.-Mexico-Canada trade pact
has worried those in industries,
including automobiles, farm goods and textiles,
that depend on the trade agreement and have shaped their businesses around its rules

Groups Express Anixety as Trump Threatens to Derail U.S.-Mexico-Canada Trade Pact
Hearings that began Wednesday in Washington reflected anxiety over the future of the U.S.-Mexico-Canada trade pact and whether the president could end up scrapping it.

Politico is using SMS to send news updates that sound "personal and urgent" to a select group of lawmakers, staffers, and lobbyists working at the US Congress (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/north-ameri

How Politico is using text messages to boost engagement on Capitol Hill
Politico has started texting an invite-only group on Capitol Hill so its breaking news coverage gets to their phone lock screens.

Warmer weather is leading to vanishing winters in North America's Great Lakes #America

Warmer weather is leading to vanishing winters in North America's Great Lakes
Fifty years ago, winter didn't just visit the Great Lakes—it took up residence. If you blinked too slowly, your eyelashes froze together. Standing on the ice at the edge of Lake Superior, just after an early January snowstorm, everything was white and still, except for the lake. The wind had swept across it revealing ice cracked along thunderous fractures.

📈 EIA: North America’s LNG Export Capacity Could More Than Double by 2029
https://oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-News/World-News/EIA-North-Americas-LNG-Export-Capacity-Could-More-Than-Double-by-2029.html

EIA North America's LNG Export Capacity Could More Than Double by 2029
North America's liquefied natural gas export capacity could more than double by 2029 as new terminals across the United States, Canada, and Mexico move toward completion, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration

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#Juche tell me more about Charles North Korea! ❓ ❤️
@… you probably have oppinions on this guy.
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Blueberry species (genus Vaccinium) circled the Northern Hemisphere to travel from North America to Hawai'i— and then closed the loop to hybridize with a North American species
#science

Chief Constable rebukes Treasury over PSNI data breach money
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx2l7px2y0jo?xtor=AL-72-[partner]-[yahoo.north.america]-[headline]-[news]-[bizd…

PSNI: Chief Constable rebukes Treasury over data breach money
Jon Boutcher has criticised the Treasury for refusing to help cover the cost of compensation for officers affected by a major data breach.

Good Morning #Canada
Our #CanadianCapitals feature today is the oldest European settlement in North America as well as the most eastern city on the continent. Despite a history that goes back to he 1490s, St. John's Newfoundland was incorporated as a city in 1921 and became a provincial capital in 1949 upon joining Canada. The natural harbour served explorers and fishermen for centuries, and the settlement survived pirates, attacks by the French, and several devastating fires. If the Portuguese had more influence, it would have been named Rio de San Johem, which is a missed opportunity.
#CanadaIsAwesome
https://thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/st-johns

Aurora as seen from Florida

"Study busts big bad myth that wolves are growing fearless of humans"
#Wolves #Animals
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Study busts big bad myth that wolves are growing fearless of humans
After years of being hunting to near-extinction, wolves are making a comeback in some of their historical ranges in Europe and North America. With their return comes a growing concern that the predators are moving too close to human settlements, becoming bolder and less fearful of people. Researchers set out to see if that’s true, […]

There are no innocent bystanders in this. As long as TACO remains in power, calling us the 51st state, thundering his 'tariffs' on any any country who displeases him, unleashing the various departments to punish those who oppose him, masked & armed toadies terrorizing your people, ignoring the constitution and laws why the hell should we do business with a dictatorship and populace that allows that.

"Biblical Justice, Equal Justice, for All": How North Carolina's Chief Justice Transformed His State and America (Doug Bock Clark/ProPublica)
https://www.propublica.org/article/paul-newby-north-carolina-supreme-court
http://www.memeorandum.com/251030/p47#a251030p47

$0.50 per mile for electricity for a semi truck? wow, lower than I would imagine. (and it can be as low as $0.12 where rates are lower.).
"During testing, the truck averaged 1.72 kWh per mile while hauling a gross combined weight of 75,000 pounds (34 metric tons) over a 390-mile (625 km) long-haul route."
a tesla model 3 is ~0.3 kWh per mile.

Kimmel Saga no Laughing Matter: Trump and the North Koreanization of America
https://www.juancole.com/2025/09/laughing-koreanization-america.html

Interaction Dynamics of Borrelia Surface Proteins with Fibronectin
Kavindi Madduma Hewage, Carlos Munoz, Mehmet Ozdogan, Catherine A. Brissette, Nuri Oncel
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11931

Interaction Dynamics of Borrelia Surface Proteins with Fibronectin
Lyme disease, caused by the bacterium Borrelia burgdorferi, is a significant public health concern in North America, with approximately 500,000 cases reported annually in the United States. The dissemination of B. burgdorferi from the initial tick bite site to various tissues is facilitated by surface adhesins that bind to extracellular matrix (ECM) proteins such as fibronectin (Fn). This study investigates the binding dynamics of B. burgdorferi surface proteins RevA, BBK32, BmpA, OspA, and Osp…

TIL about pasture pigs.
I've known for some time that sheep and solar panels are a great pairing, but America doesn't love wool, mutton, or lamb. America loves pigs.
I've always associated pigs with mud and North Carolina sewage ponds.
There are so many videos. #pasturepigs

"Specialist" and "generalist" are surprisingly slippery categories— biology abhors a binary— but quantifying the shared evolutionary history of plants eaten by insects introduced to North America let these authors predict their plant-damaging impacts https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.70083

Good Morning #Canada
Our recent move to Innisfil, with a short walk to Lake Simcoe, has provided us with hourly flyovers of Canada Geese. Another of our country's iconic animals respected for its monogamy, aerial prowess, and prodigious ability to crap everywhere. Throughout the day, we see hundreds passing overhead as they find resting spots on Cook's Bay, the southern arm of Lake Simcoe. On visits to our community beach, there are flotillas of geese too large to count. In the early 1900s, Canada Geese had been decimated due to habitat loss and hunting, but today it's estimated that there are more than 5 millon across North America thanks to conservation efforts and regulations.
I've had #BeaverWeek and #MooseWeek series. Don't be surprised if in the future I sneak up on you from behind with a Goose Week.
#CanadaIsAwesome #CanadaGoose
https://canadiangeographic.ca/articles/animal-facts-canada-goose/

❄️ It’s freezing cold outside here in Germany, and this is an interesting explainer of why that is: a warming event in the polar region is leading to an early collapse of the polar vortex, so Europe and North America are flooded with cold air, while the North Pole is unusually warm. #weather #climate

Stratospheric Warming Watch: Polar Vortex Collapse has begun, with cold air and snowfall impacts expected
A Stratospheric Warming is now collapsing the Polar Vortex, with polar air and snow forecast across the United States, Canada and Europe in December

We’re proud to support Polar Connect Step 2 (24-EU-DIG-PC2) as an Associated Partner, working alongside the Swedish Polar Research Secretariat, NORDUnet, GlobalConnect, CSC, and the Swedish Research Council (the project coordinator).
With the Grant Agreement now signed, PC2 takes a major step toward realising Polar Connect – a resilient Arctic submarine cable system linking Europe, North America, and East Asia for the benefit of the global internet.
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from Reece Martin Transit
The Transit "Experts" That Derail Transit.
My Grand Theory of North America's Transit Expansion Failures.
"saying that if Montreal was building major transit again in the 21st century it wouldn’t build a metro, because no city would is laughable, or painful, depending on ones state of mind when you read that."

The Transit "Experts" That Derail Transit.
My Grand Theory of North America's Transit Expansion Failures.

Thanks to my wife getting her Canadian passport today, we’ve officially reached two passports per person in this household.
It feels rather odd to have such a stack, but we’re certainly grateful to all have non-American citizenships.
(I know Canada is in North America, don’t start with me)

The Wikipedia article also includes this sentence in its opening paragraph:
❝However, France only controlled a small fraction of this area, most of which was inhabited by Native Americans; effectively, for the majority of the area, the United States bought the preemptive right to obtain Indian lands by treaty or by conquest, to the exclusion of other colonial powers.❞
Britannica has nothing like that. It discusses the Louisiana Purchase without a single mention that the indigenous people of North America even exist.
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A headline: Tomahawks for Ukraine.
I'm thinking: Well, any help is appreciated, but the history of North America shows that tomahawks don't necessarily work well against guns.

GWI: Time spent on social media globally peaked in 2022 and is steadily declining; North America is the exception, with usage up 15% in 2024 compared to Europe (John Burn-Murdoch/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/a0724dd9-0346-4df3-80f5-d6572c93a863
…

It's striking how the far right wave has the same rhetoric in EU countries as UK (and North America): mobilising with the simplistic remedy - end environmental protection.
Well the poor will suffer most first.
Parar la ola reaccionaria contra el medio ambiente y las personas
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Parar la ola reaccionaria contra el medio ambiente y las personas
La sociedad civil tiene que movilizarse para evitar el desmantelamiento de la protección del medio ambiente y las personas que está sucediendo en la UE.

Day 5: Robin Wall Kimmerer
I'm taking these liberty of changing my hashtag and expanding the intent of this list to include all non-men, although Kimerer is a woman so I'll get to more gender diversity later... I've also started planning this out more and realized that I may continue a bit beyond 20...
In any case, Robin Wall Kimmerer is an Indigenous academic biologist and excellent non-fiction author whose work touches on Potawotomi philosophy, colonialism (including in academic spaces), and ideas for a better future. Anyone interested in ecology, conservation, or decolonization in North America will probably be impressed by her work and the rich connections she weaves between academic ecology and Indigenous knowledge offer a critical opportunity to expand your understanding of the world if like me you were raised deeply enmeshed in "Western" scientific tradition. I suppose a little background in skepticism helped prepare me to respect her writing, but I don't think that's essential.
I've only read "Braiding Sweetgrass," but "Gathering Moss" and her more recent "The Serviceberry" are high on my to-read list, despite my predilection for fiction. Kimmerer incorporates a backbone of fascinating anecdotes into "Braiding Sweetgrass" that makes it surprisingly easy reading for a work that's philosophical at its core. She also pulls off an impressive braided organization to the whole thing, weaving together disparate knowledges in a way that lets you see both their contradictions and their connections.
The one criticism I've seen of her work is that it's not sufficiently connected to other Indigenous philosophers & writers, and that it's perhaps too comfortable of a read for colonizers, and that seems valid to me, even though (perhaps because I am a colonizer) I still find her book important.
An excellent author in any case, and one doing concrete ideological work towards a better world.
#20AuthorsNoMen

Saudi Telecom seems to prefer small disaggregated announcements (e.g., /24s) of their larger existing prefixes so with these recent allocations, we may see the routing tables grow further still. But at over 1 million routes now anyway, who's really gonna complain?
https://social.bgp.tools/@trans…

Post by IP/ASN Transfers, @transfers@bgp.tools
"Fujitsu North America, Inc." (ARIN) transferred 192.7.0.0/16 to "Saudi Telecom Company JSC" (RIPE) (Estimated Market Value: $983.04 K)

Outbreak. Measles is back and killing people in Canada because Canadians irresponsibly aren't geting vaccinated. <--- Fixed it for you Globe and Mail https://www.theglobeandmail.com/world/article-measles-outbreak-canada-united-states-tr…

As rising tides eat away at the
Saint-Pierre and Miquelon archipelago off Canada,
plans to move the historic village to higher ground have divided residents
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/20

The sports equinox is back. Here's how to watch all 4 leagues on Monday https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6744212/2025/10/27/sports-equinox-2025-world-series-nfl-nba-nhl-schedule/

A look at "TSMC Village" in North Phoenix, as TSMC brings an influx of skilled workers from Taiwan who face challenges like adapting to a sprawling suburbia (Peter S. Goodman/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/business/tsmc-phoenix-little…

In Arizona Desert, Taiwanese Families Create Community and Build a Factory
Skilled workers from Taiwan engaged in the chip industry have found ways to ease the transition to America while making an imprint on Greater Phoenix.

Overview of LifeCLEF Plant Identification task 2020
Herve Goeau, Pierre Bonnet, Alexis Joly
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.19402 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.194…

Overview of LifeCLEF Plant Identification task 2020
Automated identification of plants has improved considerably thanks to the recent progress in deep learning and the availability of training data with more and more photos in the field. However, this profusion of data only concerns a few tens of thousands of species, mostly located in North America and Western Europe, much less in the richest regions in terms of biodiversity such as tropical countries. On the other hand, for several centuries, botanists have collected, catalogued and systematic…

Analysis: in 2025, only 17% of North America's top 100 highest-grossing films were directed by non-white filmmakers, down from 27% in 2021 and 24% in 2023 (Richard Rushfield/The Ankler)
https://theankler.com/p/hollywoods-backslide-into-white-male

Hollywood’s Backslide Into White Male Directors Becomes Undeniable
How to chase away our future, one complacent decision at a time

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Customer engagement service MoEngage raised a $100M Series F led by Goldman Sachs Alternatives, bringing its total funding to $250M as it ramps up AI investment (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
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Goldman Sachs doubles down on MoEngage in new round to fuel global expansion | TechCrunch
MoEngage already has customers across 75 countries, with North America being its biggest business driver.

It’s no joke.
Top 5 in North America in number of fatalities.
It’s deceptive because it’s just 6,288’ and in good conditions it’s a fun day hike.
But it can get seriously awful up there. One fairly well-known and recent death happened in a whiteout at -30F and 80 mph wind.
https://bsk…

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Mt. Washington in late October? The cog railway only goes halfway up this time of year and even there it looks like this. This is where these people hopped off and thought yeah I'll just keeping strolling up into the freakish Extreme Frozen Hell zone. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

Sources: BlackRock's GIP is in talks to buy Aligned, which operates 78 data centers across North and South America, in a deal that could value Aligned at ~$40B (Bloomberg)
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Good Morning #Canada
You don't have to like numbers to appreciate Statistics Canada, aka StatsCan. Jean Talon could be considered Canada's first official statistician when he arrived in North America in 1665 on a mission for King Louis XIV to conduct Canada's first census in 1666. In 1918, the Statistics Act created the Dominion Bureau of Statistics, a national statistics office that ultimately would become Statistics Canada. Besides conducting the Census of Population and the Census of Agriculture every five years, StatCan has more than 450 active surveys on virtually all aspects of life in Canada. Results are published twice a month and can be accessed via The Daily web page.
One of my favourite web pages is Canada's Population Clock (real-time model). It's fascinating to watch, and our population increased by 11 while I typed this post.
#CanadaIsAwesome #StatsCan
https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/71-607-x/71-607-x2018005-eng.htm

Universal's Wicked: For Good debuted with $150M in North America and $76M overseas in its opening weekend, the biggest global opening for a musical adaptation (Rebecca Rubin/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/film/box-office/wicked-fo…

Wicked 2 Box Office: For Good Sets Record for Broadway Adaptation
"Wicked: For Good" was No. 1 with $150 million and set a record for Broadway adaptations.

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Relief carving of a globe on the school at Newark Valley
#photo #photography #buildings #architecture

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Good Morning #Canada
A bit late this morning as we went out for a big family breakfast. I think I'll chip away at my #CanadianCapitals series by sharing some tidbits about one of our older cities. Halifax, because of its large natural harbour, served as an important military base for British ships in North America. Founded in 1749 and incorporated as a city in 1842, it is known for a number of 1sts. Halifax had the 1st public school in Canada as well as the first law school and art college. Canada’s 1st newspaper, the Halifax Gazette, was established in 1752, and the city had the first all electric city lighting grid in North America. The harbour was also the site for the world's largest man-made explosion in #WWI when a munitions transport collided with another ship. Awesome place to visit but try not to jump when they fire the traditional noon cannon.
#CanadaIsAwesome
https://thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/halifax

Good Morning #Canada
While the excitement and disappointment of the #BlueJays season is fading a little, we can still take pride in the fact that we invented the game of baseball. You read that correctly - Canada was the birthplace of North American baseball as we know it today. From Wikipedia:
"... the first official baseball game with a documented score card took place not in the U.S., but in Canada in 1838. While Canada invented the version of baseball we know today, innovations made by New York City clubs became the basis for the modern game, far removed from its English ancestor, but extremely similar to the Canadian version".
It turns out that the earliest, detailed, reputable account of baseball being played in North America came out of a game in Beachville, Ontario on, June 4, 1838. And there are decades of records detailing Ontario teams regularly beating American competitors in league play or matches.
#CanadaIsAwesome ##SportsHistory
https://thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/canadians-in-baseball-the-lost-tribe-feature

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Good Morning #Canada
Today we reach the end of the #CanadianCapitals series and I've left the Keystone Province for last. Manitoba, with IMO the best Premier and worst flag, has Winnipeg as its capital. The city lies at the junction of the Assiniboine River and the Red River, an historic focal point for canoe routes travelled by Aboriginal peoples for thousands of years. The fur trade brought forts, both British and French, and conflict amongst trappers and indigenous people. In 1869, the Hudson's Bay Company formally surrendered its charter rights over the western half of Canada, prompting Louis Riel to attempt a rebellion and become an independent territory before the Canadian government got organized. That ended badly for Louis and in 1870 Manitoba became a province with Winnipeg as its capital. A fun fact: The Royal Winnipeg Ballet is Canada’s oldest dance company and also the longest continuously operating ballet company in North America.
#CanadaIsAwesome #History
https://thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/winnipeg

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We are firmly launched into October, and it's safe to start thinking about #Halloween. So, a new semi regular series on Canada’s abandoned and spooky towns seems appropriate. Today's town is Barkerville in British Columbia, where wolves howl night and day. OK, maybe not, but there's definitely some stalking of tourists in the once bustling gold rush town. After the Caribou Gold Rush ended and town residents drifted away, Barkerville was designated a historic site, and most of the buildings were preserved. Today, it's one of the largest heritage parks and museums in North America. There are hundreds of people in old timey clothes walking about, but they're not ghosts, just park staff. But the prices are scary.
A good ghost town runner-up would be Ocean Falls, abandoned after the pulp mill closed, but a sinister and mysterious Bitcoin operation still utilizes the old hydroelectric dam.
#CanadaIsAwesome #CanadianGhostTowns
https://thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/barkerville

Good Morning #Canada
#HappyBirthday to Bat Masterson, the famous American gunslinger who was born near Henryville Quebec in 1853. He's our segue to another #CanadianCapitals post, naturally about Quebec City. Explorer Samuel de Champlain founded the French settlement in 1608 and adopted the Algonquin name, which means "where the river narrows." Quebec City is one of the oldest European settlements in North America. The ramparts surrounding Old Quebec (Vieux-Québec) are the only fortified city walls remaining in the Americas north of Mexico. Those walls were put to good use as Québec spent the next 170 years fighting off invaders, mostly by the British but also by Americans. The city was established as the capital of Canada under British rule in 1792 and was named the provincial capital in 1867 when Canada East became Quebec.
#CanadaIsAwesome #History
https://thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/quebec-city