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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.

Uspol, genocide
In case you're wondering whether "political violence" is escalating in the U.S.A. right now, of *course* it is as we move into an era of concentration campus and domestic military deployments. But both domestic genocides and purges as well as political violence targeted at individual prominent figures has been a *constant* throughout American history, from gun duels fought between political rivals to massacres of Native Americans in order to steal their land, to pogroms against Catholics, to literal wars on local Black success and political participation, all dating back before the American Revolution to the beginning of colonization. Thanks to Wikipedia, here's a *small sampling* where I attempted to whittle things down to about one event per decade before recent times.
Sources:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_massacres_in_the_United_States
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Indian_massacres_in_North_America
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_presidential_assassination_attempts_and_plots
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_incidents_of_political_violence_in_Washington,_D.C.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_racial_violence_in_the_United_States
Killings, woundings, and plots against political figures:
Aaron Burr killing Alexander Hamilton in 1804
Sam Houston beats Rep. William Stanbery in 1832
Attempted Assassination of Andrew Jackson in 1835
Fight between Representatives Churchwell & Cullom in 1854
Caning of Sen. Charles Summer in 1856
Brawl on the House floor in 1858
Assassination of President Abraham Lincoln in 1865
Assassination of President James A. Garfield in 1881
Assassination of President William McKinley in 1901
Attempted Assassination of William Howard Taft and Porfirio Díaz in 1909
Wounding of former President Theodore Roosevelt in 1912
Bombing of the U.S. Senate reception room in 1915
Attempted Assassination of President Herbert Hover in 1928 (in Argentina)
Attempted Assassination of President Harry S. Truman in 1947
Attempted Assassination of President Harry S. Truman in 1950
The United States Capitol Shooting in 1954
Planned Assassination of President John F. Kennedy in 1960
Attempted Assassination of President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1963
Assassination of President John F. Kennedy in 1963
Assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in 1968
Weather Underground bombings in 1970, 1971, and 1975
Planned Assassination of President Richard Nixon in 1972 (Alabama Governor George Wallace was targeted & injured instead)
Planned Assassination of President Richard Nixon in 1974
Planned Assassination of President Gerald Ford in 1974
Attempted Assassinations (x2) of President Gerald Ford in 1975
Wounding of President Ronald Reagan in 1981
Attempted Kidnapping of Federal Reserve Board members in 1981
Planned Assassination of President George Bush in 1993 (in Kuwait)
Attempted Assassinations (x3) of President Bill Clinton in 1994
Attempted Assassination of President Bill Clinton in 1996
Anthrax attacks on US senators in 2001
Attempted Assassination of President George W. Bush in 2005 (in the foreign country of Georgia)
Planned Assassination of President-Elect Barrack Obama in 2008
Planned Assassination of President Barrack Obama in 2009 (in Turkey)
Attempted Assassination of President Barrack Obama in 2011
Shooting of Rep. Gabby Gliffords in 2011
Planned Assassinations (x2) of President Barrack Obama in 2012
Attempted Assassinations (x2) of President Barrack Obama in 2013
Planned Assassination of President Barrack Obama in 2015
Attempted Assassinations (x2) of President Donald Trump in 2017
Attempted Assassination of President Donald Trump in 2018
Pipe bombs mailed to Democratic leaders in 2018, including former President Barack Obama
Planned Assassination of President Barrack Obama in 2019
Attempted Assassination of President Donald Trump in 2020
Kidnapping plot against Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer in 2020
Planned Assassination of Former President George W. Bush in 2022
Planned Assassination of Former President Barrack Obama in 2023
Attempted Assassination of President Joe Biden in 2023
Planned Assassinations (x2) of Presidential Candidate Donald Trump in 2024
Wounding of Presidential Candidate Donald Trump in 2024
Massacres and other mass killings, mostly with genocidal motivations:
The Acoma Massacre in 1599
The Paspaheg Massacre in 1610
The Wessagusset affair in 1623
The Mystic Massacre in 1637
The Pound Ridge Massacre in 1644
The Susquehannock chiefs massacre in 1675
The Apalachee Massacre in 1704
The Massacre at Fort Narhantes in 1712
The Norridgewock Massacre in 1724
The 1745 Massacre at Walden (in 1745)
The 1756 Massacre at Walden (in 1756)
The Killings by the Paxton Boys in 1763
The Yellow Creek Massacre in 1774
The Gnadenhütten Massacre in 1782
The Canyon del Muerto Massacre in 1805
The Battle of Tallushatchee in 1813
The Philadelphia Nativist Riots in 1844
The Bloody Island Massacre in 1850
The Mountain Meadows Massacre in 1857
The Sand Creek Massacre in 1864
The Opelousas Massacre in 1868
The Chinese Massacre in 1871
The Election Riot of 1874
The Haymarket Affair in 1886
The Buffalo Gap Massacre in 1890
The Wilmington Massacre in 1898
The 1906 Atlanta Race Massacre (in 1906)
The Ludlow Massacre in 1914
The Elaine massacre in 1919
The Tulsa Race Massacre in 1921
The Battle of Blair Mountain in 1921
The Bonus Army Conflict in 1932
The 1937 Memorial Day massacre (in 1937)
The 16th Street Baptist Church bombing in 1963
The Kent State shootings in 1970
The Greensboro massacre in 1979
The MOVE Bombing in 1985
The 4 O'Clock murders in 1988
The Oklahoma City bombing in 1995
The September 11 Attacks in 2001
The Fort Hood Shooting in 2009
The Holocaust Memorial Shooting in 2009
The Isla Vista killings in 2014
The Charleston Church shooting in 2015
The San Bernardino attack in 2015
The Orlando Nightclub Shooting in 2016
The Pittsburgh Synagogue Shooting in 2018
The El Paso Walmart shooting in 2019
The January 6th Capitol Attack in 2021
The 2022 Buffalo Shooting (in 2022)

"Study busts big bad myth that wolves are growing fearless of humans"
#Wolves #Animals
https:…

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, […]

Hunderte aktive #Waldbrände in #Kanada beeinträchtigen derzeit die #Luftqualität weit über die Landesgrenzen hinaus.
Besonders betroffen sind

UK researchers: 80 game cheat-selling websites generate $12.8M to $73.2M annually, with 30,000 to 174,000 monthly buyers across North America and Europe alone (Matt Burgess/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/inside-the-multimillion-dollar-grey-ma…

Inside the Multimillion-Dollar Gray Market for Video Game Cheats
Gaming cheats are the bane of the video game industry—and a hot commodity. A recent study found that cheat creators are making a fortune from gamers looking to gain a quick edge.

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Knifeman accused of stabbing Ukrainian refugee to death gives chilling reason for the attack... as he speaks for the first time from jail on the murder that shocked America (Laura Parnaby/Daily Mail)
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15081943/ukrainian-refugee-stabbing-iryna-zarutska-north-carolina.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250910/p105#a250910p105

Decarbonizing Basic Chemicals Production in North America, Europe, Middle East, and China: a Scenario Modeling Study
Tubagus Aryandi Gunawan, Hongxi Luo, Chris Greig, Eric D. Larson
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.08279

Decarbonizing Basic Chemicals Production in North America, Europe, Middle East, and China: a Scenario Modeling Study
The chemicals industry accounts for about 5% of global greenhouse gas emissions today and is among the most difficult industries to abate. We model decarbonization pathways for the most energy-intensive segment of the industry, the production of basic chemicals: olefins, aromatics, methanol, ammonia, and chlor-alkali. Unlike most prior pathways studies, we apply a scenario-analysis approach that recognizes the central role of corporate investment decision making for capital-intensive industries…

‘Luxury prison’: #Epstein accomplice Maxwell quietly moved to low-security camp
https://www.smh.com.au/world/north-america

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.

The Daily Mail names Greta Lawn to the newly created position of president for North America to lead revenue growth (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/the-wire/media-jobs-uk-news/daily-mail…

Daily Mail names first president for North America to lead revenue growth
Daily Mail has created the role of president, North America to lead revenue growth in the world's largest media market. Greta Lawn appointed

Earth’s safe zones are vanishing fast #earth

Earth’s safe zones are vanishing fast
A sweeping new study reveals that humanity has already pushed 60% of Earth’s land outside its safe biosphere zone, with 38% in a high-risk state. By analyzing centuries of data, researchers mapped how human demands on biomass—from farming to energy production—have destabilized ecosystems worldwide. Europe, Asia, and North America show the deepest disruptions, reflecting centuries of land-use change.

Hourly maps at ground level of Wildfire Smoke Fine Particulate Matter PM2.5, for regions and North America | Environment #Canada
https://weather.gc.ca/firework/firework_anim_e…

An 11,000-year-old settlement in Canada is challenging the idea that early Indigenous people were nomadic.
The newly uncovered village site of Âsowanânihk, which means "a place to cross" in the Cree language,
is one of the oldest archaeological sites found on the continent
and suggests that an organized society existed in central Canada far earlier than experts previously thought.

11,000-year-old settlement in Canada could rewrite history of Indigenous civilizations in North America
The discovery of an 11,000-year-old village in Saskatchewan could rewrite Indigenous history in central Canada.

Explainability of CNN Based Classification Models for Acoustic Signal
Zubair Faruqui, Mackenzie S. McIntire, Rahul Dubey, Jay McEntee
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.08717 https://…

Explainability of CNN Based Classification Models for Acoustic Signal
Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) has emerged as a critical tool for interpreting the predictions of complex deep learning models. While XAI has been increasingly applied in various domains within acoustics, its use in bioacoustics, which involves analyzing audio signals from living organisms, remains relatively underexplored. In this paper, we investigate the vocalizations of a bird species with strong geographic variation throughout its range in North America. Audio recordings were co…

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Trump's lack of any sort of diplomacy's driven America's enemies to assemble the fucking Legion of Doom.
☑️ Leaders of China, Russia, North Korea and Iran gather in Beijing for huge military parade in challenge to the West | CNN
https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/02/ch…

Leaders of China, Russia, North Korea and Iran gather in Beijing as ‘axis of upheaval’ emerges in challenge to the West
For the last three days, Xi Jinping has played host in one of China’s busiest port cities, welcoming leaders from across Asia and the Middle East for a carefully choreographed summit designed to showcase his vision of a new world order.

#lego

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This is a great piece of journalism. An absolute must-read.
Confessions of a Laptop Farmer: How an American Helped North Korea’s Wild Remote Worker Scheme
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2025-07-24/north-korea-infilt…

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

With apocalyptic haze from wildfire smoke descending on many parts of North America now a frequent occurrence, we should have experts letting us know if we should expect a thick and hearty smoke with aromatic notes of cedar, a thin haze redolent of classic LA smog, the lung-coating miasma of fire imbued with Canadian tar sands, or a literal tire fire.

The Board agreed that, in the light of the recent immigration policies implemented at US borders, hosting the 2028 conference there, which following the traditional rhythm is due to move to North America, would not be recommendable.

#3GoodThings
Celebrating labour (today was the workers' holiday in North America).
Swimming (or rather dunking myself ever so briefly) in a very cold (oh so cold) Lake Ontario along with Kid2 on the last day of summer vacation.
Watching the Women's Rugby World Cup with the family (Go Canada Go! Allez les Bleues!).

Many people don’t know that Lake Tahoe is an ancient lake. It’s 2 to 3 million years old. It makes it perhaps one of the oldest, if not the oldest, lake in North America
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/06/lake-tahoe-bottom-dive?CMP=Sh…

I’m so glad sane, rational leadership from the US Federal Government lead to smooth sailing for trade between most of Europe and most of North America.
Gratifying to see intelligible, useful agreement that won’t needlessly jeopardize the livelihoods of millions. /s
https://www.

EU and US spin conflicting versions of trade deal
The European Commission and the White House are making contradictory claims about the content and scope of the EU-US trade deal. #EuropeNews

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.

Sexy single elk, you say? In MY area? 🤔 https://flipboard.com/@smithsonianmag/smartnews-343feuq8z/-/a-KOOSWUv9Rdic7ZBBD0XB0A:a:2586892611-/0

Amorous Elk Are Looking for Love Across North America in an Annual Spectacle Called the Rut
Fall in North America means colorful foliage, pumpkin spice-flavored goodies, harvest festivals and football. But for elk, autumn is also the most …

Hanging out with my @… peeps in Denver after Laracon and learn that Derek Trucks is playing at Red Rocks tomorrow.
I naturally move my flight out and grab a ticket on StubHub.
How could I pass up a great band at one of the best outdoor concert venues in North America?

Making America Alone Again (Margaret MacMillan/Foreign Affairs)
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/north-america/making-america-alone-again
http://www.memeorandum.com/250721/p2#a250721p2

Which region is well-equipped for 2035 with a well-educated people and proper institutions for a flourishing #society?
Check out following #blog post:

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
…

Good Morning #Canada
In my opinion, Great Bear Lake doesn't get enough attention or respect. It is the largest lake entirely in Canada (Lake Superior and Lake Huron are larger but straddle the Canada–US border), the fourth-largest in North America, and the eighth-largest in the world. The lake has a surface area of 31,000 square km and a volume of 2,234 cubic km. Its maximum depth is 446 m with an average depth of 71.7 m. In the winter, ice hijghways are opened across Great Bear Lake to supply northern communities and provide heavy equipment for resource companies.
#CanadaIsAwesome
https://youtu.be/kJXBUbVwBNo?si=fyUDnLuvMs_BgdNL

Uma sondagem de mais de 35 mil pessoas, iniciada hš quase 3 anos, terminou agora. Pergunto a mim mesmo que percentagem destas contas continua ativa.
https://fosstodon.org/@MattTheQuick/109321444143425443
Mas mesmo deprimente? África: 1%.

Wednesday’s military parade in Beijing is the most recent evidence that the world’s authoritarians consider Trump a lightweight.
Russian President Vladimir Putin, Chinese President Xi Jinping, and North Korea’s maximum nepo baby, Kim Jong Un, gathered to celebrate the 80th anniversary of Japan’s surrender in World War II.
(Putin’s Belarusian satrap, Alexander Lukashenko, was also on hand.)
The American president was not invited: After all, what role did the United States…

The World No Longer Takes Trump Seriously
At parades and in the halls of global power, America has been sidelined.

Purple coneflowers are everywhere in the mid-summer; I caught these on July 17th -- I took enough pictures of them that I'll still have some to show all winter! One of their many virtues is being native to North America
#photo #photography

Die #Klimakrise trifft #Kanada und #Europa.
Im Juli 2025 wurden auf beiden Seiten des Atlantiks außergewöhnlich starke

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…

More than 300 auto recycling businesses in North America were hit by a cyberattack on August 6. The attack targeted companies using SimpleHelp, a program that allows remote access to computer systems.
Data Heist: Ransomware hits hundreds of auto recyclers
https://www.

Interesting findings on the #sustainability backlash, but the choice to include #Turkey as Asia-Pacific and not either #MiddleEast or

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…

US newsletter publisher The Flyover now has 25 staff, 2.5M subscribers, nine state-specific daily editions, and one national edition, after its 2023 launch (Alice Brooker/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/north-ameri

Email-based publisher The Flyover has 25 full-time staff two years after launch
The Flyover is an email-first publication that is seeing success through converting its state news readers to national news.

Data distribution impacts the performance and generalisability of contrastive learning-based foundation models of electrocardiograms
Gul Rukh Khattak, Konstantinos Patlatzoglou, Joseph Barker, Libor Pastika, Boroumand Zeidaabadi, Ahmed El-Medany, Hesham Aggour, Yixiu Liang, Antonio H. Ribeiro, Jeffrey Annis, Antonio Luiz Pinho Ribeiro, Junbo Ge, Daniel B. Kramer, Jonathan W. Waks, Evan Brittain, Nicholas Peters, Fu Siong Ng, Arunashis Sau

Data distribution impacts the performance and generalisability of contrastive learning-based foundation models of electrocardiograms
Contrastive learning is a widely adopted self-supervised pretraining strategy, yet its dependence on cohort composition remains underexplored. We present Contrasting by Patient Augmented Electrocardiograms (CAPE) foundation model and pretrain on four cohorts (n = 5,203,352), from diverse populations across three continents (North America, South America, Asia). We systematically assess how cohort demographics, health status, and population diversity influence the downstream performance for predi…

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)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-0…

"Congratulations" to #LdnOnt, the third-worst large city for cycling in Canada (77th place) and sixth-worst city of any size in Ontario (28th place)! https://cityratings.peopleforbikes.org

This is amazing. Not a great thing, ethically, but a really astounding bit of technical advancement. Oil sands used to be very expensive to get out of the ground and into a usable state. Not so much now. https://flipboard.com/@cbcnews/canada-1akomc2p…

How Canada's oilsands transformed into one of North America's lowest-cost plays
Giant shovels, driverless trucks and a dog-like robot have all helped Canada's oilsands companies including Imperial Oil and Suncor become some of …

I can't help thinking that there's some sort of "Sexual Dynamo Georg" who's throwing off the numbers somewhere
https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/average-number-of-sexual-partners-by-country

This is amusing. In a story about Laufey’s upcoming concert in North America, it states that 400,000 tickets were sold and that’s the same as 80 of the big arena in Reykjavík.
Unmentioned: this is the equivalent of every person in Iceland buying a ticket!
https://icelandmonitor.mb…

A major achievement for Laufey
Leifur Björnsson, head of exports at the Iceland Music Office, says the demand for tickets to Laufey Lín’s upcoming concert tour in the United States and Canada is almost without precedent in Icelandic music history.

Sunflower Chimney bee (Diadasia enavata — according to iNaturalist) on a Sunflower. Chimney bees are solitary, ground dwelling pollinators common to Central and North America. LA Arboretum, Arcadia, California, USA. September,2025. #laarboretum #bee

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

When the Spanish colonized the region in the 17th century,
they didn't introduce horses to Indigenous people, as long thought.
Instead, horses were present in the Southwest long before Europeans,
and were traded by Indigenous people who formed close relationships with them.
Horses lived in North America for millions of years
but went extinct at the end of the last ice age, about 11,000 years ago.
When Europeans reintroduced horses to what is now the ea…

Indigenous people of the American West used 'sacred' horses a half-century earlier than previously thought
Indigenous oral histories and archaeological evidence are rewriting the story of how horses came to the American West.

Size and Shape of Jupiter Trojan (2207) Antenor from Stellar Occultations
Feliphe S. Ferreira, Julio I. B. Camargo, Bruno E. Morgado, Viviane Peixoto, Josselin Desmars, Felipe Braga-Ribas, Altair Gomes-Junior, Bruno Sicardy, Jose Ortiz, R. Vieira-Martins, C. Pereira, Luana Liberato, Marcelo Assafin, Yucel Kilic, Rodrigo Boufleur, Flavia Rommel, Gustavo Benedetti-Rossi, Martin Banda-Huarca, Franck Marchis, Paolo Tanga, Benoit Blanc, Erick Bondoux, Alexandra Burnett, S. Calavia-Belloc, O…

Size and Shape of Jupiter Trojan (2207) Antenor from Stellar Occultations
Librating around the Lagrange L5, the Jupiter's Trojan (2207) Antenor has been observed in recent years and its rotational light curve suggests it to be a very likely binary asteroid candidate. From stellar occultations, we report results from three events from Europe and North America to estimate the 2D apparent size and shape of Jupiter's Trojan (2207) Antenor. For the best-fitted ellipse in the sky-plane, we determined that Antenor has a 2D apparent equatorial radius of 54.30 +/- 0.99 km at …

Two years after launch, Reach's US project is profitable, has a 70-person team, and one editor-in-chief for all three US titles, Mirror, Express, and Irish Star (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/north-america/reach-in-t…

Reach in the US: 70-strong team is turning a profit with more growth planned
A “methodical” approach to building audiences for Reach brands Mirror, Express and Irish Star in the US has “proven they can wash their own face”.

An Overview of the Risk-based Model of AI Governance
Veve Fry
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.15299 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.15299

An Overview of the Risk-based Model of AI Governance
This paper provides an overview and critique of the risk based model of artificial intelligence (AI) governance that has become a popular approach to AI regulation across multiple jurisdictions. The 'AI Policy Landscape in Europe, North America and Australia' section summarises the existing AI policy efforts across these jurisdictions, with a focus of the EU AI Act and the Australian Department of Industry, Science and Regulation's (DISR) safe and responsible AI consultation. The 'Analysis' sec…

Christina Marie Chapman, who pleaded guilty and was sentenced to prison for aiding a North Korean remote IT worker scheme, details her time as a "laptop farmer" (Evan Ratliff/Bloomberg)

Winds Through Time: Interactive Data Visualization and Physicalization for Paleoclimate Communication
David Hunter, Pablo Botin, Emily Snode-Brenneman, Amy Stevermer, Becca Hatheway, Dillon Amaya, Eddie Goldstein, Wayne A Seltzer, Mark D Gross, Kris Karnauskas, Daniel Leithinger, Ellen Yi-Luen Do
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13039

Winds Through Time: Interactive Data Visualization and Physicalization for Paleoclimate Communication
We describe a multidisciplinary collaboration to iteratively design an interactive exhibit for a public science center on paleoclimate, the study of past climates. We created a data physicalisation of mountains and ice sheets that can be tangibly manipulated by visitors to interact with a wind simulation visualisation that demonstrates how the climate of North America differed dramatically between now and the peak of the last ice age. We detail the system for interaction and visualisation plus …

FBI urges vigilance against Interlock ransomware group behind recent healthcare attacks https://therecord.media/fbi-vigilance-interlock-ransomware

State of Abdominal CT Datasets: A Critical Review of Bias, Clinical Relevance, and Real-world Applicability
Saeide Danaei, Zahra Dehghanian, Elahe Meftah, Nariman Naderi, Seyed Amir Ahmad Safavi-Naini, Faeze Khorasanizade, Hamid R. Rabiee
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13626

State of Abdominal CT Datasets: A Critical Review of Bias, Clinical Relevance, and Real-world Applicability
This systematic review critically evaluates publicly available abdominal CT datasets and their suitability for artificial intelligence (AI) applications in clinical settings. We examined 46 publicly available abdominal CT datasets (50,256 studies). Across all 46 datasets, we found substantial redundancy (59.1\% case reuse) and a Western/geographic skew (75.3\% from North America and Europe). A bias assessment was performed on the 19 datasets with >=100 cases; within this subset, the most preval…

"2026 FIFA World Cup expansion will have a big climate footprint, with matches from Mexico to Canada"
#Football #Fifa #Climate

2026 FIFA World Cup expansion will have a big climate footprint, with matches from Mexico to Canada
When the FIFA World Cup hits North America in June 2026, 48 teams and millions of sports fans will be traveling among venues spread across Canada, the United States and Mexico.

Good Morning #Canada
A Canadian inventor gave Mothers across North America a device that was beneficial and a little scary. We are, of course, talking about the Jolly Jumper, once referred to as "the Canadian Nanny" on a 1957 CBC broadcast. Susan Olivia Poole (1889–1975) was an Indigenous Canadian inventor who created the Jolly Jumper in 1910, but it was not until 1948 that they were produced for the retail market, and patented in 1957. They continue to be manufactured in Ontario by the company that purchased the rights in 1960.
#CanadaIsAwesome #Inventors
https://thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/olivia-poole

France's TF1 Group reports H1 2025 revenue up 0.1% YoY to €1.1B, media division revenue down 0.9% YoY to €975M, and Studio TF1 revenue up 6.4% YoY to €128M (Jesse Whittock/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/07/tf1-half-year-2025-results-1236472919/

🌰 Offsetting fossil fuel reserves by planting trees is not a viable strategy, analysis finds
https://phys.org/news/2025-06-offsetting-fossil-fuel-reserves-trees.html

Offsetting fossil fuel reserves by planting trees is not a viable strategy, analysis finds
New forests larger than the land area of North America would need to be planted to offset the potential carbon dioxide emissions from the fossil fuel reserves currently held by the world's 200 largest fossil fuel companies.

The NHL announces a new partnership with DAZN, which will begin distributing NHL.TV in almost 200 countries around the world before the 2025-26 season (David Satin/The Streamable)
https://thestreamable.com/dazn-deal-nhl-tv-global-distribution

DAZN announces multiyear with NHL, bringing NHL.TV to nearly 200 countries around the world
Although not available in North America, NHL.TV is a fantastic way for global NHL fans to access games.

"North Carolina ditched its 2030 climate goal. Now what?"
#US #USA #America #Climate

North Carolina ditched its 2030 climate goal. Now what?
Rising power demand and the low cost of renewables may give wind and solar a fighting chance even though Duke Energy no longer has to cut emissions in the…

Keychain, which makes AI-powered software to help manufacturers manage their product cycles, raised a $30M Series B, bringing its total funding to $68M (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/19/cpg-startup-keychain-snags-…

CPG startup Keychain snags $30M to build in India, grow in the U.S. | TechCrunch
Keychain doesn't have a single customer in India — but the team helping it scale across North America and beyond is entirely based in Gurugram, a suburb of New Delhi.

Good Morning #Canada
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

Sources: Kari Lake locked out CEO Victor Morales from his email and dispatched VOA Director Michael Abramowitz to NC, in a bid to tighten control at USAGM (Scott Nover/Washington Post)

Kari Lake moves to consolidate her power to dismantle Voice of America
The Arizonan, an ally of President Trump, has managed to lock out her nominal boss and is trying to dispatch VOA’s director to North Carolina.

#Measles outbreak in #Alberta far exceeds it's past provincial peak in 1986, that of #Texas currently and even entire #USA known caseload. Once consid…

Q&A with BBC Commercial CEO Tom Fussell on the company's record revenue, BritBox's international growth, BBC's paywall in the US, YouTube, and more (Georg Szalai/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business

A Chat With BBC Commercial’s CEO on ‘Bluey,’ a News Paywall, YouTube and ‘Doctor Who’
Tom Fussell also touts BritBox’s success, particularly in North America, and role in getting series made.

Good Morning #Canada
We should thank Prince Albert for helping to save the Beaver. His choice of wearing a silk tophat in the mid 1800s has been cited as one of the reasons fashion moved away from Beaver hats and thereby saved them after almost 3 centuries of trapping. And silk hats were easier and cheaper to make. Whatever the reasons fashion almost made the Beaver extinct, first in Europe and then in North America. When fashion trends shifted, the Beaver was saved.
#CanadaIsAwesome #BeaverWeek #MadHatter
https://digital.library.mcgill.ca/nwc/history/01.htm

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/