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"Labour must create green jobs or lose voters to parties who oppose net zero, unions warn"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #NetZero

PSA: 🥵 Idk who needs to hear this, but in a heatwave for the love of science use air conditioning. If you don’t have air conditioning, get a portable unit as soon as possible.
The climate is going to get hotter and heat can very easily kill you or a loved one or a pet; or cause permanent disability.
Heat is a lot more dangerous than cold temperatures; even if you’re “young and healthy”.
The climate is already fucked and has long reached a tipping point as far as humans go—our only bet is large-scale CO2 extraction.
Sacrificing your health “to save energy*” for an imaginary fight that we have already lost is stupid. It’s also one of those “individual responsibility” mindfucks—the culprits for pollution are industry maximizing profits and governments that are not acting.
Anyway, stay cool.
*note that AC uses overall a lot less energy than heating does

BGH klärt: Versandapotheke durfte mit Prämien locken
Eine niederländische Versandapotheke versprach im Grunde: Rezepte einlösen, Bonus sichern. Der BGH hat geprüft, ob solche Angebote in Deutschland erlaubt waren.
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Finally cancelled my Ideogram subscription today, I've had it for the past 12 months and loved it.
Now I'm using ChatGPT 4o almost exclusively for my AI image generation needs.
I updated my paid subscriptions list:
https://wiki.wesfryer.com/subscriptions

wesfryer - Subscriptions
Thoughts on Subscriptions: Have you noticed lots of companies and people want you to SUBSCRIBE to their service or commit to a MONTHLY payment / fee? Services like TRIM can help us identify, remember and manage our subscriptions. (s/o to Jason Neiffer in EdTechSR Ep 235) It can be helpful to SHARE

"Bees have some ways to cope with a warming Earth, but researchers fear for their future"
#Bees #Insects

Bees have some ways to cope with a warming Earth, but researchers fear for their future
WILLIAMSPORT, Ohio (AP) — As global temperatures rise under climate change, the bees responsible for pollinating many crops are under increasing stress and scientists are trying to understand how they are affected. It’s an important question because the bees are critical to the fruit, vegetables, nuts and other foods that humans need. Scientists have found […]

Paramount said late Tuesday that it had agreed to pay Trump $16 million to settle his lawsuit over the editing of an interview on the CBS News program “60 Minutes,” an extraordinary bribe to a sitting president by a major media organization.
Paramount said its payment included Trump’s legal fees and costs and that the money, minus the legal fees, would be paid to Mr. Trump’s future presidential library. (wink, wink)
The deal is the clearest sign yet that Trump’s ability to intimi…

Paramount to Pay Trump $16 Million to Settle ‘60 Minutes’ Lawsuit
President Trump had sued over an interview with former Vice President Kamala Harris. The company needs federal approval for a multibillion-dollar sale.

Revisiting the magnetic ground states of RECo$_5$ permanent magnets
F. de Almeida Passos, G. J. Nilsen, R. Dankelman, M. Thijs, G. Balakrishnan, S. Kumar, A. Thamizhavel, J. Larrea Jim\'enez
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.15170

Revisiting the magnetic ground states of RECo$_5$ permanent magnets
In light of recent improvements in the theory of rare earth magnets, as well as the availability of improved neutron powder diffraction data on these materials, we revisit the magnetic single-ion properties of SmCo$_5$ and the magnetic structures of YCo$_5$ and NdCo$_5$. From neutron diffraction patterns in a wide range of temperatures between 3 K and 800 K, we obtain the thermal coefficient expansion and the magnetic moment values for the latter two materials. For SmCo$_5$, we fit existing neu…

SFMTA board is hearing Mayor Lurie’s mass displacement plan to banish working-poor, mostly Latino families living in RVs from the city.
Here’s the “refuge permit” designed as window dressing to make liberals feel ok about this. Notice to get one, you have to “agree to accept offer of… interim… housing,” ie agree to be displaced a little later anyway. 💩
#sfpol

Cascade-driven opinion dynamics on social networks
Elisabetta Biondi, Chiara Boldrini, Andrea Passarella, Marco Conti
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.16302 http…

Cascade-driven opinion dynamics on social networks
Online social networks (OSNs) have transformed the way individuals fulfill their social needs and consume information. As OSNs become increasingly prominent sources for news dissemination, individuals often encounter content that influences their opinions through both direct interactions and broader network dynamics. In this paper, we propose the Friedkin-Johnsen on Cascade (FJC) model, which is, to the best of our knowledge, is the first attempt to integrate information cascades and opinion dy…

All 5 SF YIMBY endorsed supervisors—Sauter, Engardio, Mahmood, Dorsey, and Melgar—voted to take $34 to $53 million away from building permanent affordable housing, *and* to ban RVs from all city streets.
So much for "legalize housing." With YIMBYs like this, who needs NIMBYs? #sfPol