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"How chemicals from our laptops and TVs have ended up in the brains of dolphins and porpoises"
#Oceans #Environment #Technology

E-waste chemicals found in the brains of dolphins and porpoises
A new study has warned that liquid crystal monomers from electronic devices are accumulating in the organs of endangered marine species.

I continue to be impressed with how the LLM systems are pretty open about queerness and non-judgmental, non-homophobic. Remarkable given that so much of the training material must be hateful! Here's Gemini being cautious but helpful after I asked it about a summary of what it knows about me and asked why it didn't mention me being gay.
I do have access to information regarding your personal life and sexual orientation from our previous conversations. However, I am designed with specific safety and privacy guardrails that prevent me from storing or outputting information related to a user's sexual orientation or sensitive medical conditions in these types of summaries.
While I can remember and use those details to provide context during our active discussions—such as when we were looking into the history of queer voices or specific support resources—I cannot include them in a "permanent" distilled profile like the one above.

US Aluminum Premium Tops $1 a Pound for First Time (Yvonne Yue Li/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-29/us-aluminum-premium-tops-1-a-pound-for-first-time
http://www.memeorandum.com/260129/p42#a260129p42

WBD's board determines that Paramount's latest offer of $31/share is a "Company Superior Proposal", triggering a four-day period in which Netflix can counter (Christopher Palmeri/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

"Plastic washing at recycling plants can spike phthalates in wastewater, study suggests"
#Plastic #Plastics #Environment

Plastic washing at recycling plants can spike phthalates in wastewater, study suggests
Potentially harmful chemicals can contaminate untreated water used in recycling plants to clean plastics before they're processed into new products, according to a new study by an Iowa State University research group. Researchers from Iowa State's Polymer and Food Protection Consortium tested common industrial plastic-washing practices and found that some methods left the wash water with high levels of two types of phthalates—a class of widely used additives linked to cancer risks and hormone…

Mittwoch: Metas Sparkurs bei VR-Welten, Gates-Atomkraft für Meta-KI
Strategiewechsel bei Meta Terrapower-Reaktoren für Metas KI Taiwans Haftbefehl für OnePlus-Chef Kaufberatung für Premium-TVs Bit-Rauschen zu CES-Chips
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"12 environmental & climate justice reads"
#Books #Environment
https://yalec…

12 environmental & climate justice reads
These books and reports span topics of migration, indigenous movements, African-American communities, and the Disability Rights movement.

"Portugal tops EU leaderboard as over 80% of electricity in January came from renewables"
#EU #EuropeanUnion #Portugal

Portugal tops latest EU leaderboard for renewable energy - report
Portugal’s electricity production last month was largely led by hydro and wind power, according to a new report.

"Endangered marine life is being caught in fishing nets, but it doesn’t need to be"
#Fishing #Animals

Endangered marine life is being caught in fishing nets, but it doesn’t need to be
Nets used in the Irish fishing industry could be replaced by other types of fishing to preserve marine life.