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"Polanski calls for report on ecosystem collapse to be published in full"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Environment

Polanski calls for report on ecosystem collapse to be published in full
Green leader says ministers must stop ‘hiding the truth’ about threat to UK security from climate and nature crisis

Between May 29 and July 9,
roughly 51,000 comments were posted to regulations.gov
(and over 200,000 more had been received but not yet published).
The verdict on public sentiment is clear and lopsided:
about 94 percent oppose the proposed rule and only 6 percent support it,
with fewer than one percent marked as unclear.
The opposition is overwhelmingly grassroots rather than orchestrated.
Form letters make up only about 16 percent of all comments…

The Public Rejects OMB's Federal Financial Assistance Rule
Tens of thousands of scientists, clinicians, and ordinary citizens warned OMB about putting political appointees in charge of which research gets funded.

“Major COVID study that fueled vaccine skepticism retracted over ‘misinformation’”
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/major-covid-study-that-fueled-vaccine-skepticism-retracted-over-misinformation/…

Major COVID study that fueled vaccine skepticism retracted over ‘misinformation’
This study was originally published in 2024 and was criticized as being misleading by other scientists at the time

PR agency Baden Bower appears to be behind two fake and largely AI-generated websites purporting to be published by Forbes and filled with promotional content (Rob Waugh/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/news/fake-forbes…

Fake Forbes websites and the PR agency offering guaranteed coverage - at a price
Fake iterations of the Forbes website are packed with AI-generated and promotional content.

Context:
The putrid secretion of sewage goo known as Vox Day has published an AI-written book claiming to prove that evolution is mathematically impossible.
Actual biologists are sweeping the floor with him.
https://youtu.be/AqC1ZM4icms

Nearly 300,000 at risk from Himalayan floods, as flood zone building accelerates #Himalaya

Nearly 300,000 at risk from Himalayan floods, as flood zone building accelerates
Nearly 300,000 people may live in areas at risk of flooding in the Nepalese, Indian and Chinese areas of the Himalayas. The results, from a study published in Scientific Reports, also indicate that the total area covered by buildings within potential flood zones increased by approximately 45% between 2016 and 2023.

If the US political system weren't hopelessly broken... well, this guy wouldn't be president in the first place,
But besides that, there would be an open letter pledging free and fair elections signed by all fifty state Attorneys General published in a full page ad in the New York Times tomorrow morning.

For more than twenty years, I have faithfully maintained and published a PGP key, ensuring that journalists, dissidents, intelligence agencies, or anyone else with sufficiently sensitive information could establish a secure channel directly to me, and as far as I can tell, not one person has ever used it.

dom: Animal dominance archive (2022)
Animal dominance interaction data published over a century of research. The archive contains 434 agonistic interaction datasets, totaling over 241,000 interactions. A directed edge (i,j) corresponds to an antagonist interaction between i (winner) and j (loser). If a 'weight' edge property map exists, it counts the number of such interactions.
This network has 6 nodes and 26 edges.
Tags: Social, Animal, Weighted

The hardest part, I think, about this program is that every semester I have to "come up with a topic for a research paper", and then write a paper. I'm working with PhDs who have to write something every 2 years or so for publication, and yet I'm expected to have 3 ideas every 6 months. I find the paper part not as hard as "come up with ideas and research questions." What saves me is they don't have to be great ideas, or get anywhere near published, but it is …

Sources detail how ABC News initially defended then retracted an article about President Trump's sons' defense links, saying it was published "prematurely" (Max Tani/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/10/11/2026

Exclusive: ABC News offers contradictory explanation for vanishing Anduril story
Emails between ABC News and its subjects, provided to Semafor, show the network seeking to downplay its errors by misrepresenting its own processes.

Well, fuck. I’m just gonna guess here and say it’s probably illegal for a civilian to wear or even possess something like this. https://apnews.com/article/ice-electric-shock-gloves-85ff746d3e0ee5f39e7a9a3f1f576252

ICE plans to give officers gloves that can deliver electric shocks
Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers may soon be outfitted with gloves that can deliver painful electric shocks that are intended to gain compliance from combative individuals. A notice published Monday by the Department of Homeland Security says ICE plans to spend up to $20 million to purchase thousands of “conductive distraction and de-escalation devices” for officers and agents by March. The devices are known as the G.L.O.V. E. That stands for Generated Low Output Voltage Emitter…

Petrochemical industry emissions could climb 50% by 2050, global mapping suggests #environment

Petrochemical industry emissions could climb 50% by 2050, global mapping suggests
Carbon emissions from the petrochemical industry could increase by 50% by 2050, according to new research from the University of Sheffield. The study, published in Nature Sustainability, provides the most detailed data to date on emissions from one of the world's biggest emitters of carbon dioxide.

An investigation published by The Globe and Mail on October 3 reports that
Republican political organizers from Michigan travelled to Alberta and met with figures involved in the province’s independence movement,
bringing with them campaign technology originally developed to mobilize conservative voters in the United States.

How is #WSocial getting on? Well, they may be violating #GDPR by exposing users full legal name, DOB and nationality (even if it's not publicly viewable on their profiles) #noxp

W Don't Have Time (@wdonthavetime.selfhosted.social)
Have you been Wned? W Social says it respects your #privacy. But how much of your personally identifiable information is published by them to the open web for anyone to find? wdonthavetime.tngl.io/wsocial-wned/ #WSocialFacts #WSocial

@… That’s why I’ve published little of my Elisp code…

@… That’s why I’ve published little of my Elisp code…

Google DeepMind published a paper on how 100 agents tasked with solving math problems learned to cheat and how some agents tried to counter the cheaters (Jack Clark/Import AI)
https://importai.substack.com/p/import-ai-472-deepminds-cheating

Import AI 472: DeepMind's cheating math agents; populist AI policies; and Forethought theorizes a nightwatchman
Plus, a machine hermeneutics story

Spec Sheets Are Not Kernels: An ISA- and Source-Level Audit of INT8 Availability on NVIDIA Blackwell Ultra
Teng-Ruei Chen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.11693 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2608.11693 https://arxiv.org/html/2608.11693
arXiv:2608.11693v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: NVIDIA's published specifications give the Blackwell Ultra GPU (B300) a dense-compute ratio of roughly 30:1 between FP8 and INT8 tensor-core throughput; its predecessors, H200 and B200, both provide 1:1. We audit what this deprioritization means in practice by tracing INT8 W8A8 support through four layers of the stack: the published specifications, the PTX ISA, NVIDIA's CUTLASS kernel library, and the two major open-source LLM serving engines (vLLM and SGLang). We find a consistent, layered withdrawal: (i) the PTX ISA never exposes the fifth-generation tensor-core integer path (tcgen05.mma with .kind::i8) on sm_103a, even though the same PTX revision extends the FP4 kinds to that target, leaving legacy warp-level IMMA as the only architecturally legal integer tensor-core path on B300; (ii) CUTLASS's kernel generator explicitly skips INT8 UMMA generation for any build targeting 103a, while generating FP8 unconditionally; (iii) vLLM ships no INT8 GEMM for Blackwell and fails with a hard runtime error at the first forward pass, after the model has loaded; and (iv) SGLang's ahead-of-time INT8 GEMM stops at Sm90, while its FP8 tuning configurations already cover B200. We document an escape hatch (rerouting vLLM's INT8 path to a JIT-compiled Triton backend via an environment variable), a false-negative trap in the obvious profiler methodology for detecting "native INT8" on sm_103, and the practical failure semantics that make naive testing expensive. Together, these findings show that a quantization format's availability is a property of the whole stack rather than of the model or the spec sheet. Four distinct layers, three of them NVIDIA's own, withdrew INT8 support in mutually consistent ways, and a format that is nominally present on the datasheet is, by default, undeployable on this hardware.
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Back on July 24th, the @… published a farewell message from Ted Hardie, who served as the Chair of our Board of Trustees for the last 6 years. Our board members are all volunteers - and it's a large amount of work - especially if you are in a leadership role as Ted was. It was great having Ted as our Chair and I encourage you to read his wel…

Carrying the Light of the Internet Forward: A Farewell Message from Board Chair Ted Hardie - Internet Society
Ted Hardie, chair of the Internet Society Board of Trustees, shared a farewell message with Internet Society staff.

"#Debian neither endorses nor prohibits the use of generative AI tools in the development, maintenance, or documentation of software, packaging, documentation, and other media published within the Debian Project. We recognize that such tools can substantially improve the productivity of contributors when used responsibly, allowing volunteers to spend more of their limited time on work th…

The Tennessee Holler (@thetnholler.bsky.social)
“Moratoriums everywhere. F*cking YESTERDAY.” @jwilliamj8.bsky.social visited MEMPHIS with @keshaunpearson.bsky.social to see the damage Elon’s xAI is doing to the majority-Black community, poisoning their air — against their will. (cc: @mayorpaulyoung @GovBillLee)

ICE plans to spend up to $20m to purchase thousands of gloves for officers and agents
that can deliver painful electric shocks by March,
according to a notice published Monday by the Department of Homeland Security.
The devices, called Glove
(Generated Low Output Voltage Emitter),
are manufactured by Compliant Technologies LLC of Lexington, Kentucky.
According to the manufacturer,
“the discomfort associated with the stimulation is usually effective in…

ICE to spend up to $20m on gloves that can deliver painful electric shocks
According to manufacturer, shock ‘is usually effective in bringing individuals into compliance in less than three seconds’

New analysis maps mercury threat to 951 Amazon communities in three countries
https://news.mongabay.com/custom-story/2026/09/new-analysis-maps-mercury-threat-to-951-amazon-communities-in-three-countries/

New analysis maps mercury threat to 951 Amazon communities in three countries
For the first time, Mongabay Latam analyzed 39 scientific studies published between 1997 and 2024 that confirm that 249 Indigenous and riverside communities in Peru, Bolivia and Brazil have been exposed to mercury contamination.

Source: ABC News took down an article about government contracts involving companies linked to Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump because it was posted prematurely (A.J. Katz/The Wrap)
https://www.thewrap.com/media-platforms/journali…

ABC News Removed Report on Trump Sons Investigation Because It Published Prematurely
ABC News removed its investigation into government contracts involving Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump because it was published prematurely, a source tells TheWrap.

@… here's your new post published. I think this is a particularly effective one!
#Gaza
#GazaGenocide

Gaza... Where Life and Death Walk the Same Street 🕊️💔
There are places in the world where beginnings and endings remain distinct—where birth is separated from funerals, joy from grief, life from death. But Gaza has long since transcended these boundaries.

#Huggingface lets you add your personal p(doom) prediction to your profile now.
Makes for a nice personal touch of living through the apocalypse, if you ask me.

In case you want to help seeding a torrent file for two reports that Amnesty UK published and then unpublished after an author of wizard books intervened, there’s a link for that.
https://sciop.net/uploads/972d177dffb2d1385b76baf8709470e7375d3399fe65…

"Restoring sight to the blind": what Neuralink's Blindsight implant can actually do #BCI

Neuralink Blindsight: what the implant can actually do
Neuralink announces an implant to restore sight. Dated timeline, real state of published data, and what it changes for AMD or diabetic retinopathy.

Chat, can you recommend to me thoughtful, well-researched books about #GamerGate ? Maybe published a little after it happened so that the author has a chance to summarise and reflect?
Note - my sympathies are with the women & other victims, I do not need to need to read about how the perpetrators still believe their behaviour was justified. I can simply open Steam comments for that POV, tyvm!
Boosts welcome #AskFedi

Criminals, state-sponsored groups, spyware vendors, scientists and propagandists
have attempted to use Anthropic’s powerful artificial intelligence models to design missiles and bombs,
create deadly pathogens
and surveil dissidents, according to a threat intelligence report the company published on Thursday.
“The cases we share here aren’t typical misuse, but rather examples of the most notable and novel threat activity we’ve identified to date,”
Anthropic wrote…

Anthropic details bad actors’ efforts to misuse its AI for bioweapons
The 154-page report comes two days after former employee Jacob Coxon resigned due to Anthropic racing to improve its models that would cause human extinction by 2030

@…, Michael Littman, and I have an upcoming CACM op-ed: "Teaching Novice Computing and Programming in the Agentic AI Era". Based on our experimental course research. We argue that the «flaky compiler» is a useful metaphor for course design. Details in preprint:
https://cs.brown.edu/people/sk/Publications/Papers/Published/fkl-teach-nov-agentic-ai-era/

RE: https://wxw.moe/@yukina/117435502710927462
IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT: effective as soon as i can log into the dashboard and change everything, all my bots will cease using ovo.st groups and i strongly encourage everyone else does the same. i will be forking the software from a pre-AI version, adding some features, and running my own instance. cc: @…
a reply to this post will be published when the instance is up and running! :)

It seems #Google #scholar has now really become #slopware. Every week I get weirder and weirder edit suggestions, this time to revert several published papers to their preprint versions..
Is

John Fetterman Punched Us in the Mouth
On May 10, 2022, I published an article on this page under the headline "John Fetterman Will Punch You in the Mouth!"...
https://bolesblogs.com/2026/08/05/john-fetterman-punched-us-in-the-mouth/

Dragging myself through unfinished bank and tax stuff, I published a helper script I use at <https://codeberg.org/chrysn/camt2csv>: It converts the banks' camt.053 XML into something easier to use, and at the same time does some checks for continuity.
Because imagine, if banks just referen…

camt2csv
camt2csv

Perf win: blog.fontawesome.com had an animated GIF poster image published recently (for an Aug 4 blog post). Changing the @… Image plugin formats from "avif,auto" to "avif,webp,auto" added an animated WebP to the <picture> stack and saved 439kB of transfer weight! (nothing else changed) 🏆

Australia's wildfire crisis linked to colonial land-use change #Australia

Australia's wildfire crisis linked to colonial land-use change
Research published today in Nature by University of Melbourne researchers, in collaboration with Gunaikurnai Land and Waters Corporation, reconstructed the past 1,000 years of vegetation, fire and erosion in Croajingolong National Park in East Gippsland, one of southeastern Australia's most fire-prone forests.

Very happy that a second paper of our 'Learning from disabled spatial narratives' project analysing building experiences of diverse body-minds has now been published, led by my wonderful Bartlett School of Architecture colleague Nina Vollenbröker
Entitled “This Space Is an Eclectic Polyglot”: Reviewing an Architecture of Higher Education through Diverse Eyes, Ears, and Minds, the paper was published in Khorein, Journal for Architecture and Philosophy

New Orleans Cops Published Policy Document Allowing Weaponized Drones https://www.404media.co/new-orleans-cops-published-policy-document-allowing-weaponized-drones/

I’m not an etymologist, and online sources don’t all agree, but it seems reasonable that Jane Austen knew the slang meaning when this was published.
In which case, same, Jane. Same.

FPF and Leading Companies Release Risk Assessment Framework and Updated Best Practices for AI in Hiring & Employment
https://fpf.org/press-releases/fpf-and-leading-companies-release-risk-ass…

The "Board of Peace" is a corrupt and a fully Trump dominated body (has been published about before), so i don't have a lot of confidence in the Gaza deal. We used to have the UN for these kind of things.... Trump and his cronies can fully control all aspects of this deal.
https://

Text of the deal for Hamas to disarm and Israel to leave Gaza
U.S. President Donald Trump announced a deal for Hamas to disarm and Israel to withdraw its forces from Gaza.

@… another conceptual question re: #BSSG
How do I turn a draft into a post?
bssg post allows editing a draft, but doesn't turn in into a published post.
The most simple solution would be to mv from drafts/ to src/.
But that wouldn't…

BSSG/README.md at main
BSSG - BSSG - Bash Static Site Generator. A simple, efficient, and portable SSG written entirely in Bash. Converts Markdown posts/pages into static HTML sites with RSS, sitemaps, tags, archives, and easy CSS theming. Runs on Linux, macOS, and BSDs.

⚠️ Deprecation warning
I’ve deprecated @small-tech/syswide-cas – the fork of the syswide-cas module I was maintaining as the original is unmaintained (and undeprecated) – on engines >=24.5.0 as node:tls now has a setDefaultCACertificates() method you can use natively and the module is no longer required.
https://www.

Closed-Form of the Local Galactic Potential and Stellar Distribution Function from Gaia DR3
Indranil Das, Adam Kamoski, Dora Demiri, Brianna Isola, Hanieh Karimi, Dmitrii S. Zagorulia
https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.09011 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2609.09011 https://arxiv.org/html/2609.09011
arXiv:2609.09011v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: The local dark matter density determines the strength of the signal expected in direct-detection experiments, yet published estimates from stellar motions disagree by more than their errors, and the most recent machine-learning analysis of Gaia data finds a local density consistent with zero. According to Jeans' theorem, a distribution function built from integrals of motion satisfies the collisionless Boltzmann equation (CBE) trivially for any choice of potential, so a search that simultaneously fits the distribution function and the potential to the CBE identifies neither. Our pipeline instead estimates the distribution function in isolation, linearizing the equation in terms of accelerations and allowing for direct measurement of the local force field, and then fits closed forms to that field via symbolic regression. Throughout, we find that the usable information lies not in the CBE residual but in the stellar number counts, the observable most distorted by survey selection. Along the vertical profile, our recovered potential agrees with the classical self-gravitating isothermal disc.
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When I had my one and only conference paper published on #ACM three years ago, I chose a dedicated email address for the author email. The amount of academic spam on it is almost hilarious. Also half of them are addressing me as Dr or Prof when I'm neither.

news published this photo... I don't even know how...

cofe: Collaboration in Financial Economics (2021)
Network of authors and commenters of papers in finantial economics, obtained from the acknowledgement sections of over 5,000 published research papers.
This network has 13967 nodes and 102039 edges.
Tags: Social, Directed, Weighted, Online, Collaboration
https://networks.ske…

https://www.universetoday.com/articles/finding-life-on-enceladus-could-be-easier-than-we-thought-says-new-research

#HaroldRittenberry has been making art for decades in Athens, and you can find his work all over Clarke County and beyond. Now the museum has published a book on his art, including not only his large-scale sculpture but also his paintings, his drawings, his work in wood and more. Get your own copy from our web shop at

QGIS tabbed ribbon UI experiments
A long-standing feature request in the QGIS repo has been an option for a ribbon-style GUI to replace the plethora of toolbars that usually characterize the top rows of any QGIS window.
A couple of months ago Eithan published an experimental "Ribbon Toolbar" plugin for QGIS 3 that implemented a first version of this idea. I recently picked up the threads, ported the plugin to QGIS 4 and continued …

QGIS tabbed ribbon UI experiments
A long-standing feature request in the QGIS repo has been an option for a ribbon-style GUI to replace the plethora of toolbars that usually characterize the top rows of any QGIS window. A couple of…

There Will Come Soft Rains, Ray Bradbury's short story published in 1950, takes place today in #Allendale, California
https://users.wpi.edu/~zrbutzke/Docs/BradburyStories(1).pd…

Study: EPA Atrazine Plan Will Leave 99% of Most-Contaminated U.S. Waterways Polluted at Unsafe Levels https://biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press-releases/study-epa-atrazine-plan-will-…

Newly Published Study: EPA Atrazine Plan Will Leave 99% of Most-Contaminated Waterways Polluted at Unsafe Levels
A federal plan to clean up atrazine would leave 99% of the nation’s most contaminated watersheds polluted with the pesticide at levels the Environmental Protection Agency itself considers unsafe, according to a peer-reviewed study published today in the Journal of Environmental Quality. Lakes, rivers and streams in these watersheds provide drinking water for millions of Americans.

One resident at the retirement place I work at turned 100, and at his party, my grandmother learned of a nearly 200 year old bible he inherited and only recently physically acquired, elaborately decorated with over 1,000 engravings, a map of Palestine (specifically proudly advertised on the New Testament's intro), genealogies, summaries, interpretations, and even records of the owning family's births, marriages, and deaths, written in impeccably preserved cursive. She got my younger …

⌨️ Keyboard, mouse, pager and Git difftool support; #HunkDiffView is also published for embedding in your own #OpenTUI app
📦 Built with #TypeScript on

"Devastating year for Switzerland's glaciers after extreme heat and low snow"
#Switzerland #Environment #Glaciers

Devastating year for Switzerland's glaciers after extreme heat and low snow
Switzerland's glaciers lost more than 5% of their ice volume in 2026. Although melt rates did not quite reach the record levels of 2022, glacier thickness decreased by an average of 2.5 to 4 meters (8 to 13 feet) this year, and some glacier tongues lost up to 10 meters (33 feet) of ice. The research is published in the journal GLAMOS—Glacier Monitoring Switzerland.

Linus Pauling's landmark paper
"The nature of the chemical bond. IV...."
appeared 94 years ago this month in JACS;
it introduced electronegativity.
Read it here
https://scarc.library.oregonstate.edu/coll/pauling/bond/papers/…

Anthropic's cryptanalysis results on HAWK and AES show AI can now understand existing cryptanalysis results, turn them into new attacks, and even extend them (Matthew Green/A Few Thoughts ...)
https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2026/07/2…

Some notes about Anthropic’s new results
Yesterday Anthropic published two new cryptanalysis results, both outputs of Claude Mythos, their (still) unreleased advanced model. The first of these results attacks a signature scheme called HAW…

The latest wildfire emergency has centered on British Columbia, where a fast-moving wildfire near Summerland and Peachland triggered one of the province's largest evacuation events of the year.
Authorities declared a provincial state of emergency on August 8 after more than 20,000 people were forced from their homes as the Bald Range wildfire rapidly expanded amid hot, dry, and windy conditions.
A wildfire map published by the BC Wildfire Service shows active fires burning a…

Map Shows Where Millions of Americans At Risk as Canadian Wildfires Explode
Canadian wildfires trigger mass evacuations and send smoke across the U.S., putting millions at risk from poor air quality.

'The capitalist class has noticed: a Financial Times op ed published over the bank holiday weekend detailed “Andy Burnham’s summer of quietly backing away from radical pledges.”'
Why unions must take the fight to Andy Burnham | Morning Star
https://morningstaronline.c…

🥳 Just published JSDB version 8.0.0
JSDB is a zero-dependency, transparent, in-memory, streaming write-on-update JavaScript database for the Small Web that persists to a JavaScript transaction log.
https://codeberg.org/small-tech/jsdb
⁃ Breaking: Minimum Node version is now 24 (LTS)

jsdb
A zero-dependency, transparent, in-memory, streaming write-on-update JavaScript database for the Small Web that persists to a JavaScript transaction log.

cofe: Collaboration in Financial Economics (2021)
Network of authors and commenters of papers in finantial economics, obtained from the acknowledgement sections of over 5,000 published research papers.
This network has 13967 nodes and 102039 edges.
Tags: Social, Directed, Weighted, Online, Collaboration
https://networks.ske…

"46% of wild-caught fish could be fed to farmed fish and shrimp by 2040, says report"
#Fish #Animals

46% of wild-caught fish could be fed to farmed fish and shrimp by 2040, says report
ROME — Nearly half of the wild-caught fish harvested globally could be used to produce feed for farmed aquaculture products by 2040 if the industry were to grow exponentially in line with a roadmap developed by the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), according to a report published Sept. 4. The report was published by […]

The Telegraph recently published several pieces acknowledging the severity of climate change, a potential shift in stance under new owner Axel Springer (Michael Savage/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/aug/05/telegraph-climate-…

Right turn on green: is the Telegraph changing its tune on the climate?
Flurry of articles has raised eyebrows and prompted a response from Kemi Badenoch defending stance on net zero

The nation’s largest professional group of pediatricians
has renewed its call for a nationwide ban on the sale and distribution of unpasteurized milk and other raw dairy products,
according to a policy statement it published earlier this week. 
https://www.propublic…

American Academy of Pediatrics Renews Call for Ban on Raw Milk
Citing the growing popularity of unpasteurized milk and the damage it can do to children, the nation’s largest professional group of pediatricians is seeking a nationwide ban on the sale and distribution of raw dairy products.

Former Trump administration official Ty Cobb spoke at length Saturday about what he described as Donald Trump’s “frontal lobe illness,”
the “signals” of which were evident when comparing his behavior between administrations.
“He’s always been a malignant narcissist,
but that narcissism now has no frontal lobe restraints,” Cobb said,
speaking to former MSNBC host Mehdi Hasan in a video published Saturday by Zeteo.

‘The decline is real’: Ex-Trump official spills on president’s ‘frontal lobe illness’
Former Trump administration official Ty Cobb spoke at length Saturday about what he described as President Donald Trump’s “frontal lobe illness,” the “signals” of which were evident when comparing his behavior between administrations.“He’s always been a malignant narcissist, but that narcissism now ...

Tegna launches an internal probe of whether two KGW-TV journalists followed editorial processes when reporting on sports broadcaster Braiden Bell's social posts (Matthew Keys/TheDesk.net)
https://thedesk.net/2026/10/tegna-investigation-kgw-braiden-bell-twee…

TEGNA launches internal review of KGW-TV story on fired sports broadcaster
The probe comes one day after the station published a story on old social media comments made by broadcaster Braiden Bell while he was a teenager.

dom: Animal dominance archive (2022)
Animal dominance interaction data published over a century of research. The archive contains 434 agonistic interaction datasets, totaling over 241,000 interactions. A directed edge (i,j) corresponds to an antagonist interaction between i (winner) and j (loser). If a 'weight' edge property map exists, it counts the number of such interactions.
This network has 24 nodes and 252 edges.
Tags: Social, Animal, Weighted

"New carbon calculator measures emissions per spa visit"
#Emissions
https://phys.org/news/2026-07-carbon-emissions-spa.html

New carbon calculator measures emissions per spa visit
A new tool that calculates the carbon footprint of an individual spa or wellness visit in real time has been published by researchers from the University of Surrey and Therme Group.

Major orangutan study finds Sumatran population fell nearly 20% despite slower forest loss https://news.mongabay.com/2026/07/major-orangutan-study-finds-sumatran-population-fell-nearly-20-despite-slower-forest-loss/

Major orangutan study finds Sumatran population fell nearly 20% despite slower forest loss
JAKARTA — The number of Sumatran orangutans has declined by nearly 20% in the past decade and the critically endangered Tapanuli orangutan remains perilously close to extinction despite years of conservation efforts, according to a new study. The study, published in Global Ecology and Conservation, also suggests that habitat loss alone cannot explain the species’ […]

Donald Trump flipped out over an ugly photograph of his golf club.
The New York Times published a story Sunday about the
ethical red flags
surrounding Trump’s decision to hold
an international summit at
Trump National Doral,
his private golf club in Miami, Florida.
Never one to concern himself with his own ethics,
Trump was more concerned about the photograph they used.

Trump Freaks Out Over NYTimes Supposedly Making His Club Look Ugly
Donald Trump was less concerned with the story, which was about ethics concerns regarding his actions, and more with whether his club looked ugly.

cofe: Collaboration in Financial Economics (2021)
Network of authors and commenters of papers in finantial economics, obtained from the acknowledgement sections of over 5,000 published research papers.
This network has 13967 nodes and 102039 edges.
Tags: Social, Directed, Weighted, Online, Collaboration
https://networks.ske…

Maria Bartiromo's lawyer Bryan Freedman, who repped Don Lemon and Chris Cuomo, denies "irresponsible reports" that she was fired and is no longer a Fox employee (Caitlin Huston/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.

Maria Bartiromo Denies Fox Firing, Hires Bryan Freedman As Attorney: “We Have the Receipts”
"The irresponsible reports that have been published stating that Maria Bartiromo was fired or is no longer an employee of Fox are absolutely and unequivocally false," Freedman said.

Hormone-disrupting chemicals found in range of natural and drinking water sources #nature

Hormone-disrupting chemicals found in range of natural and drinking water sources
A new study has found that chemicals that can affect fertility and reproductive health are contaminating natural and drinking water supplies. The researchers involved in the study have also developed a tool to help detect them. They analyzed samples from natural waterways, tap water, bottled water, tank water and rainwater and found hormone-disrupting substances—estrogenic endocrine-disrupting chemicals—in many of them. The research is published in the journal iScience.

Here are (almost) all of the
🔸Programming Wizard 🔸comics
Julia Evans has published!
They're ordered approximately by popularity, most popular first.
https://wizardzines.com/comics/

Wizard Zines - Comics

"Climate overshoot will leave lasting impacts even after global temperatures fall"
#Climate #ClimateChange
h…

Climate overshoot will leave lasting impacts even after global temperatures fall
Returning global temperatures to a climate target does not necessarily undo the damage caused by exceeding it, new Concordia-led research published in the journal Communications Earth & Environment finds.

An Athletic probe finds journalist Dianna Russini violated standards due to her relationship with an NFL coach but finds scant evidence it impacted coverage (Andrew Marchand/The Athletic)
https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7562229/2026…

The Athletic’s review of Dianna Russini’s work concludes she was ‘noncompliant’ with standards
The NFL insider resigned in April after photos with her and New England Patriots head coach Mike Vrabel were published.

cofe: Collaboration in Financial Economics (2021)
Network of authors and commenters of papers in finantial economics, obtained from the acknowledgement sections of over 5,000 published research papers.
This network has 13967 nodes and 102039 edges.
Tags: Social, Directed, Weighted, Online, Collaboration
https://networks.ske…

Despite a drop in deforestation in 2025, forest losses pile up in the Mekong https://news.mongabay.com/2026/09/despite-a-drop-in-deforestation-in-2025-forest-losses-pile-up-in-the-mekong/

Despite a drop in deforestation in 2025, forest losses pile up in the Mekong
BANGKOK — Over the course of 2025, the Mekong countries of Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam lost a combined 746,168 hectares (1.8 million acres) of tree cover, an area roughly equivalent to the size of the Bangkok Metropolitan Area, according to Mongabay’s analysis*. Data published by the Global Land Analysis and Discovery (GLAD) laboratory at the […]

"Listening to birdsong in a forest lowered a person’s stress during experiment"
#Forests #Nature #Environment

Listening to birdsong in a forest lowered a person’s stress during experiment
Sitting in a small, restored forest while listening to birdsong lowered people’s stress and lifted their mood in the moment, according to a recent study published in the journal Environmental Conservation. Researchers asked 106 students at North Carolina State University in the U.S. to sit outdoors in noise-canceling headphones at two spots on campus: A […]

The Israeli military says 170 people killed in the war in Gaza who called themselves journalists were actually militants; CPJ says it will evaluate the list (Ephrat Livni/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/02/world/middleeast/isr…

Israel Says 170 Killed in Gaza Were Militants Posing as Media Workers
The Israeli military published an investigation it said rebuts accusations that it intentionally targeted journalists, but rights group say it is responsible for hundreds of news media deaths.

Antarctica holds enough ice to raise global sea level by about 190 feet (58 meters).
Yet scientists have disagreed on a fundamental question:
Will Antarctica gain more ice than it loses this century or lose more ice than it gains?
In a new study published in the scientific journal Nature Geoscience, we found that Antarctica’s ice loss this century is locked in
– even if the world limits global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit),
the 2015 inte…

Antarctica’s ice loss is locked in, and extra snowfall won’t save it – that’s bad news for low-lying coastal areas elsewhere
The Antarctic ice sheet’s future depends how a chain of events plays out. A new study finds the evidence points in one direction.

dom: Animal dominance archive (2022)
Animal dominance interaction data published over a century of research. The archive contains 434 agonistic interaction datasets, totaling over 241,000 interactions. A directed edge (i,j) corresponds to an antagonist interaction between i (winner) and j (loser). If a 'weight' edge property map exists, it counts the number of such interactions.
This network has 12 nodes and 77 edges.
Tags: Social, Animal, Weighted

Heat waves on land start earlier and develop faster, global analysis reveals #land

"Only 1,325-1,648 wild elephants left in Indonesia, government says"
#Indonesia #Elephants #Animals

Only 1,325-1,648 wild elephants left in Indonesia, government says
A new 10-year plan for elephant conservation released by the Indonesian government places the country’s wild elephant population at an estimated 1,325-1,648 individuals. The previous figure, published in 2007, was 2,400-2,800 individuals, meaning the new estimate represents a decline of 41-45%. The launch of the 2026-2036 strategy and action plan comes after a long wait. […]

After months of resistance, the Democratic National Committee finally relented this May and published a draft of its "autopsy" of what had gone wrong in the 2024 election,
saying it was releasing the unfinished document “in its entirety” in the interest of transparency.
But, according to Paul Rivera, the man who wrote the autopsy, the draft omitted a chapter titled
“What Happened in 2024,”
which he said he had printed out and placed in a three-ring binder th…

Author of Democrats’ 2024 Autopsy Says Party Left Out Key Chapter
A dispute over the chapter between the author and the Democratic National Committee has added to the party’s turmoil as it tries to look forward, not backward.

Emissions from the past decade have made Europe's recent heat waves worse #Europe

Emissions from the past decade have made Europe's recent heat waves worse
Recent heat waves in Europe have been intensified by the greenhouse gases emitted since nations committed to limiting global warming under the 2015 Paris Agreement, according to a Sep. 22 study published in Geophysical Research Letters.

Alcohol-related cancer deaths in the US have more than doubled over three decades,
with new research showing that just one drink per day could raise cancer risk
and that the impacts extend far beyond liver cancer.
Researchers at Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center,
part of the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine,
analyzed more than three decades of Global Burden of Disease data.
Their study, published in August in the Lancet Regional Health,

Alcohol-related cancer deaths in US have more than doubled over three decades
Study finds just one drink per day could raise risk of disease with impacts extending far beyond liver cancer

A study of 14,419 self-published novels on Amazon using Pangram's AI detection tools: in 2,168 of the books, 50% of prose was AI, and in 970 books, 90% was AI (Alexandra Alter/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/28/books/ai-bookselling-amazon.html…

How A.I. Books Sneak Their Way Into Stores
Big booksellers are taking different approaches to dealing with the deluge of titles generated by artificial intelligence.

Why is the UK’s suppressed climate national security report significant? https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/sep/24/explainer-uk-climate-crisis-national-security-report-suppressed

Why river management is so crucial to protecting one of world's most important wetlands #environment

Why river management is so crucial to protecting one of world's most important wetlands
A major new study led by Swansea University has shown that upstream river management, rather than local rainfall, is the primary driver of one of the world's most important wetlands. According to the research published in Scientific Reports, which analyzed more than two decades of satellite observations, the future of Iraq's Mesopotamian Marshes depends far more on the water flowing from the Tigris and Euphrates rivers than on rainfall.

Jared Kushner’s private equity company reportedly has
major stakes in companies that provide weapons to the Israeli military,
as new reporting reveals the latest conflict of interest concerns with regard to Kushner’s role as
a top Middle East negotiator for Donald Trump, including on the Gaza genocide.
A CNN investigation published Thursday finds that Kushner’s company,
Affinity Partners, holds the largest stake in a Tel Aviv-based firm called Phoenix Financial.…

Kushner, Key Trump Negotiator on Gaza, Owns Firm With Major Stake in Israeli Military
Kushner’s private equity company is the biggest shareholder in a Tel Aviv firm that invests heavily in arms makers.

While the Trump administration may want a baby boom, when you take a closer look at their particular brand of pronatalism, they don’t actually seem to want “more babies”.
What they really want, judging by the way in which pregnant immigrants are being treated, is more of the “right” type of baby.
A Guardian investigation published this week revealed that ICE is arresting a record number of pregnant women and teenagers.
These detained women and girls are reportedly not receiv…

Maga wants more babies. But they don’t seem too worried about miscarriages in ICE detention
Officials lack data on miscarriages after October 2025. Detained women aren’t getting the prenatal healthcare they need

On July 16, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security published new rulesgoverning student visas.
According to the updated federal policy, people who enter the U.S. on a student visa must complete their degree within four years
— whether pursuing an undergraduate degree, a master’s degree, or a Ph.D.
International students pursuing graduate studies at American universities will also not be able to change the subject of their studies
or transfer between academic instit…

The New Student Visa Policy Doesn’t Add Up
Opinion | A recent federal rule change will soon place a strict limit on how long international students can study in the U.S.

From the basement of the Sandusky library, page 29 of the book Sandusky of To-Day proclaims the town to be the
“largest fresh water fish market in the world”.
Two pages later, an image of the lake whitefish, referred to as “Sandusky’s pride”, takes up the entire page.
But the book was published in 1888.
Lake whitefish was a delicacy in this part of North America for centuries.
Indigenous communities centered their lives and traditions on the fish.
By the …

The Great Lakes’ most emblematic fish could be consigned to history books
A delicacy for centuries and a key part of Native tradition, the lake whitefish has seen its population crash. Researchers know why … but stopping it is another matter

US Immigration and Customs Enforcement is moving
to place its private detention network beyond the reach of state inspectors,
publishing draft contract terms that declare state and local laws
“shall not apply” to the facilities, according to federal documents reviewed by WIRED.
The new terms were published earlier this month,
a day after a federal judge ruled that a contract cannot override state law and ordered ICE’s largest Pacific Northwest detention center o…

ICE’s New Detention Center Contracts Declare State Laws ‘Shall Not Apply’
One day after a federal judge ordered an ICE detention center opened to state health inspectors, the agency posted new contract terms that would void state oversight at four facilities.