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Prime Video adds on-demand local and national news clips, initially on TVs, as it joins other streamers experimenting with short-form video to get young viewers (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/14/amazon-prime-video-take…

Amazon Prime Video takes on TikTok with short-form news clips | TechCrunch
Prime Video is adding on-demand local and national news clips as Amazon joins other streamers experimenting with short-form video to capture younger viewers.

Survey: 57% of US women and 47% of men ages 18 to 29 say they get health and wellness information from influencers; women say they see such content more often (Aaron Smith/Pew Research Center)
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/20

Nearly 6 in 10 young women get health and wellness information from influencers
Young women are especially likely to say they often see influencer content about beauty and appearance.

I just updated @…'s publicly shared notes server to use Astro, so it just went from Fast to Fast Ultra Max Plus.
I also just updated the changelog with everything that's been updated and added since July 19th, which is a lot!
And this note is served using the newly added Astro framework:

📋 Changelog for Recollect Notes App – 09/12/2026
September 12, 2026 – Faster, more secure public shared notes – The pages that show a note you've shared publicly — and collaboration invites — have been rebuilt on a new, lighter foundation. They now render as static HTML, so they load noticeably faster, and they're hardened with a strict security…

#ScribesAndMakers 13/08: Our next featured creator turned a short story into a novel. Have you ever done that, or the reverse?
I have, yes. It's a more than usually unpublishable novel, and it's of uneven quality, but I like it. It started off with someone else's short story that I really didn't like; I rewrote the plot of it as a short story of my own which I thoug…

Painted wind turbines can dramatically reduce bird deaths, study finds https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2026/10/painted-wind-turbines-can-dramatically-reduce-bird-deaths-study-finds/

Painted wind turbines can dramatically reduce bird deaths, study finds
Researchers found that painting one wind turbine blade black reduced bird deaths by 74%, an easy way to make wind power safer for birds.

There's also a #SRU library for Python, a bit less elaborate than #scythe for OAI. It's called sruthi (https://github.com/metaodi/sruthi

A look at AI world models, including how they work, what they can do, and what's still unsettled, as startups led by tech leaders like Yann LeCun raise billions (Samuel Axon/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/07/simulati…

Simulating everything, sort of: The promise and limits of world models
Experts explain how they work, what they can do, and what's still unsettled.

Oil pollution is drifting into marine protected areas, report finds https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2026/10/oil-pollution-is-drifting-into-marine-protected-areas-report-finds/

Oil pollution is drifting into marine protected areas, report finds
Oil slicks from vessels and offshore oil operations repeatedly drifted into marine protected areas around the world between 2022 and 2025, a new analysis has found. The report raises concerns for important habitats for a variety of marine life, including whales, dolphins, and sea turtles. Researchers from SkyTruth, a U.S.-based nonprofit that tracks oil pollution […]

Climate change boosted Spain wildfire risk 20-fold, research shows https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2026/07/climate-change-boosted-spain-wildfire-risk-20-fold-research-shows/

Climate change boosted Spain wildfire risk 20-fold, research shows
Human-induced climate change drastically fueled the weather behind recent devastating wildfires in France and Spain, according to a new rapid analysis by researchers studying the role of climate change on today’s extreme weather. In its report, the World Weather Attribution (WWA), a global network of researchers, noted that severe blazes scorched 140,000 hectares (346,000 acres) […]

A win-win, animal crossings make roads safer for wildlife and people https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2026/07/a-win-win-animal-crossings-make-roads-safer-for-wildlife-and-people/

A win-win, animal crossings make roads safer for wildlife and people
Worldwide, roads act as both death traps and barriers for wildlife, fragmenting the landscapes animals need to survive. However, ecologists and engineers are working to “reconnect the wild” through the strategic construction of wildlife crossings. As Mongabay contributor Ben Goldfarb reports, structures, including underpasses and massive overpasses paired with roadside fencing, have proved highly effective […]