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"No doubt about it: Climate change made Hurricane Melissa way worse"
#Climate #ClimateChange
htt…

No doubt about it: Climate change made Hurricane Melissa way worse
An analysis of the storm found “all aspects of this event were amplified by climate change, and that we'll see more of the same.”

Researchers say GPT 4.1, Claude 3.7 Sonnet, Gemini 2.5 Pro, and Grok 3 can reproduce long excerpts from books they were trained on when strategically prompted (Alex Reisner/The Atlantic)
https://www.

AI's Memorization Crisis
Large language models don’t “learn”—they copy. And that could change everything for the tech industry.

"[United Statesian] EPA modified sections of its website by deleting information about human-created greenhouse gases and the role they play in warming the planet. It also removed links to scientific data and information."
After all, if you pretend it isn't real, it goes away, dunnit?
EPA erases references to human-caused climate change from websites - E&E News by POLITICO

EPA erases references to human-caused climate change from websites
The agency revamped its webpages to feature natural causes of rising temperatures such as the Earth’s orbit.

Regime change in Iran could also weaken Russia further, so we have a clear European interest here, also with regard to the war in Ukraine. But ofcourse the most important thing is that the Iranian people with their rich history and culture can enjoy more freedom.
#iranprotests #geopolitics

Allen Jones will speak on 'Drasi- A New Take on Change-Driven Architectures' as part of our Cloud Native Days track at SCaLE 23x. Full details: https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/23x

The abominations by #ICE continue to increase. #CHN_Action has simple letter to Congress asking them not provide more funding to ICE and DHS until they take responsibility for their abusive behavior - and change their approach. It's easy to send to your Congresspeople; it's easy to customize. You …

Demand Congress stop funding DHS’ and ICE’s inhumane and lethal tactics amidst ongoing investigations.
Reckless disregard for human life is rampant in the Trump administration’s attacks on immigrants and their neighbors and supporters. From Chicago to California, immigrants have been killed during ICE raids and traffic stops. And there have been at least eleven non-fatal shootings by ICE and Border Patrol agents in places around the country, including another two victims in Portland, Oregon.   The killing of Renee Nicole Good by ICE agents in Minneapolis is not an isolated tragedy, bu…

The abominations by #ICE continue to increase. #CHN_Action has simple letter to Congress asking them not provide more funding to ICE and DHS until they take responsibility for their abusive behavior - and change their approach. It's easy to send to your Congresspeople; it's easy to customize. You …

Demand Congress stop funding DHS’ and ICE’s inhumane and lethal tactics amidst ongoing investigations.
Reckless disregard for human life is rampant in the Trump administration’s attacks on immigrants and their neighbors and supporters. From Chicago to California, immigrants have been killed during ICE raids and traffic stops. And there have been at least eleven non-fatal shootings by ICE and Border Patrol agents in places around the country, including another two victims in Portland, Oregon.   The killing of Renee Nicole Good by ICE agents in Minneapolis is not an isolated tragedy, bu…

"We are all capable of the change we seek, and we must not let the distractions of unyielding thoughts—'I can’t, I shouldn’t, or someone else will do it'—lead us into a place of complacency."
—Living Village resident Sheena Lefaye Crews ’28 M.Div. writing in the new issue of Reflections in her piece "A Villager’s Dream of Sustainable Faith."

Researchers say GPT 4.1, Claude 3.7 Sonnet, Gemini 2.5 Pro, and Grok 3 can reproduce long excerpts from books they were trained on when strategically prompted (Alex Reisner/The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/01/ai-memorization-research/6…

AI's Memorization Crisis
Large language models don’t “learn”—they copy. And that could change everything for the tech industry.

🧬 Largest RNA language model to date offers new way to predict behavior and boost drug discovery
#rna

Largest RNA language model to date offers new way to predict behavior and boost drug discovery
RNA plays a vital role in how our genes are expressed and how diseases develop. Yet, because RNA molecules constantly change shape, understanding how they work has long been a major scientific challenge.

A man blinded by greed, drunk on oil, hungry for more, deaf to the cost.
#Venezuela

This mead tastes like... Eeew! 😉
#honey

Lanternfly honey has arrived. Just don’t ask how it’s made.
The impact of spotted lanternflies is showing up in a less obvious way: It’s changing honey. Exactly how that change happens may not be the best selling point.

Alright, the internet is all too much right now. I'm gonna take a break for a bit and work on some projects. I have some organizing to do and some bugs to find.
The horrible things in the world don't change what we have to do. Our work is and has always been the same. They may make it easier to get other folks on board, they may make it more obvious that we were right all along, but they don't change our job.
We will do our work of building community, supporting each other, and creating the world we want to see. It will take as long as it takes to do. None of the news changes any of that. So I'm gonna take my break and hopefully come back after I've gotten some of that shit done.
Slow is smooth, smooth is fast. Remember that when you start to feel guilty about taking a breath.

A lesson in growth for the Chancellor from people who understand long term investment.
"Development corporations — public bodies that drive new housebuilding and regeneration — should be able to “borrow outside the fiscal rules” in line with other European countries, said the letter, which was seen by the Financial Times."
FT:

Ease borrowing curbs for development schemes, gilt investors urge Reeves
Aviva and Legal & General warn chancellor that push to boost growth will be inhibited without change

"Nowhere to move: How climate change became the property market’s biggest nightmare"
#Climate #ClimateChange

How climate change has become the property market’s biggest threat
From plummeting house prices to insurable homes, climate change is impacting the property market around the world.

It’s quite possible there’s not one thing that will stop Trump: pictures of dead US Service men and women.
I have a feeling that will change things really quickly.
#uspolitics #trump

Had sooooo much fun at Placeholder Club last night!
Wore my Goober avatar for a change :neofox_happy:
#VRChat #VR #VRC

Challenges That Change Us
Discover the transformative power of resilience and personal growth in a captivating podcast hosted by Ali Flynn...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/challenges-that-change-us/

Had to time-shift the match.
The change to the diamond 4-4-2 provided some needed stability. It is a more conservative setup from Slot, who prefers a more aggressive shape and ultimately wants to allow his attacking midfield to be able to freely rotate and drift into spaces, causing overloads, vacancies, and defensive confusion.
But when a team is in a rut and needs to stop the bleeding, the old standard works. Everyone knows a 4-4-2 and confusion in duties is largely eliminated.…

Chinese state-backed chipmaker Hygon, which makes server CPUs, calls off merger with its top shareholder and server maker Sugon; the merger was announced in May (Wataru Suzuki/Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/business/technology/c…

Chinese chipmaker Hygon calls off merger with top shareholder
Shares fall as companies blame 'market environment' for change of plan

TIL:
If you have your Samsung T7 Touch SSD encrypted with a password (and maybe a fingerprint) ..and you want to remove the encryption (or delete/change password/fingerprint).... Your device (MS Win) has to be connected to the internet. Otherwise the neccessary software just hangs after unlocking the SSD.
WTAF Samsung. For real.
This lead me to two questions:
1. What are the odds that passwords and fingerprints are casually transfered to some Samsung service? (Rhetor…

Are you racing against time or listening to it?
We live by the clock. We measure speed and fear being late. But there is another kind of time.
A time of ripeness. Of openings. Of things becoming ready.
What if change isn't about hurrying? What if it's about sensing when conditions align?
Read more: ⬇️

Why Time Isn’t Running Out: Finding Kairos in an Age of Collapse
What if time isn’t running out but ripening? Learn how Chronos and Kairos reveal a new path through urgency, collapse, and renewal.

State Department will delete all its tweets sent prior to second Trump presidency.
In many ways this is bad, but it's also understandable - there's a balance between continuity and demonstrating change when administrations change. In many ways it's a failure of X to not provide a labelling system to automatically mark posts as being from a previous administration and not necessarily reflecting policy.

These days, the songs I keep getting stuck in my head are the title song (and transitions) from “Merrily We Roll Along” (#Sondheim) and @… ‘s “Changes.” I guess I just noticed they’re both about change over time!…

If you installed the latest #Manjaro stable update and instead of a booting system you now have one getting stuck at
"symbol grub_memcpy not found"
you may want to go into your BIOS and change the boot device order. For me in addition to "Windows Boot Manager" and "UEFI OS" an additional "Manjaro" has shown up. Selecting this instead of UEFI…

'Dr. Aaron Thierry‪ @thierryaaron.bsky.social: "This is not just a slight warming; it is a fundamental change in how people will have to survive on the continent.
Once regions in Africa enter a state of almost continuous heatwaves, the human body will have no window of time to recover." '

Heat with no end: climate model sets out an unbearable future for parts of Africa
#Africa #ClimateChange #ClimateEmergency

This has allowed me to make clear something that's been at the back of my mind. Something that is at the heart of so much blind stupidity in big tech.
It's the assumption that we will change one thing and all else will be the same.
In this case, we will fire lots and lots of employees all over the world and we will make lots of profit. We're smart enough to make the AI, and we're dumb enough to think that there will only be one consequence. 1/n

I'm betting on Betteridge's Law for this one. https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6936576/2026/01/06/heated-rivalry-nhl-hockey-culture-change/

Hit show ‘Heated Rivalry’ became a TV phenomenon. Can it change hockey culture?
The show has taken over pop culture and is opening up conversations about a complex topic within hockey.

#𝗧𝗘𝗥𝗠𝗜𝗡𝗘
20.04.-19.06.2026 09.10.-04.12.2026
Pioneers of Change:
Hosting für Kulturwandel
Ich arbeite im Team mit und begleite eine Praxisgruppe.
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Onlinekurs – Hosting für Kulturwandel
Gruppenprozesse authentisch leiten und begleiten mit Art of Hosting, eine Schlüsselkompetenz für nachhaltigen Kulturwandel.

How AI is impacting the romance novel industry, with authors failing to disclose AI use and using pen names more, bogging down the publishing ecosystem (Alexandra Alter/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/08/busines

Can AI Chatbots Write Emotionally Rich Romance Books?
The romance industry, always at the vanguard of technological change, is rapidly adapting to A.I. Not everyone is on board.

"Plagued by Flooding, an African City Reengineers Its Wetlands"
#Africa #Wetlands #Environment

Plagued by Flooding, an African City Reengineers Its Wetlands
As climate change and urbanization intensify flooding in Rwanda, the hilly capital of Kigali has embraced nature-based solutions. The city is restoring and reshaping 18,000 acres of degraded wetlands, planting native species to filter and slow runoff and enhancing biodiversity.

MTG is still a 'MAGA loyalist'. She refuses to disavow former statements/insults, etc. (60 Min. interview), so she's just pointing out Trump's fall from grace.
Former MAGA loyalist Marjorie Taylor Greene says Trump policies are not America First - CBS News
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/marjorie-taylor-greene-trump-relationship-change-60-minutes/

I have a Roblox account because my son plays and that's the only way to mange the parental controls. I tried to change my email address and I don't have the option. I contacted support and they were supremely unhelpful. Basically suggesting I have my son enroll a new parent (which apparently he can do with out my say so). When I pushed back, this is all they send in response to my messages. This is the third time I've received the identical message.

😁 Disrupting bacterial 'chatter' could tip the balance for better oral health
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-11-disrupting-bacterial-chatter-oral-health.html

Disrupting bacterial 'chatter' could tip the balance for better oral health
Like all living things, bacteria adapt to survive. Over time, bacteria have been developing resistance to common antibiotics and disinfectants, which poses a growing problem for health care and sanitation. However, many species of bacteria are beneficial and even essential for human health. What if there was a way to change the behavior of bacteria in the body to prevent illness and poor health outcomes?

Crunchyroll announces it is shutting down its free ad-supported streaming option on December 31; Crunchyroll subscriptions start at $7.99/month or $79.99/year (Luke Bouma/Cord Cutters News)
https://cordcuttersnews.com/crunchyroll-is-shutting-down-its-free…

Crunchyroll is Shutting Down Its Free Ad-Supported Plan | Cord Cutters News
Crunchyroll will eliminate its ad-supported free tier on December 31, 2025, ending the last remaining way to legally watch anime on the platform without paying a subscription fee. The change, delivered unceremoniously through an in-player message that replaced a scheduled advertisement, marks the quiet conclusion of an option that had persisted, in increasingly limited form, […]

"Riders on the Storm" global collaboration via Playing for Change. (Not the best cover the organization has done, but... interesting.)
#TheDoors

@… Ah shit, I fucked it up. The actual icons really are called vivaldi in our upstream package. I undid the change for the desktop file but also changed the icons. Damn it. I need to remove that from SBo pending, fix it and submit again. Wait a moment.

The #WordPress List View isn’t very useful by default with complex blocks. This experiment defaults to expanding 20 items more evenly across block levels, with options to change that number.

"‘Doomsday Glacier’ is melting faster than we thought. Can a 150-metre wall stop it flooding Earth?"
#Glaciers #Climate #ClimateChange

Why scientists want to build a wall along the ‘Doomsday Glacier’
The ‘Doomsday Glacier’ already contributes four per cent of annual sea level rise, but can the consequences of climate change be barricaded off?

Some wonder how humanoid #robots will change our world.
I wonder how humanoid robots will fashion their world.

Crunchyroll announces it is shutting down its free ad-supported streaming option on December 31; Crunchyroll subscriptions start at $7.99/month or $79.99/year (Luke Bouma/Cord Cutters News)
https://cordcuttersnews.com/crunchyroll-is-shutting-down-its-free…

Crunchyroll is Shutting Down Its Free Ad-Supported Plan | Cord Cutters News
Crunchyroll will eliminate its ad-supported free tier on December 31, 2025, ending the last remaining way to legally watch anime on the platform without paying a subscription fee. The change, delivered unceremoniously through an in-player message that replaced a scheduled advertisement, marks the quiet conclusion of an option that had persisted, in increasingly limited form, […]

Der Klimawandel ist real und bedroht die Ernährung im bevölkerungsreichsten Land der Erde, berichtet mein Kollege @… aus Indien.
"Die traditionellen Anbauflächen werden aufgrund des Salzgehalts und der Bodendegradation um 15-20% schrumpfen."
Geopolitical conflicts derail global fight against hunger amid climate threats, scienti…

Geopolitical conflicts derail global fight against hunger amid climate threats, scientists warn
NEW DELHI: India could lose a significant share of its land, crop productivity and nutritional quality due to climate change-induced rising temperatures, partic

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Imagine making a social media bot and not having a API change kill your bot. COULDN'T BE ME.

From 1981 to 2016, hermit thrushes migrating through Chicago became smaller, with shorter bills and longer wings, relative to body size— there are genetic changes associated with shortening bills, but not the other changes
Genetic and morphological shifts associated with climate change in a migratory bird https://doi.org/10.11…

Have tidied up kwin_wayland patch to change the hardcoded gestures to sensible defaults, and I am working my way through implementing a file-based configuration interface for all possible inbuilt gestures that kwin_wayland can send. I'm not sure if this is all going to work thanks to Wayland's certifiably insane paranoid security model, but at least I should be able to let you decide how many fingers to swipe with what direction of swipe triggers a built-in gesture in the wm.

The client sometimes thinks that some things are automatic. They just don't see how much work team members do in the background to ensure that pay statements and tax slips are generated, on time and correct.
This weekend was a trial run in one of our test environments in preparation for the February tax run. Our team lead had an issue and I was called in to diagnose and fix (overtime of course) a problem that never happened before. It was a minor change and I fully documented …

🪸 Tree rings of the sea: How environmental conditions influence microalgae and coral communities
https://phys.org/news/2025-11-tree-sea-environmental-conditions-microalgae.html

Tree rings of the sea: How environmental conditions influence microalgae and coral communities
An international research team led by marine biologist Prof. Dr. Maren Ziegler from Justus Liebig University Giessen (JU) has developed an innovative method for reconstructing the past of corals and their symbiosis with algae by drilling into coral skeletons. The results, published in Global Change Biology, offer new insights into changes in symbiotic single-celled algae species that are crucial to the survival of coral reefs.

🛰️ I'm on Bluesky!
You can follow me at:
@brichapman.com
https://bsky.app/profile/brichapman.com

Bri Chapman - for people and planet 💖 (@brichapman.com)
➡️ systems thinking ➡️ multi-passionate leadership ➡️ climate change solutions ➡️ success, impact, and meaning forpeopleandpla.net https://brichapman.com

Dark Visitors is now Known Agents.
A very interesting name change … 🤔
https://knownagents.com/

Track, control, and optimize your website for AI agents and bots
Use Known Agents to turn the rising wave of AI agents, LLM assistants, and other bots crawling your website into a new growth channel for your business

TSLA is under $400.😈
And what made you happy today?
Now, please, go under $200!🤞

In a graph, the decline of the internal combustion engine in German automobile manufacturing, and the (slightly slower, and delayed) rise of electric drivetrains.
Will the average "Auto made in Germany" be one with a plug as of this year?

Different Corners V ▶️
不同的角落 V ▶️
📷 Nikon F4E
🎞️ Fujifilm NEOPAN SS, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

#MAGA isn't "newly" buying into #Trump's racism, greed & immorality.
Their worldview is ALREADY about racism, greed & immorality: There's no 'listening & rationalizing' that will change their opinion. It's who they are.
We need to educate the nex…

OpenAI says it has started testing ads in ChatGPT in the US for logged-in adult users on the Free and Go tiers and that the ads do not change ChatGPT answers (OpenAI)
https://openai.com/index/testing-ads-in-chatgpt/

Journalists really want prime ministers to change every 10 minutes. I like #bbcpaddy very much on #BBCBroadcsstingHouse, but even he can't rescue the wreck that #BBCNewsnight has become, I…

with the latest change, git-pages is now fully incremental: whether you're deploying from a git repositroy or from a directory via the CLI, it doesn't reupload files that are already a part of your site (± some corner cases)

Bye bye Heroku https://www.heroku.com/blog/an-update-on-heroku/

Maybe an year ago, I was listening to an interview with Albanese where she spoke how powerless she was to stop genocide in Gaza. I thought that as an UN rapporteur, she only had to try and would change much. Later she tried, and got smashed by US politics in a blatant eradication of any civic common sense.
I guess I feel that in some way it is my fault. People like me who have encountered her have nudged her, and now she pays the price. I still feel it is a small price one in her posit…

Francesca Albanese tells Al Jazeera US sanctions have made her ‘non-person’
At Doha Forum, UN rapporteur Francesca Albanese said US sanctions imposed over Gaza have cut her from financial systems.

self driving is a lie which musk and others have lied about since 2015 at least. I believe it will work sometime after 2030 with some sort of breakthrough but i'd rather spend the money on i don't know climate change and feeding people or something :-)
https://mastodon.social/@JoBlakely/116

RE: https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/115667851752440301
Small change.
The bloody fascist propaganda machine he turned twitter into should simply be banned instead.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@nixCraft/115835690251372850
Fascinating chart of the decrease in Stack Overflow questions … and fascinating thread of replies. The answer seems a bit more complex for Stack Overflow… their change in moderation policy in 2023 a…

Trump pulls US from global groups including UN climate change agencies
https://www.axios.com/2026/01/08/trump-withdraws-international-organizations-un-climate

OpenAI says it has started testing ads in ChatGPT in the US for logged-in adult users on the Free and Go tiers and that the ads do not change ChatGPT answers (OpenAI)
https://openai.com/index/testing-ads-in-chatgpt/

The director of IBM's Research Lab has some bold takes on the future of computation.
We're on the cusp of two simultaneous technological revolutions - #AI and #quantum - that will fundamentally change how the world uses computers to solve difficult problems.
There have only been two c…

IBM predicts a computation revolution
Quantum and AI are ushering in a whole new range of algorithmic possibilities, says IBM’s research lead.

What a week.
Feels good to have slept a bit for a change.

YAY! Excellent resource. Site Renewables Right: A Clean and Green Energy Future
https://www.nature.org/en-us/what-we-do/our-priorities/tackle-climate-change/climate-change-stories/site-wind-right/
And it…

Site Renewables Right: Accelerating a Clean and Green Energy Future
To help tackle climate change, we must accelerate deployment of clean energy sources, like wind and solar power. So, how can we do that in ways that ensure that allows people and nature to thrive? This online map will help.

Husband is still wielding a bandaged hand but is basically managing everything himself now (day 4) 'cos he's a stubborn old bugger.
Off to the GP on Wednesday to change the dressings and hopefully he'll be permitted less obtrusive wrappings.
Hospital checkup booked for 3 months time.
He's not allowed to do anything physically strenuous for the 6 weeks after the carpal tunnel op. He fudged the medical directives but I always check the paperwork for myself beca…

YAY! Excellent resource. Site Renewables Right: A Clean and Green Energy Future
https://www.nature.org/en-us/what-we-do/our-priorities/tackle-climate-change/climate-change-stories/site-wind-right/
And it…

Site Renewables Right: Accelerating a Clean and Green Energy Future
To help tackle climate change, we must accelerate deployment of clean energy sources, like wind and solar power. So, how can we do that in ways that ensure that allows people and nature to thrive? This online map will help.

@… That is definately a solid way to fix it. Just change this
tar -acvf ../../../../../$target.zip *
to
tar -acvf ../../../../../$target.tar.gz *
(for gzip/deflate)
or if you want something smaller
tar -acvf ../../../../../$target.tar.xz *

Beyond Resistance — #climate…

Ikigai and Eudaimonia: Rethinking Activism as Purpose, Balance, and Lifelong Growth
Activism doesn’t have to be burnout. Drawing from Ikigai and Eudaimonia, this essay explores how purpose, alignment, and integrity can transform resistance into creation — turning social change into a sustainable path of meaning, balance, and flourishing.

"When we ask who is a part of building this new world, we must understand that WE ALL ARE. "
—A. Kazimir Brown ’19 M.Div., writing in the new issue of Reflections, focused on "A Faith that Sustains: Building Hope for a Living Planet." https://

He's just whining because they won't change the name to Trumpflix. 😏
And it will be too much competition for state-run media outlet Paramount / Skydance
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2025/dec/08/trump-netflix-warner-b…

Trump warns Netflix’s $83bn deal for Warner Bros poses competition concerns
President vows to get involved in controversial takeover described as ‘unprecedented’ by ex-chair of regulator

I’ve decided that the EU should change the law that requires all new cars to be fitted with lane-departure warning to now be to require steering wheel heating.

So much for Regime change I guess?//Fear grips Caracas as a new wave of repression is unleashed in Venezuela - The Washington Post https://apple.news/AzjBpBQYEQBavvbmSgYpuUA

Fear grips Caracas as a new wave of repression is unleashed in Venezuela — The Washington Post
Venezuela’s government launched a far-reaching crackdown after Maduro’s ouster, detaining journalists and civilians and sending armed gangs to the streets.

"How to spot climate misinformation on social media"
#Climate #ClimateChange #SocialMedia

How to spot climate misinformation on social media
Yale Climate Connections is a nonpartisan, multimedia service providing daily broadcast radio programming and original web-based reporting, commentary, and analysis on the issue of climate change.

Change board meeting next week. Short briefs on mini releases that I did since December. Also asking that if someone updates what screens are presented to the users in production you MUST brief the change board first. Document why it is needed, what the changes are, who makes the changes, where in the system it is and when! There are dates that are blocked from any changes except for emergencies. Then a backup plan, deployment plan and rollback plan.

(Long) before 7.7 we had an option for opt-in automated crashlog upload but only a small sub-selection were actually processed. Now they pretty much all are (so long as you are running the latest version).
That is the change. After that we could investigate and prioritise better.

Regime change is foolish, states are foolish, power just keeps circling, and somehow we still clap. The more you know.

minimizing carbon footprint vs maximizing impact on the problem of climate change
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGR4z8TeYTo

Hydrogen, das war einmal.
A name change heralds the end of hopes for hydrogen as a mainstream mobility solution for Germany.
https://www.now-gmbh.de/en/news/pressreleases/driven-by-change-now-enters-2026-with-a-new-name-and-logo/…

Driven by change: NOW enters 2026 with a new name and logo - NOW GmbH
Aus der „Nationalen Organisation Wasserstoff- und Brennstoffzellentechnologie" wird die „Nationale Organisation für den Wandel in der Mobilität". Mit neuem Namen und neuem Logo passt die bundeseigene Gesellschaft ihr öffentliches Erscheinungsbild ihrem seit Jahren gewachsenen Produktportfolio an.

I am now running both Touchegg and Fusuma simultaneously. Fusuma passes through all events to the underlying window, which means in a full-screen VNC/RDP session I'm not able to 4-finger-swipe my way to another desktop. Touchegg still catches that event fine, and switches desktop, but it doesn't work under Wayland. My UX is still miles better in X11. Under Wayland, I'll just have to give up using a 4-finger swipe to change desktops while in a full-screen VNC/RDP session. This is…

"In the world's driest desert, Chile freezes its future to protect plants"
#Chile #Plants #Environment

Starmer campaigned on "Change" (that empty signifier). Gave us instead a reheated, serially corrupt establishment apparatchik.
Chickens and perches come to mind.

Heroku says it is transitioning to a "sustaining engineering model", as it focuses on "helping organizations build and deploy enterprise-grade AI" (Nitin T Bhat/Heroku)
https://www.heroku.com/blog/an-update-on-heroku/

An Update on Heroku
Today, Heroku is transitioning to a sustaining engineering model focused on stability, security, reliability, and support. Heroku remains an actively supported, production-ready platform, with an emphasis on maintaining quality and operational excellence rather than introducing new features. We know changes like this can raise questions, and we want to be clear about what this means for customers. There is no change for customers using Heroku today. Customers who pay via credit card in the Her…

⚽ Beth Mead: ‘If we don’t adapt to climate change, football becomes a privilege, not a right‘
https://www.theguardian.com/football/2025/nov/19/beth-mead-climate-change-football

Beth Mead: ‘If we don’t adapt to climate change, football becomes a privilege, not a right‘
The Arsenal and England forward is backing new global campaign because talent and teamwork should decide the game – not the climate

"Climate change is affecting your food – and not in your favour"
#Climate #ClimateChange
http…

Climate change is affecting your food – and not in your favour
Our food is becoming more calorifc, less nutritious – and possibly more toxic.

RE: https://social.vivaldi.net/@vivaldiversiontracker/115852762449963455
@… I lined up a change

Jumping genes are causing genetic changes in polar bears | The Week
https://theweek.com/environment/jumping-genes-polar-bears-dna-climate-change-arctic-genetics

Hundreds of Immigration Agents Left Minnesota, but Residents Report Little Change - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/us/minnesota-ice-agents-deployment.html

"Researchers slightly lower study's estimate of drop in global income due to climate change"
#Climate #ClimateChange

Researchers slightly lower study's estimate of drop in global income due to climate change
The authors of a study that examined climate change's potential effect on the global economy said Wednesday that data errors led them to slightly overstate an expected drop in income over the next 25 years.

Beyond Resistance — #substack

Ikigai and Eudaimonia: Rethinking Activism as Purpose, Balance, and Lifelong Growth
Activism doesn’t have to be burnout. Drawing from Ikigai and Eudaimonia, this essay explores how purpose, alignment, and integrity can transform resistance into creation — turning social change into a sustainable path of meaning, balance, and flourishing.

Two studies suggest AI chatbots can shift political views more effectively than TV campaign ads, especially by presenting many claims, regardless of accuracy (Will Oremus/Washington Post)

Voters’ minds are hard to change. AI chatbots are surprisingly good at it.
New research suggests AI chatbots can shift people’s political views more effectively than campaign ads on TV.

Sportswriters at WaPo say they spent the last two years seeking guidance for reinvention from top editors, but never saw leaders support visionary ideas (Bryan Curtis/The Ringer)
https://www.theringer.com/2026/02/04/media/washington-post-sports-department-d…

Death of a Sports Section
The Washington Post sports department was dismantled before its leaders gave it a chance to change

"Climate change could lead to 500,000 ‘additional’ malaria deaths in Africa by 2050"
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Climate change could lead to 500,000 ‘additional’ malaria deaths in Africa by 2050 - Carbon Brief
Climate change could lead to half a million more deaths from malaria in Africa over the next 25 years, according to new research.

Snowboarder Maddie Mastro and other athletes are using a new AI tool powered by Google DeepMind's computer-vision models to prepare for the 2026 Winter Olympics (Isabelle Bousquette/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-ai-change

"2025 was one of three hottest years on record, scientists say"
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2025 was one of three hottest years on record, scientists say
Climate change worsened by human behavior made 2025 one of the three hottest years on record, scientists said.

"Climate change made Australian heat wave 5 times more likely"
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Climate change made Australian heat wave 5 times more likely
Human-induced climate change made the intense early January heat wave in Australia five times more likely, according to a new analysis by World Weather Attribution.

"Hague orders Dutch government to protect residents on this sinking island from climate change"
#Netherlands #Climate #ClimateChange

Dutch government ordered to protect sinking island from climate change
In a sweeping victory for Bonaire residents, The Hague District Court has ruled that Dutch authorities had discriminated against the island's inhabitants.

"‘Emotional traps’ and fake experts: How to spot climate disinformation in 2026"
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‘Alternative truths’: How the EU is tackling climate disinformation
As the threat of climate change accelerates, the EU has strengthened its commitment to fight disinformation.