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Coming Soon, From the People Behind ICE Detention Camps: Data Center Company Towns
https://gizmodo.com/coming-soon-from-the-people-behind-ice-detention-camps-data-center-company-towns-2000731145

"Used Diapers Turned into New Ones Thanks to Super-Recycling Japanese Towns and New Innovation"
#Japan #Recycling

Used Diapers Turned into New Ones Thanks to Super-Recycling Japanese Towns and New Innovation
The process uses ozone, a sterilizing gas, to clean and deodorize the pulp to the point that it passes sanitary requirements.

Trump’s mass deportation plan has broken the quiet of small US towns: ‘We have to take care of each other’ | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/apr/05/trump-deportation-rural-towns-wisconsin

Super Bowl 60 Seahawks vs. Patriots cross-sport props, picks vs. Karl-Anthony Towns, other NBA stars Sunday

https://www.cbssports.com/betting/news/sup

Really good article for urban #permaculure. #retrosuburbia https://

Report Finds IVM Can Be Greener and Less Costly for ROW Management
Urban forests are critical to the resilience and sustainability of our cities and towns, offering ecosystem services

Chile wildfires rage for third day, entire towns wiped out #Chile

Chile wildfires rage for third day, entire towns wiped out
Wildfires that have killed 20 people in southern Chile and wiped out entire towns raged for a third day Monday, fanned by warm temperatures and strong winds at the height of the southern hemisphere summer.

Weekly Climate Solutions Digest #21!! 💖🌊✨
https://www.forpeopleandpla.net/weekly-climate-solutions-digest-21/?utm_source=bri-mastodon&utm_medium=social&src=mstdn

Weekly Climate Solutions Digest
Welcome February light has a new confidence. In northern towns, snowdrops spear the soil and maples hold a quiet pressure of sap. South of the equator, cicadas stitch the warm air and late sunsets float like lanterns. It feels like the world is leaning toward growth. That same lift runs

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
White Town:
🎵 Your Woman
#NowPlaying #WhiteTown
https://jamesdalgliesh.bandcamp.com/track/tribute-to-white-towns-your-woman-2
https://open.spotify.com/track/3UBItNVbFQiVC5hBQlBvnr

'Serious cyberattack' impacts phones, public safety systems in Massachusetts towns
https://www.wcvb.com/article/cyberattack-town-public-safety-systems-patriot-regional/70908585

Almost exact repeat of April 4, 1976 winter storm in the #Fargo #Moorhead area: April 4, 2026 (left); news report in Forum newspaper from 50 years ago (right). #Minnesota

Dawn, returning from Orlando yesterday

Students presented their work in my Canadian history grad seminar today: 2 papers on hockey (obviously) - QC and ON pro women's hockey in WWI and 1900-20s men's hockey in BC (refrigerated rinks); a venerable QC cookbook (La cuisine raisonnée); women in the RCAF and (un)sanctioned leisure in the 1950s; the RC Harris Water Treatment Plant (the best building in Toronto?); police repression post-October Crisis; currency in BC mining towns; and Heritage Minutes (burnt toast!). 3 hours of …

The Olympics arrive with the US a favorite, rekindling fond memories of 1980's 'Miracle on Ice' https://www.foxsports.com/articles/summer/the-olympics-arrive-with-the-us-a-favorite-rekindling-fond-mem…

I will call it Irk Town, as did Engels when it was a previously overcrowded inner suburb.
Huge Victoria North project named in Government-backed list of 'new towns' - Manchester Evening News
https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/ne

Huge Victoria North project named in Government-backed list of 'new towns'
The project on the edge of Manchester city centre will see 15,000 homes built across 390-acres of land

RE: https://mastodon.social/@AnnaAnthro/116337752352385821
So... I assume we'll be renaming all the towns/streets/schools named after saints? And that Montréal will be taking down the giant crucifix from the mountain? And that Easter, Good Friday, C…

Tiny Texas school district rejects tax deal with $6 billion LNG project | TPR https://www.tpr.org/education/2026-03-06/tiny-texas-school-district-rejects-tax-deal-with-6-billion-lng-project

Tiny Texas school district rejects tax deal with $6 billion LNG project
Officials in Port Isabel and nearby towns have consistently opposed plans to build large industrial complexes at the mouth of the Rio Grande.

Removing the United States as
co-host of the 2026 World Cup
would hurt for pretty much everyone.
Fans would miss out on seeing the sport’s pinnacle in their home towns (or somewhere nearby).
Cities and businesses small and large would lose the financial benefits they had banked on.
It would be a logistical and political nightmare on an international scale,
the likes of which have never been seen before in sports.
It would be eminently sad.

@… The other wrinkle I think about a lot is how GIANT megacorps or investors can fund a free or near-free service at a loss to completely change the incentives of customers to be less friendly to existing creators trying to succeed sustainably in the same space.
Reminds me of Walmart/Amazon decimating the economy of small towns

Amazon begins three-hour deliveries in ~2K US cities and towns and one-hour deliveries in hundreds of those areas, after 2025 pilots; 90K products are eligible (Annie Palmer/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/17/amazon-rolls-out-1-ho…

Amazon rolls out 1-hour, 3-hour delivery as ultrafast shipping trend grows in the U.S.
Amazon is speeding up deliveries even further after investing significant money and resources to make same-day shipping the standard.

A place named for it's center, then abstracted from it. Towns given life from a river valley now irrelevant to most of their residents.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
White Town:
🎵 Your Woman
#WhiteTown
https://jamesdalgliesh.bandcamp.com/track/tribute-to-white-towns-your-woman-2
https://open.spotify.com/track/3UBItNVbFQiVC5hBQlBvnr

Entire families wiped out and towns emptied as Israel's war on Lebanon intensifies (William Christou/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/14/lebanon-israel-hezbollah-war-deaths
http://www.memeorandum.com/260314/p19#a260314p19

An artificial intelligence data center development venture has signed a multimillion-dollar deal that will allow it to ⚠️consume over 40% of a Pennsylvania town’s excess water supply.
PennLive reported on Monday that Carlisle Development Partners,
a joint venture created by developers Pennsylvania Data Center Partners and PowerHouse
Data Centers, had signed a $14.1 million agreement that will let it tap into the public water and sewer systems of Middlesex Township, Pennsylva…

Data center giant secures $14 million deal to consume 40% of Pennsylvania town’s excess water
The data center will get access to 400,000 gallons of water per day—enough to serve over 2,300 homes.

Signal can help you organize a group
I have been amazed at the stories about neighbors helping neighbors in Minneapolis and in other towns and cities. Nothing can replace the courage and kindness of the people who have risen to the occasion to help others. And one tool they use to organize their neighbors and friends is Signal.
You might think of Signal as a messaging app. It is that, but it is so much more. In addition to messages, Signal supports private video meetings, phone …

ICE Is Buying Up Mega Warehouses Across America | The New Republic #ice

ICE Is Buying Up Mega Warehouses Across America
ICE has a plan to install its mass detention centers in small towns across the country.

Aerial view flying eastward into a frozen #Minneapolis, #Minnesota. Lake Minnetonka with its many bays, plus other lakes and the western suburbs.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #HuwStephens
White Town:
🎵 Your Woman
#WhiteTown
https://jamesdalgliesh.bandcamp.com/track/tribute-to-white-towns-your-woman-2
https://open.spotify.com/track/3UBItNVbFQiVC5hBQlBvnr

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Roadhouse
Bob Weir:
🎵 Ghost Towns
#BobWeir
https://open.spotify.com/track/0Uqe66IX0d4MVwuXtsKMSK