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"Wildfires have destroyed an area of protected tropical forest twice the size of Wales since 2001, study reveals"
#Wildfires #Environment #Nature

Wildfires have destroyed an area of protected tropical forest twice the size of Wales since 2001, study reveals
Over 4 million hectares (9.9 million acres) of protected tropical forest—an area double the size of Wales—have been lost to wildfires since 2001.

Consequence of Trump's unprovoked assault on Venezuela: theft of oil.
Geopolitics as geology politics.
US refineries taking in half of Venezuela’s oil output, official says | Oil and Gas News | Al Jazeera
https://www.aljazeer…

US refineries taking in half of Venezuela’s oil output, official says
US official says Venezuela is sending 500,000 of its 1.25 million barrels per day output to Gulf Coast refineries.

Two small new prints from this afternoon, this time not Kallitype but contact printing on silver chloride FB paper, developed with Adox MCC. The increase in depth and detail is just wonderful and the feel of the final results an instant throwback to my early darkroom adventures ~40 years ago... 😍
The pictures are of two of my favorite places in recent years. Larger prints will be available for purchase in September.

«Personaler — Menschliche Expertise wird durch KI "nicht automatisch überflüssig"
Unternehmen hatten bei vielen Jobs gehofft, auf Menschen verzichten zu können. Doch KI ist nicht fähig, Gegensätze zu erkennen, deren Spannung die Triebkraft für Entwicklung ist.»
Ach was?!?? So überraschend kommt dies nun auch nicht und wer glaubt blind den KI-Konzernen? Anscheinend immer noch viele Verantwortliche.
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Personaler: Menschliche Expertise wird durch KI "nicht automatisch überflüssig" - Golem.de
Unternehmen hatten bei vielen Jobs gehofft, auf Menschen verzichten zu können. Doch KI ist nicht fähig, Gegensätze zu erkennen, deren Spannung die Triebkraft für Entwicklung ist.

More American service members have died in the Middle East during the ongoing Iran war than the Pentagon has disclosed publicly,
according to six U.S. officials familiar with the Defense Department’s internal casualty accounting data.

Five of the officials said there have been at least 22 military fatalities
— four more than what appears in the Pentagon’s public database,
known as the Defense Casualty Analysis System, or DCAS.

A sixth official, who like the oth…

More U.S. troops have died amid Iran war than Pentagon has disclosed publicly
Officials who spoke with The Post expressed frustration that the additional loss of life in the Middle East is not reflected in the Defense Department’s casualty database.

Schmerzhaft treffsicherer Kommentar von @…: "Nicht einmal zu Symbolpolitik kann man sich aufraffen."
(Der Vorstoß der SPD jetzt zu Hitze- und Klimaschutz wäre immerhin ein dringend benötigter Anfang, je nachdem wieviel davon übrigbleibt in der Umsetzung.)

Dröhnendes Desinteresse: Schlimmer als die Regierung kann man bei Extremhitze nicht versagen
In Frankreich und Spanien ist von einem apokalyptischen Sommer die Rede, in Deutschland sterben rund 12.000 Menschen an den Folgen von Hitze. Doch Kanzler Merz zuckt mit den Schultern. Dabei wäre jetzt der richtige Zeitpunkt für einen Neuanfang in der Klimapolitik und beim Schutz vor Extremwetter. Ein Kommentar

A Wikimedia exec says human traffic on Wikipedia is down 8% YoY, which translates to fewer editors, and the org is working on a real-time API for LLM companies (Mark Stenberg/Adweek)
https://www.adweek.com/media/wikipedia-survive-answer-engine-apocalypse/

Inside Wikipedia’s Plan to Survive the Answer Engine Apocalypse
At Brandweek, the nonprofit’s director of brand explained why ubiquity without attribution is an existential threat, and how a new campaign aims to fix it.

a race condition: Preliminary NATS report on the outage that took out UK air traffic control for a few hours - they had a race condition of some type where a higher priority task triggering during a normal squawk code allocation caused a corruption and it gently fell to bits over a few hours.
Full report ~month or so; prelim report:

Donald Trump has threatened the EU with “serious tariffs” and a halt to trade after the bloc proposed making Canada its first ever associate member
– an idea he derided as “laughable”.
The US president said that if the EU moved forward with the plan, Washington could impose “very serious tariffs or stop trading with Europe”.
He added: “If it’s a good intention, that’s fine. If it’s a bad intention, we’ll put very heavy tariffs on Europe.”
Canada’s prime minister, Mark…

Trump threatens to stop trading with EU over ‘laughable’ membership offer to Canada
US president responds as Mark Carney seeks to move closer to Europe and diversify defence ties

Uber and Lyft were just not meant to be, says Travis Kalanick.
The former Uber CEO said he has no regrets about how he handled a potential acquisition of Lyft.

Uber-Lyft talks in 2014 collapsed over valuation disagreements and cultural mismatches.

Kalanick recently launched robotics company Atoms and raised $1.7 billion for the startup.