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Nice day in the #OakWoodlands of Golden Gate Park where along with oaks I saw bush monkeyflower, California sagebrush, hummingbird sage, coast buckwheat, beach strawberry, common yarrow, Hooker's evening primrose, and even a little rooreh by the path.

heise | Brennende E-Autos: So löscht die Feuerwehr wirklich
Ein Feuerwehrmann erklärt im Video, warum E-Autos anders, aber nicht gefährlicher brennen als Verbrenner und wie die Profis sie wirklich löschen.
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Brennende E-Autos: So löscht die Feuerwehr wirklich
Ein Feuerwehrmann erklärt im Video, warum E-Autos anders, aber nicht gefährlicher brennen als Verbrenner und wie die Profis sie wirklich löschen.

Sontag’s Two Doors, Campbell’s Underworld
In a television interview that has circulated for years, Susan Sontag offers a small theory of storytelling. She points out that the English word "story" carries a double valence. We say "tell me the real story" to demand truth, and we say "that's only a story" to dismiss invention. Stories, she argues, face two directions at once, toward fact and toward fantasy, and this doubleness sits at the center of what s…

Sontag’s Two Doors, Campbell’s Underworld | David Boles, Blogs
In a television interview that has circulated for years, Susan Sontag offers a small theory of storytelling. She points out that the English word “story” carries a double valence. We sa…

Scott Pelley, a veteran 60 Minutes correspondent,
called out CBS News management in a heated meeting on Monday morning,
attacking the network’s decision on Thursday to fire the show’s executive producer, executive editor, and two fellow correspondents, Sharyn Alfonsi and Cecilia Vega,
as part of a broader overhaul of the show, sources tell the Guardian.
During a meeting of the show’s staff and Nick Bilton, its newly appointed executive producer,
along with the C…

This is a Pioneer Stereo Receiver SX-850 from just about 50 years ago.
It’s not spying on you.
It doesn’t need firmware updates.
There’s no subscription.
It’s widely compatible with other audio equipment from other manufacturers.
It won’t suddenly decide you can’t listen to explicit lyrics anymore.
It won’t “autocorrect” you, interrupt you with notifications or get hijacked by a botnet.
If a component breaks, it’s pretty easy fixable, even by amateurs.
It still works great, sounds great and looks great and it will probably do so for another 50 years. It’s a piece of useful electronics that you can hand down for literally generations.
Can you do this with modern technology?
Why is modern technology considered “better”?

Der Widerstand gegen die maßlosen Rechenzentren wächst weltweit. Sie sind oft wie ein Turbo der obzönen Umweltzerstörung, vorangetrieben von offensichtlich seelenlosen Menschen, die keine Skrupel haben, die Welt verbrennen zu sehen. Nach mir die Sinnflut (oder Dürre) ist hier nicht nur biblisch zu verstehen.
Widerstand gegen Rechenzentren kann sich aber lohnen, so ein Beispiel aus Chile:

“We saw a state apparatus completely subordinated to corporate interests”
As India races to build AI-ready data centres, Chile’s Cerrillos community offers a stark warning. MOSACAT’s fight against Google’s project exposes water risks, weak environmental regulation and a state apparatus subordinated to corporate interests—raising urgent questions for India’s data centre and AI infrastructure ambitions.

Mary Trump pointed to Alex Vindman's history of confronting the president directly.
The candidate, a retired Army officer,
"has stood up to my uncle before,
and he's ready to do it again in the United States Senate," she wrote,
referencing Vindman's role as a key figure in Trump's first impeachment.
She closed by casting the contest as a chance to
"hold the Trump administration accountable"
— a phrase that, coming…

Alex Vindman for Senate
Official campaign website of Alex Vindman for U.S. Senate in Florida.

Was wäre, wenn wir unsere heutigen Möglichkeiten zur Erdbeobachtung schon vor Jahrzehnten gehabt hätten? 🌍 Genau diese Frage hat sich ein Forschungsteam um die MIT-Wissenschaftlerin Susan Solomon gestellt und ist dabei auf überraschende Erkenntnisse gestoßen.
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Now, inevitably, half of my Bluesky timeline is like:
oh, we need a service that’s resistant to this sort of shit,
something that’s not beholden to capitalist pressure,
something that’s queer-friendly and furry-friendly
-- quickly followed by "but don’t say Mastodon!"
Sorry, I’m saying it.
Mastodon. We want fucking Mastodon.
It’s run by an actual non-profit foundation,
none of this “public benefit corporation” bullshit.
It’s not s…

I’ll be talking about the very serious helium shortage that is looming
(actually, it’s already upon us)
and risks crippling semiconductor chip production and diagnostic instruments like MRI scanners,
not to mention low temperature science..
It’s maddening because we’ve known that helium is very limited but it’s cheap
so no one recovers it.
It’ll be on BBC World Service Newshour around 13:45 BST.