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This very moment the new #planetarium childrens show "Fritz Fiege flies to space" - https://planetarium-bochum.de/de_DE/program/fritz-fliege-fliegt-ins-weltall.1383742 - premieres at the @… where it was produced in-house.

CineWild: Balancing Art and Robotics for Ethical Wildlife Documentary Filmmaking
Pablo Pueyo, Fernando Caballero, Ana Cristina Murillo, Eduardo Montijano
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.24921

CineWild: Balancing Art and Robotics for Ethical Wildlife Documentary Filmmaking
Drones, or unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), have become powerful tools across domains-from industry to the arts. In documentary filmmaking, they offer dynamic, otherwise unreachable perspectives, transforming how stories are told. Wildlife documentaries especially benefit, yet drones also raise ethical concerns: the risk of disturbing the animals they aim to capture. This paper introduces CineWild, an autonomous UAV framework that combines robotics, cinematography, and ethics. Built on model pr…

Ich bin inhaltlich voll dabei, würde aber der Fairness halber sagen, dass man die Schuld dafür nicht allein bei der Bahn suchen sollte, sondern auch beim Verkehrsministerium und der fehlenden Strategie dort. Ich fand die letzte Folge der @… zu dem Thema sehr erhellend - man lässt die Bahn hier in einem Spannungsfeld operieren in dem sie nur verlieren kan…

It’s ‘whack-a-mole’: Alarming rise in pet trade fuels wildlife trafficking into California https://news.mongabay.com/2025/11/its-whack-a-mole-alarming-rise-in-pet-trade-fuels-wildlife-trafficking-into-california/<…

It’s ‘whack-a-mole’: Alarming rise in pet trade fuels wildlife trafficking into California
In October, a U.S. Customs and Border Protection officer at California’s Otay Mesa border crossing noticed an odd bulge inside a man’s pants. Jesse Agus Martinez, a U.S. citizen who lives in Tijuana, repeatedly claimed the bump was “pirrin,” a Spanish word for penis. His history of smuggling birds into the U.S. prompted further examination, […]

The most Britannica manages to mention of what was actually in that land is this:
❝Much of the territory turned out to contain rich mineral resources, productive soil, valuable grazing land, forests, and wildlife resources of inestimable value.❞
Not a single mention, AFAICT, of the fact that there were already people there.
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How Brazil's Pix digital payment system, adopted by 80% of citizens, became a target of the Trump administration, which says it unfairly undercuts US companies (Ana Ionova/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/world/americas/brazil-digital-pay…

Brazil’s Homegrown Payment System Is Target of Trump Administration
Brazil’s fast and free homegrown digital payment system, PIX, has become wildly popular. The Trump administration says it unfairly undercuts U.S. companies.

The casual reader of this @nytimes.com hed and subhed will have no inkling whatsoever that
Trump's "characterization" is wildly false and that it's a bad faith *pretext.*
Time to get better at conveying the fundamentally pretextual nature of these authoritarian decrees already.
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Greg Sargent (@gregsargent.bsky.social)
Unreal. The casual reader of this @nytimes.com hed and subhed will have no inkling whatsoever that Trump's "characterization" is wildly false and that it's a bad faith *pretext.* Time to get better at conveying the fundamentally pretextual nature of these authoritarian decrees already.

Satire is dead.
https://www.spiegel.de/panorama/halloween-verband-der-exorzisten-kritisiert-fest-als-konsumorientiert-und-irrational-a-098ac7a8-6a51-4cc0-b48f-b72f51946688

Genau mein Humor:
"Verband der Exorzisten kritisiert Halloween als irrationales Fest"
https://www.spiegel.de/panorama/halloween-verband-der-exorzisten-kritisiert-fest-a…

This Soft Robot Is 100% Edible, Including the Battery
It’s designed to feed medication to wild boars, but you can eat it too
https://spectrum.ieee.org/soft-edible-robot

Soft Edible Robot: A Sweet Treat with a Purpose
Edible robots are here, and they might taste like gummy candy. Learn how these wiggly wonders could help in wildlife conservation.