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Google Finland head apologises for forest clearances at data centre sites

Google's Finland chief says the company believed its forest clearances complied with the law, and that authorities knew of its plans.

https://yle.fi/a/74-20251367

There's a baby seal rescue center in the #dutch province of #groningen (meters over the border from #friesland)

They built a lovely building with exhibits on the #waddenzee ecosystem, and opened it last year. I've been, it's a great space, great talks, knowledge and sights that you can't get anywhere else in the world that I know of. The baby seal rescue center for the south #netherlands is nice, but you're not inches away from baby seals though a pane of glass.

But the budget of the #zeehond center is coming crashing down around their ears

If you have a chance, I hope you'll check their gofundme https://gofund.me/323893097

The #wec is really special and I hope the Dutch can save it
#seals #phoque

Outra entidade da classe trabalhadora, além da FUP, foi censurada por Flávio Miliciano (com seu juiz de estimação) e também pela Meta

"O Tribunal Superior Eleitoral (TSE) determinou a retirada de publicações do perfil do Fórum das Entidades Nacionais dos Servidores Públicos Federais (Fonasefe) no Instagram após uma representação apresentada por Flávio Bolsonaro (PL), candidato à Presidência da República. Segundo o Fórum, a Meta removeu 13 postagens, entre elas conteúdos que criticavam posições do candidato sobre os serviços públicos e os servidores. A organização denuncia censura e questiona os limites impostos à manifestação política de entidades sindicais durante o período eleitoral."

https://www.brasildefato.com.br/2026/10/13/alem-da-determinacao-do-tse-meta-remove-13-postagens-com-criticas-a-flavio-bolsonaro-sobre-servico-publico/#google_vignette
#eleicoes2026 #censura #sindicato #bolsonaro

You can now book* your flu and COVID-19 vaccine shots in Québec

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/quebec-health-department-flu-vaccine-fall-2026-9.7379395

* You will probably have to pay
- - -
Vous pouvez désormais prendre rendez-vous* pour votre dose des vaccins contre la grippe et la COVID-19

https://www.ledevoir.com/actualites/sante/1013561/campagne-vaccination-contre-grippe-covid-19-debutera-20-octobre

* Vous devrez probablement payer

#Québec #Flu #Grippe #Influenza #COVID19 #Vaccines #Vaccins

Frankreichs Polizei stürmt Musk‘s X-Büro wegen Epstein-Menschenhandel-Ring Verdacht

https://deanblundell.substack.com/p/breaking-france-just-raided-elon

Today I learned that in 1972 Sam Elliott co-starred in a horror movie called FROGS. You can own it on Blu-Ray for just $10 in the Kino Lorber fall sale

https://kinolorber.com/product/frogs-special-edition

I've been blogging since 1998 - and a while back, I was very privileged to be interviewed about my journey writing on the web for 28 years. It went up today: web-weaving.jamesg.blog/23

#23: Ben (werd.io) - Wonders o...

RE: https://universeodon.com/@memeorandum/117436163466461047

#ICESucks and #AISucks ! What a WINNING combination!

Ecuadorian fishermen who were kidnapped by the US military have been acquitted - BT News

https://breakthroughnews.org/2026/10/10/ecuadorian-fishermen-who-were-kidnapped-by-the-us-military-have-been-acquitted/

The island where locals say #datacentres are taking their water

Muhammad Islahuddin, #Batam, and
Kelly Ng, #Singapore

" 'Water! Water!' the crowd shouted as it stormed a compound with data centres, armed with empty plastic bottles and jerry cans.

"There were about 300 of them, all residents on the Indonesian island of #Batam, and they were furious that the taps at home had run dry, while the data centres in the new #NongsaDigitalPark seemed to have enough water to protect their machines from overheating.

" 'Not a single drop has come through our taps for the last three months... Our water supply had been reliable until the data centres came,' Dewi Susanti, one of the protesters, told the BBC.

"People in her village, #BakauSerip , were now depending on tanker trucks that dispensed 'dirty, cloudy and smelly' water, she said.

"Batam's water utility told the BBC it was working to improve supply, but did not comment on whether the disruption was linked to demand from the data centres."

Read more:
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cqj6j7wlxd5eo

Archived version:
https://archive.ph/cYond

#Malaysia #Indonesia #Johor #NoDatacenters #NoDatacentres #WaterIsLife #WaterShortage #DayOne #NoAIDatacenters #SinarPrimera #GawCapital #Nvidia #FirmusTechnologies

Shane Burley interviews former editor of the Black Panther Newspaper JoNina Abron-Ervin about her time in the Party and radical organizing today.

“The backbone of the Black Power movement, including the Black Panther Party, were the everyday people, the ones that you had never heard of.” ~ JoNina Abron-Ervin, a former member and the final editor of the Black Panther newspaper, wrote her book ‘Driven by the Movement: Reports from the Black Power Era’

https://spectrejournal.com/we-are-the-ones-weve-been-waiting-for/

#LibreWolf v158.0-1 is now available!

https://librewolf.dev/librewolf/bsys6/releases/tag/158.0-1

Notable Changes:
- Fixed Start menu shortcut creation, which is needed to open new windows from the taskbar when the app isn't pinned (Windows)
- Removed the JXL UI setting now that JXL is enabled by default

See https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/158.0/releasenotes/ for upstream changes.

If you use Bumble I'd recommend finding a different dating service and deleting your prior data if you don't use it now, as it sounds likely it is being purchased for AI training data.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cm9qzwjgnjxlo

Apple’s HomeView ad is confusing to everyone except parents
https://www.theverge.com/tech/1010561/apple-homeview-commercial-reaction?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Apple News @apple-news-theverge

#NPR what was this 💩

https://www.npr.org/2026/10/09/nx-s1-5991808/new-career-paths-colleges-now-offer-degrees-in-influencing-and-ai

I do not speak about AI (and we should probably..) but:

"Education consumers. Now, that's an interesting term."

"This year, the college stopped accepting new enrollees in sculpture. Jason says the decisions come down to jobs and earnings potential."

Nop my bro this is a political decision.

No shame learning skills with direct job application btw and trade school or community college are great for that.

@catsalad Meow waiting for that delicious payola https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTunhRVyREU

⭕À #Paris, la #Marseillaise est chantée par une foule immense de lycéens, d'étudiants, de syndicalistes et de salariés.

 #Jean-Luc_Mélenchon est présent à la manifestation ainsi que de nombreux députés, élus et militants #Insoumis.

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:2cte4wipyk47qjujtxrskqcx/post/3mxrynbybcg2n

He nearly joined Millwall on deadline day. Tonight Ronald’s 90th-minute winner at the Den kept Swansea top of the Championship.
Full story 👇
https://swanseabaynews.com/swans-ronald-punishes-the-club-he-nearly-joined-as-late-winner-keeps-swansea-top-at-millwall/

I wrote about the feeble attempt by prominent tech punditry mainstays like John Gruber and Casey Newton to rationalize their continued use of Elon Musk's propaganda website.

Casey Newton And John Gruber S...