Japan's Environment Ministry has released for the first time a set of recommended specifications for bear deterrent sprays, including a minimum spray time of six seconds and a spraying distance of 7.5 meters or more. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/08/25/japan/bear-repellent/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #bears #environmentministry

My proposal "Every breath you take - Why real name registration is not for a 'better web' but a better surveillance" will be on the FediDay AND on the Datenspuren

So - once in English, once in German

So happy to see you all!

https://berlinfedi.day/ https://datenspuren.de/

@datenspuren @berlinfediday

#Berlin #Dresden #Fediday #Datenspuren #Conference #FOSS #talk #realnameregistration #tech #surveillance #techfascism #ccc #c3d2 #wsocial

Have you ever looked at a heron straight-on?

#GreatBlueHeron #BirdsOfMastodon #JPegsFolder #UrbanWilderness

@bryce @davidgerard @h

I said you can use my stuff however you want (including as input to a machine-learning system, database, whatever) as long as you credit me in everything that incorporates it (including things where you did some mechanical processing, such as copy and paste or using the output of a machine-learning system that used it as an input).

This is not ambiguous unless you have a financial incentive to believe that it is ambiguous.

And, actually, some lawyers who did have a strong financial incentive to disagree also agreed, but sadly the conversations were covered by attorney-client privilege and the SEC is no longer doing any enforcement and isn't able to subpoena privileged conversations.

The Apple M6 debuts in the Mac Mini with 1.2X faster multi-threaded performance, 1.3X faster graphics, and 2X the AI performance of the M5. And the new Mac Studio with M5 Ultra brings big CPU, GPU, AI, and memory bandwidth gains. https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/08/apple-introduces-m6-and-m5-ultra-for-a-big-leap-in-performance-and-ai-compute/ #AppleM5Ultra #AppleM6 #MacMini #MacStudio

#food #UK

Climate Collapse Has Plunged UK Food Production Into Crisis

Farmers fear they won’t be able to plant crops next year

by Harriet Williamson

The UK faces a food production crisis after a summer of extreme heat and drought, farmers warn, with shortages of some foods predicted

https://novaramedia.com/2026/08/25/climate-collapse-has-plunged-uk-food-production-into-crisis/

#ClimateChange #UpheavalClimate #ClimateInstability #ClimateReversal #MassAtrocity #pollution #ecology #environment #climate

Were these ancient rock images painted with human blood?

The Zuojiang Huashan Rock Art Cultural Landscape was created over the course of nearly 700 years, between the fifth century B.C.E. and the second century C.E., by the Luoyue people—a matriarchal, hunter-fisher-gatherer society that lived in southern China. The images are found across 80 sites along a 260-kilometer stretch of river cliffs. Given that the area is battered by regular monsoons, the art is remarkably intact, especially compared with murals made hundreds of years later in other parts of the country.

“The pigments are so firmly bonded to the bedrock that when peeling occurs, it is the limestone layer itself that detaches along with the pigments,” says Meng Wu, a chemist at Shandong University. “The material stability of this art has long been an unsolved mystery.”

https://www.science.org/content/article/were-these-ancient-rock-images-painted-human-blood

J'ai testé je suis juste au-dessus de 6 tonnes… Mieux que la moyenne et ça reste une analyse déclarative

https://nosgestesclimat.fr/

The Most Dangerous Feds You’ve Never Heard Of

ICE has its own FBI, but dumber

Nested within ICE is an American Stasi with the power to target U.S. citizens. Called Homeland Security Investigations, or HSI, it is the country’s second-largest criminal investigative agency behind only the FBI — though with broader authorities.

But the most dangerous feds in America may also be the most incompetent. The Justice Department’s ongoing attempt to turn 15 Minnesota anti-ICE activists into a sprawling “Antifa” conspiracy opened a rare window into HSI, with disclosures that are equal parts creepy and hilariously inept,

Ken Klippenstein

Momma

#Photography #Wildlife #darktable #wildoz #melbourne #oz #australia #bats #wildlifeAustralia #flyingfox

How much of HN is AI?

https://blog.coredump.cx/p/how-much-of-hn-is-ai

Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49435728

#HackerNews #HN #AI #discussion #tech #trends #machinelearning

@frank Ooh, now there's an interesting side effect of static site deployment via public git repositories I hadn't considered yet: full version history publicly available.

@silverpill @rimu @elle

As for authority. I think at this point there truly are no authoritative bodies driving the fediverse.

In the 3-stage bottom-up standardization process I discussed at the time at SocialHub, the level of authority was highest at the W3C, lowest at individual FOSS projects, with the FEP process inbetween as a place where good practices and protocol mechanisms bubble up from the ecosystem as good candidates for further standardization.

This process in reality doesn't exist. The connections aren't there. The SWICG operates alone, the FEP does too, and so do all the various independent developers when they invent new things.

In that setup I'd say the SWICG has the same level of authority as the FEP Process does, or any other focal point for collab between fedi devs (e.g. code forges, podcasts). Just another party at the grassroots level figuring out best practices.

https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/3-stage-standards-process-guaranteeing-an-open-and-decentralized-ecosystem/3602/40?u=aschrijver

@markarayner With a little more action by night.

Shoutout to Peter Ohue for representing Neuromatch at a CompNeuro Nigeria webinar!

He shared our free, open source learning materials, along with information on our virtual course that runs each July.

#ComputationalNeuroscience #CompNeuro #NeuroAI #DeepLearning #OpenScience #Africa

🙋If you or your community are curious about #ComputationalNeuroscience, there is likely a Nueromatch Ambassador near you, or one who speaks your language, who would be glad to give a talk or answer questions.

➡️ Connect with an Ambassador: https://neuromatch.io/ambassadors/

#CompNeuro #Neuromatch

Exactly 1000 days ago I switched back to #linux and left the #apple cosmos:

https://inlovewithlinux.com/1000-happy-and-open-days