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  "Lucien Lazare, Jewish Resistance Fighter in Occupied France, Dies at 101" https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/world/lucien-lazare-dead.html?unlocked_article_code=1.FlE.uuxA.SKaDUDTKzxsW&smid=url-share #Shoah #YadVashem

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  Happy Birthday, Steve Reich! Great music, great Terry Gross "Fresh Air" interview. Interesting, funny, even some Psalms and cantorial music (I never heard it before). Listen and enjoy. Have a great weekend! https://www.npr.org/2026/10/02/nx-s1-5985082/celebrating-minimalist-composer-steve-reich Transcript here if you prefer to read (but the music! 🎶😍): https://www.npr.org/2026/10/02/nx-s1-5987785/steve-reich-composer #music #SteveReich #Mazeldon #NPRFreshAir #FreshAir #TerryGr...

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  Such a shame people feel the need to collect animal trophies, whether alive or dead. Who knows why he had these animals? Hopefully they were turned over to an animal rescue center. The article does not say. "Osaka man held for keeping saltwater crocodile without permission" https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20260929/p2g/00m/0na/048000c

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  "University of Tokyo's president-elect hopes for more female academics" https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20260930/p2g/00m/0na/006000c #WomensOpportunities #Japan

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  Convenient. Of course this grifting, corrupt regime did. "US exits European anti-corruption panel" https://apnews.com/article/trump-corruption-council-of-europe-31f7f0e4bba7bf26dfc99cd2c3a20d16 #grift #corruption #geopolitics

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  Potential hijacking averted. https://www.jpost.com/international/article-910155 l https://www.cnn.com/2026/09/30/world/live-news/dubai-israel-plane-flydubai-intl https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/plane-from-dubai-to-tel-aviv-signals-emergency-makes-turn-over-saudi-arabia/ #FZ1073

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  Wow — great accomplishment: "Germany generated as much solar energy by the end of September as it did during the whole of 2025, according to industry association BSW-Solar – and almost three times more than has been produced in Australia over the same period." https://reneweconomy.com.au/germany-smashes-pv-record-produces-three-times-more-solar-power-than-australia-so-far-this-year/ #solar #renewables #Germany #Australia #SolarPower #SolarEnergy

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  🦈🦈🦈 Cue the theme from "Jaws" 🦈 Other than the note about bull sharks moving north as climate change warms the oceans (not a small thing), this is an interesting story about an apex predator (SCARY —hysteria!! 😨 🦈🦈) and a healthy ecosystem, as I read it — with a summer movie theme that's tough to ignore. 🦈 😉 🦈 "Huge great white spotted traveling off US and Canada as shark sightings surge" DON'T GO NEAR THE WATER!! 😉🦈 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/31/...

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  "California redwoods gateway is returned to Indigenous tribe. 'That's healing our people too'" via Los Angeles Times https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2026-07-28/california-redwoods-gateway-is-returned-to-indigenous-tribe-thats-healing-our-people-too #GoodNews #California #Indigenous #Yurok #redwoods #CoastRedwoods #trees #nature #HumboldtCounty

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  Seems like a big deal: trump regime acknowledged in court that it canceled $7.6 billion in grants for hundreds of clean energy projects “based solely on the political identity of the grant recipient’s state” — 16 states that voted for Kamala Harris in 2024. That contradicts repeated lies by Energy Secretary Chris Wright and other officials that the projects did not adequately advance US energy needs or had other problems that made them a poor investment. https://apnews.com/article/trump-clean-e...

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  👋👋👋 Hello!! 😯 "Hugging Face recently disclosed details of what appears to be the first publicly known case of AI-on-AI cybercrime against a major AI platform. ... Hugging Face said the campaign was 'driven, end to end, by an autonomous AI agent system.' In a reverse-card move, the company used AI of its own to detect and analyze the attack." https://gizmodo.com/hugging-face-we-used-ai-to-catch-the-first-confirmed-ai-agent-breach-of-a-major-ai-platform-2000787778 "The mac...

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  I've got this. Hold my beer 🙄 ..."AI advice made people three times less accurate but twice as confident, researchers found" https://thenextweb.com/news/ai-advice-suppresses-critical-thinking-wrong-answers-study Study: "AI advice suppresses people’s willingness to say 'I don’t know', even when the advice is wrong and accuracy is incentivized" https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/5y6m4_v1 #AI

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  #SilentSunday — #coyote on the lawn, Berkeley, #CA. Have a good day. #photography #photo #foto #fotografie #fotografia #running #nature #morning #sunshine

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  Huh? "Freedom Fuel gas stations in Philly: What we know" FWIW, there is a gas station near us where regular has been selling for $3.39. I haven't been able to figure out how they undercut all their competitors by so much and remain in business. https://www.inquirer.com/news/philadelphia/philadelphia-freedom-fuel-stations-trump-gas-price-20260707.html?id=ZHnNAavrEu68o #Philadelphia

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  Happy #4thOfJuly. They said it 250 years ago and it still goes: #NoKings. Good night. #OTD #America250 #Democracy

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  French struggle with heat-trap homes as climate inequality grows — "More than 44 million people in France, out of a total population of 67 million [two-thirds of the entire population], have been under the highest red alert for heat this week, with daytime temperatures exceeding 40C [104°F] in many places and staying dangerously hot at night" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jun/25/french-heat-trap-homes-climate-inequality-grows h/t @CLEW@mastodon.energy https://mastodon.energy...

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  @ocean@raru.re Cool story. Might be off by a year. And the day is definitely uncertain. https://www.hrc.utexas.edu/niepce-heliograph/ A lovely backstory, well worth the read: https://medium.com/airbnbmag/the-untold-story-of-the-worlds-first-photograph-277285f2d78a https://cool.culturalheritage.org/byorg/abbey/an/an26/an26-3/an26-307.html #photography #photo #foto #fotografie #fotografia #history #histodons

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  Bird songs in the lush, wet woods. You may hear the dog collars jangling, too, as they were with me. Have a good day. #photography #photo #foto #fotografie #fotografia #running #TrailRunning #nature #trees #morning #BirdSongs #BirdSong #video

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  "A roughly 14-foot-tall bronze statue of the United States’ most famous abolitionist, Harriet Tubman, will become a permanent fixture outside Philadelphia’s City Hall later this year. It will be the first statue of a Black female historical figure in the city’s public art collection." About time — How Harriet Tubman and Philadelphia abolitionists coordinated dangerous journeys to freedom: https://theconversation.com/how-harriet-tubman-and-philadelphia-abolitionists-coordinate...

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  Not the future we asked for: "Robot dogs with Elon Musk heads roam Berlin museum in Beeple's new exhibit" https://apnews.com/article/germany-berlin-robot-dogs-beeple-bezos-digital-art-4a2be2a4a4490553ad68c27beedfe83a #dystopia #art #Beeple #Berlin #robots

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  #SilentSunday — "I will always love you" — Westinghouse "Atom Smasher" A bit of forgotten #nuclear #history in the suburbs of #Pittsburgh, #Pennsylvania Have a good day. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westinghouse_Atom_Smasher #photography #photo #foto #fotografie #fotografia #running

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  Lush, wet, verdant #waterfall for #EarthDay and #WaterfallWednesday. Hope it's a good day for you and yours. #photography #photo #foto #fotografie #fotografia #running #TrailRunning #nature #trees #video

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  Prediction markets are unlicensed, unregulated casinos and easy targets for scams — "Météo-France sensors at Roissy airport at the heart of a suspected manipulation on Polymarket — On the evenings of April 6th and 15th, temperatures recorded by a probe positioned at Paris-Charles de Gaulle Airport rose abnormally... Strong suspicions point to manipulation facilitated by online betting." https://www.lemonde.fr/pixels/article/2026/04/21/des-capteurs-de-meteo-france-de-l-aeroport...

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  "Anthropic’s New Mythos A.I. Model Sets Off Global Alarms" — so Anthropic limited access... https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/22/technology/anthropics-mythos-ai.html?unlocked_article_code=1.c1A.GSCh.ySM1CcBGdPHJ&smid=url-share 1/2 #AI #Anthropic #Mythos

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  @mcnees You may be right about the photo! #NASA #DogsOfMastodon #DogsOfFedi

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  @scalzi Good one!

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  "‘The data on extreme human ageing is rotten from the inside out’ – Ig Nobel winner Saul Justin Newman" "Regions where people most often reach 100-110 years old are the ones where there’s the most pressure to commit pension fraud, and they also have the worst [birth and death] records [and/or registries]." Interesting to see if there is follow up beyond the work of a single researcher. https://theconversation.com/the-data-on-extreme-human-ageing-is-rotten-...

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  Stealth Satellite TV Defeats Iran's Internet Blackout - IEEE Spectrum https://spectrum.ieee.org/iran-internet-blackout-satellite-tv #Iran #internet

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  ICYMI — #AliceWong

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  He speaks for a lot of Christians and non-Christians alike: "Pope Leo Condemns Trump’s 'Unacceptable' Threat to Destroy Iran" https://newrepublic.com/post/208755/pope-leo-donald-trump-threat-destroy-iran