The Antarctic Peninsula is rapidly greening, with moss ecosystems showing the fastest extension of their range: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41561-024-01564-5 Hazarding a guess that the next decades will see a tense race to settle the peninsula, and it may not only be those that lay claim (UK, Chile, Argentina). West Antarctica may be next in line, looking at the current shelf melt trends.

So now Netanyahu's government is killing innocents in another sovereign state. When will the international community declare this man fully rogue and hold him and his men accountable for their war crimes and terrorism? How many US and EU weapons are being used to kill Lebanese people?

Nearly 500 killed in Israeli strikes, Lebanon says, as fears of escalation grow – as it happened | Israel | The Guardian

Lebanese health ministry says more than 1,650 people injured; Israel says military moving into next stage of targeting Hezbollah combat structure

We're told we "need" 'AI'/ML just like we were told we needed blockchains, VR, Web3 and the so-called metaverse - these solutions looking for problems. The difference with ML however is that it does solve some big problems very well, the most significant of which (and primary investment driver) is the Late Capitalist project of decoupling skill from People.

Today a dawn trip high up through native beech ('tawhai') to a quiet world of moss set still in cloud. Trees of soft islands drank the air above a teeming carpet of life. #aotearoa

Another PSA that Google uses its fonts to track traffic to other people's websites. Google has no business knowing who visits other people's websites. If you want to use Google hosted 'free' fonts in your site, let your visitors know, or learn to host them locally on your server. For instance: https://webdesign.tutsplus.com/how-to-self-host-google-fonts--cms-34775t To use Big Tech is to feed it. There are other ways.

It takes true corruption of heart and reason to formally prosecute Hamas terrorists for their heinous acts, yet not Netanyahu and his terrorists for theirs.

the Guardian

Hamas leaders charged by US over deadly 7 October attacks on Israel

Yahya Sinwar and at least five others accused by US justice department of planning and orchestrating the deadly attacks in which 1,200 people were ...

The endemic application of 'AI' was never "inevitable", just as it has not made its way into our lives as the result of a public assessment of needs. It's important to be vigilant as to the creep of Technological Determinism, especially in this critical time; what we call 'AI' is not some natural expression of socio-technical progress. It is being pushed upon us by private companies wholly in the interest of profit & capture, without regulation, without care for the human & environmental costs