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Journey of Hope by Nita Owenby now live on Amazon

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ts1v0RDe-hY This book is the story of a boy who left North Carolina in search of a new life and became a man in the Northern California gold fields. To survive, he had to learn how to differentiate between those who were his friends and those who were his enemies. Quick to act when danger threatened, kind to those who were less fortunate, and a friend to those who would be his friend, he developed leadership skills that served him well as he grew in stature as […]

https://midnight-publishing.org/2026/06/01/journey-of-hope-by-nita-owenby-now-live-on-amazon/

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Frank Heijkamp 6d ago

@ArcMother
Things have changed drastically since the #ai #goldrush. A lot of ai startups don't adhere to the gentleman's agreement between site owners and search engines. They just scrape as fast as they can without taking the resources of websites into account.

This shouldn't be a big problem if there are a handful of #startups. The problems really start when several hundreds of those come visiting your site at the same time and wasting your server's resources. A serious ethical dilemma.

Headlines Africa May 25

Gold rush survival: Sudanese miners turn to trade amid war http://newsfeed.facilit8.network/TSjYzc #GoldRush #Sudan #Mining #EconomicHardship #Trade

鶏人｜Keijin May 21

Forests gutted, rain muddy. Okapis are trapped in a toxic loop.
Illegal gold mining pushed them to "Endangered." Mercury buys gold, gold buys more mercury. It vaporizes, poisoning the rain and soil.
When the world panics, people hoard gold—and that global anxiety is destroying their home.
Read on✨(Tap toggles for English!)
https://fukumomo3-redlist.com/redlist-after-11-years-okapi/
#Okapi #Endangered #GoldRush #Mercury

11年後のレッドリスト｜オカピ：森は掘られ、雨は濁る【IUCNレッドリスト比較】

今回は、オカピ（学名：Okapia johnstoni）が、まるで「負の回転寿司」に乗せられてしまったみたいな話です。22014年の図鑑では、ケーブルの捕縛ワナが常態化している状況でも、評価はまだ、「NT：準絶滅危惧」でした。ところが、IUCNの最新評価では、違法な金採掘（ゴールドラッシュ）の影響で生息地が分断され、「EN：危機」へと引き上げられてしまいました。だからオカピは今も、「森は掘られ、雨は濁る」そんな場所で生きているんだと思います。この記事は短くて、5分で読めます。よかったら、最後まで読んでいってください。

11年後のレッドリスト｜2014年→2025年：IUCNレッドリスト比較

the spend May 19

FYI: How the richest gold rush in history made Portugal poorer https://thespend.net/how-the-richest-gold-rush-in-history-made-portugal-poorer/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #Portugal #GoldRush #EconomicHistory #ResourceCurse #BraganzaDynasty

How the richest gold rush in history made Portugal poorer

Brazil's gold built Lisbon's palaces and funded Portugal's empire - then quietly destroyed its economy. The Braganza dynasty's story is also a lesson in the resource curse.

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the spend May 17

ICYMI: How the richest gold rush in history made Portugal poorer https://thespend.net/how-the-richest-gold-rush-in-history-made-portugal-poorer/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #GoldRush #PortugalHistory #EconomicImpact #ResourceCurse #BraganzaDynasty

How the richest gold rush in history made Portugal poorer

Brazil's gold built Lisbon's palaces and funded Portugal's empire - then quietly destroyed its economy. The Braganza dynasty's story is also a lesson in the resource curse.

the spend

the spend May 16

How the richest gold rush in history made Portugal poorer https://thespend.net/how-the-richest-gold-rush-in-history-made-portugal-poorer/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #GoldRush #Portugal #Brazil #Economy #History

How the richest gold rush in history made Portugal poorer

Brazil's gold built Lisbon's palaces and funded Portugal's empire - then quietly destroyed its economy. The Braganza dynasty's story is also a lesson in the resource curse.

the spend

DaLetra Français Apr 29

Découvrez les paroles de la chanson “gold rush” de Taylor Swift
#TaylorSwift #GoldRush
https://daletra.art/taylor-swift/paroles/gold-rush.html

BellingenNSW Apr 28

From Gold Rush to Green Rush
The environmental consequences of cannabis cultivation

* "Professor Kaitlin Reed (Yurok/Hupa/Oneida) argues that the state's booming cannabis industry can be situated squarely within other extractive settler colonial enterprises such as gold mining and overfishing."

“The real gold is not gold, after all, but the land itself”

Kaitlin P. Reed, "Settler Cannabis: From Gold Rush to Green Rush in Indigenous Northern California" (U Washington Press, 2023) >>
https://read.dukeupress.edu/agricultural-history/article-abstract/100/1/140/407075/Settler-Cannabis-From-Gold-Rush-to-Green-Rush-in?redirectedFrom=fulltext

* Reed "connects California cannabis production to the violence and dispossession of Indigenous land and people."

"Young countercultural back-to-the-land settlers flocked to northwestern California beginning in the 1960s, and by the 1970s, unregulated cannabis production proliferated on Indigenous lands."
https://www.degruyterbrill.com/de/document/doi/10.1515/9780295751573/html

#cannabis #extractivism #agriculture #logging #overfishing #BackToTheLand #counterculture #GreenIdyll #SettlerSociety #GoldRush #GreenRush #CannabisIndustry #water #pollution #disposession #FirstNationsPeoples #IndigenousPeoples
Image: Country idyll with river

Mark Gardner Apr 25

I’ve been developing #AI #roleplay #chatbot characters for the past month. Josephine Thorne, the Reverend of Perdition Creek, is entered in a #GoldRush #botjam contest. chub.ai/characters/A... Please take five seconds and hit Nominate on her page before April 30. She needs 10 to make the ballot.