Animal friendly infrastructure - Road ecology

"Some 40 million miles of roadways encircle the earth, yet we tend to regard them only as infrastructure for human convenience. While roads are so ubiquitous they’re practically invisible to us, wild animals experience them as entirely alien forces of death and disruption. , the harms of highways extend far beyond roadkill. "
Ben Goldfarb, Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet >>
https://www.bengoldfarb.com/crossings

Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping The Future of Our Planet with Ben Goldfarb >>
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVkw0fOslck
#biodiversity #wildlife #habitat #roads #highways #NegativeExternalities #Infrastructure #cars #vehicles #crashes #liability #tyres #RoadEcology #RoadKill #signage #fencing #weeds #pollution #LoggingImpacts #mobility #animals #MigratorySpecies #access #barriers #FreewayWalls #crossings #ExtinctionCrisis

The October horror series at The Security Economist continues.

After Invasion of the Data Snatchers, we move deeper into the lab:

Frankenkieselsteine: The Security Disincentives of the Internet of Things

The recent AWS US-EAST-1 outage knocked out security cameras, Alexa devices, and beds (!) among an array of connected endpoints: a vivid reminder of how dependent the IoT ecosystem is on invisible infrastructure.

This piece digs into why the IoT’s growth model rewards “ship fast, fix maybe” over “design safe,” how the Victors of innovation take the spoils while the villagers rake the ash-heap, and why it’s time for a modern-day safety board for code.

🔗 www.securityeconomist.com/frankenkieselsteine/

#thesecurityeconomist #negativeexternalities #infosec

Byron Bay has a 60-day holiday rental cap
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09-23/60-day-caps-in-byron-bay-results-uncertain-after-one-year/105799696

Bellingen Shire should have a 60-day holiday rental cap too. Pollution from traffic generated by holiday makers, cleaners, lawn maintenance machinery, tradespeople, deliveries and linen companies could be reduced.
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#tourism #BellingenShire #Bellingen #traffic #cars #trucks #pollution #housing #Airbnb #holidaymakers #STR #NSW #STRA #harm #NegativeExternalities #community #GHG #climate #PrematureDeath

So AI comes with societal costs. Mass unemployment, water diversion from drinking and agriculture to data center cooling, energy use and carbon emissions, and even messing with truth/trust in what comes through our screens. How can society get the #AI #supplychain to absorb its #negativeexternalities? Where do you #tax? What do you fine? How does society supervise? Who regulates?

> AI jobs danger: Sleepwalking into a white-collar bloodbath

https://www.axios.com/2025/05/28/ai-jobs-white-collar-unemployment-anthropic