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WIRED - The Latest in Technology, Science, Culture and Business [Unofficial]Apr 28

‘It’s Undignified’: Hundreds of Workers Training Meta’s AI Could Be Laid Off

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.wired.com/story/meta-covalen-ai-workers-layoffs/

Drivers Of Forest Disturbance In Southeast Asia [incl. spatial analysis]
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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jag.2026.105220 <-- shared paper 🔗
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https://github.com/shijuanchen/SEA_forest_dis <-- shared GitHub ‘data repository 🔗
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #spatialanalysis #spatiotemporal #forest #vegetation #Forestdisturbance #Forestdegradation #Deforestation #remotesensing #SoutheastAsia #Asia #tropicalforests #timeseriesanalysis #geostatistics #disturbance #clearing #planting #agriculture #earthobservation #imagery #CCDC #changedetection #landcover #landuse #change #plantation #cultivation #slashandburn #planning #mitigation #catalogue #conservation #management #landmanagement #machinelearning #imageanalysis #AI

Else, Someone Jun 22, 2025

#nixcamp #Liverpool #Birkenhead #UnitedKingdom #borders #passports #visa #residence #swidenning #SlashAndBurn #ShiftingAgriculture #Zomia #SmashTheState #stateless Abolish #KYC #AML #DMCA #facerec remote #biometric identification #frontex

NSW.Biodiversity Apr 21, 2025

The family farm - years of 'bashing and burning'

"I bashed the trees down and burnt everything … I was a bash and burner."

"It took about 200 years to transform a once wild island into an agricultural powerhouse,
farmers raised to conquer the land; slashing native vegetation to make way for agriculture.Much of King Island's native vegetation has been cleared for farmland."
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04-21/king-island-environmental-destruction-farmer-conservationist/104743516
#extinction #farming #FamilyFarm #Australia #LandClearing #culture #SettlerSociety #machinery #SlashandBurn #deforestation #meat #biodiversity

Farmer Fred Perry's 30-year conservation project creates bird haven after years of 'bashing and burning'

It started when farmer Fred Perry's kids came home from school about 30 years ago, telling him he needed to take better care of the environment. Now, his small slice of a farming island is home to amazing birdlife.

ABC News

Carolannie Feb 28, 2025

"Our processes stand in stark contrast to the sloppy work of our peers in DOGE. Their slash-and-burn tactics had them reportedly holed up in a boarded-up conference room in the basement of our office, deciding the best way to seemingly dismantle our agency."
#FeralRepublicans #FeralMusk #SlashAndBurn #MoveFastAndDestroyTheWorld
https://www.teenvogue.com/story/five-young-cfpb-staffers-fighting-for-jobs-doge-firings

These Five Young Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Staffers Are Fighting For Their Jobs After DOGE Firings

In this op-ed, 5 former employees of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau reflect on being fired from the agency by DOGE.

Teen Vogue

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Trump & Epstein: Biz partners.Feb 23, 2025

WE TRIED TO WARN THEM.

I don't believe the #Biden Administration took the threat of a second #NaziDon term seriously enough.

Though in their defense, I don't think EVEN THEY knew just how bad they were going to be. #DisasterPresidency #SlashAndBurn #PardoningTerrorists #EndorsingNazis #HitlerSalutes #DictatorOnDayOne #MakeMeaslesGreatAgain #BirdFlu #Resist

BellingenNSW Jan 8, 2025

How a mayor beat the loggers to turn the place green again
Could Bellingen become a “green municipality”?

"A region battered by predatory logging and ranching...With its forest-gobbling ranchers, bootleg loggers and dodgy sawmill operators, this sprawling township the size of Israel was a big red flag."

“For decades, Paragominas was one of the Amazon’s epicentres of deforestation and timber extraction. That changed in 2008, with the municipal environmental pact, which reduced deforestation by 80%,” says Beto Veríssimo, co-founder of Imazon, a rainforest-based thinktank. ..Controlling deforestation turned the township into a magnet for investment and economic growth.”
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https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/jan/07/brazil-amazon-paragominas-deforestation-landgrabs-shootouts-logging-slash-burn-farming-green-sustainability
#deforestation #LoggingImpacts #BellingenLogging #Gleniffer #Amazon #biodiversity #NativeForests #FrontierCommunity #logging #slashandburn #NSWLogging #FarrRight #governance

From the ashes: how a mayor beat the loggers to turn the Amazon green again

Once known for landgrabs, shootouts and slash-and-burn farming, Paragominas has halted deforestation to become a model of sustainable growth in a region charred by wildfires

The Guardian