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The copper tariffs will increase the price of copper resulting in the theft of more copper cables used for communications* and power further disrupting the economy.
* Fibre optic cables will also be mistakenly stripped from service.
https://www.techspot.com/news/108339-thieves-cut-fiber-lines-failed-copper-theft-causing.html
Belize News: Tomb of founding Maya King discovered at Caracol
https://www.breakingbelizenews.com/2025/07/10/tomb-of-founding-maya-king-discovered-at-caracol/
Hilding Neilson just gave a mind-blowing talk on "Indigenizing the Drake Equation". I will spend a lot of time thinking about this, he made a lot of incredibly good points about how incredibly biased our thinking about searching for aliens is.
Main point: we're not looking for "civilizations", we're looking for breaks from Nature. We can only detect "civilizations" that are like us: doing terrible damage to their environments.
How Underwater Archaeology Brings Secrets to the Surface, From Lost Shipwrecks to Submerged Cities
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/how-underwater-archaeology-brings-secrets-to-the-surface-from-lost-shipwrecks-to-submerged-cities-180986950/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into History @history-Smithsonianmag
Not that the DNC is asking me but I would be telling voters that there will be a bipartisan Epstein investigation and a full report when the Dems are back in charge. "The focus will be to hold people accountable not to protect the wealthy and well connected." Then dare the GOP to say something.
NOLA com: Guest Column: This Black woman and her besties have fallen out of love with the Essence Festival
Essence Festival has deserted its longtime fans, argues Minnesota-based guest columnist Sheletta Brundig. She stopped attending. "Every year, I felt more disconnected from the festival. The last time I attended, it felt — I am almost embarrassed to say it — like a money grab."
"Admission free, but inconvenient personalities will be refused."
A phrase that should be revived!
Ad for Magnolia Garden (later Southern Park), New Orleans, existed c 1870 - 1922 on the upriver side of Bayou St. John, on the Bayou side of where Harding Drive is now. H/t Cathe Mizell-Nelson
More horrible science news...
"The NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center (NSIDC DAAC) learned yesterday that the Department of Defense (DoD) will stop processing and delivering the Special Sensor Microwave Imager/Sounder (SSMIS) data no later than 30 June 2025."
This is a really big deal for everyone. This has major consequences for our ability to monitor our planet, especially across the polar regions (Antarctic/Greenland surface melt, sea ice data, etc.).
There are alternative data sources in some cases, but it will take time to prepare these products.
Himself prefers we forget about disturbing climate information. He thinks we won't notice when the food stops growing.
@rednikki @ZLabe
Rednikki: From the NASA site: "the SSM/I and SSMIS collection includes data relating to brightness temperature, snow-covered area, snow cover, snow water equivalent, snow melt, sea ice motion, sea ice age, and more."
This is important as a historical dataset for climate studies and monitoring. It is also used for day to day weather forecasting and marine ice monitoring and advisories. Furthermore, snow cover and sea ice are some of the input into weather models.Also hydrology.
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