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The perfect headline doesn’t exi…

https://www.engadget.com/big-tech/google-pledges-roughly-three-hours-of-its-annual-profit-to-fight-climate-change-164808010.html

What's going on here? The matplotlib maintainer this story is about correctly notes that all the quotes from his post in the article are made up.

UPDATE: Link was pulled; see below.

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/02/after-a-routine-code-rejection-an-ai-agent-published-a-hit-piece-on-someone-by-name

The 'No ICE in Minnesota' charity bundle is live on itch.io https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/the-no-ice-in-minnesota-charity-bundle-is-live-on-itch-io/

#GameBundle

Often after I update #fedora it boots into a black screen with a mouse cursor only. No log in, and the terminal summoning keyboard shortcuts do nothing (mashing CRTL/AlT/SHIFT combinations and pressing t).

Sometimes powering off (long hold power button) fixes it, but generally not. When it occurs I don't get POST prior so can't select the old boot. It is like the system is resuming. But there is no fanspin between boots. When this happens I have to unplug to power cycle.

X570 motherboard, secureboot is on, Nvidea 4000 series GPU, with their drivers. No iGPU. I occasionally connect a second monitor via DP, but mostly 1 monitor via DP.

Has anyone else encountered this? It has been happening for months.

Here's a tale of how nature triumphs in the end.

Steel mills dumped molten slag in parts of Chicago and nearby areas. The slag hardened in layers up to 5 meters deep. These places became barren wastelands. Other industries dumped hot ash and cinders there.

But eventually the steel mills closed.

The deep layers of hard, toxic material were not friendly to plants. Cottonwoods are usually 30 meters tall or more. In the slag fields, stunted cottonwoods grow to just 2 meters.

But rare species that could handle these conditions began to thrive. The lakeside daisy, a federally threatened species lost to Illinois for decades, turned out to grow taller on slag than on topsoil! The capitate spike-rush, last recorded in Illinois in 1894 and considered locally extinct, was rediscovered growing on slag.

And more! Native prairie grasses like little bluestem. Native milkweeds. Even tiny white orchids called sphinx ladies' tresses.

A team of women ecologists began studying these unusual landscapes. They call themselves the Slag Queens.

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