"Across Canada and the U.S., a growing number of shuttered #golf courses are being rewilded.

"At least four courses in California, and a handful of others in the U.S., U.K. and Australia, have been bought by non-profits, cities or land trusts and turned into #nature preserves or #parks in recent years, leading to an increase in #wildlife sightings, plant species and tree cover."

#rewilding #ecology #landuse

https://www.rewildingmag.com/when-golf-courses-go-wild/

A Michigan judge put a teen who fell asleep during a field trip to the court, in cuffs and jail clothes

What is wrong with this country (don’t answer that, rhetorical)

https://apnews.com/article/teen-detroit-field-trip-handcuffs-50ca8b3027ff3f40da0bf7aa98cefeb2

Here's an open secret: the confusing jargon of finance is not the product of some inherent complexity that requires a whole new vocabulary. Rather, finance-talk is all obfuscation, because if we called finance tactics by their plain-language names, it would be obvious that the sector exists to defraud the public and loot the real economy.

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#USPS shared customer postal addresses with #Meta , #LinkedIn and #Snap | TechCrunch

The postal service took action to ‘remediate’ the issue following a TechCrunch investigation
#privacy #sevurity #leak #postalservice

https://techcrunch.com/2024/07/18/usps-shared-customer-postal-addresses-with-meta-linkedin-and-snap/

The New York Times can't bring itself to tell the simple truth in its headline -- that Trump is a dire threat to democracy.

Instead, it attributes that obvious fact to an "emerging coalition that views Donald J. Trump’s agenda as a threat to democracy..."

This is a perfect example of Big Journalism's insistent on business as usual in the face of an emergency.

Just say it, journalaists -- and work to stop the modern fascists. Your future is at stake, too.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/16/us/politics/trump-2025-democratic-resistance.html

Friends: Who are you listening to right now?

Me, very hip: Oh, you wouldn't know them.