@planetscape

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Saving bats is an economic issue.

When bats disappear, pesticide use rises, rural counties lose millions in revenue and local governments face higher borrowing costs.

One colony of 150 big brown bats can eat 600,000 crop-damaging beetles in a year.
https://theconversation.com/how-much-is-a-bat-worth-protecting-these-tiny-insect-eaters-isnt-just-good-for-farms-their-deaths-cost-taxpayers-and-the-wider-economy-282014

https://theconversation.com/how-much-is-a-bat-worth-protecting-these-tiny-insect-eaters-isnt-just-good-for-farms-their-deaths-cost-taxpayers-and-the-wider-economy-282014

How much is a bat worth? Protecting these tiny insect-eaters isn’t just good for farms – their deaths cost taxpayers and the wider economy

When bats disappear, farms become less productive, and that has broad implications far beyond the crops.

The Conversation

I mean brey, I have no idea if he's going to succeed. None. But we did this already, the last time? The last time he had a coup, this is exactly what you told me when I told you he was gonna do it and how - you said "that'll never work."

Maybe it won't, but did that stop them? Buddy the plan is to ignore election results, stay in power as a Hitler-figure, and run the country from a ballroom bunker. That's the PLAN. And they're recruiting an army for when you buck because you don't like it.

Dear Fedi,

For a number of years, I've hosted email discussion lists in support of three different organizations at DreamHost through my domain pinax.com (so all the list addresses have the form [email protected]). Now DreamHost is discontinuing the service, and I have two months to find an alternative provider. This is for dirt-simple Mailman hosting. Any suggestions?

Oh my goodness, I just went down to make a cup of tea, and ended up rescuing a jackdaw.
My housemate said that the birds had been making lots of noise for a while, and I went and looked outside and saw about 40 corvids flying over the house calling. I couldn't see anything immediately wrong, and thought they might be reacting to a red kite flying close to nests or something. But I heard a flapping noise, and couldn't work out where it was coming from. I looked again, and realised that a... 1/

https://oddguan.com/blog/second-time-same-sandbox-anthropic-claude-code-network-allowlist-bypass-data-exfiltration/

if you use claude code
anywhere
for anything

do not run it where there are secrets or sensitive files. if claude code has access to things, this is just another way it can ruin your day/week/month/year

Second Time, Same Sandbox: Another Anthropic Claude Code Network Sandbox Bypass Enables Data Exfiltration

For the second time in five months, Anthropic Claude Code's network sandbox lets a process inside reach hosts the user's policy says to block, and exfiltrate any data the process touches. Every Claude Code release from 2.0.24 (sandbox GA on 2025-10-20) through 2.1.89 was vulnerable to a SOCKS5 hostname null-byte injection. About 5.5 months and ~130 versions, including the release that silently fixed the first sandbox bypass. Both findings ended in a silent fix and no Claude Code security advisory.

Aonan Guan

Were you referred to as “the weird kid” growing up / Do you consider yourself to be “weird” as an adult?

#AskFedi

Not weird kid / not weird adult
3.6%
Weird kid / not weird adult
8.5%
Not weird kid / weird adult
7.6%
Weird kid / weird adult
80.4%
Poll ended at .
good piece by @[email protected] on how to save democracy by investing in public media, something corporatist ad engagement obsessed America has historically reviled

Reimagining and Reconstructing...
Reimagining and Reconstructing U.S. Public Media

Knight First Amendment Institute

From here:

As a guy with ADHD, if i haven't taken medication no amount of therapy tools can get me to start a task until it is absolutely necessary to start (and the consequences for not doing it are severe enough), no matter how i contextualize it or think through it. Starting medication after highschool transformed my life in a way I didn't realize was possible, it's not laziness, it's a physical ailment.

Maybe I actually do have #ADHD . :(

Denmark is turning off the white light from its streetlamps and painting a road red to solve a nighttime crisis that almost no one sees: urban light was blocking the path of bats
https://www.ecoticias.com/en/denmark-turning-off-the-white-light-from-its-streetlamps-and-painting-a-road-red-to-solve-a-nighttime-crisis-that-almost-no-one-sees-urban-light-was-blocking-the-path-of-bats/31118/
Denmark is turning off the white light from its streetlamps and painting a road red to solve a nighttime crisis that almost no one sees: urban light was blocking the path of bats

Denmark turned part of a road red to protect bats and cut the hidden damage caused by white streetlights.

ECOticias.com

@datarama @inthehands

My recommendation is always "Follow the Money" .
Google is now an adjunct of the fossil fuel industry & its fossil fuel funded public corruption.

Go after the wealth of the billionaires & oil oligarchs funding Google's #Enshittification

#PrinceBonesaw
Alwaleed bin Talal
Chris Hohn
Elon Musk
Sergey Brin
Peter Thiel
Larry Ellison
Charles Koch

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-04-06/google-thiel-stand-out-in-saudi-prince-s-silicon-valley-tour

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/05/13/trump-tech-execs-riyadh/

https://www.wsj.com/finance/investing/chris-hohns-tci-made-18-9-billion-last-year-shattering-hedge-fund-records-e155153b

https://www.sfgate.com/tech/article/billionaire-hohn-more-google-layoffs-17736530.php

Fossil fuel phase out.

Google, Thiel Feature in Saudi Prince's Silicon Valley Tour

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman wrapped up a whirlwind tour of technology titans on Friday, part of a three-week U.S. visit focused on economic opportunities to diversify the oil-rich nation.

Bloomberg.com