Derrick H

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WhatsApp's new platform policies ban general purpose AI chatbots like Copilot from using its service. https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/25/microsofts-ai-chatbot-copilot-leaves-whatsapp-on-january-15/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
WMG says artists and songwriters will have full control over whether and how their names, images, likenesses, voices, and compositions are used in new AI-generated music. https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/25/warner-music-signs-deal-with-ai-music-startup-suno-settles-lawsuit/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

8 Things to Know About New Research on Earth’s Rapid Drying and the Loss of Its Groundwater

Decades of NASA satellite data reveal how quickly the planet’s underground stores of fresh water have been depleted and how their use is contributing to rising sea levels. Here are the key takeaways.
https://www.propublica.org/article/groundwater-fresh-water-depletion-research-science-advances-takeaways?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Science #Climate #Environment #ClimateChange #Water #NASA #Data

8 Things to Know About New Research on Earth’s Rapid Drying and the Loss of Its Groundwater

Decades of NASA satellite data reveal how quickly the planet’s underground stores of fresh water have been depleted and how their use is contributing to rising sea levels. Here are the key takeaways.

ProPublica

“Climate Change Is Making Extreme Rain Events Like Texas’ More Common — And More Intense” by Li Zhou for @huffingtonpost:

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/extreme-rain-texas-new-mexico-north-carolina_n_686ef915e4b0e313c1f094db

⚠️ In four days Gemini wants to scan your phone ⚠️

Stop #Google now: 👉 https://tuta.com/blog/how-to-disable-gemini-on-android

#GeminiAI #Google #Android #PrivacyMatters

Today's mood....

Just released. My Nature World View piece:

"Never before has the USA seen such an anti-intellectual, anti-science assault...Unchecked, the consequences for the nation’s economy and wellbeing will be dire.
History tells us that there are times when the dangers of inaction become sufficiently threatening to individuals or the planet that scientists who are able and willing to do so will have to enter the public arena and bring their voices to debates of critical societal importance. This is such a time."

https://rdcu.be/eo3Hb

U.S. citizen with REAL ID handcuffed in Alabama immigration raid and held before release

A U.S.-born citizen who was wrestled into the dirt, handcuffed and detained in a vehicle as part of an immigration raid had a REAL ID on him that was dismissed as fake, the man's cousin said Friday.

NBC News

New in PN: Voters want Dems to stand up to Trump, not self-flagellate

"The base's frustration is not because leading Democrats have failed to oppose Joe Biden. It’s because they are perceived as failing to oppose Donald Trump." https://www.publicnotice.co/p/joe-biden-original-sin-tapper-thompson-trump

Voters want Dems to stand up to Trump, not self-flagellate

Sorry, Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson.

Public Notice
"Two officials at the Justice Department selected by Donald Trump to take on positions at the Library of Congress were turned away from the premises on Monday in what was described to the media as a 'stand-off' by employees." https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/library-congress-doge-trump-takeover-b2749631.html
Two Trump appointees escorted out of Library of Congress amid White House takeover, report says

Trump’s firing of the head of the Library of Congress comes as White House officials can’t say what agency does

The Independent