Unavailable in the US. Read it and weep. From Electrek.
What Was the Internet?
A collection of articles from Boston Review. The last one by Cory Doctorow of the Electronic Freedom Foundation (and coiner of the word “enshittification”) is a must-read.
What Was the Internet?
State of New Mexico sues Justice Department and Todd Blanche, saying they blocked its Epstein probe
Epstein had a big ranch not far from here. The state of New Mexico is investigating a large number of crimes that happened there. Initially the federal government agreed to share its information on Epstein with the state of New Mexico to aid in prosecution. Now they are backing out of that pledge. Let that sink in. Federal law enforcement is (still) blocking this investigation. This time they aren’t just stonewalling victims and the public, but the state of New Mexico.
State of New Mexico sues Justice Department and Todd Blanche, saying they blocked its Epstein probe
The World Adds a Third Terawatt of Solar Power
From Yale University. The interesting part:
It took nearly seven decades, after the invention of the silicon solar cell in 1954, for the world to install 1 terawatt of solar capacity, conceivably enough to power the entire United States. After passing that milestone in 2022, the world added its second terawatt in 2024 and its third in 2026, Bloomberg reports.
The World Adds a Third Terawatt of Solar Power
The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is Fishing Gear
In spite of the photos you see on the news of household waste, the vast majority of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch seems to be from commercial fishing, mostly nets.
The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is not an island of trash: its plastic averages roughly 50 kilograms spread across each square kilometer, and a 2022 study found 75 to 86 percent of the large floating debris by mass came from fishing gear, not household waste
ICE Is Using Immigration Arrests to Build a Massive DNA Database
People who have not been convicted of a crime are having their DNA added to the FBI criminal database, in large numbers. From The New Republic.
ICE Is Using Immigration Arrests to Build a Massive DNA Database
Dozens of police officers accused of using license plate cameras to track women
The Surveillance State continues. At the very least there needs to be privacy laws to restrict access and punish misuse of this data. From Tech Spot.
Dozens of police officers accused of using license plate cameras to track women
New Mexico plugs record number of abandoned oil and gas wells, thanks to Biden-era funding
From Source New Mexico.
New Mexico plugs record number of abandoned oil and gas wells, thanks to Biden-era funding
Pity the Nation
A friend from the Bay Area sent me a pic of the City Lights bookstore with banners quoting Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s poem Pity the Nation. The San Francisco Chronicle has an article about it:
‘Pity the nation’: San Francisco’s City Lights Bookstore displays banners warning against tyranny
The poem and its connection to a similar work by Khalil Gibran is in a posting on The Allen Ginsburg Project blog.
Ferlinghetti (Pity The Nation)
Fiesta de San Lorenzo, Bernalillo, Nuevo Mexico
Ran across the little fiesta up the road in Bernalillo. Lots of these around in this part of the world, being rural / agricultural.
Steven A. Guccione 