“We are seeing a big increase in the thaw of permafrost”, confirms Emily Osborne, program manager for the Arctic Research Program, NOAA, and editor of the Arctic Report Card, an annual peer-reviewed environmental study of the Arctic. Due to circular global marine currents, much plastic waste ends up in the Arctic, where it becomes frozen in sea ice or permafrost. The US Geological Survey estimates there’s a total of 1,656,000 tonnes of mercury trapped in polar ice and permafrost: roughly twice the global amount in all other soils, oceans, and atmosphere.

Like GPUs, FPGAs need a hardware abstraction that embodies this computational pattern:

What’s missing here is an ISA-like abstraction for the software that FPGAs run. The problem with Verilog for computational FPGAs is that it neither does a good job as a low-level hardware abstraction nor as a high-level programming abstraction. The long-term resolution to this problem might only come when the hardware evolves, as GPUs once did:

If computational FPGAs are accelerators for a particular class of algorithmic patterns, there’s no reason to believe that today’s FPGAs are the ideal implementation of that goal.

I wrote more about the history of Lange’s photos and President Roosevelt’s Executive Order 9066 initiating the Japanese Internment in another post on the Anchor Editions Blog. Below, I’ve selected some of Lange’s photos from the National Archives—including the captions she wrote—pairing them with quotes from people who were imprisoned in the camps, as quoted in the excellent book, Impounded: Dorothea Lange and the Censored Images of Japanese American Internment. I’ve also made a limited number of prints of her photos available for sale at Anchor Editions, and I’m donating 50% of the proceeds to two organizations fighting to protect immigrants: NILC and ACLU.

The drought is indicative of morass of issues increasingly stressing water supplies not just in Chennai but around the world: poor management, overusing groundwater, and a shifting climate turning the hydrological cycle on its head. And if the world’s water insecure cities don’t act, they could be the next Chennai. Raj Bhagat, World Resources Institute’s sustainable cities manager in India, told Earther that scarcity means the truck operators “sell water at very high prices… making it difficult for weaker sections of the population.”

And Chrome uses a lot of memory, Firefox — less. Also, Firefox has a lot of useful features like showing useless CSS rules and supports prefers-color-scheme: dark media rules, that Chrome supports only in beta now. Now, most developers write their extensions for both Chrome and Firefox.

Erin Vogel, co-executive director of I Grow Chicago, an Englewood-based community nonprofit, says 100% of the children the group works with have lost someone they know to gun violence and have heard gunshots while in their home. You’re cheating kids,” said Rashad, now executive director of Imagine Englewood If, a community group founded largely to draw attention to the lead crisis. “The ironic thing is there are a lot of health resources available here,” said Cecile De Mello of Englewood Rising, one of the community groups involved in the research.

I’ve been tinkering with different startup ideas and needed a good checklist to think through them. I found myself mixing and tweaking these templates because they don’t exactly match my model of the world, so I wrote up my own list. I use this list both to develop ideas and filter them.

The ICANN – the organisation charged with overseeing the internet’s domain names – gave exclusive rights to the US based company to administer “. They said granting a private company exclusive rights to the domain would “prevent the use of this domain for purposes of public interest related to the protection, promotion and awareness raising on issues related to the Amazon biome”. amazon” names with the ACTO states, granting nine domain names – one for the ACTO organisation and one for each state.

Companies could create deepfake videos of a rival company’s CEO making defamous or offensive statements and leak the videos via social media. Not all deepfakes are nefarious, but at the very least, social media sites should more diligently label synthetic media, increase public awareness of such material and allow the public to make better decisions. Including the labeling of synthetic media, heightened content moderation, social media posting delays and pressuring platforms to censor content, the suggestions given by the guest speakers have great potential to suppress harmful deepfakes.

I wrote more about the history of Lange’s photos and President Roosevelt’s Executive Order 9066 initiating the Japanese Internment in another post on the Anchor Editions Blog. Below, I’ve selected some of Lange’s photos from the National Archives—including the captions she wrote—pairing them with quotes from people who were imprisoned in the camps, as quoted in the excellent book, Impounded: Dorothea Lange and the Censored Images of Japanese American Internment. I’ve also made a limited number of prints of her photos available for sale at Anchor Editions, and I’m donating 50% of the proceeds to two organizations fighting to protect immigrants: NILC and ACLU.