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[Shanghai Daily @shanghaidaily]

The earthquake has left at least 50 people injured. A suspected explosion caused part of a large shopping mall’s second floor to collapse, reportedly trapping several people inside.

[Cleaning Up Podcast @CleaningUpPod]

China has low costs but no carbon price. Australia may have a carbon price, but sky-high engineering costs. Ross Garnaut tells @MLiebreich Australia fixed this once before in mining and can do it again. #CleaningUpPod #DeepDiveAustralia #EnergyTransition #CarbonPricing

[Brandon @brandon_stwrt]

I broke my site this morning.

One unclosed /* killed every CSS rule after line 12. The site went live in Times New Roman with blue underlined links.

Then:

mojave deployments sable
mojave rollback sable 8221f921
mojave deployments sable

The old version was live again in seconds.

No rebuild. No CI run required.

Rollback just moves a pointer to a build that already exists.

https://t.co/98YMMfK74u

[World Bank Group Publications @WBGPubs]

Developing economies face an unprecedented investment gap. Meeting key global development goals will require 5% of global GDP annually through 2030.

How can countries balance soaring needs with dwindling resources? https://t.co/QfRiMMaLp1

#Investment #DevEcon

[WWF-Pakistan @WWFPak]

On World Mangrove Day, WWF-Pakistan celebrates a story of recovery from the Indus Delta, where restoring mangroves has meant more than planting trees.

Through an integrated Nature-based Solutions approach combining area-based management, community stewardship, restoration, sustainable fisheries, freshwater security and science-based monitoring, targeted mangrove landscapes are showing measurable signs of recovery.

GIS analysis of the BMZ-supported project areas across eight clusters recorded a 33.64% overall increase in mangrove cover between 2020 and 2025.

When ecosystems and communities are strengthened together, restoration can create lasting change.

#WorldMangroveDay #NatureBasedSolutions #IndusDelta #WWFPakistan

[benahorowitz.eth @bhorowitz]

America’s software leadership was built on openness. We have the same opportunity in AI.

If we want a competitive, secure AI ecosystem whose benefits extend far beyond a handful of companies, we need to preserve access to open-weight models.

[Karolina Dubiel @karolina_dubiel]

There's one caveat -- in many cases, my octocopter taught itself to fly as a quadcopter. It drives down to roughly four or five motors and holds pose there, even in some trials of nominal hover with all eight healthy. So, when 3/4 motor faults are injected, it's often already in the regime it would choose to live in anyway, for a few reasons:

> My reward is pose-only, so holding pose on 8 motors and on 4 score identically, and parking a healthy motor is free
> 70% of training was already a reduced-motor drone (dual failures weighted 0.7, single 0.2, hover 0.1), so it learned "find a surviving subset and fly that," not "fly the octo, patch faults"

Textbook reward-hacking: it maximized exactly the (admittedly faulty) objective I specified, but I'm still considering this project a success; the end goals were fully met, and a win is a win 😄

📸: A trial in which the drone chose to fly as a quad, despite only one injected motor loss.

[GWSP @TheGwsp]

India's water data was once fragmented, inaccessible and manually collected.

Today, 119,000+ hydro-meteorological stations feed real-time data into one national platform — enabling flood forecasting, basin planning & more nationwide.

https://t.co/8jZfHXCSjr

#WaterForward

[World Bank Group Publications @WBGPubs]

High construction costs are a barrier to #infrastructure investment — but often a solvable one.
Weak procurement and limited market competition inflate costs in many countries. Reform these, and more investments become viable.
📘 https://t.co/WC5yALgfdV

[WATER SYSTEM NEWS 💧💩 @WaterSystemNews]

Veralto Acquires Alfaa UV to Expand Ultraviolet Water Treatment Portfolio https://t.co/jjcgOk7yoY

[🔋EKL Battery Papers @EKL_Batteries]

Covalency stabilizes high energy vanadium oxide positive electrode for sustainable aqueous zinc-ion batteries
https://t.co/epAPlosUGF

[IFDC @IFDCGlobal]

Join Dr. Ermias Betemariam, Land Health Scientist – Soils at @TheLandAlliance, and Dr. Seyni Salack, Interim Director of Research & Director of the Competence Centre at @wascalclimate.

Register now ➡️ https://t.co/04UA34ht9M

#SoilValuesProgram #ClimateSmartAgriculture #ElNiño

[TINSB Off-Grid @tinsb_offgrid]

Life begins at 400 volts.

Stage one complete, journey to 21 kW off-grid Bitcoin mining. 3 phase off-grid solar system, wild mining Bitcoin, grow organic vegetables, fast charge my EV for free at 11kW 3 phase.

TINSB Off-Grid - Solar-Powered Bitcoin Mining 🌞🚀

[Andrés Rodríguez-Pose @rodriguez_pose]

#Innovation pays dividends, but not always where the bill is paid.
Cipollina & @GianPascale show in their new @SCEDjournal paper that innovation gains often spill across regional borders. creating bigger gains next door than at home.
https://t.co/mJtBy5UkGn

[Jon Majerowski @JonMajerowski]

Contact and Control - What happens to YOU after you have contact?

[Atlas-SSI @atlas_ssi]

Drought, low water levels, higher water temperatures, and cooling water limitations can affect generation capacity, including risks to once-through cooling systems and hydropower output.

https://t.co/PnaZuoVzwm

[GWSP @TheGwsp]

Multilateral Development Banks are aligning behind #WaterForward— committing to reach 1B people with reliable water by 2030.

Launched at #WBGMeetings, this shift moves from fragmented projects to coordinated, country-led Water Compacts.

Learn more: https://t.co/yoEuSnPSSy

[Afroz shah @AfrozShah1]

Week 592

Versova beach.

Ocean pukes in the monsoon.

Hundreds of volunteers at it.

40000 kgs of marine debris plucked out.

Our bit.

[Landscape Alliance @TheLandAlliance]

Regenerative agriculture can improve crop yields, restore soil health, strengthen resilience, & support sustainable livelihoods, but scaling it requires the right policies and partnerships.

Explore the findings:🔗 https://t.co/Qsr5jz8ktx

#LandscapeRestoration #LandscapeAlliance

[Earthmover @EarthmoverHQ]

New blog post from @mattnucc & team: Virtually Gribberish - Bringing Icechunk clarity to GRIB archives.

Gribberish + VirtualiZarr + Icechunk = virtual Icechunk stores over existing GRIB archives, tested on ~2PB of NOAA models: A queryable cloud cube!

https://t.co/v00KF2DhfD