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Under a first-of-its-kind municipal ordinance, developers will be required to use plant species native to the region in future landscape plans for public and private projects in Encinitas. [...]

Mayor Bruce Ehlers said codifying the ordinance places it on the same footing as other design requirements, including fire safety. He added that it does not add new steps to the process but formalizes how native plants are addressed in projects that already require a landscape plan.

“I’m a native plant nerd and I’m amazed at the number of residents in Encinitas that are into native plants,” Ehlers said. [...]

“Native plants are not only beautiful, they are the foundation of all native wildlife,” Klopp said. “They sustain our native bees, butterflies, and other pollinators whom the city has previously committed to protecting through the Bee City USA program. They protect our lagoons by reducing runoff and eliminating the need for chemical fertilizers. And once established, they use a fraction of the water of conventional ornamental landscapes.”

City Council Ordinance No. 2026-07 unanimously approved the ordinance 5-0 with two recommended modifications:

https://www.encinitasca.gov/government/departments/development-services/policy-planning-housing/policy-planning/native-plant-ordinance

Does anyone know what were those recommendations? I couldn't easily find it, nor do i want to watch a 5h city council meeting

Besides, does anyone know any other city with similar initiatives?

The AI boom is more likely a marker of the end of the 50-year digital boom than the start of a new wave of innovation.

L’ancien chef du service de neurochirurgie de l’hôpital Bicêtre décrit dans un ouvrage détonnant comment le système favoriserait la survenue d’accidents médicaux et comment les autorités [...]

La nebbia e il bersaglio: chi minaccia davvero chi
A questo punto della storia, con il mondo ormai con un piede nel baratro e i messianici al comando, la questione centrale non è più come salvare l’immagine di Israele, ormai smascheratosi da solo. Il punto è fino a quando si vuole rinunciare a nominare le cose per quello che sono: una traiettoria politica fatta di attori riconoscibili, decisioni concrete e responsabilità verificabili
#Israele
https://www.ideeinformazione.org/2026/04/07/la-nebbia-e-il-bersaglio-chi-minaccia-davvero-chi/
@attualita

Did you just look askance at some writing that uses an uncommon word, thinking, "I keep seeing this word... has it suddenly become popular?"

It could be the Frequency Illusion!

Around the country, optional Medicaid services — such as doula support, home health care, and dental work — are at risk of losing funding as states brace for federal Medicaid cuts to hit their bottom lines. Already, lawmakers in Idaho are considering their own reductions to Medicaid to balance the state's budget. Missouri officials proposed cutting tens of millions of dollars in services for people with disabilities.

I dunno its name.

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This is textbook institutional neglect, weaponized and then covered up.

Detainees reported he complained of trouble breathing and feeling overheated. Medical staff allegedly did not respond until he was already unresponsive.

ICE’s own release admits the medical conditions but stonewalls the actual cause of death. His family is left in limbo, gaslit by an apparatus that operates with total impunity while taxpayer dollars subsidize private prison margins.

When did you first see it, and what did you think?

Was it your first/only anime if you did see it?

inspired by LCL vs FCL.

As you might imagine, this has generated a lot of discussion in /r/journalism.

The Associated Press, one of the world’s oldest and most influential news organizations, said Monday it is offering buyouts to an unspecified number of its U.S.-based journalists as part of an acceleration away from the focus on newspapers and their print journalism that sustained the company since the mid-1800s.

The News Media Guild, the union that represents AP journalists, said more than 120 of the staff members it represents received buyout offers on Monday.

The news organization is becoming more focused on visual journalism and developing new revenue sources, particularly through companies investing in artificial intelligence, to cope with the economic collapse of many legacy news outlets. Once the lion’s share of AP’s revenue, big newspaper companies now account for 10% of its income.

“We’re not a newspaper company and we haven’t been for quite some time,” Julie Pace, executive editor and senior vice president of the AP, said in an interview.

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My photo: Theater

This one should be harder (I hope)!

1 point for the series

1 point for the season

1 point for the episode!

Answer:

KNBA Top Stories: The Coast Guard seizes more than $65,000 of unreported pollock roe from a catcher-processor ship. Mountain goats with a highly infectious skin disease have been discovered on a trails near Juneau. Micro-Unit homes open in Anchorage. The city-owned housing project gives both shelter and addiction treatment and behavioral healthcare. It’s election day in Anchorage. The Inuit soul group, Pamyua, celebrates 30 years of Native drumming and dancing.

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Iran’s military may be badly damaged by the U.S. and Israel’s campaign. But that damage has exposed a more enduring threat: asymmetric warfare, in which individuals or small groups of militants can pose threats strategic to the American military.

Your browsing history, your location, your political preferences. For years, tech companies have found ways to turn personal data into profit. Now, a new and far more intimate frontier is opening: the electrical signals produced by your brain.

This is not science fiction. Nor is it about brain implants for paralysed patients or experimental medical procedures. A fast-growing consumer market of non-invasive neurotechnology – wearable headsets, brain activity-reading headbands, focus-enhancing devices – is already here, already being sold and already collecting neural data from ordinary users. But the legal and ethical frameworks to govern it are struggling to keep up...

Under the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation, brain signals could potentially qualify as biometric or health data, both of which attract stronger protections. But consumer neurotechnology, when sold as wellness products rather than medical devices, often falls into a regulatory grey area, sitting awkwardly between health law, consumer protection and data privacy rules...

The stakes here are higher than with most forms of personal data. Neural signals are not like a credit card number that can be changed if compromised. Generated by your brain in real time, they can increasingly be used to infer things about you that you have not chosen to disclose – such as emotional responses, cognitive patterns, and other reactions you may not consciously be aware of...