On Dec. 3rd, animal rescuer Zoe Rosenberg was sentenced to 90 days in jail for rescuing 4 sick chickens from Perdue's Petaluma Poultry slaughterhouse in Sonoma County, California. Zoe made sure the chickens, Poppy, Aster, Ivy, and Azalea, got the veterinary care they needed. For this act of compassion, Zoe is now a convicted felon and will be incarcerated at risk to her health, given her serious medical issues. Meanwhile, Petaluma Poultry faces no consequences for leaving sick animals to die or scalding animals alive. Please share the news of this injustice and keep exposing the animal cruelty that the authorities are covering up.

The CJ is creeping into the mainstream.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.vg/post/3654190

To answer the question of whether the animal rights movement and the veganism movement are the same, their philosophical and sociological differences will be discussed by someone who has been an animal rights vegan for decades. This will include a brief history of the two philosophies/movements and how they intersect today. Understanding whether they have now merged into a single movement or are somehow still separate is useful to understand the dynamics of the current animal rights movement – including tribalism and infighting – and assess how it will evolve in the future.

source

Marko Elez, a 25-year-old employee at Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), has been granted access to sensitive databases at the U.S. Social Security Administration, the Treasury and Justice departments, and the Department of Homeland Security. So it should fill all Americans with a deep sense of confidence to learn that Mr. Elez over the weekend inadvertently published a private key that allowed anyone to interact directly with more than four dozen large language models (LLMs) developed by Musk’s artificial intelligence company xAI.

On July 13, Mr. Elez committed a code script to GitHub called “agent.py” that included a private application programming interface (API) key for xAI. The inclusion of the private key was first flagged by GitGuardian, a company that specializes in detecting and remediating exposed secrets in public and proprietary environments. GitGuardian’s systems constantly scan GitHub and other code repositories for exposed API keys, and fire off automated alerts to affected users.

Philippe Caturegli, “chief hacking officer” at the security consultancy Seralys, said the exposed API key allowed access to at least 52 different LLMs used by xAI. The most recent LLM in the list was called “grok-4-0709” and was created on July 9, 2025.

Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists:

On April 17, 2025, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists held a discussion exploring the risks of climate change and how to understand what planetary shifts are inevitable – and which are solvable – in this current era of scientific skepticism.

Each year, new data strengthens our understanding of the planet's rising temperatures and growing environmental instability. With the increase in uncontrollable wildfires, stronger storms, and rising ocean levels, the question remains of whether we are too late to reverse – or significantly slow – our changing climate.

There have been a few bright spots towards reaching targets set in the Paris Agreement, such as increases in sustainable energy generation and climate finance. Still, these advances have not yet slowed consistent record-breaking heat and a continued year-over-year rise of atmospheric carbon– leaving us to question whether there is a ‘tipping point’ – a threshold beyond which climate change is irreversible.

Speakers include:

Moderator: Alexandra Bell, president and CEO of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.

Inez Fung, Professor Emerita of Atmospheric Science in the Department of Earth and Planetary Science and the Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management at the University of California, Berkeley. She is also a member of the Bulletin's Science and Security Board.

Robert Kopp, Distinguished Professor in the Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences at Rutgers University.

Femke Nijsse, Senior Lecturer in Innovation, Energy and Climate at the University of Exeter.

There are 3 speakers in this.

University of Tasmania's Associate Prof. Booth as leader of Critical Collapse Studies hosts a critical collapse event with Australian collapsologist and co-founder of JustCollapse, Tristan Sykes, and with German Queer political scientist and climate justice advocate, Dr. Tadzio Muller.

Just Collapse: https://justcollapse.org/

Dr Tadzio Mueller: https://steadyhq.com/en/

Kollaps Camp: https://kollapscamp.de/

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/19518954

New research finds the industry’s campaigns to confuse the public about beef’s climate impact go back longer than previously recognized.

https://www.ft.com/content/e61e1348-9ee7-4dd9-b2a8-8d262e26d3e9