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  1. University of Edinburgh: ‘Big AI’ influence on laws and oversight mapped. “Researchers from the University of Edinburgh, Trinity College Dublin, TU Delft and Carnegie Mellon University analysed news articles for evidence of methods used to control the narrative and influence policy measures related to AI. They identified 27 established patterns of ‘corporate capture’ – a process by […]

    https://rbfirehose.com/2026/05/28/university-of-edinburgh-big-ai-influence-on-laws-and-oversight-mapped/
  2. Australian environmental standards?

    Australia’s old environment laws were a box‑ticking exercise. Sadly, the new ones could be too >>
    theconversation.com/australias

    "We're facing a deforestation crisis here in the Territory, with the bulldozers rolling in on the world's last intact tropical savanna, while the federal government looks away."
    abc.net.au/news/2026-05-28/cla
    #EPBCAct #biodiversity #conservation #BoxTicking #laws #WeakStandards #regulation #nature #offsets #extractivism #fastTack #deforestation #TropicalSavanna

  3. Australian environmental standards?

    Australia’s old environment laws were a box‑ticking exercise. Sadly, the new ones could be too >>
    theconversation.com/australias

    "We're facing a deforestation crisis here in the Territory, with the bulldozers rolling in on the world's last intact tropical savanna, while the federal government looks away."
    abc.net.au/news/2026-05-28/cla
    #EPBCAct #biodiversity #conservation #BoxTicking #laws #WeakStandards #regulation #nature #offsets #extractivism #fastTack #deforestation #TropicalSavanna

  4. Australian environmental standards?

    Australia’s old environment laws were a box‑ticking exercise. Sadly, the new ones could be too >>
    theconversation.com/australias

    "We're facing a deforestation crisis here in the Territory, with the bulldozers rolling in on the world's last intact tropical savanna, while the federal government looks away."
    abc.net.au/news/2026-05-28/cla
    #EPBCAct #biodiversity #conservation #BoxTicking #laws #WeakStandards #regulation #nature #offsets #extractivism #fastTack #deforestation #TropicalSavanna

  5. Australian environmental standards?

    Australia’s old environment laws were a box‑ticking exercise. Sadly, the new ones could be too >>
    theconversation.com/australias

    "We're facing a deforestation crisis here in the Territory, with the bulldozers rolling in on the world's last intact tropical savanna, while the federal government looks away."
    abc.net.au/news/2026-05-28/cla
    #EPBCAct #biodiversity #conservation #BoxTicking #laws #WeakStandards #regulation #nature #offsets #extractivism #fastTack #deforestation #TropicalSavanna

  6. Australian environmental standards?

    Australia’s old environment laws were a box‑ticking exercise. Sadly, the new ones could be too >>
    theconversation.com/australias

    "We're facing a deforestation crisis here in the Territory, with the bulldozers rolling in on the world's last intact tropical savanna, while the federal government looks away."
    abc.net.au/news/2026-05-28/cla
    #EPBCAct #biodiversity #conservation #BoxTicking #laws #WeakStandards #regulation #nature #offsets #extractivism #fastTack #deforestation #TropicalSavanna

  7. Arkansas Advocate: Arkansas Explained: Understanding the data center boom and debate. “Since an overhaul of energy permitting laws credited with luring more data centers was enacted last year, companies have announced plans for five such projects statewide. Two of them are already under construction. But the rapid announcements and secretive negotiations with local governments and business […]

    https://rbfirehose.com/2026/05/24/arkansas-explained-understanding-the-data-center-boom-and-debate-arkansas-advocate/
  8. Arkansas Advocate: Arkansas Explained: Understanding the data center boom and debate. “Since an overhaul of energy permitting laws credited with luring more data centers was enacted last year, companies have announced plans for five such projects statewide. Two of them are already under construction. But the rapid announcements and secretive negotiations with local governments and business […]

    https://rbfirehose.com/2026/05/24/arkansas-explained-understanding-the-data-center-boom-and-debate-arkansas-advocate/
  9. Arkansas Advocate: Arkansas Explained: Understanding the data center boom and debate. “Since an overhaul of energy permitting laws credited with luring more data centers was enacted last year, companies have announced plans for five such projects statewide. Two of them are already under construction. But the rapid announcements and secretive negotiations with local governments and business […]

    https://rbfirehose.com/2026/05/24/arkansas-explained-understanding-the-data-center-boom-and-debate-arkansas-advocate/
  10. Arkansas Advocate: Arkansas Explained: Understanding the data center boom and debate. “Since an overhaul of energy permitting laws credited with luring more data centers was enacted last year, companies have announced plans for five such projects statewide. Two of them are already under construction. But the rapid announcements and secretive negotiations with local governments and business […]

    https://rbfirehose.com/2026/05/24/arkansas-explained-understanding-the-data-center-boom-and-debate-arkansas-advocate/
  11. Arkansas Advocate: Arkansas Explained: Understanding the data center boom and debate. “Since an overhaul of energy permitting laws credited with luring more data centers was enacted last year, companies have announced plans for five such projects statewide. Two of them are already under construction. But the rapid announcements and secretive negotiations with local governments and business […]

    https://rbfirehose.com/2026/05/24/arkansas-explained-understanding-the-data-center-boom-and-debate-arkansas-advocate/
  12. "Amazon is worth $2 trillion. Yet, it did not deign to pay the millions of dollars it racked up in unpaid fines. Today we are making clear that no company – no matter how large or powerful – is above the law.”
    - NYC Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani, May 21, 2026
    You can send a video from your phone to the city, of a bus or truck idling, & if fined, you'll get 25% kickback from the city, $350!
    #idling #laws #air #quality #NYC #sewer #Socialism #MayorMamdani #DEP #NewYorkCity
    pix11.com/news/local-news/nyc-

  13. "Amazon is worth $2 trillion. Yet, it did not deign to pay the millions of dollars it racked up in unpaid fines. Today we are making clear that no company – no matter how large or powerful – is above the law.”
    - NYC Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani, May 21, 2026
    You can send a video from your phone to the city, of a bus or truck idling, & if fined, you'll get 25% kickback from the city, $350!
    #idling #laws #air #quality #NYC #sewer #Socialism #MayorMamdani #DEP #NewYorkCity
    pix11.com/news/local-news/nyc-

  14. "Amazon is worth $2 trillion. Yet, it did not deign to pay the millions of dollars it racked up in unpaid fines. Today we are making clear that no company – no matter how large or powerful – is above the law.”
    - NYC Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani, May 21, 2026
    You can send a video from your phone to the city, of a bus or truck idling, & if fined, you'll get 25% kickback from the city, $350!
    #idling #laws #air #quality #NYC #sewer #Socialism #MayorMamdani #DEP #NewYorkCity
    pix11.com/news/local-news/nyc-

  15. "Amazon is worth $2 trillion. Yet, it did not deign to pay the millions of dollars it racked up in unpaid fines. Today we are making clear that no company – no matter how large or powerful – is above the law.”
    - NYC Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani, May 21, 2026
    You can send a video from your phone to the city, of a bus or truck idling, & if fined, you'll get 25% kickback from the city, $350!
    #idling #laws #air #quality #NYC #sewer #Socialism #MayorMamdani #DEP #NewYorkCity
    pix11.com/news/local-news/nyc-

  16. House strips MAHA-hated pesticide provisions from farm bill

    The House of Representatives on Thursday stripped a set of controversial provisions aimed at protecting pesticide manufacturers from…
    #Germany #DE #Europe #EU #Europa #Bayer #agriculture #BayerCropScienceLtd #BreakingNews:Politics #businessnews #DonaldJ.Trump #DonaldTrump #GlennThompson #Laws #lawsuits #politics
    europesays.com/germany/19479/

  17. Harvard Business Review: How Stronger Privacy Laws Convinced Consumers to Share More Data. “Companies often fear that stronger privacy regulations will mean they’ll have less access to valuable consumer data. But an analysis of 16,000 U.S. customers using an engagement app found that after 2023 privacy laws took effect in California and Virginia, users in those two states divulged more data […]

    https://rbfirehose.com/2026/05/20/harvard-business-review-how-stronger-privacy-laws-convinced-consumers-to-share-more-data/
  18. New move to change SA's abortion laws to go before state parliament
    By Thomas Kelsall and Kathryn Bermingham

    South Australia's parliament is set to debate restricting abortion access for the third time in less than two years, with One Nation's breakthrough election result meaning the laws could pass the upper house.

    abc.net.au/news/2026-05-20/bil

    #Abortion #PregnancyandChildbirth #Laws #Health #StateandTerritoryParliament #StateandTerritoryGovernment #ThomasKelsall #KathrynBermingham

  19. Every new lobbying carve-out or regulatory loophole proves the same thing: the law is a weapon for incumbents, not a shield for the rest of us. Justice is what survives after the elite have taken what they want. #laws #RegulatoryCapture #RuleOfLaw

  20. Every new lobbying carve-out or regulatory loophole proves the same thing: the law is a weapon for incumbents, not a shield for the rest of us. Justice is what survives after the elite have taken what they want. #laws #RegulatoryCapture #RuleOfLaw

  21. Every new lobbying carve-out or regulatory loophole proves the same thing: the law is a weapon for incumbents, not a shield for the rest of us. Justice is what survives after the elite have taken what they want. #laws #RegulatoryCapture #RuleOfLaw

  22. Kittens turned away from shelters amid 'heartbreaking' stray cat crisis
    By Ben Clifford and Courtney Yeandle

    Animal shelters across New South Wales sound the alarm on a worsening stray cat crisis.

    abc.net.au/news/2026-05-18/str

    #Cats #LocalGovernment #Animals #Laws #Pets #BenClifford #CourtneyYeandle

  23. Kittens turned away from shelters amid 'heartbreaking' stray cat crisis
    By Ben Clifford and Courtney Yeandle

    Animal shelters across New South Wales sound the alarm on a worsening stray cat crisis.

    abc.net.au/news/2026-05-18/str

    #Cats #LocalGovernment #Animals #Laws #Pets #BenClifford #CourtneyYeandle

  24. Kittens turned away from shelters amid 'heartbreaking' stray cat crisis
    By Ben Clifford and Courtney Yeandle

    Animal shelters across New South Wales sound the alarm on a worsening stray cat crisis.

    abc.net.au/news/2026-05-18/str

    #Cats #LocalGovernment #Animals #Laws #Pets #BenClifford #CourtneyYeandle

  25. Kittens turned away from shelters amid 'heartbreaking' stray cat crisis
    By Ben Clifford and Courtney Yeandle

    Animal shelters across New South Wales sound the alarm on a worsening stray cat crisis.

    abc.net.au/news/2026-05-18/str

    #Cats #LocalGovernment #Animals #Laws #Pets #BenClifford #CourtneyYeandle

  26. Kittens turned away from shelters amid 'heartbreaking' stray cat crisis
    By Ben Clifford and Courtney Yeandle

    Animal shelters across New South Wales sound the alarm on a worsening stray cat crisis.

    abc.net.au/news/2026-05-18/str

    #Cats #LocalGovernment #Animals #Laws #Pets #BenClifford #CourtneyYeandle

  27. Manning’s Maxim:

    Getting from one point to another known point is called navigation. Getting from one unknown point to another unknown point is called “being lost.”
    --Harvey Manning, Backpacking One Step at a Time, 1973

    #Quotes to live by
    #Laws of the trail

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  29. This will require amendments to effect better rational and #equitable #water #management, including regarding the #mitigation of #climateChange and efforts to #adapt to these changes, and to live within our #ecological #limits. Legislatively giving the #Executive broad and ill-defined #power and the almost unlimited discretion to avoid complying with the #laws and #policies that apply in “non-emergency” situations is a failure of #governance...."

    20/24

  30. This will require amendments to effect better rational and #equitable #water #management, including regarding the #mitigation of #climateChange and efforts to #adapt to these changes, and to live within our #ecological #limits. Legislatively giving the #Executive broad and ill-defined #power and the almost unlimited discretion to avoid complying with the #laws and #policies that apply in “non-emergency” situations is a failure of #governance...."

    20/24

  31. This will require amendments to effect better rational and #equitable #water #management, including regarding the #mitigation of #climateChange and efforts to #adapt to these changes, and to live within our #ecological #limits. Legislatively giving the #Executive broad and ill-defined #power and the almost unlimited discretion to avoid complying with the #laws and #policies that apply in “non-emergency” situations is a failure of #governance...."

    20/24

  32. This will require amendments to effect better rational and #equitable #water #management, including regarding the #mitigation of #climateChange and efforts to #adapt to these changes, and to live within our #ecological #limits. Legislatively giving the #Executive broad and ill-defined #power and the almost unlimited discretion to avoid complying with the #laws and #policies that apply in “non-emergency” situations is a failure of #governance...."

    20/24