Biden Administration Launches $1 Billion Conservation Program – Yale E360

The Biden administration has launched a $1 billion program to advance its goal of conserving 30 percent of the nation’s lands and waters by 2030.

The program, called the America the Beautiful Challenge, will serve as a “one-stop shop” for states, tribes, territories, non-governmental organizations, and others to apply for numerous grants for conservation and restoration projects, the administration said. It is backed by an initial $440 million in federal funds over five years — the bulk of which comes from the bipartisan infrastructure law that Congress passed last year — and aims to draw private and philanthropic contributions to reach the $1 billion mark.

Source: Biden Administration Launches $1 Billion Conservation Program – Yale E360

Why ‘railway war’ is stopping Belarus joining Russia’s invasion of Ukraine | openDemocracy

The railway campaign has already racked up 80 acts of sabotage, according to the Belarusian Interior Ministry. Independent media dubbed this campaign a new “rail war” – the term for Belarusian partisan attacks against railway lines during the Nazi occupation. Participants are now referred to as “partisans”.

The most common form of sabotage is setting fire to signalling systems so that traffic lights stop working on certain sections of the Belarusian railway network. As a result, trains are forced to move at a speed of 15 to 20km an hour.

There are also simpler acts of sabotage: for example, in the town of Stolbtsy, a married couple was arrested for setting fire to logs to stop the movement of military transports [by bringing down signalling systems or slowing down trains]. These actions are not designed to derail military trains, engineer a crash or injure people directly.

Source: Why ‘railway war’ is stopping Belarus joining Russia’s invasion of Ukraine | openDemocracy

समझ / Understanding

Kaushal Kishore

बोलता हूं मैं,
तो कुछ लोग समझ नहीं पाते
मेरी खामोशी को लेकिन
बखूबी समझ लेते हैं…

🕳️🕳️🕳️🕳️🕳️🕳️

When I speak,
some don’t understand
but they understand
my silence very well…

–Kaushal Kishore

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The new message that scientists want to send to space – Mágica Mistura を

Somewhere in the Universe, there may be an alien civilization with which we could make contact. If it exists, this conversation may seem unlikely, but the hypothesis is not just a science fiction plot: some scientists are dedicated to the mission of giving ETs a hello, even before detecting any intelligence somewhere in the infinite.

The most recent project in this regard is the Beacon in the Galaxy (BITG) – in free translation, “lighthouse in the galaxy” -, planned by the research group Messaging Extraterrestrial Intelligence (METI), “messages for extraterrestrial intelligence”.

BITG is a message formulated by an international team of scientists, with diverse information about life on Earth, written in binary code – sequences of 0 and 1 that constitute, for example, the language from which your computer displays and processes the texts and images on this page.

Source: The new message that scientists want to send to space – Mágica Mistura を

United States Leads Seizure of One of the World’s Largest Hacker Forums and Arrests Administrator | OPA | Department of Justice

Court records unsealed today indicate that the United States recently obtained judicial authorization to seize three domains that long hosted the RaidForums website. These domains were “raidforums.com,” “Rf.ws,” and “Raid.lol.” According to the affidavit filed in support of these seizures, from in or around 2016 through February 2022, RaidForums served as a major online marketplace for individuals to buy and sell hacked or stolen databases containing the sensitive personal and financial information of victims in the United States and elsewhere, including stolen bank routing and account numbers, credit card information, login credentials and social security numbers.

“The takedown of this online market for the resale of hacked or stolen data disrupts one of the major ways cybercriminals profit from the large-scale theft of sensitive personal and financial information,” said Assistant Attorney General Kenneth A. Polite, Jr. of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division. “This is another example of how working with our international law enforcement partners has resulted in the shutdown of a criminal marketplace and the arrest of its administrator.”

“Our interagency efforts to dismantle this sophisticated online platform – which facilitated a wide range of criminal activity – should come as a relief to the millions victimized by it, and as a warning to those cybercriminals who participated in these types of nefarious activities,” said U.S. Attorney Jessica D. Aber for the Eastern District of Virginia. “Online anonymity was not able to protect the defendant in this case from prosecution, and it will not protect other online criminals either.”

Source: United States Leads Seizure of One of the World’s Largest Hacker Forums and Arrests Administrator | OPA | Department of Justice

People, people, people

Dreams of Digging

Some of my learnings this week:

• #1

The first two episodes of “Servant of the People” (‘Слуга народу’) are really, really funny.

This is a charming TV series from 2015-2019 that follows the story of a straight-laced high school History teacher in Ukraine named Vasily Goloborodko. Just before the country’s election, he goes on an expletive-filled rant to a colleague about the corrupt nature of all the politicians in Ukraine. One of his students secretly films him and uploads the video to YouTube. The virality of his foul-mouthed tirade catapults Goloborodko to meteoric popularity and Ukrainian Presidency.

Overnight, he is transformed from an ordinary broke guy, worrying over fines of 17 Ukrainian Hyrvnia ($0.77 AUD), to a President living a life of exaggerated opulence and where everyone fawns over him and his family.

The show was produced and starred by none other than the real Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenksyy

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