Mastodon: Kagi HQ: “Do you know about Kagi Small Web?"
We also have a Kagi Small Web website, a platform designed to bring recent content from the small web to the forefront—content that often gets overlooked by traditional search engines: https://kagi.com/smallweb
Here is some more context on how this came about: blog.kagi.com/small-web
NBC: Father of Georgia shooting suspect gave son an AR-15 style rifle as a gift, sources say
The father of the 14-year-old charged with murder in the shooting at a high school in Georgia bought his son an AR-15 style rifle as a gift, according to two law enforcement sources familiar with the investigation.
The father gave his son the firearm at some point after the two had been interviewed by law enforcement in connection with threats to carry out a school shooting, the sources said.
Law enforcement officials did not arrest the teenager after that May 2023 interview because they could not tie him to an online account that had made the threats, according to newly released documents.
The teen, Colt Gray, fatally shot four people – two teachers and two students — on Wednesday at Apalachee High School in Winder on his first full day as a new student there, authorities said. He has been charged as an adult and was due to appear in court Friday morning.
CBC: Quebec to approve advance requests for MAID as of Oct. 30
Justice Minister intervenes to shield doctors and nurses from potential prosecution
The Quebec government is following through on its promise last month to authorize certain early requests for medical assistance in dying, starting this fall.
As of October 30, patients can make advance requests for the procedure before their condition renders them incapable of giving consent.
Quebec adopted a law in June 2023 allowing requests from people with serious and incurable illnesses, such as Alzheimer’s disease.
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A spokesperson for the justice minister had said that the federal government refused to change the Criminal Code despite multiple requests from the province.
Platformer: Marissa Mayer’s eternal Sunshine
For a brief moment in the tech world last week, it felt like 2012 again: a new photo sharing app had just launched, and everyone was talking about Marissa Mayer.
Mayer, a prominent early Google employee who created its famed associate product manager program before leaving to become CEO of Yahoo, had returned with a new app from the startup studio she co-founded six years ago. Shine, an app designed to let people automatically share photos taken at events they attend together, was announced March 27 — and was immediately mocked by commentators for its bare-bones design and anachronistic feature set.
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In The Battery Mineral Loop, RMI lays out a comprehensive strategy to address the rising demand for battery minerals. Battery minerals are not the new oil. Even as battery demand surges, the combined forces of efficiency, innovation, and circularity will drive peak demand for mined minerals within a decade — and may even avoid mineral extraction altogether by 2050. These advancements enable us to transition from linear extraction to a circular loop, with compounding benefits for our climate, security, equity, health, and wealth.
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Accelerating the trend along six key solutions — deploying new battery chemistries, making batteries more energy-dense, recycling their mineral content, extending their lifetime, improving vehicle efficiency, and improving mobility efficiency — means we can reach net-zero mineral demand in the 2040s.
TL; DR: while fossil fuels are extracted and used once, batteries are highly recyclable so many current projections of the need for mining new material are way off the mark.
Last Updated: 07.Sep.2024 23:57 EDT
