Yes, from bendis spider-man its jessica drew (a clone of peter), people do bring her up during the art trend but most just use petra instead
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On track to become the deadliest in history, the Ebola outbreak in DRC has spread to a sixth province - BT News
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The Ebola outbreak – on track to becoming the deadliest known in the world – has spread to a sixth province in the northeastern region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), on the border with the Central African Republic (CAR).
A motorcycle taxi rider, who had traveled from Isiro, capital of the neighboring Haut-Uélé province, died in the Bas-Uélé province’s capital, Buta, after receiving treatment in several hospitals. He posthumously tested positive for the Bundibugyo virus causing the current outbreak.
Jean Kaseya, the director general of the continent’s top health body, the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), said on Thursday, August 13, that this is the first known case in Bas-Uélé.
The vastness of the province and its poor transport and communication infrastructure pose a challenge to an effective health response, complicated further by the presence of thousands of refugees who have fleeing violence in the neighboring Central African Republic (CAR).
Armed violence is also hampering the response by health authorities in the other five provinces where the outbreak has spread, including North Kivu and South Kivu, large parts of whose mineral-rich land are occupied by the Rwandan army and its front, the M23 armed group.
The news of the outbreak reaching a sixth province came only a day after Tedros Ghebreyesus, director-general of the World Health Organization (WHO), warned that the outbreak is snowballing into the deadliest known in history.
Read more: Ebola outbreak could become the worst ever
“At its current pace [of spread], it’s on track to eclipse the West African Ebola outbreak of 2014 to 2016,” Ghebreyesus told the reporters on August 12.
That outbreak a decade ago had spread to 10 countries, including the US and Italy, and infected about 28,600 people, killing over 11,000 of them, over the course of two years. In the first three months of that outbreak, 528 cases were confirmed in Guinea, Sierra Leone, and Liberia, 337 of whom had died.
In the same time period since the current outbreak was declared in the DRC on May 15, 4,665 confirmed cases had been reported as of August 12. A total of 2,184 of them had died. With 3,979 of the confirmed cases and 1,726 of the deaths, Ituri, the epicenter of the outbreak, remains the worst affected province.
Read more: Maternal mortality doubled in the Ebola epicenter in DRC
These, however, are only the known cases. The real extent of the spread is unknown. The WHO said on Monday, August 10, that the outbreak had already begun in February – a head start of about three months before it was officially declared.
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plus he was the friend with cash, he can share a few bucks
dragon corrin is good on lunatic from what i have read, mostly because its naturally very tanky, so you can tank the enemies while your other units kill them, i didnt know about the kids thing i will keep it in mind.
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The Lake Geneva region is fighting a growing number of violent home robberies of its wealthiest residents, which threaten the area’s reputation as a haven for the ultra-rich and have inflamed suspicions across the border with France.
Swiss authorities are turning to video footage, number-plate recognition and tougher border policing as they try to crack down on the “homejackings”, which have shocked the normally peaceful area.
The attacks typically involve intruders breaking into occupied homes and threatening residents — sometimes at gunpoint — before escaping with watches, jewellery and other valuables across the border to France.
Private bankers, commodities traders and other wealthy executives are among those who have been targeted, fuelling concern in a region that is home to some of the world’s biggest banks and trading houses. Companies including Pictet and Trafigura have raised concerns about the attacks with authorities, according to people familiar with the discussions.
The extreme violence of the attacks has prompted some politicians to call for targeted checks at the French border, and prompted many wealthy communities to hire private security.
“This trend has recently become much more organised, targeted and common,” said Florence Bettschart-Narbel, a member of the legislature in the Canton of Vaud, on the north side of Lake Geneva. “We are concerned about the impact on Switzerland’s attractiveness to foreigners and companies.”
Among the most prominent victims is Alain Prost, the four-time Formula 1 world champion, whose home near Nyon, on the west side of Lake Geneva, was raided in May.
During the raid, one family member suffered a minor head injury while another was forced to open a safe containing valuables, according to authorities.
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Im playing fire emblem awakening for the first time, im at chapter 17sh we are basically invading the continent of Valm to stop the evil conqueror from naval landing into Ylisse, so since Valm outnumber our troops the plan is to fuck up their supply and communication lines so the armies fall in chaos, also we meet tiki and she told me i was like her so i guess robin is a vessels for Grima (could also be like his son/daughter) so do that mean im a dragon too?? probably not since i cant use the dragonstone, sad i will have to wait until i play FE Fates
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When the chief of the Okanagan Indian Band looked down on his community from a helicopter last week, much of what he had known all his life was gone.
Homes had burned. Photographs, memorabilia, and Salish baskets had disappeared with them. More than 30 band members had lost their homes, naspəpʕásəs Dan Wilson said, along with around 200 homes and other structures belonging to non-band members.
“Our loss is measured in the family histories that have been lost — especially the Elders who have lost their homes,” he said.
The destruction left by the Bradley Creek wildfire at nk̓maplqs (the head of Okanagan Lake) comes amid a wildfire season that has repeatedly forced Indigenous peoples across Canada from their homes. As of Tuesday, 601 wildfires were burning across the country, including 113 classified as out of control and another 371 that remained out of control but were being monitored rather than actively suppressed.
Those numbers have translated into a summer of evacuations, displacement, and, in some communities, devastating losses for First Nations. Wildfires have affected at least 81 First Nations and forced 9,131 people from their communities since April 1; 2,524 people remained evacuated as of Tuesday. As fires have threatened communities from British Columbia to Ontario, Indigenous leaders have raised concerns about inadequate firefighting equipment, delays in emergency assistance, and the information used to make evacuation decisions.
In Ontario, a fast-moving fire devastated Namaygoosisagagun First Nation in July as residents fled by boat. At least 12 First Nations in the province have been fully or partially evacuated because of wildfires this summer, according to Chiefs of Ontario. The organization is demanding an independent public inquiry into what Ontario Regional Chief Abram Benedict called a “catastrophic and systemic failure” in the response.
And last week, leaders of Kiashke Zaaging Anishinaabek were still fighting an Ontario government decision to withdraw wildfire implementation and evacuation orders while massive fires remained out of control nearby.
For the Okanagan Indian Band, the immediate danger has eased. The wildfire, which started July 31 on reserve lands near Vernon, British Columbia, had burned about 6,550 acres as of Monday. It was classified as being held over the weekend, meaning it was expected to remain within its existing boundaries under prevailing and forecast conditions. Some evacuation orders have since been rescinded or downgraded.
Although the community faces a long recovery, it “is getting stronger every day,” Wilson said last week. “We’re holding up. We’re very resilient. We have a long history — we’ve been here for 10,000 years.”
Wilson praised the band’s firefighters, who were first on the scene and worked alongside provincial wildfire crews. “They went above and beyond. I can’t say enough,” he said.
Wilson said the band’s fire department, which consists of around 30 trained firefighters, was equipped only with a fire truck designed to tackle structural fires. “If we had a proper wildland firefighting truck that’s able to access rough terrain … I’m told that if we had that equipment, our first responders would’ve been able to put that fire out immediately,” he said.
He said that concern was relayed to Mandy Gull-Masty, the federal minister of Indigenous Services.
Wilson noted that the one bright spot from the helicopter tour was seeing the Komasket powwow arbour grounds — as well as the nearby daycare and Nk̓maplqs Iʔ Snm̓am̓ay̓aʔtn Iʔ K̓l Sqilxʷtət Cultural Immersion School — unscathed by the fire.
The disaster comes five years after the Whiterock Lake wildfire destroyed 10 homes belonging to Okanagan Indian Band members and displaced the community for weeks.
For communities facing this summer’s fires, the challenges have extended beyond escaping the flames. The devastation of Namaygoosisagagun, also known as Collins First Nation, has raised questions about whether the remote community will receive federal recovery and rebuilding assistance. Although its residents are recognized as First Nations people under the Indian Act, Namaygoosisagagun is not recognized as a First Nation. A lawyer representing the community wrote to Gull-Masty that denying it the emergency and rebuilding assistance available to recognized First Nations could threaten its ability to rebuild.
Ontario Regional Chief Abram Benedict also criticized bureaucratic obstacles First Nations encountered while trying to access emergency assistance. On July 30, Chiefs of Ontario called for an independent public inquiry into the province’s response, saying at least 12 First Nations had been fully or partially evacuated during the wildfire season.
“There has been a catastrophic and systemic failure at nearly every level and at nearly every step of this process,” Benedict said in a statement. “We need to know how and why this happened. But most importantly, we need to learn from it so it never happens again.”
Communication has emerged as another concern. When an out-of-control wildfire threatened Xeni Gwet’in First Nation in British Columbia in April, authorities did not provide emergency alerts in Tŝilhqot’in — the only language spoken by many Elders in the community — leaving the Nation’s own forestry crew to alert them directly.
Sara Wilson, a communications researcher at Simon Fraser University, has described such shortcomings as part of a broader “crisis communication gap,” pointing to language barriers, underfunding, and the exclusion of Indigenous communities from decision-making during emergencies.
Those concerns extend beyond how emergency information is communicated to questions about who decides when a First Nation is safe. That question remained at the center of a dispute last week at Kiashke Zaaging Anishinaabek, also known as Gull Bay First Nation, in northwestern Ontario. The Nation’s leaders objected to the government decision to withdraw wildfire implementation and evacuation orders around the community. “Our members are still at risk and our infrastructure is at risk,” Chief Wilfred King told CBC Thunder Bay.
Several large fires remained near the community, and King said one of the community’s greatest concerns was that one of them could block its only road out, leaving residents trying to flee across Lake Nipigon. “The only escape would be jumping on boats and crossing Lake Nipigon, and that’s not an alternative,” he said.
King said the community was also concerned about delays in receiving information about changing fire conditions. Before residents return, he said, the Nation also must ensure its water treatment and sewage systems are functioning safely.
Ontario’s Ministry of Natural Resources told CBC that changes to evacuation orders would be made only when fires no longer posed a risk, based on advice from fire behavior experts. But King said the provincial order should have remained in place until the community was confident it was safe. He told CBC that Indigenous Services Canada supported the Nation’s decision to maintain its own evacuation order.
At Okanagan Indian Band, support came from other First Nations and Indigenous leaders. Penticton Indian Band and Westbank First Nation opened their communities to evacuees, while leaders from across the syilx Okanagan Nation Alliance reached out.
At an emotional community meeting in Vernon, drummers Bruce Manuel and his sister Trish Manuel, sent by Upper Nicola Band Chief Dan Manuel, performed a closing drum song. Wilson said the response was “really bolstering our spirits here.”
“We say our prayers,” he said. “We have a strong faith in kʷuləncútn, the Creator.”
This story was originally published by IndigiNews and updated with additional information by Grist.
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The emissions from powering data centers rightly get a lot of attention. But new research from former Microsoft sustainability workers cautions that the way artificial intelligence enhances productivity in the oil and gas industry could be much more damaging to the planet.
Published last week in the journal npj Climate Action, the research finds that AI use could significantly increase global energy emissions simply by enabling the fossil fuel industry to produce more oil and gas. At the low end, the research finds that the additional yearly emissions could be equal to Mexico’s; at the high end, AI boosting the fossil fuel industry could add as much greenhouse gas emissions as Russia, the world’s fourth-largest emitter.
That increase in emissions, the paper finds, outweighs the benefits AI provides to developing solar, wind, and other clean technologies. It also significantly outpaces projections of emissions from the global data center buildout.
The relationship between technology companies and fossil fuels is “a self-reinforcing effect between supply and demand,” says Will Alpine, one of the authors of the research. “One of the key insights of our paper is that you cannot treat them independently. They are two sides of the same coin.”
Alpine and his wife and coauthor, Holly, are former Microsoft sustainability workers with years of experience between them at the company. They quit their jobs at the start of 2024 because of the company’s continued work with the oil and gas industry and began publicly campaigning to draw attention to the relationship between AI and fossil fuels.
Oil and gas companies have been using various types of AI for decades to help find and develop underground resources more efficiently. That increases global dependence on fossil fuels and makes it harder for the world to reach its climate targets, the Alpines argue.
While tech companies measure their own emissions and that of their supply chain, they don’t tend to measure just how much their tools help to increase fossil fuel production. The Alpines refer to AI-supported greenhouse gas pollution as “enabled emissions.”
“Sustainability measures [within tech companies] are very much focused on operational emissions” rather than enabled emissions, Holly says. The new paper argues that while accounting for that pollution is important, it ignores emissions that do much more damage to the climate.
To get an idea of how AI can affect fossil fuel companies’ emissions, the Alpines used a complex economic model that allows researchers to introduce various factors to test out how they might play out over the broader economy. Using reports from oil and gas companies about demonstrated gains from AI tools, the Alpines modeled AI as a productivity enhancer across various sectors of the fossil fuel industry, from extraction to refining to electricity generation. They also estimated how that in turn can increase global emissions.
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The modeling found that AI as a productivity enhancer for the fossil fuel industry could help increase global energy-related emissions between 1.2 to 4.8 percent. That’s significantly higher than multiple projections around emissions from data center energy use.
“The scale of this was staggering,” says Will.
Fossil fuel companies are increasingly providing power for data centers. Chevron and Microsoft recently confirmed that the oil giant would be building a large behind-the-meter gas plant in Texas to power data centers for the tech company.
In a call with analysts in June, Jeff Gustavson, the president of Chevron’s New Energies division, hinted that the deal would benefit Chevron’s AI capacities as well. Chevron, according to Gustavson, will “use some of that compute” generated by the power from the power plant serving Microsoft “to actually power AI inside of our company.” (“Chevron and Microsoft have worked together for years to accelerate digital transformation, leveraging the capabilities of a trusted cloud to generate insights, scale innovation, and unlock value across the organization,” Chevron spokesperson Paula Beasley told WIRED in an email, in response to several questions about the specific relationship between the oil giant and the tech company.)
“It’s perfectly illustrative of the relationship between AI and fossil fuels,” Will says of the Chevron deal with Microsoft.
“There are many AI boosters who blithely claim that AI will solve the climate problem so we should go ahead and develop it as quickly as possible,” Jon Koomey, an energy researcher, tells WIRED in an email. “Such hand-waving arguments ignore the effects that AI will have on ALL industries, not just renewable energy and efficiency.”
Koomey, who was not involved in the new analysis, says that the conclusions the researchers draw seem solid.
“Machine learning can make data center cooling 30-40 percent more efficient, but [could] also make fossil fuel extraction much cheaper and faster,” he says. “How that nets out nobody yet knows for sure, but this new research is a credible attempt to answer that question using a macroeconomic model.”
This story was originally published by Grist with the headline AI could help fossil fuel companies create more emissions on Aug 15, 2026.
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