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PoliticsQuiet 27h · day 4

B.C. First Nations chiefs oppose West Coast pipeline, call on Carney and Smith to halt

Union of British Columbia Indian Chiefs says pipeline expansion will accelerate climate change and lacks meaningful consultation with Indigenous peoples.

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“expanding the oil industry will accelerate climate change and disasters”— Union of British Columbia Indian Chiefs, Indigenous advocacy organization · CBC News · full quotes →
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AIQuiet 34h · day 3

Cactus releases Needle 2: 14MB agentic LLM for edge devices

Henry Ndubuaku's team opens a 45M-parameter model designed to run AI on sub-$200 hardware with tool calling and device control.

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“Today we release Needle 2: an open 45M-parameter model for tool calling, device use and structured extraction. The whole model is a single 14MB binary that…”— Henry Ndubuaku, Cactus Compute founder · Hacker News · full quotes →
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travelQuiet 33h · day 5

Eclipse tourism sends European hotel prices past $1,000 per night

Hundreds of thousands of tourists pursuing the first total solar eclipse visible from continental Europe in a century have driven accommodation prices to historic peaks.

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“We've had an extremely tough summer in Spain, with yet another series of major forest fires. That's why we must restrict any kind of activity that could…”Virginia Barcones— Virginia Barcones, Secretary general for civil protection and emergencies · The Guardian · full quotes →
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