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Jeffrey Epstein files: names released so far (Feb 2025) (www.newsweek.com)
 

From Newsweek in February 2025

The names include:

  • Ghislaine Maxwell
  • Virginia Lee Roberts Giuffre [Epstein victim]
  • Prince Andrew of England
  • James Michael Austrich
  • Philip Barden
  • REDACTED
  • Cate Blanchett
  • David Boies
  • Laura Boothe
  • Evelyn Boulet
  • Rebecca Boylan
  • Joshua Bunner
  • Naomi Campbell
  • Carolyn Casey
  • Paul Cassell
  • Sharon Churcher
  • Bill Clinton
  • David Copperfield
  • Alexandra Cousteau
  • Cameron Diaz
  • Leonardo DiCaprio
  • Alan Dershowitz
  • Dr. Mona Devanesan
  • REDACTED
  • Bradley Edwards
  • Amanda Ellison
  • Cimberly Espinosa
  • Jeffrey Epstein
  • Annie Farmer
  • Marie Farmer
  • Alexandra Fekkai
  • Crystal Figueroa
  • Anthony Figueroa
  • Louis Freeh
  • Eric Gany
  • Meg Garvin
  • Sheridan Gibson-Butte
  • Robert Giuffre
  • Al Gore
  • Ross Gow
  • Fred Graff
  • Philip Guderyon
  • REDACTED
  • Shannon Harrison
  • Stephen Hawking
  • Victoria Hazel
  • Brittany Henderson
  • Brett Jaffe
  • Michael Jackson
  • Carol Roberts Kess
  • Dr. Karen Kutikoff
  • Peter Listerman
  • George Lucas
  • Tony Lyons
  • Bob Meister
  • Jamie A. Melanson
  • Lynn Miller
  • Marvin Minsky
  • REDACTED
  • David Mullen
  • Joe Pagano
  • Mary Paluga
  • J. Stanley Pottinger
  • Joseph Recarey
  • Michael Reiter
  • Jason Richards
  • Bill Richardson
  • Sky Roberts
  • Scott Rothstein
  • Forest Sawyer
  • Doug Schoetlle
  • Kevin Spacey
  • Cecilia Stein
  • Mark Tafoya
  • Brent Tindall
  • Kevin Thompson
  • Donald Trump
  • Ed Tuttle
  • Emma Vaghan
  • Kimberly Vaughan-Edwards
  • Cresenda Valdes
  • Anthony Valladares
  • Maritza Vazquez
  • Vicky Ward
  • Jarred Weisfeld
  • Courtney Wild
  • Bruce Willis
  • Daniel Wilson
  • Kathy Alexander
  • Miles Alexander
I've honestly never quite realized up until now how utterly ridiculous it is that people (especially in the US) regularly demand that their food be chauffeured to them. in c/fuckcars@lemmy.world
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'Flash flood' devastates small community in Motueka Valley | RNZ (www.youtube.com)
 

For those that can't watch the video, please excuse this AI summary:

Summary: 'Flash flood' devastates small community in Motueka Valley | RNZ

A long-time resident of the Motueka Valley reflects on the devastating effects of a flash flood, describing it as one of many they've witnessed over the years. They highlight several key concerns:

  • Forestry Slash and Silt: The flood brought down large amounts of forestry slash and silt from nearby hills. Much of the damage is attributed to pine plantations on unstable granite terrain, which the speaker criticizes as an unwise land-use decision.

  • Environmental Impact: The flood caused significant damage—depositing half a meter of silt across properties, destroying roads, and sending debris into the Motueka River and eventually out to sea. The speaker estimates that hundreds of tons of soil were washed away, which is impossible to fully measure.

  • Log Jams: Massive log jams formed upstream, some as large as 200 meters long, consisting of large-diameter logs—not just pine slash—raising serious concerns about future flooding and blockages.

  • Community Impact: One flood-created dam—about 3 meters high—broke and sent water and debris into homes, school carparks, and the main road. High water flow continued through the night, worsening the damage.

  • Concerns About Forestry Practices: The speaker distinguishes between local forestry workers—described as kind and helpful—and the decision-makers, who are criticized for poor forestry planning and repeated mistakes.

  • Call for Change: Despite the destruction, the speaker urges for calm and thoughtful decision-making rather than anger. They advocate for peaceful, future-oriented solutions to address these complex environmental and land management issues.

The video underscores the emotional and environmental toll of poor forestry practices and extreme weather, calling attention to the need for sustainable land use in vulnerable areas like Motueka Valley.

Spend on Wellingtons water infrastructure mapped over mayoral terms. in c/wellington@lemmy.nz
[–] BaconWrappedEnigma@lemmy.nz 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (5 children)

It's been chronically underfunded. A few years ago, I read that the estimated cost to bring Wellington's sewage and water infrastructure up to snuff was around $12B. Wellington has recently had fountains of crap springing up around town.

I moved away and I'm not really in touch with local politics there anymore, but I would guess they are forced to spend on it. I heard that it's not politically popular to spend money on maintaining infrastructure. Short term limits mean it's always more convenient for local politicians to kick the can down the road.

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'Lord of the Rings' director backs long shot de-extinction plan, starring New Zealand's lost moa (lemmy.nz)
 

The company plans to extract DNA from moa bones and use gene editing to modify "living birds to resemble the extinct South Island giant moa".

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The Garage team - An open-source distributed object storage service tailored for self-hosting (garagehq.deuxfleurs.fr)
 

Anyone used this successfully in their setup?

Garage is an S3-compatible distributed object storage service designed for self-hosting at a small-to-medium scale.

Garage is designed for storage clusters composed of nodes running at different physical locations, in order to easily provide a storage service that replicates data at these different locations and stays available even when some servers are unreachable. Garage also focuses on being lightweight, easy to operate, and highly resilient to machine failures.

Garage is built by Deuxfleurs, an experimental small-scale self hosted service provider, which has been using it in production since its first release in 2020.