Reports are inconclusive at the moment. Some users have reported worse performance, others swear that uninstalling mods and/or verifying the game's files has fixed their performance issues.

This is not the first Capcom game to use Enigma.

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Russia’s supreme court has reduced by only one year the 14-year sentence passed against Oksana Hladkykh, a mother of four abducted from her home in occupied Zaporizhzhia oblast in November 2023. This was presumably a cassation appeal, as the original sentence, passed on 7 June 2024 by the occupation ‘Zaporizhzhia regional court’, had been upheld on 7 November 2024 by the first court of appeal in Moscow. All of Russia’s ‘treason trials’, including the supreme court hearing which seems to have been at the end of October 2025, are behind closed doors with this one of the reasons why information is scant and often delayed. Although the supreme court ‘judges’ removed a part of the charge (the accusation of providing “other help to a foreign country”) and reduced the sentence from 14 to 13 years, they chose to see no reason to overturn a manifestly wrongful conviction on ‘treason’ charges under Article 275 of Russia’s criminal code.

The reasons for dismissing the charges and releasing the 49-year-old Ukrainian could not have been clearer and were set out by the authoritative Memorial Support for Political Prisoners Project when it declared Oksana Hladkykh a political prisoner in August 2025. Hladkykh had never concealed her opposition to the Russian invaders and had openly expressed her views on social media, with this clearly the reason for her denunciation on a scurrilous Telegram channel aimed at hunting out those with a strong pro-Ukrainian position, as well as for her ‘arrest’ / abduction in late November 2023). Neighbours from Dobrivka have suggested to RIA-South that Hladkykh’s former husband, who supported the Russians, could have denounced her to curry favour with the invaders. It is also possible that Hladkykh had corresponded with somebody who claimed to be from HUR, and that this was, in fact, an FSB setup.

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In writing about the cassation appeal ruling on 31 January 2026, RIA South said that Hladkykh’s persecution had become a symbol of how Ukrainians are punished on occupied territory for remaining true to Ukraine. Her neighbours from Dobrivka are convinced that she was seized because of her civic stand and because she was not afraid to speak the truth.

“Oksana was principled. From the outset, she opposed the invaders and was open in calling things by their proper name. She was not afraid to tell the invaders to their face what she thought of them. Her abduction was a warning to us all – so that we would be afraid to say a word against Russia.”

“Her only guilt is in being a Ukrainian and in the fact that she did not betray her country. That’s enough for them to imprison a person."

...

The Russians came for Hladkykh on 24 November 2023. The children were not allowed inside, from where they heard screams. Their mother was taken away, with the Russians initially claiming that this was for four days. This was a brutal lie and Oksana Hladkykh was sentenced, for her patriotism and unwillingness to be cowered by the invaders, to a term of imprisonment higher than the sentences Russia regularly uses against murderers and other real criminals.

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The title comes from Sam’s full name, the first photonic cadet from Kasq. Sam is only 217 days old at this point, having been created as the first hologram to reintegrate with organics, but programmed to act like a 17-year-old.

Sam states that in the last millennium (i.e. since 2191, close enough to the founding of the Federation in 2161 that we can probably just take it as a rounding error), the Federation has encountered 4633 sentient species, over 27 trillion individuals.

We see a Cheronian cadet. The Cheronians first appeared in TOS: “Let There Be Your Last Battlefield”, where the ruling half-white class (white on the left side) held the half-black (black on the left side) class in contempt. Cheronians are extremely long lived; Bele had been chasing Lokai in that episode for 5000 years. The race was assumed to be extinct since 2268, casualties of a civil war that wiped out Cheron’s population. However, Virgil, a half-white Cheronian appeared in the Section 31 movie, which takes place c.2324. The cadet here is of the half-black population.

It’s been 97 days, or a little over 3 months, after Sam began the Fall Semester of Starfleet Academy (SFA: “Kids These Days”), placing this episode at the end of 3191 (Sam says later that the semester is nearly over).

Of the list of homeworlds displayed in Sam’s databased, the names that are not known Federation worlds in the 24th Century are Denobula, Bajor, Ferengar, Hirogen Prime and Kazon Prime. Whether this means that these worlds are now, in the 32nd century, Federation members is not clear.

The Priority One Mission Darem is given consists of chicken, banana (which he hates) and yeel pudding. The yeel tree exists within the mycelial network (DIS: “Saints of Imperfection”), but its bark is deadly to the jahSepp who also live there.

Darem’s personnel file says his major is Sciences and he’s 17 years old, born on Stardate 851095.82, and he graduated from Khionian Royal High on Stardate 868490.0 (consistent with the in SFA: “Vitus Reflux”). By TNG stardate reckoning, that still makes the current year 3191, and he was born in 3174. The file also notes his captaincy of the Khionian All-Planet Under-18 Calico Team and being part of the Premiere Team Khionian Parrises Squares, among other achievements.

Polyphenol oxidase is indeed the enzyme that causes browning and damage to fruits and vegetables. Also, Khionians vomit glitter.

Sam is playing a theremin, a musical instrument that creates different tones as your hands interact with its magnetic field. Patented by Leon Theremin in 1928, its unique sound has been used as to evoke an otherworldly atmosphere in science fiction movies and television. Contrary to popular belief, the TOS Star Trek theme did not use a theremin, but was rather performed by coloratura soprano Loulie Jean Norman.

The original Emergency Medical Hologram Mark 1s (of which the Doctor is one) were repurposed by the Federation to become menial labourers in the 24th century (VOY: “Author, Author”), primarily because they were not viewed as sentient. Photonic lifeforms do naturally exist, as in seen in various VOY episodes (“Heroes and Demons”, “Bride of Chaotica!”, “The Voyager Conspiracy”) as well as in LD: “Of Gods and Angles”.

Sam speaking to her Makers reminds this old man of how the Orkian alien Mork used to report to his supervisor Orson on the strange habits of humans in the 1978-1982 sitcom Mork and Mindy.

The “stupid talking plants” refers to the events of “Vitus Reflux”.

Appropriately enough, the cadet sniffing Caleb’s pheromones is Orion. Orion women secrete a powerful pheromone which can intoxicate and dominate the males. Underground “scentuaries” on Orion exist, akin to sex and BDSM clubs (LD: “Something Borrowed, Something Green”).

The screens in the “Confronting the Unexplainable” course show “Origins of the Omega Molecule” (VOY: “The Omega Directive”), “Psionic Effects of the Galactic Barrier” (TOS: “Where No Man Has Gone Before”), “Déjà Vu - Alternate Universe Theories” (TNG: “Cause and Effect”), “Katra Stones” (DIS: “Light and Shadows”), “Immortal/Non-Corporeal Entities” (the Guardian of Forever, TOS: “The City on the Edge of Forever”), “Subspace Divergence Fields” (VOY: “Deadlock”), “Alternate Continuums” (like the Q Continuum, VOY: “Death Wish”) and “Multi-Species Accelerated Evolution” (VOY: “Threshold”, perhaps).

Sam stops in front of “The Fate of Benjamin Sisko - Emissary of the Prophets” and poses two questions: whether he died in the Fire Caves of Bajor or lived on in the Celestial Temple at the end of DS9: “What You Leave Behind”. As viewers, we know that the latter is true, but also that he promised to return (“Maybe a year, maybe yesterday.”). As the screen implies, this has not happened by the 32nd century. Part of the reason, speaking in a Doylist sense, is because Avery Brooks has retired from acting (among other eccentricities).

Professor Illa (played by LD’s Tawny Newsom) is of Cardassian descent, with the distinctive loop over her forehead (which led to the racial slur “spoonheads” being applied to Cardassians by veterans of the wars of the 2340s). She says it is midterm season, which usually happens between mid-October and early November. The scene ends with the DS9 theme song swelling.

Darem refers to the Schrodinger’s Cat paradox, a thought experiment where a cat in a box with a poison that has a fifty-fifty chance of triggering is, accordingly to quantum theory, neither alive nor dead until the box is opened.

The grabbing of the earlobe to feel a person’s “pagh” was first demonstrated in DS9: “Emissary”.

The Sisko Museum is in New Orleans because Sisko is a native of that city. During DS9, his father ran a restaurant there which was still open as of 2381 (LD: “Grounded”).

This is the first mention of the planet Alpherat in lore. There is a star named Alpheratz (Alpha Andromedae or Delta Pegasi), mentioned in the Franz Joseph Starfleet Technical Manual and the Star Trek Adventures RPG, but this may be a different place. Earth has its own fire eels, but Alpherati ones are presumably not the same.

The uniform on display is the version Sisko wore from DS9: “Trials and Tribble-lations” onwards, having been introduced in the movie First Contact.

On display is a Deep Space Niners cap (the station baseball team, DS9: “Take Me Out to the Holosuite”), Sisko’s Niner baseball card, and the baseball signed by the team in that episode. On another pedestal is a box used to contain an Orb of the Prophets and Benny Russell’s typewriter sits on another (DS9: “Far Beyond the Stars”).

There are signs showcasing Sisko’s Creole Kitchen, the Dominion War, Jake Sisko with an article he wrote for the Federation News Service on the arrival of a Dominion Founder, and a video titled Jada Ava Sisko.

Jada Ava Sisko does not seem to appear on the family tree, nor does Sisko’s daughter with Kasidy Yates, as yet unborn in the DS9 finale. While this may be ominous, in the Litverse novels the daughter was born and named Rebecca Jae Sisko.

Cirroc Lofton reprises his role as Jake Sisko. He mentions Sisko punching out Q (DS9: “Q-Less”), how he supported Jake’s writing, and his ability as a chef.

Krebbs’ Talaxian furfly is now eating its own fur.

Jay-Den claims Klingons invented raktajino, which isn’t really true if you prefer Marc Okrand’s explanation for how what the Federation calls “Klingon coffee” came about. Raktajino is more of a hybrid beverage, with human and Klingon elements involved in its creation. This could simply be like Chekov claiming everything was a Russian invention.

Jake began writing his novel Anslem in DS9: “The Muse”, but as we find out, never published it. In the alternate timeline of DS9: “The Visitor”, it was published in 2381. This is the first time we find out “Anslem” means “father” in Bajoran - the novel does feature the father of the protagonist.

The story of a Vulcan punching out Sisko refers to when Solok defeated Sisko in a wrestling match when they were cadets at The Launching Pad (“Take Me Out to the Holosuite”).

The Kometa fish looks similar to an Earth blobfish, which although it looks like jello on land, has a relatively normal appearance deep underwater where it lives. The

As we take in 32nd century San Francisco with the San Francisco Ferry Building in the foreground, there is a neon sign behind it saying “King Mei”. This same sign appeared in an underground city on Turkana IV (TNG: “Legacy”).

Nahla left Starfleet 15 years prior because of how they treated Caleb and his mother (“Kids These Days”), but returned when Vance offered her the chancellorship of Starfleet Academy.

Sam drunkenly refers to Sisko building sailboats (DS9: “Explorers”) and starting riots (DS9: “Past Tense”).

Muir Woods is part of the Golden Gate Recreation Area, north of San Francisco and near the Academy campus. It’s best known for its grove of coast redwoods, which are the tallest living things on Earth.

The cover of Anslem has a Bajoran crest on it. Sisko bought a plot of land in Kendra Valley on Bajor in DS9: “Penumbra”, the same episode the Prophets warned him that if he married Kasidy - if he did not walk his path alone - he would know nothing but sorrow.

We discover that Illa is Illa Dax, the latest host for the Dax symbiont, a Cardassian-Trill hybrid.

That last voice-over is indeed Avery Brooks, not from Star Trek but from Here… a spoken word and jazz album he released in 2006.

The title comes from Sam’s full name, the first photonic cadet from Kasq. Sam is only 217 days old at this point, having been created as the first hologram to reintegrate with organics, but programmed to act like a 17-year-old.

Sam states that in the last millennium (i.e. since 2191, close enough to the founding of the Federation in 2161 that we can probably just take it as a rounding error), the Federation has encountered 4633 sentient species, over 27 trillion individuals.

We see a Cheronian cadet. The Cheronians first appeared in TOS: “Let There Be Your Last Battlefield”, where the ruling half-white class (white on the left side) held the half-black (black on the left side) class in contempt. Cheronians are extremely long lived; Bele had been chasing Lokai in that episode for 5000 years. The race was assumed to be extinct since 2268, casualties of a civil war that wiped out Cheron’s population. However, Virgil, a half-white Cheronian appeared in the Section 31 movie, which takes place c.2324. The cadet here is of the half-black population.

It’s been 97 days, or a little over 3 months, after Sam began the Fall Semester of Starfleet Academy (SFA: “Kids These Days”), placing this episode at the end of 3191 (Sam says later that the semester is nearly over).

Of the list of homeworlds displayed in Sam’s databased, the names that are not known Federation worlds in the 24th Century are Denobula, Bajor, Ferengar, Hirogen Prime and Kazon Prime. Whether this means that these worlds are now, in the 32nd century, Federation members is not clear.

The Priority One Mission Darem is given consists of chicken, banana (which he hates) and yeel pudding. The yeel tree exists within the mycelial network (DIS: “Saints of Imperfection”), but its bark is deadly to the jahSepp who also live there.

Darem’s personnel file says his major is Sciences and he’s 17 years old, born on Stardate 851095.82, and he graduated from Khionian Royal High on Stardate 868490.0 (consistent with the in SFA: “Vitus Reflux”). By TNG stardate reckoning, that still makes the current year 3191, and he was born in 3174. The file also notes his captaincy of the Khionian All-Planet Under-18 Calico Team and being part of the Premiere Team Khionian Parrises Squares, among other achievements.

Polyphenol oxidase is indeed the enzyme that causes browning and damage to fruits and vegetables. Also, Khionians vomit glitter.

Sam is playing a theremin, a musical instrument that creates different tones as your hands interact with its magnetic field. Patented by Leon Theremin in 1928, its unique sound has been used as to evoke an otherworldly atmosphere in science fiction movies and television. Contrary to popular belief, the TOS Star Trek theme did not use a theremin, but was rather performed by coloratura soprano Loulie Jean Norman.

The original Emergency Medical Hologram Mark 1s (of which the Doctor is one) were repurposed by the Federation to become menial labourers in the 24th century (VOY: “Author, Author”), primarily because they were not viewed as sentient. Photonic lifeforms do naturally exist, as in seen in various VOY episodes (“Heroes and Demons”, “Bride of Chaotica!”, “The Voyager Conspiracy”) as well as in LD: “Of Gods and Angles”.

Sam speaking to her Makers reminds this old man of how the Orkian alien Mork used to report to his supervisor Orson on the strange habits of humans in the 1978-1982 sitcom Mork and Mindy.

The “stupid talking plants” refers to the events of “Vitus Reflux”.

Appropriately enough, the cadet sniffing Caleb’s pheromones is Orion. Orion women secrete a powerful pheromone which can intoxicate and dominate the males. Underground “scentuaries” on Orion exist, akin to sex and BDSM clubs (LD: “Something Borrowed, Something Green”).

The screens in the “Confronting the Unexplainable” course show “Origins of the Omega Molecule” (VOY: “The Omega Directive”), “Psionic Effects of the Galactic Barrier” (TOS: “Where No Man Has Gone Before”), “Déjà Vu - Alternate Universe Theories” (TNG: “Cause and Effect”), “Katra Stones” (DIS: “Light and Shadows”), “Immortal/Non-Corporeal Entities” (the Guardian of Forever, TOS: “The City on the Edge of Forever”), “Subspace Divergence Fields” (VOY: “Deadlock”), “Alternate Continuums” (like the Q Continuum, VOY: “Death Wish”) and “Multi-Species Accelerated Evolution” (VOY: “Threshold”, perhaps).

Sam stops in front of “The Fate of Benjamin Sisko - Emissary of the Prophets” and poses two questions: whether he died in the Fire Caves of Bajor or lived on in the Celestial Temple at the end of DS9: “What You Leave Behind”. As viewers, we know that the latter is true, but also that he promised to return (“Maybe a year, maybe yesterday.”). As the screen implies, this has not happened by the 32nd century. Part of the reason, speaking in a Doylist sense, is because Avery Brooks has retired from acting (among other eccentricities).

Professor Illa (played by LD’s Tawny Newsom) is of Cardassian descent, with the distinctive loop over her forehead (which led to the racial slur “spoonheads” being applied to Cardassians by veterans of the wars of the 2340s). She says it is midterm season, which usually happens between mid-October and early November. The scene ends with the DS9 theme song swelling.

Darem refers to the Schrodinger’s Cat paradox, a thought experiment where a cat in a box with a poison that has a fifty-fifty chance of triggering is, accordingly to quantum theory, neither alive nor dead until the box is opened.

The grabbing of the earlobe to feel a person’s “pagh” was first demonstrated in DS9: “Emissary”.

The Sisko Museum is in New Orleans because Sisko is a native of that city. During DS9, his father ran a restaurant there which was still open as of 2381 (LD: “Grounded”).

This is the first mention of the planet Alpherat in lore. There is a star named Alpheratz (Alpha Andromedae or Delta Pegasi), mentioned in the Franz Joseph Starfleet Technical Manual and the Star Trek Adventures RPG, but this may be a different place. Earth has its own fire eels, but Alpherati ones are presumably not the same.

The uniform on display is the version Sisko wore from DS9: “Trials and Tribble-lations” onwards, having been introduced in the movie First Contact.

On display is a Deep Space Niners cap (the station baseball team, DS9: “Take Me Out to the Holosuite”), Sisko’s Niner baseball card, and the baseball signed by the team in that episode. On another pedestal is a box used to contain an Orb of the Prophets and Benny Russell’s typewriter sits on another (DS9: “Far Beyond the Stars”).

There are signs showcasing Sisko’s Creole Kitchen, the Dominion War, Jake Sisko with an article he wrote for the Federation News Service on the arrival of a Dominion Founder, and a video titled Jada Ava Sisko.

Jada Ava Sisko does not seem to appear on the family tree, nor does Sisko’s daughter with Kasidy Yates, as yet unborn in the DS9 finale. While this may be ominous, in the Litverse novels the daughter was born and named Rebecca Jae Sisko.

Cirroc Lofton reprises his role as Jake Sisko. He mentions Sisko punching out Q (DS9: “Q-Less”), how he supported Jake’s writing, and his ability as a chef.

Krebbs’ Talaxian furfly is now eating its own fur.

Jay-Den claims Klingons invented raktajino, which isn’t really true if you prefer Marc Okrand’s explanation for how what the Federation calls “Klingon coffee” came about. Raktajino is more of a hybrid beverage, with human and Klingon elements involved in its creation. This could simply be like Chekov claiming everything was a Russian invention.

Jake began writing his novel Anslem in DS9: “The Muse”, but as we find out, never published it. In the alternate timeline of DS9: “The Visitor”, it was published in 2381. This is the first time we find out “Anslem” means “father” in Bajoran - the novel does feature the father of the protagonist.

The story of a Vulcan punching out Sisko refers to when Solok defeated Sisko in a wrestling match when they were cadets at The Launching Pad (“Take Me Out to the Holosuite”).

The Kometa fish looks similar to an Earth blobfish, which although it looks like jello on land, has a relatively normal appearance deep underwater where it lives. The

As we take in 32nd century San Francisco with the San Francisco Ferry Building in the foreground, there is a neon sign behind it saying “King Mei”. This same sign appeared in an underground city on Turkana IV (TNG: “Legacy”).

Nahla left Starfleet 15 years prior because of how they treated Caleb and his mother (“Kids These Days”), but returned when Vance offered her the chancellorship of Starfleet Academy.

Sam drunkenly refers to Sisko building sailboats (DS9: “Explorers”) and starting riots (DS9: “Past Tense”).

Muir Woods is part of the Golden Gate Recreation Area, north of San Francisco and near the Academy campus. It’s best known for its grove of coast redwoods, which are the tallest living things on Earth.

The cover of Anslem has a Bajoran crest on it. Sisko bought a plot of land in Kendra Valley on Bajor in DS9: “Penumbra”, the same episode the Prophets warned him that if he married Kasidy - if he did not walk his path alone - he would know nothing but sorrow.

We discover that Illa is Illa Dax, the latest host for the Dax symbiont, a Cardassian-Trill hybrid.

That last voice-over is indeed Avery Brooks, not from Star Trek but from Here… a spoken word and jazz album he released in 2006.

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Hey guys, just wanted to share my thoughts on this but I'm using AI since 2023 and really, it continues to blow my mind. When ChatGPT was available for the public, I already found it crazy to have something that basically could answer you as you were talking to it in a normal way. It wasn't connected to Internet but at that time I though it was too complicated and maybe that it would need 5,6 more years of development. Several months later, you could browse the Internet with ChatGPT. It was incredible. Same thing for DALL E back in the day. The pictures were pretty sketchy but you could just generate images from the void just by prompting them. And now we have image to video or video live AI 90/95% realistic?? And during all this time, people were telling me "bro ChatGPT makes errors, look" or "yeah but the pictures are too sketchy, it can't be used". They would over focus on details while avoiding the big picture...

And now we have agents?? AI is really a revolution and I swear I'm not a bot lol (kind of thing an AI would say but yk)

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has provided a rare assessment of battlefield losses during an interview with a French television network.

Zelenskyy said an estimated 55,000 of his country’s soldiers have been killed since Russia launched a full-scale invasion in February 2022.

“And there are a great number Ukraine lists as missing,” he told France 2, which translated his comments.

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President Donald Trump is considering allowing companies to lease more than 113 million acres of waters off Alaska for seabed mining. Alaska is the latest of several places Trump has sought to open to the fledging industry over the past year, including waters around American Samoa, Guam, and the Northern Mariana Islands. Like those Pacific islands, Alaska is home to Indigenous peoples with ancestral ties to the ocean, and the proposal is raising cultural and environmental concerns.

Deep-sea mining, the practice of scraping minerals off the ocean floor for commercial products like electric vehicle batteries and military technology, is not yet a commercial industry. It’s been slowed by the lack of regulations governing permits in international waters and by concerns about the environmental impact of extracting minerals that formed over millions of years. Scientists have warned the practice could damage fisheries and fragile ecosystems that could take millennia to recover. Indigenous peoples have also pushed back, citing violations of their rights to consent to projects in their territories.

Trump, however, has voiced strong support for the industry as part of his effort to make the United States a leader in critical mineral production. He has also pushed for U.S. companies to mine in international waters, bypassing ongoing global negotiations over international mining regulations.

Kate Finn, a citizen of the Osage Nation and executive director of the Tallgrass Institute Center for Indigenous Economic Stewardship in Colorado, said she worries the seabed mining industry will repeat the mistakes of land-based mining.

“The terrestrial mining industry has not gotten it right with regards to Indigenous peoples,” Finn said. “Indigenous peoples have the right to give and to withdraw consent. Mining companies themselves need to design their operations around that right.”

It’s not yet clear which companies, if any, are interested in mining off Alaska. A spokesperson for The Metals Company, one of the leading publicly traded firms in the industry, said it has no plans to expand to Alaska. Oliver Gunasekara, chief executive officer of the startup Impossible Metals — which has asked Trump to allow mining around American Samoa despite Samoan opposition — said his company has no plans either.

“We do not have current plans in Alaska, as we do not know what resources are in the ocean,” he said. “If there are good nodule resources, we would be very interested.”

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The potential lease area under consideration is larger than the state of California. Cooper Freeman, director of Alaska operations for the nonprofit Center for Biological Diversity, said the scope is so broad that it includes ecologically important waters already closed to bottom trawling, a fishing method that drags heavy nets across the seafloor.

“A lot of these areas, particularly in the Aleutians, have been put off limits for bottom trawling because there are nurseries for commercially important fish and ecologically important species and habitat, ” Freeman said.

In its announcement, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, or BOEM, the agency responsible for regulating deep-sea mining, said the proposed area included depths more than 4 miles deep near the Aleutian Trench and the abyssal plains of the Bering Sea and Gulf of Alaska, at depths as low as 3.5 miles. “BOEM is particularly interested in areas that have been identified by [the U.S. Geological Survey] as prospective for critical minerals as well as heavy minerals sands along the Seward Peninsula and Bering Sea coast.”

The waters are off the coast of a state that is home to more than 200 Alaska Native nations. Jasmine Monroe, who is Inupiaq, Yupik, and Cherokee, grew up in the village of Elim in Alaska’s Bering Strait region. She said she became concerned about what the proposal could mean for the seafood her community relies on after learning the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management opened up a 30-day public comment period last week on potential leases.

“We eat beluga meat, we eat walrus, we eat seal, we eat whale,” she said. “Whatever happens in the ocean, it really does affect our way of life.”

“It just feels like we don’t have any say on whether it happens or not,” she said. “It just feels like the system is set up for failure for us.”

The Alaska Federation of Natives, an organization representing Indigenous peoples of Alaska, did not respond to requests for comment.

Monroe, who works on water quality issues at the nonprofit Alaska Community Action on Toxics, said she feels disempowered by what she described as a top-down approach and short timelines for public input.

Kate Finn from the Tallgrass Institute said Indigenous peoples have the right under international law to consent to activities in their territories and warned that U.S. federal regulations alone may not be sufficient for companies to meet international legal standards, particularly amid deregulation.

“Companies will miss that if they’re only relying on the U.S. federal government for consultation,” she said.

Finn added that Indigenous nations have their own economic and cultural priorities and that some have chosen to work with mining companies under specific conditions.

“There are Indigenous peoples who work well with companies and invite mining into their territories, and there is a track record there as well,” she said.

Monroe said she recognizes that seabed mining could supply minerals used in technologies like electric vehicle batteries, similar to other mining proposals she’s opposed in Alaska including a graphite mine that could pollute waters. But she doesn’t see electric vehicles in her community, and said the environmental and cultural cost is too high.

“It really feels like another false solution,” she said.

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Five of the six Filton 24 activists walked free yesterday after 18 months in prison on remand. Charlotte Head, Ellie Kamio, Fatema Zainab Rajwani, Zoe Rogers and Jordan Devlin were released on bail to the joy of their families and loved ones. Samuel Corner was the only Palestine activist of the six to be denied bail and remains in custody. All six were acquitted of the most serious charge of aggravated burglary on Wednesday 4 February. Devlin, Rogers and Rajwani were also cleared of violent disorder. The jury reached no verdict on the charge of violent disorder for Head, Corner and Kamio. The jury delivered no verdict on Corner’s additional charge of grievous bodily harm. The six activists were not convicted on a single offence after eight full days of jury deliberation.

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So today I was playing a new (to me) card game of TacoCatGoatCheesePizza. My husband and I F33 were leaning the rules but playing with a group of friends who already knew how to play. The rules are pretty simple. Each player puts down a card in a clockwise direction while saying Taco, Cat, Goat Cheese Pizza. Player 1 "Taco" P2 "cat" P3 "goat" etc until you put down the card that matches the word being said. Then EVERYONE has to slap their hands on the pile and the last hand on the pile, gets the whole pile. The idea is to run out of cards.

simple enough.

There are a few extra characters that come in to play and have their own rules. The Gorilla the Gopher and my F-Up came with the unicorn. Its special rule is that when it appears, everyone has to put their hand on their head like a unicorn Horn, THEN slap their hand down on the cards. I however screwed this part up.

When the unicorn card came out everyone else did as expected, but I put my hand down, but then my ADHD brain panicked and said 'Hey you missed a step!" So, I proceeded to -complete- the necessary step by slamming my head ONTO my hand and thus the table.

So TL:DR Today I messed up by possibly giving myself a concussion while playing a card game.