EverMama8_

EverMama8_, 6 days ago to random

NINETEEN EU countries demand the right to introduce Rwanda-style deportation schemes amid signs the UK's new law is already having a deterrent effect

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13416067/EU-Rwanda-deportation-UK-law-deterrent-migrants-Channel.html

EverMama8_, 11 days ago to random

Writers and publishers in Singapore reject a government plan to train AI on their work

Singapore's literary community is pushing back against an official effort to train LLMs using their published works, part of a growing global resistance.

https://restofworld.org/2024/singapore-writers-reject-ai-training/

EverMama8_, 12 days ago to random

Panama Canal Authority warns of water insecurity beyond historic drought

https://www.spglobal.com/commodityinsights/en/market-insights/latest-news/oil/050724-interview-panama-canal-authority-warns-of-water-insecurity-beyond-historic-drought

EverMama8_, 13 days ago to random

Tech bro fascism looks like a lot like old-fashioned fascism

https://boingboing.net/2024/05/02/tech-bro-fascism-looks-like-a-lot-like-old-fashioned-fascism.html

EverMama8_, 14 days ago to random

‘Everything’s on fire’: Inside the nation’s failure to safeguard toxic pipelines

Biden’s and Trump’s energy plans each depend on building new pipelines, but landowners don’t believe the current inspection system can protect them from spills and deadly emissions. They have a point.

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/05/05/inside-failure-safeguard-toxic-pipelines-00152225

EverMama8_, 16 days ago to random

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Avian flu outbreak raises a disturbing question: Is our food system built on poop?

“It seems ghoulish, but it is a perfectly legal and common practice for chicken litter — the material that accumulates on the floor of chicken growing facilities — to be fed to cattle,”

https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2024-04-18/avian-flu-outbreak-raises-a-disturbing-question-is-our-food-system-built-on-poop

EverMama8_, 19 days ago to random

1/ The Tech Baron Seeking to Purge San Francisco of “Blues”

The Network State: How to Start a New Country. The book outlines a plan for tech plutocrats to exit democracy and establish new sovereign territories

—a proposed tech colony called California Forever and the tech-funded campaign to capture San Francisco’s government

He is also the leader of a cultish and increasingly strident neo-reactionary tech political movement that sees American democracy as an enemy

https://newrepublic.com/article/180487/balaji-srinivasan-network-state-plutocrat

EverMama8_, 20 days ago to random

How an empty S3 bucket can make your AWS bill explode

https://medium.com/@maciej.pocwierz/how-an-empty-s3-bucket-can-make-your-aws-bill-explode-934a383cb8b1

EverMama8_, 21 days ago to random

A water crisis in Mississippi turns into a fight against privatization

Thanks to a federal judge, residents of Jackson will have a say in how the city resolves its yearslong water crisis.

https://grist.org/equity/a-water-crisis-in-mississippi-turns-into-a-fight-against-privatization/

EverMama8_, 25 days ago to random

What Really Happens When You Trade In an iPhone at the Apple Store

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2024-04-18/apple-iphone-recycling-program-has-secrets

EverMama8_, 1 month ago to random

Finland Rattled by Political Strikes Against the Conservative Governments’ Anti-Union Agenda

https://onlabor.org/finland-rattled-by-political-strikes-against-the-conservative-governments-anti-union-agenda/

EverMama8_, 1 month ago to random

Nuclear deal in tatters, Iran edges close to weapons capability

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/nuclear-deal-in-tatters-iran-edges-close-to-weapons-capability/ar-BB1lnHpf

EverMama8_, 1 month ago to random

Ground-up chicken waste fed to cattle may be behind bird flu outbreak in US cows

Experts warn that lax regulations could also see the virus spread to US pig farms, with serious consequences for human health

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/global-health/science-and-disease/chicken-waste-fed-to-cattle-may-be-behind-bird-flu-outbreak/

EverMama8_, 1 month ago to random

Activists protest in trees, file lawsuit to block old growth logging on BLM land

A coalition of conservation groups and activists have blocked a logging site and filed a legal complaint over another area with the U.S. Bureau of Land Management

https://oregoncapitalchronicle.com/2024/04/04/activists-protest-in-trees-file-complaint-to-block-old-growth-logging-on-blm-land-in-court/

EverMama8_, 1 month ago to random

70% of the land in Britain is still owned by 1% of the population, largely descended from William the Conqueror’s army

Some Norman descendants are still doing very fine in today's Britain.

https://www.zmescience.com/other/shorties/70-percent-britain-land-owned-by-the-rich/

EverMama8_, 1 month ago to random

The Worst Climate Disaster You Haven’t Heard Of Just Got More Deadly

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/mongolia-dzud-winter-climate_n_6602f041e4b0710eb5666d7f?

EverMama8_, 1 month ago to random

The Great Plains now have ‘wildfire years,’ not seasons, as blazes start and spread earlier

https://www.kcur.org/2024-03-15/the-great-plains-now-have-wildfire-years-not-seasons-as-blazes-start-and-spread-earlier

EverMama8_, 1 month ago to random

Japan set to resume funding to UNRWA

Tokyo had joined at least 11 of its western allies to halt funding to UN agency for refugees in Palestine

https://www.aa.com.tr/en/asia-pacific/japan-set-to-resume-funding-to-unrwa/3177994

EverMama8_, 1 month ago to random

Creutzfeldt–Jakob Disease Associated with E200K Mutation and SARS-CoV-2 Infection: Pure Coincidence or Neurodegenerative Acceleration?

https://www.mdpi.com/2514-183X/8/2/16

EverMama8_, 1 month ago to random

Food inflation: The math doesn’t add up without factoring in corporate power

https://www.cadtm.org/Food-inflation-The-math-doesn-t-add-up-without-factoring-in-corporate-power

EverMama8_, 1 month ago to climate

You can start applying for the American Climate Corps next month

Biden is calling on Congress for an additional $8 billion in funding for the program.

The long-awaited jobs board for the American Climate Corps, promised early in the Biden administration, will open next month

https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2024/03/you-can-start-applying-for-the-american-climate-corps-next-month/

#climate #sustainability #Biden

EverMama8_, 1 month ago to random

UN: E-waste is growing 5x faster than it can be recycled

Right to Repair should be the Obligation to Repair, if we want to avoid drowning in trashed electronics

https://www.theregister.com/2024/03/21/ewaste_grows/

EverMama8_, 1 month ago to random

Meet the AI-Censored? Naked Capitalism

Google provides an early, scary test case for mechanized suppression by threatening a popular economics site with demonetization

https://www.racket.news/p/meet-the-ai-censored-naked-capitalism

Nonilex, 7 months ago to random

But wait, there’s more!

#ClarenceThomas Secretly Participated in #KochNetwork #Donor Events

by Joshua Kaplan, Justin Elliott & Alex Mierjeski
@ProPublica

#Thomas has attended at least two #Koch donor summits, putting him in the extraordinary position of having helped a #political network that has brought multiple #cases before the #SupremeCourt.

#SCOTUS
https://www.propublica.org/article/clarence-thomas-secretly-attended-koch-brothers-donor-events-scotus