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alyaza

@alyaza@beehaw.org

internet gryphon. admin of Beehaw, mostly publicly interacting with people. nonbinary. they/she

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no, everything is still in USD (although i think the switch means we’re losing slightly more to payment processing)

alyaza,
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to be honest with you i have no clue what the logistics are for donations themselves. my intuition is… no, having managed our finances for the reports? but Chris almost certainly has a better idea of this than me.

alyaza,
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our previous fiscal host is dissolving at the end of the year–most of the details are over in our previous announcement post; all contributions go toward keeping the website up and paying for any labor associated with it outside of admin work

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pretty quiet week so far, i think it’s supposed to snow later which will be moderately annoying because i’ll have to shut my window for awhile if so

alyaza,
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With approximately 600 members, Activision Quality Assurance United-CWA is the largest group of union-represented workers at any U.S. game studio. Workers in the new unit are located in California, Texas, and Minnesota. Over 1,000 video game workers at Microsoft now have union representation with CWA.

this is very cool, and hopefully more workers leverage the Microsoft neutrality agreement.

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it’s on the big list of possible alternatives that we’re investigating

The infrastructural conditions of (de-)growth: The case of the internet (www.sciencedirect.com)

Infrastructure studies represent a domain that remains significantly uncharted among degrowth scholars. This is paradoxical considering that infrastructures constitute a fundamental prerequisite for the equitable distribution of many aspects of human well-being that degrowth proponents emphasize. Nonetheless, the substantial...

alyaza,
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this was vetoed last year after it only passed 7-5 (majority to override a veto is 9); but this year it seems almost certain to pass. it has 9 votes this time and it seems even one of the four members in opposition might waver if it’s actually vetoed.

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Hamas lied about 500 dying in al Ahli hospital blast and blaming the IDF. They didn’t even try to offer evidence.

even granting this, this seems like the obvious exception to the rule. as the commenter you’re replying to noted, the UN and WHO have generally supported (with a handful of discrepancies that are unsurprising given the circumstances) the Gaza Health Ministry’s death tolls. Israel’s counts have also not historically diverged strongly from the ones the Gaza Health Ministry gives. take the 2014 war where the Gaza Health Ministry said 2,310 killed, the UN HRC said 2,251 killed, and Israel said 2,125 killed. that’s only a 10% difference which, if we’re being honest, is not really much of one in the context of an armed conflict.

mostly, where the Ministry and Israel meaningfully differ is in who they consider civilians and on what bases–the Ministry claimed about 70% civilians killed in 2014, but Israel claimed 36%. and that’s a much harder question to parse out than whether or not the Gaza Health Ministry is lying about casualty numbers–which by all accounts we have it does not seem to be.

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