Study: 100% of meat and dairy companies have lobbied against environmental and climate policies (medium.com)
All 10 of the largest U.S. meat and dairy companies have lobbied against environmental and climate policies, resisting climate regulations, including rules on greenhouse gases and emissions reporting. This is according to a study by New York University, which examined the political influence of the 10 largest meat and dairy...
Discord’s secret weapon against open source competitors (it’s PluralKit) (medium.com)
Why are FOSS platforms like Matrix having such a hard time getting users to migrate from Discord? Because of PluralKit.
OC Telegram is a breeding ground for extremists, scammers, and terrorists. It’s time for moderation to get serious. (medium.com)
Musk Overruled Tesla Engineers, And Now They Are In Serious Trouble (medium.com)
Why Linux is Best for Most People (medium.com)
Free-Market Advocate, Elon Musk, Asks for U.S. Government to Put Tariffs on Chinese EV Imports (medium.com)
Apple Wants To Kill PWAs (medium.com)
IQ is largely a pseudoscientific swindle (medium.com)
Taleb dunking on IQ “research” at length. Technically a seriouspost I guess.
New Study: Police Kill Over 10,000 Family Dogs Every Year; According to The U.S. Justice Department (medium.com)
Medium.com. Archive link
A Pound of Hamburger Meat Would Cost $30 Without Tax Payer Subsidies (medium.com)
The United States federal government allocates a staggering $38 billion annually to prop up the meat and dairy industries. These subsidies significantly reduce the price of meat products, including hamburgers. Research from 2015 reveals that these subsidies slash the price of a pound of hamburger meat from $30 to the $5 we see...
Tim Berners-Lee: Marking the Web’s 35th Birthday: An Open Letter (medium.com)
USA: The Minimum Wage Should Be $24 per Hour Not $7.25 (medium.com)
TIL Feminist Icon Gloria Steinem Was An Anti-Communist CIA Operative who Kept the Feminist Movement From Discussing Class; only Gender (medium.com)
TIL: The Phrase “Death To America” Didn’t exist Before the CIA Overthrew the Iranian Government for Nationalizing their Oil in 1953 (medium.com)
Why Linux is Best for Most People (medium.com)
Open Source Is Struggling And It’s Not Big Tech That Is To Blame (medium.com)
We Can’t Hire You. Developers’ Challenge (medium.com)
Making a Simple Self-Hosted Photo Gallery With IPFS (medium.com)
Liberals Are Killing Trans Kids. (medium.com)
It’s a good thing they died at Gallipoli (medium.com)
The world’s 8 richest billionaires have the same wealth as the poorest 50% of the global population of 3.8 billion people (medium.com)
Poll: 61% of young adults confess they are not saving for retirement (medium.com)
New Study: At Least 15% of All Reddit Content is Corporate Trolls Trying to Manipulate Public Opinion (medium.com)
Cross posted from: lemmy.world/post/9762996
Plight of the Transbian (medium.com)
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