Eric and Don Jr. made more money in 8 months than Trump did in 80 years!
In some ways the invasion of Data Centers also makes me think about the days of colonization of Indigenous lands. We watch as gigantic blotches take over our landscape, we hate them with, they take more than fair share of our water, disrupt our lifestyle and pollute our environment.
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Pollen tried to remove my article about CEO Callum Negus-Fancey and CTO Bradley Wright, and Google is assisting with it
In 2022, I wrote about the damning fall of events tech company Pollen. The short of it: Pollen seemed to have pulled off the improbable feat of building a business in the notoriously low margin indus...
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This is like plastic recycling all over again projects.propublica.org/why-carbon-c...
False Promises: The “Solution” to the Climate Crisis That Won’t Work
As global leaders look to tech advances to solve climate change, one leading idea involves capturing carbon pollution from the air and burying it underground forever. While carbon capture may sound pr...
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I don't understand demand and supply mechanics.. just because you have more demand, you can take more profit from your sales? Why can't we limit the profit margin on sales of goods? Why are there lower floors on worker salaries but virtually no ceilings on corporate profits?
I just realized my kids haven't re-enacted ROTJ with their Star Wars toys
That's a wild scale of seeing hidden charges in real life
Jeff Nall@jeffmnall.bsky.social · 2mo ago$300 billion to Iran for war reparations. 30 billion would have funded helathcare subsidies here.
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From the UnderReportedNews community on Reddit: 50 israeli jets dropped 160 bombs in 1 min.100 Lebanon sites bombed in 10 mins. multiple Lebanon residential locations. more than 500 civilian killed
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The city of Tyre, like much of Lebanon’s south, has been placed under forced evacuation orders by the Israeli army. https://to.pbs.org/3QreZ8U
Civilians caught in path of Israeli invasion in southern Lebanon
On Easter Sunday, Israel carried out a fresh wave of airstrikes on Lebanon. The city of Tyre, like much of Lebanon’s south, has been placed under forced evacuation orders by the Israeli army. Special ...
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Today I realized… the Skip Ad feature on YouTube is an engagement ploy. If ads cannot be skipped. You usually look away, then come back after the 1–2 minute gap. But with YouTube ads, you stick around, waiting for the Skip button to appear. Someone on their UX team must be a genius!
"In immigration detention, he missed 4 out of 5 chemotherapy sessions scheduled in his fight against aggressive lymphoma. A scan last month showed the cancer had spread into his bone marrow. “I was in shock, seeing those little dots,” he said of the scan...” www.startribune.com/how-ice-deta...
Detained by ICE, he missed multiple cancer treatments. Now he’s in hospice.
Some immigrants with chronic health problems were swept up by ICE in Minnesota, leading to missed medications and, for one man, missed chemotherapy sessions.
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Moving workers who dedicated themselves to climate action into fossil fuel projects is unthinkably callous. This is yet another example of the BC NDP prioritizing the profits of foreign fossil fuel corporations over our public service workers.
Professors & university staff were targeted & fired for less than this just a few months ago.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5mo agoTrump: “Robert Mueller just died. Good, I’m glad he’s dead. He can no longer hurt innocent people! President DONALD J. TRUMP”
This is going to be the GOAT of didn’t age well takes
1/ Denmark was reportedly preparing for full-scale war with the US over Greenland in January, with military support from France, Germany, and Nordic nations. Elite troops and F-35 jets with live ammunition were sent, and runways were to be blown up to prevent an invasion. ⬇️
Homelessness is a policy choice
Urban Truth Collective@urbantruth.bsky.social · 5mo agoAnderson Cooper: “So it's more expensive to have a chronically homeless person living on the streets than it is to actually subsidize an apartment for them?” Answer: “Yes, we’re paying more as taxpayers to walk past that person on the street and do nothing.” #HousingFirst #UrbanTruth
Public service announcement - if you are launching missiles which end up killing innocent bystanders and kids, simply calling it collateral damage is not going to absolve you of your crimes against humanity
You know the court can pass judgements only. Not fix the will of corrupt folks working in public service.
This shows how Open Source will die. With anyone just being able to pipe existing code through an LLM and claiming that to be "clean room" (which is hogwash) no licensing can protect your work from being taken and monetized by anyone. The commons are actively being shredded in front of our eyes.
chardet 7.0: ground-up MIT-licensed rewrite by dan-blanchard · Pull Request #322 · chardet/chardet · GitHub
Summary This PR is for a ground-up, MIT-licensed rewrite of chardet. It maintains API compatibility with chardet 5.x and 6.x, but with 27x improvements to detection speed, and highly accurate suppo...
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This Article insideclimatenews.org/news/2502202...
Grasslands and Wetlands Are Being Gobbled Up By Agriculture, Mostly Livestock - Inside Climate News
A new study takes a first-of-its kind look at how farming converts non-forested areas and major carbon sinks into cropland and pasture.
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