amazon being so secretive we gotta apple airtag a book shipment to see that they’re buying and destroying them for AI but also having this on the warehouse front door:
404 Media@404media.co · last mo.EXCLUSIVE: 404 Media placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books. @evystadium.bsky.social has more. Investigation by @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social here: www.404media.co/we-tracked-a...
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Health Sovereignty in Palestine: A Conversation Between Mary Turfah and Dr. Ghassan Abu Sittah • Protean Magazine
In this long conversation, Mary Turfah talks with Dr. Ghassan Abu Sittah about health sovereignty in Palestine, the coloniality of Western NGOs, the centrality of healthcare to the genocide in Palesti...
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This is one of those arguments that sounds like slopulism but is actually, if anything, understated. 56% of Colorado river water goes to GROWING FEED FOR LIVESTOCK IN THE DESERT.
mtsw@mtsw.bsky.social · last mo.STOP GROWING FUCKING LETTUCE IN THE DESERT THIS IS ACTUALLY A VERY EASY PROBLEM TO SOLVE
Vietnam urges people to work from home to save fuel as Iran war disrupts supplies reut.rs/4bf05tr
Vietnam urges people to work from home to save fuel as Iran war disrupts supplies
Vietnam's trade ministry has called on local businesses to encourage their employees to work from home as part of efforts to save on fuel amid supply disruptions and price surges triggered by the Iran war.
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"Make people dependent enough, and then make it shitty" Still giggling at this hilarious video from the Norwegian Consumer Council "A Day in the Life of an Ensh*ttificator" which seems a perfect embodiment of Silicon Valley and tech generally these days www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4Up...
A Day in the Life of an Ensh*ttificator
YouTube video by Forbrukerrådet - Norwegian Consumer Council
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He isn’t choking, he wants a mass deportation regime. He wants it quiet and polite like they did under Obama.
Murshed Zaheed@murshedz.bsky.social · 8mo agoMajority of the country now wants to abolish and/or dismantle ICE and yet Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y. told the caucus the message had to be to “restrain, reform and restrict ICE.” Once again it looks like Schumer is about to choke after getting a massive opportunity. So pathetic and weak.
We shouldn’t accept that a CEO killer must get a national manhunt when cops don’t solve most murders at all. A migrant teenager was just murdered in NYC, cops just killed a guy here — the lives of these other people are worth just as much as that CEO.
one of my best pals wrote a book about his year of incarceration on Rikers Island. he’s been working on it for years, and it’s finally coming out soon. I’m so proud of him!! nyupress.org/978147982899...
City Time
A unique insider perspective of daily life in New York City’s most notorious house of correctionWhile most people behind bars at Rikers Island are detainee...
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Did you know there was once a domestic cat constellation? 'Felis' was created by French astronomer Joseph Jérôme de Lalande in 1799, but the International Astronomical Union dumped poor Felis when they created their official set of constellation boundaries in 1930. www.ianridpath.com/startales/fe...
Hyperloop One, the futuristic transit company building tube-encased lines to zip passengers and freight from city to city at airplane-like speeds, is reportedly shutting down The company raised more than $450 million since its founding in 2014
Hyperloop One to Shut Down After Failing to Reinvent Transit
The company is selling assets, laying off remaining employees.
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“Zora Neale Hurston who kept Black folklore from going extinct died in poverty,” Ishmael Reed says in his acceptance of the North Star Award over video, advising that anyone who thinks hip hop is only 50 years old read her DUST TRACKS ON AN EMPTY ROAD.
I feel like more people need to know that the Milwaukee airport *has a used bookstore inside it* and I spent two hours and $150 buying 18 books in it over two days like a completely normal person.
Adams is so bad a New Yorker found him in Colombia and told him about himself. "Adams Heckled During Visit to Colombia Town Key to Migrants Trying to Enter North America 'Shame on You!'" nypost.com/2023/10/07/e...
Extremely cool short doc on Claudia Jones. www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUMT...
I'm not sure what this is about (the post you're replying to has been deleted), but here's my late cat Thunder, looking fierce.
