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Not only do the disinformation campaign and politicisation of public health threaten the gains made over the last six decades, they threaten the entire international effort to control these preventable diseases.
Not only do the disinformation campaign and politicization of public health threaten the gains made over the last six decades, they threaten the entire international effort to control these preventable diseases.
For over a decade, Unicorn Riot has been on the frontlines of social and environmental movements covering stories that are often ignored in mainstream discourse, including alternatives to conventional normalcies.
In the first of a series of pieces leading up to Saturday’s Durham Miners’ Gala, we examine a forgotten corner of County Durham with a strong claim to be the one of the global birthplaces of the industrial proletariat.
Hey, please stop repeating the misinformation that corps are legally required to maximize profits or your shareholders can sue you. It's propaganda promoted by a handful of huge fund managers because they'd *like that* to be true.
Even SCOTUS agrees “Modern corporate law does not require for-profit corporations to pursue profit at the expense of everything else, and many do not.” (Burwell v. Hobby Lobby)
Also, what follows from this is another request I have: do not accept "but we have to maximize our profits!" as an excuse for shitty corporate behavior.
The duty leaders have to shareholders is basic, and comes down to at least trying to make some money; it absolutely does not require anyone to be a complete exploitative asshole. That's a *choice*.
This is an interesting one. While it's the CEO's fiduciary duty to deliver returns to shareholders, that does not mean they can/should take undue risk by putting profits before all else. It's the executive's job to balance the risk/return ratio.
Money is the problem. Not too little, but too much. Where there's wealth, there's a natural human desire to make more wealth. Ever since Firefox 1.0 in 2004, Firefox has never had to compete. It's been attached like a mosquito to an artery to the Google cash firehose. The Reg noted it in 2007, and it made more the next year. We were dubious when Firefox turned five. And as for that money — remember back in 2018? That's when Google dropped "Don't be evil" as its motto. Mozilla's leadership is directionless and flailing because it's never had to do, or be, anything else. It's never needed to know how to make a profit, because it never had to make a profit. It's no wonder it has no real direction or vision or clue: it never needed them. It's role-playing being a business.
This is a good summary of all the good they have done and also how they repeatedly throw out the baby but keep the bathwater.
And this interesting bit.
Mozilla is, sadly, far from alone in having faltering leadership. Around the industry, tech execs who couldn't tell an LLM bot from an MLM scheme if their lives depended on it are investing in AI. It's not just cool, it's a cult now. This isn't hyperbole. The phenomenon has a name – it's called TESCREAL, and it is without exaggeration on its way to becoming a religion.
The campaign will roll out in September. We are building the website and gathering "content," assets, allied organizations and staff right now. We were just featured on Zero Hedge.
#way back In only a moment we both will be old We won't even notice the world turning cold And so, in these moments with sunlight above Ed Ames would be 98 youtu.be/bzVbxq8h1BI?si=FPlVeG…
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Affluent older white people will tell you with a straight face that crime is rampant on the subway, which they never use, or downtown, where they never go, amongst other easily disproven things.
I rode the bus for years, in some of the poorest parts of town, and the worst thing that ever happened was their budget got cut, turning hour-long trips into 3-6 hour ordeals.
Part of this is inherent to their racism, but part of it is that the people who are nominally anti-racist and who've had the opportunities to rein in or destroy the propaganda outlets that keep rotting older white people's brains just refuse to do it.
Every single Dem administration *should* have been pouring effort into finding any and everything they could nail on Fox News, OANN, etc. and the people behind them to put them out of operation. Same goes for Facebook, etc.
the funniest thing you can do to a boomer is tell them the change in the crime rate since they were young. they will not just disbelieve you, they will throw an absolute fit.
The craziest part is that driving is much more dangerous, results in way more exposure to crime, and causes way more societal problems. Our society has come up with unlimited dog whistles to pretend they're not racist assholes.
ugh - my mom is the opposite of rich, and doesn't think of herself as racist but believes all the horror stories on MSNBC about crime in NYC and is sure that all her home aides ( mostly muslim) hate her because she's jewish. We have lots of conversations about these false stories.
Also, if the white people came from another country they will whine about immigrants in their home country despite not having been there in 100 years. 🤷
I experienced this in my hometown. Worked for over 4 years downtown, working swing shift (both days & nights, in other words) and rarely saw anything that could truly be called "crime." Even what I did see was mostly lights from police cars.
The kicker: I worked at a TV station, one of the outlets where affluent older white people get the idea that crime is rampant downtown.
I live in a down-on-its-luck Southern US town. My dad and uncles live out in the county. When I told my uncle I wanted to buy a house in town, he said I'd be shot within three months.
Couple years now. No gunfire near me. Plenty out there near him.
@c0debabe I had a dude once rail about how dangerous our local city was (it isn’t). I told him I disagree and he said “then go downtown!!”
I do, a few times a week. No issues. “Well, I’d NEVER do that” bro then (a)how are you so confident and (b)why do you care about crime somewhere you’d never go?!
Grok praises Hitler, gives credit to Musk for removing “woke filters” X removed many harmful Grok posts but not before they reached tens of thousands. arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20…
Google continues the industry-wide trend of jamming AI down users' throats, making it difficult or impossible to opt out, and potentially endangering the privacy of communications: neowin.net/guides/google-can-n…
Google has released a feature that allows Gemini to access third-party apps, such as WhatsApp, even if you've turned off Gemini Apps Activity. Here's how to prevent that from happening.
FREE Allen Syncrograph Model E135 automotive distributor testing machine. What an antique! I have no idea if it works but it would sure look great as a display piece once cleaned up. You haul, no...
it's a device for tuning automotive distributors. looks like it's missing the chuck? you clamp the distributor onto that arm, and then a chuck is supposed to go from the plate up to the distributor. you put the wires on it and the thing spins the distributor at various speeds (see the 'engine speed' gauge) and the firing points show up on the plate at the bottom. the charts are various ignition timing information for various engines, so you can see how far off your distributor is and figure out what you need to change.
I haven't seen anyone use one of these things since I was a little kid, and I'm old as hell
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Probably so they could replace them with cars with special software to make repairs more difficult and so it would be more difficult for people to get cars that can not be location tracked
Never mind Russia, North Korea and Iran, a majority of Canadian citizens now see the neighboring United States as the “greatest threat” to their country.
Fifty-nine percent of Canadians view the U.S. as a major risk.
The reason I view the US like this is because their actions do not reflect their stated intentions: “rules-based international order”, until it becomes politically inconvenient. Then, it’s “might makes right as long as it’s *our* might”.
North Korea only became like this after the US blew up their entire country, killed about a fifth of their people, and then sat next to their borders for seventy years with guns pointed at them (and also sanctioning the hell out of them after the end of the USSR). Iran wanting to have nukes is due to the understanding that Israel has them, and getting their nuclear facilities bombed has not only not eliminated their nuclear weapons program, but fully justified it.
Seattle voters recently approved a 5% payroll tax on high incomes to fund social housing, aiming to build permanently affordable homes for a range of incomes. The initiative could generate $52 million annually for the new Seattle Social Housing program. theconversation.com/from-seatt…
It is actually very difficult to externally rotate the hips as much as they do in ballet for some people that have never trained in it even if they can do the splits and had a lot of yoga
Balancing on only the toes instead of the whole foot is also challenging
These two features make ballet exercise unique compared too many other common types of exercise and uniquely different than many other types of dance
Princess Tutu follows Duck, a duck who was transformed into a young girl and takes ballet at a private school. She becomes enamoured of her mysterious school...
@shortstories My sister did ballet for years. She did not pursue it. She was remarkably fit and lithe. We are estranged... This reminded me of her. Sorry for rambling. Perhaps it was just cathartic release.
Aside: yoga is not a fitness regime. It is a spiritual practice to be grounded with Nature. Western ideas have subverted it. Unfortunate.
Also: The Russians were clearly better at this performance of Swan Lake. Synchronization and smoothness of movement.
Hatsune Miku is a virtual singer and character created by Crypton Future Media, and her voice is provided by Japanese voice actress Saki Fujita. Saki Fujita is a professional voice actor who has been known for voicing Hatsune Miku, Ymir, and Ritsu. She was born in 1984 in Tokyo, Japan, and has been active in the voice acting industry since 2005.
Or perhaps you believe that there are perfect candidates? That somehow when Jesus returns instead of doing the whole revelation thing he will just run as a third party candidate?
There is one perfect man, and he isn’t a politician.
There are no choices that are not for the lesser of two evils so long as you are voting for a mortal human.
@Jagahati I'm with @OneEyeKing on this. I've said it before and I'll say it again: I'm not going to vote Red or Blue any more. Voting for either one just perpetuates the illusion that they are different parties. Both want to control our lives, they just tell different lies about why.
But I will vote for someone else, just to make the point. They need a signal that they don't get to claim my support because I was silent.
@chromeratt @Jagahati I believe that unrealized future candidates will be looking at the voting numbers to decide if they can run. By being politically active, but voting principles, I think we could help encourage candidates that align closer to our principles, or at least move the overton window.
Catastrophic floods have occurred in Western Himachal Pradesh, with 14 known to have died at 28 people still missing. Many houses, businesses and roads have also been damaged or destroyed. #climate #ClimateCollapse #environment indianexpress.com/article/indi…
“ #SCOTUS cleared the way on Tuesday for #Trump administration to resume carrying out mass job cuts and the restructuring of agencies, elements of his campaign to downsize and reshape the federal government.” - reuters.com/legal/litigation/u…
I'm old enough to remember the SCOTUS saying Biden didn't have power to waive student debt, despite explicit legislation to do just that.
Yet Trump can mass fire civil servants, shut down Congressionally mandated bodies and send refugees to dangerous third countries without any due process.
Another "this is fine" moment in the burning ruins of America's former democracy. #ThisIsAmericaNow
Programming a computer is not weird or abstract or even that difficult. It's just writing a list of steps in a format your machine can understand. In theory, a human being could also "execute" a program as well if they understood how it worked.
And computers are just electronic circuits that are designed to execute stored programs. Programming is the original way to use a computer.
Man is kidnapped from a Walmart, by masked people wearing DHS-marked clothing in Bernalillo County #NewMexico. Video at bsky.app/profile/thejenniwren.…. I believe this is a Walmart between #Albuquerque and #SantaFe. Tough to watch, but we must bear witness.
This sort of awfulness is happening in many states. It is why I’m so active in fighting fascism in mine. If you haven’t yet, I highly recommend getting involved in your local Indivisible group. Find it at indivisible.org/groups.
Albania shuts down TikTok for a year, citing concerns over youth violence and bullying after a tragic school incident. The move sparks debate on child safety vs. free speech, with TikTok denying any link to the case. 🇦🇱📵👦 #Albania #TikTokBan #ChildSafety #oldnewz #reminder #ongoing #dpi
“Studies show actually deporting workers en masse from industries that rely on undocumented labor does little for U.S. workers … [and] actually reduces job opportunities for American-born workers.
That’s in part because many American workers, even those outside of immigrant-heavy industries, rely on the services generated by low-wage, undocumented labor — the costs of which would rise with mass deportations.”
KPBS: Worksite immigration raids are supposed to free up jobs for citizens. Here’s what really happens
(Personal commentary: there are extremely few US citizens who would take ANY of these jobs)
https://www.kpbs.
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