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Ancient Egyptian society flourished for millennia, reaching its peak during the Dynastic Period (approximately 3150–30 bce). However, owing to poor DNA preservation, questions about regional interconnectivity over time have not been addressed because whole-genome sequencing has not yet been possible. Here we sequenced a 2× coverage whole genome from an adult male Egyptian excavated at Nuwayrat (Nuerat, نويرات). Radiocarbon dated to 2855–2570 cal. bce, he lived a few centuries after Egyptian unification, bridging the Early Dynastic and Old Kingdom periods. The body was interred in a ceramic pot within a rock-cut tomb1, potentially contributing to the DNA preservation. Most of his genome is best represented by North African Neolithic ancestry, among available sources at present. Yet approximately 20% of his genetic ancestry can be traced to genomes representing the eastern Fertile Crescent, including Mesopotamia and surrounding regions. This genetic affinity is similar to the ancestry appearing in Anatolia and the Levant during the Neolithic and Bronze Age2,3,4,5. Although more genomes are needed to fully understand the genomic diversity of early Egyptians, our results indicate that contacts between Egypt and the eastern Fertile Crescent were not limited to objects and imagery (such as domesticated animals and plants, as well as writing systems)6,7,8,9 but also encompassed human migration.
Whole-genome sequencing of an ancient male Egyptian revealed a mixture of North African Neolithic and eastern Fertile Crescent ancestry, suggesting human migration between Egypt and Mesopotamia by the Old Kingdom period.
Sooo there's free software (“Everyone should be able to write open source software!”) and there's open source software (people programming their own computers for their own communities). Ideally, Neima should be able to program her computer to help her kids do their homework or for their sports club. So there's open source software that's written for the developers community, and there's open source software that's written for the GNOME community, which is polished and truly a delightful experience for new users: if for example you installed Linux Mint with Cinnamon, you'd connect to the wifi and probably be immediately greeted with a notification telling you that your printer has been added and is ready to go.
I'm not saying that Linux users should learn programming, especially if they don't know about e.g.GNU Guix, Skribe/Skribilo/Haunt, or SICP (that's directly referenced by the Haunt info pages – I promise you, starting a blog as an English speaker with a Skribe implementation and reading SICP once you get comfortable enough could get you started in months); but that of course, learning any field on such a platform as Stack Overflow would provide an absolutely stupid experience, whereas the ideal learning medium is books.
It isn't enough for Google to insert far-right suggestions in YouTube shorts; they've deliberately sabotaged features in their search engine to get us to generate more ads, and Google Scholar results are, by the way, the bottom of the barrel too. Compare queries results to "sex work" or "borderline disorder transgender" with those of HAL and wonder why there's a public distrust in science. More broadly, Google hinders our relationship to information, and we're both trading it for a far-right agenda.
The same is just as true for LaTeX: it's a great, intuitive language, provided that you read some good introduction on the topic. As a matter of fact, Maïeul Rouquette's French-speaking book is available for free on HAL.
I'm more and more fed up as I write that and I'm pretty sure it shows. You may totally use open source software, meant for the non-technical community of a graphical library, desktop environment, Linux distribution, and so forth. But if you really wanted to "learn Linux", please install any distro you're comfortable with and read some good book on whatever topic you want to work on.
He knows humanity cannot become a Kardeshev Type I (and certainly not a Kardeshev Type II) species under a high time preference fiat monetary system. A low time preference sound money system is required.
Elon is thinking about the next 100, 500, and 1000+ years. He knows there is only one money that will enable humanity to reach its full potential both today and long after he is gone: Bitcoin.
Gold won't work as money for a spacefaring people for many obvious reasons, not least of which is the fact that gold is extremely plentiful in space. Additionally, gold failed as money for humanity when we were earthbound. Gold is extremely useful, but it is bad money compared to bitcoin.
Gold was money for humanity's low-tech epoch. Bitcoin is money for humanity's high-tech epoch. Gold is the past, fiat is an unfortunate blip in the present, and Bitcoin is the future.
Elon is one of the smartest people on the planet. He knows this. He knows Bitcoin is absolutely finite. 21M forever. He is the richest man in the world. He wants to preserve that wealth for many generations to ensure his dreams become reality long after he is gone. Gold and fiat do not allow this. But with Bitcoin, he can create time-locked vaults in cyberspace that open after specific amounts of time have passed. This ensures his companies/initiatives/descendants will always be extremely well funded, but will not be able to simply waste all his wealth as soon as he is gone.
We know both Elon and his companies own bitcoin, but lately people are wondering why he never publicly talks about it. In fact, he almost seems to deliberately avoid opportunities to talk about bitcoin... Why?
Because Elon knows this is a race, and the winners of this race will cement their economic power for generations. Elon knows that, as the man with the biggest megaphone in the world, if he comes out with a full throated endorsement of bitcoin, then the race accelerates exponentially...
Elon wants to take humanity to the stars. This is only possible with Bitcoin because Bitcoin makes long-term thinking possible on a planetary (and interplanetary) scale. Bitcoin fixes the broken incentives of the fiat system which mortgage humanity's future to fund its decadent present.
Elon is going to acquire as much bitcoin as he possibly can to ensure his vision for the future of humanity as a spacefaring species is realized.
tl;dr -- you should not be suprised if it turns out that Elon has been quietly stacking an insane amount of bitcoin.
First, a hospital comes under bombardment, then it is besieged. After that, it is raided by tanks and bulldozers and its medical workers are detained. And then, once the hospital has essentially been rendered non-functional, the forces move on and repeat.
Iran is capable of building a nuclear weapon in days if the political decision is made, the author wrote in CN last October. He maintains that view after the U.S. and Israeli strikes on three nuclear facilities last month.
Imagine living in a country where you can get arrested, imprisoned, fined, get suspended or lose your job simply for saying don't kill children because it might hurt the feelings of the murderers. #GazaGenocide #WeAreAllPalestineAction
A climate tech startup attempted to have me removed from reviewing them for a funding body by claiming that I had a conflict of interest (which I didn't). When the funding body inquired about the conflict of interest, I replied, "My knowledge conflicts with their interest."
Un rapport officiel de la Commission européenne propose d’intégrer des “portes dérobées” dans presque tous les appareils électronique, du smartphone à la voiture en passant par la télévision connectée pour faciliter l’accès de la justice aux données …
@Laurent Espitallier je connais un gars "issu de l'immigration" (c'est le président de l'asso locale kabyle) qui pensait voter Le Pen pour faire barrage à Macron en 2022.
Faisons de la fiction pour mieux appréhender le réel Imaginons que Marine LP ait été élue contre Macron en 2017. ET qu'elle ait appliqué STRICTEMENT la même politique. Qu'elle ait pris EXACTEMENT les mêmes décisions. Commis les mêmes actes (toutes les affaires de corruption et conflits d'intérêt au sein du gouvernement, affaire mc Kinsey, Kohler, le PASS SANITAIRE et le confinement... Pensez vous que nous aurions eu plus de personnes qui dans les rues? Qui auraient souhaité ou agi pour sa destitution? Je crois que la réponse est OUI
Trump, Marine, que des impostures, si t'enlèves les barges d'identitaires tu te retrouves avec de nouvelles marionnettes du capital avec un "style" peut-être différent via le populisme de bas étage ... Et notre gauchiasse quant à elle, elle continue de s'enfoncer dans la vase, hélas oui pour l'heure pas d'espoir en vue ...
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The Legacy of Barbara Marx Hubbard and the Conscious Evolution of Psychological Operations
After 3 years of sleuthing, John Klyczek has completed the final installment in his investigative series on the legacy of Barbara Marx Hubbard.
More than 300 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces in the last 48 hours, according to the Gaza Government Media Office, which says Israel has committed 26 bloody massacres in that period.
"Στο top 10 των παγκόσμιων μνημείων ο λόφος Παπούρα, μοναδικό στην Ελλάδα όμως δεν ξέρουμε τι είναι"
Η αντιπρόεδρος του Συλλόγου Ελλήνων Αρχαιολόγων Δέσποινα Κουτσούμπα σχολιάζει ότι η μινωική κατασκευή που μοιάζει με λαβύρινθο, ακόμη δεν ξέρουν οι αρχαιολόγοι τι είναι και πως δεν πρέπει να τοποθετηθεί εκει το ραντάρ της ΥΠΑ.
Η αντιπρόεδρος του Συλλόγου Ελλήνων Αρχαιολόγων Δέσποινα Κουτσούμπα μίλησε στην εκπομπή "Επιστροφή στο Μέλλον" με τον Λευτέρη Συμβουλάκη στο Radiome 88.4 λέγ...
In the following report for Workers World, Ché Marino reflects on the recent delegation to China, organised by Friends of Socialist China and hosted by the China NGO Network for International Exchanges.
I therefore propose to call « cult of Thor » the new religion of war which is taking over from monotheism and its morality in Protestant and Jewish countries.
A three-stage sequence can describe the vanishing of the religious matrix of our societies: active religion (belief and practice), zombie religion (non-belief with survival of moral and social values), zero religion (nothing left).
The censor's decision to pull the story was criticized as political and an overstep of its role in protecting Israel's security. The story was reinstated, with certain details omitted, after negotiations between the newspaper and the censor
Wenn ihr noch keinen Account bei der Petitionsseite angelegt habt, macht das jetzt! Es ist einmal etwas mühsam. Aber zukünftig könnt ihr dann alle wichtigen Petitionen mit zwei Klicks zeichnen.
Der Petitionsausschuss *muss* sich damit befassen, wenn das Quorum erreicht ist!
Am besten fangt ihr dann mit dieser Petition an. Wiedereinführung einer Vermögenssteuer. #taxtherich
Es ist nämlich genug Geld für alle(s) da. Es ist nur am falschen Ort.
Lors d'un discours prononcé à l'École de guerre en février 2020, le président Macron rappela que les "intérêts vitaux de la France avaient une dimension
Eine interessante Studie der Uni Mannheim vom 30.6. zu den volkswirtschaftlichen Auswirkungen von Rüstungsausgaben. „Aus ökonomischer Sicht“, so schlussfolgert Prof. Dr. Tom Krebs, „ist die geplante Militarisierung der deutschen Wirtschaft eine risikoreiche Wette mit niedriger gesamtwirtschaftlicher Rendite.“ vwl.uni-mannheim.de/media/Lehr…
@Emmanuel Florac That's quite the simplification isn't it? It's a witty remark but presumably if there are only two types of cucks in France then which one of the groups does @Lawsanddisorder, fit in. Plus there are too many parties in France for that to be true. It's funny but it's nonsensical.
Συνεχίζουμε για δεύτερη χρονιά το αυτοοργανωμένο φεστιβάλ στη Β. Εύβοια. Δύο μέρες γεμάτες crust,punk,hardcore ήχους απέναντι σε μία κοινωνία αλλοτρίωσης και δυστοπίας.
Αλληλεγγύη σε όλους τους λαούς του κόσμου.
Τα έσοδα θα διατεθούν στον αγωνιζόμενο λαό της Παλαιστίνης.
"Πρέπει να έχει κανείς ακόμη χάος μέσα του για να μπορέσει να γεννήσει ένα αστέρι που χορεύει"
Συνεχίζουμε για δεύτερη χρονιά το αυτοοργανωμένο φεστιβάλ στη Β. Εύβοια.
I mean, the Pirate Box Wikipedia page says it's from 2011, but they definitely existed before then because I used one at a TeachMeet (gathering of teachers to talk tech) before I left the classroom in 2010 🤔
The Palestinian communities of Masafer Yatta have been in Israel’s cross hairs for 40 years. Its inhabitants now fear that a recent Israeli military order is a bid to expel them from their lands once and for all.
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Cette semaine, dans les coulisses agitées du paysage médiatique français, un grand média relaie en direct une révélation issue d’un journal qu’il aurait encore ignoré il y a peu. Pendant ce temps, un vétéran des plateaux recycle des récits révisionnistes sans sourciller, tandis qu’à l’étranger, certains s’attèlent à décrasser l’information. Une nouvelle chaîne privée fait son entrée avec enthousiasme, mais ses promesses restent à vérifier. Ailleurs, la déontologie devient un concept à géométrie variable, entre séquences gênantes et approximations embarrassantes. Une prise de parole judiciaire s’égare dans ses alliances, et certains micros deviennent des mégaphones pour discours racialisants. En plateau, l’extrême droite médiatique s’expose sans fard : tensions, affrontements idéologiques, erreurs de terrain… tout y est. Face à ce tumulte, un hommage à celles et ceux qui analysent, résistent et éclairent le débat public.
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»We said long ago, we made a choice, to seek justice not vengeance, but we cannot be prevented from seeking either. We cannot continue to be denied our right to life, to liberty, to dignity. We cannot be denied recourse and reparation.
No one has a rightful claim to supremacy, to exceptionalism, to domination, to oppression, no one.« mastodon.social/@atomless/1147…
Whole-genome sequencing of an ancient male Egyptian revealed a mixture of North African Neolithic and eastern Fertile Crescent ancestry, suggesting human migration between Egypt and Mesopotamia by the Old Kingdom period.
As fascism burns across America, it's important to remember that Trump and his policies are *not popular*. Sure, the racism and cruelty excites a minority of (very broken) people, but every component of the Trump agenda is *extremely* unpopular with the American people, from tax cuts for billionaires to kidnapping our neighbors and shipping them to concentration camps.
The McKinney (Texas) Police Department is under lots of outside scrutiny, thanks to the racially-tinged antics of its police force — namely the since-departed Officer Eric Casebolt, who barre…
My latest novel is "Picks and Shovels," a historical technothriller set in the Weird Era of the PC, about Ponzi schemes, techbros, and the dawn of enshittification:
My next nonfiction book is "Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It," out from MCD/Farrar, Straus and Giroux on October 7:
My ebooks and audiobooks (from Tor Books, Head of Zeus, McSweeneys, Beacon, Verso and others) are for sale all over the net, but I sell 'em too, and when you buy 'em from me, I earn twice as much and you get books with no DRM and no license "agreements."
The Booksmith is so excited to be welcoming Cory Doctorow back to San Francisco for the release of Enshittification at Public Works. More to come, but grab a ticket and join us!About the bookEnshittification: its not just youthe internet sucks now.
The Booksmith is so excited to be welcoming Cory Doctorow back to San Francisco for the release of Enshittification at Public Works. More to come, but grab a ticket and join us!About the bookEnshittification: its not just youthe internet sucks now.
Novelist, activist, and journalist Cory Doctorow joins Rachel and David in the cafe to talk about the enshittification of the internet and how we ended up in our current enshittogenic environment.
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The fascist Israeli regime bans dozens of political & legal advocates from the US, UK, Canada & Europe from entering #Israel due to their "intentional delegitimisation of the State of Israel and its defence forces. middleeasteye.net/news/unprece… #IsraelFascism
A new directive from the Israeli Ministry of Diaspora Affairs has banned dozens of political and legal advocates from the US, UK, Canada, and Europe from entering Israel due to their "intent
📢 🕯️ Medical sources said that 63 citizens have been killed since dawn on Thursday, as a result of Israeli shelling of various areas in the #gaza Strip
🔹 WAFA sources: among the slain people were 28 citizens who were waiting for humanitarian aid in central and southern Gaza
🔹 Palestinian Prisoners' Media Office: Three members of the Wafa al-Ahrar deal, who had been deported to the Gaza Strip, were killed in an ISR bombardment
📢 A major #wildfire in eastern #crete, which continues to rage despite the best efforts of #firefighting forces, prompted the evacuation of over 1,500 residents and tourists, local media reported on Thursday
The fire broke out in the Lasithi prefecture of the city of Ierapetra early Wednesday and is still spreading and raging on three fronts, with strong winds complicating efforts to contain it, public broadcaster ERT reported.
⚠️ 🔵 #UN said that the Israeli occupation forces have issued a new "forced displacement" order for neighborhoods inhabited by 80,000 people in #KhanYounis, south #gaza
🔹 Approx 85% of Gaza's territory is currently subject to displacement orders
🔵 UN expert presents report on shift from ‘occupation to genocide’ in Palestine
#geneva – #FrancescaAlbanese, UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967, holds a press conference to launch her latest report, “From Economy of Occupation to Economy of Genocide.” The report addresses evolving economic and structural dimensions of Israel’s occupation and its impact on Palestinians.
Geneva – Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967, holds a press confere...
The General Secretary of the World Federation of Trade Union, comrade Pambis Kyritsis had a meeting with young trade unionists from the United States of America, today July 2nd, on the occasion of their visit to Cyprus.
Making Linux accessible: no techno babble, no super technical content. Just Linux desktop news, simple tutorials, application spotlights, and opinion pieces trying to stay positive, without gatekeeping.
Espanso is a great program which can save you a lot of typing time. It can autocorrect typing errors and insert commonly used text snippets such as an email footer, html tags, emojis, etc. It has advanced functionality, such as typing the current date in any desired format. You can program where the caret should be placed after text replacement, for example in between html tags. It works on both X11 and Wayland. There is no Flatpak yet, but it is available on multiple repos such as Arch and Fedora Copr. I was concerned that it might be a malicious keylogger, but everything I’ve found signals that it’s safe. espanso.org/ github.com/espanso/espanso
pipeline is exactly what i've been looking for! like newpipe on android, but for linux. ya, i could just use the browser, but this is way more convenient. especially subscribing to channels without a data harvesting account.
pipeline is exactly what i've been looking for! like newpipe on android, but for linux. ya, i could just use the browser, but this is way more convenient. especially subscribing to channels without a data harvesting account.
Poor Bunny is an energetic platformer that throws you into a high-stakes carrot chase filled with hazards, heart-racing action, and lovable pixel art. Developed by Adventure Islands, the game delivers three intense game modes—solo, co-op, and versus—each with its own flavor of fast-paced chaos.
As you can see in the screenshot there are a couple of parts of the F-Droid application page in F-Droid that are in a different language. This isn't actually the first time I have seen this and is not limited to the F-Droid application. Currently it's just this one, but in the past I have had more apps than not displaying some or all of their content in a different language despite my phone being configured for English.
No, I am not. I'm based in the US. I was wondering if it could be VPN related, but I haven't connected to a node anywhere outside of the US in months. My phones language is set to English (US) with no other languages selected, and I have explicitly set F-Droid's language to English (US) in my phone's configuration as well.
I just now opened F-Droid after a reboot and without being connected to a VPN and began scrolling through latest and quickly found a random assortment of apps displaying the same way. None of them are installed though.
have you tried changing either/both to another variation of english? my phone has a plain “English” in addition to “English (US)”, and/or you may have a “(UK)” variant
I have, and that didn't seem to work. The Gitlab issue that the other user posted seems to be highly relevant because all of the users reporting an issue have the same phone that I do.
interesting! i didn't see that comment at first. i see somebody mentioned in the issue thread that it doesn't occur in f-droid basic, so hopefully you can just use that in the meantime.
A fireside with Dr. Fei-Fei Li on June 16, 2025 at AI Startup School in San Francisco.Dr. Fei-Fei Li is often called the godmother of AI—and for good reason....
As fascism burns across America, it's important to remember that Trump and his policies are *not popular*. Sure, the racism and cruelty excites a minority of (very broken) people, but every component of the Trump agenda is *extremely* unpopular with the American people, from tax cuts for billionaires to kidnapping our neighbors and shipping them to concentration camps.
If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:
Keeping this fact in mind is essential if we are to nurture hope's embers, and fan them into the flames of change. Trumpism is a coalition of people who hate each other, who agree on almost nothing, whose fracture lines are one deft tap away from shattering:
Take noncompete "agreements": contractual clauses that ban workers from taking a job with any of their employers' competitors for *years*. One in 18 Americans has been captured by a noncompete, and the median noncompete victim is a minimum-wage fast-food worker whose small business tyrant boss wants to be sure that she doesn't quit working the register at Wendy's and start making $0.25/hour more flipping burgers at McDonald's.
The story of noncompetes is bullshit from top to bottom. The argument goes, "Your boss invests heavily in training you, and lets you in on all his valuable trade-secrets. When you walk out the door and go to work for a competitor, you're *stealing* all that training and knowledge. Without noncompetes, no boss will invest in the knowledge-intensive industries that are the future of our economy."
Now, like I said, the *vast* majority of people under noncompetes are working low-waged, menial jobs with little to no training, and no proprietary trade secrets to speak of. Which makes sense: workers with less bargaining power end up signing worse contracts. That's half the case against noncompetes.
Here's the other half: the *most* IP-intensive, profitable, knowledge-based industries in America operate without *any* noncompetes.
California's state constitution *bans* noncompetes, which means that every worker in Hollywood *and* Silicon Valley is free to quit their job and walk across the street and join a rival.
If Hollywood and tech are examples of industries that "can't attract investment," then we should be shooting for every sector of the American economy to be so starved for capital.
Silicon Valley's origin story is based on the ability of key workers at knowledge-intensive firms to quit their jobs and go to work for a direct competitor: the first Silicon Valley company was Shockley Semiconductors, founded by William Shockley, who won the Nobel Prize for inventing silicon transistors.
Shockley literally put the "silicon" in Silicon Valley, but he never shipped a working chip, because he was a deranged, paranoid eugenicist who ran such a dysfunctional company that eight of his top engineers quit to found a rival company, Fairchild Semiconductor. Then two of the "Traitorous Eight" quit the Fairchild to start Intel, and the year after, another Fairchild employee quit to start AMD:
This never stopped. Woz quit HP and Jobs quit Atari to start Apple and the tradition of extremely well-capitalized companies being founded by key employees who quit market-leading firms to compete with their old bosses continues to this day. There are many things we can say about AI, but *no one* will claim that AI companies - especially not those in California, where noncompetes are banned - have trouble attracting investment.
Half of the leading AI companies were founded by people who couldn't stand working for Sam Altman at Openai and quit to found a competitor. Just last week, Altman flipped out because Mark Zuckerberg poached his key scientists to work on competing products at Meta:
You know who understands this? The lawyers who draw up employment contracts with noncompete clauses in them: the American Bar Association bans noncompetes for lawyers! *Every law firm in America operates without noncompetes!*
Everyone hates noncompetes. They are *bullshit*, and only get worse with time, as the largest companies in America metastasize into sprawling conglomerates, they compete with *everyone*. Who isn't a competitor of Amazon's?
Biden's antitrust enforcers hated noncompetes, too. Former FTC chair Lina Khan held listening tours and solicited comments to hear workers stories about noncompetes, developing a record that she used to create a rule that banned noncompetes nationwide:
America's oligarchs weren't happy. They sued to overturn the rule, and got a nationwide injunction (you know, those things that Trump's illegitimate Supreme Court claims are unenforceable) that suspended the FTC rule pending a full hearing.
It's clear that Trump's FTC is going to walk away from this fight and let the rule die. Trumpism is wildly unpopular, and this is no exception.
Americans overwhelmingly support banning noncompetes, but Trump's richest donors are terrified of another Great Resignation and want to keep us indentured to their shitty companies, so Trump's FTC will sell us all out.
But that's not the end of things. As David Dayen writes for *The American Prospect*, states and local governments can pass their own noncompete bans, and they are:
Take NYC mayor-in-waiting Zohran Mamdani: unlike Trump (and the Democratic Party's billionaire wing), Mamdani campaigned by offering to create policies that are *popular*, including a ban on noncompetes. New York City has two distinct groups of workers who are screwed over by noncompetes.
One of those groups is Wall Street finance bros, who work for some of the most legendarily toxic assholes to ever draw breath, and are overwhelming bound by noncompetes that will all become null and void the day Mamdani dons his sash.
The other group of workers Mamdani will liberate are those at the very bottom of the income distribution, from fast food workers to gig workers to doormen, who are victims of some of the dirtiest noncompete clauses in America, including "bondage fees":
Big cities are filled with workers who are getting screwed by noncompetes and every city government has it in their power to liberate every one of those workers (who are also voters).
States can do even better. There are already four states that ban noncompetes, two of them blood red: California, Minnesota, North Dakota, and Oklahoma. Other states place significant restrictions on noncompetes, including Washington, Colorado, Illinois, Virginia, Maryland, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, and Maine.
Nevada bans noncompetes for hourly workers, Idaho only allows them for "key employees"; Louisiana limits noncompetes to two years, and NJ bans noncompetes for domestic workers.
Up and down the country, in states blue and red, noncompetes are unpopular, and banning noncompetes is popular:
Oregon just banned noncompetes for doctors and other health workers, as part of a sweeping, bipartisan law that banned the "corporate practice of medicine":
Lina Khan's FTC developed an irrefutable record about the abusive nature of noncompetes, proving industries can attract capital and field successful companies without them. States have it in their power to step in where Trump has betrayed American workers. This isn't the most efficient way to protect workers - that would be a federal ban on noncompetes - but it will still get the job done, and it will weaken the Trump coalition, which is barely holding together as it is.
“Data scientist”
is a weird term.
We *are* biology.
Made from the building blocks of chemistry.
Observing the laws of physics.
These domains are ontological.
But data is something we made. We chose what to measure.
interestingly, in Germany non-competes are totally legal. But with a simple change: the employers needs to pay for the time of the non-compete (at least 50% of the pay). This makes them much less interesting, but still available
How did you vote *extremely unpopular* Trump back into office then? How did he get 50%+ of votes in general election? How are his approval rates *extremely low* when they dropped from 52% to say around 47%? How is 47% *extremely unpopular* ?
WFTU Working Women Committee realized a virtual seminar on June 27th, on the subject of ILO Convention 190/2019 on the elimination of violence and harassment in the workplace.
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