Mastodawn

Welcome to Australia,
where you can have a wealthy private school or
koala habitat but not both,
First Dog on the Moon >>
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2026/jun/03/welcome-to-australia-where-you-can-have-a-wealthy-private-school-or-koala-habitat-but-not-both

Image: First Dog on the Moon, Guardian
#biodiversity #wildlife #koalas #values #trees #sprawl #bulldozing #Australia

Stephen Hayes 17h ago

Notes from underground: What's your lifestyle?
https://methodius.blogspot.com/2024/08/whats-your-lifestyle.html
#lifestyle #values #sociology

What's your lifestyle?

The word "lifestyle" has been around for more than a century, but was only popularised a little over 50 years ago, and now seems to have bee...

CBC Indigenous 2d ago

Why attending university closer to home could be a game changer for Inuit
For most Inuit in Canada heading to university means leaving your homeland, culture and traditions. The barriers are many. But Inuit have a solution. They're building their own university founded on Inuit values and culture located in Canada's Arctic.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/inuit-nunangat-university-9.7217262?cmp=rss

RonSupportsYou 2d ago

"Harvard Medical School graduate Leen Ezzeddine discussed the contradictions of learning about 'health equity' at a university that urged students to remain silent as Israel wages war on #Palestine and #Lebanon":
https://www.modernghana.com/amp/videonews/657053
#HumanRights #medicine #values

Harvard Medical School speaker dedicates graduation speech to Lebanon and Palestine

ALJazeera Harvard Medical School speaker dedicates graduation speech to Lebanon and Palestine

Modern Ghana

LSE South Asia Centre 2d ago

A retreat by the government in #SriLanka to promote #lgbtqi+ #tourism highlights the tense correlation between #heritage #values & #capitalism. Nalin Jayathunga discusses what progressive politics may achieve for citizens of the country. #pride #pridemonth

https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/southasia/2026/06/01/the-tourism-trap-pink-money-will-not-liberate-queer-sri-lankans/

@lgbt @LGBTQ

RonSupportsYou 3d ago

Although I am sometimes critical of him, I am happy to point out when Ken Paxton tells the truth, as he did here:

Maria Bartiromo: "What are you going to do about your perception? The Wall Street Journal describes you as scandal plagued?"

Paxton: "The reality is they could say the same thing about Donald Trump."

Yes, they could.
#politics #ethics #values

Michael Fenichel 5d ago

RE: https://mastodon.social/@realTuckFrumper/116660422735072172

Pathetic all around - #TrumpVirus wrapped in #sedition & #corruption

So far away from anything truly capturing America's #history, #values, #democracy

RonSupportsYou 5d ago

"Blowing Up Boats Hasn’t Slowed Cocaine Traffic to the United States, Experts Say. Despite the rising body count off the South American coast, researchers say cocaine is as easy to get in many parts of the United States as it was before the strikes began":
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/29/world/americas/us-boat-strikes-cocaine-trump-south-america.html
#military #ethics #values #CaribbeanSlaughter

Trump’s Boat Strikes Have Failed to Curb Cocaine Flow to U.S., Experts Say

Despite the rising body count off the South American coast, researchers say cocaine is as easy to get in many parts of the United States as it was before the strikes began.

The New York Times

AstroMancer5G (she/her)5d ago

#AlignedAI is still a #scam. Regardless of any #values supposedly programmed into #AI, it still uses enormous amounts of #energy, and #RareEarth #CriticalMinerals ill-gotten through #mining #extraction in the #GlobalSouth. It still has a limited group of #creators and #owners who hold immense #power through it. It's still #stealing the #work of countless #people, with no #consent or #benefit to them. And its #output is still #random with no #concept of #truth.

How is it #different at all?

Global News National 5d ago

Anand calls China ties ‘significant,’ says Canada must safeguard ‘values’
Anand made no explicit mention of human rights in her remarks on Friday, coming shortly after confirmation that a Canadian warship transited through the Taiwan Strait last week.
#Canada #Politics #World #AnitaAnand
https://globalnews.ca/news/11873420/wang-yi-ottawa-meeting-anita-anand-mark-carney/