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Juggling With EggsLeft wet and windy Holyhead in Wales to arrive in lovely sunny #Dublin today. Irish Sea a bit choppy, but luckily we’ve travelled ahead of #StormDave.
Had a wander around the city. Hadn’t been for 25 years, but recognised much more than I expected to.
My partner made me take this photo because it strangely contains a word I unfortunately spend much of my working life talking about - #asbestos.
But I loved the contrasts of the different murals against each other and the sky.
Casdeiro@markhburton Do you know the great works and struggle by the late Paco Puche in Spain against asbestos and the asbestos tycoons? He wrote lots of articles and published some must-read books on the problem. For example: https://www.catarata.org/libro/amianto_44878/
Amianto
El amianto (también conocido como asbesto o uralita) es un mineral cuyas propiedades lo hacen prácticamente indestructible, de ahí que su uso se extendiese a la construcción de viviendas, la fabricación de automóviles, trenes, buques, electrodomésticos… Desde hace décadas se sabe que provoca cáncer (mesotelioma, cáncer de pulmón, laringe y ovario) y, según la Organización Mundial de la Salud, cada año mueren en el mundo más de 150.000 personas por su exposición al mineral en el ámbito laboral, familiar y ambiental —en el caso de España son unas 1.500 personas, más que en accidentes de coche o laborales—. Aunque la Unión Europea lo prohibió hace más de diez años, sigue presente en cientos de productos. Y en el mundo más de 40 países siguen permitiendo el uso del amianto y se siguen extrayendo dos millones de toneladas al año, lo que previsiblemente provocará millones de muertes en las próximas décadas. Una auténtica masacre. Así, se hace urgente la prohibición universal inmediata y el manejo seguro del amianto instalado —2,6 millones de toneladas en nuestro país— que está en su mayor parte en el periodo de finalización de su vida útil y cada vez es más nocivo.
World news | The GuardianSydney playground at centre of asbestos mulch scandal closed again after timber found ‘bleeding black tar-like substance’ https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/apr/01/rozelle-parklands-playground-closed-timber-wood-testing #Pollution #Waste #NewSouthWales #Sydney #AustraliaNews #Asbestos
DavidRE: https://neuromatch.social/@jonny/116324676116121930
This whole series of posts reminds me of @pluralistic calling #LLM-generated code the #asbestos of time. #ClaudeCode doesn't just produce #asbestosCode; because it's written using Claude Code, it is asbestos code.
To the surprise of no one with a clue about #appSec or the #engineering part of #softwareEngineering, plagiarism synthesis models are tech debt generators.
John BurnsI first learned about this back in the 1970's, due to cleanup aboard ships.
Then in the 1980's - the clean up in housing.
But even today - people/companies are denying that Asbestos is harmful... all while "they have that cough"... much like tobacco folks.
Does this sound foreign to you? Then watch and learn...
Asbestos is a bigger problem than we thought
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Doktor Overcomma 
Half-century old shenanigans by Big Talc-Asbestos only now being retracted:
https://retractionwatch.com/2026/03/25/lancet-retraction-commentary-talc-powder-johnson-johnson-industry-consultant/
#asbestos #talc #retraction
https://retractionwatch.com/2026/03/25/lancet-retraction-commentary-talc-powder-johnson-johnson-industry-consultant/
#asbestos #talc #retraction
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AI6YR BenAsbestos art sand recall. 😬