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Ken Klippenstein (@kenklippenstein.bsky.social)

Just got this tip from an airline pilot

Bluesky Social
about yesterday's crash...
does this not make them legal migrants?

Study: Marshes provide cost-effective coastal protection

As climate change accelerates sea-level rise and intensifies storms, marsh-fronted seawalls can provide an economical coastal defense, MIT engineers report.

https://news.mit.edu/2024/study-marshes-provide-cost-effective-coastal-protection-1023

“You don’t need a huge marsh to get a good effect. It could be a relatively short marsh, just tens of meters wide, that can give you benefit.”

#sealevelrise #climatechange #climatecrisis

Study: Marshes provide cost-effective coastal protection

Protecting and enhancing salt marshes in front of protective seawalls can significantly help protect some coastlines, at a cost that makes this approach reasonable to implement, according to new MIT research.

MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology

have i shared this here yet? a khaver and i interviewed one of the creators of the film Lyd about the Israeli conquest of that 5000 year old city, the resulting massacre, and a world that could have been and should still be.

https://www.derspekter.org/a-wound-opened-between-realities-an-interview-with-sarah-ema-friedland-co-director-of-lyd/

“A Wound Opened Between Realities”: an interview with Sarah Ema Friedland, co-director of “Lyd”

Director Sarah Ema Friedland discusses imagining a future of collective liberation in Palestine through speculative fiction.

Der Spekter
Hacker News (@[email protected])

Trump: 'I Need the Kind of Generals That Hitler Had' L: https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/10/trump-military-generals-hitler/680327/ C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41919317 posted on 2024.10.22 at 18:19:56 (c=0, p=19)

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The American war machine is the single biggest polluter in the entire world.

Our top story: Hotelier Monty Bennett and Crowds on Demand, a #California-based company that offers protesters-for-hire, have seeded an “astroturf” right-wing influence network that has kicked into overdrive to push controversial “Dallas HERO” city charter amendments. https://www.texasobserver.org/dallas-hero-initiative-monty-bennett-crowds-on-demand/

#politics #USpol #news #election2024 #Dallas #NorthTexas #Republicans #media

The GOP Megadonor Behind the Bid to Break Dallas City Government

Conservative hotelier Monty Bennett and a California-based company that offers protesters-for-hire have seeded an “astroturf” right-wing influence network that has kicked into overdrive to push controversial “Dallas HERO” city charter amendments.

The Texas Observer

For your co-workers, not your boss
For your neighbors, not your landlord

https://action.dean2024.com/progressive_unity_citywide_lit_drop?recruiter_id=2870

I still have this poster in my flat and I have a Yiddish shirt that reads "down with the police". I take Doikayt very seriously. My MA thesis basically looked at Yiddish Doikayt/Here-ness versus Hebrew-oriented Zionism as the there-ness (this is a generalization)