a7ndrew

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Adelaide person. Appreciator of music, outdoor gyms, and degrowth. Sometimes it is best to keep one's own counsel. I'm afraid you might find some #python computer nerd things here, and plenty of politics.
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Which are the most plastic polluting corporations?

From https://brandaudit.breakfreefromplastic.org/brand-audit-2023/

Brand Audit 2023 Report | Brand Audit

In 2023, 250 brand audits were conducted by 8,804 volunteers in 41 countries. Together they collected and audited 537,719 pieces of plastic waste. Participants from 97 civil society organizations documented 6,858 brands from 3,810 parent companies.

Brand Audit
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Political Gadgets - Interests update

Machinery for democracy. Lift the lid on votes, money, lobbying, and more. Reach your own conclusions.

Stress Out

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A software engineer, except trees instead of computers.
The AI bubble is a stunningly designed grift. Here's a machine that promises to automate the alienation of labor for knowledge workers, built on their past work, marketed to a buying class who has none of the skills to evaluate the output of these tools or the talent they promise replace.

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I’m Katie Livingstone, an American journalist based in #Ukraine who has been covering the war since 2022. My work has appeared in Rolling Stone, Business Insider, USA Today, Newsweek, ForeignPolicy, Military.com, and several other outlets.

The Palestinian Prisoners’ Club revealed on Monday that Israeli authorities are deliberately spreading diseases among Palestinian detainees.

In a statement, the group said Israel is intentionally transferring sick detainees between jails to infect others.

Testimonies from detainees revealed that Israeli forces moved inmates suffering from contagious diseases without proper medical diagnosis.

https://qudsnen.co/prisoner-rights-watchdog-israel-deliberately-spreading-diseases-among-palestinian-detainees/

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#Gaza #Palestine

Prisoner Rights Watchdog: Israel Deliberately Spreading Diseases Among Palestinian Detainees

Occupied Palestine (Quds News Network)- The Palestinian Prisoners' Club revealed on Monday that Israeli authorities are deliberately spreading diseases among Palestinian detainees. In a statement, the

Quds News Network

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Please hold while we pay our executives another bonus for some reason.

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Today in Labor History April 21, 1910: Mark Twain died. “I have read carefully the treaty of Paris and I have seen that we do not intend to free, but to subjugate the people of the Philippines. We have gone there to conquer, not to redeem… And so I am an anti-imperialist. I am opposed to having the eagle put its talons on any other land.” During the Boxer Rebellion, he said that "the Boxer is a patriot. He loves his country better than he does the countries of other people. I wish him success." From 1901, until his death in 1910, he was vice-president of the American Anti-Imperialist League, which opposed the annexation of the Philippines by the U.S. He was also critical of European imperialists such as Cecil Rhodes and King Leopold II of Belgium, who attempted to establish colonies in African. He also supported the Russian revolutionaries fighting against the Tsar.

Many people have criticized him for his racism. Indeed, schools have banned “Huckleberry Finn.” However, Twain was an adamant supporter of abolition and said that the Emancipation Proclamation “not only set the black slaves free, but set the white man free also." He also fought for the rights of immigrants, particularly the Chinese. "I have seen Chinamen abused and maltreated in all the mean, cowardly ways possible... but I never saw a Chinaman righted in a court of justice for wrongs thus done to him." And though his early writings were racist against indigenous peoples, he later wrote that “in colonized lands all over the world, "savages" have always been wronged by "whites" in the most merciless ways, such as "robbery, humiliation, and slow, slow murder, through poverty and the white man's whiskey."

Twain was also an early feminist, who campaigned for women's suffrage. He also wrote in support of unions and the labor movement, especially the Knights of Labor, one of the most important unions of the era. “Who are the oppressors? The few: the King, the capitalist, and a handful of other overseers and superintendents. Who are the oppressed? The many: the nations of the earth; the valuable personages; the workers; they that make the bread that the soft-handed and idle eat.”

#workingclass #LaborHistory #marktwain #imperialism #racism #feminism #union #literature #fiction #satire #books #writer #author #novels @bookstadon

Science and health suffer under authoritarianism. The Nazis burned research, silenced Jewish scientists. During COVID, far-right figures spread lies, undermining public health. When truth is political, people die. We need to protect knowledge. 6)