I have an interest in the history of ancient humanity, including all the previous species that have gone extinct. We have made it 300,000 yrs, our continued survival seems very much at risk. In fact, I will come clean and admit that I think climate change alone will decimate the population within a generation, maybe two. Just means we should be in WWII kind of mobilization. Instead, the US has begun marching in the opposite direction. Hence, my fear of extinction.
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Died decades ago, but continue to be soulessly animated.
Bread and CircusesYou know what drives me crazy?
Every time someone has a good idea to perhaps reduce humanity's negative impact on the biosphere, the clowns who run our economies and our governments will take that good idea and twist it into the worst possible implementation.
Case in point: If we could get large numbers of people to switch from driving gas/petrol cars to small EVs — or even better, to electric scooters or bikes — that could make a real difference in reducing overall emissions.
So what do our "leaders" do instead?
They focus on building and selling huge, bulky, monstrously heavy, status-symbol EVs that not only are more damaging to the environment than a lighter gas/petrol car, but also far more dangerous to children, pedestrians, bike riders, and other cars because of their titanic weight and their reduced sight lines.
➡️ https://www.carscoops.com/2023/06/is-the-u-s-govts-support-for-evs-putting-pedestrians-in-danger/
It drives me crazy! 😡
#Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #Capitalism #BusinessAsUsual
ZNet (unofficial)That viral photo of a girl doing homework outside Taco Bell during COVID wasn’t inspiring—it was a red flag
#EdTech claims to fix #inequality, but really just hides and profits from it. Tech companies have taken over classrooms, collecting student data and enforcing control.
Globally, EdTech often imposes Western ideas, sidelining local knowledge. But there’s resistance—teachers, communities, and activists pushing for #education that’s human, just, and actually public.
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/edtech-neocolonialism-and-the-digital-divide/
David SirotaNEWS: The Lever is releasing a brand new book MASTER PLAN, exposing the secret plot to legalize corruption.
The book follows our award-winning audio series & includes never-before-reported documents detailing the plot.
Pre-order here — and please share. https://the.levernews.com/master-plan-the-book/
BrianKrebsSome fascinating research out on hacking a Subaru via STARLINK connected vehicle service.
"On November 20, 2024, Shubham Shah and I discovered a security vulnerability in Subaru’s STARLINK connected vehicle service that gave us unrestricted targeted access to all vehicles and customer accounts in the United States, Canada, and Japan.
Using the access provided by the vulnerability, an attacker who only knew the victim’s last name and ZIP code, email address, phone number, or license plate could have done the following:
Remotely start, stop, lock, unlock, and retrieve the current location of any vehicle.
Retrieve any vehicle’s complete location history from the past year, accurate to within 5 meters and updated each time the engine starts.
Query and retrieve the personally identifiable information (PII) of any customer, including emergency contacts, authorized users, physical address, billing information (e.g., last 4 digits of credit card, excluding full card number), and vehicle PIN.
Access miscellaneous user data including support call history, previous owners, odometer reading, sales history, and more.
After reporting the vulnerability, the affected system was patched within 24 hours and never exploited maliciously."
Hacking Subaru: Tracking and Controlling Cars via the STARLINK Admin Panel
On November 20, 2024, Shubham Shah and I discovered a security vulnerability in Subaru’s STARLINK admin panel that gave us unrestricted access to all vehicles and customer accounts in the United States, Canada, and Japan.
Christine Lemmer-WebberEvery time I see someone bring up "IQ scores" I feel the need to repeat: IQ scores were literally invented by eugenicists and they've always been biased towards privilege
Also if you haven't noticed, once someone starts to believe they're a genius, they start to think a lot less clearly.
Nowhere Girl"ngl like nothing is as blackpilling as watching cis people on here hem and haw and triangulate about whether or not it’s worth it to do anything for us, ever"
https://bsky.app/profile/cassie.meangirls.online/post/3ld4ngkbirc2b
ProPublicaThe #FDA Hasn’t Inspected This Drug Factory After 7 Recalls for the Same Flaw, 1 Potentially Deadly
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Glenmark Pharmaceuticals issued a string of recalls for flawed pills, including more than 40 million it said could be deadly. But the FDA still hasn’t sent inspectors to investigate the factory in #India that made them.
The FDA Hasn’t Inspected This Drug Factory After 7 Recalls for the Same Flaw, 1 Potentially Deadly
Glenmark Pharmaceuticals issued seven recalls for pills that didn’t dissolve properly, records show. All were made at the same factory in India. But the FDA still hasn’t stopped the company from shipping other pills made there to the U.S.
Aral BalkanFolks, this is Luigi Mangione’s manifesto that the mainstream media don’t want people to read, so please don’t distribute it, m’kay?
https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/luigis-manifesto
#LuigiMangione #manifesto #LuigiMangioneManifesto #UnitedHealthcare #UnitedHealthcareCEO #UnitedHealthGroup #capitalism #systemicViolence #censorship #corporateMedia
🚨NEW DATA: Health insurers spent $120 BILLION to enrich shareholders & execs through stock buybacks - all while jacking up premiums & claim denial rates.
44% of the buybacks were at UnitedHealth, which reportedly denies 1 out of 3 medical claims. https://buff.ly/49y4feG
