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For the #Python nerds, I'm the guy who wrote Paperless, Aletheia, mt103, mpan, Majel, and django-cool-urls.
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EU legislation intended to fight deforestation has been effectively dismantled
Law’s original author points to removal of obligations for downstream traders to verify origin of commodities
#WarOnEnvironment #EU #Deforestation #Toothless #Legislation #Politics #Ecocide #Profit #Capitalism
I see that MSF is one of the aid organisations being banned from working in Gaza. The stated reason is a failure to abide by registration rules, the real reason (imo) is the fact that the organisation provides almost a fifth of medical care in Gaza (and 1/3 of child birth care). Having provided logistics and analytic support to MSF in a number of countries (not Gaza) and seen their work at first hand this disgusts me.
So cool. If you zoom in on the upper right, you see a little crescent. That's the Martian moon Phobos.
Zoom in again and you'll see a star next to Phobos. That's Earth! That's home.
Seen from Mars by NASA's Curiosity rover.
https://science.nasa.gov/photojournal/curiosity-views-earth-setting-phobos-rising/ #science #space #astronomy
Folks interested in science should be interested in Retraction Watch, which is now 15 years old. Started by medical journalists Ivan Oransky & Adam Marcus, the site is the only one (that I know of, anyway) that uncovers and tracks scientific retractions, errors, and other controversies. My best friend of 27 years happens to work there too, but that's besides the point! They do vital work no one else is doing. Their year-end summary is impressive.
Have any of my fellow #Django nerds tried out Granian as a replacement for Gunicorn/uvicorn/Daphne/whatever?
https://github.com/emmett-framework/granian
This is an area I don't generally fiddle with, so it'd be good to hear opinions from those who have tried it or.
Blocking the work of MSF is absolutely depraved. Israel continues to fumble its way out of the community of civilized nations.
Israel says it will suspend several humanitarian organizations for failing to meet its new rules to vet international organizations working in Gaza. The Ministry of Diaspora Affairs said on Tuesday that the organizations that will be banned on Jan. 1 did not meet its new requirements for sharing staff, funding and operations information. It accused Doctors Without Borders, known as MSF by its French acronym, of failing to clarify the roles of some staff that Israel accused of cooperation with Hamas and other militant groups. MSF didn't immediately comment but other international organizations have said that Israel’s rules are arbitrary and could endanger staff.
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