Mastodawn

"The Post-American Internet" https://framatube.org/w/t257S21Mj8eS3dz8apeFro?start=0s by @pluralistic

The Post-American Internet

PeerTube

"1er mai : les éditorialistes veulent « libérer le travail »" https://www.acrimed.org/1er-mai-les-editorialistes-veulent-liberer-le ("En 1947, la France a inscrit le 1er mai comme le seul jour férié obligatoirement chômé et payé", https://www.droit-du-travail.org/quels-sont-les-jours-feries-obligatoirement-chomes/ "Fête de la journée internationale des travailleurs")

1er mai : les éditorialistes veulent « libérer le travail »

Marronnier.

Acrimed | Action Critique Médias

Arthur Charpentier ⏚ 🇨🇦 🇯🇵5h ago

anna_lillith 🇺🇦🌱🐖6h ago

Arthur Charpentier ⏚ 🇨🇦 🇯🇵12h ago

"The average person in 2010 made an estimated 298 digital interactions per day. In fifteen years, that number multiplied more than sixteenfold. Those digital interactions produce records that can persist indefinitely, stored, copied, indexed, bought, sold, and combined with other records to build profiles of extraordinary detail." https://cardcatalogforlife.substack.com/p/so-what-if-they-have-my-data

So What if They Have My Data?

Who's buying our personal information, what they're using it for, and how the system works behind the screen.

Card Catalog

Arthur Charpentier ⏚ 🇨🇦 🇯🇵20h ago

"Effects of a $20 Minimum Wage: Evidence from Granular Data on Wages, Employment and Prices" https://irle.berkeley.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Effects-of-a-20-Minimum-Wage-Evidence-from-Granular-Data-on-Wages-Employment-and-Prices-April-1-2026.pdf via https://finance.yahoo.com/news/economists-warned-california-not-raise-110500084.html?guccounter=1

Arthur Charpentier ⏚ 🇨🇦 🇯🇵22h ago

"Biologists Confirm Not Much Evolution Happened Today" 🤣 https://theonion.com/biologists-confirm-not-much-evolution-happened-today/ by @theonion

Biologists Confirm Not Much Evolution Happened Today

STANFORD, CA—Calling it a “pretty slow one” as far as natural selection and genetic drift were concerned, biologists from Stanford University confirmed Tuesday that not much evolution happened today. “According to our observations over the past 24 hours, the vast majority of species on earth have pretty much just been holding steady and staying the course, […]

The Onion

Arthur Charpentier ⏚ 🇨🇦 🇯🇵22h ago

"Four recently published UCLA-led studies draw a direct line between climate disasters, housing instability and homelessness" https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2026-04-16/how-la-unhoused-population-was-devastated-by-2025-wildfires

L.A. fires don't just cause homelessness — they make it worse, new research finds

A new study out of UCLA shows the outsized impact of climate-related disasters like the 2025 fires on unhoused populations.

Los Angeles Times

Arthur Charpentier ⏚ 🇨🇦 🇯🇵1d ago

"Enrollment algorithms are contributing to the crises of higher education" https://www.brookings.edu/articles/enrollment-algorithms-are-contributing-to-the-crises-of-higher-education/

Enrollment algorithms are contributing to the crises of higher education

AI is becoming increasingly common in higher education.

Brookings

Arthur Charpentier ⏚ 🇨🇦 🇯🇵1d ago

"Sociologists have a name for the spaces that are neither home nor work, but where community actually forms: the third place. The pub, the library, the bowling club, even the post office. The place you go because it is there, other people are there, and that is enough. For many people, that is exactly what the Cronulla RSL (Returned Services League, the veterans’ organisation) is." https://laurenleek.substack.com/p/the-machine-is-friendly-thats-why

The Machine Is Friendly. That's Why It Wins.

How Australia kept its third places alive, what it hid inside them, why Britain’s fix made the problem worse, and what happened when I tried to beat the machine.

Lauren’s data Substack

Arthur Charpentier ⏚ 🇨🇦 🇯🇵1d ago

"Is Meritocracy not so bad after all ? Educational Expansion and Intergenerational Mobility in 40 Countries" https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00031224241292352 via https://laviedesidees.fr/L-ascenseur-social-a-t-il-fonctionne

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