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Plastic industry knew recycling was a farce for decades yet deceived the public, report reveals
https://www.euronews.com/green/2024/02/16/plastic-industry-knew-recycling-was-a-farce-for-decades-yet-deceived-the-public-report-rev?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into Europe @europe-euronews
it's time to fork #Firefox and turn it into a cooperative-owned project.
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/02/mozilla-lays-off-60-people-wants-to-build-ai-into-firefox/
cooperative membership is the element missing from FLOSS.
fuck the non-profit's faux neutrality when in truth it's just a broke doppelganger of the top-down structure of the corporatist kleptocracy.
make the project a cooperative where members --users and developers-- get to vote on the future of the project with their paid memberships and contributed labor.
At this point, we should probably revert back to buying physical DVDs and Blu-Rays.
https://www.theverge.com/2024/2/8/24065940/funimation-shutdown-crunchyroll-digital-library
So, funny story: remember how that Stanford professor described last years' layoffs as a "social contagion" exercise, where CEOs were just doing it because everyone else was doing it?
https://news.stanford.edu/2022/12/05/explains-recent-tech-layoffs-worried/
Well everyone get your surprised face ready but it was in fact a coordinated effort by execs, large shareholders and hedge funds to cover up mismanagement and suppress wages:
Did I say funny, I meant awful, typo sorry those keys are right next to each other.
As layoffs in the tech sector mount, Stanford Graduate School of Business Professor Jeffrey Pfeffer is worried. Research – by him, and others – has shown that the stress layoffs create takes a devastating toll on behavioral and physical health and increases mortality and morbidity substantially. Layoffs literally kill people, he said.
Scientists inject horses with snake venom to develop treatment for humans
https://www.euronews.com/health/2024/02/05/scientists-inject-horses-with-snake-venom-to-develop-treatment-for-humans?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into Sci-Tech
https://flipboard.com/@euronews/sci-tech-vr0v1u2nz?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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