There is a LOT going on as researchers and public health experts are racing to respond to the #Ebola #Bundibugyo outbreak in DRC and Uganda before it grows bigger.

My story in Science Magazine is here (and thread coming):

https://www.science.org/content/article/scientists-play-catch-startling-ebola-outbreak

Can we please stop the wars for fossil fuels. Or any wars, really, since they are all about access to resources.

"Cost of Net Zero by 2050 less than a single fossil fuel price shock"

https://www.theccc.org.uk/2026/03/11/cost-of-net-zero-by-2050-less-than-a-single-fossil-fuel-price-shock-ccc/

#ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #PeakOil #NetZero

CIS PEOPLE TIME TO STEP UP

it’s once again time to yell at our bad government via online comment form

the FCC is trying to make trans and nonbinary content require special ratings on shows

GLAAD has a good writeup on it here:

https://glaad.org/fcc

TELL ‘EM NO

direct link to comment form:
https://www.fcc.gov/ecfs/filings/express?proceeding%5Bn

Report: a sister of the Irish president is among those kidnapped by Israel from the sumud flotilla

Dr Margaret Connolly is one of at least six of the 15 Irish participants kidnapped.

https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20260518-irish-presidents-sister-among-gaza-flotilla-activists-detained-by-israel-reports/

#USPol #EUPol #SumudFlotilla #gaza #breakTheSiege #news #palestine .

AND ANOTHER THING

Even IF someone running the country like a business WASN'T a batshit idea already, NOBODY IS GOOD AT RUNNING BUSINESSES ANYWAY.

Study after study after study AFTER STUDY proves out that paying a living wage improves quality and output, yet no businesses operate that way.

That means that the vast majority of companies operating today ARE NOT AND NEVER WERE interested in being the best and most efficient versions of themselves, and are chiefly focused on wealth extraction; all other functions are secondary.

You don't hook the "burn everything for profit" machine up to the "keep all the people alive" machine. Nobody should have to explain why this is a terrible idea.

We tend to think the internet is permanent, but recent events remind us that our digital record is fragile & being shaped in real time.

Legal pressure, platform restrictions, and limits on tools like the Wayback Machine are already affecting what can be preserved and accessed.

📚 Read VANISHING CULTURE to see why it matters
📖 Download & read: https://archive.org/details/vanishing-culture-2026
🛒 Purchase in print: https://www.betterworldbooks.com/product/detail/vanishing-culture-a-report-on-our-fragile-cultural-record-9798995425014/new

#VanishingCulture #DigitalMemory #InternetArchive #Bookstodon

Ahmed Najar argues:

'Criticism of Russia is not treated as hatred towards Russians. Opposition to American wars is not automatically framed as hostility towards Americans as a people. Protest against the Chinese government is not assumed to be anti-Chinese racism.

Only when it comes to Israel does this distinction repeatedly collapse.

That collapse carries consequences'

#politics

https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2026/5/16/britain-is-losing-the-ability-to-tell-anti-semitism-from-dissent

#Eurovision's most significant and damning effect is to whitewash #Israel's #genocide in #gaza.

They can heave a sigh of relief Israel didn't win, but the important point is that they allowed Israel the chance, and coming in second place shows that the system - however you define it - does not care about genocide.

The world is a dangerous place and not just for Palestinians, when genocide becomes something that does not matter to people or those who determine who gets to play.

All Protocol Observed

Welcome to Issue 239 of The Continent

Macron is back in Africa: energetic, ambitious, and still trying to convince the world Paris is relevant. Meanwhile, in Mayotte — legally France, geographically Africa — asylum seekers wait for la République to notice them.

https://bit.ly/239_TC