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I think this misses the point of the “wrong story” narrative. But it’s a start. We’re not gonig to solve novel problems with old thinking. Consuming our way out of climate change is as dumb as fucking your way to virginity. The picture Sunak painted was a dishonest one. He argued that ordinary, working people…
The top poker game where everyone cheats… The interview corroborates claims first reported in May 2022 by the broadly Western-aligned Ukrainska Pravda outlet — which reported that Boris Johnson told Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky the West wouldn’t support any peace deal regardless of what Ukraine wanted, and they preferred to keep taking the fight to Russian President Vladimir Putin, who…
In 1919, Rabbi Berkowitz co-organized a petition signed by three hundred prominent U.S. Jews which was published in the New York Times and delivered to the Paris Peace Conference. The 1919 statement, addressed to President Woodrow Wilson, made prescient points in opposition to the Zionist movement, including warnings that Zionists underestimated Muslim and Christian Palestinians’ allegiance to the…
Reuters and other outlets whose in-house ad agencies are striking commercial deals with fossil fuel companies are trusted not only by the public, but by politicians and other key decision-makers. According to communications agency BCW’s annual survey of media brands in Europe, Politico, Reuters, the Financial Times and the Economist top the list of most influential media…
The melting Greenland ice sheet is the single largest contributor to global sea-level rise — and some experts are warning it could soon cross the threshold into a slow but irreversible death spiral. A sweeping new scientific report, with contributions from more than 200 researchers, finds that continued warming could trigger not only the collapse of…
Surveillance capitalism (thanks Sheryl (she implemented the model at both Google and Facebook)) is the root of a bunch of evils in big tech. It’s a deeply user unfriendly business model that needs to end.
Not quite a century ago, Shanghai was known as “the Paris of the East.” (Or it became one of the cities to enjoy that reputation, at any rate.) Today, you can catch a high-speed train in Shanghai and, just an hour later, arrive in a place that has made a much more literal bid for that title: Tianducheng,…
… the National-led coalition is mounting a sustained assault on Treaty rights and obligations. Even so, Christopher Luxon has described yesterday’s nationwide protests by Maori as “pretty unfair.” Poor thing. In the NZ Herald, Audrey Young has compiled a useful list of the many, many ways that Luxon plans to roll back the progress made here over the past…
Scientists used electronic printable inks, using a technique similar to how designs are printed on t-shirts. As these thin solar cells are difficult to handle and can tear easily, scientists searched for a lightweight, flexible, and resilient material that could adhere to those solar cells. The fabric they chose was Dyneema Composite Fabric, a material known…
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