Christo

parismarx , 3 months ago to random

Italy’s far-right party proposed using AI to assign youth mandatory jobs.

“The young person will no longer be able to choose whether to work or not, but [will be] bound to accept the job offer for himself (sic), for his family and for the country, under penalty of loss of all benefits.”

https://algorithmwatch.org/en/italian-neofascists-artificial-intelligence/

#tech #ai #italy #government

oatmeal , 3 months ago to palestine group

#UK / Sun cleared by IPSO over report of claim Hamas ‘beheaded babies’ on 7 October

Press regulator #IPSO ruled on a complaint against The Sun newspaper for reporting claims that Hamas "beheaded babies" during the 7 October 2022 massacre in Israel.

The Sun's front page stated "savages 'beheaded babies'" and said #Hamas "reportedly" beheaded babies during an attack that killed 40 youngsters.

A complaint accused The Sun of publishing an unsubstantiated and false claim.

The Sun because it presented the beheading claim as unconfirmed by using quotes and "reportedly", rather than stating it as fact. Other UK papers like the Daily Mail and Daily Express also published the beheading claims without quotation marks on the same day.

#PressGazzetteUK https://pressgazette.co.uk/the-wire/newspaper-corrections-media-mistakes-errors-legal/the-sun-ipso-ruling-beheaded-babies-claim/

@israel
@palestine
#MediaBias #TheSunUK #Islamophobia
#IsraelHamasWar

luckytran , 3 months ago to random

It’s official: The CDC has weakened its COVID isolation guidelines, in a move that goes against the science, encourages disease spread, and prioritizes corporate interests, making it easier for bosses to exploit workers.

Link: https://wapo.st/49zV8ZZ

wdlindsy , 3 months ago to random

Lisa Hagen looks at PRRI's new survey re: Christiian nationalism, and finds that it prevails in rural Republican-voting states. She writes,

"In states including North Dakota, Mississippi, Alabama and West Virginia, half or nearly half of residents support the view that Christians should dominate all areas of American society, including its laws…."

#PRRI #ChristianNationalism #Republicans

https://www.npr.org/2024/02/28/1234304058/christian-nationalism-survey

faab64 , 3 months ago to palestine group

❝ We have turned Gaza into a wasteland - with love. We have killed many thousands of children and women and other non-combatants - with love. We dropped bombs with love. Even the soldiers who were killed by friendly fire were killed with love. And so were those abductees of ours that we killed. Every home we destroyed, we destroyed with love. And in general, blood is shed with love or not shed at all.

That's the whole warped concept in a single sentence: We beat Hamas because of love. Under the auspices of this lyrical expression Israel is becoming a barbaric state. Television lyricism masks reality and makes this falsehood possible. ❞
– Rogel Alpher • (Translated by Sol Salbe)

#Israel #Gaza #Genocide #Inhumanity #SaveGaza #StopIsrael
@palestine @israel

breadandcircuses , 3 months ago to random

Is degrowth the answer?

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Global consumption of raw materials is set to rise 60% by 2060.

Already, the technosphere, the totality of human-made products, is heavier than the biosphere. From the 2020s onward, the weight of humanity’s extended body — the concrete shells that keep us sheltered, the metal wings that fly us around — has exceeded that of all life on Earth.

Producing this volume of stuff is a major contributor to global heating and ocean acidification, and to the rapidly accelerating extinction of plants and animals.

The extractive activities that lie behind the concrete, metal, and other materials we use are disrupting the balance of the planet’s ecosystems. The mining industry requires the annexation of large tracts of land for extraction and transportation; its energy consumption has more than tripled since the 1970s.

Is degrowth the answer? The insufficiency of engineering and green growth programs has informed the waxing interest in “degrowth” strategies. This term is not intended to suggest that all economic sectors should shrink, but that for society-nature relations to regain some balance, the unsustainable global use of materials and energy must radically reduce, and in an egalitarian manner.

As the scale of the environmental crisis grows more daunting, even moderate voices — not degrowthers — have recognised that certain sectors, such as shipping and aviation, will have to be cut to virtually zero over the next 20 or 30 years. What does this mean for critical minerals? According to degrowth advocate Jason Hickel, political means should be forged through which to plan priority sectors.

Reducing luxury and wasteful sectors such as SUVs, aviation, and fast fashion would free up critical materials for the green transition. “Factories that produce SUVs could produce solar panels instead,” suggests Hickel. “Engineers who are presently developing private jets could work on innovating more efficient trains and wind turbines instead.”

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FULL ARTICLE -- https://theecologist.org/2024/feb/22/there-nothing-green-about-urban-mining

#Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #Degrowth

wdlindsy , 3 months ago to random

"[SCOTUS] will prematurely hear a completely frivolous claim that if sustained, would allow any POTUS to commit crimes with almost unbridled immunity. This will delay his federal 1/6 trial indefinitely. A political and traitorous decision from a totally discredited SCOTUS."

~ Richard Signorelli as cited by Carl Gibson

#Trump #SupremeCourt #insurrection #Constitution #corruption
/1

https://www.alternet.org/experts-outraged-scotus-immunity/

GottaLaff , 3 months ago to random

Trump to court: "Money? I don't know money. I never said I knew my money. I barely met them. I meet a lot of money, take a lot of photos with money. I don't recall meeting my money."

DoubleTreble , 4 months ago to weirdfolks group

#Cupofteasocial
#mugshot

Good morning lovely people especially those @weirdfolks
My offering #Today is a colourful weird mug
Sending y'all Sunday hugs 🤗🤗

futurebird , 4 months ago to random

They are coming for IVF too. Always were.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2024/02/20/alabama-supreme-court-frozen-embryos-ruling-ivf/72662533007/

GottaLaff , 4 months ago to random

✔️

Via the White House on the hellsite:

To Recap:

Speaker Johnson said he wouldn’t pass a national security bill without a border deal.

President #Biden and a bipartisan group of Senators negotiated a border deal.

Speaker Johnson rejected the border deal.

The Senate passed a national security bill without a border deal.

Speaker Johnson says he won’t bring the national security bill for a vote because it doesn’t include a border deal.

Make it make sense!

futurebird , 4 months ago (edited 4 months ago) to random

Retired old people who aren't just ... busy being sick and dying give back to their communities in HUGE ways. We had someone's grandpa come to our robotics competition to cheer the team on. The old people in my building do all the serious political organizing and man the polls. I'm too busy working being in my 40s and all that.

Raising retirement ages takes away more than just "retirement" ... it makes everything harder.

Far as I'm concerned it should be 59.

MikeDunnAuthor , 4 months ago to random

Today in Labor History February 5, 1994: A jury convicted Byron De La Beckwork of murdering civil rights leader Medgar Evers, only 31 years after the fact. Edgars fought to overturn segregation at the University of Mississippi, end segregation of public facilities, and expand voting rights for African Americans He was the first NAACP field secretary in Mississippi. He was also a decorated US Army veteran who served in World War II.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #medgarevers #civilrights #assassination #racism #mississippi #naacp #segregation #BlackMastadon #blackhistorymonth

futurebird , 4 months ago to random

What the heck is a "Traveling Mathematician" ?

(and how do I become one?)

faab64 , 4 months ago to palestine group

Israel's Finance Minister, Bezalel #Smotrich, says allowing humanitarian aid into #Gaza goes against the goals of the Israeli war. "I spoke to Netanyahu in this regard and this is going to change soon."

Western leaders will be like, " it is not a #genocide ", " it is a special military operation against Hamas"and of course " Israel has the right to defend itself ".

It's just wonderful that the Israeli assault on Gaza uncovered the disgusting true face of western hypocrites to the general public.

#FoodAsWeapon
#SaveGaza #StopIsrael #SaveTheChildren
#palestine #Israel #Occupation #Apartheid #Politics #PeaceNow #StopTheWar #CeasefireNow @palestine

GottaLaff , 4 months ago to random

E Jean's lawyers are simply awesome.

👀 Via Klasfeld:

News

#EJeanCarroll's lead attorney threatened SANCTIONS against Trump lawyer Alina #Habba over her "utterly baseless" claim that a federal judge had an undisclosed conflict of interest. #legal #Trump

Habba's conflict claim is based entirely on a single-anon source story in NY Post.

Carroll's lawyer ques how the tabloid came to publish it & if the supposed partner at Paul Weiss — the firm where she and the judge both worked— "even exists."

parismarx , 4 months ago to random

Tesla says it’s going to start building a new model in 2025, but that’s only to distract from how the next year or so looks dreadful for the company.

As it faces growing scandals and increased competition, it’s not clear Elon Musk can guide it through the challenging times ahead.

https://disconnect.blog/teslas-in-serious-trouble/

#tesla #elonmusk #tech #ev #cars

GottaLaff , 5 months ago to random

You may disagree fervently with Pres. Biden's Israel policies, and that's fine. But if you come into my feed calling him "Genocide Joe" or any variation on that theme, you're blocked.

I've already had to block a few accounts for this.

Pres. Biden is not "for genocide." I will not argue with you on this topic, nor do I discuss the Israel/Hamas war here.

But I will not tolerate accusations of "genocide" by Pres. Biden. He's not "pro genocide."

If that's a prob, it's on you.

GottaLaff , 5 months ago to random

Flopsweat McBoneSpurs is threatening yet another woman who he feels threatened by. I can’t stand Haley, but holy crap, he’s such a misogynistic thug.

Via Aaron Rupar:

#Trump threatens that if #NikkiHaley doesn't drop out, she'll end up under investigation for "stuff she doesn't want to talk about"

futurebird , 5 months ago to random

Did you know that some ants have a "basket" of hairs under their head used to move sandy soil more efficiently?

The hairs that make up this basket are called ammochaetae, and they are more robust than the sensitive setae that ants use to sense sound and air currents.

The basket of ammochaetae is known as a psammophore. Use it in a sentence today!

"I'm not making trips for all these groceries. I'll make my arms like a psammophore and tote them all at once!"

https://www.reddit.com/r/Entomology/comments/74zdrr/california_harvester_ant/

rbreich , 5 months ago to random

In separate legal rulings, Trump has been found to have committed rape, business fraud, and insurrection.

And yet he remains the Republican presidential front runner.

Don't ever tell me again that the GOP is the party of "family values" or "law and order."

ProjectFearlessness , 5 months ago to random

"I keep asking myself this question: how does the western mind work? Rather than stop the atrocities in Gaza, they want to expand the war in the region by attacking the Houthis, which is not going to work, because it didn’t work before."

Rhadiya Al Mutawkil,
Mwatana Centre for Human Rights,
Yemen.

rms , 5 months ago to random

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/jan/05/cop29-will-be-led-by-mukhtar-babayev-azerbaijan-ecology-minister-who-is-oil-industry-veteran

Next year's main climate conference will again be run by an oil industry executive.

Christo , 11 months ago to random

#Introduction.
I started on Mastodon when Twitter was bought by Musk.
I'm 74, married to Bill, who is 78 for 56 years this year, have a son and a deceased daughter. I'm anti-royalty and anti-celebrity, anti-capitalist and am a anarcho-syndicalist. I love live music from classical to opera to rock, R&B, pop, jazz, experimental, contemporary etc., reading, growing food and flowers, volunteer and seek a way to live sustainably. No God's, No Masters
I will vote Green.