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Strike While the Iron is Hot: An Interview on the Growing Wildcat Strike at UC Santa Cruz https://itsgoingdown.org/interview-wildcat-strike-ucsc/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

Seeding oceans with iron may not impact climate change

A new study suggests that iron fertilization may not have a significant impact on phytoplankton growth, at least on a global scale.

" ... the Court pointed out in particular that cyberbullying was currently a recognised aspect of violence against women and girls, and could take on a variety of forms, including cyber breaches of privacy, intrusion into the victim’s computer and the capture, sharing and ...

New green technology generates electricity 'out of thin air'

Electrical engineers and microbiologists have created a device they call an 'Air-gen.' or air-powered generator, with electrically conductive protein nanowires produced by the microbe Geobacter. The Air-gen connects electrodes to the protein nanowires in such a way that electrical current is generated from the water vapor naturally present in the atmosphere.

Bernie Should Own the Socialist Label

            Bernie Sanders is currently the frontrunner for the Democratic presidential nomination. He and everyone else knows exactly how the Republicans will attack him if and when he becomes the nominee: old-fashioned redbaiting.             China became communist in name only during the 1980s, the Soviet Union shut its doors in 1991, the Cold War is […]

Bernie Sanders Gets Screwed Again

Bernie Sanders were supposed to win big in the Iowa caucus. Then the vote count got totally messed up by an app company owned by a bunch of Bernie Sanders’ political enemies. And then they wonder why progressives don’t trust corporate types?

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Today's antique store find: a first edition of 1984. Back then they thought a universal surveillance state would be imposed by an authoritarian govt using fear. Now we know we will submit willingly in exchange for some free web services.

Reconciliation is Dead: A Strategic Proposal https://itsgoingdown.org/reconciliation-is-dead-a-strategic-proposal/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

Open access journals get a boost from librarians—much to Elsevier’s dismay

A quiet revolution is sweeping the $20 billion academic publishing market and its main operator Elsevier, partly driven by an unlikely group of rebels: cash-strapped librarians. [One university's] ability to cope [without an access deal] is a vivid example of how the market is changing and eroding Elsevier’s pricing power.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/02/how-librarians-keep-for-profit-scientific-journals-from-squeezing-their-budgets/

@0 @Truck @humanetech what is often overlooked with the argument of 'git is already decentralized' is that code forges (git hub/lab) have become one of the most significant ways to discover, distribute and discuss software. All social features that could well benefit from federated web interfaces.

You Do Know Amy Klobuchar Is an Abusive Boss, Right?

Based on a third-place finish in New Hampshire, pundits have declared Sen. Amy Klobuchar’s presidential campaign to be “surging”—despite the fact that national polls show her roughly 16 points behind Sen. Bernie Sanders. CNN analysts are working around the clock on the question of whether her campaign has “momentum.”

One-third of plant and animal species could be gone in 50 years

Researchers studied recent extinctions from climate change to estimate the loss of plant and animal species by 2070. Their results suggest that as many as one in three species could face extinction unless warming is reduced.

E-voting is a bad idea. A team of MIT researchers finds that Voatz pairs a bad idea with bad execution https://internetpolicy.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/SecurityAnalysisOfVoatz_Public.pdf https://t.co/msxvcTeHD1

I Know Firsthand Why Unions Should Endorse Bernie

One late summer evening in 2000, my home phone rang in Moretown, Vermont. “Can you please hold for Congressman Sanders?” the voice on the line asked.