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Raw Data: Workers Earning Minimum Wage

I was diddling around with some other stuff and couldn’t find what I wanted, but in the process I ran across this: The federal minimum wage has declined so much that it barely even matters anymore. Even at the height of the Great Recession, only 1 percent of employed men and 2 percent of employed […]

International travelers experience the harmful effects of air pollution

Even a short stay for travelers in cities with high levels of air pollution leads to breathing problems that can take at least a week from which to recover, a new study shows.

Mass die-off of puffins recorded in the Bering Sea
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/05/190529180232.htm #climatechange #climatecrisis #extinction

A Brand New Look at Lead Contamination in Flint

Marc Edwards and his team at Virginia Tech have published a new paper that uses a clever way of calculating lead levels in the Flint water supply over the past five years. It turns out that sewage sludge is tested for metal content monthly, and it also turns out that the metal content of the […]

Activists Have a Plan to Increase Abortion Access: Let Nurses Perform Them

“The good news is you are no longer pregnant,” Julie Jenkins, a nurse practitioner at the Maine Family Planning clinic in Belfast, told her patient one day last spring. The woman in Exam Room 2 had received a medication abortion a week earlier and was back for a follow-up to make sure everything had gone […]

Eating blueberries every day improves heart health

Eating a cup of blueberries a day reduces risk factors for cardiovascular disease -- according to a new study. Eating 150g of blueberries daily reduces the risk of cardiovascular disease by up to 15 per cent. The research team say that blueberries and other berries should be included in dietary strategies to reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease -- particularly among at risk groups.

California Passes Ban on . . . Hotel Shampoo Bottles

The latest from California: Those small shampoo and conditioner bottles, popular with travelers but unpopular with anti-plastics advocates, would be banned in California hotels under a bill that cleared the state Assembly on Wednesday. I’m not sure why I hate performative crap like this so much, but I do. Hotel shampoo bottles probably make up […]

Emails Reveal Citizenship Question Was Designed to Increase Republican Gerrymandering

Who came up with the bright idea to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census, anyway? It turns out the answer is Thomas Hofeller, the “Michelangelo of gerrymandering,” who died last year. His daughter discovered the origin of the citizenship question in emails on his hard drive: Files on those drives showed that he […]

Sunshine may decrease risk of inflammatory bowel disease

Children who spend half an hour a day outside in the sun reduce their risk of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD).

Revealed: women's fertility app is funded by anti-abortion campaigners

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/may/30/revealed-womens-fertility-app-is-funded-by-anti-abortion-campaigners

#earth #home #politics #fail

What is metadata and why should you care?

https://surfshark.com/blog/what-is-metadata-and-why-you-should-start-caring-about-it

More Money, More Problematic

Trump’s treasury says no to Harriet Tubman on the $20.

A Whole New World

Petty commoners, can’t you tell these children are starving? Thank god for Jasmine.

America’s Shadow War

We don’t hear much about Trump’s drone strikes. But in his first two years as President, he’s launched more than Obama.

Sensor calibration settings can be used by apps/sites to fingerprint iOS and Android phones.

We added a "Lockdown Mode" for the Librem 5 which allows you to defend against this.

Librem 5 Lockdown Mode: https://puri.sm/posts/lockdown-mode-on-the-librem-5-beyond-hardware-kill-switches/

Sensor Calibration Attack: https://www.zdnet.com/article/android-and-ios-devices-impacted-by-new-sensor-calibration-attack/

Apple promises privacy, but iPhone apps share your data with trackers, ad companies and research firms - The Washington Post
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/05/28/its-middle-night-do-you-know-who-your-iphone-is-talking/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.e6c0feb340e3 #privacy

Clean air taxis cut pollution in New York City

New York City Clean Air Taxi rules are successful in cutting emissions and reducing air pollution, according to a new study. Between 2009 and 2015, the legislation more than doubled the fuel efficiency of the fleet of 13,500 yellow taxis, leading to estimated declines in air pollution emissions.

How microbiome is disrupted during IBD: Human Microbiome Project

A new study is the first to have observed the complex set of chemical and molecular events that disrupt the microbiome and trigger immune responses during flare-ups of inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD), including Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis.