New study reveals that .5 trillion is being upwardly redistributed from the bottom 90% to the top 1% https://basicincometoday.com/new-study-reveals-that-2-5-trillion-is-being-upwardly-redistributed-from-the-bottom-90-to-the-top-1/
How the Finland Experiment Has Newly Informed the Basic Income Debate https://basicincometoday.com/how-the-finland-experiment-has-newly-informed-the-basic-income-debate/
The Green New Deal’s Public Infrastructure Should Be Funded by the Public https://www.dissentmagazine.org/online_articles/the-green-new-deals-public-infrastructure-should-be-funded-by-the-public
Seeing climate change firsthand? She’ll help you document it. https://grist.org/fix/seeing-climate-change-firsthand-shell-help-you-document-it/
Soap on tap? A startup arrives in NYC with a plan to take the plastic out of cleaning products. https://grist.org/article/soap-on-tap-a-startup-arrives-in-nyc-with-a-plan-to-take-the-plastic-out-of-cleaning-products/
How to make a net-zero pledge that actually means something https://grist.org/climate/walmart-google-how-to-make-a-net-zero-pledge-that-means-something/
As Fires Rage Across the West, Trump Bails Out Big Oil & Picks Climate Denier for Top Role at NOAA http://www.democracynow.org/2020/9/18/noaa_david_legates_climate_crisis
Affirming Jim Crow, Israeli Parliament Votes Down Bill Guaranteeing Equality for Palestinian-Israelis https://www.commondreams.org/views/2020/09/20/affirming-jim-crow-israeli-parliament-votes-down-bill-guaranteeing-equality
Bill Gates' Global Agenda and How We Can Resist His War on Life https://www.commondreams.org/views/2020/09/21/bill-gates-global-agenda-and-how-we-can-resist-his-war-life
'Sledgehammer to Permanently Silence Opposing Voices': Outrage Over Florida Gov. DeSantis' Proposed Anti-Protest Bill https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/09/21/sledgehammer-permanently-silence-opposing-voices-outrage-over-florida-gov-desantis
These apps are stealing your most private data and it should be a crime | iMore
https://www.imore.com/these-apps-are-stealing-your-most-private-data-and-it-should-be-crime
Did the FBI Downplay the Far-Right Politics of Las Vegas Shooter Stephen Paddock? https://theintercept.com/2020/09/22/stephen-paddock-las-vegas-shooting-far-right/
Patent trolls still plague the software industry. Join EFF’s @alexhmoss tomorrow for a panel discussion about the best ways to defeat them. https://www.eff.org/event/defeating-software-based-patent-trolls
No Parks for the Poor https://inthesetimes.com/article/public-lands-budget-cuts-fee-increase-equality
How to Transform Research and Innovation for the Common Good https://inthesetimes.com/article/research-and-development-intellectual-property-coronavirus-pandemic-climate-change
"New bioarchaeology research has shown how infectious diseases may have spread 4000 years ago, while highlighting the dangers" to the Earth's ecology "of" not "letting such diseases run rife."
#fixedit
Since humans have proved incapable of being good stewards of the environment, we probably should not be fighting against the various ways the environment tries to make its own corrections to the ecology of the Earth.
#UK plans to bring forward #ban on #FossilFuel #vehicles to #2030 | #Environment | The Guardian
In the name of customer security, ATT, Verizon and Tmobile are partnering on a mobile auth service using customer account info as a unique identifier. Why do I think they have an ulterior motive with this unified customer identifier?
https://www.tmonews.com/2020/09/t-mobile-att-verizon-zenkey-mobile-authentication-service/
I hope courier #coops will flourish but skeptical whether courier businesses can be profitable regardless of the ownership model.
Even if you take 5$ per delivery and can ship a delivery every 15 minutes that only makes 20$/hour. And that's a very optimistic scenario.
Then breaks, holidays, tax, insurance, etc.
It seems simple math doesn't add up on paying workers decently.
If the government would contract them to deliver programs like "meals on wheels" to elderly etc. it could maybe work.
#ShlaerMellor, #FunctionPointAnalysis, #punk, #environmentalist, #unionAdvocate, #anarchosocialist
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