Does Biden know that failure to pass $15 minimum means he'll be a one term president? #dumballover
Biden's neoliberalism is still alive and strong. Going to have to laugh in the face of all the minimum wage workers with large student debt who voted for him in the primaries. Then I'm going to have to hunker down and prepare for a neoliberal approach to tackling climate change and another four more years of Trump. #USAbozobus
Why won’t Joe Biden let ethanol die already? https://grist.org/energy/joe-biden-ethanol-biofuels/
When the grid went dark, Texans faced 3.5M pounds of excess air pollution https://grist.org/justice/when-the-grid-went-dark-texans-faced-3-5m-pounds-of-excess-air-pollution/
Key Biden aide said pandemic was 'best thing that ever happened to him', book says https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/feb/24/covid-best-thing-biden-anita-dunn-lucky-book-jonathan-allen-annie-parnes
Biden is locking up migrant children. Will the world still care with Trump gone? https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/feb/24/biden-is-locking-up-migrant-children-will-the-world-still-care-with-trump-gone
Corporate Lawyers Line Up for Justice Department Top Slots https://theintercept.com/2021/02/23/merrick-garland-justice-department-corporate-lawyers/
Fossil Fuel Executives Gloat About Profits, PR From Texas Winter Storm Crisis https://theintercept.com/2021/02/23/texas-winter-storm-gas-prices-executives/
AOC criticizes Manchin over apparent targeting of Biden’s nominees of color https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/feb/23/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-manchin-biden-nominees-neera-tanden-deb-haaland
I have no motivation to work. How can I change my attitude? https://www.theguardian.com/money/2021/feb/24/i-have-no-motivation-to-work-how-can-i-change-my-attitude
From the 'money equals knowledge' department...
SolarWinds hack was work of 'at least 1,000 engineers', tech executives tell Senate
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/feb/23/solarwinds-hack-senate-hearing-microsoft
Indigenous Water Protectors Face Off Against the “Pandemic Pipeline”
Biden halted Keystone XL, but Enbridge’s Line 3 would pipe the same tar sands oil into the U.S. and across Anishinaabe treaty lands.
https://inthesetimes.com/article/line-3-pipeline-indigenous-water-protectors-biden-environment
A Major Ocean Current May Be Hurtling Towards Collapse
https://earther.gizmodo.com/a-major-ocean-current-may-be-hurtling-towards-collapse-1846337333 #climatechange #climatecrisis #leadonclimate
Hear the track and read Jello's post about it.
https://alternativetentacles.com/2021/02/18/jello-biafra-and-gsm-drops-long-unreleased-gem-blunder-blubber-to-celebrate-rush-limbaughs-death/
Important call for experimentation from @democracypolicy:
Alternative Voting Methods | Democracy Policy Network - https://democracypolicy.network/agenda/open-country/open-government/alternative-voting-methods
The outsourcing of employment solicitation suffers from the same issues as the early outsourcing of customer support; lack of knowledge in the initial contact person, and poor target language abilities.
It also shows how dumbed down the whole software industry has become. We're now defined by buzzwords instead of actual knowledge.
For those who have read Octavia Butler's Parable of the Sower/Parable of the Talents books: any thoughts about "the Destiny"?
@emi @cadwellsocialcoop
Cecosesola is an amazing 'educational process' based in Venezuela. Picture the Utopian anarchists of Anarres from The Dispossessed in a community on Earth.
With 23000 members, 1300 full time employees, a turnover of ~$100 million USD annually, they supply food, healthcare, funeral and financial services for 55,000 families in the states of Lara and Trujillo.
I'm hosting a reading group session during office hours on the following paper on 3/3/2021!
https://issuu.com/cecosesolaorganismo/docs/_ltima_version_collective_mind_
People with extremist views less able to do complex mental tasks, research suggests | #Psychology | The Guardian
Copyright should not be a fast-track to getting speech removed that you do not like. The law is meant to encourage creativity by giving artists a limited period of exclusive rights to their creations. It is not a loophole to be exploited by authorities. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/02/cops-using-music-try-stop-being-filmed-just-tip-iceberg
#ShlaerMellor, #FunctionPointAnalysis, #punk, #environmentalist, #unionAdvocate, #anarchosocialist
"with a big old lie and a flag and a pie and a mom and a bible most folks are just liable to buy any line, any place, any time" - Frank Zappa