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Microsoft Office 365: Banned in German schools over privacy fears | ZDNet https://prismo.xyz/posts/97f7ee2e-3246-44c9-8a9c-7dc173797798

Trump’s Tariffs Aren’t Helping American Workers

The Wall Street Journal reports that Donald Trump’s tariffs are, um: U.S. manufacturers are shifting production to countries outside of China as trade tensions between the world’s two biggest economies stretch into a second year….The biggest beneficiaries of that decline have been other countries in Asia where production costs are low, such as Vietnam, India, […]

If Politics Doesn’t Shape Your Beliefs About the Climate Crisis, What Does?

This story was originally published by Grist and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Unless you’ve lost your home to a super-charged hurricane, evacuated from wildfire country, or survived some other kind of climate disaster, it’s not too hard to live as if we weren’t in the middle of a planetary crisis. Sure, scientists keep issuing dire warnings, but […]

Reps. Pressley and Omar Just Clapped Back at Pelosi

It’s been a week of escalating tensions between various factions of the House Democratic caucus. After House Speaker Nancy Pelosi dismissed the influence of four of the House’s most liberal lawmakers—Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.)—in an interview with the New York Times, Ocasio-Cortez shot back, accusing Pelosi of “explicitly singling out newly […]

MPAA Welcomes Netflix as New Member
https://www.mpaa.org/press/mpaa-welcomes-netflix-as-new-member/

Welcome to the MAFIAA, Netflix!

98 Percent of Their Island Is Underwater. Now Tropical Storm Barry Is Headed Their Way.

In the 19th century, when the Indian Removal Act became law, Native Americans were forced off of their land. In Louisiana, some fled to what is now Isle de Jean Charles in Terrebonne Parish, which was then considered to be “uninhabitable swamp land.” For years, the community that mostly consisted of members of the Biloxi-Chitimacha-Choctaw […]

C. difficile resists hospital disinfectant, persists on hospital gowns, stainless steel

Surgical gowns and stainless steel remained contaminated with the pathogen Clostridium difficile even after being treated with the recommended disinfectant, according to new research.

Greenland Was on Fire This Week Amid 'Unprecedented' Arctic Burn https://earther.gizmodo.com/greenland-was-on-fire-this-week-amid-unprecedented-arct-1836309604?utm_medium=sharefromsite&utm_source=earther_twitter&utm_campaign=sharebar via @EARTH3R #climatechange #climatecrisis

House Says Trump Can’t Go to War With Iran Unless Congress Approves

The vote was a remarkable display of unity for House Democrats on an issue that frequently sparks dissent within the caucus.

The post House Says Trump Can’t Go to War With Iran Unless Congress Approves appeared first on The Intercept.

Librem 5 Smartphone -- July Update.

So much amazing stuff going on. Including Calls, Messages, Web, Contacts, Settings, and more.

https://puri.sm/posts/librem-5-july-update/

Billions of #air #pollution particles found in hearts of city dwellers | #Society | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2019/jul/12/billions-of-air-pollution-particles-found-in-hearts-of-city-dwellers

#Environment #Health

Not too creepy... 😒 #advertising #tracking #fingerprints

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/03/technology/personaltech/fingerprinting-track-devices-what-to-do.html

Why Did Millennials Turn Left?

“Millennial” was a marketing term before it was a category of political analysis, but after the global financial crisis in 2008 we heard the first whispers of Western youth rising up in decades. In 2011 Occupy Wall Street and the “movement of the squares” kicked off, inaugurating some real intergenerational conflict, even if we didn’t […]

Border Patrol Chief Carla Provost Was a Member of Secret Facebook Group

Two months before her appointment as chief of the Border Patrol, Carla Provost posted in the“I’m 10-15” Facebook group.

The post Border Patrol Chief Carla Provost Was a Member of Secret Facebook Group appeared first on The Intercept.

Middle East Dictators Buy Spy Tech From Company Linked to IBM and Google

Iran and Syria are the only countries in the region where Semptian would refuse to sell its surveillance tools, an employee said.

The post Middle East Dictators Buy Spy Tech From Company Linked to IBM and Google appeared first on The Intercept.

One Weird Trick to Get People To Care About Climate Change

How to correctly engage empathy to provoke action on the greatest moral dilemma of our time.

Solidarity for Survival

When disaster hits, many people are helped by their communities—not the government.