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As Fires Rage Across the West, Trump Bails Out Big Oil & Picks Climate Denier for Top Role at NOAA democracynow.org/2020/9/18/noa

Welcome to the #equinox, which occurs at 13:31 #UTC today. For us it’s bye-bye #summer and hello #autumn.

Patent trolls still plague the software industry. Join EFF’s @alexhmoss tomorrow for a panel discussion about the best ways to defeat them. eff.org/event/defeating-softwa

"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."

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.

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?

tmonews.com/2020/09/t-mobile-a

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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.

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