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#EU to drop ban of #HazardousChemicals after #industry pressure | #PFAS | The Guardian

This is a bad step by the EU, bowing to pressure from #lobbying.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jul/11/eu-to-drop-ban-of-hazardous-chemicals-after-industry-pressure

#Pollution

This photo is the Normal Rockwell moment for SF 2023:
#innersunset #goodneighbors

I’ve been looking for #journalism that doesn’t just shock with how serious the #ClimateCrisis threat is, but that holds to account the powerful people and institutions that control the big decisions determining our future. Anyone seen this kind of reoprting? Instead, we’re getting stories blaming ordinary people for not caring enough https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/10/climate/climate-change-extreme-weather.html?unlocked_article_code=fGyFF_OByAnuDnTSaUlLDcYnqKwOhRwXT5hNTXx2Q7dceJ-Eqb5tOn-sfNzIHKiRjuDWuuFCsOSaygB8EBbkJh2KbJ-wWURnivABASa9QZ_wNFvHDDVOHpmooxckdIe_zX-oj4_A390TlR3YAPofayiPNbYC1hCDNpi5PO2EJg5X5zv8yMDpggT07xgpuvSmiMYPhJYT5ltoR91o3UqnlzEa-fu357iasklI-n1Xd2k1FasgZPr7nyEFWXJ3QFWKJUHLD6Zp6xPDY7FN3nb46Rc74gj_hcjSyhP9LpXQM9rTrt26VzQg_AilSYONmbvZgewdFicHXUNjXt_TAHTwFtRL2XNRs0i7&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare How about laying out the many actions that have been identified for helping, who controls them and what’s being done? #USPol #ClimateChange

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#Ireland Passes #GDPR “Gag” Law Allowing Data Protection Commission to Make GDPR Procedures Confidential - https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/ireland-gdpr-gag-law/ really bad news...

It's not green...like,at all...also it's hella violent. Who could possibly have guessed?

https://lpeproject.org/blog/plan-halmahera-industrial-urbanism-rechargeable-batteries-replaceable-bodies/

"nerd immunity"

brilliant

Spotted in Chicago

A hack I use a lot these days if, say, posting on Facebook or (via my mostly dormant account on) Twitter is to post to Mastodon (or some other Fediverse service) and then copy a link to that post and into the closed platform, with some teaser info included, but requiring people on those closed platforms to visit an open platform if they want to see what I have to say. It demystifies open. 2/2

California Supreme Court declares that it's ok to violate public health ordinances, so long as it's for the sake of profit.

https://ko-fi.com/post/On-covid-Californias-supreme-court-just-said-the-V7V6N0GIS

If you move your main communications from Twitter to Facebook/Threads and then say you're glad to freeing yourself from a sociopathic billionaire's whims, you are truly missing the point.

By today’s standards he seems mild. Even Obama praised him. Along with Lincoln, Republicans trot Ronald Reagan out every time Democrats praise the communication wizardry of Obama, Clinton, or Kennedy, or the stalwart composition of FDR or integrity of Truman. In reality, Reagan was an impenetrable facade of congeniality who was quite hostile to civil rights.

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@blackmastodon@a.gup.pe @BlackMastodon@chirp.social #BlackMastodon #Histodons #History #BlackHistory #Politics #StillWeRise

Thank you for your patience. After observing the first 24 hours of Threads, we decided to block threads.net (in advance of them at some point joining the Fediverse).

There are openly, aggressively transphobic accounts on Threads.net with no visible attempt at moderation. We would defederate from any other Fediverse instance with that behaviour and no moderation, and there is no reason to treat threads.net any different.

150 years ago, Hebrew had no native speakers. It’s the only language in history to experience a revival of millions of native speakers. But for those doing the critical work of language revitalization in their own communities who might be tempted to see Hebrew as an exemplar - don’t.

For the Zionists who transformed Hebrew from the sacred language of Jewish ritual to the state language of Israel, Jewish languages like Yiddish, Ladino, and Judeo-Arabic were seen as weak and feminine (Hebrew literacy in the 19th century was mostly limited to men). This stood in stark contrast with Hebrew, which they associated with the modern, masculine and “pure” Jewish identity they sought to engender in the Jewish colony in Palestine.

The campaign to suppress Yiddish and “Hebraize” the Jewish people was vicious. In the decades before 1948, as Hebrew became the dominant language of the colony, organizations like the Hebrew Language Defense League propagated Hebrew and drove Yiddish from the public sphere, sometimes by force. Their more militant activists harassed shopkeepers who put up Yiddish signs; physically broke up film screenings, lectures and cultural performances in Yiddish; and even burned down newsstands that sold the leftist Yiddish-language paper Nayvelt.

In 1948, the state of Israel was established, and Arabic, too, was redefined as a “foreign” tongue. The victors seized Palestinian land, destroyed Palestinian villages and drove more than 700,000 Palestinian Arabs into exile. In the years that followed, tens of thousands of Jews immigrated to Israel from the Middle East and North Africa. While Yiddish was the native language of most Ashkenazim, the majority of the Mizrahi or “Eastern” Jews who came to Israel from the Middle East and North Africa spoke Arabic. Arabic in Israel, whether spoken by Palestinians or Mizrahi Jews, faced opposition as fervent as that directed at Yiddish.

Rudolf Rocker: "I am an anarchist not because I believe anarchism is the final goal, but because I believe there is no such thing as a final goal. Freedom will lead us to continually wider and expanding understandings and to new social forms of life."

@ShmosKnows Anyone who is getting VC money is on the path to enshittification. Anyone whose exit strategy is “go public” or “sell to a major corporation” is on the path to enshittification. Anyone whose business plan requires constant and never-ending growth is on the enshittification track.

People who are building what the VC class call “lifestyle” companies and what I call “sustainable” businessss are usually not on the enshittification path. If your company can provide a living for you and some fixed number of other people through both recessions and inflationary periods, then is sustainable. Doing that requires that a significant portion of excess revenues be banked in a rainy day fund to handle the inevitable downturns, and not extracted as profit for the owners.

Incendiary and heartrending, the essays in James Kelman's The State Is the Enemy lay bare government brutality against the working class, immigrants, ethnic minorities & all who are deemed of “a lower order.”

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