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In the least surprising news of the day, we find that UN-sponsored talks aimed at producing a treaty to reduce plastic production and pollution have failed. 🙁
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Countries negotiating a global treaty to curb plastic pollution failed to reach agreement, with more than 100 nations wanting to cap production while a handful of oil producers were prepared only to target plastic waste.

Delegates remained far apart on the basic scope of a treaty and could agree only to postpone key decisions and to resume talks at a later date.

Plastic production is on track to triple by 2050, and microplastics have been found in the air, in fresh produce, and in human breast milk.

China, the United States, India, South Korea, and Saudi Arabia were the top five plastic-producing nations in 2023.
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FULL STORY -- reuters.com/business/environme
SEE ALSO -- politico.eu/article/un-plastic

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#Politics #Economics #Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #Capitalism #BusinessAsUsual

I roll a d20 every morning, and today I rolled two 20s in a row, so I guess I'm literally invincible for the rest of 2024.

Time to be awesome? ...some light reflection on the heavy state of the world (185 words) 

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I hope this Apple employee wins this lawsuit against the company and brings a halt to a corporate control freak's insistence on knowing everything its employee is doing, at work and at home.

Pervasive bossware should be illegal, period. Congress, of course, is indifferent to privacy rights, and it's dangerous to rely on our increasingly right-wing courts for help.

Unions are still the best way forward for workers' rights.

semafor.com/article/12/02/2024

@AkaSci @EricFielding @michael_w_busch I have to say, if we're going to go into Kessler Syndrome, having it start via an NEO hitting a Starlink satellite is one of the more ironic ways. *Particularly* if it's an NEO that has its discovery missed because of satellite streaks in NEO survey images...

If I was Biden (I'm not) despite plenty of pressure to do otherwise I wouldn't announce ANY of my plans for final executive orders/pardons/appointments or anything of the sort. I would have everything drawn up to the point where the only thing required was my signature, then I'd sit out the rest of my term until like the final month or so, then I'd sign everything and simply not comment on it. There'd be no reason to give the Trump admin more time to figure out how to undo any of it.

I don’t know what would thrill your friends and relatives more this holiday season than unwrapping the political thriller of our era. Deranged, absurd, violent, and packed with laffs—much like life itself!

How do cooperative enterprises differ?

A small example/anecdote: When I applied for a job at a big Japanese university I had to re-submit my CV. The problem? I had included my six years of "stay-at-home parent." That had to go in order for my CV to be accepted.

In our current co-op study/organizing circle, based on @luisrazeto 's How to Create a Solidarity Enterprise, we each prepared a CV, and then a combined collective CV that recognized the importance of parenting and other care work.

Decongestant my old friend
I've come to swallow you again
because some mucus boldly clinging
to my lungs has been hamstringing
my ability to breathe and the coughing's getting out of hand
so here I stand
hoping that it's not
pneumonia

2/2 (*) Bluesky doesn't have to make money YET. The fact that they're focussed on building their user base (read, preparing to capitalize on a network effect) means they're able to be much more user-quality-of-life oriented right now.

When the bills come due, especially from cryptobros propping it up, stay tuned for that priority to change.

That by itself is a good reason to keep this federated community growing and improving, to be the best possible next alternative.

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... it's using OpenAI plugins to do at least some of it. Which is fruit of the poisonous tree for me (I have an actual policy on the use of AI, you can view it here: eviscerati.org/ai-policy/). So I _won't_ be incorporating it into my workflow, and my audiobook podcasts will likely be less polished as a result.

Still. Damn. I do feel the pull of the dark side on this one. 5/fin

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There is a service called "Auphonic" that lets you upload a wav or mp3 and it will do a number of things to it. It calls itself an "AI sound engineer" and it lets anyone play around with it free for one hour's worth of audio processing a month. I'd played with it in the past, but in the last year it got really, really good. 2/?

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Pretending these freaks are normal when we (some of us) lived through four years of them ain't for me. dailykos.com/story/2024/11/29/

An interview with anarchist author, Peter Gelderloos, on his recent books "They Will Beat The Memory Out Of Us" and "Organization, Community, Continuity" discussing topics of movement memory, community, care work, organization and struggle

thefinalstrawradio.noblogs.org

Interesting chat about the 501(d) tax exempt status for apostolic organizations and the case of Twin Oaks Community vs. IRS. casetext.com/case/twin-oaks-cm

I wonder if this provision could provide a workable tax status for labor commoning efforts as well as intentional communities?

IRS guidance: irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/p5627.pdf

@GuerillaOntologist

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