'Mean Girl' Reneé Rapp isn't getting much nicer on "Bite Me"
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Résistance aux sanctions US : la CHINE continuera d'acheter du pétrole russe
La Chine résistera aux sanctions américaines en poursuivant l'achat de pétrole russe, selon le secrétaire au Trésor américain Malgré les menaces de tarifs douaniers exorbitants pour l’acquisition de pétrole russe, Pékin a fermement indiqué que sa pol…El Diablo (Commun COMMUNE [le blog d'El Diablo])
The mayor of a General Motors factory town on the impact of new tariffs
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These are the things this LINO regime have done since coming to power only a year ago.
Very LGBT+ phobic.
Complete controle: dat was het streven van de Amerikaanse theatermaker Robert Wilson
De Amerikaanse theatermaker Robert Wilson was een meester van de controle. Zijn regie was altijd clean en strak, ‘het ontdekken van emoties’ liet hij liever aan het publiek over. Wilson overleed donderdag op 83-jarige leeftijd.Hein Janssen (DPG Media)
Trump's 'Golden Share' in U.S. Steel
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La mobilisation contre la #LoiDuplomb ne faiblit pas.
Ce 31 juillet des activistes ( @xrfrance Clermont, Attac63 et des citoyen·nes) ont placardé des affiches dans tout Clermont-centre.
Le but ?
Informations précises sur la loi et toujours un lien sur la pétition qui, doit-on le rappeler, a dépassé les 2 millions de signatures.
Les lignes bougent, le Conseil de l'ordre des Médecins donne un avis plus que défavorable sur les risques entraînés par cette loi !
À suivre…
D'autres actions sont à venir.
Anarchonaut #12
Anarchonauts are the imagined inhabitants of a speculative future version of Lagos, rendered by architect and visual artist Olalekan B. Jeyifous.Everything Will Be Fine
KI im Cockpit: Hier wird autonomes Fahren in Deutschland erprobt | t3n
In den USA und China sind größtenteils autonome Fahrzeuge in ausgewählten Großstädten quasi Alltag, in Deutschland noch eine Attraktion. Diese Firmen und Initiativen wollen das ändern.Florian Zandt (t3n Magazin)
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Handwave raises $4.2M to launch palm-based payments in Europe and the US
Latvian biometric startup- Handwave has raised $4.2 million in Seed funding to launch its palm-based payment and identity platform in Europe and the US.Cate Lawrence (Tech.eu)
Israel’s National Security Council (NSC) has sharpened its travel warnings for Israelis visiting and staying in the United Arab Emirates, citing a heightened risk of “terrorist organisations” carrying out attacks in the Gulf State.
The NSC cited a growing threat from “terrorist organisations (The Iranians, Hamas, Hezbollah and Global Jihad)” attacking Israeli targets, motivated by Israel’s military operations in the Middle East.
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Israel sharpens UAE travel warning for citizens, cites ‘terrorist’ threat
Israel said ‘terrorist organisations’ were motivated to exact revenge on it due to its recent military campaigns.Al Jazeera
Belgium refers 2 Israeli soldiers to ICC over alleged war crimes in Gaza – Middle East Monitor
The Belgian Public Prosecutor has decided to refer the cases of two Israeli soldiers to the International Criminal Court (ICC), following complaints accusingBYTESEU (Bytes Europe)
We found that the maximum sequestration potential is 96.9 Gt of carbon, equivalent to 17.6% of the anthropogenic emissions to date, or 3.7–12.0% if taking into account future emissions until 2100. Our results suggest that ecosystem restoration has limited potential for climate change mitigation even if orchestrated with a pervasive shift towards sustainable, low-emissions economies globally
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Armenia’s Trail of Tears
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"This is the twenty-sixth and last part in a series about riding night trains across Europe, Turkey, and the Near East to Georgia and Armenia—to spend time in worlds beyond the pathological obsessions of Donald Trump. Republic Square in Yerevan, Armenia, now the center of the Armenian nation (in the Caucasus), which until the 1915 More
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The art of the praise
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The UAE has formally lodged complaints with "Israel" regarding the behavior of Ambassador Yossi Shelley, a former director-general of the Prime Minister’s Office, over at least three separate incidents involving misconduct and clashes with Emirati security personnel.
Shelley reportedly misbehaved on multiple occasions, raising concerns about his adherence to "diplomatic protocol in a country where security sensitivities are high".
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UAE lodges complaint against Israeli ambassador over 'misbehavior'
The UAE lodges complaints against Israeli Ambassador Yossi Shelley over misconduct, clashes with local security, and crossing "red lines" at a bar in Abu Dhabi.Al Mayadeen English (UAE lodges complaint against Israeli ambassador over 'misbehavior')
Luxembourg keeps top spot for EU minimum wage
Luxembourg continues to lead the bloc with the highest national minimum wage, standing at €2,704 per month as of 1 July, according to the latest Eurostat dataBYTESEU (Bytes Europe)
By now, the latest instance of New York Times bias in covering Israel’s war on Gaza has already become notorious.
A few days ago, the Times finally ran a feature story about starvation in Gaza.
It included photographs and video of emaciated Palestinians that would have been a surprise to anyone who relied mainly on the Times for their news, although all too familiar to anyone who follows alternative media.
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New York Times: Israel isn’t starving healthy children to death. Just the ones with preexisting conditions.
A few days after writing a story on starvation and malnutrition in Gaza, the New York Times issued a clarification that it felt readers must know: that the emaciated Palestinian boy it had profiled actually had a preexisting health condition.James North (Mondoweiss)
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There's a larger communication problem to unpack here.
We need ecosystem restoration for so many other things than carbon sequestration.
But decades of protests and feedback from extreme weather disasters have just barely achieved to make leaders understand that CO2 is an existential threat.
CO2 is measurable, you can make calculations, and thus at least somehow compatible with our market-driven economy. But biodiversity is not. It is just too complex.
I, as a scientist (soil microbiologist), can mainly contemplate in fascination how many important things them little buggers do for us and we don't have a clue how exactly they do these things. And even though science advances, we won't be able to understand what is happening there, because it is getting too complex, and even when you get to understand a little thing in your system, the sheer number of specialists that need to work in an interdisciplinary team gets so huge that we need already other specialists to help us coordinate and work together, and even more to communicate (e.g. between soil chemists, a soil microbiologist, a soil zoologists, farmers, botanists, meteorologists, statisticians... And then we aren't even close to society, where we would need sociologists, economists, artists and the entire civil society... the list could go on endless. And if you don't have real people there, the scientists will work on useless ivory tower topics with little actual use for the local communities and/or society in general).
However, since we all know that biodiversity restoration is key to our survival as civilization and probably even as a species (despite all the other reasons), we *need* to push policy makers towards this.
It's like putting a price tag on biodiversity and saying "hey, that's important for the economy", because money (and now, increasingly also CO2) are the arguments these people accept.
But it gets worse. While arguing with CO2 capture by restored ecosystems, structurally we focus on this "ecosystem service". Think about reforestation projects with eucalyptus monocultures that are actually even worse for biodiversity than the "degraded shrubland" they replace.
So, what shall we do? The only long-term solution is to communicate clearly, but this does not acknowledge how public discourse and communication works, and how simple the messages for policy makers need to be, because these people and structures are ignorant as hell.
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> we *need* to push policy makers towards this. It's like putting a price tag on biodiversity and saying "hey, that's important for the economy", because money (and now, increasingly also CO2) are the arguments these people accept.
we've been doing this for so long now, and they haven't done anything even remotely sufficient. They do wars instead.