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Outrage as Brazil law threatening Indigenous lands advances in congress

“Lawmakers had sent “a clear message to the country and the world: Bolsonaro is gone but the extermination [of Indigenous communities and the environment] continues,” the Climate Observatory added.”

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Of Course We Should All be Working Less

“In 1940, the Fair Labor Standards Act reduced the workweek to 40 hours. Today, as a result of huge advances in technology and productivity, now is the time to lower the workweek to 32 hours—with no loss in pay. Workers must benefit from advanced technology, not just the 1%.”

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How Picnic, an Emerging Social Network, Found its Niche

“By putting a degree of financial incentive in the hands of moderators by offering them fractional ownership of the community they built through a system of “seeds,” they ultimately are able to control their community’s destiny.”

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Twitter Fails to Remove Hate Speech by Blue-Check Users, Center for Countering Digital Hate Says

“Twitter is failing to remove 99 percent of hate speech posted by Twitter Blue users, new research has found, and instead may be boosting paid accounts that spew racism and homophobia.” Who would have predicted?

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‘This robot causes harm’: National Eating Disorders Association’s new chatbot advises people with disordering eating to lose weight

““Every single thing Tessa suggested were things that led to the development of my eating disorder,” Maxwell wrote in her Instagram post. “This robot causes harm.””

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Documents reveal how fossil fuel industry created, pushed anti-ESG campaign

“ESG’s path to its current culture war status began with an attempt by West Virginia coal companies to push back against the financial industry’s rising unease around investing in coal — which as the dirtiest-burning fuel has the most powerful and disrupting impacts on the climate.”

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Jesse Armstrong on the roots of Succession: ‘Would it have landed the same way without the mad bum-rush of Trump’s presidency?’

“I guess the simple things at the heart of Succession ended up being Brexit and Trump. The way the UK press had primed the EU debate for decades. The way the US media’s conservative outriders prepared the way for Trump, hovered at the brink of support and then dived in.”

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Petition: GLOBAL CALL FOR THE URGENT PREVENTION OF GENOCIDE OF THE INDIGENOUS PEOPLES IN BRAZIL

“As citizens from all over the world, we are uniting our voices to demand urgent justice for the indigenous peoples of Brazil.” This is urgent; please sign.

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TimeGuessr

Fun little game that asks you to guess the place and time a series of photos were taken. My best score so far: 38,000.

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Power of One

“It’s not about how many views you have, how many likes, trying to max all your stats… sometimes a single connection to another human is all that matters.”

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How We Reached Dairy Farm Workers to Write About Them

“The reporters’ process underscores one of our central beliefs at ProPublica: Publishing a story about injustice isn’t enough if we don’t reach the people who are directly affected.”

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How I Won $5 Million From the MyPillow Guy and Saved Democracy

“But if more people sought truth, even when that truth is contrary to their beliefs — such as when a Republican like me destroys a Republican myth — then I think we really can save democracy in America. In fact, I think that’s the only way.”

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2023: The year equitable journalism goes mainstream

“For too long, journalism has had a laser focus on holding power to account, rather than widening its aperture to recognize the opportunity to build and share power in and with communities.”

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Henry Kissinger at 100: Still a War Criminal

“Kissinger’s diplomatic conniving led to or enabled slaughters around the globe. As he blows out all those candles, let’s call the roll.”

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Generative AI: What You Need To Know

“A free resource that will help you develop an AI-bullshit detector.”

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Recycled plastic can be more toxic and is no fix for pollution, Greenpeace warns

“But … the toxicity of plastic actually increases with recycling. Plastics have no place in a circular economy and it’s clear that the only real solution to ending plastic pollution is to massively reduce plastic production.”

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Georgia GOP Chair: If the Earth Really Is Round, Why Are There So Many Globes Everywhere?

“Everywhere there’s globes…and that’s what they do to brainwash… For me, if it is not a conspiracy, if it is, you know, ‘real,’ why are you pushing so hard? Everywhere I go, every store, you buy a globe, there’s globes everywhere—every movie, every TV show, news media, why?”

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CEO of biggest carbon credit certifier to resign after claims offsets worthless

“It comes amid concerns that Verra, a Washington-based nonprofit, approved tens of millions of worthless offsets that are used by major companies for climate and biodiversity commitments.”

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Social Media Poses ‘Profound Risk’ to Teen Mental Health, Surgeon General Warns

“Frequent social media use may be associated with distinct changes in the developing brain in the amygdala (important for emotional learning and behavior) and the prefrontal cortex (important for impulse control, emotional regulation, and moderating social behavior), and could increase sensitivity to social rewards and punishments.”

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Seniors are flooding homeless shelters that can’t care for them

“Nearly a quarter of a million people 55 or older are estimated by the government to have been homeless in the United States during at least part of 2019, the most recent reliable federal count available.” Hopelessly broken.

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Leaked EU Document Shows Spain Wants to Ban End-to-End Encryption

“Breaking end-to-end encryption for everyone would not only be disproportionate, it would be ineffective of achieving the goal to protect children.” It would also put a great many more people at risk.

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NAACP warns Black Americans against traveling to Florida because of DeSantis policies

“On Saturday, the NAACP joined the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC), a Latino rights advocacy group, and Equality Florida, an LGBTQ rights advocacy group, in issuing Florida travel advisories.”

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May Anti-Trans Legislative Risk Map

“The map of anti-trans risk has polarized into two Americas - one where trans people have full legal protections, and one where they are persecuted by the state.”

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Techbro SF

“San Francisco is a dystopian hellhole caught in doomloop and it is all because everyone hates techbros. Well, we are tired of being disrespected. Therefore we are going to attack those who can’t fight back, yes, poor people.”

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Letter from Jourdon Anderson: A Freedman Writes His Former Master

“Give my love to them all, and tell them I hope we will meet in the better world, if not in this. I would have gone back to see you all when I was working in the Nashville Hospital, but one of the neighbors told me that Henry intended to shoot me if he ever got a chance.”

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