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The Web Runs On Tolerance
werd.io · Dec 08
"History shows us that all progress comes from the meeting of diverse people, with different ideas, and different backgrounds." The web is no different.
Chattanooga’s Municipal Fiber Network Has Delivered $5.3 Billion in Community Benefits, New Study Finds | Welcome to Community Networks
communitynets.org · Dec 08
Since 2011, a new study finds that Chattanooga's city-owned fiber network has generated $5.3 billion in net community benefits for Hamilton County. Conducted by researchers at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, the study finds that the municipal fiber network has dramatically reshaped th...
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(@Perrin42) ·
Dec 09
🔁 @karlbode.com:
A new study has found that Chattanooga, Tennessee's decision to build their own affordable community-owned fiber broadband network has driven $5.3 billion in economic benefits back to the community.
From my colleague and friend @seangon.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy:
Chattanooga’s Municipal Fiber ...
404 Media Is Making a Zine
404media.co · Dec 08
We are publishing a risograph-printed zine about the surveillance technologies used by ICE.
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The Flight Attendant
(@CosmicTraveler) ·
Dec 08
🔁 @jasonkoebler:
404 Media is making a print zine! About the surveillance technologies used by ICE. 16 pages, riso printed. Shipping early January. Features reworked versions of our best reporting and a few new things. We're very excited! And hope to do more if people like it:
Old Teslas Are Falling Apart
futurism.com · Dec 07
On Consumer Reports' latest ranking of used car reliability, Tesla came in dead last with a rating not even half of the top placed brand.
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Blake Fox
(@blakefox) ·
Dec 08
🔁 @dangillmor:
Resale values of Teslas are in the depths for all kinds of reasons, but the central one -- apart from the taint of Musk -- is that the cars are ridiculously crappy and unreliable as they age. https://futurism.com/advanced-transport/old-teslas-falling-apart
Just one more reason to avoid this toxic brand at all costs.
The woman who discovered black holes
newhumanist.org.uk · Dec 08
Louise Webster has been largely forgotten – it's time to remember her
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Just Tom... 🐁
(@tompearce49) ·
Dec 08
🔁 @cdarwin:
The two relics of exploding stars are black holes and neutron stars.
Both were discovered by women.
Jocelyn Bell discovered neutron stars, in the guise of “pulsars”, in 1967.
Since then, three Nobel prizes have gone to male scientists for their work on pulsars, but none to Bell.
Louise Webster, the co-discoverer of black holes, has been largely forgotten.
Unless, of course, you remember her name.
How would your social feed look if you controlled what you saw?
abc.net.au · Dec 07
Sexual violence prevention group Teach Us Consent is pushing for Australians to have the choice to "opt-in" to social media algorithms.
Worth reading
Bag of words, have mercy on us
experimental-history.com · Dec 07
OR: Claude will you go to prom with me?
Under Former Chemical Industry Insiders, Trump EPA Nearly Doubles Amount of Formaldehyde Considered Safe to Inhale
propublica.org · Dec 08
Chemical industry lobbyists have long pushed the government to adopt a less stringent approach to gauging the cancer risk from chemicals, one that would help ease regulations on companies that make or use them.
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Paul Cantrell
(@inthehands) ·
Dec 09
🔁 @ProPublica:
Chemical industry lobbyists have long pushed the government to adopt a less stringent approach to gauging the cancer risk from chemicals, one that would help ease regulations on companies that make or use them.
They finally got their wish.
https://www.propublica.org/article/epa-formaldehyde-risk-assessment?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Environment #PublicHealth #Health #Cancer #Government #Regulation
The US has declared rhetorical war on the EU
davekeating.substack.com · Dec 08
The calls from America this weekend to destroy the EU are revealing. They hate the union because it's the only thing that can keep European countries from being Russian or American vassals.
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Workers Rights Channel
(@workersrights) ·
Dec 08
🔁 @KimPerales:
"Coord atk from DC & SV, goal:🚨DESTROY THE #EU. On Thurs, US govt rel: #NSS *atks Eur & calls for regime chg agst sitting govts +support for far-R MAGA-aligned challs.
Musk:🚨“EU should be abolished.” Hypocrisy: US censorship claims, X: bloc the EU Comm's acct bc: tried to defend the fine on the PL *foll by DOS Dep Sec Laundau's post *now repping the US at #NATO fgn min summits,🚨threatened to w/d the US MIL protectorate over Eur unless Europeans chg their policies.
#USPol
https://davekeating.substack.com/p/the-us-has-declared-rhetorical-war
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