@Flexi Odd how when you have clean water and educate girls to read how the world becomes a better place.

@Flexi @sazemisery I mean, I am, but why do you have to put me on blast like that?

Bamboo can be used for pretty effective adiabatic cooling: https://www.designboom.com/technology/arep-adiabatic-urban-cooling-system-12-05-2021/ #cooling #globalwarming #climatechange #globalheating #airconditioning #bamboo #nativeknowledge #indigenousknowledge #appropriatetechnology #green

Tell your local pro-family politician: giving mothers of newborns a stipend improves the cognitive development of the next generation: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/24/us/politics/child-tax-credit-brain-function.html #childtaxcredit #cognitivehealth #publichealth #motherhood #development #psychologicaldevelopment

A policing algorithm turns out to be racist: https://www.npr.org/2022/01/26/1075509175/flaws-plague-a-tool-meant-to-help-low-risk-federal-prisoners-win-early-release #sheeramazement #policing #algorithms #prepolicing #minorityreport #prisonindustrialcomplex #prison #prisoncomplex #oppression #overpolicing #justicesystem #justice

@Sekhapada And in this case, such obvious hype from a populist who is just hoping to BS his way to political power.

Daily reminder that not all things are black and white and that many of us in the West are very comfortable compared to how the majority of the world lives: https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2022/jan/26/lives-of-lgbtq-afghans-dramatically-worse-under-taliban-rule-finds-survey #taliban #afghanistan #gender #sexuality #minorities #oppression #genderandsexualminorities

IMF urges El Salvador to remove Bitcoin as legal tender: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-60135552 #elsalvador #bitcoin #imf #internationalmonetaryfund

The end of poverty has just begun: https://ourworldindata.org/history-of-poverty-has-just-begun #poverty #data #ourworldindata

@Lisa_Winfeld This is why you are not president and probably never will be.

Biden is accelerating incarceration, in spite of his promise to do the opposite: https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2022/01/how-president-biden-launched-a-new-prison-boom.html #biden #prisoncomplex #incarceration #justicesystem #immigration #toughoncrime #prison #prisonindustrialcomplex #overpolicing #police #policing #joebiden #brokenpromises

With only minor hyperbole (and a healthy dose of privilege), I can say that this is one of the scariest things I have seen regarding Chinese authoritarian power: https://www.theguardian.com/film/2022/jan/25/fight-club-gets-a-new-ending-in-china-and-the-authorities-win Yes, of course, a slow-moving genocide in the northwest and thievery in the Spratleys are far worse, but this is a new display of soft power that is pretty shocking to me. #china #peoplesrepublicofchina #fightclub #censorship #totalitarianism #authoritarianism #movies #film

A Wisconsin hospital who thought that their ex-employees were some kind of slaves has lost at court: https://www.wpr.org/thedacare-loses-court-fight-keep-health-care-staff-who-resigned #sanity #courts #law #work #latestagecapitalism #wisconsin #healthcare

Hacktivists have shut down a Belarusian railway to (ostensibly) stop a Russian military buildup: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2022/01/hactivists-say-they-hacked-belarus-rail-system-to-stop-russian-military-buildup/ #hacktivism #russia #ukraine #belarus #hacking #activism #railways

An Indianapolitan coffee shop stayed open during the COVID-19 with a walk-up/storefront model: https://www.wrtv.com/open/indianapolis-coffee-shop-perk-up-stays-open-by-closing-doors-opening-windows-instead Why is it this model never took off? I was arguing for it a month into the pandemic. #covid #covid19 #covid19pandemic #businesssavvy #indianapolis #coffree

A pretty thorough take-down of Gemini that confirms all my suspicions and is far more technologically literate than I am: https://xn--gckvb8fzb.com/gemini-is-solutionism-at-its-worst/ #gemini #web #webstandards #webprotocols #redundancy #hobbies

News tends toward the negative for a variety of reasons, but this piece in The New Republic gives me hope for democracy: https://newrepublic.com/article/165115/american-democracy-isnt-dying As the author writes, do not be complacent, tho! #democracy #fascism #antifascism #incompetence #45 #votersuppression

In a development surprising no one, Cryptoland has fallen thru: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/jan/16/cryptoland-runs-aground-as-12m-bid-to-buy-fiji-island-for-resort-falls-through I sincerely do not get this at all. I like Dr Pepper. I like it a lot. I would not want to live on an island that was Dr Pepper-themed where literally anything that anyone ever talks about is Dr Pepper and how great it is. And I like Dr Pepper a lot. #cryptoland #fyrefestivalisland #libertarianism #fiji #naivete #crypto #cryptocurrency

In case you were wondering, Brian Eno thinks that NFTs are a grift: https://the-crypto-syllabus.com/brian-eno-on-nfts-and-automatism/ #grifts #scams #nfts #brianeno #artworld #latestagecapitalism

Like Ralph Nader, I do not believe that super-billionaires are here to save us, but I am very impressed by my fellow Indiana University alumnus Mark Cuban: https://techcrunch.com/2022/01/24/mark-cuban-cost-plus-pharmacy-lower-prices-reduce-stress/ Is there anything that I am missing here? #drugs #markcuban #pharmaceuticals #healthcare #marketdisruption #beneveloentapitalists