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https://www.slavefreechocolate.org/ethical-chocolate-companies
โTwitter Filesโ consist of cherry-picked anecdotes with no context. What the actual data showed is:
1. Conservatives dominated social media. https://politico.com/amp/news/2020/10/26/censorship-conservatives-social-media-432643
2. Twitter favored conservatives. https://economist.com/graphic-detail/2021/11/13/according-to-twitter-twitters-algorithm-favours-conservatives
@DarksideStraxus
game theory explains that all.
@Woman_of_Wonder01
this article. 2018. some things got confirmed, others did not. but he was convicted. and the part about her ig influenced me a lot.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-45225183
A statue honoring Henrietta Lacks whose whose cells resulted in countless medical breakthroughs will be built in her birthplace Roanoke #Virginia
The statue replaces Gen Robert E Lee
@Woman_of_Wonder01
I remember several years ago a guy killed his wife and two daughters. it was all over the news. and in these news they showed the wife's ig full of "perfect family" posts and pictures. in reality, the husband was cheating and was mentally unstable. don't remember if he also committed suicide or not. but these news were the last straw for me to quit almost all social media back then (I kept Linkedin, not really using it tho)
US must disconnect strategic supply chains from China, say experts.
"It is not certain that voters will accept the burden of 'de-risking' a broad swath of raw materials and technology-oriented industrial policies," they wrote. "Defense planners, in particular, must be ready to deal with those outcomes."
by Avery Ruxer Franklin
https://phys.org/news/2022-12-disconnect-strategic-chains-china-experts.html
Full Report:
https://www.bakerinstitute.org/research/chinese-behemoths-what-chinas-rare-earths-dominance-means-us
@corlin amen
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@silent_dystopia
When I was around 18 yo, I had two lady rats as pets and was hanging at the local rat forum. Oh damn, how many internet battles did I have! Visious people! ๐ And the worst anti science user was a ~50 yo single grumpy af lady. I stopped participating in her discussions after I met her in person & saw how miserable she was.
@mikeharmanos @QueenPhillippa
There is always work. Nothing in this life is free, especially freedom and equality. Lost battle does not mean lost war. Keep faith, unite and fight for what you believe in. Fight can have different faces, keeping yourself and your spirit healthy is also a part of it. Take care of yourself โค๏ธ
@QueenPhillippa @mikeharmanos
I am so glad to see you say it
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Vaccination rates are falling, and its not just the COVID-19 vaccine that people are refusing
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-04341-9
Societyโs best defense against childhood diseases is waning. What needs to be done to help it recover?
The failures and inequities in the global public-health response, coupled with politicization of the pandemic, have also undermined confidence in the institutions and people that coordinate and conduct immunization efforts.
#Science
@LindaTeppler
I'm not one of them, unfortunately, but I wish you luck in finding them and enjoying their work ๐
@LindaTeppler
not sure about authors needing the reads as they are already quite famous, but the books are good and I would recommend (they are optimistic):
A. Tchaikovsky "Children of Time" and Andy Weir "Project Hail Mary"
really fun read. both involve "the end of the world" in some way.
of course, there are plenty more, way more grim. Handmaid's tail, rifter trilogy (very hard sci fi), and a bunch about zombi apocalypse.
there is also classics like Do androids dream of electric sheep
@nightowl4521 you also might reconsider moving to Canada as they might pass the same bill if the US bans tiktok nation-wide
https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2022/12/15/as-tiktok-bans-unfurl-across-the-globe-some-say-canada-should-follow.html
"Russia will disappear from the face of the earth when the Ukrainian sun rises" (c) Dzhokhar Dudayev, the first president of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria