@primonatura@mstdn.social2026-04-17 16:00:41
"‘Protected’ seagrass meadows aren’t necessarily healthy – because pollution doesn’t stop at the shoreline"
#Oceans #Seagrass #Environment
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-02-17 15:25:48
Filing: Gemini says its COO, CFO, and chief legal officer are leaving; Cameron Winklevoss will take on many of the COO's duties; GEMI falls 10% (Olivier Acuna/CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/business/2026/02/
@cdarwin@c.im2026-04-17 01:03:52
Following California implementing a law raising its minimum wage to $20 for more than 500,000 fast-food workers in the state in 2024,
Christopher Thornberg, founding partner of research firm Beacon Economics, offered a warning about the state raising its minimum wage.
“California’s well-intended push to reduce income inequality via wage floors is beginning to have a significant negative impact on some of our most vulnerable workers
—our youth, particularly those from lower-i…
@servelan@newsie.social2026-04-15 15:33:38
UK:
Afghan women fleeing Talbian denied protection as asylum approvals collapse - Canary
https://www.thecanary.co/global/world-news/2026/04/15/afghan-women-fleeing-talbian-denied-protection-as-asylum-approvals-collapse/
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2026-02-16 16:35:42
Mexico announces a 30% tax incentive for film and TV productions in Mexico, even as the Trump administration pressures studios to shoot more films in the US (Scott Roxborough/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/m
@newsie@darktundra.xyz2026-04-17 15:51:23
FAA Scraps Civil and Criminal Penalties for Flying Drones Near ICE Vehicles https://www.404media.co/faa-scraps-civil-and-criminal-penalties-for-flying-drones-near-ice-vehicles/
@hex@kolektiva.social2026-03-16 10:22:41
On the first day of the #PTSD intensive, we talked about the shooting. I had felt like I was done with that, that it didn't have anything left for me. But there was something still that filled me with rage... that is still confusing and enraging.
It wasn't actually being shot. I wasn't even the possibility of death. I had been prepared to die. I always knew that was possible. It was something else.
I remember Marc Hokoana's face as he pepper sprayed pacifists, smiling and taunting, joyfully hurting people who he knew were refusing to respond. I remember their flags, the kek flag, literally a Nazi battle flag replaced in 4chan colors with the clover 4chan logo instead of the swastika. How many people have been tortured, have died? How much suffering, that these people not only welcomed but celebrated, joyfully participated in.
The cruelty was the point. It was the plan, the plan he posted to Facebook, the same plan as they have always had, of torturing people until someone responds and then murdering them. Inflicting trauma, responding with overwhelming force, showing how "big and strong" they are because they can always escalate.
Try to stop someone from peppers praying people, they shoot you. Shoot back, like Michael Reinoehl, and they send a death squad for you. But we keep standing up, so they keep escalating to the slightest imagined infraction. Now they just murder you for being in a car, for filming at a protest, for existing.
The bar for what justifies murder or torture will continue to move lower until there is no one left, or until they can no longer escalate.
The feeling of helplessness is still not the biggest thing though. It's the joy with which they inflict this on us. That's it. That's the thing.
CW: gun violence, abuse dynamics
https://hexmhell.writeas.com/the-creature-ptss-5-day-1
@davidaugust@mastodon.online2026-04-17 01:24:58
LAPD declared an anti-ICE protest to be unlawful assembly on Saturday after sex toys were thrown at a detention facility. LAPD Central Division said criminal behavior by some lead to arrests, and officers feeling both threatened and aroused lead to one divorce and many instances of chaffing.
#USpol #satire
@cdarwin@c.im2026-03-16 16:23:15
A Swiss canton has suspended its pilot of electronic voting after failing to count 2,048 votes cast in national referendums held on March 8.
Basel-Stadt announced the problem with its e-voting pilot, open to about 10,300 locals living abroad and 30 people with disabilities, last Friday afternoon.
It encouraged participants to deliver a paper vote to the town hall or use a polling station but admitted this would not be possible for many.
By the close of polling on Sunday, its …
@cdarwin@c.im2026-04-16 20:08:01
Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) told White House budget director Russel Vought that
lawmakers “are not getting any answers”
as to why hundreds of millions of dollars isn’t flowing to states
for anti-poverty programs.
Senators from both parties chided the Trump administration Thursday for continuing to withhold funding Congress has approved, -- more than a year after the White House first froze billions of dollars for temporary “review.”
During White House budget di…