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Oxfam: Carbon inequality kills https://policy-practice.oxfam.org/resources/carbon-inequality-kills-why-curbing-the-excessive-emissions-of-an-elite-few-can-621656/

[ February 3, 2025] CFP for conference or similar: Digital Worlds Workshop https://philevents.org/event/show/129302

Digital Worlds Workshop
The philosophy departments at The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley and The University of North Dakota invite submissions for a virtual workshop to be conducted remotely on April 25-27 2025 . We seek papers that interrogate the way modern digital technology enhances, hampers, or alters our experience of our lived worlds. The distinction between “being on the internet” and “being in the real world” is eroding. People can increasingly be said to “live on their phones” or other dev…

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During WWII, when someone was sent to a concentration/death camp, the word used to describe it is “deported” to the camp.
The “mass deportations” currently being suggested today use the word “deportations” in the same way.
#HumanRights #deportation

This situation actually reminds me a bit of the dotcom bubble collapse in the late '90s / early '00s, with slight differences.
Declining stocks & VC led to a bunch of startups initially being unable to obtain additional funding. To make matters worse, ad demand started falling, leading to lower revenues for ad-based internet services.
In this case, a decline of ad demand is trailing dotcom revenue shortages. I suspect currency & stock weakness & a slowing econ…

really surprised to see all this traction around #bluesky right now. not sure what to make of it WRT fediverse and mastodon. kind of bums me out that people are not migrating here.

Bag making in progress. Joining ends to bodies for some tube/duffel shaped purses. Drinking tea, settling into the studio, and getting on with it #handmade #sewing #bagsewing

Still up? Go check out the moon. 🌕 The bright object nearby is Jupiter, a gas giant planet 385,650,657 miles away from Earth (as of 10 minutes ago). #lookUp

Russia is intentionally humiliating Trump, and blowing holes in his proposed ceasefire...
The sooner Trump gets righteously angry and tired of being a sap, the better.

One obvious reason this could be the case, despite the stimulus impact of the war, is that a lot of dotcoms / tech companies are highly sensitive to the stock market, VC funding, etc.
IOW, revenue from the stock market & VC funding suddenly disappeared, leaving them at the mercy of high rate loans, due to the historically high Russian central bank key rate.
And so, huge swathes of high tech are at risk of debt spirals and ever-increasing rates on loans.