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Is emoji interpretation just a "fun" summer topic, or does emoji misinterpretation ever become serious, like in court discussions? - In face there have been several cases both in North America and Europe where emoji meanings were negotiated in court! I keep a collection of them because it's a nice intersection with my alter ego, the "forensic" linguist. For example, in cases from Canada and Bavaria, judges had to decide whether a thumbs-up 👍 in a chat was meant as a signal of agreement (to a contract or contract amendment), or whether (like the senders argued) it constituted only an acknowledgement of receipt of the message. In both cases, the context was super important - how did the parties interact before, what else was said in the chat, etc. Interesting! #emojis #linguistics #WorldEmojiDay

Seems to me that #agribusiness is an example of #MarketFailure, where poisoning workers and destroying local #ecosystems is highly profitable.
And it's not as if alternative approaches don&…

Revealed: how Europe’s most powerful farming lobby killed EU’s pesticide law
Exclusive: High-level documents show how Copa Cogeca worked to weaken legislation to protect climate and wildlife

Seems to me that #agribusiness is an example of #MarketFailure, where poisoning workers and destroying local #ecosystems is highly profitable.
And it's not as if alternative approaches don&…

Revealed: how Europe’s most powerful farming lobby killed EU’s pesticide law
Exclusive: High-level documents show how Copa Cogeca worked to weaken legislation to protect climate and wildlife

For decades, the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor, known as DRL,
has supported  human rights in some of the most oppressive countries in the world.
Now, our reporting found,  it’s planning to direct funds to controversial groups supporting right-wing causes in Europe and elsewhere. 
Our full story lays out some of the groups the government has considered funding, which includea British free-speech organization that has fought against bans on “gay conversion ther…

What Is the Trump Administration Doing With Foreign Aid Money?
The billions of dollars Congress has allocated for foreign aid programs must be spent. One proposal from the Trump administration suggested funding research on crime against Afrikaners in South Africa.

Interesting study commissioned by European Commission's DG ENER on smart and bidirectional charging of EVs.
Smart charging is already mature tech and ready for use. It is important to use time-varying energy and network prices, and for TSOs and DSOs to remove barriers to small-scale flexibility.

Study on the assessment of use cases and business models for smart and bidirectional recharging in the context of energy system integration - Publications Office of the EU
demand patterns across the European Union. As electrification progresses across private, commercial, and fleet segments, charging behaviour has become a material factor for peak demand, grid utilization, and system balancing. Within this context, smart charging (SC) and bidirectional charging (BDC) have growing relevance as demand-side flexibility and energy-system integration instruments. This study first assesses the system relevance, maturity, and deployment conditions of SC and BDC across t…

That the US has a health problem isn’t controversial.
The Make America Healthy Again movement, led by US health secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr, has highlighted soaring rates of obesity, diabetes and chronic disease.
The movement’s public face isn’t scientists or doctors,
but influencers posting videos from saunas, gyms and parks talking about better choices and individual discipline.
Eat more red meat. Do more push-ups. Drink raw milk. Avoid vaccines and boost your na…

The US public is fed up with RFK Jr. To really ‘make America healthy again’, it should look to Europe
Americans are dying younger than Europeans, despite being the wealthiest people on the planet. Wellness fads won’t change that, says public health expert Devi Sridhar