@theendupdates@podvibes.co2024-03-14 21:08:09
Fresh from The End:
**The End Issue #80. Pi Day Is A Perfect Day To Listen To Finished Audio Fiction!**
https://www.theend.fyi/newsletter/pi-day-is-a-perfect-day-to-listen-to-finished-audio-fiction
Featuring THE B…
@ErikJonker@mastodon.social2024-04-15 18:06:52
Confirmation that missiles got through:
"The Spokesman for the Israel Defense Force, Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari has stated during a ongoing Press Conference at Nevatim Airbase; that the Base is Fully Operation despite being Struck with 4 Iranian Medium-Range Ballistic Missiles on Saturday Night causing Minor Damage to a Runway and Building, with Repairs expected to begin in the coming Days."
So in case of a larger attack, the damage could be substantial.
@nemobis@mamot.fr2024-04-09 05:26:36
Millions of small coffee growers vs. central monitoring from 7000 km away: a classic #commons governance story?
https://www.theguardian.com/global-de…
![But Regis Meritan strongly assuaged the fears of cocoa farmers, in both Ghana and Ivory Coast, of any adverse impact of the EUDR on their livelihoods.
"I do not think that the regulation on deforestation will have a major impact on your ability to continue to sell your cocoa and your cocoa to be imported into Europe," Dr Meritan assured.
"I am not talking about 100 per cent of your production, but I think we are talking about 98 per cent of your production or 95 [per cent] I will be probably…](https://static.mamot.fr/media_attachments/files/112/239/593/980/819/355/original/de99f8435ec3c00f.png)
@adrianriskin@kolektiva.social2024-04-24 15:26:05
Here's their press release from this morning:
Alt text here instead of in images due to length:
NEWS RELEASE Embargoed until April 24, 7:00am PST
Divest From Death USA
Media Contact: Media Liaisons, USC Divest From Death Coalition USCSolidarityOccupation@protonmail.com
USC Divest From Death Coalition to Begin Gaza Solidarity Occupation in University of
Southern California Campus
LOS ANGELES. (April 24, 2023) — USC Divest From Death Coalition today announced theit occupation of USC's Alumni Park, where the increasingly controversial 2024 Commencement is currently set to take place. The students taking part in the Gaza Solidarity Occupation are planning to occupy USC until their demands are met. The coalition joins other students groups across the country in the National Students for Justice in Palestine's "Popular University for Gaza," a coordinated mass movement of students, faculty and staff that disrupts universities, creating climates that push universities to answer community and international calls for full divestment from the Zionist entity, and all of the industries that sustain it.
1. End War Profiteering and Investment in Genocide. USC must fully disclose and divest its finances and endowment from companies and institutions that profit from Israeli apartheid, genocide, and occupation in Palestine, including the US Military and weapons manufacturing. USC must comumit to accountability through full transparency of their financial investments.
2. Complete Academic Boycott of Israel. USC must end its study abroad programs at Hebrew University's Rothenberg International School and Reichman University and sever all academic ties and research cooperation with Israeli universities.
3. Protect free speech on campus and provide full amnesty to all students, staff, and faculty disciplined, penalized, or fired for their pro-Palestine ackivism. USC must abide by their self- proclaimed Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion values and implement material policies protecting the safety of its marginalized students.
4. Stop the Displacement, from South Central to Palestine. No land grabs, whether in South Central, Tongva territory, or Palestine. Cease expansion, provide reparations, and support housing for low-income South Central residents. No development by USC without genuine community control.
5. No Policing on Campus. End the targeted repression and harassment of Black, Brown, and Palestinian students and their allies on and off campus, including through university disciplinary processes. Defund the Department of Public Safety and disclose and sever all ties with the LAPD.
6. End the Silence on the Genocide in Palestine. Release a public statement calling for an immediate, permanent ceasefire in Gaza, denouncing the ongoing genocidal campaign against the Palestinian people, and call on government officials o do so too.
"I'm participating in the Gaza Solidarity Occupation at USC to highlight and amplify the anti- zionist Jewish voice at USC and be in solidarity with the Palestinian fight for liberation," says a student organizer from USC's chapter of Jewish Voices for Palestine (JVP). "JVP USC feels our voice is especially important right now as many people at USC and across the country are equating zionism and Judaism, but we are here to say they are not the same! We stand by our belief of free speech, resistance to oppressive systems and solidarity with our valedictorian Asna and all other college campuses where pro-Palestine voices have been silenced."
The USC Divest From Death Coalition establishes the occupation mo st fundamentally in solidarity with the people of Palestine as they resist genocide and continue in their struggle for liberation. The occupation is also in resistance to attempts by USC and other universities to suppress the student movement for Palestine on its campuses, in resistance to the silencing of students that criticize the state of Israel, in resistance to the university administrators and boards of trustees who profit off the genocide of Palestinians; The students taking part are firm in their commitment to speaking out against the university's complicity in the genocide of the Palestinian people.
"USC's funding of the ongoing genocide perpetuated by the zionist entity is reflective of maintaining imperialist interests abroad, as well as solidifying the shared ideology of amerikan and zionist institutions in preserving racialized oppression," says a student organizer of the Gaza Solidarity Occupation. "To not stand in opposition to the expressly racist violence here and abroad is to ignore the calls for solidarity demanded by the majority of the world. USC acts in accordance with these oppressions, and to call against this is to recognize both the inhumanity of these systems and our own humanity in opposing them."
We have chosen to use the word "occupation” instead of "encampment" to draw attention to USC as an occupying force on unceded Gabrieleno/Tongva land, an occupying force in South Central through its expansion into, gentrification of, and destruction of the existing community, and as a complicit power in Israeli occupation of Palestine.
About USC Divest From Death
In joining the national "Cut Ties with Genocide: Divest from Death" campaign, USC Divest From Death pushes our institutions to divest from companies complicit in the genocide of Palestinians, in all its iterations, alongside thousands of campuses. The coalition's push for the advancement of the key demand points on campus is the first steps towards the liberation of all people by ending the complicity of the University of Southern California in the violence enacted on our communities. Through the intentional act of coalition building, the students of USC realize that we are part of an interconnected fight for freedom taking place on campus, in our communities and homelands. We envision campuses free from militarism, occupation, and war through the implementation of divestment at USC
About Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP)
The student movement for the liberation of Palestine first began in the 1950s through the formation of the General Union of Palestinian Students (GUPS). From the U.S. to Palestine, GUPS chapters galvanized thousands of students towards a liberated Palestine. The 90s” wave of corrupt politicians and faulty deals changed the liberation movement as we knew it and many institutions, including the student movement, collapsed. In the absence of a Palestinian student movement, organizations such as Students for Justice in Palestine emerged across occupied Turtle Island (U.S. and Canada) as a way to educate, advocate, and mobilize in support for Palestinian liberation. Nearly two decades after the formation of the first Students for Justice in Palestine, the movement for Palestine has taken colleges and universities across North America by storm. With over 200 campus Palestine solidarity organizations across the continent, students have been leaders in uplifting demands for freedom, Justice, and equality for the Palestinian people.
@cdarwin@c.im2024-03-12 00:00:47
RNC fires dozens of employees after Trump-backed leadership takes over
The new leadership team at the Republican National Committee
— handpicked by Donald Trump
— started firing dozens of employees days after taking over
About 60 people were told they were no longer employed, according to a person with direct knowledge of the changes.
One of the people familiar with the firings said data, political and communications staffers were affected, and notifications we…
@ClaireFromClare@h-net.social2024-04-08 03:50:21
A shift from agricultural employment to manufacturing accelerated a century before the steam engine & the boom in coal usage: intriguing findings from 20 years of archival research in England & Wales.
If it wasn't the energy... new techniques, in process or organisation? (eg printing?) Hard-working immigrants? Ideas thus spread? Any ideas here re the past, or for our future?
@cliffwade@allthingstech.social2024-03-05 19:48:38
Picked up a truck load of mulch and a truck load of top soil and refreshed each of them in our planters around the house.
Looks so much nicer that it's fresh and full. Some plants were already coming up in the planter in the back with the metal sunflower, but they will push through the new dirt.
Going to try and plant some new stuff in the round planter around the tree in the front.
This took us about 5 hours total.
@servelan@newsie.social2024-05-05 20:20:00
Inspired by Cheerios: Scientists Develop New More Efficient Way To Capture Fresh Water From the Air
https://scitechdaily.com/inspired-by-cheerios-scientists-develop-new-more-efficient-way-to-capture-fresh…
@mia@hcommons.social2024-03-09 09:31:59
Good questions on AI from Verity Harding: 'We should be thinking: ‘What do we want and how do we use technology?’, not ‘What technology is coming that we just have to put up with’ ... Why aren’t we harnessing the incredible power of AI to help solve the climate crisis? Why do we act as if humanity is helpless to control something it’s actively inventing?'
@theendupdates@podvibes.co2024-04-11 21:08:16
Fresh from The End:
**The End Issue #84. Got The Unraptured Blues? Cheer Up With Some Finished Audio Fiction!**
https://www.theend.fyi/newsletter/got-the-unraptured-blues-cheer-up-with-some-finished-audio-fiction…
