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A rush for critical minerals echoes oil extraction injustice as harms fall on world's most vulnerable, scientists warn https://phys.org/news/2026-04-critical-minerals-echoes-oil-injustice.html

A rush for critical minerals echoes oil extraction injustice as harms fall on world's most vulnerable, scientists warn
Mining critical minerals such as lithium and cobalt fuels the "green" energy and digital transitions essential to meeting climate goals. But building the technologies that enable a sustainable future is generating severe, hidden environmental and health crises that the world is failing to track or address, warns a new report by the United Nations University Institute for Water, Environment and Health (UNU-INWEH), known as the UN's Think Tank on Water.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
MEMORIALS:
🎵 Dropped Down the Well
#MEMORIALS
https://memorialsmusic.bandcamp.com/track/dropped-down-the-well
https://open.spotify.com/track/0HZk6tx9agpLwiknkqTW7f

Trump eyes his next DC renovation: The Lincoln Memorial (Aaron Pellish/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/06/04/trump-lincoln-memorial-renovation-00951100
http://www.memeorandum.com/260604/p113#a260604p113

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5 year PostDoc, Technical University Berlin. #Mineralogy, #petrology, #geochemistry
Responsible for laser/solution-ICP-MS laboratory; research and teaching.
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Terra AI, which develops AI models for mining companies to better map underground resources, raised a $20M Series A led by Khosla Ventures (Katie Fehrenbacher/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/climate-deals/2026/06/03/terra-ai-khosla-bhp-series-a

Terra AI closes $20M from Khosla and BHP Ventures
Investors are pouring money into mining tech and projects as demand for minerals soars.

Happening now in North Minneapolis somewhere just southwest of 2nd Ave N and Van White Memorial Boulevard, police ordering more people with nowhere to go to leave otherwise-unused land by 1pm today. The City of Minneapolis has been using violence (physical force or the threat of physical force) to shove unhoused people around constantly since the destruction of community-supported encampments, and so long as this is allowed, the human right to housing will never be fulfilled. See you there…

finally spent time with dummy #2, aka john kelly's sumptuous history of the air pirate funnies underground #comix saga. breathtaking! but maybe most intrigued by this bit that implies that #disney opened a fake/honeypot head shop in glendale to try to bust the makers of the disneyland memorial orgy poste…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
MEMORIALS:
🎵 Dropped Down the Well
#MEMORIALS
https://memorialsmusic.bandcamp.com/track/dropped-down-the-well
https://open.spotify.com/track/0HZk6tx9agpLwiknkqTW7f

Lincoln Memorial reflecting pool vandalized with '86 47' graffiti amid Trump's makeover and Comey indictment (Jasmine Fernšndez/The Independent)
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-lincoln-memorial-reflecting-pool-vandalism-b2969230.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260502/p43#a260502p43

Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool vandalized with '86 47' graffiti after Trump changes (David Zimmermann/Washington Examiner)
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/white-house/4551338/lincoln-memorial-reflecting-pool-8647/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260501/p87#a260501p87