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we’re going to look back at how we designed the world around computers with the same regret that we look at how we’ve designed cities around cars
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Introducing fellow Mari Kussman - filmmaker, designer and technologist. While infinite economic growth remains unquestioned in the developed world, some are choosing a new path. Her docu-series "Cycles" spotlights the changemakers daring to restore balance with our natural world
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i hit 5 billion views on @giphy today (28 million per day) 😇 they have paid me $0 lol
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Yesterday on @niftygateway:
A single artist burned the equivalent of 49 years of electricity consumption, with an edition of just 2 artworks.
CO2 emitted: 103,129 Kg
cryptoart.wtf/#address=0xd94…
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Apparently this is a real set of photographs of wind turbine blade transportation and not an amusing glitch in Euro Truck Simulator 2
linkedin.com/posts/p-adams-s…
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Facebook is having an end-of-year, company-wide meeting right now. One of its executives tried to rally employees by telling them: "We're at the center of what it means to be human."
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In Māori communities, the custom of "rāhui" is employed to restrict use of certain resources - rivers, forests, fisheries - in order to allow ecosystems to recover, and out of respect for other living beings. This is the sort of ethic we desperately need to learn.
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When Ontario gave residents a basic income:
*80% improved their health
*51% used less tobacco
*48% drank less
*83% reduced stress/anxiousness
*81% felt more self-confident
*75% kept working (most who didn't went back to school)
cbc.ca/news/canada/hamilton/…
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Things that, if proposed today, would be laughed off as "too socialist:"
*Medicaid
*Medicare
*Social Security
*Libraries
*Minimum wage
*Unemployment benefits
*Public transportation
*Highways
*Food stamps
*Housing vouchers
*PBS/public broadcasting
*FDA
*EPA
*Public education
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To get a sense for how unhinged our economy is from the real world, consider the fact that pollinators, earthworms, rainforests, clean air, parenting, friendship, sleep and solidarity are considered to be literally valueless according to our dominant metric of economic success.
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This century, billions of people could be displaced due to global warming.
Surprised?
In 1982 Exxon discussed "climate related famine or migration." The doc was marked "restricted."
& in 1988 Shell predicted worldwide "migration." Marked "confidential."
nytimes.com/interactive/2020…
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This is one of the not many great uses of the touch bar.
Samplr for Touchbar. Audio sampler and musical instrument for the MacBook Touch Bar. Download it here: samplr.net/touchbar/
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Louisiana is about to pass a law that would criminalize people for protesting environmental racism in the most polluted place in the country. Fighting for your right to live will receive a penalty of 3-15 years hard labor if you trespass on "critical infrastructure" aka oil +gas
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Watch how the ultra-wealthy in America gradually raised the taxes of the poor and eventually bent the curve downward until they paid the lowest tax rate of all
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Just a 500% increase in value directly tied to policy he pushed in the White House.
Holy crap. Three years ago Kushner's stake in Cadre was worth $5 million. He just sold it for $25-50 million after it benefitted from Opportunity Zone tax breaks that Kushner pushed for. syracuse.com/us-news/2020/03…
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This news hasn't been reported yet, but new UN data shows that Costa Rica's average life expectancy has now surpassed 80 years. A big milestone.
They beat the US (78.7 years) with *less than one-fifth* of the income, in terms of GDP per capita. How? Universal public healthcare.
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5 years ago, #Uber insisted that it would reduce traffic. Instead, Uber drivers cruise without passengers 40% of the time. Studies show Uber & Lyft have pulled people away from public transit & walking, adding to the overall amount of driving. Via @eliotwb wsj.com/articles/the-ride-ha…
