Legally, if Saturday is the first day of the month you can claim that it is still the previous month. Thank you, Mormons!!
Last minute bonus article over on Vice:
Company Asked Employees to Bring Family, Pets to Office to Work Through Hurricane Ian
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[Article] Example 89 that Electric Cars will not solve the the Climate Crisis
Gotta admit though, those Brine Pools look pretty dope.
“The demand for lithium for EV batteries is driving a mining boom in an arid Andes region of Argentina, Chile, and Bolivia, home to half the world’s reserves. Hydrologists are warning the mines could drain vital ecosystems and deprive Indigenous communities of precious water.”
Why the Rush to Mine Lithium Could Dry Up the High Andes, Yale Environment 360, https://e360.yale.edu/features/lithium-mining-water-andes-argentina
[Article] Billionaire Givers are not Heroes
“Big philanthropy — more than ordinary small donations that most people make — is an exercise of power. It’s an attempt to direct your private assets for some public influence, often with a naked aspiration to change public policy. And in a democratic setting, wherever power is exerted, it deserves our scrutiny, in order to understand whether it’s serving democratic purposes or undermining them. And philanthropy shouldn’t be exempt from that examination.”
The case against billionaire philanthropy , Vox, https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2018/12/17/18141181/foundation-charity-deduction-democracy-rob-reich
And check out the Bill Gates episode on Citations Needed Podcast.
[Article] Britain and the US are poor societies with some very rich people
“Where would you rather live? A society where the rich are extraordinarily rich and the poor are very poor, or one where the rich are merely very well off but even those on the lowest incomes also enjoy a decent standard of living?”
Britain and the US are poor societies with some very rich people, Financial Times, https://www.ft.com/content/ef265420-45e8-497b-b308-c951baa68945
Under Six Foot? Blame Capitalism
“In Tanzania, heights were 0.67 inches lower in the 1980s than the 1880s. In Peru, a man born in the 1990s is on average 1.5 inches shorter than a man born in the 1750s. In the European nations of France, Germany, Italy and Poland, the average adult male height fluctuated wildly depending on whether the prevailing capitalist system provided for enough basic needs — which was often not the case. As such, Germans and Poles born in the 16th century were much taller than those born in the 1850s, and conditions (and height) did not improve until the 20th century.”
Unregulated capitalism makes you poor, miserable — and short: New study, Salon, https://www.salon.com/2022/09/23/unregulated-capitalism-makes-you-poor-miserable–and-short-new-study/
Big Brother? More Like 1984!
I don’t know, you try to come up with these titles.
“In 2018, the San Diego Police Department secretly accessed video footage from the city’s streetlights for months. Despite existing guidelines stipulating that footage from the streetlights would only be acquired for “violent incidents that result in serious bodily injury or death,” the police still accessed recordings more than 35 times within two weeks in order to identify and prosecute Black Lives Matter protestors in summer 2020. The system was later acquired by Ubicquia, another smart city company, which also emphasizes public safety as a primary benefit of their product. During the contract negotiation in early 2020, only the video cameras were kept on while sensors for temperature and air quality were switched off.“
Smart Streetlights are Casting a Long Shadow Over Our Cities, Failed Architecture, https://failedarchitecture.com/smart-streetlights-are-casting-a-long-shadow-over-our-cities/
[Video] Line Actually Went Down
This video is nearly a year old, but as Bitcoin is currently “worth” 50% less than it was the date of this being published, I think it’s worth a first watch or re-watch. Only two hours and eighteen minutes! It is incredibly good however.
Line Goes Up – The Problem With NFTs, Dan Olson, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQ_xWvX1n9g
[Video] At least we can have some laughs along the way
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