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internet gryphon. admin of Beehaw, mostly publicly interacting with people. nonbinary. they/she

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  • because western media--at least on the issue of Palestine--is almost entirely biased toward Israel, Israel's right to exist without change to its apartheid and oppression of Palestinians, and the legitimacy of Zionism as an ideology; Al Jazeera obviously is not, and is far more willing to cover what Israel is doing without attempting to justify it, explain it away, or downplay it

  • Here’s Your Cheat Sheet for Vaccine Recommendations Backed by Science

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  • the "chart" is just the thumbnail for the submission, so yeah; you have to actually click through, since that's the point of a link aggregator

  • The Vera C. Rubin Observatory observatory's first images are stunning — and just the start

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  • for more on this, see the New York Times article on the observatory: How Astronomers Will Deal With 60 Million Billion Bytes of Imagery

    Each image taken by Rubin’s camera consists of 3.2 billion pixels that may contain previously undiscovered asteroids, dwarf planets, supernovas and galaxies. And each pixel records one of 65,536 shades of gray. That’s 6.4 billion bytes of information in just one picture. Ten of those images would contain roughly as much data as all of the words that The New York Times has published in print during its 173-year history. Rubin will capture about 1,000 images each night.

    As the data from each image is quickly shuffled to the observatory’s computer servers, the telescope will pivot to the next patch of sky, taking a picture every 40 seconds or so.

    It will do that over and over again almost nightly for a decade.

    The final tally will total about 60 million billion bytes of image data. That is a “6” followed by 16 zeros: 60,000,000,000,000,000.

  • Breaking: SCOTUS allows Trump admin to deport people to random countries with no notice

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  • the Supreme Court is not a legitimate institution and you should be screaming at the Democratic Party to annihilate it if they ever come back into power, because otherwise it will be yet another reason this country croaks

  • A majority of people around the world support a carbon tax — even if they're paying it

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  • the study: Majority support for global redistributive and climate policies

    We study a key factor for implementing global policies: the support of citizens. The first piece of evidence is a global survey on 40,680 respondents from 20 high- and middle-income countries. It reveals substantial support for global climate policies and, in addition, for a global tax on the wealthiest aimed at financing low-income countries’ development. Surprisingly, even in wealthy nations that would bear the burden of such globally redistributive policies, majorities of citizens express support for them. To better understand public support for global policies in high-income countries, the main analysis of this Article is conducted with surveys among 8,000 respondents from France, Germany, Spain, the UK and the USA. The focus of the Western surveys is to study how respondents react to the key trade-off between the benefits and costs of globally redistributive climate policies. In our survey, respondents are made aware of the cost that the GCS [a global carbon price funding equal cash transfers] entails for their country’s people, that is, average Westerners would incur a net loss from the policy. Our main result is that the GCS is supported by three quarters of Europeans and more than half of Americans.

    Overall, our results point to strong and genuine support for global climate and redistributive policies, as our experiments confirm the stated support found in direct questions. They contribute to a body of literature on attitudes towards climate policy, which confirms that climate policy is preferred at a global level17,18,19,20, where it is more effective and fair. While 3,354 economists supported a national carbon tax financing equal cash transfers in the Wall Street Journal21, numerous surveys have shown that public support for such policy is mixed22,23,24,25,26,27. Meanwhile, the GCS— the global version of this policy—is largely supported, despite higher costs in high-income countries. In the Discussion, we offer potential explanations that could reconcile the strong support for global policies with their lack of prominence in the public debate.

  • ChatGPT's Impact On Our Brains According to an MIT Study

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  • "No Kings Day" protests turn out millions, rebuking Trump

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  • Grammys Introduce New Country Album Category, Best New Artist Rules for 2026

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  • this is going over hilariously on social media, despite the insistence by the Grammy's that it has nothing to do with Beyonce's win last year:

    Recording Academy CEO Harvey Mason Jr. told Billboard that the proposal for the two new categories was submitted previously several times before it passed this year. The new categories “[make] country parallel with what’s happening in other genres,” he explained, pointing to the other genres which separate traditional and contemporary. “But it is also creating space for where this genre is going.”

    Traditional country now focuses on “the more traditional sound structures of the country genre, including rhythm and singing style, lyrical content, as well as traditional country instrumentation such as acoustic guitar, steel guitar, fiddle, banjo, mandolin, piano, electric guitar, and live drums,” the 68th Grammys rulebook explains.

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    Scientists prove that fish suffer "intense pain" for at least 10 minutes after catch, calls made for reforms

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  • i think this topic has about run its course in terms of productiveness, and has mostly devolved into people complaining about being held to (objectively correct) vegan ethics. locking

  • General Strike plannend for May 1, 2028

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  • for context: Shawn Fain has been pushing for this since at least the beginning of 2024. so by the time the date happens, he will have been organizing this for over four years--that is the kind of lead time you need for this to not just be toothless posturing (and there's a decent chance it still won't be nearly as sweeping as you might expect of a general strike due to low US union density).

  • General Strike plannend for May 1, 2028

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  • you can't just organize a general strike on the fly, and this is an actual one with actual backing from unions that's been organized since well before our current issues. and currently it's a struggle to even get many unions to align their contracts in a way that would be conducive to the date (since that's not a thing you can just do, you have to negotiate that), so it's not even a guarantee that the over three years of lead time given is sufficient.

  • Top scientists call for permanent ban on high seas exploitation

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  • ‘Uber for Getting Off Antidepressants’ Launches in the US

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  • ‘Uber for Getting Off Antidepressants’ is just... something else. what are these buzzwords

  • Pro-AI Subreddit Bans 'Uptick' of Users Who Suffer from AI Delusions

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  • someone on Bluesky analogized what is happening to how QAnon transpired for most people, which is that the crazification it was causing simmered under the surface until January 6, when it all publicly exploded and the influence it had over a non-trivial block of the population became undeniable. hard to disagree with that!

  • Breakthrough in search for HIV cure leaves researchers ‘overwhelmed’

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  • The Trump Administration Wants to Create an ‘Office of Remigration’ to Kick Immigrants Out of the Country

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    Two former Polygon writers are starting a new site

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  • Mark Zuckerberg and Palmer Luckey end their beef and partner to build extended reality tech for the US military

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  • just a nightmarish headline. get these two the fuck out of here

  • Brian Eno, creator of the Windows 95 startup sound, calls on Microsoft to sever ties with Israel

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  • Art rock legend Brian Eno has called on Microsoft to sever its ties with the government of Israel, saying the company's provision of cloud and AI services to Israel's Ministry of Defense "support a regime that is engaged in actions described by leading legal scholars and human rights organizations, the United Nations experts, and increasing numbers of governments from around the world, as genocidal."

    Eno's connection with Microsoft goes back 30 years—he composed the famous boot-up jingle for Windows 95 that was recently inducted into the National Recording Registry at the US Library of Congress.

    "I gladly took on the project as a creative challenge and enjoyed the interaction with my contacts at the company," Eno wrote in an open letter posted to Instagram (via Stereogum). "I never would have believed that the same company could one day be implicated in the machinery of oppression and war."

    Regardless, Eno clearly isn't interested in Microsoft's protestations of innocence: "Selling and facilitating advanced AI and cloud services to a government engaged in systematic ethnic cleansing is not 'business as usual'. It is complicity. If you knowingly build systems that can enable war crimes, you inevitably become complicit in those crimes."