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If youve ever struggled with latin prepositions and learn best via fish cartoons, you are in luck

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EURACTIV

Decarbonise rail – yes, but above all prioritise its growth euractiv.com/section/transport

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Sue Stone

Dan Rather slams intense Biden scrutiny amid crickets over Trump's 'gobbledegook' - Raw Story

rawstory.com/joe-biden-gaffes/

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This has been now empirically established: We are already at the +1.5C warming threshold.
theguardian.com/environment/ar

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Privacy International

The DMA's goal is to impose restrictions on Big Tech companies, including their data collecting practices for advertising purposes, in an attempt to even the playing field for smaller competitors and to uphold users' rights. 🥊

In their preliminary findings, the EC found that Meta's "pay or consent" did not allow users to exercise their right to freely consent and doesn't enable them to opt for a service that uses less of their personal data. We agree.

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But competition is not the only concern with "pay or consent", data protection also comes into play. Meta's model was initially a response to being fined nearly €400m in January 2023 for its failure to comply with the GDPR in how it collected data for targeted advertising.

But not long after its introduction, the European Data Protection Board gave 'pay or consent' a big thumbs down, in line with concerns raised by PI and our colleagues across Europe.

noyb.eu/sites/default/files/20

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Orban on a mission to try to sell to foreign powers as much as he can. He's done it already with Hungary, now he has very limited time to try to do the same in the EU, and apparently charlatans are piling onto the opportunity.
QT: masto.ai/@euractiv/11274880199

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Hungary PM Orbán in Beijing on ‘Peace mission 3.0’ https://www.euractiv.com/section/china/news/hungary-pm-orban-in-beijing-on-peace-mission-3-0/?ut...
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US-sanctioned Bulgarian politician emerges as main obstacle to forming government euractiv.com/section/politics/

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Cindy Weinstein

The #PhiladelphiaInquirer reminding us of what #journalism looks like:

During a discussion about the environment, Trump — who rolled back more than 100 regulations and withdrew from the Paris climate agreement — said: “we had H2O, we had the best numbers ever.” Huh?

inquirer.com/opinion/editorial

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Apparently there exists a viewpoint in the world that sustains that US rail is better than the (admittedly patchy) European network. Well, they seem not to be bothered that they put freight before passengers. Then high-speed is completely detached as a topic from cargo.

freightwaves.com/news/why-is-e

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The new polars dataframes library looks big. I find the pandas syntax extremely unintuitive and prefer using it through pandasql (I know it's slow). Polars' syntax is much more query-like, which makes much more sense to me.
QT: programming.dev/post/16284990

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Polars — Announcing Polars 1.0 https://programming.dev/post/16284990
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yes, it's me, liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦

3.5% is all we need for change?

DDG tells me 3.5% of the world pop, at 8.1 billion, is 283,500,000.

USA is at 339,996,563. let's say a horde of carnales rounds it at 340,000,000. 3.5% = 11,900,000.

Biden got 80M votes in 2020. do you understand why voting is not all?!?

it takes 3.5% and courage.

FYI: it took 1M Puerto Ricans (tot: 3.3M) to paralyze La Isla for 3 weeks to oust the governor

"The science of protests: how to shape public opinion and swing votes"
nature.com/articles/d41586-024

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US Pol - Actions you can take! 

For US folks frustrated about, well, everything, I can say that sitting at my freshly tidied desk tonight writing postcards to democrats in swing states urging them to vote, does in fact feel very, very good.

Like therapeutic even. Like if you can do this, I would urge you to do this. And the data on this is GOOD, it really does bring in voters. You are really doing something. And it's easy!

turnoutpac.org/postcards/

#Vote #Voting #Postcards

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clarity flowers

landfills were invented within human memory. the trash can as we understand it is a 20th-century invention. disposability as a concept had to be invented. none of this is inevitable or necessary.

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nolen

I put Breakout (aka Brick Breaker) inside Google Calendar! It lets you decline any meetings you shatter.

blog info + chrome extension link in thread!

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"Since 2020, firearms have been the leading cause of death for children and teens in America"

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@dot_social First of all thanks for this great channel. Could I suggest an interview also with @dansup? It's not only . He's been doing a lot for the fediverse. If needed, I can help with preparation, questions and whatever. Thanks!

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ActivityPub and the End of Walled Gardens, with Evan Prodromou flipboard.video/videos/watch/b

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BBC’s Experiment in the Fediverse, with Senior Firestarter Ian Forrester flipboard.video/videos/watch/2

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Pivoting Out of the Attention Economy, with Medium's Tony Stubblebine flipboard.video/videos/watch/3

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