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maybe the beginning of the end

the image above from Twitter links to the article sent in a tweet with this quote:

If the dramatic changes heralded by recent developments in meat and dairy production occur, most of the Earth’s land surface will benefit, and cellular seafood could save the oceans from the depletion of many fish stocks.*

also from the article by Peter Singer:

One day, we may look back on 2023 as the year when it became apparent that the gigantic industry of raising animals for food was heading the same way as the industry that for most of the twentieth century dominated how we record and store images. Is this year the equivalent, for animal production, of 1989, when the first digital camera aimed at the general public was launched?

There are signs that it might be, starting with the Israeli Ministry of Health’s approval … *

analog photography and animal husbandry: pivotal years are 1989 and – maybe – 2023

2023-07-20 / notes

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see a stark infographic of land mammals by weight in notes for waste not, want not, …

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they edit copy: they copyedit

from copy editor John McIntyre on Twitter (!?)*

2023-07-11 / notes

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not the End of History

the image above from Twitter links to the article sent with this tweet:

A nationalist reaction against U.S. dominance is rising throughout European politics, and instead of America locking in its control over European policy, the U.S. may end up losing – not only in Europe but most crucially throughout the Global South.*

from the article by Michael Hudson:

What has occurred is a change in consciousness. We are seeing the Global Majority trying to create an independent and peacefully negotiated choice as to just what kind of an international order they want. Their aim is not merely to create alternatives to the use of dollars, but an entire new set of institutional alternatives to the IMF and World Bank, the SWIFT bank clearing system, the International Criminal Court and the entire array of institutions that U.S. diplomats have hijacked from the United Nations.

The upshot will be civilizational in scope. We are seeing not the End of History but a fresh alternative to U.S.-centered neoliberal finance capitalism and its junk economics of privatization, class war against labor, and the idea that money and credit should be privatized in the hands of a narrow financial class instead of being a public utility to finance economic needs and rising living standards.*

2023-07-06 / notes

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response by Linda Solomon Wood, founder of Canada’s National Observer

long screenshot above from an email received 6am Sunday, June 25

from an item – dated Friday, June 23 – on the National Observer website:

A federal bill that will require Google and Meta to pay media outlets for news content that they share or otherwise repurpose on their platforms has become law.

The Senate passed the bill Thursday in a final vote and was given royal assent amid a standoff between the Liberal government and Silicon Valley tech giants.

…

Meta confirmed Thursday that it plans to comply with the bill by ending news availability on Facebook and Instagram for its Canadian users, as it had previously suggested.

Meta would not offer details about the timeline for that move, but said it will pull local news from its site before the Online News Act takes effect. The bill will come into force six months from Thursday.*

Want to help? Subscribe to the National Observer.*

2023-06-26 / notes

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Linda Solomon Wood (!?)

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rebellion against Russian military establishment

2023-06-24 / notes

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