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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 20h

Confident that ADNOC and ExxonMobil's new emissions accounting standard is totally fine and not nefarious at all

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Today, Carbon Measures officially launches as a global coalition of major businesses from diverse industries and geographies united by a shared mission: establish a more accurate carbon accounting framework and drive market-based solutions to reduce emissions at the lowest cost.

The world needs accurate, product-level carbon measurement to drive real emissions reductions at scale. We're advancing a ledger-based carbon accounting system that ensures every tonne is counted once, accurately, and attributed correctly – enabling governments to set effective standards and markets to reward businesses for investing in low-carbon production.

This coalition brings together industry leaders across sectors who believe that accurate and transparent measurement will unlock the market forces needed for climate progress. Through sound science and the principles of financial accounting, companies can better track their emissions through the global economy, reduce their emissions and allow governments to make more informed policy decisions.

We're proud to welcome Amy Brachio, who is among the world’s foremost leaders in global corporate sustainability and carbon accounting, as our inaugural CEO. Under Amy’s leadership, we'll work with our members, experts, governments, and standard-setters to advance a global carbon accounting system that makes product-level intensity standards possible – taking Actions that Count through ensuring accurate emissions data and informed policy.

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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 1d

Another rejection... Trying five more apps tomorrow...

Someone make me independently wealthy please

🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · Apr 10

Welp it’s gotten real real if you can please help. If you can’t it’s really hard out here so share

gofund.me/a5ee0064

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 1d

Amazon controls over a third of the global cloud computing market.

Its customers include Capital One, United Airlines, and the US Army.

Today's outage should be a wakeup call: Dependence on a handful of powerful corporations is a threat to economic and national security.

Morning Brew ☕️ @morningbrew.extwitter.link · 1d

BREAKING: Amazon Web Services

A massive AWS outage early this morning sent major websites and apps down for several hours

Tracking site Downdetector has received over 8 million reports around the globe

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Seanan McGuire @seananmcguire.bsky.social · 1d

Been wondering about the history of MAGIC THE GATHERING fiction and comics? (I bet you have, since I won't shut up about it.) Well, @vorthosjay.bsky.social has done a fantastic breakdown: www.tiktok.com/@vorthosjay/...

Publications and Cancellations #vorthos #magicthegathering #mtgecl

TikTok video by Jay Annelli

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Scarecasmorator @sarcasmorator.bsky.social · 1d

Whatever you think of the White House as a building or a symbol, the fact is that the image of it being torn apart on a whim two days after 7 million people hit the streets against autocracy is going to make a HUGE amount of people really, really angry, and that's an energy that should be harnessed.

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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 1d

In some ways, the regime half-assedly tearing off part of the White House without regard for construction protocols might have more of an impact on the offline folks than the past ten months.

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Jessie Gender @jessiegender.bsky.social · 1d

I may be getting spicy in my next video essay script...

Fascism purges and destroys in the name of purity; liberalism arrives as the hero to “restore order” - solidifying and facilitating power back to capital and paving the way for the techno-oligarch future. Together they maintain the same architecture of control - the very same hierarchy of whose lives are livable, whose deaths are acceptable, and whose futures are imaginable.
The system was never built to serve us. It was built to preserve itself. So when I say I’ve lost faith in it, this is what I mean. No future can bloom inside its walls - only an endless, decaying present. The only path forward is to imagine beyond them, to see past the horizon of the flag, past the language of empire, past the myth of order itself.
They are bound—both in their minds and in the lines they draw on maps. By their borders. We are not. We live on a horizon they cannot even imagine.
Ezra Klein ends his op-ed with the line, “we are all safe or none of us are.” But trans women murdered in silence have never been safe. Immigrants who are snatched off the streets in the name of “order” have never been safe. Palestinians erased in the name of “peace” have never been safe. Safety for whom? The truth is not “we are all safe or none of us are.”
The truth is: we are all liberated, or none of us are.

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Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 22h

How people perceive their colleagues who produce workslop.

A figure showing results of a survey. It's titled workslop makes colleagues think less of each others.

54 percent of respondents say they see their colleagues who use AI as less creative, 50 percent say they see their colleagues who use AI as less capable, 49 percent say they see their colleagues who use AI as less reliable, 42 percent say they see their colleagues who use AI as less trustworthy, 37 percent say they see their colleagues who use AI as less intelligent

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QueerAF @wearequeeraf.com · 1d

In the wake of the killing of an openly gay imam earlier this year, Jaheim Karim writes on being trans and Muslim

https://www.wearequeeraf.com/what-fasting-again-taught-me-as-a-transgender-muslim/

What fasting again taught me as a transgender Muslim

In the wake of the killing of an openly gay imam earlier this year, Jaheim Karim writes on being trans and Muslim

www.wearequeeraf.com

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🏳️‍⚧️ Josephine Riesman (Horrifying) @josie.zone · 22h

Very important article by my wonderful podcast co-host @tallgirlpetunia.bsky.social:

ToughPigs @toughpigs.com · 6d

A new Sesame Street video seems to be promoting A.I., which feels equally icky and disappointing.

www.toughpigs.com/sesame-ai-ju...

Can’t Spell “Julia” Without “AI” - ToughPigs

We're disappointed in Sesame Street's new video that praises artificial intelligence.

www.toughpigs.com

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Kat La Ronde @katlaronde.bsky.social · 1d

Gift link if you need to stop doom scrolling.

Sea Otters Are Stealing Surfboards in California. Again.

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Hemry, Local Bartender @bartenderhemry.bsky.social · 1d

I mean this is viscerally upsetting because it's really genuinely him treating the white house like it's his own personal property; he's the king and it's his palace. No other president ever thought like this, even if they were a fucking horrible person, because it goes against our founding creed

Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 1d

I'm not a West Wing obsessed lib or anything but the more I see pictures of this the more fucked up I think it is. It's like he cut off one of the hands of the Lincoln memorial with an angle grinder so he could add a big gun to it.

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 1d

The Treasury Department instructed employees not to share to share photos of the demolition of parts of the White House’s East Wing

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Baltimore Banner @thebaltimorebanner.com · 22h

Black women’s foothold in the federal workforce is at risk

Black women are about 6% of the nation’s employed, but account for 11% of all federal workers.

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Not Your Negress @notyournegro.blacksky.app · 22h

So my sister’s whole department got furloughed yesterday. Her and 2 others remain.

When you live in the DC area politics touches every part of your life knowingly or unknowingly.

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 22h

Moscow is accused of running sabotage and espionage operations across Europe targeting nations supporting Ukraine.

Poland detains suspected saboteurs amid fears of Russian ‘hybrid warfare’

Moscow is accused of running sabotage and espionage operations across Europe targeting nations supporting Ukraine.

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Dan Izzo @izzos.us · 1d

So heads up, I just realized the "Require Alt-Text" setting on my profile got disabled somehow when I was being too hasty and clicked submit without entering alt-text and it posted anyway.

It's happened before too so might want to just check your accessibility settings

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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 22h

This morning, I’m at the CSCW conference in a session on “Activism in a Time if Data.” Most of the papers seem to assume activism for “good,” ending with design recs for supporting activism. As far as I can tell, none of the papers center right wing activism. Seems like we have a massive blind spot.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

We sure do

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Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 1d

“A lot of people are making their comebacks in a really surreptitious way. There isn’t an overt discussion that they’ve had about their past behavior or how they’re thinking differently about their work or about their relationship to women or employees”
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What Is Lorin Stein Doing at “Tablet”?

The former Paris Review editor was ostracized over sexual harassment allegations. Now he’s editing a divisive, right-wing Jewish magazine. What’s going on?

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Diana Chan McNally @dianacmcnally.bsky.social · 1d

The ugly truth is that we are losing the public narrative re: encampments. Public frustration with homelessness is leading to an acceptance of violating homeless people's human rights.

I need everyone to realize that we can only win if we win back the narrative.

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Here’s how Canadians feel about cities clearing out homeless encampments, according to a Nanos poll

Only over a half of Canadians support or somewhat support municipalities declaring sates of emergencies in order to clear out homeless encampments in parks and public spaces, a new Nanos poll done for...

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Nora O’Floinn @noraofloinn.bsky.social · 1d

Downtown Portland, Oregon.

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 1d

I brake for wheat paste.

Side by side B&W images of wheat pasted posters badly worn away: the left features a young woman in a keffiyeh holding a bullhorn; above we see "REVOLITION, only VOLUT remains clearly. On the right, "MESSIAH IS HERE," Moshiach's face torn away and replaced with a Bart Simpson sticker

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 1d

Lack of interaction with posts like this is fine. But it reminds me of how inverse my understanding of social media is: I want it to be primarily trading oddities we find, comments on texts, only secondarily necessary but endless churn of same few political articles and points. But churn won.

Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 1d

I brake for wheat paste.

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Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 1d

At the shelter where I have once again lost control of a photo shoot. 😔 Last week they took in 28 CATS from a hoarding case, so they could really use some financial help right now! www.hsccvt.org/donate

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d

Essential work during the shutdown includes dismantling the White House

Jonathan Edwards @jonathanreports.bsky.social · 1d

Scoop: Trump has started demolishing the White House's East Wing facade to build his ballroom. The president had claimed construction of the $250 million building wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure. /W @ddiamond.bsky.social wapo.st/4hqBNiU

White House begins demolishing East Wing facade to build Trump’s ballroom

The president had claimed construction of the $250 million ballroom wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure.

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