Libya’s brain drain, 15 years after Tripoli fell https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/8/22/young-want-to-leave-libyas-brain-drain-15-years-after-tripoli-fell
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The ultra-low emission zone, introduced by London’s mayor Sadiq Khan in 2019 (expanded in 2021 & 2023) has proved to a major success in combating the general pollution & air quality levels in central London & has had a direct impact on children's health.
Khan stuck to his policy & weathered some extreme criticism & threats, but has been vindicated by its success.... this is the sort of political leadership we need for the Green Transition!
#GreenTransition #politics
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/aug/23/london-low-emission-zone-working-other-cities-cautious-clean-air
For.. reasons.. I am making a wealth inequality playlist. I posted an earlier version about 10 hours ago. This is the latest version reflecting everyone's feedback. Remember, I want songs that aren't TOO aggro and could be background-ish at an event, catchy, topical, without making themselves the center of attention. Here's what I have for V2 of the playlist. Please parse this list and suggest along these lines, if you like.
Money itself: the source of, and solution to, all problems
The O’Jays — For the Love of Money
The Flying Lizards — Money (That’s What I Want)
Pet Shop Boys — Opportunities (Let’s Make Lots of Money)
ABBA — Money, Money, Money
Pink Floyd — Money
Depeche Mode — Everything Counts
The O’Jays — Rich Get Richer
Billie Holiday — God Bless the Child
Inherited wealth and class
Kareem Rahma & Tiny Gun — Really Rich Parents
Lorde — Royals
Creedence Clearwater Revival — Fortunate Son
Pulp — Common People
Dolly Parton — Coat of Many Colors
Work, wages, and survival
They Might Be Giants — Minimum Wage
Dolly Parton — 9 to 5
Donna Summer — She Works Hard for the Money
Shakira & Fuerza Regida — El Jefe
Rise Against — Prayer of the Refugee
The Clash — Clampdown
Tennessee Ernie Ford — Sixteen Tons
Desmond Dekker & the Aces — Israelites
UB40 — One in Ten
Simply Red — Money’s Too Tight (to Mention)
Travis Tritt — Lord Have Mercy on the Working Man
The Kinks — Dead End Street
Tracy Chapman — Fast Car
Labor history, dispossession, communities stripped of value
The Staple Singers — When Will We Be Paid
B.B. King — Why I Sing the Blues
Skip James — Hard Time Killing Floor Blues
Bruce Springsteen — I Ain’t Got No Home (written by Woody Guthrie)
Bing Crosby — Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
Patty Loveless — You’ll Never Leave Harlan Alive
Billy Joel — Allentown
James McMurtry — We Can’t Make It Here
Bruce Springsteen — Death to My Hometown
Poverty, inequality, displacement
Stevie Wonder — Living for the City
Marvin Gaye — Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler)
Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five — The Message
Bruce Hornsby and the Range — The Way It Is
Prince — Sign o’ the Times
The Police — Driven to Tears
Bad Bunny — El Apagón
Bob Marley & the Wailers — Them Belly Full (But We Hungry)
The system, the math, and accountability
Pete Seeger — Banks of Marble
Yasiin Bey / Mos Def — Mathematics
Hozier — Eat Your Young
William Shatner featuring Joe Jackson — Common People (produced and arranged by Ben Folds)
Les McCann & Eddie Harris — Compared to What?
Stevie Wonder — You Haven’t Done Nothin’
Closing: Wake up and fight
Johnny Cash — Man in Black
Tracy Chapman — Talkin’ ’bout a Revolution
William Elliott Whitmore — Mutiny
Bob Marley & the Wailers — Get Up, Stand Up
Walk-out coda — after the formal event has ended
Gil Scott-Heron — Whitey on the Moon
@codinghorror Just a general vibe (doesn't fall under any of the categories) I'd always root for TMBG's lyric "if it wasn't for disappointments, I wouldn't have any appointements". Maybe file under "disenfranchisement?"
@d_rift yeah i just feel that if there were justice in this world it would be to make sure these people lose
@hipsterelectron Shades of time spent sifting threw papers tossing out piles of "results" that, even if valid, do not elucidate an algebraic structure and amount to little more than parlor amusement.
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@robert Yes, those are automatically blocked for safety reasons.
What is the Loops server url? You can DM me if you want to keep it private.
@dansup loops.baranovski.cloud
in the treasury,
beautiful reliquaries and erotic figures of jesus
4 media files
@lake i heard you have to pay now to get up there??
Anthropic Claude and API service outages
https://status.claude.com/uptime
Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49415907
#HackerNews #Anthropic #Claude #API #outages #technology #service #disruption #AI #news
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@h4ckernews Oh wow, thats not what i would call reliable 😟
Belgium’s deadly heatwave and largest wildfire in a century show climate breakdown is already overwhelming public services, while politicians remain dangerously unprepared.
Fossil-fuel polluters must pay for the protection, resilient homes and public systems people need, now.
@greenpeace 200 years ago it would've been "fire of the century." Now it's fire of the week.
@dansup I've been waiting since yesterday evening.
Under admin/relays, it says “Instances blocked 96.”
Is that normal?
@robert Yes, those are automatically blocked for safety reasons.
What is the Loops server url? You can DM me if you want to keep it private.
“ PREPARARE LA PACE, NON LA GUERRA” | Paxchristi https://www.paxchristi.it/?p=32129
@hipsterelectron Small primes do tend to have misbehaviors because they get more entangled with other things but that's still a very funny conjecture. Then again I haven't yet seen what the big deal is about twin primes, we can as well find pairs of primes any other distance from each other and additive distance isn't "real" in multiplicative considerations anyway.
@d_rift yeah i just feel that if there were justice in this world it would be to make sure these people lose
If you live outside of the United States,
do you know if your country has a plan if the US government decided to cut access to Google, Microsoft, and Amazon products overnight?
What would happen to your work?
What would happen to your hospitals?
What would happen to your emergency services?
What would happen to your banks?
Imagine overnight, for all those public services and private businesses, no more Windows, no more AWS, no more Google and Microsoft office software, no more remote files storage, no more emails, no more online maps, no more videochats.
What would happen?
Is your country prepared?
@Em0nM4stodon i've had lots of eye rolling in response to my bringing it up at work, only kinda now am i being half taken seriously 🤨
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Oh my god you guys, if you are in the UK (or have a vee pee enn I guess), Zoë Kravitz's Blink Twice is on iplayer. Watch it watch it watch it.
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RE: https://social.wake.st/@liaizon/117146356032919038
Le manifeste vélosataniste, c’est :
- le rejet de l’ordre établi centré sur l’automobile
- l’acceptation du chaos sur les routes et dans nos vies, et l’autodétermination dans nos moyens choisis pour les naviguer
- la réappropriation de l’autonomie dans nos déplacements grâce à une indépendance et à un lien profond avec son corps
- davantzge d’empathie et de conscience de notre environnement en brisant la cage métallique qui nous sépare les uns des autres
- le respect de nos communautés et de notre environnement par une réduction de la pollution
- la foi en la bonté innée de nos semblables, qui ne nous assassineront pas avec des monstres géants en métal
- un putain de plaisir qui nourrit nos instincts primaires et désirs charnels
- sexy
Libérez-vous de vos cages, sortez à vélo, retournez ces putains de rues et restez sataniques.
En restant prudent·es et en respectant le code de la route local… ou pas, je ne vais pas vous dire quoi faire.
@d_rift also there's a very funny attempt to strengthen goldbach's https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldbach%27s_conjecture
Harvey Dubner proposed a strengthening of the Goldbach conjecture: that every even integer greater than 4208 is the sum of two twin primes (not necessarily belonging to the same pair).
i feel this is an example of "cope" to think the primes have more structure as they get bigger
Goldbach's comet; red, blue and green points correspond respectively the values 0, 1 and 2 modulo 3 of the number.
i feel this image makes the exact opposite argument they want it to!!! they're literally getting more noisy as they go outwards from 2 to infinity
@d_rift oh and this is why and how someone could make themselves believe in a direct answer to the continuum hypothesis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transfinite_number#Examples
In Cantor's theory of ordinal numbers, every integer number must have a successor.[12] The next integer after all the regular ones, that is the first infinite integer, is named ω. In this context, ω + 1 is larger than ω, and ω ⋅ 2, ω 2 and ω ωare larger still.
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bluesky is horrified to discover Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality, the fanfic the rationalist cult created and used as a recruitment method and that led in a straight line to the Ziz cult. Everyone at the AI bubble companies has read this thing.
https://bsky.app/profile/clairewillett.bsky.social/post/3mtpvatugsc2z
https://bsky.app/profile/panic.gay/post/3mtoakgupgk2x
(threads may require bsky login, sorry)
EDIT: https://skyview.social may let you through if you don't have a reader account
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embarrassing when this one goes off
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“Attacks on LGBTQ+ health are a threat to all”: A new Lancet Editorial.
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
