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One thing thy didn’t mention was that it is a big help to have a low population.

https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/iceland-population/
341,071

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/06/08/how-iceland-beat-the-coronavirus

Anyone who’d spent more than fifteen minutes near the man in the days before he’d experienced his first sym…[Read more]

https://humanparts.medium.com/weight-loss-surgery-and-the-unbearable-thinness-of-being-23fabdf978f5

For me, as a fat woman, these were not just breaths of fresh air, but indicators that more might be possible. That people who look like me could find their way into places we weren’t expected and often weren’t welcomed. That people who looked lik…[Read more]

https://jacobinmag.com/2020/05/briahna-joy-gray-bernie-sanders-press-secretary

I’m doing as well as can be expected. Obviously, the campaign ending is a personal difficulty for all of us, who were so committed to the ideologies that were represented, and which unfortunately don’t have a lot of other homes in our mainstream political sphere, but…[Read more]

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/n7wbxk/confederate-statues-and-other-symbols-of-racism-all-over-the-country-were-destroyed-by-protesters-this-weekend

Confederate statues in Birmingham and Richmond. A former slave market in North Carolina. The national headquarters for a Civil War revisionist group.

These were just some of the monuments and…[Read more]

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/g5pg4y/k-pop-fans-took-down-a-police-snitching-app

On Sunday, K-pop fan accounts on social media targeted the Dallas Police’s iWatch Dallas app, which allows users to submit videos of alleged crimes. The Dallas police began promoting the app on Twitter during the escalating protests over the police killings of G…[Read more]

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/akzgxz/blur-protesers-faces-easy

“Image Scrubber,” developed by software artist Everest Pipkin, works on both mobile devices and laptops in a web browser, and in Motherboard’s tests can blur an image in a few seconds if needed.

“This is a tool for anonymizing photographs taken at protests,” Pipkin writes on the…[Read more]

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jun/01/covid-low-carbon-future-lockdown-pandemic-green-economy

The case for rebuilding our economies in line with environmental targets has broad public support. A recent poll from Ipsos Mori shows that 71% of the global population understands that climate change is as at least as serious a crisis as…[Read more]

https://www.commondreams.org/views/2020/06/01/americans-have-long-ignored-iraqis-now-perfect-time-connect-their-stories

One way Americans can inhabit this crossroads in the weeks and months to come is by reading Iraqi occupation literature — that is, literature by Iraqis about life between 2003 to 2011, when the U.S.-led Coalition Forces o…[Read more]

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/06/01/global-protests-erupt-solidarity-racial-justice-defenders-us

People in a number of international cities violated bans on large gatherings over the weekend to show solidarity with protests against police brutality that have exploded in at least 140 cities across the United States.

Political leaders…[Read more]

https://www.digitaltrends.com/news/norimaki-synthesizer-flavor-hacking/

Apple’s late co-founder and CEO Steve Jobs famously said about the bulbous and colorful iMac G3 that he wanted a computer that looked good enough to lick. But he probably didn’t mean it quite as literally as Homei Miyashita, a researcher at Japan’s Meiji University. Miyas…[Read more]

In the city of Flint MI (and alsoa number of smaller cities nationwide), police joined protesters in marching, and the city remained quiet. In Grand Rapids, MI, police responded with force, and all hell broke lose. Do you think that our society could learn a lesson from this?

References
‘Let’s walk’: Sheriff joins Flint protesters in show of…[Read more]

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/05/31/over-100000-dead-and-depression-level-unemployment-sanders-calls-mcconnells

“Let’s be clear. We are in the midst of the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression,” Sanders declared in a statement on Saturday. “More than 100,000 Americans have died from the coronavirus, 40 million Americans have…[Read more]

https://readersupportednews.org/news-section2/318-66/63193-coronavirus-put-millions-out-of-work-a-21st-century-climate-corps-could-be-the-answer

The concept is hardly original: Putting jobless Americans back to work with projects that need to be done was the goal of dozens of public works programs that were part of the New Deal of the 1930s,…[Read more]

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/3a8xwb/fire-ants-are-invading-hawaii-so-helicopters-are-blasting-them-with-birth-control

Hawaii’s rugged terrain and dense jungle make ants almost impossible for people to eliminate from the ground. Now, scientists are unleashing a new tool: helicopters dropping ant birth control. It’s the first time c…[Read more]

https://www.cnet.com/news/the-universes-missing-matter-problem-has-finally-been-solved/

Macquart, an astronomer at the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research in Australia, and his team have been searching the cosmos for fast radio bursts, or FRBs, using a huge telescope array in the Australian outback known as the Australian Square…[Read more]

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/xg8xpj/fake-news-about-mark-zuckerberg-goes-viral-after-anti-fact-checking-comments

Now, two satirical articles by websites with Australian domain names are going viral on Facebook, spreading misinformation about Zuckerberg and calling attention to his stance against fact checking by social media companies.

The…[Read more]

https://www.thenation.com/article/activism/graduate-students-austerity-conditions/

Graduate student workers, who often run labs, assist professors, and even teach their own courses on campus, often receive very low pay, are not guaranteed housing, and do not have benefits such as paid sick leave. As universities enact austerity measures such as…[Read more]

https://readersupportednews.org/news-section2/318-66/63184-bald-eagle-nest-with-eggs-spotted-in-cape-cod-for-first-time-since-1905

On its website, Mass Wildlife said the population of bald eagles is soaring this season. The birds are currently in the middle of their nesting season, according to CBS News.

The return of bald eagles is a testament…[Read more]