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Sex work

mercredi 11 mai 2016 à 02:00

Former sex workers speak against plans to make sex workers' customers criminals.

Loss of bee colonies

mercredi 11 mai 2016 à 02:00

US bee keepers lost 44% of their colonies last winter.

Global heating effects may be part of the cause, because they reduce the fraction of protein in the pollen that bees eat.

Erdoğan

mercredi 11 mai 2016 à 02:00

Erdoğan has been denied a German court order requiring a German businessman not to support publicly a satirical poem video about Erdoğan.

However, another German was ordered not to say that Erdoğan should be shot.

Some Turkish citizens are already fighting Erdoğan's men, since last summer when he started a war against them.

Facebook's "trending topics"

mercredi 11 mai 2016 à 02:00

Facebook's team of editors for "trending topics" altered the list of stories based on their own biases, and based on instructions from their bosses.

This is little different from what happens in US mass media generally. Most of the US media shut Bernie Sanders out entirely until he started winning some state primaries, while one TV network hyped Trump because his crudeness attracted viewers.

It's wrong, however, for Facebook to do this if it claims that it isn't selecting stories, just showing what its useds are looking at.

Failure to build energy efficient homes

mercredi 11 mai 2016 à 02:00

"The UK government’s failure to build new homes that are energy efficient will see future generations dealing with our costly mistakes."

The same can be said about many other places.