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The fund was fed by oil profits, but has now divested from oil-centric companies and invests heavily in renewable energy.

http://cepr.net/press-center/press-releases/report-finds-us-...

It's gonna be really cool to see graphene used... in 60 years, when it's possible to manufacture in sufficient quantities

reference for above comment: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Data_dump_torrents I, somewhat fancifully, keep two flashdrives with a wikipedia data dump on them "just in case"

the issue isn't even getting everyone a cellphone, it's getting a lot of people a new, almost identical cell phone every year.

certainly it musn't be an all-time low, considering that near 0 african americans owned homes prior to 1863 and near 0 african peoples were in america in the 1600s

most children are using their parents' apple IDs.

can confirm, currently maintaining presence and interaction on two accounts for each of facebook, twitter, and instagram, in order to not out myself to family and prospective emplo…

Much of the time it was used to create full screen transparent links to other videos, or other obnoxious things decreasing QoL. Still sad to see it go though.

This type of acausal deal only works for single-target attacks. If a bad actor is searching for a victim and sees two potential targets, one of which has resolved to never cede to …

I don't want to sound like a conspiracy theorist, but it reeks of manufactured support.

Some More News is very much "Here's an opinion you already have, let's be sardonic at the possibility others don't share it". I'd recommend Riley J. Dennis instead, for her excelle…

mark rober's quality has gone downhill fast. To the point of staging multiple videos and using obnoxious clickbait.

I've known an amazon worker who worked on the amazon's choice functionality at one point- it's all algorithmic with little to no human interaction. It's also skewed towards the pro…

were loyalists invited to the continental congress? Sometimes there's simply no merit in allowing certain people into certain spaces.

It seems to me that planting historically native trees would be best for preserving cultural landscapes and identity. Ireland is absolutely beautiful, but the sheer breadth of defo…

very reductive to say that africa is poor due to statism and not centuries of imperialism, both actual and economic

More like pitching a stall outside your local Costco, calling it Costco, and charging dimwits a fee to enter the warehouse

additionally, there's no real need for technically public discussions to be promoted or made more public, so it's not really a failure state if the algorithm doesn't promote a high…

The Jacobin has always been a fan of calling out US imperialism.

America is incredible effective at suppressing protest. Not just as the protest is happening, but before it begins.

Break up Verizon and AT&T.

This article smacks of corporate apologia. A lot of jobs just genuinely suck, and no amount of cognitive dissonance will change that.

And as we all know, insurance companies never do illegal things

Now I don't like the terminology "elites" as it lends itself to populism, but in this framework it's useful. Soon enough, the elites will not be overthrowable. The advantage that t…