Nexus5 @Nexus5@fedibird.com

『村上龍と坂本龍一 21世紀のEV.Café』対談集を読んだ感想 - 世界のねじを巻くブログ https://www.nejimakiblog.com/entry/murakami-ryu-sakamoto-ryuichi-book-ev-cafe-interview #坂本龍一

🎙 PODCAST | Insulta a la mitad del país, confiesa que quiere privatizarlo todo, hasta los niños. Y ha ganado las elecciones

En 'Un tema Al Día', 'Llorar por Argentina: quién es Javier Milei' https://eldiario.es/blog/al-dia/podcast-llorar-argentina-javier-milei_132_10705249.html

#podcast

Au Japon, on n’a généralement pas de chauffage central, et la température à l’intérieur descend très bas la nuit en hiver.
Depuis quelques jours, tous les matins, j’ai en tête cette chanson : Futon no naka kara detakunai (j’ai pas envie de sortir de mon lit)

https://youtu.be/s4DxPeLNVuw?si=toto7oL9UVYtD2sc

So the biggest news in tech seems to be that some billionaire CEO of a AI company had been fired.

This really caught my attention as a very important news.

Until I realised, to my greatest disappointment, that he was fired by other humans.

#openai

Depuis avant-hier, le CNRS est actif sur Mastodon ! 👌 🤸‍♀️ (@cnrs)
Sur l'instance gérée par la Direction Interministérielle du Numérique (DINUM). Celle-ci héberge uniquement des comptes institutionnels et certifiés. Passez le mot aux acteurs de l'Enseignement supérieur et de la recherche !

Malgré le handicap, j’ai jamais autant été professionnellement pris au sérieux et ça fait tout de même vachement plaisir.

Je déconseille fortement le documentaire sur le capitalisme américain d'Arte, en trois épisodes, si vous souhaitez passer une soirée détendue.

Par contre si vous voulez apprendre des trucs et détester encore plus les GAFAM et le capitalisme, foncez, c'est lumineux.

Un nouvel épisode du Rétropondeur vous attend sur votre messagerie (ou votre flux RSS) ! Au tour de @louplassinatfoubert de parler d'un jeu Rare désormais méconnu : Viva Piñata 🪅

Pour écouter sur notre site ou votre plateforme d'écoute préférée, et vous abonner aux prochains épisodes 👉 https://www.blueprint.pm/le-retropondeur-4/

#Podcast #Jeuxvidéo #VivaPinata

Oddly specific question, but does anyone know a fiction #podcast with #solarpunk short stories?

With Christmas peeping cautiously over the horizon I find myself, as on many occasions before, regretting that mine is not a musical family. Playing some tunes and singing together has a lot of appeal.

Et hop, mon test de Super Mario RPG ! Un jeu auquel je voulais tellement jouer à l'époque... Et zou ! Le revoici, pour la première fois en français ! https://www.ouest-france.fr/gaming/super-mario/test-super-mario-rpg-sur-nintendo-switch-le-retour-dun-classique-meconnu-avec-du-contenu-bonus-6b097466-82cf-11ee-aabe-38ea97092852

Merci pour celles et ceux qui s'abonnent à mon site d'informations politiques (et sociales), l'information a un prix même si je vais continuer à vous informer ici chaque jour ❤️

#Politique #Medias #Presse #Macron #DirectAN #Parlement #Gouvernement #Information #Journalisme

Si vous l’avez raté hier :

Un article pour faire le point sur la précarité japonaise, autant pour les salarié.e.s que les retraité.e.s alors que les droitards français le prennent trop souvent en exemple sans savoir de quoi iels parlent

https://achikochi.tokyo/2023/salaires-japon/

There are a *lot* of things that I hate about late-stage capitalism and the enshittification of pretty much everything. But one of the things I hate the most is the nearly unavoidable prevalence of plastics in modern society.

Try as hard as we might, it's virtually impossible not to use and discard a certain amount of plastic containers, plastic wrapping, and plastic products. Freakin' plastic is everywhere!

Why? Because it's profitable for fossil fuel companies to produce and sell plastics, that's why. And, as we all know, almost none of it ever gets recycled. Most of what we drop into "recycle" bins ends up in landfills or is incinerated.

Here's a report from Grist that goes still further, describing the unfair impact that our profligate use of plastics in the Global North has on people in poor countries...
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As plastic production has skyrocketed over the past several decades, wealthy countries have benefited enormously — from increasingly lightweight, affordable products, for example. The full social and environmental costs of this plastic boom, however, have been disproportionately offloaded onto poorer people in the developing world.

According to an analysis published last week by the nonprofit World Wide Fund for Nature, or WWF, the costs of plastic across its life cycle — from production to disposal — are at least eight times higher for low- and middle-income countries than they are for high-income countries. In places like Brazil, Ethiopia, Fiji, and India, governments’ limited capacity to control or regulate plastic production has led to growing health risks from petrochemical plants’ toxic air emissions and chemical spills. Meanwhile, a pileup of discarded plastic threatens to overwhelm these countries’ waste management infrastructure, causing widespread land and water pollution.

“Our take, make, waste plastics system is designed in a way that unfairly impacts our planet’s most vulnerable and disadvantaged countries,” said Alice Ruhweza, senior director of policy, influence, and engagement for WWF International.

Most of the disparity comes from the end of the life cycle, when plastic is “mismanaged” — in other words, polluted into the environment. Mismanagement costs low- and middle-income countries at least $149 per kilogram of virgin plastic, compared to just $17 per kilogram for wealthier nations. This is because developing countries often lack the infrastructure to properly manage the mountain of trash that they generate domestically or import from elsewhere. They simply don’t have the means to prevent it from escaping into the environment and damaging ecosystems.

Although nearly two-thirds of the world’s plastic is produced outside of North America and Europe, plastic production and design considerations — which could make plastic more easily recyclable or less toxic — are typically controlled by multinational companies headquartered in wealthy countries. Meanwhile, the world lacks common regulations to hold plastic-producing countries and companies financially responsible for the life-cycle impacts of their plastic products.

Low- and middle-income countries have an “inability to say what products are being made in the first place, but we’re asking them to have the infrastructure to manage the waste,” said Erin Simon, WWF’s vice president of plastic waste and business.
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FULL ARTICLE -- https://grist.org/equity/plastics-life-cycle-costs-overwhelmingly-fall-on-poor-countries/

#Environment #Pollution #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateJustice

Patreon Live Sessions: November 2023

Tous les mois, un mix "club" exclusif, compilé et mixé par Faskil.

https://news.faskil.com/2023/11/14/patreon-live-sessions-november-2023/