I do love this idea that protesting genocide is done “emotionally” which is a way of saying that people are being reactive and childish, and that the adult, reasonable thing is to have abstract conversations about the death of tens of thousands of people. Incredible framing.

BREAKING: Anticipating pro-Palestine campus divestment protests, Portland State University has just announced it will “pause” accepting donations from genocide-profiteer The Boeing Company, a major funding contributor.

We’ve obtained a copy of the email sent to faculty & students:

“There’s a fine line between one person and 10 people with H5N1,” he said. “By the time we’ve detected 10, it’s probably too late” to contain.

nytimes.com/2024/04/24/opi…

'I try to convince [my students] that your attention is the most precious thing you have. ...You can’t get more of it. So who are you going to give it away to? Tell me which companies you’re going to allow to take your attention every day.' newyorker.com/news/the-new-y…

Congrats to former Tesla engineer Andrew Kouri for launching Starlight Charging (@starlightnrg)!

The company is democratizing access to EV charging, making chargers easier to install in apartments & condos

Great piece by Fast Company's Kristin Toussaint

fastcompany.com/91109911/forme…

this is so bleak.

WGA members at Sesame Workshop are prepared to strike. 🪧

The unit voted UNANIMOUSLY - with 100% participation - to authorize a strike if management does not reach a fair new contract before their current agreement expires this Friday, April 19.

There's a new playlist on Spotify called 'Feat. NATURE' in which artists like Brian Eno x David Bowie, Ellie Goulding & more incorporate nature sounds into their music. With 'nature' as a credited artist, streaming those songs helps fund conservation fastcompany.com/91107795/like-…

also, im just realizing that the AI took a quote from my source - who called modern-day earth day a “trade show” as a way to express contempt for its hyper-corporate nature - and interpreted as earth day being LITERALLY a trade show lmfao

For years, the NLRB has been too toothless to enforce labor laws. Is that finally changing? Lee Adler of the ILR School faculty weighs in with Kristin Toussaint fastcompany.com/91090679/nlrb-…

we should do this more like if its a really nice day out we should all just go play outside

how do I start waking up earlier and don't just say go to bed earlier because then I just sleep longer?

brian lehrer telling people to call with 'something more than 'I felt shaking.' We know now everybody felt shaking' 🫨

wow usually I like being on the top floor but its very scary when the whole building shakes!!

Breaking news: New York City earthquake

Researchers from UC Berkeley have found that from 2018-2022, CO2 emissions from all sources across the San Francisco Bay Area dropped about 1.8% annually, a decrease the researchers attribute to the rise in EVs.

fastcompany.com/91077045/weve-…

newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/b…

'Their work was based on the simple belief that food is a universal human right. It is not conditional on being good or bad, rich or poor, left or right. We do not ask what religion you belong to. We just ask how many meals you need.' nytimes.com/2024/04/03/opi…