Paul Sutton @zleap@social.cleverlibre.org

@zleap If the turnout is any indication, we may finally have more good news.

The state of Alaska is still trying to drill for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, but a federal judge ordered this week that the state must wait at least a little longer: https://alaskabeacon.com/2023/08/07/federal-judge-upholds-pause-on-pre-development-oil-work-in-arctic-refuge/ #akleg #Alaska

Welcome to Mastodon!

AURE FREE PRESS wants to be your news source!

@Free_Press

A semi-retired journalist with 30 years of reporting experience, I've created this ad-free channel to feed my passion and bring YOU the latest news you need.

Be social on Mastodon; soon you'll be
Master of the Fediverse!

Download the updated Mastodon app in the play store!

Please help me serve others by reposting my toots (posts).
#Mastodon #News #AureFreePress

Patreon's AFP channel!

https://www.patreon.com/Free_Press_Forever

64%

“Americans’ discontent with the #SupremeCourt’s decision overturning Roe v. Wade remains as potent as it was a year ago, according to a new CNN poll conducted by SSRS, with a record-high share of the public saying that they’re likely to take a candidate’s position on “abortion into consideration when voting.” #SCOTUS

https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/08/politics/cnn-poll-abortion-electoral-litmus-test-supreme-court

@w7voa

This is spectacularly heavy. In a world where everything we have to deal with that is important is also so petty and small, this is the type of think that holds weight. We need a lot more of this and we need an attention shift in this direction.

It really is time for the door to close on the Trump season. We can all watch our Justice System do the rest. There are some really pressing issues we have been sorely ignoring.

@w7voa This is fantastic!

"Some MAGA extremists are trying to do undo it all," says Biden of his climate initiatives.

President Biden officially designates ~1 million acres around the Grand Canyon a national monument.

So long as Jews and Palestinians don't have equal rights, Israel risks "dictatorship," says 750 academics in letter urging U.S. Jews to denounce "apartheid."

https://mondoweiss.net/2023/08/you-ignore-apartheid-angry-scholars-letter-to-us-jews-is-signed-by-750-including-benny-morris/?utm_content=buffer6e761&utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=buffer

#Palestine #Israel

In China, Possibly the Earliest Attempt at Writing

China, in HefeiOffsite Link, Anhui province, announced that signs carved into what appeared to be 8600 year-old-tortoise shells may be the earliest written wordsOffsite Link.

Other authorities urge caution regarding the dating of this material, and question whether it is actually written language. The symbols may have been recorded in the late Stone Age or Neolithic Age. The symbols also bear similarities to the oracle bone scriptOffsite Link used thousands of years later during the Shang dynastry, but it is unclear that these symbols were part of an actual writing system. The BBC reported:

"The archaeologists have identified 11 separate symbols inscribed on the tortoise shells.

"The shells were found buried with human remains in 24 Neolithic graves unearthed at JiahuOffsite Link in Henan province, Western China.

"The site has been radiocarbon dated to between 6,600-6200 BCE

https://www.historyofinformation.com/detail.php?id=1281

It was about time that we followed this call:

"Join the Organidons: Organization and Management Scholars on Mastodon"
https://osconjunction.net/2023/01/27/join-the-organidons-organization-and-management-scholars-on-mastodon/

wrote about how Zoom went from an indispensable pandemic tool to a flailing business whose recent pivots—to generative A.I., to customer data-mining, to office-bound work—are only turning up the heat on a once-beloved company: https://slate.com/technology/2023/08/zoom-ai-privacy-business-pandemic.html

“The idea that the poor should have leisure has always been shocking to the rich.” https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/aug/08/britain-poor-people-leisure-victorian-workhouse