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[–] solo@piefed.social 1 points 2 days ago

Thank you for mentioning this. I wanted to write something similar in the description and totally forgot

 

A newer ‘climate-friendly’ refrigerant used in car air conditioning systems, may already be a significant, and possibly dominant, source of a ‘forever chemical’ pollutant across Europe, according to a new University of Bristol-led study.

[–] solo@piefed.social 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

There's a link at the very top of the article, if you click on it, you will get another article and there you can find many links that take you to the relevant studies

 

One of the best bulwarks against monopoly is interoperability—that is making a new product or service work with an existing product or service. Interoperability allows users, and not the manufacturers of their devices or largest player in a market, to decide what application best serves them. Unsurprisingly, companies like Apple have worked hard to resist interoperability requirements.

 

In the period leading up to the Second World War, technological advances were rapidly redefining everyday life, including the widespread use of a new class of superchemicals that promised to solve all our household problems. Perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS, are a class of synthetic chemicals known as “forever chemicals”, which have quietly infiltrated our daily lives.

 

A new study, published in Royal Society Open Science, reveals that moss cushions produce surprisingly complex electrical activity, with patterns that undulate across the velvety patch in dynamic waves.

 

Stomata In-Sight: A new window into plant "breathing" could pave the way for crops that grow more food with far less water.

 

Plants can detect the vibrations produced by running water, but they do not hear in the human sense. Their mechanosensory cells respond to these subtle movements, sometimes triggering changes in growth or gene expression that help locate moisture.

[–] solo@piefed.social 1 points 2 weeks ago

Your framing makes it seem like earlier feminists realized their errs and opened up

I really don't know where you got that impression. I specifically talk about feminism, so that the focus is on an intergenerational time-frame.

My point is that it’s the achievement of intersectionalism, not of feminism

I am not familiar with the term intersectionalism. I know that intersectionality started as a term for legal analysis coined by Kimberlé Crenshaw and then was adopted by feminists because it created a helpful analytical framework.

[–] solo@piefed.social 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

A few more words to clarify a couple of stuff.

The way I see things, the current wave of feminism is using the analytical tool of intersectionality which allows mistakes of the past to be addressed and not to be repeated.

Last time I checked, I also concluded that terfs are still a thing. For me, there is nothing radical in being a transphobe, so I think we should just call them that: transphobes. They can call themselves feminists, the word is out there for anyone to use. And this is why every time someone tells me they are a feminist I ask them and/or try to see how they see intersectionality so I know to who I am talking (if they are westerners, that is). And I hope by now it is clear, I don't go into conversations defending the purity of movements.

[–] solo@piefed.social 2 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

Personnally, I do not reproduce quotes that haven't age well. The OP, you and everyone do as you want. I am not quote- police or something.

I find it weird you mention the 'no true Scotsman" fallacy for TERFs. The acronym means Trans Exclusionary Radical Feminist.

[–] solo@piefed.social 0 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (6 children)

This is in part the older, gender neutral usage of “man” meaning “human” and in part ignorance about woman issues.

Sure, in good faith we need to take into account the historical background. Still, the quote "If you're a man, you take it" in 2026, sounds more like something coming from the manosphere.

There were black women who felt left out both from black liberation movements and from feminism.

This is why feminism evovled to be intersectional.

[–] solo@piefed.social -1 points 2 weeks ago

OP, why do you believe this Nick Shirley person? Everything he has done so far has been debunked through fact-checking.

[–] solo@piefed.social 13 points 2 weeks ago

Since you're reading about this topic, here are some free MIT courses on nuclear science.

 

With some still unable to accept humanity’s role in climate chaos, we tackle common misconceptions and deceptions

[–] solo@piefed.social 2 points 1 month ago

You are right in the sense that it looks like the author is a real person, because they appear to have linked a linkedin profile (I say appear because right now I cannot access my linkedin account to veryfy it).

Nevertheless, if you copy-paste the text in this AI detector it says that it is 100% AI generated.

 

Rising temperatures are set to drive up emissions from wildfires, fermenting wetlands, and melting permafrost, but these “feedback loops” are poorly captured in climate models. Scientists are racing to make sense of these emissions to gauge how much warming may lie ahead.

A new study from a group of leading climate researchers suggests this information gap could make it even more difficult for nations to limit the rise in global average temperatures to well below 2 degrees C, the target set by the Paris Climate Agreement. The study found that emissions from natural systems could add as much as 0.6 degrees C to the rise in global average temperatures. That’s in line with earlier work that suggests such emissions could shorten by 25 percent the amount of time it takes to exceed 2 degrees C of warming. Shortcomings in climate modeling, scientists warn, could lead countries to overestimate how much fossil fuels can be burned before breaching climate targets.

 
  • Canada’s independent watchdog for overseas human rights complaints against Canadian companies has been leaderless since May 2025, leaving at least 24 active cases effectively stalled.

  • Communities in the Dominican Republic, Namibia, Pakistan and elsewhere say delays have left them without a meaningful avenue to seek accountability for alleged environmental and human rights harms linked to Canadian mining and energy projects.

  • Critics argue the office of the Canadian Ombudsperson for Responsible Enterprise (CORE) was already limited by weak investigative powers, and the year-long vacancy has further undermined confidence in the mechanism.

  • The leadership gap comes as Canada promotes mining investment tied to growing demand for critical minerals. The vacancy is prompting renewed calls from advocates, former officials and the United Nations for the office to be strengthened and a new ombudsperson appointed urgently

[–] solo@piefed.social 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I'm sorry but this video is distoring the term epigenetics. Epigenetics is not a something that started happening in our era, it was simply something that was discovered recently.

Epigenetics is the study of changes in gene expression that occur without altering the DNA sequence. [...] Epigenetics usually involves changes that persist through cell division, and affect the regulation of gene expression. Such effects on cellular and physiological traits may result from environmental factors, or be part of normal development. [wiki]

[–] solo@piefed.social 3 points 1 month ago

Wenders said the film would be withdrawn from "all current forms of distribution and exhibition", meaning "streaming services, television broadcasters and distribution partners will be instructed to cease public access to the film".

Wenders said he would seek a "broad dialogue" with film institutions and groups, and only after reaching "a mutually agreed solution, which will include Nastassja Kinski, will we make the film available again".

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