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  1. Sep 2024
    1. analysing the last 72 years of UN data on mortality. The places consistently reaching 100 at the highest rates according to the UN are Thailand, Malawi, Western Sahara (which doesn’t have a government) and Puerto Rico, where birth certificates were cancelled completely as a legal document in 2010 because they were so full of pension fraud. This data is just rotten from the inside out.

      Longevity data from the UN says researcher is highly suspect, given where they report highest rate of centenarians. Those reaching are often, poor, lacking in administrative systems, or even without government. Says data is fully untrustworthy from the start.

  2. Aug 2024
    1. Enhancing AI for Gender Equality through the Multistakeholder Approach

      From a study on the cooperation to develop artificial intelligence technology with a focus on gender fairness through the multi-stakeholder approach in Europe, it was found that the case of the Netherlands is particularly notable. A seminar was organized to present a case study on the problem of gender bias arising from AI algorithms. The event aimed to raise awareness and develop solutions to address gender bias created by AI algorithms. Speakers presented real-life case studies from the labor market, highlighting the causes of these issues and the urgent need for solutions. This allowed seminar participants to engage in discussions to develop guidelines not only for improving AI algorithms but also for amending laws to prevent gender bias resulting from the application of AI in the labor market.

    1. When an algorithm “learns” a pattern that more men than women are interested in lumber industry jobs (even if it doesn’t know their gender and learns this by correlating other information about a person’s likes and habits), then the system winds up deciding not to show those job ads to other women, solely because they are women.
  3. Jul 2024
    1. Managing problems at the scale the planet, therefore, requires creating governance institutions at the scale of the planet.

      for - key insight - governance - new planetary scale - NOT the UN

    2. The UN and its many parts and agencies – from UNICEF to the Universal Postal Union – answer not to humanity nor the world, but the nations that united to join it.

      for - climate crisis - key insight - why UN cannot address the climate crisis

      climate crisis - key insight - why UN cannot address the climate crisis - The UN responds to sovereign states, not to humanity nor to the planet

  4. May 2024
    1. Ausführliches Interview mit dem bisherigen UN-Berichterstatter für Menschenrechte und Umwelt David Boyd. Das von der UN festgeschriebene Recht auf eine saubere Umwelt müsse gegen ein Wirtschaftssystem durchgesetzt werden, das auf der Ausbeutung von Mensch und Natur basiert, und das von mächtigen Eliten aufrecht erhalten wird. Regierungen und Öffentlichkeit seien sich der Dramatik der Umweltsituation nicht bewusst. Boyd erwartet, dass in wenigen Jahren Prozesse gegen viele der aktuellen Regierungen geführt werden. würden. https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/07/un-expert-human-rights-climate-crisis-economy

    1. Este perfil te da un montón de habilidades para trabajar en cosas como diseño, edición de fotos y videos, y hacer contenido multimedia. Te prepara para estar al día con lo último en tecnología.

  5. Apr 2024
    1. Based on the information gathered by the mission team from multiple and independentsources, there are reasonable grounds to believe that conflict-related sexual violence occurredduring the 7 October attacks in multiple locations across Gaza periphery, including rape andgang rape, in at least three locations. Across the various locations of the 7 October attacks, themission team found that several fully naked or partially naked bodies from the waist down wererecovered – mostly women – with hands tied and shot multiple times, often in the head.Although circumstantial, such a pattern of undressing and restraining of victims may beindicative of some forms of sexual violence.13. At the Nova music festival and its surroundings, there are reasonable grounds to believethat multiple incidents of sexual violence took place with victims being subjected to rape and/organg rape and then killed or killed while being raped. Credible sources described finding

      Points 12 & 13 of the Executive Summary of UN's report on sexual violence during the Oct 7th attack contains the incriminating accusations against the Palestinians.

  6. Feb 2024
    1. Die Selbstverpflichtungen der Regierungen zur Dekarbonisierung reichen bei weitem nicht aus. Ein Bericht, der von den Vereinten Nationen als Grundlage für die kommende COP28 publiziert wurde, ergibt, dass 2030 etwa 20 bis 23 Gigatonnen mehr CO<sub>2</sub> emittiert werden sollen, als mit dem 1,5 °-Ziel verträglich wäre. Zum ersten Mal wird in einem offiziellen UN-Dokument das Ende der Nutzung fossiler Brennstoffe gefordert. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/sep/08/un-report-calls-for-phasing-out-of-fossil-fuels-as-paris-climate-goals-being-missed

      Bericht: https://unfccc.int/sites/default/files/resource/EMBARGOED_DRAFT_Sythesis-report-of-the-technical-dialogue-of-the-first-global-stocktake.pdf

      Bericht: https://unfccc.int/documents/631600

  7. Jan 2024
  8. Dec 2023
    1. its design as by its original destination, the car is a luxury good. And luxury, in essence, cannot be democratized: if everyone has access to luxury, no one benefits from it; on the contrary: everyone cheats, frustrates and dispossesses others and is cheated, frustrated and dispossessed by them.
      • for: quote - luxury cannot be democratized, 1% - democracy, elites - democracy, adjacency - luxury - democracy, luxury is not democratic, luxury is inequality, Andre Gorz, Terrestrial website, adjancency - luxury - democracy, quote luxury

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        • ... By its design as by its original destination, the car is a luxury good. And luxury, in essence, cannot be democratized: if everyone has access to luxury, no one benefits from it; on the contrary: everyone cheats, frustrates and dispossesses others and is cheated, frustrated and dispossessed by them.
      • author: Andre Gorz
      • date: Sept. 25, 2023
      • publication: Terrestrial

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        • insightful comment reveals an adjacency between luxury and democracy that is obvious in hindsight, but missed seeing in foresight!
      • adjacency between:

        • luxury
        • democracy
      • adjacency statement
        • luxury is, by definition a premium artefact so by definition is beyond the reach of most people. It is therefore un-democratic by design.
  9. Nov 2023
    1. there's a detail here which is that there are also parts of the Palestinian movement who 00:05:28 reject the original state of Israel and the 1948 borders

      The interviewee does not clarify enough this point,though it is recognized as contentious.

      According to UN 1945, 2.8 Palestinians have the right to demand conpensations for the lands Israel apropiated before the Nakba.

      The international community after 1967 came to the gradual understanding that negotiations for the reparations & the occupation will commence AFTER Israel withdraws to pre-1967 borders. Israel & the US are the parties that have been steadily resisting this, as is is shown by all intermediate agreements the US contributed to manufacture consent.

    1. Ausstieg Deutschlands aus dem UN-Migrationspakt

      besser: ausstieg aus der UN

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7D_SnySls0<br /> Coin Bureau – Who Controls The World?

      7:02 die UN wird kontrolliert von den veto-mächten (frankreich, russland, china, USA, england)<br /> also deutschland ist nur eine kolonie der USA<br /> (dabei sollte deutschland eine kolonie von russland sein, weil russland ist viel näher…)

      23:31 countries that have imposed sanctions on russia: USA, canada, germany, UK, australia, japan, …

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  15. May 2022
    1. Crop harvests for direct food use insufficient to meet the UN’s food security goal

      Planetary Boundary / Doughnut Economic Main Main Category: SOCIO-ECONOMIC: Food

      Visit Stop Reset Go on Indyweb for detailed context graph and to begin or engage in discussion on this topic. (Coming soon)

  16. Apr 2022
    1. El riesgo de que la conectividad pueda fomentar la inequidad en lugar de igualar las oportunidades es real e inmediato.

      https://www.bbc.com/mundo/noticias-45022393

      Me parece que este documento que habla de nuestro país, la inequidad y la pobreza como herencia, difícil de transformar, es un estudio clave para entender el grave conflicto social y político en el que vivimos. Según este estudio se requieren de por lo menos 11 generaciones para salir de la pobreza, esperemos y todos y todas hagamos una PACTO por la vida y por el CAMBIO, para que todes vivamos Sabroso!!

      Un PACTO para que la pobreza monetaria y la pobreza multidimensional cada vez baje sus cifras.

  17. Dec 2021
  18. Nov 2021
    1. el Gobierno cubano formuló una iniciativa para el uso de las fuentes renovables de energía con el objetivo de asegurar un adecuado y sostenible suministro de energía, reducir las emisiones de gases del efecto invernadero y garantizar el continuo desarrollo económico del país.

    2. Las grandes cantidades de residuos y de aguas negras generadas durante la obtención del grano limpio, son actualmente vertidas cerca de las despulpadoras, sin ningún tratamiento; en algunos casos, las aguas negras van a parar a los arroyos o lagunas y el alto contenido de materias orgánicas que poseen, causan la contaminación del agua.

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  23. Sep 2020
    1. In this study, we focused on MgO ceramic doped with Tb as apotential dosimeter material. MgO ceramics have excellent thermaland mechanical properties with a high melting point (2800C). Upto now, MgO ceramics doped with several different transition andrare earth elements have been studied for dosimeters[17e21]

      En este estudio, nos enfocamos en el cerámico de MgO dopado con Tb como un potencial material dosimétrico. . Los cerámicos de MgO tienen excelentes propiedades térmicas y mecánicas con un alto punto de fusión (2800°C). Hasta ahora, los cerámicos de MgO dopados con varios diferentes transiciones y elementos de tierras raras han sido estudiados para dosímetros.

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    1. The United States is a land of stark contrasts. It is one of the world’s wealthiest societies, a global leader in many areas, and a land of unsurpassed technological and other forms of innovation. Its corporations are global trendsetters, its civil society is vibrant and sophisticated and its higher education system leads the world. But its immense wealth and expertise stand in shocking contrast with the conditions in which vast numbers of its citizens live. About 40 million live in poverty, 18.5 million in extreme poverty, and 5.3 million live in Third World conditions of absolute poverty.4It has the highest youth poverty rate in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), and the highest infant mortality rates among comparable OECD States. Its citizens live shorter and sicker lives compared to those living in all other rich democracies, eradicable tropical diseases are increasingly prevalent, and it has the world’s highest incarceration rate, one of
  30. Jan 2019
    1. “You cannot look at ‘web 3.0’ without looking at blockchain or without looking at AI (Artificial Intelligence),” he said. “So, our hope is that through this discussion of these various digital domains, the business models, the opportunities and the risks and the unintended consequences in terms of human rights, in terms of privacy, in terms of subversion of democracy, we are able to come out with some common principles...of strengthening cooperation across borders.”

      <big>评:</big><br/><br/>联合国数字合作高级小组联合组长 Amandeep Gill 的上述观点,如同 TED Talks 讲者们勾勒的世界理想那般,昭示出强烈的国际公民精神。民众们可以为这些机构在数字化转型方面做出的努力而感到欣慰,但同时也得警惕,此刻听到的甜言蜜语,其实和总统们在电视前的新年致辞并无大异。<br/><br/>举个令国际主义者们略感沮丧的例子——联合国长期以来一直在探索区块链的多项人道主义用途,比如使用以太坊区块链将基于加密货币的代金券发放给叙利亚难民、利用虹膜等生物识别技术追踪消费情况。机构付出的努力值得肯定,但这样的技术运用其实是对历史发展轨迹的重复和既得利益体系的维护。何时,我们对技术落地场景的讨论才能从参与者的价值判断转到渠道本身?Gill 的 “strengthening cooperation across borders” 也许暗示着,在旧的世界秩序下,这就是道无解难题。

    1. Chose amusante, le 13 apparaît 11 fois sur le billet de un dollar.

      10 fois au verso :

      1. 13 fruits et
      2. 13 feuilles dans la patte gauche de l'aigle
      3. 13 flèches dans sa patte droite,
      4. 13 bandes sur son bouclier
      5. 13 étoiles au dessus de lui
      6. 13 lettres dans "e.pluribus enum"
      7. 13 lettres dans "annuit coeptis"
      8. 13 degrés de la pyramide
      9. 13 perles à droite
      10. 13 perles à gauche

      1 fois au recto :

      13 étoiles dans le chevron vert

  31. Jul 2017
    1. Que faire ? Récemment, le Nobel d’économie Joseph Stiglitz expliquait auMonde : « La première priorité est d’aider les victimes de la mondialisation à se former afin qu’elles acquièrent les compétences leur permettant d’occuper de nouveaux emplois. Mais il faut également créer de nouveaux jobs, notamment du côté des services. […] Où trouver les ressources ? En augmentant l’imposition des plus aisés, par exemple ».

      J'ai mis cette note avec Nico

  32. Jun 2017
    1. Characteristics of a full basic income9.In its comprehensive and ideal form, a basic income is explicitly designed to challenge most of the key assumptions underpinning existing social security systems. Rather than a system where there are partial payments, basic income guarantees a floor; instead of being episodic, payments are regular; rather than being needs-based, they arepaid as a flat rate to all; they come in cash, rather than as messy in-kind support; they accrue to every individual, rather than only to needy households; rather than requiring that various conditions be met, they are unconditional; rather than excludingthe well off, they are universal; and instead of being based on lifetime contributions, they are funded primarily from taxation. And simplicity of design promises minimal bureaucracy and low administrative costs.

      This is from a group that has thought this concept through, something US politicians do not seem to be capable of.

  33. Nov 2016
    1. Thomas Frank, en The Guardian, se hace eco de un estudio publicado por Working America, que entrevistó a 1.600 votantes blancos de clase trabajadora de los suburbios de Cleveland y Pittsburgh en diciembre y enero. El estudio reveló que el apoyo a Donald Trump es alto entre esas personas, incluso en los que se identificaban a sí mismos como demócratas, y no porque deseen que un racista ocupe la Casa Blanca (esa es su tercera preocupación, muy por detrás de “buen empleo” y “economía”). Lo que hace que Trump se convierta en el líder favorito es “su actitud”, su contundencia y su forma directa de hablar.
    1. El ideario defendido por Trump durante la campaña ha conectado con una gran parte de la sociedad blanca, que ve con temor como pierde su lugar privilegiado en un país cada vez más diverso. “Haz de America un país grande de nuevo” ha sido el contundente lema de una campaña dirigida a una clase social conservadora a la que le incomoda el país que dibujaba Obama en el que un hombre negro podía llegar a sentarse en el Despacho Oval, las personas del mismo sexo podían contraer matrimonio y millones de inmigrantes ‘sin papeles’ podían legalizar su situación. Habrá que analizar hasta qué punto este resultado electoral es más una derrota del proyecto de Obama que de la candidatura de Clinton.
    1. las recetas proteccionistas para favorecer a las empresas locales y la subida de aranceles a las importaciones, no sólo generarían un guerra comercial con sus socios en Asia y Europa
  34. www.ieee.org www.ieee.org
    1. Henry Ford’s Model T not only revolutionized the way automobiles were produced in America, it also became the first car to be affordable for a majority of Americans. With its front-mounted 2.9 liter inline four-cylinder engine, it produced 15 kW (20 hp), for a top speed of 64-72 kph (40-50 mph).
  35. Oct 2015
  36. teaching.lfhanley.net teaching.lfhanley.net
    1. empty bottles, sandwich papers, Silk handkerchiefs, cardboard boxes, cigarette ends Or other testimony of summer nights.

      The wast of society polluting the river and nature in general.

    2. violet light

      Makes me think of UV-rays

    3. human engine
    4. What is the city over the mountains Cracks and reforms and bursts in the violet air Falling towers
    5. Trams and dusty trees.
    6. automatic

      this description reminds me of a roboter hand.

    7. Metropole
    8. wind under the door.

      nature invading non-nature, or maybe the door keeps the wind (nature) outside.

    9. synthetic

      synthetic is unnatural

    10. The river sweats                Oil and tar