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  1. Jun 2025
    1. You're you're literally watching um uh um models of the future battle it out in in the excitable medium of of cells and then whoever wins that's you know that's what happens

      for - definition - cellular futuring (mine) - when cells come together to decide what higher level anatomical structure they will collectively form in the future - example - multi-scale metaphor - cellular futuring - cells are deciding on the most compelling message of who they should join in order to form a higher level anatomical structure - this is much like human organisms who meet and decide what their collective action is going to be - both are exercises in goal-oriented futuring

  2. Apr 2025
  3. Jan 2024
  4. Jan 2021
  5. Sep 2020
  6. Aug 2020
    1. Yanacocha claims legal ownership of Máxima’s land while Máxima says she never sold any of her land to the company, and the land deeds bear her name

      Often times they cheat people out of their land by making it difficult to read contracts, targetting the illiterate, amongst other things

  7. Jan 2020
    1. Loss of landscape/aesthetic degradation, Soil contamination, Soil erosion, Deforestation and loss of vegetation cover, Surface water pollution / Decreasing water (physico-chemical, biological) quality, Mine tailing spills

      these are the problems that the community and environment are suffering because of the mines.

  8. May 2019
    1. Codelco is a state-owned Chilean mining company and the world’s largest copper producer. Based on their annual report and USGS statistics, they produced ~10% of the world’s copper in 2015 and own 8% of global reserves. They are also a large producer of greenhouse gas emissions. Last year, Codelco produced 3,2 t CO2e/millions tmf from both indirect and direct effects, and in 2011 it consumed 12% of the total national electricity supply.

      Goddamn they should start recylcling

  9. Nov 2017
    1. To support text and data mining as a standard and essential tool for research, the UK should move towards establishing by default that for published research the right to read is also the right to mine data, where that does not result in products that substitute for the original works. Government should include potential uses of data for AI when assessing how to support for text and data mining.
  10. Mar 2016