“AquaSalina is 400-million-year-old ancient seawater from the Silurian Age” that “contains a perfect natural balance of chlorides uniquely suited for snow and ice management,”

In fact, thanks to a single exemption the industry received from the EPA in 1980, the streams of waste generated at oil-and-gas wells — all of which could be radioactive and hazardous to humans — are not required to be handled as hazardous waste. In 1988, the EPA assessed the exemption — called the Bentsen and Bevill amendments, part of the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act — and claimed that “potential risk to human health and the environment were small,” even though the agency found concerning levels of lead, arsenic, barium, and uranium, and admitted that it did not assess many of the major potential risks. Instead, the report focused on the financial and regulatory burdens, determining that formally labeling the “billions of barrels of waste” as hazardous would “cause a severe economic impact on the industry.” Effectively, the EPA determined that in order for oil-and-gas to flourish, its hazardous waste should not be defined as hazardous.

While the risk of exposure to radioactive elements in some phases of our operations is low, Shell has strict, well-developed safety procedures in place to monitor for radioactivity as well as a comprehensive list of safety protocols should radioactivity be detected.”

The extent of any health impacts are unknown, mostly because there hasn’t been enough testing. Many doctors just aren’t aware of the risks.

“If I had a beaker of that on my desk and accidentally dropped it on the floor, they would shut the place down,” says Yuri Gorby, a microbiologist who spent 15 years studying radioactivity with the Department of Energy. “And if I dumped it down the sink, I could go to jail.”

the Nuclear Regulatory Commission requires industrial discharges to remain below 60 for each. Four of Peter’s samples registered combined radium levels above 3,500, and one was more than 8,500.

It was the first time Peter had heard any mention of the brine being radioactive.

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passage in March of a consumer data privacy law in Virginia, which Protocol reported was originally authored by Amazon

consumers would have to opt out of rather than into tracking

authority is proportional to property

Yarvin, out of ignorance or for rhetorical purposes, does not seem to recognize how ownership is a power relation.

Urbit, as a P2P project, is a fundamentally social and thus incorporates ideas about how people should be organized, Yarvin’s politics should be considered as something that influences his design decisions and his long-term vision for the project

Many people in tech still believe that technology can be divorced from its creators

decoherence happening in the quantum metaphysics

Not only are these websites breaking my trust—when I visit your website, I entered into contact with you, not 80 other websites—but they are loading content from websites neither know nor trust. Some of which have been know to spread malware.

it’s crucial to understand that these mental states are inherently different. As we do our work, we are either in a decision-making mindset, or in a mindset of creation and intuition

“She’s crafting a language and I could create a visual from those ideas.”

And then the other techniques I do, sometimes they come from something that I really liked and then I try to crack the recipe and try to see how they were done. So I’m also very interested in the knowledge that is embedded in specific techniques.

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it was a slow process but I feel like I’ve put in a lot of time and effort to create that community for myself

Connecting with each other and having conversations is how we build new and different worlds.

I’ve paid the residency and submission fees. And I’ve come to realize that this only feeds the beast. By capitulating to an extractive system, our actions harm all artists

pay-to-submit art shows

When applied to art making, the premise of the side hustle is that it is not productive to make art if it is not in the service of profit.

I thought the only option for me was to find a way to combine creativity and earning money.

reject the ethos of the side hustle

We are told this system is a meritocracy, where the most talented and hardworking people are granted entrance to the top 1% of earners

those lost wages are made up for by a sense of passion and personal fulfillment.

the business ideology of short-term gain without regard for human consequences, in accord with the vile maxim.

Andrew Schapiro, a lawyer for Google, argued the company’s privacy policy “expressly discloses” its practices.

forced Google in one notable case to disclose its scanning of emails to build profiles and target advertising

The data breach was carried out by an international hacker collective and intended to show the pervasiveness of video surveillance and the ease with which systems could be broken into

“There are many legitimate reasons to have surveillance inside of a company,” Galperin added. “The most important part is to have the informed consent of your employees. Usually this is done inside the employee handbook, which no one reads.”

Kottmann said their reasons for hacking are “lots of curiosity, fighting for freedom of information and against intellectual property, a huge dose of anti-capitalism, a hint of anarchism -- and it’s also just too much fun not to do it.”

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a processthat is quite often colonial in character.

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