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Surveillance Pricing Is Making Life More Expensive. Here's How It Works and What You Can Do
Crossposted from https://piefed.ca/c/technology/p/801015/surveillance-pricing-is-making-life-more-expensive-here-s-how-it-works-and-what-you-can-do
Turns Out, There Really Is a Cabal of Elite Crazies Trying to Control the World
cross-posted from: https://lemmus.org/post/23268014
https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a71619211/peter-thiel-dialog-club-wired-report/Open linkView original on feddit.orgA Farmer Donated Land to Turn into a Park. The City Is Building a Massive Data Center Instead
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/47932261
Fuck you Abbot and the horse you ride on.
https://www.404media.co/a-farmer-donated-land-to-turn-into-a-park-the-city-is-building-a-massive-data-center-instead/Open linkView original on feddit.orgData centers get tax breaks. Not you though.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/48025455
Last Month, Salesforce Announced It Hit $1.2 Billion in AI Revenue—Now It’s Laying Off Staff Tied to the Product
Crossposted from https://discuss.online/post/40995746
He Profits Off Raw Milk That’s Making People Sick. The Government Isn’t Stopping Him.
Crossposted from https://scribe.disroot.org/post/9428370
- Raw Milk on the Rise: Driven by political shifts and wellness trends, unpasteurized milk has moved from a fringe obsession to a widespread movement rooted in institutional distrust.
- The Myth of Safety: Despite stringent hygiene efforts, contamination from deadly bacteria like E. coli and salmonella remains an inherent, unavoidable risk in unpasteurized dairy.
- A Political Shield: As raw milk continues to sicken consumers, high-level lawmakers and government officials are championing the industry’s expansion rather than curbing the danger.
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If you trust 150 years of bedrock science, [raw milk] offers little reason to consume. By definition, it has not been pasteurized, the simple process of heating milk to kill off harmful bacteria. Before the practice was widely adopted a century ago, thousands of babies died each year from illnesses linked to contaminated dairy. Today, most scientists and health experts agree that raw milk has no significant, proven nutritional benefits over its sanitized counterpart, cannot treat or cure disease and subjects its consumers to over 100 times the risk of foodborne illness, which can be especially dangerous for young children.
And yet, McAfee’s farm, the largest raw-milk dairy in the country, is pulling in about $30 million a year, meeting a growing demand from customers who say they want food that hasn’t been robbed of health benefits by industrial processing.
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Regulators have linked Mark McAfee’s raw dairy farm to more than a dozen recalls and outbreaks that left hundreds of people ill.
“I’ve put a couple kids in the hospital ...,” McAfee acknowledged... “But here’s the thing: I’m a pioneer.”
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https://www.propublica.org/article/mark-mcafee-raw-milk-recalls-mahaOpen linkView original on feddit.org
Why exactly are nursing aids paid so poorly?
cross-posted from: https://discuss.online/post/40850142
US Vice President JD Vance denounces Britain's handling of the murder of a white student, linking it to civilizational decline
cross-posted from: https://feddit.uk/post/50279606
More of these cars are entering Australia — and they've sparked a burning question
Crossposted from https://leminal.space/post/36155780
Security experts have cautioned that internet-linked vehicles pose an increasing threat to Australian consumers as their data-gathering capabilities grow.
https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/car-security-evs-internet-cars-tracking-australia-asio/etdtxll9eOpen linkView original on feddit.orgMore of these cars are entering Australia — and they've sparked a burning question
Crossposted from https://leminal.space/post/36155780
Security experts have cautioned that internet-linked vehicles pose an increasing threat to Australian consumers as their data-gathering capabilities grow.
https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/car-security-evs-internet-cars-tracking-australia-asio/etdtxll9eOpen linkView original on feddit.orgQuote of the day by Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison: "Citizens will be on their best behavior, because we’re constantly recording and reporting everything that is going on" — a dire warning on the er…
Crossposted from https://lemmy.radio/post/13618800
https://www.techradar.com/pro/quote-of-the-day-by-oracle-co-founder-larry-ellison-citizens-will-be-on-their-best-behavior-because-were-constantly-recording-and-reporting-everything-that-is-going-on-a-dire-warning-on-the-erosion-of-privacyOpen linkView original on feddit.orgTrillions of miles of data: Your car is spying on you, and it's only just the beginning
Crossposted from https://programming.dev/post/51146153
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260513-your-car-is-spying-on-you-its-about-to-get-worseOpen linkView original on feddit.orgThe uncritical adoption of AI in science is alarming — we urgently need guard rails
Crossposted from https://lemmy.zip/post/65160131
Australia is wasting more than $1 billion each year building off-street parking that end up unused and unwanted, a study found
Crossposted from https://lemmy.zip/post/65026794
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05-19/grattan-institute-calls-for-abolition-of-parking-minimums/106698234Open linkView original on feddit.org