🌡 We Have 3 Years to Reverse Course, Major Climate Report Finds

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'It's Now Or Never': We Have 3 Years to Reverse Course, Major Climate Report Finds. In order to avoid the worst impacts of climate change, the world needs to make a serious U-turn over the next three years to curb our emissions, a stark new report finds. (Molly Taft / Gizmodo)

Read Becoming Abolitionists by Derecka Purnell @JoshuaPotash

Read the full piece by @mollytaft, and please connect with or create groups building power and organizing unprecedented and radical actions. Because it truly is now or never.

gizmodo.com‘It’s Now Or Never’: We Have 3 Years to Reverse Course, Major Climate Report FindsIf anything could motivate world leaders out of climate apathy, it’s this latest IPCC warning.

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Why People Are Adding a Second Shift at Night. After two years of working from home, I don't have one unified period of getting things done. I have several mini periods. Work isn't a contiguous landmass of focus; it's more like an archipelago of productivity amid a sea of chores, meals, mental… (Derek Thompson / The Atlantic)

Derek Thompson @DKThomp

Microsoft researchers found white-collar workers are adding a 9pm shift to their workday. I wrote about why: - your entire day is filled with online meetings - flexible work empowers night owls - more global teams - WFH + parenting = "triple peak" day theatlantic.com/newsletters/ar…

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Britain announces plans to mint its own NFT as it looks to 'lead the way' in crypto. U.K. Finance Minister Rishi Sunak has asked the Royal Mint to create and issue the NFT 'by the summer,' a government minister said Monday. City Minister John Glen announced a number of steps the U.K. will take to bring digital assets under more… (Ryan Browne / CNBC)

Ryan Browne @Ryan_Browne_

The UK has announced plans to mint its own NFT this summer. The move is part of a series of steps the government says it's taking to make Britain a "world leader" in crypto. More here:

cnbc.comBritain announces plans to mint its own NFT as it looks to ‘lead the way’ in cryptoU.K. Finance Minister Rishi Sunak has asked the Royal Mint to create and issue the NFT “by the summer,” a government minister said Monday.

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With Peloton Guide, the Fitness Company Bets Big on Body Tracking. Peloton has made a device that uses a camera to track your strength-training workouts. The “camera” part, though, still needs to prove itself. (Lauren Goode / WIRED)

Chaotic Goode @LaurenGoode

In March I had the chance to try out Peloton’s new workout-tracking camera at the company’s labs in New York, and also ask its top executives: Why a workout-tracking camera? A deep dive into the product (& a full review from @adriennemso to come very soon)

wired.comWith Peloton Guide, the Fitness Company Bets Big on Body TrackingPeloton has made a device that uses a camera to track your strength-training workouts. The “camera” part, though, still needs to prove itself.

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These are the words Amazon's planned employee chat app reportedly won't let you say. Amazon reportedly plans to add a content filter to an internal messaging app in the making and would ban words that reflect the company's working conditions or pertain to organizing a union, according to internal documents obtained by The… (Emma Roth / The Verge)

Michael Shoebridge @michael_ASPI

These are the words Amazon’s planned employee chat app reportedly won’t let you say; “union,” “slave labor,” “grievance,” “living wage,” & more. Free speech isn’t just threatened by authoritarian regimes.

theverge.comThese are the words Amazon’s planned employee chat app reportedly won’t let you sayAmazon’s list of banned words reportedly includes ‘union’

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