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“The Sierra Club is a 128-year-old organization with a complex history, some of which has caused significant and immeasurable harm. As defenders of Black life pull down Confederate monuments across the country, we must also take this moment to reexamine our past and our substantial role in perpetuating white supremacy.”

The CO₂ increase is due to the burning of fossil fuels for energy, and land use change such as deforestation which leaves fewer trees to absorb CO₂ from the air, and changes the uptake and release of carbon in the soils.

Nineteen creators, including six based in Los Angeles, will be the first to receive money from TikTok’s $200-million U.S. creator fund, the company announced. TikTok said money will be given to the selected talents in regular payments over the coming year...

Toei Animation, Kodansha, Nippon Animation, Tezuka Productions, Shogakukan-Shueisha Productions, and Shinei Animation have banded together to start a channel on YouTube. The goal is to have 30 companies providing 3,000 anime titles by 2022, with the number of views per month reaching 300 million.

Through violent earthquakes and floods, in a single day and night of misfortune … [the whole race] … was swallowed up by the Earth and the island of Atlantis … disappeared into the depths of the sea.” — Plato.

In spite of soaring subscription numbers, shutdowns resulting from the coronavirus contributed to a $4.7 billion quarterly loss.

A deep dive into the yearlong effort to create what Netflix terms the “ta-dum” sound — the short piece of sound that plays along with the Netflix logo before the company’s original series and films.

The ETHICS dataset, a new AI benchmark that spans concepts in justice, well-being, duties, virtues, and commonsense morality.

Amidst the pandemic-fueled housing boom, newly launched company Mighty Buildings offers an attractive solution to the nation’s lumber and labor shortages: 3D-printed homes that can be built with 95% fewer labor hours at twice the speed of conventional construction.

Plague erased social, gender and personal differences. Shakespeare responded by emphasizing people’s unique and inerasable difference. His work is a narrative vaccine.

A possible blueprint for making the proposed Microsoft deal palatable to the White House...

China’s ByteDance has agreed to divest the U.S. operations of TikTok completely in a bid to save a deal with the White House, after President Donald Trump said on Friday he had decided to ban the popular short-video app.

With trillions of $ invested globally towards space commerce, the US is now preparing for cislunar leadership recognising that space will become a "war-faring domain."

The race is officially on for humans to become a multi-planetary spacefaring civilisation and star wars inevitable.

"We must now realize the promise of America by trusting God, unifying our vision and building our future. I am running for president of the United States." #2020VISION.

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