‘People are happier in a walkable neighborhood’: the US community that banned cars (www.theguardian.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/6669422...
‘We lie on the floor till someone buys us’: shocking allegations of UAE agencies’ abuse of domestic workers (www.theguardian.com)
In a series of interviews conducted over several years, 14 women from east Africa and the Philippines recounted their experiences with recruitment agencies hiring for the United Arab Emirates, including alleging they were denied food, held captive and treated violently.
Civilian deaths are indefensible, whether done by Hamas or Israel | Rajan Menon (www.theguardian.com)
Stockholm to ban petrol and diesel cars from centre from 2025 (www.theguardian.com)
Californians will be able to delete all personal online data with first-in-US law (www.theguardian.com)
The new bill reinforces that all data brokers must register with the California privacy protection agency, and it requires the CPPA to establish an easy and free way for Californians to request that all data brokers in the state delete their data through a single page, regardless of how they acquired that information. If data...
School surveillance tech does more harm than good, ACLU report finds (www.theguardian.com)
‘I prefer women’s jeans – men’s lack design subtlety’: why men are buying womenswear (www.theguardian.com)
Lost ‘holy grail’ film of life in Brazil’s Amazon 100 years ago resurfaces (www.theguardian.com)
Escape from the rabbit hole: the conspiracy theorist who abandoned his dangerous beliefs (www.theguardian.com)
Canada’s first First Nations provincial premier elected in Manitoba (www.theguardian.com)
cross-posted from: lemmit.online/post/1016220...
People may suffer ‘long colds’ more than four weeks after infection, study shows | Medical research (www.theguardian.com)
I had a cold last month, but I’m still getting rid of a mild cough. This seems pretty timely for me....
‘Gobsmackingly bananas’: scientists stunned by planet’s record September heat (www.theguardian.com)
Chinese censors block ‘Tiananmen’ image of athletes hugging (www.theguardian.com)
UK could rent space in foreign jails to ease shortage of cells (www.theguardian.com)
US student held in Dubai for weeks for tapping security officer’s arm (www.theguardian.com)
Interview - ‘Capitalism is dead. Now we have something much worse’: Yanis Varoufakis on extremism, Starmer, and the tyranny of big tech (www.theguardian.com)
Fathers have ‘unique effect’ on children’s educational outcomes, study finds (www.theguardian.com)
European governments shrinking railways in favour of road-building, report finds (www.theguardian.com)
There’s a bit of good news in here:...