mitchbob

From the article:

> The Thames may be cleaner than when it was declared biologically dead in 1957, but other rivers are close to ecological collapse, suffocated by algae, fungi and weeds that bloom in the run-off from industrial farming.

> On 1 June, Natalie Bennett, a former leader of the Green Party, waded into this slurry with the first reading of a private member’s bill in the House of Lords. The Nature’s Rights Bill calls for Nature (capitalised) to be recognised in law as ‘a legal subject and rights-bearing entity’ with ‘inherent rights’ to exist; to maintain its natural cycles, processes, ‘diversity’ and ‘abundance’; and ‘to be free from pollution, contamination and degradation that threatens ecological integrity, resilience or health’. The bill recognises ‘the rights of Nature ... as the foundation of human life, society and economic activity’ and would impose a legal duty on individuals, businesses and public bodies to operate inside safe ecological limits, with ‘a duty of care towards Nature’.

> The Trump Administration Wants to Frighten Would-Be Whistleblowers

> A proposal to push federal workers to sign nondisclosure agreements is part of a bigger effort to hide government secrets.

https://archive.ph/m29Oa

Link not working, but it looks like this is the page:

https://www.mayerbrown.com/en/insights/publications/2026/04/...

> The first four chapters provide a general summary of the economic instability afflicting the international economy at the time of publication (2011), noting that cooperatives have on average performed better than traditional for-profit corporations. The next four chapters describe four different cooperatives in four countries.

Getting a 404 for this, but it's available from the Internet Archive:

https://web.archive.org/web/20260522023015/https://mrmarket....

> His executive order doesn’t say much will be done immediately. It largely tasks state agencies and departments to conduct various analyses on the impact of AI on the workforce, and gives them, depending on the task, three to six months to do so. Newsom also wants to eventually create AI-specific frameworks around labor, according to the order.

So the equivalent of "establish a commission," a way leaders feign concern about hot issues without actually doing anything about them. I'm sure his few months of "leadership" on this before he leaves office will a talking point in his presidential compaign.

Direct link to discussion:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(WMF)#W...

The more detailed Washington Post article this is based on:

https://archive.ph/jqcbT

> Melanie Malone led a research project to identify and study contamination sites in Washington State. Then the E.P.A. canceled her grant.

https://archive.ph/2026.05.19-095606/https://www.nytimes.com...

FWIW, this bundle with all 17 books can be had for $18, which I'm guessing is less than the cost of a printed copy of any one of the books.

Ah, nostalgia. I'd drool over the Heathkit catalogs as a kid. I still have a Van Alstine-modified Dynaco PAT 5 preamp with walnut case that's been the heart of my audio system for almost 40 years. Absolutely trouble free all these years and still sounds great.

If you're at all interested in product design, this is well worth a watch.

> Before ChatGPT, there was the Plot Robot, Auto-Beatnik, and a century's worth of schemes for automating authorship.

https://archive.ph/2026.05.19-165214/https://www.newyorker.c...