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British Social History: Photos By Thurston Hopkins

In the 1950s, immigration from the West Indies was becoming a political issue. At the same time, many people all over Britain were still living in …

British Social History: Photos By Thurston Hopkins

jwz: Facebook fires worker who refused to do ‘negative testing’

Facebook secretly killed users batteries, worker claims in lawsuit: The practice, known as “negative testing,” allows tech companies to “surreptitiously” run down someone’s mobile juice in the name of testing features […] “I said to the manager, ‘This can harm somebody,’ and she said by harming a few we can help the greater masses,” said Hayward, 33, who claims in a Manhattan Federal Court …
— Read on www.jwz.org/blog/2023/02/facebook-fires-worker-who-refused-to-do-negative-testing/

Sámi National Day on 6 February. Sámi is one of Sweden’s five national minority languages – Department of Swedish Language and Multilingualism

Sámi is one of Sweden’s five national minority languages, and its roots in Sweden are at least as old as the Swedish language. Sámi is a Finno-Ugric language, but Sámi and Finnish are not mutually intelligible. The Sámi dialects are also very different from each other; in particular, Southern Sámi differs from Northern Sámi and Lule Sámi.
— Read on www.su.se/department-of-swedish-language-and-multilingualism/news/sámi-national-day-on-6-february-sámi-is-one-of-sweden-s-five-national-minority-languages-1.595512