"We see a large number of countries where the rule of law continues to decline,
most notably in Italy, Slovakia, Romania and Hungary,
of course. The reason behind this is because the EU is not strong enough in its responses to rule of law decline"

Brake pad dust can be more toxic than exhaust emissions, study says

Research shows move to electric vehicles may not be enough to enable pollution from cars to be eradicated

It is in the financial interest of streaming services to discourage a critical audio culture among users, to continue eroding connections between artists and listeners, so as to more easily slip discounted stock music through the cracks, improving their profit margins in the process.

I feel this is slowly happening to all types of media., not just audio. The slow dumbification of culture

the progressivist web would do well to migrate directly to Mastodon, not Bluesky

dating apps, which have been downloaded hundreds of millions of times worldwide, are “exploitative” and are designed not to be deleted but to be addictive, to retain users in order to create revenue

you don't say...

Idiocracy 2024 m(

More than one-quarter of scholarly articles are not being properly archived and preserved, a study of more than seven million digital publications suggests

heftig.

ja, genau