[A Canadian company] may soon bypass UN rules and mine the deep sea

submitted by snoons to canada
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https://phys.org/news/2026-06-companies-bypass-deep-sea.html

cross-posted from: news.abolish.capital/post/55436

A Canadian deep-sea mining company may become the first to commercially mine the international seabed under a controversial U.S. executive order that bypasses United Nations regulations. A recent legal analysis suggests that this…

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How Did an Alberta Separatist Group Get Its Hands on the Voter List? | The Walrus

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https://thewalrus.ca/how-did-an-alberta-separatist-group-get-its-hands-on-the-voter-list/

cross-posted from: lemmy.ca/post/64352647

Alberta’s democracy was stolen. It was sold for profit. And loaded up onto a far-right mobilization app by a pro-sovereignty group called the Centurion Project. Founded by David Parker—who also founded Take…

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I wish I installed Plasma on my Ubuntu sooner

submitted by snoons to linux
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Just installed KDE Plasma on my Ubuntu system to replace GNOME and Wayland. Mainly to get rid of an issue where my games would lose mouse lock, but now I can have two different wallpapers on both monitors and have a clock on my second monitor which is AWESOME.

I WISH I INSTALLED IT SOONER, I LOVE IT.

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