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Anthony Judge: Systemic Coherence of the UN’s 17 SDGs as a Global Dream

Systemic Coherence of the UN’s 17 SDGs as a Global Dream Rather than merely an arbitrary outcome of political horse-trading Sections: Transcending the apparent incoherence of the Sustainable Development Goals Radical recursivity of cognitive implications of topology and geometry Role of 17 2D tiling patterns in ordering SDGs? Role of the 17-fold “wallpaper group” in …

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Berto Jongman: New UNEP Synthesis Provides Blueprint to Urgently Solve Planetary Emergencies and Secure Humanity’s Future

New UNEP Synthesis Provides Blueprint to Urgently Solve Planetary Emergencies and Secure Humanity’s Future Meeting ramped-up climate and biodiversity targets, cutting deadly pollution and achieving SDGs needs an all-society push for sustainability Shifting world views and putting nature at the heart of decision-making is key to achieving transformative change COVID-19 recovery plans are an unmissable …

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Ed Jewett: US Intelligence Community Admits Ineptitude with Open Source Information

 Intel Community Grapples With Key Open Source Intel “In our defeat-ISIS activities, we’ve had a struggle and presently continue to struggle with the challenge of open source and publicly available information, and how we leverage that to make it truly useful for the warfighter,” Jospeh Votel, former head of both Special Operations Command and Central …

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Yoda: “Right to Repair,” Like Right to Bear Arms, Under Attack

Corporations Are Co-Opting Right-to-Repair Increasingly, companies use a variety of tactics to block access to repair. Companies either don’t sell replacement parts, or they sell them at ridiculous markups. They don’t make repair information, such as manuals or schematics, publicly available or open-source. They manipulate the software so that if you get unauthorized repairs done, …

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