Minsky is dead, he doesn't give a shit what people are saying about him, Stallman was only defending is own opinion.

So now you have gone from "should not have been reported without a proper study" to just not liking phrasing of their conclusion.

As I said before, and you pointed out, the limitations of the result are right there to see in their publication.

The absence of plastic in the blank samples, variability of the plastic between sites, and that there was (as would expect) more near urban areas, all point to the observed microplastics coming from the environment. "Its raining plastic" is not an unreasonable conclusion, maybe it would have been better if their language had been a bit more qualified, throw in some "appears that" and "may", but it is still something worth putting on record. Even more so as government researchers, since they have an extra obligation to make the information they gather available to the public as fully as possible. Given the results mentioned in the Guardian from the French Pyrenees the result isn't even particularly surprising.

Reporting what they saw provides a useful starting point for someone trying to set up a better study.

In the course of another study they incidentally made an interesting observation, so they reported it in a brief note alongside (as you noticed) a statement of the limitations of the observation, and the suggestion that further study is needed (with better techniques). That way people with the resources/expertise to follow up the observation actually get to hear about it.

This is EXACTLY how science is meant to work. It is a process of collaborative refinement of understanding, not of paranoid loners working in absolute secrecy until they have some perfect irrefutable gem of wisdom to unleash fully formed on the supplicant masses.

Now if you were talking about mainstream media reporting on preliminary observations that would be a different story.

Plastics are basically hydrocarbons, much more efficient to just burn them directly. Plus bacteria that can digest bulk plastic in short timescales are a scary thought.

Sweden burns a lot of stuff, it isn't the usual conception of recycling, but it makes sense if you have a use for the waste heat.

CSRF the reason, and it is a big pressing problem. Cookies are a horrible security mess, and ultimately something will have to broken, whether this particular change does enough good to justify the breaking is a more nuanced question.

The proposal is for default-default of "Lax" mode which would not break in the way you describe since lax sends cookies for top level nav via safe HTTP method (GET is safe). If someone sets their default mode to Strict then that is their problem (or your problem if your website set strict on the cookie).

There are scenarios Lax would break (by design), eg cross site form submission via POST, but following a link isn't one of them.

Websites already control the link you are clicking on their site, they can use javascript to track clicks or just route all links though a redirect to track (v common, obscures the link).. pings actually improve things by putting this under browser control - so you can have real links and a site that works without JS... yet "privacy experts" try to cast this as a bad thing.

Currently governments often subsidize companies for "job creation", wouldn't be better to cut out the middle man and subsidize the workers via UBI?
Even if you still consider it ultimately a subsidy to their employer, it is the workers who are choosing who to give it to.

As a "safety net" minimum wage is an ugly hack based around a presumption of full employment (does you no good if you can't get a job; but if there was full employment wages would rise anyway).

What is a good minimum wage anyway? "Enough" is very different for a young single person living rent free in their parents house vs a single parent trying to pay rent and raise children. What about for people who have to commute 2 hours a day, "working" 10 hours to get 8 hours pay, they effectively only get 80% of min wage. What about people who would rather get a relaxing $10/h helping old people around the house than a stressful & morally troubling $15/h telemarketing to swindle same old people out of their savings.

Choices, including quality of life choices, are made on marginal cost/benefit. Minimum wage removes that choice. The real power of UBI is the potential to restore that choice but avoid "working to starve" scenario, allowing labour costs to actually reflect the marginal appeal of the job. Privileged people regularly trade off wages against working conditions and future prospects, why deny it to the less privileged.

Parasitic companies like crowdsourcing companies (or even Uber) who make a fortune as middle men for "self employed", bypassing minimum wage induced market failure?

TFA actually suggests Adblock Plus would still work because it uses more primitive blocking that would still be possible under the new API, not because of some secret API.

Reporting of the initial App ban seems to agree that it was about child porn making it past Tumblr's filters, it is hard to characterise that as an "SJW" only issue.

Letting them back in requires that they are seen to "fix" the issue. Tumblr can't fix it technically, so it has to fix it politically.
Letting the app back in after a high profile ban looks a lot like endorsement. Apple doesn't want to be seen as supporting porn, so Tumblr has to appease those likely to make such an accusation... that suspect group looks pretty conservative.
Notice how Apple loudly trumpets their progressive HR policies and LGBT+ lobbying, but is almost silent about their porn ban.. they know it is inconsistent. The porn position in iTunes/AppStore is a commercial branding decision, not part of a policy platform.

Assuming those who seek the social justice for marginalised groups are the "fun police" is naive in the extreme.

Would your "SJW" be for or against topfreedom & sex worker rights?

Lots of groups have taken a ride on the "think of the children" train, but conservative politics is its home station.
Every time I have looked into the background of a lobby group claiming to be feminists "protecting" women from exploitation in porn & sex work it has turned out to be run by religious conservatives using feminist language as a smokescreen.

BS, fascists always talk about safety, Tumblr are using "SJW" language specifically to try and deflect outrage from progressives. Tumblr's userbase has many feminists, most of whom are incensed at the idea female nipples are offensive. Slashdot mods need to learn that "insightful" does not mean "full of incitement". This shit-show (unseemly hurry, with highly unreliable auto classifier) is down to Tumblr trying to virtue signal to conservatives: they lack the technical capability to really clean up (child porn & spammers), so they are coming down as hard as they can hoping they will get credit for trying if they make a big enough mess (were probably worried many others would blacklist/attack them following Apple's lead if they didn't act "decisively").

Still not using on my main machine though.
Initially I was thrown because it is so different; personally I think it looks like unification with phone/tablet OS is the source of the changes (not copying MacOS as much as converging with iOS and Android).
But issues like launching a terminal window as mentioned in TFA when I actually took a hard look at how to solve them turned out to have simple solutions. eg type windows key to activate launcher, then type "terminal" (focus is automatically in search) - then enter - you can launch the terminal with out even having to use the mouse (or the multi-modifier gymnastics of ctl-shift-n), and I have to admit better than my gnome2 solution of of having the launcher in the panel. If I can get all my launching working this way (keyword conflicts may make for more typing that I like) then I would consider it a gain over navigating menus.

I'm still not entirely happy (what is with the giant title bars?! can be fixed with config hacking, but why have them at all?; what is that stupid dock/favourites thing good for, and no doubt many issues that will come when I upgrade my main box), but in view the above example I will reserve judgement until I have really tried it out. The issue that annoys me the most is actually the task switching that stacks up same app windows together (but I am aware that ballooning window counts is an issue that needs a solution).

If you can backdoor the system by working over port 80 then your security policy isn't doing it's job. An internal server is an internal server whatever port it is listening on.
A firewall ensures that you only expose what you "officially" intend to expose (a firewall that simply filters port without checking IP is only half a firewall).