avecigrec
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Mmm..... trifle
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The Anti-Abortion Group Suing to Limit Access to Medication Abortion is Making Some Absurd Arguments — Slate
One argument asserts that abortion is a lost revenue opportunity for OB-GYNs.
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KFILE DeSantis appointee to new Disney oversight board suggested tap water could turn people gay
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Probably believes in lizard people
DeSantis Appoints Disney Oversight Board Member Who Called Homosexuality 'Evil,' Said It Was Caused by Tap Water - WDW News Today
One of the appointees selected by Florida Governor DeSantis to sit on the new Central Florida Tourism Oversight Board called homosexuality "evil."
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Probably believes in lizard people
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Leaked audio reveals US rail workers were told to skip inspections as Ohio crash prompts scrutiny to industry
Exclusive: employee says manager told her to stop marking cars for repair, as Ohio derailment brings hard look at industry’s record of blocking safety rules
www.theguardian.com
Profits over everything
Texas congressman censured by state GOP over support for gun reform following Uvalde shooting
Tony Gonzales, who represents District 23, which spans from San Antonio along the border to El Paso, voted last year in favor of gun control stemming from the aftermath of the Robb Elementary School shooting.
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JFC…
Biden is on the record saying he has "no contingency plans in place should loan-relief be struck down".
Payments on student loans is set to resume 60 days after the SCOTUS ruling, regardless of the outcome. And Biden is signaling that he will not extend the pause again. Student loan payments are set to resume in August or sooner which has many borrowers extremely worried as inflation has been putting a strain on millions of Americans.
Was talking to my mother about this all this week, and voicing my frustrations. And despite her being a life long democrat and always voting democrat I swear with age she has gotten a lot more conservative. She doesn't support the student loan forgiveness because it's controversial and unfair. "Why should her tax dollars go to paying some other peoples loans when it doesn't benefit her any".
Payments on student loans is set to resume 60 days after the SCOTUS ruling, regardless of the outcome. And Biden is signaling that he will not extend the pause again. Student loan payments are set to resume in August or sooner which has many borrowers extremely worried as inflation has been putting a strain on millions of Americans.
Was talking to my mother about this all this week, and voicing my frustrations. And despite her being a life long democrat and always voting democrat I swear with age she has gotten a lot more conservative. She doesn't support the student loan forgiveness because it's controversial and unfair. "Why should her tax dollars go to paying some other peoples loans when it doesn't benefit her any".
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A cleaning company illegally employed a 13-year-old. Her family is paying the price. — The Washington Post
After the Labor Department descended on a sanitation firm operating at a Nebraska meatpacking plant, the company was fined for violating child labor laws. One of the minor workers has seen her life unravel.
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So the sanitation company that has 13 year olds working the graveyard shift cleaning saws at slaughter houses gives a trivial fine, but the parents of the kids who were working get arrested charged with child labor law violations?
Matt M
Santa Extraordinaire
It's theft. People walk right in and take whatever they want, and walk out. I live about 4 miles from this one.Walmart is closing both Portland locations.
Two Portland Walmarts to close, eliminating 580 jobs
The global retailer is closing its Delta Park and Southeast 82nd Avenue Locations, according to a public notice.www.opb.org
All Portland Walmart stores to permanently close in late March
The last two Walmart stores within Portland’s city limits will close in late March.www.kptv.com
These store closures will disproportionately impact people with low income, as this area was already considered a food dessert.
No official answer as to why they are closing the stores other than they said they were underperforming.
Makes me wonder if they unionized or if Portland has it's own minimum wage. Also seen some speculation that shop lifting is out of control and could be the cause.
Tennessee Passed the Nation’s First Law Limiting Drag Shows. Here’s the Status of Anti-Drag Bills Across the U.S. — TIME
Tennessee became the first state to explicitly ban drag shows in public spaces
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Looking through all the bills, I see fines up to $25,000 and jail time of up to 5 years for public drag performances and a felony on your record. Some states are classing drag as sex work and are age restricting the performances. Nebraska for example, prohibits anyone under the age of 19 from attending a drag show, but if alcohol is served on the premises that age restriction is 21. Where they limit drag shows too essentially means that 99% of them would be age restricted to 21.
Texas' bill says drag is wearing any clothing not consistent with gender assigned at birth. Meaning trans people would be considered in drag.
Max Sterling
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It's so ridiculously vague a woman wearing a mans shirt is technically drag.
Tennessee Passed the Nation’s First Law Limiting Drag Shows. Here’s the Status of Anti-Drag Bills Across the U.S. — TIME
Tennessee became the first state to explicitly ban drag shows in public spaces
Looking through all the bills, I see fines up to $25,000 and jail time of up to 5 years for public drag performances and a felony on your record. Some states are classing drag as sex work and are age restricting the performances. Nebraska for example, prohibits anyone under the age of 19 from attending a drag show, but if alcohol is served on the premises that age restriction is 21. Where they limit drag shows too essentially means that 99% of them would be age restricted to 21.
Texas' bill says drag is wearing any clothing not consistent with gender assigned at birth. Meaning trans people would be considered in drag.
I don't like advocating for violence, but there's a point at which the rights of others being taken away needs to be met with some sort of consequential resistance.
Indymisanthrope
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That's gonna be a problem for unisex clothing.Tennessee Passed the Nation’s First Law Limiting Drag Shows. Here’s the Status of Anti-Drag Bills Across the U.S. — TIME
Tennessee became the first state to explicitly ban drag shows in public spaces
Looking through all the bills, I see fines up to $25,000 and jail time of up to 5 years for public drag performances and a felony on your record. Some states are classing drag as sex work and are age restricting the performances. Nebraska for example, prohibits anyone under the age of 19 from attending a drag show, but if alcohol is served on the premises that age restriction is 21. Where they limit drag shows too essentially means that 99% of them would be age restricted to 21.
Texas' bill says drag is wearing any clothing not consistent with gender assigned at birth. Meaning trans people would be considered in drag.
Norfolk Southern had another train derailment in Ohio over the weekend.
No fire, but I do see tanker cars and who knows if they leaked.
One of the things I found interesting when talking about this latest train derailment is some people are like, big deal, on average 3 trains derail in the United States every day. You are only hearing about them now because of the spotlight on the recent toxic derailment. Most derailments aren't that bad.
This one sure does look pretty bad. I would imaging the goods shipped will be salvaged by the insurance company rather than delivered. How can the railroads be okay with 3 derailments a day? Is it still cheaper than regular maintenance and complying with safety regulations instead of lobbing against them and getting them repealed or indefinitely delayed. All things that could have prevented derailments like these.
How many of these 3 derailments a day could have been prevented? Could we get the number down to 3 a week or 3 a month? Even better, 3 a year.
While the cause of this latest derailment is not known yet, odds are good it was caused by an axel failing. Which could have been prevented with proper maintenance.
No fire, but I do see tanker cars and who knows if they leaked.
One of the things I found interesting when talking about this latest train derailment is some people are like, big deal, on average 3 trains derail in the United States every day. You are only hearing about them now because of the spotlight on the recent toxic derailment. Most derailments aren't that bad.
This one sure does look pretty bad. I would imaging the goods shipped will be salvaged by the insurance company rather than delivered. How can the railroads be okay with 3 derailments a day? Is it still cheaper than regular maintenance and complying with safety regulations instead of lobbing against them and getting them repealed or indefinitely delayed. All things that could have prevented derailments like these.
How many of these 3 derailments a day could have been prevented? Could we get the number down to 3 a week or 3 a month? Even better, 3 a year.
While the cause of this latest derailment is not known yet, odds are good it was caused by an axel failing. Which could have been prevented with proper maintenance.
Dtknuckles
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Does she understand what an economy looks like when it’s difficult for people to gain the skills necessary to participate in a modern economy?…Because we all benefit in having a highly educated population.
Full episode on Ron DeSantis
Tennessee Passed the Nation’s First Law Limiting Drag Shows. Here’s the Status of Anti-Drag Bills Across the U.S. — TIME
Tennessee became the first state to explicitly ban drag shows in public spaces
Looking through all the bills, I see fines up to $25,000 and jail time of up to 5 years for public drag performances and a felony on your record. Some states are classing drag as sex work and are age restricting the performances. Nebraska for example, prohibits anyone under the age of 19 from attending a drag show, but if alcohol is served on the premises that age restriction is 21. Where they limit drag shows too essentially means that 99% of them would be age restricted to 21.
Texas' bill says drag is wearing any clothing not consistent with gender assigned at birth. Meaning trans people would be considered in drag.
So that would include against me or kae tempest concerts or basically any Trans person doing karaoke.
Those states should take a look at Iran. They are really successful of promoting decency in public with their morality police. That could be a model for the future
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It's in this as well, but should be stated clearly what DeSantis' people define as woke that they are so eagerly fighting:
AnthonyI
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Watched this earlier today and it was really good.
I’ve seen how oxycontin wrecks lives – why have the Sackler family members behind it avoided all charges? | Laura Poitras
I filmed as activists held Purdue Pharma’s owners to account. Yet the US government has utterly failed to play its part, says film-maker Laura Poitras
www.theguardian.com
I really like this article. It's long but it outlines why AI models shouldn't be used in any public policy capacity--or really anywhere because these "advanced" algorithms really aren't that "advanced" and are built on a lot of BS assumptions and biased data.
By reconstructing the system and testing how it works, we found that it discriminates based on ethnicity and gender. It also revealed evidence of fundamental flaws that made the system both inaccurate and unfair.
Rotterdam’s algorithm is best thought of as a suspicion machine. It judges people on many characteristics they cannot control (like gender and ethnicity). What might appear to a caseworker to be a vulnerability, such as a person showing signs of low self-esteem, is treated by the machine as grounds for suspicion when the caseworker enters a comment into the system. The data fed into the algorithm ranges from invasive (the length of someone’s last romantic relationship) and subjective (someone’s ability to convince and influence others) to banal (how many times someone has emailed the city) and seemingly irrelevant (whether someone plays sports). Despite the scale of data used to calculate risk scores, it performs little better than random selection.
Machine learning algorithms like Rotterdam’s are being used to make more and more decisions about people’s lives, including what schools their children attend, who gets interviewed for jobs, and which family gets a loan. Millions of people are being scored and ranked as they go about their daily lives, with profound implications. The spread of risk-scoring models is presented as progress, promising mathematical objectivity and fairness. Yet citizens have no real way to understand or question the decisions such systems make.
www.wired.com
By reconstructing the system and testing how it works, we found that it discriminates based on ethnicity and gender. It also revealed evidence of fundamental flaws that made the system both inaccurate and unfair.
Rotterdam’s algorithm is best thought of as a suspicion machine. It judges people on many characteristics they cannot control (like gender and ethnicity). What might appear to a caseworker to be a vulnerability, such as a person showing signs of low self-esteem, is treated by the machine as grounds for suspicion when the caseworker enters a comment into the system. The data fed into the algorithm ranges from invasive (the length of someone’s last romantic relationship) and subjective (someone’s ability to convince and influence others) to banal (how many times someone has emailed the city) and seemingly irrelevant (whether someone plays sports). Despite the scale of data used to calculate risk scores, it performs little better than random selection.
Machine learning algorithms like Rotterdam’s are being used to make more and more decisions about people’s lives, including what schools their children attend, who gets interviewed for jobs, and which family gets a loan. Millions of people are being scored and ranked as they go about their daily lives, with profound implications. The spread of risk-scoring models is presented as progress, promising mathematical objectivity and fairness. Yet citizens have no real way to understand or question the decisions such systems make.
Inside the Suspicion Machine
Obscure government algorithms are making life-changing decisions about millions of people around the world. Here, for the first time, we reveal how one of these systems works.