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internet gryphon. admin of Beehaw, mostly publicly interacting with people. nonbinary. they/she

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in the long term, Tuvalu’s play seems to be to try and keep the country from sinking but, if it becomes uninhabitable, to guarantee its citizens rights and a place in Australia. this is one of the premises of the Australia-Tuvalu Falepili union which was signed last year, although it’s more comprehensive than just climate change

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I don’t follow the development super closely so I don’t know if those issues were resolved or not. I just remember a lot of discussion on it when I was first on Lemmy on a different instance.

not that i’m aware of, and fixing a database schema once it’s already in place tends to be a clusterfuck so i’m very skeptical it will get better any time soon

Hot take: It’s okay if we don’t consume all of the world’s information before we die (gkeenan.co)

One of the more distressing qualities of humanity, in my mind, is the emphasis we collectively put on “efficiency.”¹ It saturates our professional existence. It haunts our socioeconomic barometer. And it drives our current approach to both creating and appreciating art. It’s insidious, the inordinate amount of power...

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He’s essentially the pre-eminent expert on polling, polling errors, and best practices in that regard.

i would not call Silver this anymore; he’s an increasingly partisan libertarian with weird hangups and a stick up his ass about things he wishes he understood (like COVID-19), and it’s almost assuredly part of why he’s out of a job at 538. he’s also increasingly being lapped by people like G. Elliott Morris and an armada of Twitter-based election analysts and prognosticators. at the bare minimum he’s absolutely not the only guy in town on this, and some of the people i just described like Adam Carlson actively dispute he’s even using the data in this article correctly because they’re the ones who made it. he’s also being challenged on his points here by professors like Matt Blackwell, specific polls of Black voters and data about minority youth voters. in general: the case is not nearly as clear-cut as he makes it seem and deferring to him on this would be a bad case in which to do it, because he’s probably wrong.

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our most recent thoughts on it and tensions with continuing to use Lemmy can be found here

Beehaw, what are your thoughts on Thomas Berry's 10 principles?

this is a sort of novel follow up to a question i asked previously, which was your opinion on right of nature laws, which recognize natural entities as having “personhood” or legal rights comparable to humans. Berry was a theologian who wrote extensively on the rights of nature and ecology generally. one of his lasting works...

The Impact of Direct File—by the Numbers (economicsecurityproject.org)

Direct File is the Internal Revenue Service’s revolutionary new project to provide free, simplified, public online tax filing for the first time in U.S. history. […] This report is the first to estimate the total financial benefits of the Direct File program for American taxpayers. It finds that, at maturity in five years,...

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to be honest with you i have no clue what the logistics are for donations themselves. my intuition is… no, having managed our finances for the reports? but Chris almost certainly has a better idea of this than me.

alyaza,
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our previous fiscal host is dissolving at the end of the year–most of the details are over in our previous announcement post; all contributions go toward keeping the website up and paying for any labor associated with it outside of admin work

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