A historic wave of tenant organizing is on the verge of winning renter protections that would be attached to federal loans—affecting 1 in 4 apartments. But Greystar, Blackstone, and AvalonBay are spending millions to block it....
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New laws targeting LGBTQ+ people are proliferating in GOP-led states, but often absent from policy decisions is a clear understanding of how many people will be directly affected....
I've seen drag queens talking about how anti-trans laws are written in such a way to not only harm trans people, but also cispeople who are not gender conforming, whether gay or straight. It is seriously alarming how broad these attacks are.
I've been waiting my whole life for a transman comedian to tell the joke: I don't know why republicans hate me. I'm a self-made man. Isn't that what they want?
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It is apparent that you have posted content that you are the author of, for which a couple of us dislike the self-promotion and some of us feel indifferent/support self-promotion. It is clear that this is a self-published blog and not a reputable source of information vis a vis our media bias chart, in which case the Mods reserve the right to remove content based on personal discretion about reliability, not about viewpoint alignment. It seems as though the content of this submission is researched and balanced enough. However, the fact that it exists behind a soft paywall of sorts (intrusive pop-up on site encouraging registering at substack.com) rankles the majority of the Mod Team, despite the fact there are no other visible ads on this blog site. I also am going to point out that the publication date for this (July 11) is more than two weeks old, and the title is lacking a label, which is something I have commented to you before to please include when submitting to our magazine.
The Mod Team has decided not to remove this content at this time on the basis that we did not have any direct rules running contrary to such action, and that to create a rule today would be evidently reactionary to you in specific.
What I will add though is that we came to a consensus that content like this - though permissible here - should never be posted in the future as a Link submission, presenting itself on par with current journalism. Instead, we ask that in the future if you want to post content like this, you should create a Thread submission, label it "Discussion:"/"[Discussion]", include a title that is a clearly stated prompt or question to generate discussion, and then type something in the body of the submission to start the conversation in which you can include a link to your blog. By posting as a Discussion Thread, you gain the added benefit of checking the "OC" box (if present in the submission form from lemmy.world).
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Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell suddenly stopped speaking during a weekly Republican leadership news conference Wednesday afternoon, appearing to freeze, and then went silent and was walked away.
I went in pretty skeptical, but I have to say, it's good enough for me to feel comfortable saying it's actually more Futurama. There's a small hump to get over with the voice actors having aged, but unless you're an existing hardcore fan who's listening for it, I think Hermes is the only that sounds noticeably different, but I...
They're catering to the fact that their core audience is getting older and harder to understand fast-paced speech lolol (said by one of those people who is starting to get old)
But I was going into it with expectations that it was going to be kind of mid like the first season of Disenchanted. I was very pleasantly surprised that there was like a legitimate plot line, even though it was kind of silly. It seem like the same level of incredulous shenanigans that Futurama has always gotten itself into.
A Republican-backed spending bill threatens to end national access to mail-order abortion pills and cut billions from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (Snap) that provides low-income families with food benefits....
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The professor, an expert on the opioids crisis, was placed on paid administrative leave and investigated, raising questions about the extent of political interference in higher education, particularly in health-related matters.
I have ties to this university, and I asked my colleagues who are still there. It sounds like professors at A&M are really shaken by this revelation and the other brouhaha around the failed hiring of Kathleen McElroy. I wouldn't be surprised if professors start abandoning the university in droves.
I have a colleague who works at a state school in Florida who said at an online virtual panel a few months ago that "the Great Resignation" had her institution down 30% of all staff/faculty roles because of COVID. I audibly gasped hearing that. But also, she's dead wrong - that isn't the COVID Great Resignation anymore, that's the consequence of DeSantis eroding professor autonomy and tenure protections in the state of Florida. Texas appears soon to repeat these issues.
I fully clutched my pearls when I heard that 30% figure. You just simply cannot run a large state, public university to scale when you're down that many critical staff members. Something is suffering there.
I go back and forth whether it's really the case that politicians like DeSantis are big-picture minded enough to actively downgrade the quality of education across a state like Pol Pot did in Cambodia, to discourage critical thinking and increase dogmatic loyalty. Instead, I think it's more likely that people like DeSantis are myopically cruel and just want to hurt a subset of people so badly that they don't see the larger consequences.
Anyway, regarding Texas A&M, it's quickly about to no longer be the largest university in America in the next two years. The former president was so unpopular there and she introduced such huge changes to the institution (a big reason why I left) that they just can't be undone with a new university president. This is such a mess that I can't imagine who on God's green earth will take on this role. Chancellor Sharp is unlikely to hire anyone with a spine to dissent to him and the good ol' boys who exert quiet influence over the school. And anyone with half a lick of ethics and integrity is going to see the institution as radioactive at this point. I can't help but predict that only grifters will self-select into the president's chair. A&M is going to race itself to the bottom.
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There have been calls for the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas,to be investigated over the attempts to overturn the 2020 election results.
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I saw your report and did not act on it because this site ranks with an acceptable reliability score from the media bias chart we use.
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The reason left wingers don’t have the presence the right does on Facebook, YouTube, etc isn’t because of a lack of voices or audiences - it’s because of deliberate manipulation of what is put in front of people.
I recently have gotten into wasting tons of hours on YouTube shorts, and I was very surprised that after a grand total of maybe 12 hours of using the platform, Andrew Tate content was just shoehorned into the algorithm of shorts being presented to me. Up to this point in time I was watching cosmetics, baking cookies, comedy, cooking, just funny hot takes, but then completely out of the blue one day that guy's ugly ass monkey face was on my phone, and even though it was so quick that I couldn't even think of his name, my lizard braid already recognized that he is very dangerous to women, so I opened the menu to select the feature on YouTube that prevents those channels from being promoted to me ever again.
There is 0% chance that the content that I had previously been watching links up in the algorithm to Ben Shapiro, Jordan Peterson, Joe Rogan, or Andrew Tate. This leads me to believe that YouTube intentionally carves out space for these content creators and makes promises about getting their content in front of everybody's eyeballs, regardless of level of interest in that type of content.
What's kind of weird to me is that the very little political content I watch is ostensibly left wing.
I will echo what another user in this thread said and assume that it's because of standup comedy I've seen. However, I usually swipe through the clearly right wing comedians or people whose jokes are like bitching about wokism.
So since starting this thread, I had to change my login account to a professional account on my phone, and then after I was done I switched back to my personal account. All of my " do not recommend settings " have completely reset. I'm seeing videos on shorts that were shown to me two months ago. I'm getting recommendations for Ben Shapiro, his fucking sister, people doing interviews with Jeffree Star and his problematic ass. I can't believe that the algorithm totally resets just because you switch accounts! I have to start all over again trying to take the trash out.
The guest list to a 2017 dinner for $10,000-a-year donors with Justice Elena Kagan and Brett Kavanaugh shows how the rich buy access to the Supreme Court.
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A new crop of artificial intelligence tools carries the promise of streamlining tasks, improving efficiency and boosting productivity in the workplace. But that hasn’t been Neil Clarke’s experience so far.
In the article, one source stated that their work has become more intense. This isn't something I anticipated, but it seems the logical conclusion: if you utilize AI for all the easiest parts of your job, then all that remains are the hard parts, which now dominate your workday because you knocked out all the easy things quickly.
Gets me thinking about how I need some of the easy things to be a release valve for my workflow. I need the sense of accomplishment from those easier/smaller tasks to keep up my morale and energy for the larger projects.
Thanks @torknorggren for letting me know first link was 404'd on my first post. Thanks @PeterGintz for correcting the link. That link is now in this thread.
I'm not exactly clear how to bridge this concern at this time. I have raised concern to the mod team, and we are still discussing how things are going to eventually be deployed in terms of features here on kbin.social.
What I will say is when I go to browse All, I get to look at communities in the Lemmy sphere that I'm not subscribed to. And when I click on the link to the community hosted on a Lemmy instance, I can see previous post history from other users without being subscribed to that community. I can't tell why that's not happening in the reverse for Lemmy users who are coming to our magazine.
Edit to add: I think this means much more of a concern for future instances that will eventually be created that federate here, as opposed to current members of instances who have yet to subscribe to our magazine. So that gives me a little bit of hope since the creation of instances will probably be quite slow at first in the Fediverse.
[Analysis] National Rent Control? It’s Closer Than You Think. (www.youtube.com)
A historic wave of tenant organizing is on the verge of winning renter protections that would be attached to federal loans—affecting 1 in 4 apartments. But Greystar, Blackstone, and AvalonBay are spending millions to block it....
Analysis: How many transgender and intersex people live in the US? Anti-LGBTQ+ laws will impact millions (apnews.com)
New laws targeting LGBTQ+ people are proliferating in GOP-led states, but often absent from policy decisions is a clear understanding of how many people will be directly affected....
Bonus | Profile in Focus | Dr. Cornel West Part 1 (1990 - 2010) (rdeets.substack.com)
Mitch McConnell escorted away from cameras after freezing during a news conference (www.nbcnews.com)
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell suddenly stopped speaking during a weekly Republican leadership news conference Wednesday afternoon, appearing to freeze, and then went silent and was walked away.
What are your guys' thoughts on the new episode? (fedia.io)
I went in pretty skeptical, but I have to say, it's good enough for me to feel comfortable saying it's actually more Futurama. There's a small hump to get over with the voice actors having aged, but unless you're an existing hardcore fan who's listening for it, I think Hermes is the only that sounds noticeably different, but I...
Republicans target abortion pill access as government shutdown threat looms (www.theguardian.com)
A Republican-backed spending bill threatens to end national access to mail-order abortion pills and cut billions from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (Snap) that provides low-income families with food benefits....
Texas A&M suspended professor accused of criticizing Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick in lecture (www.texastribune.org)
The professor, an expert on the opioids crisis, was placed on paid administrative leave and investigated, raising questions about the extent of political interference in higher education, particularly in health-related matters.
News: Ron DeSantis slashes more than a third of staff as campaign flounders (www.theguardian.com)
Florida governor and Republican presidential hopeful cuts 38 jobs, including two senior advisers
Discussion: Ginni Thomas "may have crossed the line"—Lawyers on fake electors plot (www.newsweek.com)
There have been calls for the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas,to be investigated over the attempts to overturn the 2020 election results.
News: Mask Off: DeSantis Staffer Reportedly Shares Video of DeSantis and Giant Nazi Symbol (newrepublic.com)
“Calling DeSantis a fascist isn’t hyperbole, it’s defining what he is.”
I Fell Down the Alt-Right Rabbit Hole. Eventually, I Climbed My Way Out. (jacobin.com)
Buying face time: A secret invite list shows how big donors gain access to Supreme Court justices (www.businessinsider.com)
The guest list to a 2017 dinner for $10,000-a-year donors with Justice Elena Kagan and Brett Kavanaugh shows how the rich buy access to the Supreme Court.
'It almost doubled our workload': AI is supposed to make jobs easier. These workers disagree | CNN Business (www.cnn.com)
A new crop of artificial intelligence tools carries the promise of streamlining tasks, improving efficiency and boosting productivity in the workplace. But that hasn’t been Neil Clarke’s experience so far.
The cats have been fed (lemmy.tf)
Please, take me instead! I scream, grabbing at the two men who took my child
“Sorry ma’am, children only” they said, as they continue loading up the last lifeboat on the ship.
[Texas Tribune] Texas A&M President Katherine Banks resigns amid fallout from failed hiring of journalism professor (www.texastribune.org)
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