Hey, y’all! Just another random, loudmouthed, opinionated, Southern-fried nerdy American living abroad.
I’m moving off kbin to lemmy, so I won’t be posting from here (unless kbin social gets it together).
Mastodon: @stopthatgirl7
Lemmy: stopthatgirl7@lemmy.world
Black women are six times more likely to be killed than white women, data reveals (www.nbcnews.com)
The paper included a decade’s worth of data from the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention among Black women ages 25 to 44 across 30 states.
Ghana's anti-LGBTQ+ bill: President Akufo-Addo to wait for Supreme Court ruling (www.bbc.com)
Nana Akufo-Addo says he will not assent to the anti-LGBTQ+ bill until a Supreme Court ruling.
Girls basketball team banned from boys league after reaching championship (www.rawstory.com)
A sixth-grade girls' basketball team from northern Kentucky was banned from a boys' basketball league after romping through the regular season to reach the championship.The squad from Next Level Girls Basketball notched a 7-1 record in a city-wide basketball league run by Southwestern Ohio Basketball and was preparing for the...
Trump’s White House Was ‘Awash in Speed’ — and Xanax (www.rollingstone.com)
Under Trump, the White House Medical Unit was “like the Wild West,” and staffers had easy access to powerful stimulants and sedatives, sources say.
RE: Is Ernest still here?
I check in here quite often, but for now, I'm just focusing on clearing spam and keeping the instance alive. In January, I was working on the AP module, and there has been significant progress in the work, which hasn't been publicly published yet. Unfortunately, at the beginning of the year, I developed a skin condition that...
Outrage over Brazilian tourist's gang rape in India (www.bbc.com)
The woman and her husband were on a motorbike tour in India when the alleged assault took place.
Trump supporters target black voters with faked AI images (www.bbc.com)
Faked images of black voters with Trump are a growing disinformation trend in the US election, the BBC finds.
West Virginia's schools might be forced to pay for 'In God We Trust' signage (www.dailykos.com)
West Virginia’s almost entirely Republican state Senate passed a bill in late January that would require schools in the state to display “In God We Trust'' signs—in every single classroom. ...
I Worry Baldur's Gate 3 Will Be A Ship Of Theseus In A Few Years (www.thegamer.com)
How many things can you change in a game before it stops being the game it was meant to be?
Is Ernest still here?
I don't mind waiting for things to be fixed what with life interfering with things, but I can't find any activity from Ernest lately. He hasn't been, like... hit by a bus or anything terrible like that, has he?
Unmoderated and now extremely delayed federation - is it time to move?
First, I think Ernest has done a fantastic job and I've been rooting for him this whole time. But it's becoming clear it's all too much for him without the support of a larger team....
Ethics bill would ban ‘pay-to-play’ political donations from companies with government contracts (tnsenatedems.medium.com)
The state of Tennessee every year pays billions to private companies that have contracts to perform government work. And, in some cases, those companies then make sizable campaign contributions directly to the politicians who influence whether those agreements are approved....
Arizona bill would make shooting and killing migrants on property legal (www.nbcnews.com)
A Democrat Latina lawmaker opposed to the legislation said it would "allow open season on migrants."
where are kbin admins?
Abandoned large magazines are being bombarded with spam and admins are nowhere to be seen it seems. Hundreds of spam bot posts have not been deleted for months, see /infosec /internet /opensource /science, etc. and there are some posts about admins not responding to reports. So whats happening here?...
Georgia state House passes bill allowing police to arrest anyone suspected of being in country illegally (thehill.com)
The Georgia state House passed a bill that allows for anyone suspected of being in the United States illegally to be arrested. The state House voted 97-74 to approve House Bill 1105, which would al…
Victim’s Family Slams Gov. for Pardoning NFL Coach’s Son (www.thedailybeast.com)
“How would the governor feel if this was his daughter?” Ariel Young’s mother told The Daily Beast after the son of Kansas City Chiefs coach Andy Reid had his sentence commuted.
AI-generated articles prompt Wikipedia to downgrade CNET’s reliability rating (arstechnica.com)
Futurism report highlights the reputational cost of publishing AI-generated content.
Dragon Age: Dreadwolf is expected to release "later this year", says industry insider (www.eurogamer.net)