Sassy Master

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ED at not for profit that supports adults w disabilities to live full lives in their community. Retired practicing lawyer.

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s trustees “blindsided” the faculty with a resolution proposing a new school to promote conservative thought.

When a university’s trustees talk (in advance?) to a Wall Street Journal opinion writer but won’t return calls from the student paper, it’s just one sign of trouble #NorthCarolina #unc #ncpol

Proud of student #journalists at my alma mater for being on top of this and pushing for transparency and accountability.

https://www.dailytarheel.com/article/2023/01/university-unc-leaders-blindsided-trustees-decision-professional-school

‘I’m flabbergasted’: UNC leaders blindsided by trustees' decision on School for Civic Life and Leadership

The UNC Board of Trustees passed a resolution on Thursday to “accelerate” the creation of a new program — the School for Civic Life and Leadership.  Proposals for new schools, degrees and curriculums have historically come from faculty leaders and their vote is required for approval. UNC law professor Eric Muller said no member of the faculty knew of this “major development.” Provost Chris Clemens also said at a Monday Faculty Executive Committee meeting that he didn't know the resolution was coming from the Board — "I was surprised," he said.

The Daily Tar Heel
is mastadon a safe space to say i called it in 2016 ??? the fact that interviewers never fact-check elon musk. and other assorted observations about tech billionaires and tech press' increasing inability to keep their pronouncements in check https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/nitashatiku/ground-control-to-silicon-valley
Ground Control To Silicon Valley

At Code Conference, billionaires dream of space while the media looks to the stars.

BuzzFeed News

@acosta I don't think journalists who have been banned from Twitter should go back, or worse, praise that piece of human garbage Elon Musk with a sigh of relief he has let them back. It's pathetic. Let Elon and his Nazi friends rot in that hell hole Twitter has become. Corporate social media are harmful to democracy anyway. Mastodon and Fediverse is the future!

#mastodon #twitter #journalism #FreeSpeech #ElonSucks #SpaceKaren #MuskIsAScumbag

It's too late to delete your Twitter DMs. Even if the pre-Musk Twitter didn't save copies anyway -- even after you deleted them -- you can be certain that Musk has done so.

If it's true that he gave Weiss, an ideologue, direct access to internal systems, then you should assume the very worst from a privacy perspective.

Hello, FTC???

Mississippi is America’s Blackest state. It’s mostly white MAGA Govt annually rejects $1B in Federal $ for Medicaid. Now the last hospital in a rural part of MS is about to close—devastating Black & low income people.

MAGA racism & cruelty on full display. Like the old saying goes. Republicans claim government doesn’t work—then they get elected and prove it.
https://nbcnews.to/3EMk43p

A Mississippi Delta hospital anchors its community. Now it may close.

If Greenwood Leflore Hospital closes, residents in the Mississippi Delta, one of the poorest regions in the U.S., will have to travel farther for health care.

NBC News
I’m glad to see officials from within the Biden administration calling out the bullshit.
Mayor Pete: “If you’re a politician or media figure who sets up the LGBTQ community to be hated and feared - not because any of us ever harmed you but because you find it useful - then don’t you dare act surprised when this kind of violence follows.
Don’t you dare act surprised.”

The week before Thanksgiving Twitter fires 4K workers, Amazon fires 10K workers, Facebook fires 11K workers, and Disney plans thousands of layoffs—all while US Billionaire pandemic wealth increased an absurd $1.7T.😳

A reminder that billionaires don’t create jobs—they exploit workers.

Tax billionaires. Unionize workers.