Mastodawn

Jun 8, 2023

I cannot imagine what this woman has had to go through. How had no one ever considered genetic abnormalities, especially as all the children had medical conditions? As if her life hadn’t been tragic enough already.

https://apple.news/ArIR--f4PSIWwaTl0ldVHOw

Kathleen Folbigg: Misogyny helped jail her, science freed her — BBC News

Kathleen Folbigg was convicted of killing her four infant children in a stunning miscarriage of justice.

Ren Scot

May 17, 2023

Mary Hilton May 17, 2023

Kevin McCarthy wants to put on work requirements for people who use Medicaid and SNAP benefits.
Maybe we ought to demand work requirements for members of Congress, who don't work but want the people who pay them to work even when they're too young or disabled to work.
https://ballotpedia.org/117th_Congress_legislative_calendar

117th Congress legislative calendar

Ballotpedia: The Encyclopedia of American Politics

Ballotpedia

Ren Scot

May 17, 2023

Laffy May 17, 2023

Via Josh Gerstein:

JUST IN: Judge orders #Theranos founder #ElizabethHolmes and former CEO Sunny Balwani to pay over $452 million in restitution for fraud, with $125 million in restitution to 👉🏼#RupertMurdoch👈🏼. Yep, that guy. #legal

Ren Scot

May 17, 2023

@RonaldTooTall WHO is not downgrading COVID. They have ended the global state of emergency. There’s a huge difference

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Ren Scot

May 17, 2023

@PDFlynn I am perfectly okay with not paying $15.99 for 2.5 dozen eggs.

Ren Scot

May 17, 2023

Meredith Whittaker May 15, 2023

This is HUGE. It's also a stunning example of what meaningful AI regulation looks like -- workers taking their conditions into their own hands, making demands of tech & the companies that control it.

Sincerely grateful to
@billyperrigo
for his sharp, relentless reporting ♥️🙏

https://time.com/6275995/chatgpt-facebook-african-workers-union/

150 African Workers for ChatGPT, TikTok and Facebook Vote to Unionize at Landmark Nairobi Meeting

More than 150 workers for Facebook, TikTok and ChatGPT gathered in Nairobi on Monday and pledged to establish the first African Content Moderators Union.

Time

Ren Scot

May 13, 2023

This is what happens when you invest in the arts

https://www.reddit.com/r/MadeMeSmile/comments/13fklo9/stuck_at_laguardia_airport_due_to_6hour_weather/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=ioscss&utm_content=1&utm_term=1

Stuck at LaGuardia Airport due to 6-hour weather delay The LION KING & ALADDIN Broadway Casts engage in a Sing-Off

Posted in r/MadeMeSmile by u/uchman365 • 21,796 points and 710 comments

Ren Scot

May 7, 2023

This!!! So resonates. I love working in the emergency department. Yoinking my permanent & relegating me to casual is just one of the reason why they’ve started loudly complaining about staffing issues

8 Reasons Why Exceptional Employees Quit Their Jobs | Inc.com https://www.inc.com/elle-kaplan/8-things-bosses-do-that-make-great-employees-quit.html

8 Reasons Why Exceptional Employees Quit Their Jobs

Avoid these critical leadership mistakes (or these bosses) if you want to thrive.

Inc.

Ren Scot

May 2, 2023

https://www.europol.europa.eu/media-press/newsroom/news/288-dark-web-vendors-arrested-in-major-marketplace-seizure

288 dark web vendors arrested in major marketplace seizure | Europol

This operation, codenamed SpecTor, was composed of a series of separate complementary actions in Austria, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Poland, Brazil, the United Kingdom, the United States, and Switzerland. Intelligence packages as basis for investigations Europol has been compiling intelligence packages based on troves of evidence provided by German authorities, who successfully seized the marketplace’s criminal infrastructure in December 2021....

Europol

Ren Scot

May 2, 2023

Charles Gaba May 2, 2023

I'm honored to have my work on COVID vaccination rates by partisan lean cited by Dr. Peter Hotez:
https://faseb.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1096/fba.2023-00032