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  1. Last 7 days
    1. Trump’s minions presented his 180-degree pivot as proof of his preternatural sophistication, cunning and farsightedness. People who are not his employees cited First Corinthians: “For if the trumpet gives an indistinct sound, who will prepare for battle?”

      wat

    1. In it, he said Japan and other nations had been taking advantage of the US for decades. He claimed "the Japanese, unimpeded by the huge costs of defending themselves (as long as the United States will do it for free), have built a strong and vibrant economy with unprecedented surpluses".

      We dropped two fucking nuclear bombs on major Japanese cities. Frankly, paying for their military defense is the LEAST America can do.

    1. The rule applies to students who choose an alternative name because of a change in gender identity, as well as those who might want to use a nickname.

      this is ridiculous.

    1. At around the time of the expo, the US supreme court ruled that the Trump administration may continue using the law to deport alleged gang members.

      But also said they had to provide enough time for due process.

    1. In an unsigned order, the court's conservatives threw out a lower court order that prevented the administration from continuing its deportations under the controversial Alien Enemies Act of 1798.

      WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK

  2. Apr 2025
    1. Rosenbaum also noted that Williams does not have a serious medical condition.

      Uh, schizophrenia is a serious medical condition!!!!

    2. . I personally believe age is irrelevant

      well research says otherwise

    3. Rosenbaum sentenced Williams to 55 years in prison, with three years of credit for time already served in custody. Williams will be required to serve 100% of his remaining sentence.

      He committed the murder when he was 16, was he tried as an adult??

    1. It would be difficult to say with a straight face that the international standards system is truly anti-capitalist

      especially considering how much ISO standards documents cost

  3. Mar 2025
    1. Rep. Andy Ogles, R-Tenn., crafted a resolution calling for the extension of presidential term limits, which would allow Trump to seek another term in office.

      Crafted is a good word choice here as the proposed legislation is written in such a way that no other living presidents would be allowed to run for a third term.

    2. saying in an exclusive interview with NBC News that there were methods for doing so and clarifying that he was “not joking.”

      not since the 22nd Amendment

    1. "To our LGBTQ community, I know that recent legislation has been difficult," Cox said. "Politics can be a bit of a blood sport at times, and I know we've had our disagreements. I want you to know that I love and appreciate you and I am grateful that you are part of our state. I know these words may ring hollow to many of you, but please know that I mean them sincerely."

      Wow.

    2. after its Republican governor said he was allowing a ban on unsanctioned flag displays to become law without his signature

      FFS

    1. It goes on to say: "Museums in our Nation's capital should be places where individuals go to learn — not to be subjected to ideological indoctrination or divisive narratives that distort our shared history."

      The utter lack of self-awareness

    1. Driving the news: The federal government must stop issuing paper checks by Sept. 30 in favor of direct deposit, prepaid cards, or "other digital payment options," per an order Trump signed yesterday.

      pre-paid cards are bullshit

    1. but the governor and the legislature haven't shown much interest in making that happen on the state's dime.

      there's a ton of evidence showing that the ROI on these is NOT in the state's favor.

    1. The database served as the backbone for Sen. Cruz’s October 2024 investigative report, which revealed how the Biden administration politicized scientific research. The report discovered multiple extreme research projects that were spearheaded by professors who were also promoting antisemitic protests on college campuses.

      oh for fuck's sake Ted.

    1. "It remains unclear whether funding for existing grantees will continue, and whether new grants will be available in the future."

      How can they cancel grants that have already been awarded if the projects aren't violating any policies??

    2. resident Trump has appointed Keith E. Sonderling as the new acting director of the Institute of Museum and Library Services.

      Illegally appointed

    1. Those discussions ended last Friday, when Jackson and DOGE agents Jacob Altik and Nate Cavanaugh showed up at the USIP door with two others who said they were FBI agents but did not further identify themselves

      did they actually show identification?

    2. along with the smaller Inter-American Foundation and the U.S. African Development Foundation, which provide small business and farming grants and loans. They were both taken over by DOGE this month.

      POTUS CAN'T ELIMINATE AGENCIES ENACTED BY CONGRESS

    1. USDA’s subscription cancellations, which an internal email says were carried out under the supervision of the Elon Musk–led Department of Government Efficiency, eliminated all journals produced by any of 17 publishers, according to a list circulated internally at USDA on Friday and obtained by Science

      THE FUNDS ARE ALREADY ALLOCATED, HOW ARE THEY STILL ALLOWED TO DO THIS?!

    1. MINISIS Trusted Digital Repository is ideal fo

      is it a certified TDR or are they just appropriating that language?

    1. however, said he's asked supporters of Pride flags in schools how they would feel about MAGA flags there--and said they told him they're against that.

      the meanings of these flags are not equivalent.

    1. “Dismantling the Department of Education may sound bold,” Cox concluded in his piece. “But it’s also common sense. Washington doesn’t have all the answers. It’s time to trust states and local communities to do what they do best.”

      If states and local communities were willing and able to support every student then we wouldn't need the Dept. of Ed., but they don't and we do.

    1. This bill simply ensures that all employees — not just union representatives — have a direct voice in workplace discussions, creating more opportunities for concerns to be heard and addressed.”

      not truuuuuuuuuuuuuue

    2. I’m disappointed that in this case, the process did not ultimately deliver the compromise that at one point was on the table and that some stakeholders had accepted,” Cox said in a statement after signing the legislation.

      then why did you sign it

    1. t aligns with the America First agenda

      yikes

    1. "America loses, as does the success of democratic AI.

      what makes AI democratic?

    2. as AI outputs clearly threatened to replace Thomson-Reuters' legal research firm Westlaw in the market

      AI training =/= not the same as replacing. Generating materials from the copyrighted works LLMs are trained on is what violates US Copyright law.

  4. Feb 2025
    1. This decision will have no negative effect on veteran health care, benefits or other services and will allow VA to focus more effectively on its core mission of serving veterans, families, caregivers and survivors. We cannot discuss specific personnel matters due to privacy concerns.”

      This is utter bullshit

    1. Fewer than 300 people live there, but it has a place in the dataset—because no city is too small for data

      That sounds like a village not a city.

    1. Earlier, he said this digitizing arm of the company aligns with the “drive to be more efficient” within the federal government

      bruh, you know Moosk doesn't care about efficiency.

    2. “There’s a limestone mine where we store all the retirement paperwork...This mine looks like something out of the ’50s, because it was started in 1955, so it looks like it’s, like, a time warp,” said Musk, who went on to explain that the mine’s elevator speed determines the pace at which the government can process the retirements of federal employees.

      it's a fucking preservation archive you ignorant fool.

    1. The United States spends almost twice per capita what other wealthy countries spend on healthcare

      BECAUSE WE DON'T HAVE UNIVERSAL HEALTHCARE

    2. Prior to COVID

      And who's handling of that crisis exacerbated it? 45s

    3. Within 180 days, the Commission will produce a strategy, based on the findings of the assessment, to improve the health of America’s children.

      don't fucking cut SNAP benefits

    1. "We'll own it and be responsible for dismantling all of the dangerous unexploded bombs and other weapons on the site," Trump said as Netanyahu looked on. "Level the site, and get rid of the destroyed buildings. Level it out, create an economic development."

      Something something unending foreign wars?

  5. Jan 2025
    1. they would be exempted from return-to-office requirements instituted under President Donald Trump’s new administration.

      wat

    1. a concept that racial bias is baked into U.S. institutions

      THAT'S NOT WHAT CRITICAL RACE THEORY IS

    2. federal aid to public schools that teach critical race theory

      THIS ISN'T A THING

    1. Secret Service said they were investigating a threat, and responded to a house. They said they were then told the person they wanted to talk to was at Hamline Elementary School, but they did not enter the school, the Secret Service told the I-Team.

      This sounds shady af. Isn't the Secret Service charged with protecting the president and his family? Why are they in Chicago?

    1. arguing a child born in the United States to an undocumented mother cannot receive citizenship unless his or her father is a citizen or green card holder.

      So the status of the child depends on the status of the mother? That's exactly how enslaved or free status was determined for children born to women in slavery.

    1. King found the phrase attractive and included it in several of his speeches.

      saying that King found it "attractive" is dismissive of Dr. King's intent intent. He found it meaningful or it resonated with him +"and included it in several of his speeches" would be more appropriate.

  6. Dec 2024
    1. exposed a deep, ugly resentment against private health care companies as social media feeds were flooded with posts celebrating — or at least justifying — Thompson's slaying.

      this shouldn't have been a surprise

  7. Nov 2024
    1. identity politics

      the condescension is incredible

    2. Introduction to LGBTQ+ Studies—both with upper-division significations

      It literally says "Introduction" in the course title. If it were upper division, it wouldn't???

    3. They seek to disqualify general education courses based on identity politics

      that's called c e n s o r s h i p

    1. Sometime later, however, some of these patients are likely to have had a code included in their healthcare record that was associated with unintended weight loss and cancer

      Not sure I follow this sentence

    1. “We’re a marketplace of ideas,” he said. “That’s what a university is. But the manager that runs the marketplace determines where within the marketplace the ideas will be housed.”

      EDUCATION IS NOT A BUSINESS

    2. arguing that the effort doesn’t specify what a professor should be teaching in class.

      uh huh

    1. Instead, to find Green copy, the reader will need to rely on other citation information and conduct a search via one or more search engines,

      which is generally what they do anyway

    2. the Green open access approach not only preserves the subscription system but also imposes hidden costs on readers, prolonging the inequities that open access aims to address.

      this is a bold thesis.

  8. Oct 2024
    1. The commissioners also created another committee to review and revise library policy, including the rules around the citizens reconsideration group

      are they going to add the librarians back?

    1. This data thus reflects the FDA’s removal of a requirement for three in-person doctor visits.

      what?

    1. Previously, there was an advisory committee comprised of five librarians and five community members. As a result of the change, the librarians were removed from the Committee, and the determinations of the new Committee, which consisted of five non-librarians, became binding

      jfc

    2. The decision was made after the government of Montgomery County, under pressure from right-wing activists, removed librarians from the process of reviewing children's books and replaced them with a "Citizens Review Committee."

      what the fuck?? THIS IS LITERALLY PART OF WHY WE GO TO GRADUATE SCHOOL

    1. New World Encyclopedia is a wiki-based encyclopedia which contains carefully selected articles that are rewritten and supervised by a team of editors with academic and literary qualifications

      Rewritten from where???

    1. Indiana University has School of Medicine located in Purdue University West Lafayette campus.

      I wonder what's going to happen with this school of medicine with the dissolution of IUPUI.

  9. Sep 2024
    1. held accountable for achieving specific results, even if the head of the agency must "deviate from government rules" to achieve those results.

      ???? what does that even mean?

    1. suggests there is bipartisan support for preventing agencies from limiting authors’ control over their work.

      that's not what this license does.

    2. Opponents of the proposal, including some major academic publishers, say it would infringe on authors’ rights to choose how their work is published and what others may do with it.

      no it doesnt. It's a NONEXCLUSIVE license

  10. Aug 2024
  11. thejeffersoncouncil.com thejeffersoncouncil.com
    1. Promote a culture of civil dialogue, the free exchange of competing ideas and intellectual diversity throughout the University.

      Getting UVa. to suspend the Guide Service's tours because they acknowledge that Jefferson was a slave holder, is really living up to this goal.

    1. Service credit toward length of Notice of Nonreappointment is to be given to an academic professional staff member for previous employment in which several concurrent part-time, non-visiting, related academic appointments add up to full-time academic employment.

      interesting, this is exactly the opposite of what the union's website says.

    1. Another contract stipulation: Artists can no longer sign their work

      this is ridiculous

    2. The contract stipulated they could not contact Chewy employees. It's unclear whether this stipulation also meant that those artists were not allowed to contact each other, but many of the artists who responded to the email or spoke with Insider said they believed this was the case.

      weird

    1. After the Carlyle group bought the Manor Care chain, leaving the nursing homes — not Carlyle — responsible for $5 billion in new debt, it extracted $6.1 billion for investors by selling off the nursing homes’ land and buildings.

      how are the investors not on the hook for the debt?

    2. Private equity firms

      are behind so much crap

    1. some top journals, including The BMJ, formerly the British Medical Journal

      A lot of this is a result of funding agencies requiring data sharing, see the 2013 OSTP memo

    2. So-called open-access journals, which publish online and don’t charge for subscriptions, are proliferating, as are websites that allow researchers to post their results before they have been externally vetted.

      y'all really need to talk to a scholarly communications librarian because you don't need to be putting OA journals in scare quotes like that

    3. even a few years ago.

      retraction watch has been around for like 10 years at least fam

  12. Jul 2024
    1. 10-day supply of antiviral prescription medication.

      how do you get prescription antiviral medication if you aren't currently sick??

    1. Musk

      pretty sure Musk didn't do anything except use his inherited apartheid money to fund the research and development.

    2. e remarkable i

      remarkable or reckless?

    3. traditional standards of data sharing

      which is hilarious because it's really effing hard to get researchers to share their data

    4. The company’s unusual decision to publish its sole peer-reviewed article in a journal unrelated to neural engineering — and list the authors as Elon Musk and Neuralink — deviates from the norms of scientific publishing

      yikes. Work for hire then

    1. I’m also tired of trying to defend a woman that some people may not like because of racism, sexism and others simply because there is just something about her.

      This completely ignores that it doesn't matter which POC woman who runs. There will always be "something about her"

    2. but women like me are not the majority and Hillary Clinton didn’t win the presidency

      This totally ignores that Hillary won the popular vote.

    3. by an estimated 34,000 women.

      44,000

    1. it routinely awards very high rankings to publications with no international relevance whatsoever.

      I see what the author is going for but just because a journal is published in Malaysia doesn't mean it has "no international significance whatsoever".

    1. In one committee, a lawmaker suggested that a subcommittee be formed “to study whether a faculty member should be a human?”

      JFC

    1. Wouldn’t it be great if you could pay $9.99 a month and read all of the books you want? Just like you get all the movies you want from Netflix? Or all the music you want from Spotify?

      isn't this just a paid library?

    1. Also, someone just reminded me of how Voltage did their entire Lovestruck team dirty by ending the app, right when the writers were trying to unionize. That was dirty AF.

      that's probably why they shut them down.

    2. After the success of their Japanese otome game ports in the West, publisher Voltage Inc launched a US based division that specialized in original English language otome titles. The new brand, Lovestruck, put out a number of otome titles until 2021 when Voltage Inc announced they were terminating the service.

      I didn't know Lovestruck was shut down!! D:

    1. he complaint notes that Matienzo describes herself as an “archivist” and uses the handle “anarchivist”.

      she's a pretty big deal in the archives/library world

    2. he defendants are also accused of obtaining and using credentials of a member library to access WorldCat Discovery Services.

      okay, that's not okay

    3. . Having a copy of the data publicly available through Anna’s Archive is a direct threat to its business

      THEY DIDN'T CREATE THE DATA. While they do a lot of remediation work, THEY DON'T OWN THE METADATA.

    1. all previously scraped data should no longer be distributed. Instead, it should be destroyed in full, including all the torrents that are currently being offered.

      OCLC DOESN'T OWN THE METADATA. THEY DON'T OWN THE FUCKING RIGHTS TO IT. IT'S FACTS BASED ON LIBRARIAN DEVELOPED CATALOGING STANDARDS! And the librarians DO IT FOR FREE

    2. In addition to monetary damages, the non-profit also seeks injunctive relief

      Take it from librarians - OCLC may be a nonprofit but they act like a for-profit corporation

    3. Adding up all the extra charges brings total damages to over $5 million; OCLC says the harm is ongoing, so that number continues to rise.

      what harms?

    4. an additional $608,069 for a two-year Cloudflare contract that helps to protect the service against malicious outside attacks.

      they should've been doing this anyway

    5. This ‘metadata’ heist was a massive breakthrough in the site’s quest to archive as much published content as possible. However, OCLC wasn’t pleased and responded with a lawsuit at an Ohio federal court, accusing the site and its operators of hacking and demanding damages.

      OCLC DOESN'T EVEN CREATE THE METADATA. THE MEMBER LIBRARIES DO! THEY DON'T OWN THE METADATA!!

    1. Since Vampire Diaries was one of these series that provided a license to Amazon, the original creator was then able to start writing and publishing fan fiction about her very own series. S

      that's dope

    1. “When he wants something, he gets it. He is the big man on campus. He might as well be the king of the University of Illinois.”

      LOL

    2. Shannon’s attorney performed cross examination of the witness, attacking the credibility of her statements on the basis that she had altered her story multiple times since the alleged incident occurred, including in statements to the police and at the May 10 preliminary hearing.

      which is common in traumatized people

  13. Jun 2024
    1. Van Der Mark suggested setting up a homeschooling section in the library and noted that the proposals helped her come up with new ideas for programs.

      like a homeschooling collection? Orrr what?

    2. proscribe all eligible references to be made by libraries and municipalities in California. When we asked, the City declined to modify that geographic limitation.”

      two of the requirements forbid "all" references by libraries and municipalities - as in you can't have only references from California or California references aren't counted?

  14. May 2024
    1. However, the reasons why Patient 4, who is mentioned in several places in the article, was excluded are not made clear and the context in which complications arose is not knowable either…

      shouldn't the peer reviewers have caught this?

    1. more than half of the patients studied were women. Only men have prostate glands.

      Well this is cis-normative

  15. Apr 2024
    1. Congress could not use federal funding provided to a private hospital to neutralize a state ban on abortion because the state of Idaho must also consent to having its law altered in this way.

      What?

    2. which would permit states to ban abortions even when a patient will die if they do not receive one

      WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK

    1. But according to Parker and other abortion foes, that’s because black women are being “preyed upon” to believe that abortion is a good solution to the tough problem of unintended pregnancy. “It’s a very vulnerable community,” she said.

      Well that's condescending

    1. Sonmez was briefly placed on administrative leave in January 2020 after tweeting in the hours after NBA star Kobe Bryant’s death about the criminal charges of rape, later dropped, he had faced years earlier.

      WTAF

  16. Mar 2024
    1. “The federal government has abdicated its responsibilities and states can and must act,” Republican Iowa state Rep. Steven Holt said.

      oh come one, Iowa

    1. (The same-sex-wedding website request she claimed to have received, as The New Republic reported last June, came from a same-sex couple who do not exist.)

      This was such a good article

    1. According to Bannon, what’s coming up next for the airport is a major plan to expand its TSA checkpoint from one lane to two.

      ugh

    2. The introduction of this new route has been delayed due to obstacles such as the nationwide shortage of pilots and difficulty finding a slot but is hoped to be added next.

      Finding a slot with what?

  17. Feb 2024
    1. substitutes for standardized tests are relatively easy to find: Transcripts brim with advanced courses, teachers are accustomed to praising students’ unique classroom contributions, and activities lists are full of enrichment opportunities,” he said in the statement. “Increased emphasis on these elements, we found, has the effect of advantaging the advantaged.”

      I'm skeptical

    1. ironically, the freedoms that we enjoy.

      this piece explained a lot about conveniences but didn't touch much on how giving up privacy gives us the "freedoms that we enjoy".

    1. Skop assured Zurawski that her doctor could and should have provided her a legal abortion, given the condition to which she had degenerated, and that her physician simply misunderstood the relevant Texas law. Then, Skop filed a declaration in Cox’s case attesting that her doctor could not provide a legal abortion under Texas law.

      WHAT

  18. Dec 2023
    1. High capital costs, clunky design and maintenance challenges were obstacles for widespread adoption, experts say.

      The more widely it's used, the more efficient the technology will become

    1. Paxton’s office also said none of the physicians who have treated Cox in the Dallas-Fort Worth area have recommended an abortion.

      That's cute that they specified DFW physicians as if Houston didn't have one of the best medical centers in the country.

    2. The high court also released an opinion, saying Cox’s doctor did not establish or attest that Cox’s symptoms were life-threatening and noting it should be up to doctors – not judges – to decide whether to provide an abortion.

      So,while ruling against her doctor's recommendations, the judges are saying that they shouldn't be making medical decisions, doctors should????

    1. DogsBite.org is a public education website about dangerous dog breeds, chiefly pit bulls

      Okay, so you have an agenda, good to know. It also provides a lens with which to evaluate all your research reports.

    1. criminal charges. P

      criminal charges to whom? The owners?

    2. 16% (68) of all dog bite fatalities involved a babysitter, grandparent or relative watching a child, or the dog being "watched" by a person other than its owner when the canine inflicted a deadly attack.

      So, generally they're fine when the owner is there?

    3. 5% (6) included both statuses

      is this for incidents with multiple dogs?

    1. Whatever the reason, the numbers don’t lie – Rottweilers are still one of the most dangerous dog breeds.

      the numbers don't lie but framing them as dangerous for doing their job is irresponsible

    2. For example: the city of Los Angeles has more criminal cases than the suburb of Pasadena, CA. Well, of course. If you’re comparing a city of 4 million people to a suburb of 150,000 people, the larger city is bound to have a lot more cases despite being considered “safer.”

      ...why not apply this logic to the pit bull and rottweiler stats in the intro?

    3. ighlights: Courageous, Proud, Loyal

      Pretty certain that's a picture of a shiba inu...

    4. The story is in the data.

      The story is incomplete. They may have the most fatal bites because of their size and strength. What does the data say about the total number of bites attributed to pit bulls?

  19. Oct 2023
    1. Along with the daily active user metrics, Yaccarino also shared that X now has a record 550 million monthly active users. This would be up from the 541 million "monthly users" metric that Musk shared in a post in July.

      So less people are on Twitter every day but more people are on monthly. So, their daily users are going to other services on a daily basis but still checking twitter every so often.

  20. Sep 2023
    1. ow to protect ourselves, and how to protect our students.

      Except its now illegal most places to require these protections

  21. Aug 2023
    1. “The ALA has allowed this political point of view to infiltrate every aspect of their training,” Bear said in an interview

      Literally no one said anything about Marxism in any of my grad school classes

    2. Tom Burnett said that their oath of office forbade them from being associated with a group led by a Marxist

      Does it? Where is the text of the oath of office?

    3. that the government investigate the organization for allegedly advising librarians to discriminate against a Christian book publisher

      uh huh

    4. Right-wing activists have asserted that librarians following the ALA’s lead have been captured by a “woke” ideology, have labeled the organization “radical” and accused it of pushing a sexual agenda on children

      wut

    1. First, the number of U.S. citizens moving from Puerto Rico to Florida has been huge. "The migration of hundreds of thousands of Latinos from Puerto Rico to Central Florida is reshaping the contours of Latino life in the state," reports the Hispanic Federation, "creating the most important demographic development since the arrival of Cubans in the 1960s."

      you're really not going to go into more depth about this, in that a major cause of this is worstening infastructure due to increasingly major weather events?

    1. Following a takeover of underperforming Houston schools by the state of Texas, Superintendent Mike Miles described the repurposing of the libraries as part of a “new education system” that will improve reading levels and test scores.

      YOU CAN'T IMPROVE READING LEVELS WITHOUT LIBRARIES AND LIBRARIANS

    1. Meta executive Adam Mosseri was surprisingly transparent about the company's distaste for the news media: Meta will not be doing anything to encourage hard news and politics on the platform, he wrote.

      this is part of what people like about twitter, so why wouldn't a twitter "alternative" support this?

  22. Jul 2023
    1. “It's unconscionable and, you know, it really needs to be evaluated, said Deitch. “Even if the vendor is demanding more, why isn't that an expense that the agency can bear?

      why do vendors get to change the prices before their contract is over?

    1. RKs are cheaper, more flexible, and less centralized, letting you

      than what? Handles are free

    1. "the most egregious violations of the First Amendment in the history of the United States of America

      oh come on

    2. The decision in an ongoing lawsuit from Republican attorneys general in Louisiana and Missouri, who allege the Biden administration's efforts to encourage social media companies to crack down on COVID disinformation and other matters is "sprawling federal 'Censorship Enterprise,'" could have major First Amendment implications.

      Of course

  23. Jun 2023
    1. Most days, he would get up before dawn, go to class, and study until he fell asleep. He also worked 15 hours a week at a legal clinic. But no matter how hard he tried, it didn’t feel like it would ever be good enough

      that's not the fault of affirmative action. That's white supremacy.

  24. May 2023
    1. Facebook, who had already shown it was possible to build AIs that could detect toxic language like hate speech to help remove it from their platforms

      This is not a good comparison. Facebook's automated detection tools regularly sanction people who are calling out racism and discrimination.

  25. Apr 2023
    1. by obtaining a “digitized identification card, including a digital copy of a driver's license…Government-issued identification; or any commercially reasonable age verification method.”

      This isn't a potential security or privacy risk at all

  26. Mar 2023
    1. Despite Drazkowski’s opposition, the measure passed by a vote of 38-26 and is expected to be signed into law by Democratic Gov. Tim Walz. Once signed, Minnesota will join other states, including California and Colorado, in giving free meals to kids.

      How do 26 people vote AGAINST feeding children?

    1. The same divergence was also found in the use of content-free words, that is words which carry little or no meaning on their own, such as conjunctions ('and', 'but') and articles ('the').

      which one uses more content-free words, American or British English?

    1. “If I am saying, and our community is saying, that we will be a leader in access, opportunity, and social mobility, then we could not continue to be a part of the U.S. News & World Report ‘Best Colleges’ ranking,” she added. “It’s just inconsistent.”

      why? I'm not sure I understand the connection

  27. Feb 2023
    1. A DSP is a way of describing structural constraints on a description set. It constrains the resources that may be described by descriptions in the description set,

      why does every Dublin Core resource, when defining a concept or term, use the term they're trying to define in the definition?! It's really confusing.

    1. A handful of Biden states have as well, but not to the same degree as Trump states. Maryland has been among the top 10 for 20 out of 21 years, New Mexico for 16 years, and Georgia for 10 years

      I wonder how much these numbers might change when accounting for swing states?

  28. Jan 2023
    1. Instead, DOC Commissioner Louis Molina says, letters from relatives and drawings from children should be scanned by a third-party vendor paid by the City, and then viewed by their recipients on a tablet issued by the vendor.

      ffs

    1. the presidents claimed that “some initiatives and instruction in higher education” under the label of diversity, equity, and inclusion have begun to betray the true purpose of DEI by seeking to “push ideologies such as critical race theory and its related tenets.”

      what the actual fuck

    1. Appositives almost always follow the noun they modify, and are set off by commas; the kind I don’t like come first. I

      What does this mean?

  29. Nov 2022
    1. Though the sleeves of the kimono could be used to store small items, the men who wore kimono needed a larger and stronger container in which to store personal belongings, such as pipes, tobacco, money and seals,

      Not the women?

    1. Amid growing calls to eliminate subminimum wages at the federal level, Missouri instead deepened its commitment to sheltered workshops last year.

      Oh FFS

    1. Aneil Saraf, parent of a child with autism

      How do people with autism feel about this publication?

  30. Aug 2022
    1. If that collection is part of a consortium or system of libraries, it becomes pretty much impossible.

      this isn't necessarily true. A lot of public libraries have been switching over to the LCC system. It has its own problems with inherent racism/discrimination/etc. but it's absolutely step up from Dewey

    2. In Illinois, there’s not a mechanism for communities to uninstall local officials.

      we can't impeach or recall them? Yikes

    3. instead, it would remain at 54 hours a week because, according to Makula, “People use Amazon now — they aren’t coming back.”

      this is not the case

    4. (Makula reportedly said “they only get about [three] questions a day anyway”)

      uh

    5. clear these changes are tied politically to the ruling Congress

      I don't believe this is actually the case. The 2016 incident was the first of its kind from what I've read. I should probably look more into that though.

    1. such as LatCrit, DisCrit, QueerCrit and AsianCrit—though these offshoots are rarely mentioned in the mainstream media.

      that's because they're almost exclusively called this is higher ed

    2. hen it notes that CRT explores how institutions maintain the dominance of white people

      These are actually separate things

    3. (and in so-called equity and anti-bias trainings for teachers) are not even related to CRT; that only conservatives think CRT tenets are taught in such trainings; and that it is a “caricature” of CRT to say that its tenets include “teaching Black children to internalise victimhood and white children to self-identify as oppressors.

      that's because it is. The Guardian is a much more reliable resource than someone who writes under a pseudonym.

    4. while others are using it as shorthand for the elements of that theory that are being taught to children as facts.

      No, they're using it as shorthand for any kind of diversity or inclusion

    5. and that pervasive racism is a permanent, ineradicable characteristic of American society

      this is a gross characterization of CRT

    6. (including white children) are inherently and irredeemably oppressors of black people, that all black people should recognize that they are fundamentally victims

      that is not what CRT is nor is it a "core tenet" of CRT

    1. He also recommended pouring a mixture of dried pomegranates and water into the ear, to treat earaches.

      probably not a good idea

    1. a full-page aside about the “Marxist ideology” of the American Library Association.

      HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH

    2. “and accordingly have no serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value to minors.”

      faaaaaaaaaaaaaaalse

    3. Page 135—Illustrates minors providing stimulation of genitals with hands.

      ....have you met adolescents

    4. As for the Sarah Maas novel, “it’s not as extreme as other books,” but he found it in a middle school library in Virginia Beach. “So this was being recommended by school librarians to children that were as young as sixth grade.”

      ....that's not actually what that means

    5. when all the local circuit court judges recused themselves

      why did they?

    6. using an obscure Virginia law that would allow the judge, if she found the books obscene, to ban bookstores, libraries, and even private citizens from selling or sharing them, everywhere in Virginia.

      how is this not a 1a violation?

  31. Jul 2022
    1. These days, peccable is used only facetiously, as in this 1992 quote from the New York Times: “Its credentials are about as impeccable as you can find in the peccable atmosphere of Hollywood.”

      that's pretty good

    1. but May’s unprecedented leak of a draft opinion reversing Roe v. Wade made the effort all but impossible, multiple sources familiar with negotiations told CNN

      It's not like Ginny Thomas has a history of doing this or anything

    1. when Shemini Atzeret coincides with Shabbat, be sure not to light on Shabbat).

      why?

    2. he Bible describes it as a one-day holiday, beginning at sundown and ending the following night. Like most other holidays, outside of Israel it has expanded into two days, celebrated on 22-23 Tishrei.

      why is that?

    1. The spokesperson also claimed that Democrats “don’t want solutions or bipartisanship, they want the campaign issue” because they opted for their own bill over a Republican-sponsored measure that would allow oral contraceptives approved by the Food and Drug Administration to be acquired over the counter.

      It doesn't go far enough

    2. A state House panel on Tuesday said it will not recommend the exceptions in its draft abortion legislation.

      what the fuck

    3. arguing that it would “trample on freedoms of conscience for health care providers” and labeling its definition of contraceptives as “overbroad.”

      then they shouldn't be in health care or should advertise that they don't prescribe birth control

    1. Davis had pledged to use the panel to launch an investigation into the select committee currently probing the Jan. 6 Capitol attack.

      Good thing he lost