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GKIDS @gkids.com is looking for a Controller – Finance & Accounting

NYC or Los Angeles • Full-Time • $150K

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BLEACH G.E.M. Series Figurine Giveaway

Follow ANN on BlueSky and you could win this gorgeous 12" tall MegaHouse G․E․M. Series: BLEACH - Gin Ichimaru figure.

WEBTOON is looking for a Senior Associate, Social Media Marketing

Los Angeles • Full-Time • Hybrid • $60K - $80K

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My team writing on Black Panther is looking for a Senior Writer to join us. Ideally we are looking for someone with knowledge or experience of African Culture and/or Marvel to join a team committed to creating authentic, powerful stories on an ambitious project: jobs.ea.com/en_US/career...

Official Site | Bandai Namco Entertainment America The official home for ELDEN RING, Armored Core, TEKKEN, DRAGON BALL, GUNDAM, PAC-MAN, and all your favorite video games!

Bandai Namco Entertainment America is looking for a Social Marketing Coordinator

Irvine, California • Full-Time • Hybrid • $26.31 - $36.06 per hour

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When people keep asking, “What can I do?” when referring to improving the state of the world, you can wear a mask. It’s one of the easiest ways to protect minorities and create community care. It also shows noncompliance. You want to be a revolutionary? Wear a mask!

Announcing a Scholarship for Trans Writers We are delighted to announce the Sea Star Scholarship, an annual full-tuition scholarship for our flagship Six-Week Workshop, offered by an anonymous donor, which will be awarded each year to one…

Are you a trans or nonbinary writer?

Clarion West just announced a new scholarship that covers all six weeks of tuition:

[10 Dec 2024] Opening Remarks from Dr Tedros at yesterday’s @who.int media briefing:

“We cannot talk about COVID in the past tense.

“It’s still with us, it still causes acute disease and Long COVID, and it still kills.

“The world might want to forget about COVID-19, but we cannot afford to.”

HarperCollins is selling their authors’ work to AI tech. On Friday, author Daniel Kibblesmith posted a series of screenshots on Bluesky in order to share a concerning email he received from the agency who’d repped him on his children’s book S…

Let this be for the record, I will burn every single word I've ever written to the ground before I willingly allow it to be cannibalised and inhaled into this soulless sausage AI machine. No money is enough to buy my creative soul.

Take a stand against this shit.

lithub.com/harpercollin...

Happy Asexual Awareness Week. This is now an Ace Space.

Gonna try and post more/interact more on here because Twitter is a dumpster fire...

New Covid Shots Recommended for Americans 6 Months and Older This Fall As the virus continues to mutate, the C.D.C. urged Americans to roll up their sleeves again for annual vaccinations.

"All Americans ages 6 months and older should receive one of the new Covid-19 vaccines when they become available this fall."

"The recommendation comes as the nation faces a summer wave of Covid, with the number of infections rising in at least 39 states and territories."

Any country that makes protecting your health or being poor a crime is not a real democracy.

Netflix Reports Live-Action One Piece Series as Its #1 Viewed Show in 2nd Half of 2023 Series had 71․6 million total views with 541․9 million hours viewed

The live-action One Piece series was the #1 viewed show on Netflix for the 2nd half of 2023!

Haven't been on here in a while, oops. What have I missed? XD

Quote from WRAL news: “The exemption also allows for members of a secret society or organization to wear masks or hoods in a parade or demonstration if they obtain a permit. "So this bill will protect the Ku Klux Klan to wear masks in public, but someone who's immunocompromised like myself cannot wear a mask?" said Sen. Sydney Batch, D-Wake, who was”

There is an exemption to allow the KKK to wear hoods of course. While the excuse they use for this bill is targeting protesters it is obvious how this will have wider implications especially for disabled people of color or those with visual differences

A bird flu outbreak among dairy cows sparks new warnings about unpasteurized milk An outbreak of avian flu in dairy cow herds has resurfaced long-simmering tensions between the federal government and raw milk advocates, who downplay concerns that health officials have raised.

An NPR reporter collected samples of raw milk from 4 farms in Texas, and asked a USDA-authorized lab to test for bird flu. The lab refused to do it, because the farms wouldn't give them permission to test, even though permission isn't required. Wow.

This weekend! Register to stream a great movie for free this weekend, Canada-based pals!

#DRCL, 'Goodbye, Eri,' River's Edge More Nominated for Eisner Awards My Picture Diary, The Summer Hikaru Died also nominated

#DRCL, Goodbye, Eri, River's Edge, My Picture Diary, The Summer Hikaru Died, and more were nominated for the Eisner Awards!

My Happy Marriage Director Takehiro Kubota and Creating a New Fairytale

Ahead of the romance anime's second season, director Takehiro Kubota discusses the choices, the challenges, and balancing the story between the everyday and the supernatural.

Wastewater COVID-19 National and Regional Trends CDC’s National Wastewater Surveillance System, U.S. National trends

CDC COVID wastewater data remains publicly accessible: www.cdc.gov/nwss/rv/COVI...

Various local COVID wastewater data also remains accessible.

But it’s sad to see Biobot sunsetting their publicly accessible charts, which have been available since the start of the pandemic.

The Future of Biobot’s Public Data: With the abundance of publicly available wastewater data and our shift to contextualized respiratory risk reports, we are sunsetting our public data visualization platform (www.biobot.io/data). This evolution represents Biobot’s commitment to maximizing the value of wastewater data. We believe that by adding context and expert analysis, we can empower individuals, communities, and public health officials to take proactive steps towards a healthier future.

News: Biobot is sunsetting its COVID-19 wastewater public data visualization platform.

While Biobot will continue to publish their contextualized weekly respiratory risk reports, this represents another decrease in data transparency, and a step in the wrong direction.

Repeat COVID-19 vaccinations elicit antibodies that neutralize variants, other viruses | Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis Response to updated vaccine is shaped by earlier vaccines yet generates broadly neutralizing antibodies

People who were repeatedly vaccinated for COVID-19 — initially receiving shots aimed at the original variant, followed by boosters and updated vaccines targeting variants — generated antibodies capable of neutralizing a wide range of SARS-CoV-2 variants and even some distantly related coronaviruses.

Crunchyroll is already terrible for paying their translators garbage wages, so them turning to the plagiarism machine known as AI is absolutely no surprise. This would be a pretty good time to tell them to go suck an egg, though. And maybe cancel your subscription.

🍁📣 Canada is updating COPYRIGHT LAW to deal with AI!

They want to hear from us about it! The survey is four open-ended questions and one general "feedback" question. All the questions are optional! So if you want it can be REAL QUICK

tiny.cc/ai-ca

From everyone at the RMH: Merry Christmas! Our dedicated elves/nurses/docs are on duty if you need, but we would love to hear that you are safe with your loved ones at home. Stay safe, plan ahead and drink responsibly. For emergencies, please dial 000.

Thank you to all the healthcare workers who are working through the holidays to keep us all safe (including wearing N95s to protect patients)!

Summary What is already known about this topic? During June–July 2022, many U.S. counties experienced high COVID-19 transmission levels. What is added by this report? One half of adults surveyed during June–July 2022 who had recently received a positive SARS-CoV-2 test result in metropolitan Detroit, Michigan and DuPage County, Illinois perceived local COVID-19 transmission when surveyed to be low or moderate, despite documented sustained high transmission. Higher perceived local COVID-19 transmission was associated with more use of preventive behaviors, overall and in response to high local COVID-19 transmission. What are the implications for public health practice? Continued monitoring of public perceptions of local COVID-19 levels, and further understanding their impact on use of preventive behaviors, can guide pandemic-related communication strategies and policymaking.

News programs should be giving regular COVID and airborne virus reports, the same way they give regular weather reports.

Studies show people will take precautions when virus levels are high, but sadly many wrongly perceive COVID levels to be lower than they really are.

www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes...

Mask Mandates are Returning Across US Hospitals and clinics are bringing back pandemic-era mitigation measures as COVID continues to spread around the country

Good news: Masking has returned to hospitals and clinics in several counties in Illinois, Wisconsin, California, Massachusetts, Delaware, Washington, Indiana and New York.

Thanks to all the tireless organizers making progress happen. Keep going!

The sign reads "Buy books from people who want to sell books, not colonize the Moon."

At a bookstore

Map: COVID wastewater levels are very high in the majority of U.S. states

COVID wastewater levels are very high in the majority of U.S. states

(Source: CDC cdc.gov/nwss/rv/COVI... )