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Germany's largest UBI study funded by 200K private donors found that

- Everyone kept working, no change in hours
- More enrolled in university
- More job changes (for better jobs)
- More satisfied with work

This is the data UBI critics love to ignore.

Researchers tried to fix a racist lung test. It got complicated. A new lung function test ditches the medical racism of the old version, but with serious consequences to how results are applied.

"Based on research that made outdated assumptions about race, the tools 'all directed medical resources towards White people, away from Black people,' Jones says."

if they unseat Ted Cruz I will play a free solo show in Austin and the set list will include Golden Boy, Riches & Wonders, Comandante and whatever other oldschool bangers ppl want

Screencap of text that reads "And what will the law require citizens who want to vote do? Lacking a passport or other proof of citizenship with their married names, they must produce both a birth certificate (with the seal of the state where it was issued; no copies allowed) and a current form of identification—both with the exact same name on them. That could instantly disqualify about 90 percent of all married women without passports or other proof that matches their birth certificates or proof of a legal name change."

Oh. Is this why the GOP wants to pass the SAVE act so bad? To be able to prevent women from voting? Especially women in blue states?

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A bottle of water per email: the hidden environmental costs of using AI chatbots AI needs a lot of electricity and water to stay cool in data centers. We break down the toll prompt-by-prompt to show the scale of AI’s environmental needs.

A single 100-word email generated by an AI chatbot using GPT-4 requires 519 milliliters of water, a little more than 1 bottle.
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Team "I don't need an antidepressant, I have 18 dogs":

Elections have consequences.

Police in the US shoot dogs so often that a Justice Department expert calls it an “epidemic” American law enforcement agencies employ dogs to do their detective work and dirty work. Yet dogs get killed by cops an awful lot.

Laurel Matthews, a program specialist with the US Department of Justice’s community-oriented policing services office, says fatal encounters are an “epidemic” and estimates that 25 to 30 pet dogs are killed daily by police.

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Libraries have so much cool stuff people don’t know about! Some lend out tools and equipment! Subscriptions to periodicals! Seeds! (You don’t need to bring those back.) Help with taxes! English and reading classes! Canopy for cool documentaries and other movies! State parks passes!

Hi Steve, We do not have nor have we ever expressed any intention on incorporating AI into our products. We have always valued our users' privacy, intellectual property, and data security which is a big reason we operate as file-based software. This puts your data into your hands to entrust to your cloud service of choice or not or third-party tools that can integrate with Scrivener like Grammarly or not.  Scrivener does not view, collect, or share any of your writing at any time. You are welcome to review our End User License Agreement here: https://www.literatureandlatte.com/end-user-licence-agreement

Scrivener replied to my email about AI.

It's an unequivocal no to AI in their product.

(Their point being: they won't, if an author wants to they can.)

Please repost this. These guys are decent people and a pretty small company.

Q: What specific legislation will you commit to to make child care affordable? Trump: Well, I would do that and we're sitting down, you know, I was, somebody, we had Marco Rubio and my daughter, Ivanka… But I think when you talk about the kind of numbers that I'm talking about that because the child care is, child care couldn't, you know, there's something you have to have it in this country, you have to have it... I want to stay with child care… So we'll take care of it. Thank you

If you haven't seen this answer Trump gave today to a policy question... well, it's really something.

A reminder if you use libraries (bc sometimes ppl are apologetic to authors about it) - don't be! We get paid! I get almost as much per borrow as I do per sale! And I LOVE libraries, they were a lifeline when the kids were little in particular.

In a first, Phoenix hits 100 straight days of 100-degree heat The relentless and record heat is testing the will of Phoenix residents.

Some of you may know this anecdote from the Bad Place, over ten years ago I asked one of my national security sources for my writing for an unexpected prediction. I was expecting EMP, etc. He said “If you own anything in Phoenix, sell. It’ll be unlivable in a decade.”

we're living through a fast-paced technological revolution around green energy and it's getting about 1% of the attention it should. In a month, no one's gonna be burning coal in the UK for the first time since the steam engine was invented.

NaNoWriMo’s endorsement of generative AI is like the New York Marathon suggesting that taking an Uber along the route also counts as running the marathon. You did, after all, tell the driver where you wanted to go! Btw this year we’re brought to you by Uber

It's amazing to me that "criticizing the use of AI" is supposedly classism, but "building a product on the stolen work of people with a median annual income of $25k and refusing to compensate them because you know they can't afford lawyers" isn't.

The last time Congress managed to pass a federal consumer privacy law was in 1988: The Video Privacy Protection Act. That’s a law that bans video-store clerks from telling newspapers what VHS cassettes you take home. In other words, it regulates three things that have effectively ceased to exist. https://pluralistic.net/2024/08/17/hack-the-planet/

The last time Congress managed to pass a federal consumer privacy law was in 1988: The Video Privacy Protection Act. …

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75 artists received $9,000 each in a basic income trial. The cash helped a yarn guru to buy a house and a new car. Fiber artist Tori Hanna used the $500 a month to replace her damaged car, cover debts and bills, and save for the down payment for her new home.

Okay well so what if guaranteed basic income helps low income families single moms teenagers kids babies homeless people and artists, surely there's SOMEONE who will be harmed by giving them free money!!! Surely!!!!

www.businessinsider.com/basic-income...

god every one of those iT'S iNfLaTiOn nOt A cOnSPiRaCy mfs can eat my entire ass

Since they seem really set on using that promo shot, let's review, and pass along to any newbies:
- do not watch Grave w/your kids (teens, ok your call)
- do not watch Grave w/strong drink
- do not watch Grave alone
- DO NOT watch Grave in MH crisis, or even mild upset

This is gonna be like those “municipality gives everyone $1k/month for a year; result is huge net savings in police+etc”studies

where they keep using science to prove the obvious GOOD, EASY, INEXPENSIVE thing over & over but somehow we’re never allowed to just fucking ACT ON IT

New today:

Are we living in a gerontocracy? (Judges version)

Dozens of aging federal judges are eligible to step down on full pay but are clinging on to their lifetime positions and preventing younger people from being appointed to replace them:

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Subway is owned by a private equity firm that raised the prices on their $5 footlongs up to $14.

Now the price back down to $6.99.

It was never about “inflation.”
It was a private equity firm using inflation as an excuse to price gouge customers.

Always expose corporate greed.

How brain poisoned do you have to be to think this story is anything other than utterly horrifying, my god

@AKLibraryChick tweeted: Do women actually get mid-life crises, or is it that we just start doing whatever the hell we want instead of always deferring to others?

I love this question. Retired therapist here :raises hand: For the most part, women get the opposite of a midlife crisis. Somewhere between the ages of about 40-50 we stop asking anyone’s permission and start self actualizing. It’s not like life becomes perfect, but it’s *nothing* to fear

Oh I LOVE sharing this one with new people!

Did y’all know that, as a sweeping generalization, women don’t tend to get the midlife crisis?

We actually get a midlife reprieve.

When Canadians experience the US healthcare system firsthand their reaction is not “wow this kinda sucks hey” or “oh dang our system is better.”

It’s “what in the FUCK is wrong with you people?? Is this for fucking real?? How do you live like this?? Why aren’t people rioting in the streets??”

"Can my husband find out who I am voting for?": The big question touching a nerve this election November may come down to a battle between controlling men and women who just want their freedom

"Can my husband find out who I am voting for?"

The question went viral. (The answer is no.) We don't know how much men control women's votes.

But the idea of it resonates this election, which is about weird men who are obsessed with controlling women.
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After ‘promising findings,’ program expands that gives New Orleans teens $50 a week without conditions The city of New Orleans invested $1 million to expand the study to 1,600 students across the city over three years.

Fucking LOVE to see EXPANDED cash payments after YET ANOTHER UBI STUDY shows IT HELPS PEOPLE A LOT TO GIVE THEM MONEY

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