2024-03-01 18:38:14
Getting rid of birth control is a key GOP agenda item for the second Trump term
https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2024/02/getting-rid-of-birth-control-is-a-key-gop-agenda-item-for-the-second-trump-term…
Getting rid of birth control is a key GOP agenda item for the second Trump term
https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2024/02/getting-rid-of-birth-control-is-a-key-gop-agenda-item-for-the-second-trump-term…
Bloomberg: Biden calls Xi, Ukraine likely on the agenda: https://benborges.xyz/2024/04/02/bloomberg-biden-calls.html
Uncovering Agendas: A Novel French & English Dataset for Agenda Detection on Social Media
Gregorios Katsios, Ning Sa, Ankita Bhaumik, Tomek Strzalkowski
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.00821
#HeritageFoundation’s Project 2025 aims at turning #Trumpism Into a Governing Agenda
#Project2025 includes four elements:
🔸The 900-plus-page "Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise" deta…
Good morning and happy Thursday everyone!
How are we all doing today and what is on your agenda for the day?
For me, it's work stuff and it's super, super busy due to the stable release of Nova. We're only at a 66% staged roll out, but I woke up to over 230 emails this morning and have received more than 200 new ones since.
I have a meeting at 12pm but that should be a nice break from the emails for a bit.
#Hamburg Fährst du #Cargobike bzw. #Lastenrad und möchtest andere Cargobiker:innen kennenlernen? Oder interessierst du dich für Cargobikes (weil du eines haben möchtest oder warum auch immer)? Dann komm d…
Eine neue Folge #Coriolis #DieLetzteZyklade veröffentlicht und der Entscheid im wessen Dienst man stehe will oder hat die Crew eher eine eigene Agenda? #pnpde
Save the date! On 17th March, the #phpugmrn meetup is back with a fantastic event at the @… office in Mannheim. Learn all about Domain-Driven Design from the amazing @…
Missed it by, that much
This morning's agenda- submit ESPionage the RPG of Psychics and Spies for Fate to Evil Hat. Upon checking the requirements one last time (it had been awhile) I found this line in the middle of the page: “Update: As of August 17, 2023 our submissions are currently closed. We don’t anticipate re-opening them until late 2025.” Well...crap… Looks like I have ~18 months to kill.
If you need an example, this is Fox News, fear-mongering and making things up to suit the agenda:
Biological men are now welcome in California women's prisons: 'An agenda for female erasure' | Fox News
https://www.foxnews.com/media/biologica…
IID Relaxation by Logical Expressivity: A Research Agenda for Fitting Logics to Neurosymbolic Requirements
Maarten C. Stol, Alessandra Mileo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.19485
Vollgas oder Vollbremsung? Söders Magnetschwebebahn-Traum
In zehn Minuten sollte ein Transrapid zum Münchner Flughafen fahren. Bekanntlich wurde nichts daraus. Nun hat Markus Söder das Thema wieder auf die Agenda gesetzt, mit einer Magnetschwebebahn in Nürnberg. Innovativ, durchaus. Aber auch sinnvoll?
…
Nuclear War is still on the agenda but no one is talking about it.
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/mar/31/annie-jacobsen-nuclear-war-scenario
The White House Office of the National Cyber Director (ONCD), in collaboration with the SANS Institute and GIAC, unveiled an initiative under the Investing in America Agenda to modernize America's cybersecurity workforce and minimize the cyber skills gap across essential sectors such as manufacturing, healthcare, and clean energy.
White House press release:
National Cyber Director Encourages Adoption of Skill-Based Hiring to Connect Americans to Good-Paying Cyber Jobs
https://www.whitehouse.gov/oncd/briefing-room/2024/04/29/press-release-wh-cyber-workforce-convening/
SANS report:
https://www.sans.org/mlp/2024-attract-hire-retain-midlevel-cybersecurity-roles/
I’m attending The Democratic National Committee’s event, “All Aboard: the Training Series - What's at stake with the extreme MAGA GOP agenda” – sign up now to join me! https://events.democrats.org/event/607046/?
The schedule for droidcon SF in June is up! Lots of interesting talks this year
#AndroidDev
girl who only trusts those who clearly have an agenda because anything else implies a risk of a hidden agenda and she's had enough of that
Missed it by, that much
This morning's agenda- submit ESPionage the RPG of Psychics and Spies for Fate to Evil Hat. Upon checking the requirements one last time (it had been awhile) I found this line in the middle of the page: “Update: As of August 17, 2023 our submissions are currently closed. We don’t anticipate re-opening them until late 2025.” Well...crap… Looks like I have ~18 months to kill.
‘My ultimate and absolute revenge’: Trump gives chilling CPAC speech on his 2024 presidential agenda
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/feb/24/donald-trump-cpac-speech
Looking forward to supporting a workshop and checking out #provotypes and speculative designs from research on AI in the home in Emmenbrücke on March 7
https://www.
The White House Office of the National Cyber Director (ONCD), in collaboration with the SANS Institute and GIAC, unveiled an initiative under the Investing in America Agenda to modernize America's cybersecurity workforce and minimize the cyber skills gap across essential sectors such as manufacturing, healthcare, and clean energy.
White House press release:
National Cyber Director Encourages Adoption of Skill-Based Hiring to Connect Americans to Good-Paying Cyber Jobs
https://www.whitehouse.gov/oncd/briefing-room/2024/04/29/press-release-wh-cyber-workforce-convening/
SANS report:
https://www.sans.org/mlp/2024-attract-hire-retain-midlevel-cybersecurity-roles/
Dems flip script on GOP crime agenda, targeting RNC convention plans with surprising name (Brandon Gillespie/Fox News)
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/dems-flip-script-gop-crime-agenda-targeting-rnc-convention-plans?intcmp=tw_fnc
http://www.memeorandum.com/240321/p72#a240321p72
There's a few different camps on generative "AI":
- "It's our lord and savior" (mostly AI companies pushing this)
- "It will kill us all" doomerism (it won't, it has no intelligence or sentience or agenda)
- "It has some use cases!" centrism (problematic because it enables the lord and savior types & it's also wrong as work products are highly unreliable, even for basic things like summaries and tabulation)
- &q…
Ob es uns gefällt oder nicht: "Rechts" ist Teil des demokratischen politischen Spektrums.
Rechtsextremismus hingegen können und dürfen wir in unserer Demokratie niemals tolerieren.
Um den Aufstieg der AfD zu stoppen, müssen wir uns ohne Hysterie mit ihrer Agenda und Kritik auseinandersetzen. Wo vertritt sie berechtige Kritikpunkte?
Andererseits muss sie dort gestellt werden, wo sie sich völkisch-nationalistischer Narrative bedient. Magali Mohr-Ahlers auf
Matalaz heroi zuberotarra eszenara itzularaziko duen pastorala
https://www.naiz.eus/eu/agenda/evento/matalaz-heroi-zuberoarra-eszenara-itzularaziko-duen-pastorala
Trump promised ‘ultimate and absolute revenge’ in CPAC speech
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/feb/24/donald-trump-cpac-speech
@NYTimes notes that he didn't mention Nikki Haley.
#Navalny Called Trump Second Term Agenda 'Really Scary' in Final Letter
https://www.businessinsider.com/navalny-death-letters-…
Every year the Conservative Political Action Conference, or #CPAC, conjures a theatre of the absurd beside the Potomac River.
This week something else slowly came into focus:
Three pillars of a Republican agenda that the party believes will provide a winning formula in the 2024 elections.
♦️First, speaker after speaker highlighted the crisis at the southern border, variously describing it a…
‘My ultimate and absolute revenge’: Trump gives chilling CPAC speech on his 2024 presidential agenda
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/feb/24/donald-trump-cpac-speech
The trans agenda is actually why your socks go missing in the laundry.
We like mismatched socks and all your socks eventually get stolen from your laundry and get mailed randomly to trans people across the world.
Hope no other trans person is upset at me sharing this secret.
#trans
Hur lätt är det att göra en deepfake idag, och vilka kan konsekvenserna bli? I det tredje och sista inslaget, vid 31:50 in i dagens Agenda i SVT medverkar bland annat jag och Elliot Higgins från Bellingcat i ett inslag om AI, desinformation och deepfakes i ljuset av stundande val under året som kommer.
…
Filing: SBF wrote a Google doc in which he floated "bad ideas" to improve his image, including going on Tucker Carlson and coming out "against the woke agenda" (Matt Novak/Gizmodo)
https://gizmodo.com/sbf-floated-coming-out-repub…
About 7% of all homo sapiens to have ever lived are alive right now. So if you're thinking "what are the odds of seeing the end of the world" the odds aren't actually that small.
Exponential growth can have surprising implications
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2022/…
What does Trump have in store for us? A militarized authoritarian regime; “an agenda of inhumanity on a scale we haven’t seen for generations”; deliberate disregard for the Constitution; dehumanization and cruelty toward the most vulnerable.
Full credit to the Washington Post.
https://wapo.st/48tFoGy
Um, starting to see a pattern where people are being followed by accounts whose avatar is an attractive young woman’s face and who post sweet little inspirational messages and cute puppy/cat pix. And they smell synthetic as hell. Saw ’em referred to in a mods conversation as “seeds”. There’s an agenda here, dunno what it is.
I am currently working on a #Mastodon Wall for @…. To display the agenda and Mastodon posts on a very huge screen (45 meter long and 8 meter high). Each participant can send messages and photos to the screen. Just tag your post with
Gear up for an epic meetup later today! @… will take us on a journey into the world of calendars at the @… office in #Mannheim…
Trump isn't just far right, he's far gone. Unhinged. And so are his supporters. Modern America's Greatest Asshole.
‘My ultimate and absolute revenge’: Trump gives chilling CPAC speech on presidential agenda https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/f
Canada's Pierre Poilievre and the Conservatives can’t be trusted to stand up for workers
:mastodon: :mstdnca:
https://canadianlabour.ca/poilievre-and-the-conservatives-cant-be-trusted-to-stand-up-for-workers/<…
#DLF Agenda
Warum bringt der Atom-Fanboy-Redakteur dauernd diese alte Thema?
“We see a reform agenda [in the UK] that is framed in a political narrative that demonises disabled people including proposals to cut disability benefits to reward working people… that tells disabled people that they are underserving citizens… coupled with an onerous and complex social benefits system that is the basis for trauma and preventable mental distress.”
– UNCRPD
Beyond shock and awe: Inside Trump's potential second-term agenda - POLITICO https://www.politico.com/news/2024/02/25/second-trump-term-00140488
"there is nothing radical about a wealth tax, a national care service or an ambitious insulation programme: this is mainstream social democracy. By deleting these policies, he is not bowing to “centrism”, but to an extreme agenda of austerity, privatisation, poverty and environmental destruction"
If disillusionment is all Keir Starmer delivers as prime minister, I fear Labour will shrivel and die | George Monbiot | The Guardian
House progressives release an agenda for 2025, with ideas for Biden to excite the base (Sahil Kapur/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/house-progressives-release-agenda-2025-ideas-biden-excite-base-rcna147843
http://www.memeorandum.com/240418/p71#a240418p71
Large Language Model Supply Chain: A Research Agenda
Shenao Wang, Yanjie Zhao, Xinyi Hou, Haoyu Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.12736 https://
Ahead of India's 2024 general election, at least 10 Bollywood movies that have either been released recently or releasing soon amplify BJP's political agenda (Kunal Purohit/Al Jazeera)
https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2024/3/<…
With your support, Fair Fight has greatly advanced the pro-democracy agenda,
pushed back against and mitigated the impacts of voter suppression
and realized important wins and gains for all Americans
— but we can’t lose momentum now.
Your contribution of $20 will make a real difference in protecting the freedom to vote.
“As we go to statehouses, we are pushing for a Third Reconstruction agenda, that’s not about left versus right politics, but about what’s right versus what’s wrong,” Barber, the founding director of the Center for Public Theology & Public Policy at Yale Divinity School, said in a statement to The Hill.
"An interesting connection is the one between billionaires and the far Right. Millionaires, billionaires, and even most far Right politicians don’t give a shit for Jesus or abortion or any of that. They don’t have souls, they’re banking on Hell being a fiction, and they know they can get their abortions whether it’s legal or not. What the extreme Right voting bloc provides them, however, is a minority large enough to provide a feasible path to electoral victory, given enough gerrymandering, voter suppression, xenophobic media coverage, and social media conspiracy theories. They tie their economic agenda (which allows short-term profits from fossil fuel investment, price-cutting in production standards, stripping social services) to a conservative social agenda to get the votes."
~ Peter Gelderloos
https://petergelderloos.substack.com/p/news-briefs-st-patricks-2024
Friday, 5/3:
The Future of Press Freedom,
a @knightcolumbia symposium.
Co-sponsored with Columbia Law School & Columbia Journalism School, will examine what it means to safeguard the role of the #press in the U.S. today.
Free In NYC and online!
Great speakers!
Agenda,, more info, RSVP:
Cargobikepedalist:innen in #Hamburg: Kommt am Sonntag zum Picknick (indoor)!
https://www.eventbrite.de/e/pedale-picknick-tick…
I'm attending The Democratic National Committee's event, “All Aboard: The Training Series - What's at stake with the extreme MAGA GOP agenda” - sign up now to join me!
#BlueWaveRising #BidenHarris4More
Verbied de PVV! Of zorg in ieder geval dat Wilders daar niet meer alleenheerser kan zijn.
https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2024/03/20/het-debat-over-staatsrecht-kan-niet-zonder-gevolg-blijven-a4193607
of paywalloos
@… Thanks for the post! I’m trying to do something similar, except that I’m asking to put updates in a wiki that subsequently serves as agenda and minutes.
Unfortunately, many people with traditional humanities background seem unable to understand the idea and are at best reluctant to contribute.
@… Thanks for the post! I’m trying to do something similar, except that I’m asking to put updates in a wiki that subsequently serves as agenda and minutes.
Unfortunately, many people with traditional humanities background seem unable to understand the idea and are at best reluctant to contribute.
Public - Private Colleges benefit immensely under the Ford Government. The Conservatives collect campaign donations and these private colleges advance the agenda of privatizing our education system. Ontario is churning out degrees for international students while severly impacting housing availability and affordability. And Ford's Government has zero strategy to fix anything.
#onpoli
okay, apparently I've been mislead by the gay agenda to not spend time with homophobic people. I might be a decade and a half late to the party if there's meetings xD
Spotlight On Women
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: #GreatAusPods
Texas federal court will not adopt policy against 'judge shopping'
https://post.news/@/reuters/2eQ4avMhMJXpqw5N5jQE40b6JRz
About 7% of all homo sapiens to have ever lived are alive right now. So if you're thinking "what are the odds of seeing the end of the world" the odds aren't actually that small.
Exponential growth can have surprising implications
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2022/…
#Project2025 focuses on packing the next GOP administration with extreme loyalists to former President Donald Trump.
The plan aims to reinstate #ScheduleF, a Trump-era executive order that makes federal employees fireable at-will, stripping tens of thousands of employees of civil service protections.
…
House progressives release an agenda for 2025, with ideas for Biden to excite the base (Sahil Kapur/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/house-progressives-release-agenda-2025-ideas-biden-excite-base-rcna147843
http://www.memeorandum.com/240418/p71#a240418p71
Good morning #Fediverse and happy Tuesday to all of you!
It's a new day with new things on the agenda, so let's discuss what the plans are for the day.
It's work stuff here as usual with only one meeting instead of two since my boss is on vacation this week.
After the work stuff, it'll likely just be time playing Horizon Forbidden West on PC.
We call on the Millenium Festival to rethink its agenda and not provide a platform for pro-Russian narratives!: https://benborges.xyz/2024/03/12/we-call-on.html
Attention all developers! On February 29th, learn about #FrankenPHP from @… at our #phpugmrn meetup. Discover how this tool can simplify the distribution of PHP applications. …
“Your victory will be our ultimate vindication, your liberty will be our ultimate reward and the unprecedented success of the United States of America will be my ultimate and absolute revenge.”
‘My ultimate and absolute revenge’: Trump gives chilling CPAC speech on presidential agenda | Donald Trump | The Guardian
The Project 2025 policy agenda states:
“Now that the Supreme Court has acknowledged that the Constitution contains no right to an abortion, the FDA is ethically and legally obliged to revisit and withdraw its initial approval [of mifepristone].”
p. 458
https://
Verbied de PVV! Of zorg in ieder geval dat Wilders daar niet meer alleenheerser kan zijn.
https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2024/03/20/het-debat-over-staatsrecht-kan-niet-zonder-gevolg-blijven-a4193607
of paywalloos
Public - Private Colleges benefit immensely under the Ford Government. The Conservatives collect campaign donations and these private colleges advance the agenda of privatizing our education system. Ontario is churning out degrees for international students while severly impacting housing availability and affordability. And Ford's Government has zero strategy to fix anything.
#onpoli
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) is emerging as a key surrogate for President Biden’s reelection campaign for young people and progressives,
pushing his climate agenda as a win for those critical voting blocs.
Ocasio-Cortez’s surrogacy comes with parameters. She said she supports Biden’s reelection bid and will stand by him during a climate event,
but she has also put pressure on him as an outspoken critic of the Biden administration’s handling of Israel’s war with Ha…
'My ultimate and absolute revenge': Trump gives chilling CPAC speech on presidential agenda (David Smith/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/feb/24/donald-trump-cpac-speech
http://www.memeorandum.com/240225/p20#a240225p20
Prospects of a wide-ranging AI bill in the US this year are rapidly dimming, despite Senator Chuck Schumer's push to put AI regulation at the top of the agenda (Brian Fung/CNN)
https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/14/tech/ai-bill-us-presidential-election/…
Explainable Generative AI (GenXAI): A Survey, Conceptualization, and Research Agenda
Johannes Schneider
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.09554 https://
Excellent research on the ECPM by Investico:
"ATM for extremism - The closed email group of lobby club Agenda Europe has long been a hotbed of racism, homophobia and misogyny. It now appears that the ECPM, the euro party of the ChristenUnie, played a key role in this."
"The ECPM mostly ‘serves as an EU-funded extremist ATM’, head researcher Neil Datta of the European Parliamentary Forum for Sexual and Reproductive Rights concludes. "
EU leaders want to make food security top priority for 2024-2029 strategic agenda – Euractiv
https://www.euractiv.com/section/agriculture-food/news/eu-leaders-want-to-make-food-security-top-p…
DemLabs mapped states where Republicans banned abortions and misused tax dollars to fund Anti-Abortion Centers.
These states have the worst prenatal care and no abortion clinics.
https://thedemlabs.org/2024/02/16/anti-abortio…
"Over 500 different avatars were found on the three social networks. They pushed out posts with almost identical wording and links to what Fake Reporter called "the three main assets" in the influence operation: UnFold Magazine, Non-Agenda and The Moral Alliance."
Israeli Influence Op Targets U.S. Lawmakers on Hamas-UNRWA
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/security-aviation/2024-03-19/ty-article-magazine/.premium/israeli-influence-op-targets-u-s-lawmakers-on-hamas-unrwa/0000018e-5098-d282-a19f-7dd95cc70000
Join us on 17th March at the @… office in Mannheim for our pre-event of Sylius Days! Excited to have Oliver Kossin as our speaker to talk about Dependency Injection and #Symfony. Sign up now:
One of the key architects of Donald Trump’s plans for a second administration has been quite public about the driving force animating that radical agenda:
a 👊“cold civil war” 👊to be won by those willing to use
“biblical principles” to “instruct government” to do what the MAGA right wants.
#Russ #Vought, a h…
Ahead of the State of the Union, Voters Support Biden's Agenda and Accomplishments Despite Low Awareness (Timothy Bresnahan/Data For Progress)
https://www.dataforprogress.org/blog/2024/3/6/ahead-of-the-state-of-the-union-voters-support-bidens-agenda-and-accomplishments-despite-low-awareness
http://www.memeorandum.com/240306/p101#a240306p101
DemLabs mapped states where Republicans banned abortions and misused tax dollars to fund Anti-Abortion Centers.
These states have the worst prenatal care and no abortion clinics.
https://thedemlabs.org/2024/02/16/anti-abortio…
Apparent failure of Bring Chicago Home tax referendum may slow Mayor Johnson's agenda, critics say (CBS News)
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/apparent-failure-bring-chicago-home-tax-referendum/
http://www.memeorandum.com/240322/p47#a240322p47
Why a flawed study on medication abortion was retracted | The Hill
https://thehill.com/opinion/healthcare/4484239-why-a-flawed-study-on-medication-abortion-was-retracted/
Former Vice President #Mike #Pence on Friday said he “cannot in good conscience” endorse presumptive GOP nominee Donald Trump, a stunning repudiation of his former running mate and the president he served with.
“Donald Trump is pursuing and articulating an agenda that is at odds with the conservative agenda that we gover…
Why do so many rural white Americans fall for the authoritarian demagoguery now being peddled by the GOP?
Moreover, how does this threaten the entire nation?
Deploying a deft combination of data analysis and reporting from the heartland, Schaller and Waldman chronicle the decline of rural America and the rise of grievances that are exploited and weaponized by Republicans to serve a far-right agenda that undermines Middle America and elsewhere.
The main problem with Trumpi…
Where #Trump's 'accepting our God' rhetoric comes from: "Vought has promoted a restrictionist immigration agenda, saying a person’s background doesn’t define who can enter the U.S., but rather, citing Biblical teachings, whether that person “accept[ed] Israel’s God, laws and understanding of history.”
Trump allies prepare to infuse ‘Christian nationalism’ in second administra…
After a bad legal week for Trump, even worse could be on the horizon
The immediate priority for Trump’s legal agenda remains, figuring out how to come up with $450m
– or finding a company prepared to help him post bond within 30 days of when the court entered the judgment, so that he can appeal the penalty.
Trump saw the ruling as a two-pronged stab at his personal identity:
it is likely to almost entirely drain his accounts of cash and it bars him from running the T…
Yes, 2024 is a race between two old white guys we already know ---
But the choice is stark.
When the New York Times argues ridiculously that neither Biden nor Trump is a “change candidate,” it’s ignoring the fact that both of them have clear visions for transforming American politics.
#Biden’s #agenda cal…