el Kids brand Tuco Intelligent raises $2 million in funding By retail.economictimes.indiatimes.com Published On :: Tue, 24 Sep 2024 16:33:55 +0530 Tuco Intelligent, a kids' personal care brand, has secured $2 million in seed funding led by Fireside Ventures and Whiteboard Capital. Founded by ex-Unilever executive Aishvarya Murali, Tuco offers natural and sustainable products for children. The brand emphasizes eco-friendly packaging using reclaimed ocean and landfill plastic. Full Article
el It begins to tell By music-player.webnode.com.br Published On :: Wed, 27 Jan 2010 14:33:00 +0100 It begins to tell, 'round midnight, 'round midnight. I do pretty well till after sundown, And suppertime I'm feelin' sad But it really gets bad, 'round midnight. Memories always start 'round midnight, 'round Haven't got the heart to stand those memories, So when my heart is still with you, Yes ol' midnight knows it, too. When a quarrel we had needs mending, Does it mean that our love is ending. Darlin' I need you, lately I find You're out of my heart, And I'm out of my... Full Article Amy winehouse
el Netflix Urged to Reinstate Deleted Palestinian Films By www.streamingmedia.com Published On :: Mon, 28 Oct 2024 09:00:00 EST On October 13 and 14, Netflix deleted nearly its entire library of Palestinian films and films about Palestinians. Thousands of people on social media have criticized Netflix for removing these films. Netflix claims there was no agenda behind the move and that the collection of films was licensed in 2021 for three years, and the licenses have expired. Meanwhile, over 30 organizations are calling on Netflix to reinstate the content and for a boycott of the streaming giant. Full Article
el Sneak Preview: Measurement Matters - Delivering Better Audience Data to Streaming Advertisers By www.streamingmedia.com Published On :: Mon, 04 Nov 2024 09:00:00 EST On Thursday, November 14, industry thought leader Erin Firneno will moderate the panel "Measurement Matters: Delivering Better Audience Data to Streaming Advertisers." The promise of streaming as a boon to advertisers has always been its potential to help them target audiences more precisely by delivering more substantive audience data than broadcast can offer. But even as streaming's audience share has grown to justify substantial migration of CTV ad dollars from broadcast to digital, when it comes to quantifying audiences and measuring engagement, the lack of consistent and easily translatable measurement standards?not to mention the sheer number of measurement options?continues to frustrate ad buyers. How can streaming move toward the proposed "single source of truth," or is that even the answer? Confirmed panelists include experts from Vevo, Warner Bros Discovery, and Revry. Full Article
el Sneak Preview: Cutting Streaming Delivery Costs With AI By www.streamingmedia.com Published On :: Wed, 06 Nov 2024 08:00:00 EST On Wednesday, November 13, streaming industry consultant Nadine Krefetz will moderate the panel "Cutting Streaming Delivery Costs With AI." AI is making inroads into streaming workflows and experiences at nearly every stage, from ingest all the way through discoverability. This panel explores how AI promises to streamline and reduce investments on the processing and delivery end through time-efficient, cost-efficient encoding tools that minimize buffering, fine-tune image quality, and enable workflow optimization. This panel explores how AI is currently impacting streaming delivery and playback experiences, how we can expect its role to continue to evolve over time, and how you can leverage AI's benefits in the streams you deliver. Confirmed panelists include leading industry figures from Microsoft, Netflix, and more. Full Article
el New Research from Hub: ?Peak TV? Still Delivering an Abundance of Favorite TV to Watch By www.streamingmedia.com Published On :: Mon, 11 Nov 2024 09:00:00 EST New findings from Hub Research show that expanded content licensing is offsetting the decline in studio output. Full Article
el Elon Musk says 'all actions' taken by Department of Government Efficiency will be online: 'Transparency' By www.foxnews.com Published On :: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 02:13:06 -0500 After being tapped to lead the Department of Government Efficiency with Vivek Ramaswamy, Elon Musk said all of the actions taken by the department will be posted online for "maximum transparency." Full Article 712e87ec-fd66-5a77-b019-7c8ec37f365a fnc Fox News fox-news/person/elon-musk fox-news/politics fox-news/politics/elections/presidential/trump-transition fox-news/person/donald-trump fox-news/politics article
el Republicans to huddle behind close doors to elect McConnell's successor Wednesday By www.foxnews.com Published On :: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 04:00:45 -0500 The incoming Senate Republican Conference will meet Wednesday morning to elect the successor of Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky. Full Article 10153b6c-538f-5899-9b78-1b675782fdef fnc Fox News fox-news/politics fox-news/politics/senate fox-news/politics/elections fox-news/politics article
el Louisiana woman charged after leaving her child on roadway, falsely reporting kidnapping: police By www.foxnews.com Published On :: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 04:25:05 -0500 Artasia Viges, 24, is facing multiple charges after police said she lied about her son being kidnapped after she left him unattended on a major roadway. Full Article 76c50aa7-f12a-5f1b-9a50-4536b869b88a fnc Fox News fox-news/us fox-news/us/us-regions/southeast/louisiana fox-news/us/crime fox-news/us article
el 7 August is the final day for self-nominations to the Mefi Steering Committee! (Wherever you are) By jobs.metafilter.com Published On :: Sat, 30 Jul 2022 16:24:27 GMT Again, we say hello! Just a reminder that the self-nominations for the inaugural Metafilter Steering Committee (SC) close on August 7th! The purpose of said committee will be to develop and implement site policy, code updates, and ensure the financial health of the site, i.e. help guide the direction of the overall site and act as the voice of the community. Interested? Come over to Metatalk to view details and learn how to apply by August 7th! Full Article
el Senior Applications Developer (Columbus, OH) By jobs.metafilter.com Published On :: Tue, 30 Aug 2022 17:56:46 GMT The Ohio State University Libraries is seeking a Senior Applications Developer to join our cross-functional Application Development & Operations team in the IT Division. This position is eligible for 100% remote work. We are responsible for the end-to-end development and delivery of specialized library and administrative systems that enable the Libraries to share knowledge and culture with the people of Ohio, the nation, and the world. More here, with link to apply: https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/3238081779 Full Article
el Senior Web Developer (Columbus, OH) By jobs.metafilter.com Published On :: Fri, 02 Sep 2022 14:01:59 GMT The Ohio State University Libraries is seeking a Senior Web Developer to join our cross-functional Application Development & Operations team in the IT Division. This position is eligible for 100% remote work. We are responsible for the end-to-end development and delivery of specialized library and administrative systems that enable the Libraries to share knowledge and culture with the people of Ohio, the nation, and the world. https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/3238257671 Full Article
el Business Process Automation Specialist (Cleveland, OH or Framingham, MA) By jobs.metafilter.com Published On :: Tue, 15 Nov 2022 02:53:44 GMT Looking for someone with experience automating business processes with tools like PowerAutomate, VBA and Powershell. Detailed posting here. Full Article
el Senior Backend Developer (Node.js) (Remote) By jobs.metafilter.com Published On :: Mon, 24 Apr 2023 19:11:55 GMT Looking to hire as an independent contractor a highly experienced backend software engineer with extensive experience with Node.js, and preferably with MongoDB as well. Familiarity with GCP would be a plus. This is a part-time, remote contract that will probably be for a minimum of three months and possibly a good bit longer. You must be a true high senior or expert level developer with extensive Node.js experience. A qualified candidate will most likely have at least ten years of solid software development experience. If you are not the right person but know somebody who might be, please feel free to have them contact me. Thank you. Full Article
el 15 Best Psychedelic Rock Songs of All Time By singersroom.com Published On :: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 05:43:59 +0000 Psychedelic rock is more than just a genre; it’s an experience—a kaleidoscopic journey that pushes the boundaries of sound, perception, and imagination. Born in the 1960s, this mind-bending fusion of rock, surrealism, and experimentation became the soundtrack to a cultural revolution, forever altering the landscape of modern music. With its swirling guitars, hypnotic rhythms, and […] The post 15 Best Psychedelic Rock Songs of All Time first appeared on Singersroom.com. Full Article Best Songs Guide
el Cinema Chat: The Michigan Theater celebrates 100 years of 'The Freshman,' and 'Omni Loop' opens downtown By www.wemu.org Published On :: Thu, 19 Sep 2024 08:35:19 -0400 Whether you prefer the modern age of cinema or the silent era, there's plenty of films worth checking out this weekend and beyond! WEMU's Russ Collins from Marquee Arts gives the full cinematic rundown in his conversation with WEMU's David Fair. Full Article
el This morning for no obvious reason, I remembered the Fuel Rats. By www.metafilter.com Published On :: Tue, 12 Nov 2024 17:48:51 GMT "I find it reassuring that in a game that is in some ways a libertarian power fantasy (you and your spaceship, go anywhere do whatever you want), and a PvP universe, one of the first things people did was create a volunteer ambulance service." Over on Mastodon, Dave Anderson walks us through the story of the Fuel Rats, the emergency refueling service of Elite:Dangerous. Full Article ambulance elitedangerous fuelrats publicservice
el Maps app with custom route selection By ask.metafilter.com Published On :: Fri, 08 Jul 2016 18:50:41 -0800 Is there a maps app that will give me time/traffic estimates on the route of MY choice? So for example, I ask Google Maps to navigate me back home and they give me time & traffic for a couple different options. But in many cases there's another route that I want to take for my own reasons that's not being presented, and I want to see how it's doing traffic-wise. I would like to be able to input the street/bridge/whatever I want to take and get a route based on that. Does such a thing exist? I'm on iOS (current).I know I can add a stop along the route to force it to go the way I want in the worst case scenario but this isn't always possible or practical. I would like to find out if there's an app that has this functionality built in.Waze doesn't do this either. Full Article maps google googlemaps apps app choice route routechoice stumped
el Where did I see this image of dragons around a jeweled book? By ask.metafilter.com Published On :: Sat, 18 Jul 2015 14:19:44 -0800 There's an illustration I remember fairly vividly from when I was a kid, but I don't remember whether it was a print or in a book. It depicted tiny dragons, smoke curling from their nostrils, lounging around and/or on a big, beautiful book with cabochons and other jewels either set on or around the book, perhaps with candles and greenery nearby as well. The image shows this from the perspective of slightly above and to one side of the book and dragons, but not from directly above. I don't know whether this was a stand-alone illustration or an illustration in the book, nor whether there was more than one such illustration. it might have been inside the front or back cover. I was really into jewels as a kid, and I remember being entranced by this image and spending some time staring at it. This could have been from the '80s or '90s or earlier. Anyone else remember this? Full Article dragons tinydragons bigbook maybeleatherbook smokecurling cabochons jewels jeweledbook illustration maybecandles maybegreenery seeninthe1980s seeninthe1990s maybeanillustration maybeaposter stumped
el Desperately Seeking URC-1160 (Sorry, Susan) By ask.metafilter.com Published On :: Thu, 14 Dec 2017 16:23:51 -0800 My Spectrum (formerly TWC) cable box works via RF with a particular remote that comes with it in some areas. Not mine. I've got the IR remote and need the other sort. Can't find it on Amazon or eBay... I've visited the Spectrum offices in my area (Portland, ME) and have been told that, in my area, the new cable box I have (the Spectrum 201-T, which is actually the Technicolor WorldBox) does not ship with its regular, RF-capable remote, the URC-1160. In some parts of the country, however, it does. I've searched online to find a replacement--no dice. I've also called Spectrum, to see if they will send me one, and I was told that they can only request a new remote, not specify what sort. They shipped me another IR remote.How can I get my hands on one of these URC-1160s? Full Article remote remotecontrol cable TWC Spectrum URC1160 RF IR worldbox stumped
el Summer electronics intensive course By ask.metafilter.com Published On :: Thu, 02 May 2019 15:45:31 -0800 Is there anywhere in the United States I can take an electronics intensive course anytime between mid-June and October? I find myself needing to learn quite a lot of electronics quite quickly. I would do better with structured learning than independent study. Is there anywhere in the US that offers an intensive course with substantial lab time that fits my schedule (mid-June through October)? Bonus points for Hawaii, Upper Midwest/Great Lakes, Pacific Northwest, coastal Canada, or New England. Thanks. Full Article electronics stumped
el Rest, Relationships and Healing (Lesson #7) By manna.amazingfacts.org Published On :: Sun, 08 Aug 2021 00:00:00 GMT This week we will look at forgiveness and what it can do for restless human hearts. Without forgiveness, we remain victims. Forgiveness has more to do with ourselves than with the person or persons who have wronged us. Full Article
el 'Not A Snitch, A Hero': Father Of Slain Atlanta Girl Begs Killer To Turn Self In By www.gpbnews.org Published On :: Mon, 13 Jul 2020 21:15:54 +0000 Secoriea Turner, the 8-year-old girl shot to death July 4 near the burned-down Wendy's in Atlanta, had nothing to do with ongoing protests against police brutality, her family's lawyers say. At a news conference Monday, Secoriey Williamson, the girl's father, begged for anyone with information to come forward. He even played to the conscience of his daughter's killer, pleading with the shooter to come forward. Full Article
el Michael B. Jordan Wants You To View A Drive-In Movie, On Him By www.gpbnews.org Published On :: Tue, 14 Jul 2020 17:42:25 +0000 Actor Michael B. Jordan says “timing is everything. ” The SAG award winner marched in a Los Angeles Black Lives Matter protest last month demanding that Hollywood drastically increase its diversity in the executive ranks. Jordan, whose breakout “Fruitvale Station” role followed the events of a young Black man killed by a transit police officer, is channeling an urgency for change and healing into “A Night at the Drive-In.” Full Article
el By capricorn in "Got any good advice for a PoC USian post election?" on Ask MeFi By ask.metafilter.com Published On :: Wed, 06 Nov 2024 14:22:41 GMT I keep returning to two things. 1) building on the idea of community, trying to spread as much love as I can in the world. The time for action will be soon but right now is the time to love each other as much as we possibly can. 2) we aren't the only country to have elected a far-right or fascist leader recently. I'm looking to the people I know who live in other countries with leaders like Trump. There is still joy and possibility in their lives, even though their fight is hard, just like ours will be. Love and joy are exactly what the far right wants to take away from us so let's stick it to them and not let them. Full Article
el By rd45 in "Handling post-infidelity situation with partner & affair partner" on Ask MeFi By ask.metafilter.com Published On :: Thu, 07 Nov 2024 20:06:36 GMT I don't disagree with the advice already provided, but I think you're using the word "boundary" in an odd way. You don't get to set boundaries on other people's behaviour, even when you're married to them. You can set a boundary around your own behaviour, then other people decide how they'll respond. In this case, you might say: if you continue a friendship with B, our relationship will be at an end. Then, the ball is in R's court - he can decide what to do next. Full Article
el By dorothyisunderwood in "Seeking community in the face of the US election" on MeFi By www.metafilter.com Published On :: Fri, 08 Nov 2024 02:39:29 GMT Fresh off the latest meeting about incorporation, and I want to say: thank you to the moderators and Jessamyn who keep the site going and thank you to the volunteers past and present putting in work to build new possibilities for the site, including making it easier for more people to volunteer and contribute in different ways. I'm also truly proud of the decision made early on by the volunteers to do things together, even if that meant slowing down. I'm the kind of person who sees a problem and goes into fix-it mode as fast as possible. Practicing on a hugely meaningful project like Metafilter to listen and consider all of our viewpoints and work through to a communal path was hard. It was sometimes frustratingly slow! But by the second half of our timeline, I can see now that we get important things done faster and faster and how strong the foundation we've built is (heh, bad pun) because we've got trust and a collaborative thoughtful process. I'd also like to recognise the people who took a deep breath before writing a reply in a high-termperature thread, the people who edited down the snark in their comments or thought - I'll change to the thread about kitten videos instead. It is hard to be civil and think about other people when they're text on a screen - and it's harder when so much media encourages profit by provoking yelling. Metafilter is an internet third space that isn't trying to profit actively from yelling. And sometimes we gotta yell in some threads - but most of the time we talk, and I so so appreciate having a third space where people can talk without an algorithm aimed at our lizard brains. Full Article
el By The Bellman in "Apropos of nothing at all" on MeFi By www.metafilter.com Published On :: Thu, 07 Nov 2024 21:01:41 GMT I am the son of a Holocaust survivor. When my dad was 11, his parents put him and his 13 year-old brother on a boat, alone, from their home in Amsterdam so they could come to America and escape the Nazis. Hilariously, just one generation later, this website suggests I get back on the boat and return to exactly the same place for exactly the same reason. Full Article
el By warriorqueen in "Handling post-infidelity situation with partner & affair partner" on Ask MeFi By ask.metafilter.com Published On :: Thu, 07 Nov 2024 19:55:27 GMT My marriage is only monogamish, so I'm saying this with some bias towards polyamory: If your spouse want to prioritize this friendship over your stated boundary, then your spouse is prioritizing the friendship over your marriage. In this case, you really don't have to explain why. In fact, I'd stop explaining why. It's not a comprehension problem. It's that your partner doesn't want to do what you are asking.Here's the words I would use: I do not want you to continue this friendship. If you do, I am going to have to take steps towards ending our marriage. We should discuss this in counselling. In other words even in marriages where there's less emphasis on monogamy, the main thing is that you have to respect your partner's limits, or else you aren't partners. I'm sorry your partner is putting you through this. Full Article
el Pentagon Chief Rejects Trump's Threat To Use Military To Quell Unrest By www.gpbnews.org Published On :: Wed, 03 Jun 2020 19:11:00 +0000 Updated at 7 p.m. ET In a move that possibly placed his job in peril, Defense Secretary Mark Esper publicly disagreed Wednesday with President Trump's threatened use of the 1807 Insurrection Act to quell widespread unrest over the death of George Floyd, a black man who died after a white Minneapolis police officer kneeled on his neck. "The option to use active-duty forces in a law enforcement role should only be used as a matter of last resort, and only in the most urgent and dire of situations. We are not in one of those situations now," Esper told reporters at a Pentagon briefing. "I do not support invoking the Insurrection Act." Esper added, "I've always believed and continue to believe that the National Guard is best suited for performing domestic support to civil authorities in these situations, in support of local law enforcement." The 1807 Insurrection Act authorizes a U.S. president to deploy the military in times of domestic emergencies. The law was updated in 2006 to include Full Article
el Mayor-Elect Of Ferguson, Mo., On Where Her City Stands, After Michael Brown By www.gpbnews.org Published On :: Thu, 11 Jun 2020 20:04:00 +0000 Ella Jones will be sworn in as mayor of Ferguson, Mo., next week, becoming the first black mayor — and the first woman — to lead the city that gained national attention when police killed 18-year-old Michael Brown in 2014. The protests that erupted in response helped establish the Black Lives Matter movement of today. Still, nearly six years after Brown's death, Jones says the protests against police brutality — this time in response to the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis — feel the same. "I don't think they feel any different," Jones tells NPR's Mary Louise Kelly on All Things Considered . The officers who were involved in the shooting of Brown were not indicted . But his death drew the attention of the federal government and the city entered into a federal consent decree in 2016 that resulted in widespread policing and municipal court reforms. Jones thinks that despite the work Ferguson has done, her city — which has a population that is two-thirds black — still feels like the Full Article
el Revelation 14:12 By www.amazingfacts.org Published On :: Tue, 15 Aug 2017 05:00:00 GMT Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus. Revelation 14:12 Full Article
el OST Full Show: AJC Unravels 'The Imperfect Alibi' In Georgia Cold Case; Author Mary Beth Keane By www.gpbnews.org Published On :: Fri, 29 May 2020 17:27:41 +0000 In 2003, Brunswick prosecutors convicted Dennis Perry of killing a couple in their church back in 1985 — while another suspect had admitted to the murder on tape. Renewed interest in the case from the Georgia Innocence Project and a true crime podcast spurred Joshua Sharpe, criminal justice reporter for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution , to revisit an early suspect’s alibi. Sharpe's research unveiled new DNA evidence, and prompted the Georgia Bureau of Investigation to reopen the case. Sharpe joins On Second Thought to talk us through what he learned in his nearly year of reporting on the 35 year-old case. Full Article
el OST Full Show: Corporations On #BlackLivesMatter; Art As Rebellion Amid Movement For Racial Justice By www.gpbnews.org Published On :: Fri, 19 Jun 2020 16:52:12 +0000 While the deaths of Travon Martin, Michael Brown, Eric Garner, and Sandra Bland galvanized the #BlackLivesMatter movement, the killings of Rayshard Brooks, George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and Ahmaud Arbery have forced America to reckon with centuries of racial injustice and police brutality in unprecedented ways. Not only have protests demanding change been widespread, but major corporations — which, until now, have been largely silent and hesitant to embrace Black Lives Matter — are pledging to fight racial injustice and declaring their support of the nearly seven-year-old movement. We discuss the significance of those corporate responses, as well as new challenges these companies face to commit to righting past wrongs. Full Article
el Amid Movement For Racial Justice, The Need For Rebellious Art — And Uncomfortable Conversations By www.gpbnews.org Published On :: Fri, 19 Jun 2020 21:59:45 +0000 Today, in celebration of Juneteenth, Power Haus Creative has organized what they’re calling the “ Juneteenth Takeover ” – in which 19 Atlanta artists will display their work on the exterior of the historic Flatiron building in downtown Atlanta. Carlton Mackey and Melissa Alexander are two of those artists. Full Article
el How Anacaona Pictures Is ‘Providing A Voice To The Voiceless’ By www.gpbnews.org Published On :: Fri, 10 Jul 2020 19:29:24 +0000 Growing up, Mahalia Latortue says she had three career options — doctor, lawyer or engineer. But despite starting her undergraduate studies at Oakwood University in Alabama focused on pre-law, she graduated with a passion for filmmaking. Today, she’s a recent Savannah College of Art and Design film graduate who founded her own Atlanta-based production company called Anacaona Pictures . The company’s mission is to “create diverse, untold stories and provide a voice to the voiceless.” Full Article
el Many Arizona Educators Urge Governor To Delay The Start Of School By www.gpbnews.org Published On :: Mon, 13 Jul 2020 09:08:00 +0000 Copyright 2020 KJZZ. To see more, visit KJZZ . STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Hospitals in Arizona are reaching capacity. Coronavirus infections there continue to rise. And the governor, who once pushed ahead with reopening, has now delayed the start of school. Is that enough? From our member station KJZZ, Rocio Hernandez reports. ROCIO HERNANDEZ, BYLINE: Arizona students are some of the first in the nation to go back to school. Some districts opened their doors as early as end of July. But that won't be the case this year. In June, Arizona Governor Doug Ducey issued an executive order pushing back the reopening of brick-and-mortar schools. (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING) DOUG DUCEY: At this point in time, we are going to delay the first day of school till August 17. HERNANDEZ: That's too soon, says teacher Stacy Brosius at Deer Valley Unified School District in Phoenix. STACY BROSIUS: I don't want to be the teacher that gets COVID and have my third-graders have to attend my funeral. But I Full Article
el Los Angeles And San Diego Schools Announce Online-Only Fall By www.gpbnews.org Published On :: Mon, 13 Jul 2020 20:40:11 +0000 On Monday, Los Angeles and San Diego public schools announced they will be starting the school year remote-only in August as coronavirus cases rise in Southern California. "The skyrocketing infection rates of the past few weeks make it clear the pandemic is not under control," a joint statement said. On Sunday, the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health reported 3,322 new cases of COVID-19 and 18 deaths. Local health department data show a rebound in hospitalizations compared with May. Los Angeles Unified School District did not detail when, or under what conditions, schools might be able to open for in-person learning, even on a part-time or staggered schedule. San Diego Unified School District promised a " public assessment " by Aug. 10 of how soon they might return to physical classes. The Los Angeles system is the nation's second-largest school district, and the decisions together affect more than 700,000 students and their families. They come amid pressure from the federal Full Article
el MeFi: Elon Musk's Perfect Disinformation Machine By www.metafilter.com Published On :: Tue, 12 Nov 2024 15:02:42 GMT Hidden changes are warping the already broken ecosystem that determines how many citizens—particularly in America—construct their sense of reality. (slSubstack)Y'all, I know there are folks who don't like Substack/NYT links but here we are and I thought this was worth posting in the aftermath of a disastrous election. Full Article
el MeFi: Seeking community in the face of the US election By www.metafilter.com Published On :: Thu, 07 Nov 2024 21:29:00 GMT If you're visiting MetaFilter for the first time in a while because whoa, US election, just a friendly reminder that MetaFilter depends on member support in order to keep running. Additionally, MetaFilter is moving to a community-run model, so you might want to check out the latest update about that.But because this is a weblog, a few additional links about communities below the fold.Online communities come with real-world consequences for individuals and societies (Communications Psychology; the bibliography is fun) How to find your community (Vox)How to find healthy online communities (Mental Health America)(Nostalgia trip) Online communities (Pew Research, 2001)And more nostalgia - the classic 1995 Ghosts in the Machine Full Article
el Ask MeFi: Got any good advice for a PoC USian post election? By ask.metafilter.com Published On :: Wed, 06 Nov 2024 09:22:21 GMT Not in a happy place. Can already feel my mind about to launch into a worse place. Please give mental health advice suggestions for books to read, your tips for surviving (or, dare I ask, thriving) in 21st century right wing regime, pointers towards activities I can incorporate into my daily practice that bend the long arc of history toward justice. Full Article
el Senators Call For Probe Into Claims Russia Interfered In U.S. Election By www.gpbnews.org Published On :: Mon, 12 Dec 2016 11:15:00 +0000 Copyright 2018 NPR. To see more, visit RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: And we begin this hour with the latest on the CIA, Russia and President-elect Trump. To get you caught up this Monday morning, here is what unfolded over the weekend. Late on Friday, news broke that the CIA believes Russia interfered with the presidential election in order to tip it to Donald Trump. That has led a bipartisan group of senators to call for a sweeping investigation. Donald Trump is dismissing it, saying there is no hard evidence. (SOUNDBITE OF TV SHOW, "FOX NEWS SUNDAY WITH CHRIS WALLACE") DONALD TRUMP: They have no idea if it's Russia or China or somebody. It could be somebody sitting in a bed someplace. MARTIN: And that was the president-elect speaking yesterday on Fox News. NPR's Mary Louise Kelly is here in the studio with us to talk more. Good morning, Mary Louise. MARY LOUISE KELLY, BYLINE: Good morning, Rachel. MARTIN: Let's start off by having you remind us exactly what it is the CIA is claiming. KELLY: Full Article
el More Than A Month Since Election Day, Trump, Clinton Teams Can't Let It Go By www.gpbnews.org Published On :: Wed, 21 Dec 2016 19:43:00 +0000 To glance at some of the political news this week, you'd think it was October. Clinton campaign Chairman John Podesta did Meet the Press over the weekend to talk about Russia hacking the DNC's emails. Hillary Clinton aide Brian Fallon took to Twitter on Tuesday to question the FBI's investigation into Clinton's emails. Donald Trump and Bill Clinton sniped at each other. But it's mid-December. The voters and electors alike have cast their votes. And while millions of Americans are doubtless more than happy to have Election Day well behind them, they can still plan on hearing still more about the election in the coming days or even weeks. There's good reason for some of the continuing concern over the election. The FBI and CIA alike say they are now confident Russia hacked the DNC's emails, that Putin was involved, and it was all in an attempt to influence the election in Trump's favor. That could have very real repercussions. President Obama told NPR's Steve Inskeep that Russia's Full Article
el 10 Election Moments You Won't Totally Hate And Might Even Like By www.gpbnews.org Published On :: Thu, 29 Dec 2016 11:00:00 +0000 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFYXOgXqoe4 Elections aren't exactly cozy, even in the best of times. This one, though, felt worse for a lot of people. No matter where your allegiances lie, 2016 has been the emotional equivalent of a dumpster fire. But it wasn't all unbearable. Here and there, lighter moments emerged to provide comic relief — or even a small burst of joy. Here are 10 of them, in no particular order. 1. Bill Clinton at the DNC balloon drop When the balloons fell from the rafters on the final night of the Democratic National Convention, Hillary Clinton and her running mate Tim Kaine had a lot to feel triumphant about. The Democratic Party seemed to be uniting around Clinton as its candidate. But as the Philadelphia arena filled with red, white and blue globes, no one seemed to enjoy it quite as much as Bill Clinton, who looked up with childlike wonder. 2. Trump's "Hotline Bling" Back in November 2015, when Donald Trump was still in his campaign's relative infancy, he Full Article
el DOJ Watchdog To Review Pre-Election Conduct Of FBI, Other Justice Officials By www.gpbnews.org Published On :: Thu, 12 Jan 2017 19:19:20 +0000 Updated at 4 p.m. ET The Justice Department's watchdog has launched a sweeping review of conduct by the FBI director and other department officials before the presidential election, following calls from Congress and members of the public. Top advisers to Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton have blamed FBI Director James Comey, in part, for her loss in November. Now, federal investigators say they will examine whether public statements by Comey in July, October and November 2016 ran afoul of policies that caution officials not to influence the outcome of an election and to avoid making derogatory comments about people who haven't been formally charged with wrongdoing. Comey has previously told friends and employees that he had few good choices in the investigation into Clinton's handling of classified information on her private email server. In a statement Thursday, Comey said, "I am grateful to the Department of Justice's IG for taking on this review. He is professional and Full Article
el Novelist Still Sees The Election Through The Lens Of Race By www.gpbnews.org Published On :: Fri, 20 Jan 2017 11:14:00 +0000 Copyright 2018 NPR. To see more, visit RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Presidential inaugurations are supposed to be about unity. That may be more inspirational than aspirational, rather, than anything else this year. Donald Trump will be sworn in later this morning in the wake of a divisive and ugly campaign that perhaps describes the deeply partisan era we're living in. We're hearing different perspectives on Trump's Inaugural Day this morning and one of them is that of the novelist Attica Locke. She is also a writer on the TV program "Empire," and she spoke to our own Steve Inskeep. STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: We called you up on the morning after the election. That sounded like an excruciating morning for you. ATTICA LOCKE: It was, and I can't say that things have gotten necessarily better for me. INSKEEP: What do you mean? LOCKE: I wake up every day and think, this is how much this country can't stand black people that this has happened. Or I think, this is how much this country did not want a Full Article
el Will Foreign Mischief In U.S. Elections Become 'The New Normal'? By www.gpbnews.org Published On :: Thu, 11 May 2017 08:00:00 +0000 Washington has a big problem to solve: Can it stop cyber mischief, trolls and disinformation from becoming as much a part of American elections as yard signs, straw hats and robocalls? National security officials warn that unless the United States takes strong steps to prevent or deter meddling, foreign nations — especially Russia — won't quit. "They're going to continue to do it," former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper told a Senate subcommittee on Monday. "And why not? It proved successful." Moscow has sown chaos across the West, Clapper and others say, by injecting doubt into elections in the U.S. and Europe. The problem: The breadth and diversity of what makes up "interference" is also what makes it so difficult to combat — from hackers stealing and exposing embarrassing secrets to paid social media "trolls" to the creation of sensational or misleading stories camouflaged as news. "Anyone — not just Russians, anyone — can throw an idea against the Internet wall and Full Article
el Report: Russia Launched Cyberattack On Voting Vendor Ahead Of Election By www.gpbnews.org Published On :: Mon, 05 Jun 2017 23:42:00 +0000 Updated at 9 p.m. ET Russia's military intelligence agency launched an attack days before Election Day on a U.S. company that provides election services and systems, including voter registration, according to a top-secret report posted Monday by The Intercept . The news site published a report, with redactions, by the National Security Agency that described the Russian spear-phishing scheme, one it described as perpetrated by the same intelligence agency — the GRU — that the Obama administration imposed sanctions on for the 2016 cyber mischief. According to the NSA report, Russian hackers sent emails to people who worked at a company that provides state and local election offices with voter registration systems, trying to trick them into giving up their user credentials. The Intercept reports, "At least one of the employee accounts was likely compromised, the agency concluded." The NSA report says that the Russians then used information from that account to launch a separate phishing Full Article
el Facebook's Russia Ads Could Be 'Tip Of The Iceberg,' Warns Senate Intel Dem By www.gpbnews.org Published On :: Thu, 07 Sep 2017 16:58:00 +0000 Facebook's concession that it sold $100,000 in ads to Russian-linked accounts last year may be "just the tip of the iceberg" of how social networks were used to interfere in the election, warned the top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee. Virginia Sen. Mark Warner, who is leading the Senate's investigation into Russia's election attack, said Thursday he has long believed that Moscow used overt social media sites like Facebook and Twitter to intervene in the 2016 election, as well as other covert tools such as cyberattacks. "And you know, the first reaction from Facebook, of course, was, "Well, you're crazy, nothing's going on,'" Warner said at a national security conference in Washington, D.C. "Well, we find yesterday there actually was something going on. And I think all we saw yesterday in terms of their brief was the tip of the iceberg." Facebook acknowledged in a blog post on Wednesday that 470 accounts "affiliated with one another and likely operated out of Russia" Full Article
el CIA Backs Off Director's Claim That Russian Meddling Didn't Swing Election By www.gpbnews.org Published On :: Fri, 20 Oct 2017 07:13:00 +0000 The CIA on Thursday was forced to walk back an assertion by Director Mike Pompeo, who incorrectly said U.S. intelligence agencies have concluded that Russian efforts to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election were unsuccessful. Asked at a security conference in Washington, D.C., on Thursday whether he could say with absolute certainty that the November vote was not skewed by Russia, Pompeo replied: "Yes. Intelligence community's assessment is that the Russian meddling that took place did not affect the outcome of the election." In a later clarification, the head of the CIA's office of public affairs, Dean Boyd, said: "The intelligence assessment with regard to Russian election meddling has not changed, and the Director did not intend to suggest that it had." U.S. intelligence concluded in a January assessment that "the senior-most officials" in Russia had authorized hacks into the Democratic National Committee and officials connected with the Clinton campaign. And then Full Article