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Live-streaming traffic stop is free speech, but protecting it is a challenge
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In the wake of news from the bird site that Twitter will end free access to its API, I pulled together a blog post about what that may mean for academic researchers, including those I work with at the University of Washington Center for an Informed Public.
As CIP director @katestarbird observed, this action “will profoundly change how researchers (and society) can study and understand online behavior.”
https://www.cip.uw.edu/2023/02/02/twitters-api-access-changes-academic-research/
Not voting because of "appearances" is pretty damn performative. Pretending you don't have opinions is misleading.
It's weird & kinda sad that after how many years of encouraging voting & providing info on it, Cillizza now writes "Participating in democracy is not a disqualifying characteristic in a reporter."
There's a vast difference between being a political activist and being a voter.
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Journalists FOIAed Trump's FOIA requests for documents surrounding the IRS's behind-the-scenes deliberations over releasing his taxes to Congress and I am extremely here for this meta-FOIA action.
@dankennedy_nu But "objectivity" has become a cudgel for many who hate the press, and a crutch for some reporters. There are better ways to outline the task.
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Statement on the suspected Chinese spy balloon from Pentagon Press Secretary Brig. Gen. Pat Ryder.
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Imagine the pure embarassment of being a RW politician who does not own a gas stove in this critical time?
And what if your subdivision does not even provide city gas? You are gonna have to go micro-batch and have individual tanks delivered to the house.
Hopefully in unlabeled canisters to avoid further embarassment.
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I recently reviewed a book written by an author who identifies as gender nonbinary. I wanted to respect their pronoun preference, but not writing in this mode on a regular basis I found it tricker than I anticipated. The experience prompted me to write about how we just need to come around and accept singular they (already!), and that we owe it to others to honor their pronoun preference.
https://mypointbeing.com/2023/01/30/singular-they-and-respecting-an-individuals-pronoun-preference/
It's been far too long since we've raised a glass to the late, great Dick Tuck, political prankster extraordinaire and scourge of Richard Nixon.
Please join us on what would have been his 99th birthday, January 25, to raise a glass to our guest of honor in absentia, and to partake in reminiscence, merrymaking, pontification and imbibulation.
Plus, who will be recognized with "The Tricky: The Dick Tuck Award for Wit and/or Cunning in Politics"?
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George #Santos appears to admit drag queen past in Wiki post
A user with the name Anthony Devolder wrote in 2011 that they won several drag pageants. Anthony Devolder is a Santos alias.
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Trump & his law team fined $1 Million for filing frivolous lawsuit
"“Here, we are confronted with a #lawsuit that should never have been filed, which was completely frivolous, both factually & legally, and which was brought in bad faith for an improper purpose,” Middlebrooks wrote, decrying what he called “abusive litigation tactics.”
...the case was “intended for a political purpose” and showed a “continuing pattern of misuse of the courts by #Trump & his lawyers”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/01/20/donald-trump-fine-court-clinton/
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“longtermism, which emerged out of the effective altruism (EA) movement over the past few years, is eugenics on steroids. […] many of the same racist, xenophobic, classist and ableist attitudes that animated 20th-century eugenics are found all over the longtermist literature and community.”
https://www.truthdig.com/dig/nick-bostrom-longtermism-and-the-eternal-return-of-eugenics/
Dopey plot, but some hilarious deadpan line readings. It's a fun show.
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PACC extends shutdown through Monday to limit disease spread in animal shelter https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/012023_pacc_closure/pacc-extends-shutdown-through-monday-limit-disease-spread-animal-shelter/
Pima Animal Care Center will stay closed to the public through Monday as officials work to stem the contagious respiratory disease strep zoo. Two dogs were euthanized because of the infection, and several more have contracted it.
#Tucson #Arizona
Arizona's Biggs and Crane vote present, lowering the threshold of votes McCarthy needs to become House speaker.
Matt Gaetz decides 16 might be a little too over the Hill for him.
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