NEEDED: WisCONline’s Website Team Lead. Update our website with current con info; coordinate with IT Infrastructure Lead, AppDev Lead, and other con leads. At least 2 hrs/wk. Familiarity with WordPress a must. For info: personnel@sf3.org (subject: Website Team Lead). wiscon.net/2024/12/06/w...
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Denver gave people experiencing homelessness $1k/month. A year later, nearly half had housing. They also had fewer ER visits, nights spent in a hospital, and jail stays. The report estimates that this reduction in public service use SAVED the city $589k. www.businessinsider.com/denver-basic...
Denver gave people experiencing homelessness $1,000 a month. A year later, nearly half of participants said they had housing.Participants in Denver's basic-income program reported having more-secure housing, though results were similar in the trial and control groups.www.businessinsider.com
I hadn't realised the LGBA had done this. Absolute snakes. Quite right, Jimmy.
Just a heads up - the deadline to recommend works for the Otherwise Awards is this Friday, 11/15. Anyone can submit a recommendation! otherwiseaward.org/award/2024-o...
2024 Otherwise Award Recommendations « Otherwise AwardWe need your recommendations of works for the Otherwise Award jurors to consider. If you’ve read a work of science fiction or fantasy that explores or expands our understanding of gender…otherwiseaward.org
This is, unfortunately, real — Danielle Allen of Harvard, who has thought a lot about ethics and democracy
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During his Administration, Hurricane Maria knocked out power to 1.5 million people in Puerto Rico and it didn’t get restored for ABOUT A YEAR! It was the largest blackout in U.S. history. This should be line one of any hurricane recovery political coverage. www.vox.com/identities/2...
It took 11 months to restore power to Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria. A similar crisis could happen again.1.5 million customers lost electricity across Puerto Rico, causing the largest blackout in US history.www.vox.comKevin M. KruseTrump is seriously trying to claim that he'd do a better job of helping North Carolina out after a hurricane, huh? Oh hey, what's this? www.wbtv.com/story/353984...
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It's my birthday! 🎉🎊 For once, I'm quite happy to celebrate it! Could you share my art for this day?
Let's all be honest, "Aquire a loan you know you can't pay off, then use it to buy a company, spin off the assets to private concerns, saddle the company with the loan you can never pay off, and then declare bankruptcy" is financial fraud, and any sane polity would have implemented laws against it.
わははEvery article about Red Lobster filing for bankruptcy is "ha ha endless shrimp, what did they think would happen" and then buried ten paragraphs down is the usual:
We are literally 1% away from this and I am POISED to deploy kitten cuteness. www.kickstarter.com/projects/cis...?
Small Wonders Magazine: Year 2A second year of monthly speculative flash fiction and narrative poetry that packs a punch!www.kickstarter.comCislyn SmithP.S. - I have video of Vanta making biscuits on Blizzara while Void purrs in the background. I can't post it here, but I'll get it up *somewhere* and share it here when the kickstarter hits 65%. Support Small Wonders! Wheeee! www.kickstarter.com/projects/cis...
Imagine waiting 2500 years to be proven right... It wouldn't even be satisfying. I'd just be like "yeah."
One thing amazing about this Boeing piece is how long and how much work management had to put in to stop building and maintaining planes safely prospect.org/infrastructu...
Suicide MissionWhat Boeing did to all the guys who remember how to build a planeprospect.org
Every single week I'm on the phone with another small town or city that's only just now getting affordable fiber access for the first time courtesy of the 2021 COVID and infrastructure bills, and the Biden admin still doesn't talk about it enough