The poll offers a rare look at the priorities of Black women voters, a population that is one of the most dedicated voting blocs and plays a pivotal role in community voter mobilization.
#Responsible #Democracy
Organizing principles range from simple (product line -> product category -> product taxonomy) to complex (a complete business vocabulary that explains the data in the graph). Think of an organizing principle as a conceptual map or metadata layer overlaying the data and relationships in the graph.
#Area #KnowledgeGraph
Nessel made her remarks about Trump and Harris at an elections-related journalism training event hosted by the National Press Foundation. A reporter asked the attorney general about one of her biggest concerns with 100 days to go before the November 5 election. Nessel noted Trump has indicated that he won’t accept the results of the upcoming election.
#Responsible #Democracy
“Christians, get out and vote! Just this time – you won’t have to do it any more,” the Republican former president said on Friday night at a rally hosted in West Palm Beach, Florida, by the far-right advocacy group Turning Point Action.
“You know what? It’ll be fixed! It’ll be fine. You won’t have to vote any more, my beautiful Christians.”
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Experts on authoritarianism warn the public to take Trump seriously when he speaks in that manner.
#Responsible #Democracy
Yes. And the old media is data that can be processed, along with associated behavioral data, to be sythetic culture.
Ugliness, transgressiveness and shock all represent an incoherent, grasping attempt to keep the world out of your demimonde – not just normies and squares, but also and especially enthusiastic marketers who want to figure out how to sell stuff to you, and use you to sell stuff to normies and squares.
#Area #Creativity
@kev nice!
I have a link blog hosted on micro.blog and a longer form website hosted on wtite.as. I’d like to integrate the two, both in terms of design and presentation. Not sure how, though. I welcome any thoughts.
#Responsible #CrankReport
CrowdStrike doesn’t quite fit the definition of a classic monopoly, but its impact, as shown by the widespread system failure, suggests otherwise. It isn’t the only service that helps guide the world in an invisible fashion. We need to rethink not only how we regulate but also what we regulate.
#Responsible #Resilience
The question of Ms. Harris’s fate could polarize the party along racial lines. Members of the Congressional Black Caucus and other Black leaders have strongly supported Mr. Biden staying in the race but simultaneously have warned the party not to try to displace Ms. Harris if the president were to drop out.
#Area #US #Politics
“The suggestion that any candidate who won their primary should simply step aside because victory appears difficult at the moment is disrespectful to the voters, unjust and undemocratic,” the women wrote.
Together the groups underscore a growing frustration among Black Democrats over the mounting calls from other, predominantly white, wings of the party for Mr. Biden to step aside. And they reflect a concern that, should the president be shoved aside, Ms. Harris might be passed over, too.
“We don’t have to go and find a savior or great hope elsewhere,” the letter from the PAC states. “We already have it in our vice president.”
Although each country’s violence has differing local causes, there are clear patterns that echo across countries. American political violence has much in common with that taking place in Germany and India, as well as in France’s most recent election. In all these states, a significant portion of the attacks are largely the product of radicalized partisans, often egged on by parties. Containing it requires containing these parties’ politicians.
@numericcitizen I don’t click or share the links from X. It’s hard, though, when so many journalists still use the site.
The new order more than halves the per-minute rate caps for all prison and jail phone calls across the country. It also establishes interim per-minute rate caps for video calls, marking the first time the FCC has set rules for prison communication beyond phone calls.
Isn’t winning literally her job description?
People who have talked with her say Ms. Pelosi is motivated by the prospect of a second Trump administration unraveling her hard-fought accomplishments from two decades as leader, including the Affordable Care Act. She also views Mr. Trump as an existential threat who drove the Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the Capitol, is totally unsuited and unqualified to be president, and is a tool of President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia.
Strongman rule is a fantasy. Essential to it is the idea that a strongman will be your strongman. He won’t. In a democracy, elected representatives listen to constituents. We take this for granted, and imagine that a dictator would owe us something. But the vote you cast for him affirms your irrelevance. The whole point is that the strongman owes us nothing. We get abused and we get used to it.
Distributing equity literally means handing over the means of production not just to workers but to those impacted by the work, reconnecting the decisions to their consequences.
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@manton thanks for working on trust, safety, and visibility issues. the org i work for participated in fielding and analyzing a survey on digital equity for civil society orgsnizations. One of the most surprising (to me) findings is the number of people who don’t feel safe online page 39. This is playing out in news stories like this one, LGBTQ+ youth charity quits Twitter over ‘increase in extreme views’ after Musk takeover.
To me one of the biggest wins of ActivityPub is the ability to create a linked network of safe spaces. One of my biggest worries is they become isolated. Islands with fragile connections.
@manton thanks!
@manton.org awesome!
@UndamnedOne the GOP is using this as a way to prove their bona fides. It’s disgusting. And where does it stop?