Lurker > Antifar

Sayoria posted...

Maybe not a dozen, but he'd be a shoo-in for Poll Faulting.

Now that's funny

---

kin to all that throbs

Just beat the second boss, still really digging it

---

kin to all that throbs

Sayoria posted...

You might want to do more US history. Preferably somewhere in the 1880s-1910s area of US history.

You mean when Woodrow Wilson was showing Birth of a Nation at the White House?

---

kin to all that throbs

Bump

---

kin to all that throbs

Capital will keep producing them until its power is removed

---

kin to all that throbs

refmon posted...

I seriously cannot imagine paying more than 5 bucks for it.

Even the original was just a rental game for me

The original had like 10 percent of the length and content

---

kin to all that throbs

https://denver.cbslocal.com/2021/08/06/covid-vaccine-denver-police-union/

Denvers police union is blasting a survey showing the majority of officers in the city arent vaccinated against covid even though the union itself conducted the survey. The Denver Police Protective Association says the results of the survey arent accurate but CBS4 has obtained texts by Union President Nick Rogers that tell a different story.

Public Safety Manager Murphy Robinson says he learned of the survey from Rogers, who texted him the results Monday just hours before the Mayor announced a vaccine mandate for all city employees, I was astonished with the numbers.

According to the texts, the survey included 778 officers or about half the force. A total of 57% of the officers surveyed said they werent vaccinated and 72% said they would not get vaccinated as a condition of employment. While the union says the police administration itself has reported nearly 70% of first responders are vaccinated, Robinson says there is no break-out for police officers alone.

We are required as law enforcement to get vaccinations all the time. Regardless of the reason, youve been ordered to get vaccinated, youve been ordered to take care of this.

CBS4 asked union president Nick Rogers to comment on the survey results but he refused to do so until after CBS4 made them public. He then issued a press release calling the story, fake news and saying, the survey responses were statistically and mathematically so far away of realistic numbers. He says thats why he didnt release them publicly. But, when he shared them with Robinson and the Mayors Chief of Staff, they say he didnt raise any concerns about their validity.

After receiving the survey results, Robinson texted Rogers, I guess the question is are they willing to risk discipline for this. The mayor is pretty clear that he wont tolerate people making this political

Rogers texted back, That one I cant answer. We are about to step off a cliff and Im afraid its a big one, I had no idea on the numbers

Mayor Hancocks Chief of Staff Alan Salazar says while Rogers told him he didnt like the mandate, he said he understood it and had the citys back. Salazar says they have a good relationship and thats why hes concerned Rogers didnt raise any red flags about the survey when he initially shared it with him.

---

kin to all that throbs

BilalPowell posted...

Hawaii's not a bad place to be homeless

The criminalization of homelessness is everywhere

---

kin to all that throbs

Congratulations to a legendary poster on his third gold medal
https://twitter.com/KDTrey5/status/1374168150015680512?s=19

---

kin to all that throbs

Also it just got new content that I need to play

---

kin to all that throbs

https://abc7news.com/amp/wrongfully-arrested-homeless-man-imprisoned-mental-hospital/10931756/?__twitter_impression=true

Hawaii officials wrongly arrested a homeless man for a crime committed by someone else, locked him up in a state hospital for more than two years, forced him to take psychiatric drugs and then tried to cover up the mistake by quietly setting him free with just 50 cents to his name, the Hawaii Innocence Project said in a court document asking a judge to set the record straight.

A petition filed in court Monday night asks a judge to vacate the arrest and correct Joshua Spriestersbach's records. The filing lays out his bizarre plight that started with him falling asleep on a sidewalk. He was houseless and hungry while waiting in a long line for food outside a Honolulu shelter on a hot day in 2017.

When a police officer roused him awake, he thought he was being arrested for the city's ban on sitting or laying down on public sidewalks.

But what he didn't realize was that the officer mistook him for a man named Thomas Castleberry, who had a warrant out for his arrest for violating probation in a 2006 drug case.

It's unclear how this happened as Spriestersbach and Castleberry had never met. Spriestersbach somehow ended up with Castleberry as his alias, even though Spriestersbach never claimed to be Castleberry, according to the Hawaii Innocence Project.

Spriestersbach's attorneys argue it all could have been cleared up if police simply compared the two men's photographs and fingerprints.

Instead, against Spriestersbach's protests that he wasn't Castleberry, he was eventually committed to the Hawaii State Hospital.

"Yet, the more Mr. Spriestersbach vocalized his innocence by asserting that he is not Mr. Castleberry, the more he was declared delusional and psychotic by the H.S.H. staff and doctors and heavily medicated," the petition said. "It was understandable that Mr. Spriestersbach was in an agitated state when he was being wrongfully incarcerated for Mr. Castleberry's crime and despite his continual denial of being Mr. Castleberry and providing all of his relevant identification and places where he was located during Mr. Castleberry's court appearances, no one would believe him or take any meaningful steps to verify his identity and determine that what Mr. Spriestersbach was telling the truth - he was not Mr. Castleberry."

No one believed him - not even his various public defenders - until a hospital psychiatrist finally listened.

All it took were simple Google searches and a few phone calls to verify that Spriestersbach was on another island when Castleberry was initially arrested, according to the court document.

The psychiatrist asked a detective to come to the hospital, who verified fingerprints and photographs to determine the wrong man had been arrested and Spriestersbach spent two years and eight months institutionalized, the petition said, noting that it wasn't hard to determine the the real Castleberry has been incarcerated in an Alaska prison since 2016.

According to records, a 49-year-old man named Thomas R. Castleberry is in the Spring Creek Correctional Facility in Seward, Alaska. His relatives couldn't be reached for comment. The Alaska public defender listed for him declined to comment Tuesday.

The Hawaii Innocence Project document also claims Spriestersbach had ineffective counsel: the Hawaii public defender's office.

Police, the state public defender's office, the state attorney general and the hospital "share in the blame for this gross miscarriage of justice," the petition said.
...
Once the fingerprints and photographs were verified, officials moved quickly, but secretly, to release Spriestersbach in January 2020, the petition said.

"A secret meeting was held with all of the parties, except Mr. Spriestersbach, present. There is no court record of this meeting or no public court record of this meeting. No entry or order reflects this miscarriage of justice that occurred or a finding that Mr. Spriestersbach is not Thomas Castleberry," the court document said.
...
Spriestersbach, 50, who lives with his sister in Vermont, declined to comment for this story.

His sister, Vedanta Griffith, spent nearly 16 years looking for him. He moved to Hawaii with Griffith when her husband was stationed on Oahu with the Army in 2003. He moved to the Big Island and then disappeared, while suffering mental health issues, she said.

"Part of what they used against him was his own argument: 'I'm not Thomas Castleberry. I didn't commit these crimes. ... This isn't me,'" she told The Associated Press. "So they used that as saying he was delusional, as justification for keeping him."

After his release, he ended up at a homeless shelter, which contacted his family.

"And then when light is shown on it, what do they do? They don't even put it on the record. They don't make it part of the case," Griffith said. "And then they don't come to him and say, 'We are so sorry' or, how about even 'Gee, this wasn't you. You were right all along.'"

Spriestersbach now refuses to leave his sister's 10-acre property.

"He's so afraid that they're going to take him again," Griffith said.

---

kin to all that throbs

https://www.pcgamer.com/steam-deck-hands-on-preview/
https://www.theverge.com/2021/8/6/22612886/valve-steam-deck-handheld-gaming-pc-hands-on-preview
https://twitter.com/_janjerome/status/1423691015366483969

---

kin to all that throbs

Now personally, I would not extend legitimacy to Jair Bolsonaro

---

kin to all that throbs

A cool thing about workers is: they have power

---

kin to all that throbs

You do not have to engage

---

kin to all that throbs

https://twitter.com/kaepora/status/1423738825369604106

---

kin to all that throbs

Madcow posted...

What is it

A small-scale tactics games where your movement and attacking options are determined by the cards you draw. So one card might allow you to move one tile in any direction (these maps are usually 6x6 or smaller), another might be an attack dealing 6 damage to an adjacent enemy. You're limited in how many cards you can use per turn by momentum (most cards cost 1, you start with 3 per turn), and some powerful cards require you to have built up your combo before they can be used.

After completing battles, you get a new card for your deck, and money that can be spent at gyms or medical areas (if you encounter them) to improve your deck or heal your character.

But also it's got a neat style:


---

kin to all that throbs

Lol, I meant aesthetic

---

kin to all that throbs

A lot of those sports just don't seem to lend themselves well to video games. Like, how do you gamify running faster?

---

kin to all that throbs

I've mostly been uninterested in the flood of indie deck building roguelike, but the anesthetic here caught my eye, and I really like the tactical aspect of battles too. Sunk like two hours into it earlier today.

It's early access, but there's a demo available. A decent sized update went live today and they say the plan is for a 1.0 release this year.

---

kin to all that throbs

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/08/06/usps-dejoy-xpo-logistics/

The U.S. Postal Service will pay $120 million over the next five years to a major logistics contractor that Postmaster General Louis DeJoy previously helped lead and with which his family maintains financial ties, according to DeJoys financial disclosure statements.

The new contract will deepen the Postal Services relationship with XPO Logistics, where DeJoy served as supply chain chief executive from 2014 to 2015 after the company purchased New Breed Logistics, the trucking firm he owned for more than 30 years. Since he became postmaster general, DeJoy, DeJoy-controlled companies and his family foundation have divested between $65.4 million and $155.3 million worth of XPO shares, according to financial disclosures, foundation tax documents and securities filings.

But DeJoys family businesses continue to lease four North Carolina office buildings to XPO, according to his financial disclosures and state property records.

The leases could generate up to $23.7 million in rent payments for the DeJoy businesses over the next decade, according to a person who shared details of the agreements with The Washington Post but spoke anonymously to discuss confidential financial arrangements. In 2018, when DeJoy sat on the companys board, XPO reported similar figures with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The leases run until 2025 and can be extended until 2030, according to those filings.

Postal Service spokesman Jeffery Adams said that DeJoy did not participate in the procurement process for the XPO contract, which was competitively bid. The DeJoy company leases to XPO were cleared by ethics officials before DeJoy took office in June 2020, according to a previously unreported Postal Service inspector general investigation, because the properties were rented to a contractor and not the agency itself. DeJoy is recused from any matters involving XPO, Adams said.

DeJoys personal spokesman, Mark Corallo, referred mostquestions to the Postal Service.

DeJoys leases have alarmed some ethics watchdogs.

Theres no question hes continuing to profit from a Postal Service contractor, said Virginia Canter, chief ethics counsel at watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington. He can comply with these technical legal requirements but it does create an appearance issue about whether its in his financial interest to continue to make policy that would benefit contractors like XPO.

The previously unreported agreement will see XPO take over operations at two crucial sorting and distribution facilities in Atlanta and Washington, D.C. The agency awarded the company the contract in April, but XPO is a longtime postal vendor with dozens of other active contracts with the Postal Service for trucking and logistics assistance.

DeJoys 14-month tenure at the Postal Service has faced controversy throughout. Congressional Democrats and independent postal experts accused him of slowing mail delivery ahead of the November 2020 presidential election accusations he denied. He is under federal criminal investigation over alleged campaign finance abuses. A DeJoy spokesman in June said DeJoy has always been scrupulous in his adherence to the campaign contribution laws and has never knowingly violated them.

DeJoy has said repeatedly in congressional testimony that he would abide by all ethics requirements.

LDJ Global Strategies, of which Mr. DeJoy is a majority shareholder, leases certain commercial buildings to XPO. Such leases were disclosed by Mr. DeJoy in his public financial disclosure report, Adams said in a statement. In addition, the Office of Government Ethics endorsed Mr. DeJoys recusal agreement concerning XPO as an appropriate remedy to resolve any issues concerning the possible appearance of a conflict of interest concerning this landlord/tenant relationship.

XPO spokesman Joseph Checkler said the companys contracts with the Postal Service were awarded through regular procurement mechanisms.
DeJoy has deep connections to the logistics industry. He built his familys trucking business into a shipping juggernaut after a breakthrough contract with the Postal Service in the early 1990s. He sold the business to XPO in 2014 for $615 million.

DeJoy generally held commercial properties leased to XPO and shares in the company through individual limited liability companies and his family foundation, according to his financial disclosures, his wifes financial disclosures and SEC filings. (DeJoys wife, Aldona Wos, was then-President Donald Trumps ambassador-nominee to Canada, and filed separate ethics forms in 2019.)

Three limited liability companies 4000 Piedmont Parkway Associates LLC, 4035 Piedmont Parkway Associates LLC and LMD Properties LLC own the leased buildings, according to North Carolina property records. DeJoy lists himself as a managing member of all three businesses in his financial disclosures.

---

kin to all that throbs

https://thehill.com/changing-america/well-being/longevity/566715-stunning-new-report-ranks-us-dead-last-in-healthcare

The U.S. health care system ranked last among 11 wealthy countries despite spending the highest percentage of its gross domestic product on health care, according to an analysis by the Commonwealth Fund.

Researchers behind the report surveyed tens of thousands of patients and doctors in each country and used data from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development and the World Health Organization (WHO).

The report considered 71 performance measures that fell under five categories: access to care, the care process, administrative efficiency, equity and health care outcomes. Countries analyzed in the report include Australia, Canada, France, Germany, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the U.S.

Norway, the Netherlands and Australia were the top-performing countries overall, with the U.S. coming in dead last.

The U.S. ranked last on access to care, administrative efficiency, equity and health care outcomes despite spending 17 percent of GDP on health care, but came in second on the measures of care process metric. The nation performed well in rates of mammography screening and influenza vaccination for older Americans, as well as the percentage of adults who talked with their physician about nutrition, smoking and alcohol use.

Half of lower-income U.S. adults in the report said costs prevented them from receiving care while just more than a quarter of high-income Americans said the same. In comparison, just 12 percent of lower-income residents in the U.K. and 7 percent with higher incomes said costs stopped them from getting care.

The U.S. also had the highest infant mortality rate and lowest life expectancy at age 60 compared with other countries.

Researchers said several key factors set the high-performing nations apart from the U.S.: universal coverage, the removal of cost barriers, investment in care systems to reduce inequities and investing in social services for children and working-age adults.

If health care were an Olympic sport, the U.S. might not qualify in a competition with other high-income nations, Eric Schneider, the lead author behind the report and senior vice president for policy and research at the Commonwealth Fund, told Changing America.

The U.S. has two health care systems. For Americans with the means and insurance to have a regular doctor and reported experiences with their day-to-day care are relatively good, but for those who lack access, the consequences are stark, Schneider said.

The poor performance is nothing new, as the U.S. has landed in last place in all seven studies the Commonwealth Fund has released since 2004.

The headline on this site says "Stunning new report" but that seems like editorializing to me.


---

kin to all that throbs

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/aug/05/climate-crisis-scientists-spot-warning-signs-of-gulf-stream-collapse

Climate scientists have detected warning signs of the collapse of the Gulf Stream, one of the planets main potential tipping points.

The research found an almost complete loss of stability over the last century of the currents that researchers call the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (AMOC). The currents are already at their slowest point in at least 1,600 years, but the new analysis shows they may be nearing a shutdown.

Such an event would have catastrophic consequences around the world, severely disrupting the rains that billions of people depend on for food in India, South America and West Africa; increasing storms and lowering temperatures in Europe; and pushing up the sea level off eastern North America. It would also further endanger the Amazon rainforest and Antarctic ice sheets.

The complexity of the AMOC system and uncertainty over levels of future global heating make it impossible to forecast the date of any collapse for now. It could be within a decade or two, or several centuries away. But the colossal impact it would have means it must never be allowed to happen, the scientists said.

The signs of destabilisation being visible already is something that I wouldnt have expected and that I find scary, said Niklas Boers, from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research in Germany, who did the research. Its something you just cant [allow to] happen.

It is not known what level of CO2 would trigger an AMOC collapse, he said. So the only thing to do is keep emissions as low as possible. The likelihood of this extremely high-impact event happening increases with every gram of CO2 that we put into the atmosphere.

Scientists are increasingly concerned about tipping points large, fast and irreversible changes to the climate. Boers and his colleagues reported in May that a significant part of the Greenland ice sheet is on the brink, threatening a big rise in global sea level. Others have shown recently that the Amazon rainforest is now emitting more CO2 than it absorbs, and that the 2020 Siberian heatwave led to worrying releases of methane.

The world may already have crossed a series of tipping points, according to a 2019 analysis, resulting in an existential threat to civilisation. A major report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, due on Monday, is expected to set out the worsening state of the climate crisis.

Boers research, published in the journal Nature Climate Change, is titled Observation-based early-warning signals for a collapse of the AMOC. Ice-core and other data from the last 100,000 years show the AMOC has two states: a fast, strong one, as seen over recent millennia, and a slow, weak one. The data shows rising temperatures can make the AMOC switch abruptly between states over one to five decades.

The AMOC is driven by dense, salty seawater sinking into the Arctic ocean, but the melting of freshwater from Greenlands ice sheet is slowing the process down earlier than climate models suggested.

Boers used the analogy of a chair to explain how changes in ocean temperature and salinity can reveal the AMOCs instability. Pushing a chair alters its position, but does not affect its stability if all four legs remain on the floor. Tilting the chair changes both its position and stability.

Eight independently measured datasets of temperature and salinity going back as far as 150 years enabled Boers to show that global heating is indeed increasing the instability of the currents, not just changing their flow pattern.
The analysis concluded: This decline [of the AMOC in recent decades] may be associated with an almost complete loss of stability over the course of the last century, and the AMOC could be close to a critical transition to its weak circulation mode.

Levke Caesar, at Maynooth University in Ireland, who was not involved in the research, said: The study method cannot give us an exact timing of a possible collapse, but the analysis presents evidence that the AMOC has already lost stability, which I take as a warning that we might be closer to an AMOC tipping than we think.

David Thornalley, at University College London in the UK, whose work showed the AMOC is at its weakest point in 1,600 years, said: These signs of decreasing stability are concerning. But we still dont know if a collapse will occur, or how close we might be to it.

---

kin to all that throbs

Specifically Qatar's lies were that they could build air conditioned outdoor stadiums

---

kin to all that throbs

I haven't really gotten into a Metroid game before, but I'm probably gonna get Dread

---

kin to all that throbs

b_hamnite posted...

I can see "Joy" and I'm sure that's what's intended...but not what most will see at first glance.

It's meant to be Jax

---

kin to all that throbs

That family is a freakshow of bad takes, by the way

---

kin to all that throbs

It may help to know that this is being proposed for the city of Jacksonville, Florida

---

kin to all that throbs

Well?

---

kin to all that throbs

That's right

---

kin to all that throbs

https://twitter.com/AdamWeinstein/status/1423329983443918849

Hell yeah

---

kin to all that throbs

The hoops we make people jump through for benefits are meant to be discouraging and frustrating. It's a very bad system!

---

kin to all that throbs

Kiryu Kazuma

---

kin to all that throbs

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-08-05/ex-tesla-employee-called-racial-slur-wins-rare-1-million-award?sref=X1c60Hpu

Tesla Inc. has paid more than $1 million to a Black former employee who won a ruling that the company failed to stop his supervisors from calling him the N-word at the electric-car makers northern California plant.

The rare discrimination award by an arbitrator to Melvin Berry, which followed a closed-door proceeding, caps years of complaints from Black workers that Tesla turned a blind eye to the commonplace use of racial slurs on the assembly line and was slow to clean up graffiti with swastikas and other hate symbols scrawled in common areas. It ends a yearslong and emotionally grueling fight launched by Berry, who was hired by the company as a materials handler in 2015 and quit less than 18 months later.

Arbitration typically keeps disputes between employees and companies secret, but court filings reveal that the arbitrator found Berrys allegations more credible than Teslas denials, though she called it a difficult case after hearing from witnesses on both sides. Berry claimed that when he confronted a supervisor for calling him the N-word he was forced to work longer hours and push a heavier cart.

I hope the world knows that an arbitrator found Tesla treats its employees like this, Berry, 47, told Bloomberg News in a phone interview Wednesday. He said hes now taking time off to focus on his mental health as he still hasnt gotten over the healing process.
Case law is clear that one instance of a supervisor directing the N-word at a subordinate is sufficient to constitute severe harassment, arbitrator Elaine Rushing said in her May 12 ruling, which hasnt been previously reported. Rushing, a former judge in Sonoma County Superior Court for almost two decades, said she found Tesla liable for harassment because it was perpetrated by Berrys supervisors.

Tesla has vehemently denied the allegations in Berrys case and others like it, saying in a 2017 statement that the company is absolutely against any form of discrimination, harassment, or unfair treatment of any kind. Tesla didnt respond to a request for comment. Danielle Ochs, a lawyer who represented the company in Berrys arbitration, also didnt respond.

Its challenging for employees to win discrimination cases in arbitration because the evidence-gathering process is more restrictive than in court, making it harder to prove claims of wrongdoing, said Cliff Palefsky, a San Francisco employment lawyer who wasnt involved in the case.

Racial discrimination awards are rare and it seems this was especially hard fought, he said. Rushing was clearly troubled by the facts, culture at the company and the tone of the defense.

The widespread use of mandatory arbitration by employers has come under fire since the #MeToo movement exposed it as a tool that effectively keeps sexual harassment complaints quiet. In recent years, employee and shareholder activists pushed several large companies, including Facebook Inc., Microsoft Corp., Uber Technologies Inc. and Lyft Inc. to end its use for sexual harassment cases. But racism is just as ubiquitous, and Black Lives Matter has drawn attention to the role of arbitration in racial discrimination claims.

While Berrys arbitration was confidential, which is typical, his victory came to light in a standard petition his lawyer filed in court to enforce the arbitrators order. His lawyer, Lawrence Organ, said in a phone interview that his client wont be taking any further legal action as Tesla has since paid the award.

Three-quarters of the $1.02 million award is for Berrys attorneys fees and legal costs. Rushing also directed Tesla to pay the ex-employee $266,278.50 in damages, including $100,000 to compensate for emotional distress.

In its defense, Tesla said theres no written evidence, even in Berrys medical records, that he had complained to co-workers or human resources about his supervisors addressing him with the N-word. Berry left the job voluntarily and only deserves $148 for his economic losses, Tesla argued, according to the arbitrators ruling.

The company said Berry agreed that his emotional suffering was garden variety, what an ordinary person would experience in the same circumstances, while arguing that hes barred under workers compensation law for collecting any damages for it.

After his supervisors turned against him, Berry alleged, he suffered from sleepless nights, panic attacks, depression and anxiety, prompting him to seek help from a psychologist for the first time, according to the ruling. He broke down during the arbitration proceeding as he recalled how he became quiet and cried a lot and questioned his sanity, Rushing wrote.
The arbitrator said there were serious questions about the credibility of a supervisor who wrote Berry a warning letter for slacking off on the job.

This is a case of a 23-year-old White man with only a high-school education supervising a 43-year-old African-American man with a college degree, a classic invitation for serious resentment, she wrote.

Tesla has more than 80,000 employees globally, and roughly 10,000 work at its auto plant in Fremont, California, in the San Francisco Bay Area.

---

kin to all that throbs

Super Saiyan 3 Goku posted...

We have to reach a point where we treat this man as the crazy uncle that he is. Is it necessary for the media to report on everything he says and does?

Polls currently suggest he is the favorite to be the Republican nominee for President in 2024

---

kin to all that throbs

https://www.axios.com/bill-gates-jeffrey-epstein-huge-mistake-eafbdea9-86dd-471b-9526-6f5e8e3dd56f.html?

Microsoft founder Bill Gates told CNN on Wednesday that he regrets spending time with Jeffrey Epstein, the multimillionaire financier who was accused of child sex trafficking.
Driving the news: "It was a huge mistake to spend time with him, to give him the credibility of being there," Gates told CNN's Anderson Cooper.
"I had several dinners with him, you know, hoping that what he said about getting billions of philanthropy for global health through contacts that he had might emerge," Gates said.
"When it looked like that wasn't a real thing, that relationship ended."

Context:
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/12/business/jeffrey-epstein-bill-gates.html

In fact, beginning in 2011, Mr. Gates met with Mr. Epstein on numerous occasions including at least three times at Mr. Epsteins palatial Manhattan townhouse, and at least once staying late into the night, according to interviews with more than a dozen people familiar with the relationship, as well as documents reviewed by The New York Times.

Employees of Mr. Gatess foundation also paid multiple visits to Mr. Epsteins mansion. And Mr. Epstein spoke with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and JPMorgan Chase about a proposed multibillion-dollar charitable fund an arrangement that had the potential to generate enormous fees for Mr. Epstein.

Oopsie daisy

---

kin to all that throbs

No, it's just marketing schemes

---

kin to all that throbs

Yeah there was some criticism from people who know women's soccer about the age of this squad, but I'd note that they actually performed pretty well in the match they lost to Canada; bounces just didn't go their way.

---

kin to all that throbs

https://www.ft.com/content/14440f81-d405-452f-97e2-a81458f5411f?shareType=nongift

Apple intends to install software on American iPhones to scan for child abuse imagery, according to people briefed on its plans, raising alarm among security researchers who warn that it could open the door to surveillance of millions of peoples personal devices.

Apple detailed its proposed system known as neuralMatch to some US academics earlier this week, according to two security researchers briefed on the virtual meeting. The plans could be publicised more widely as soon as this week, they said.

The automated system would proactively alert a team of human reviewers if it believes illegal imagery is detected, who would then contact law enforcement if the material can be verified. The scheme will initially roll out only in the US.

The proposals are Apples attempt to find a compromise between its own promise to protect customers privacy and ongoing demands from governments, law enforcement agencies and child safety campaigners for more assistance in criminal investigations, including terrorism and child pornography.

The tension between tech companies such as Apple and Facebook, which have defended their increasing use of encryption in their products and services, and law enforcement has only intensified since the iPhone maker went to court with the FBI in 2016 over access to a terror suspects iPhone following a shooting in San Bernardino, California.

---

kin to all that throbs

WickedDarkJugga posted...

they took a plea because that is how the justice system works. They were charged with multiple felonies and ended up paying minor fines after pleading guilty because thats how it works.

It is weird that it works this way, no? That like 90% of cases result in plea deals, and the vast majority of people accused of a crime never face trial?

---

kin to all that throbs

@pinky0926 There's a book by David Graeber called Bullshit Jobs that I think you'd like

---

kin to all that throbs

Unsugarized_Foo posted...

Now I'm curious how the job markets look in places that are blue/red orvthe sentiment towards the virus is different

Well, to the extent that benefits were largely cut by Republican state governments, this data is a reasonable proxy for that

---

kin to all that throbs

https://www.politico.com/news/2021/08/05/afl-cio-trumka-dead-502573

Richard Trumka, president of the powerful AFL-CIO labor organization, has died unexpectedly, two sources told POLITICO.

Trumka, 72, had served as president of the federation, which represents more than 12.5 million workers, for more than a decade and has been a close ally of the Biden White House.

Trumka died of what was believed to be a heart attack, a source familiar with the matter said. It was unclear when exactly it occurred though believed to have taken place either Wednesday evening or Thursday morning.

Staff at the AFL-CIO were informed of the death on Thursday morning.

https://twitter.com/banditelli/status/1423316288751824897

---

kin to all that throbs

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/human-rights-campaign-alphonso-david-andrew-cuomo_n_610ac8e1e4b0b94f6077dec0

The countrys largest LGBTQ rights advocacy group is in turmoil, facing a staff revolt over their presidents connection to New York Gov. Andrew Cuomos sexual harassment scandal.
In a tense all-staff meeting Wednesday, employees at the Human Rights Campaign laid into Alphonso David for nearly an hour and a half and asked him to resign several times. A person on the call shared a recording with HuffPost.

David was part of Cuomos tight inner circle, serving as his counsel from 2015 to 2019.

The New York attorney generals office on Tuesday released a bombshell report detailing its investigation into allegations against the Democratic governor, and David appears to have played a significant role in Cuomos efforts to discredit his accusers. The report which is based on conversations with 179 people and more than 74,000 pieces of evidence, including emails, texts, photos and audio files concluded that Cuomo sexually harassed multiple women and violated federal and state laws.

David publicly called for Cuomos resignation in a tweet on Tuesday night. And during the conference call on Wednesday, David told staff that he hadnt known about the sexual harassment allegations against Cuomo until the report came out.

I read the report word for word, and it left me sickened to my stomach, David said. Theres nowhere in the report where it says that I was aware of any of these allegations.

But HRC employees spent most of the call berating David over the reports findings that tie him to Cuomos attempts to smear his accusers and publicly redeem himself.

You are creating a toxic environment where partners cant trust us, charged one staffer. When are you resigning?

The report states, for example, that David provided a confidential file to Cuomos top aides, which they used to discredit one of his accusers, Lindsey Boylan. The former Cuomo staffer has accused the governor of sexual harassment including an unsolicited kiss in his office and an invitation to play strip poker on a government airplane.

The report also states that David was involved in discussions about calling and secretly recording a conversation between a former Cuomo staffer and another Cuomo accuser named Kaitlin, who has not provided her last name. Kaitlin claims that in 2016, the governor grabbed her at a fundraiser and put her into a dance pose for photographers, and then two days later, had his staff reach out to her to offer her a job.

According to the report, David also initially declined to sign onto a letter aimed at discrediting Boylan and attacking her claims as political, but later told a Cuomo aide he would sign the letter if we need him. He also agreed to reach out to women who previously worked for Cuomo to try to get them to sign onto a statement saying positive things about the governor, per the report.

David was serving as president of HRC at the time of all these incidents.

Staffers on the call were given the option to submit questions anonymously, which allowed people to be blunt. Not a single person defended him.

The first question is, what did Alphonso David personally know about Gov. Andrew Cuomos harassment of multiple women? began the moderator, reading from staff submissions. Was Alphonso David complicit in any way in a cover-up of Gov. Cuomos sexual harassment of women?

I knew nothing. Nothing, David replied. No one ever disclosed allegations of harassment with me, either during or after I worked in state service. Also, I never saw anything.

Another employee asked: Do you plan to issue a public apology for agreeing to sign a draft [letter] disparaging an accuser while serving as president of HRC, per the AGs report?

David said the report shows that he declined to sign that letter, and said he never agreed to sign any iteration of the letter.

What I did agree to do was to talk about my personal experience at the governors office, he said. But I never agreed to sign a letter that would disparage any employee or any survivor of harassment.

For the next hour, staffers pummeled David with questions about why he turned over Boylans confidential file to a Cuomo aide while serving as president of HRC (he said he was legally obligated), why he had that file at all since he didnt work for Cuomo anymore (he said his file was a copy, not the official state document), whether he stands by his actions (he does), and how to protect HRCs brand amid the scandal (he vowed to personally respond to all Cuomo-related questions).

Staff also pressed David on why he should keep his job.

Will you be resigning? asked a staffer.

Alphonso, we will band together and take this to the board to request your resignation, said another employee. Are you willing to take down our org with you?

I appreciate that perspective, David said. But I hope you can take a closer look at the report, because to suggest otherwise would mean I knew what the report said I didnt know. I didnt know any of this. So youre basically asking me to resign for conduct I didnt know about.

But the resignation questions just kept coming.

Is the best way to protect HRCs brand for Alphonso to step down? asked another staffer.

Actually, I think one of the important lessons here is to highlight how harassment and discriminatory behavior hides in the darkness, David said. And how my experience can actually be used to effect change.

---

kin to all that throbs

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/08/04/early-end-to-federal-unemployment-pay-in-26-states-not-getting-people-to-work.html

About half of U.S. states withdrew federal funds for the unemployed months early to encourage out-of-work residents to find a job. But mounting evidence shows that policy gambit hasnt yet paid off.

Twenty-six states announced their intent to end federal pandemic-era benefits starting in May. They officially pulled out in waves over June and July.

UKG, a payroll and time-management firm, found that shifts among hourly workers in those states grew at about half the rate as states that continued the benefit the opposite trend of what one might expect.

Specifically, in states that ended benefits, shifts grew 2.2% from May through July; they grew 4.1% in the others that kept federal aid intact, according to UKGs analysis.

Unemployment benefits were not the thing holding people back from going to work, according to Dave Gilbertson, a vice president at UKG. There are other elements out there, particularly in their personal lives, making it really difficult to go back to work.

It doesnt appear differences in state economies or labor markets influenced the dichotomy, since both groups were growing at similar rates earlier this year, Gilbertson said.

Similarly, employment fell 0.9% in states that ended federal benefits between mid-June and mid-July, but rose 2.3% in states that kept them, according to data published this week by Homebase, another payroll and time-management firm.

---

kin to all that throbs