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Horrifically, the rates have been exposed.
I mean the rates are horrific. Not the exposing of them.
We just entered a whole new era of “If you’re not paying for the product - you ARE the product.”
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@Penguin Dragneel
Political research organizations.
If I’m reading this right, it’s 500 tweets per request, or 5,000,000 tweets returned for 10,000 requests per month.
Which seems at least the rate that most political pollsters and research organizations would be eating to figure out what’s happening with opinions in hot races.
Got a city the size of New York or Paris and want to track people’s opinions for tight race? Twitter’s got a big dataset that’s all juicy and waiting for you. And up to now it seems that companies have been used to getting that each night to grind for the morning’s reports.
But, that also is hitting medical and social research right in the nuts. Lots of universities have got pre- and post-grad students gleaning info from twitter just to keep track of how their own University campaigns, student or staff initiatives, and outreach are doing. They’re going from zero dollars a month to $149 per research project, basically.
Unless they want to “enterprize-size” it.
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Here is how platforms die: first, they are good to their users; then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers; finally, they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value for themselves. Then, they die.
We’re now in phase three of the process. The problem is simple: Elon has plundered the users for as much money as he’s going to get. Twitter Cordon Bleu didn’t get many takers. He can’t inundate people with ads because no one’s buying ads. And through it all, Morgan Stanley is menacingly tapping a baseball bat and muttering, “Fuck you, pay me.” So now he has to cannibalize Twitter’s ecosystem just to scrape together enough cash to keep the lenders at bay.
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This was published months ago but I found it - noteworthy enough to post here.
Whole body gestational donation offers an alternative means of gestation for prospective parents who wish to have children but cannot, or prefer not to, gestate. It seems plausible that some people would be prepared to consider donating their whole bodies for gestational purposes just as some people donate parts of their bodies for organ donation.
We already know that pregnancies can be successfully carried to term in brain-dead women.
There is no obvious medical reason why initiating such pregnancies would not be possible. In this paper, I explore the ethics of whole-body gestational donation. I consider a number of potential counter-arguments, including the fact that such donations are not life-saving and that they may reify the female reproductive body. I suggest if we are happy to accept organ donation in general, the issues raised by whole-body gestational donation are differences of degree rather than substantive new concerns. In addition, I identify some intriguing possibilities, including the use of male bodies–perhaps thereby circumventing some potential feminist objections.
You know the Fascists are gonna try something like this.
The medical issues are enormous - everything that can happen to you while pregnant but now in someone with muscle atrophy, no circulation and ateclactasis.
This should not be in an academic publication. At all. Period.
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For those who don’t know, ESG (as I understand it) is short for Environment, Social Justice and Corporate Governance. And ESG funding is more dependent on things like how environmentally-friendly you are and how committed to social justice rather than bottom line profits.
The article talks about how popular ESG retirement investing is getting for younger voters, but also mentions some studies by UCLA and NYU showing that ESG typically underperforms in the broader market.
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So Pooh Bear’s balloon is going to get free reign over the US. Now we’ll see more since they know Biden we won’t do anything about it. Be a good chance for them to slip a bioweapon into this country.
And there’s reports Israel is going to send their Iron Dome air defense system to Ukraine thanks to Iran helping Putler. If so that’s it for their drone and missile strikes.
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The jobs report came in hot again. The economy added 517,000 jobs last month. This is, stunning. As in, absolutely, positively, unquestionably stunning.
For context, the forecasted job growth for January was 185,000. The job report came in almost 4 times higher than expected.
The unemployment rate is now the lowest its been since before man set foot on the moon.
In fact, this jobs report is so strong, we really don’t have any comparisons.
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This unfortunately means that the old, dried up raisins at the Fed will continue to think “wages bad, corporations good, make jobs go away cause we good a math yes” and will continue their disastrous rate hikes.
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Naturally. No doubt business interests at the very top are leaning on them and other federal offices to try to trigger a recession. Especially since more and more employees are trying to unionize.
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In other news, yesterday the House voted 328-86 to pass a resolution denouncing “the horrors of socialism.” All but three Republicans voted Yea; the three exceptions did not vote at all. Across the aisle, 108 Democrats voted Yea, 86 voted Nay, 14 voted Present, and 3 did not vote.
Honestly I’m pleasantly surprised how many Dems voted Nay, but I’m unsurprised at how many voted Yea. The Dems have worked hard to make themselves Republican-lite, not caring that the Repubs and the rural white voters they desperately want back are going to call them socialist no matter what they do.
Either way, the vote was lose-lose for Democrats, and I think the Repubs were counting on it. Either vote Yea and ensure that the leftists and progs in your voter base stay home next election, or vote Nay and open yourself up to attacks not just by the GOP, but by megadonors and mainstream media.
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I posted a list of the statewide offices in Texas that are up for election next year on Reddit, and said that a Democrat can win if we work together. Someone said, “It’s gonna be another blowout!” and I said, “Hey now, you don’t know that!”.
Why do I feel like a fan of a bad sports team?
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Not even. It’s a concurrent resolution, which means it needs to pass both houses in order to count, even as a symbolic harrumph. And the Senate’s too busy doing real work, confirming judges and such as, to bother with this nonsense.
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Supposedly, the government doesn’t want to risk the balloon falling on someone if they shoot it down. Being that it’s over the northern great plains, one of the most sparsely populated regions in America, I have to question their reasoning.
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