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I’m a YouTube Child Star, and I’m Probably Going to End Up President or Something

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Tue, 30/01/2024 - 00:01

Welcome to my channel. I’m a YouTube child star who’s probably gonna end up president or something. My video “Slime Egg Toy Surprise” has been viewed more than three billion times, and I’m only six and a half years old. Watch out, career politicians!

After creating a few thousand more bangers like “Thomas Train Pretend Play Game Adults Kid Learning” or “Frozen Toy Set #FlagDaySale #Patriotism Educational Toddler #Sponsored Olaf Fun,” I figure I’ll bop around Silicon Valley for a few years, pick up some kind of raging addiction, maybe publish a memoir or put out a critically-panned album. Everyone has to pay their dues, right? Even I had to use the potty for the first time on YouTube Live before I could get a sticker for my chart.

Anyway, then I’ll be ready to slide into politics. Maybe as mayor of a joke-ish sort of city. Las Vegas? Somewhere in New Jersey? I’m six. I don’t know the names of all the states yet, much less how they lean politically.

El Salvador’s Activists Are Being Punished for Beating Corporate Greed

https://tribunemag.co.uk/2024/01/el-salvadors-activists-are-being-punished-for-…
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Mon, 29/01/2024 - 21:00

Few regular readers of Tribune are likely to be familiar with the politics of the small central American country of El Salvador. You may have heard something of its eccentric new president, Nayib Bukele, who introduced Bitcoin as a national currency, and whose flagship policy is the construction of a massive new prison which will […]

How a weaker data watchdog impacts you

https://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/how-a-weaker-data-watchdog-impacts-you/
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Mon, 29/01/2024 - 20:51
We live in an information age. Organisations rely on large amounts of personal data to make life-changing decisions about us. When things go wrong with people’s data there are real-world harms. These include increased risk of becoming a victim of cybercrime, unfair treatment in the workplace, or unfair decisions on mortgage or loan applications. For […]

TWO cosmology questions in ONE comic! they said it was illegal but *I* said i didn't care, and also didn't believe them

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Mon, 29/01/2024 - 19:00
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Anything we can actually do, we can afford

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Mon, 29/01/2024 - 17:32
I often make the point in talks that the fictional world that mainstream economists promote leads to poor decisions in the real world by our policy makers. We saw that in the 1980s and 1990s with the large scale privatisations of public enterprises, touted as employment-enriching, productivity-boosting strategies to provide ‘more money for government to…

As Climate Chaos Accelerates, Governments Avert Their Eyes

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Mon, 29/01/2024 - 09:45

In December, the New York Times reported that “Earth is finishing up its warmest year in the past 174 years and very likely the past 125,000.” (Though it’s not the Times’s style, that latter figure should have had a couple of exclamation points after it!) Furthermore, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s chief scientist, “Not only was 2023 the warmest year in NOAA’s 174-year climate record — it was the warmest by far.” In fact, each of the six decades since 1960 saw a higher global average temperature than the 10 years that preceded it. In addition, every decade-to-decade increase has been larger than the previous one. In other words, the Earth’s not just steadily warming; it’s heating... Read more

Yes, They Are Going After Women For Miscarrying

https://digbysblog.net/2024/01/28/yes-they-are-going-after-women-for-miscarryin…
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Mon, 29/01/2024 - 09:00
CBS reports: When Brittany Watts woke up at her Warren, Ohio, home on Sept. 22, 2023, she knew she was miscarrying.  Her 22-week-old fetus had been declared nonviable by doctors several days prior. Bleeding and in pain, she spent a total of 19 hours in the hospital over a span of two days, begging to be induced. But an ethics group at Mercy Health – St. Joseph Warren Hospital had concerns about Ohio’s abortion laws and how they applied to Watts’ case, ultimately resulting in hours of delayed care.  Watts, frustrated with the lengthy wait times, said she left the hospital both days against medical advice. She said she miscarried alone in her own bathroom. When Watts returned to Mercy Health for medical care following the miscarriage she says a nurse rubbed her back and told her everything would be okay before calling the police at the direction of the hospital’s risk management team and asking them to go to her home to find the fetus. As Watts recovered in her hospital bed, officers from the Warren City Police Department searched her home.

Bye Bye Boebert?

https://digbysblog.net/2024/01/28/bye-bye-boebert/
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Mon, 29/01/2024 - 07:30
It’s not looking good for the little Palin wannabe Lauren Boebert introduced herself to the new district she moved to to have an easier re-election and it didn’t go very well: Representative Lauren Boebert did not receive the warm welcome she was hoping for after switching Colorado districts, with her rivals accusing her of being a “carpetbagger” during the first primary debate. Boebert, who currently represents the Centennial State’s 3rd district, announced in December that she would run for election in the 4th district in 2024, instead. The decision comes after she was reelected in 2022 by such a narrow margin that the election nearly went to a recount. Her public image has taken a massive battering in recent months, as well. The far-right congresswoman attempted to defend her decision during the debate Thursday night, saying she made the switch because she wanted a “fresh start” for her family. “I am here to earn your vote. This is not a coronation,” she said.

He’s Not Trying To Hide It

https://digbysblog.net/2024/01/28/hes-not-trying-to-hide-it/
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Mon, 29/01/2024 - 06:00
This is a test, folks. We are going to see if the MAGA propaganda machine is strong enough to overcome reality for a majority of the people. Trump is saying out loud that he wants the border issue to enhance his election chances. There is no mistaking it. Meanwhile, some Republican members of the congress are saying that it’s a good deal and they should take it. That’s a very risky comment for him apparently: Here’s what Trump is ordering: Republican front-runner Donald Trump said he wants to be held responsible for blocking a bipartisan border security billin the works in the Senateas President Biden seeks emergency authority to rein in a record surge of unauthorized border crossings. “As the leader of our party, there is zero chance I will support this horrible open borders betrayal of America,” Trump told a rowdy crowd of supporters at a rally in Las Vegas on Saturday, ahead of the state’s presidential caucus on Feb. 8. “I’ll fight it all the way. A lot of the senators are trying to say, respectfully, they’re blaming it on me. I say, that’s okay. Please blame it on me.

Australia’s role in further collective punishment on Gazans

https://johnmenadue.com/australias-role-in-further-collective-punishment-on-gaz…
Created
Mon, 29/01/2024 - 04:59
Israel has for years been determined to cut aid to the refugees both in Gaza and the West Bank. While the UN Secretary General and head of UNRWA calls for an investigation into what Israel alleges are crimes committed by some 12 Gazan UNRWA staff (among the 13,000) in the participation of the October 7th Continue reading »