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71·21 days agoNot OP, but here’s the original tweet with the video on a nitter mirror:
https://xcancel.com/CalltoActivism/status/1822785991192494548
8·23 days agoApparently there’s also a YIMBYs for Harris call later this month too (YIMBY meaning “yes in my back yard”, not a typo)
“do all the guys you know wear dresses and makeup like this”
Femboy erasure :(
5·27 days agoHumans love to seperate ourselves from the animal kingdom. We minimize them and pretend they are not capable of anything. We convince ourselves that no one else is even remotely close so we can attempt to justify our often horrific treatment of non-human animals
(Or at least some subset of the population anyway)
15·27 days agoCulture wars are created to pointlessly divide and distract, yes. However, I too often see people using that line to diminish the importance of speaking out for minorities under attack
We must stand together in solidarity for all and fight for the working class
I should have clarified my comment about how the article changed. First archived version of the article on archive.is (almost certainly not the first headline) was:
“Israel strike on Gaza school kills more than 100, Palestinian news agency says”
Then the next archived version was Scores reported dead in Gaza school shelter as Israel says it bombed militants
And then it went back to Israeli strike kills nearly 100 in Gaza school refuge, civil defence officials say
(and almost certainly more versions of the headline missing from the archive)
So presumably they posted the tweet during that part in the middle
EDIT: looks like you added some more to your comment, so will respond to that
“but I would be very surprised if any of the mainstream print news outlets that have web presences do it”
The New York Times is very open about doing A/B testing, which I would consider a mainstream print news outlet with a web presence
The Times also makes a practice of running what are called A/B tests on the digital headlines that appear on its homepage: Half of readers will see one headline, and the other half will see an alternative headline, for about half an hour. At the end of the test, The Times will use the headline that attracted more readers
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/23/insider/headline-trump-time-interview.html
Not OP, but it seems like they have changed the headline of the article a lot here and keep changing it
Archive is, shows that at one point the article had a headline of:
“Scores reported dead in Gaza school shelter as Israel says it bombed militants”
But then changed again
As of writing this comment, it’s changed again from your comment to “Israeli strike kills nearly 100 in Gaza school refuge, officials say” which is different than what your screenshot shows
News organization sometimes also do A/B tests where they show different headlines to different people to see what gets the most clicks. Unsure if Reuters does this but I know some others do
12·1 month agoThe chart says it’s only looking at eligible voters
But looking it up shows around 4.6 million were disenfranchised in 2022 because of convictions. In semi-good news, it’s gone down recently in part because more states are starting to allow people to vote after they’ve served time. So if people keep pushing in other states, it can hopefully keep going that way
Reminder to always keep up the fight. Even when things seem inevitable, fights can be won. That goes both ways: don’t get complacent and don’t get despaired
Get active, and get involved
4·1 month agoNot the person you are replying to but https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darknet_market
Not OP, but as someone who was at one point excited by the potential of crypto, the ecosystem has moved more and more towards what it claimed to stand against initially
It’s supposed to be decentralized, but things like mining pools have lead to heavy amounts of centralization in block production. If we look at Bitcoin, for an example, we see that over 51% of block production is controlled by just two mining pools. That’s not limited to just Proof of Work mining either. Proof of stake sees centralization in staking pools as well. That’s only just looking at one aspect of the network
It has also not really been seen as a currency. People’s view of it as an “investment” which have the opposite qualities you really want to see. People are encouraged to hold it and never let go, meaning they won’t want to spend it which is adverse to its use as a currency. This has also lead to it being incorporated and dominated by the very financial systems it was initially supposed to move away from
I don’t want to type out an essay, but I could keep going on in other ways that’s not really lived up to its promises.
112·1 month agoRaising the wage of 1 million contractors is not just words. Yes, we do need more, but don’t think it’s nothing
Part of the goal is to encourage their campaign to get more of a mastodon presence
Most of those claims about treatment of trans people are just false. They are primarily based on misattributed actions of other people which harris has denounced
Here’s a good article looking at just that
Not saying she’s perfect, but consider with the two party system in the US, the alternative is far far worse
Harris has generally pushed for minimum wage increases where she can. For instance
August 08, 2023
FACT SHEET: Vice President Harris Announces Action to Raise Wage Standards Over Time For More Than One Million Construction Workers
She has advocated for $15/hr minimum wage and joined protesting and striking workers in that push before
https://apnews.com/general-news-united-states-presidential-election-6a566fe8785a4ae5aa7963fd3bc5166f
Unlike a certain rich republican candidate who has misused funds, the money goes to their campaign not the person themselves
US elections certainly takes way more money than it should but until Citizen United gets overturned, donating is an unfortunately important part of elections for those who can afford to do so
Now that I’m looking for it, I can’t find it anywhere, I think it might just be something unpublished from the person on mastodon. Would make sense with them saying they love footnotes
Not necessarily. Self citation is different than building on your previous work. You might just seek to use other citations for the relevent concepts
Edit: the 2015 paper this is referencing lists many differing potential reasons for it. Ranging from worrying more about negative feedback for self citation to being more likely to being more critical of their own work
Wait so what do they mean by stopping operations in Brazil then? Just the offices and staff? The article isn’t super clear on it