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Residents of Key West, Florida voted to limit cruise ships to 1500 passengers a day. This upset the wealthy pier operator, so he donated $1 million to Ron DeSantis’s campaign. DeSantis repaid the favor by signing a bill to overturn the local residents.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/25/us/key-west-cruise-ships-desantis.html

Do not ask me how you can stop treating me poorly. WTF could possibly be running through your mind? 🙄

Scene from an education conference I attended: school administrators at a fancy multi-course luncheon cheerfully comparing the number of free-or-reduced-lunch students in their respective districts

Michigan is poised to adopt the first law in the nation to automatically register people to vote as they leave prison. The bill, adopted this month by lawmakers, now sits on the governor's desk. https://boltsmag.org/michigan-automatic-voter-registration-prison/

We are NOT powerless if we act together. WE are the world.

All that is wrong is the fault of the colonizers.

#history #thanksgiving #meme #psychology #sociology

Fleury's mask honoring Native Americans nixed https://www.espn.com/nhl/story/_/id/38970420/nhl-nixes-marc-andre-fleury-mask-honoring-native-americans?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #NHL #SchwartziesSports

Today is #BlackFriday but more importantly #NativeAmericanHeritageDay !!

Looks like the perfect day to shop #Native owned businesses instead of big brands😊

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"Train derailments are common in the United States, with more than 1,160 such accidents in 2022 -- or an average of more than three per day -- according to the Federal Railroad Administration."

https://www.rawstory.com

If you've been noticing an uptick in laws proposed and often passed, that are criminalizing nearly all forms of protest, it's because the oil companies are paying politicians to make the peaceful fight against climate change impossible. #environment
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2023/10/study-fossil-fuel-industry-lobbying-anti-protest-bills/

Opportunities to participate in an Emerge Book Circle experience, or learn how to facilitate one from the lovely Theresa Destrebecq
offered through Equity Unbound
(books we may read include Art if Gathering & Emergent Strategy)
Register here if planning to commit:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/equity-unbound-book-circle-fallwinter-2023-tickets-755572396377?aff=oddtdtcreator

"young people can't buy homes because they'd rather buy big fancy TVs"

I am begging older generations to understand that televisions have gone from "a thing that costs 4 months' salary" to "a thing you get for free when your roommate moves and can't be bothered to take it"

AI tools are billed as time-savers for educators, but what are we "saving time" for, anyway? Chris & Nick put AI-powered robograders to the test to see what, if anything, they are good for. Does an AI generated essay pass the robograder? https://youtu.be/UX5DfqtgXEI #restorehumanity

Sam Altman is back as OpenAI CEO with a new board.

And of course the new board was hand picked to no longer restrict Altman so he can run OpenAI as a business as he sees fit (until he jumps to one of his own things he's been preparing for months now).

The interesting aspect of this: The new board no longer has any women, the only woman on the old board was replaced by Larry Summers who's known to think that women just have less "intrinsic aptitude" for "science and engineering". So Yeah. Says a lot about what OpenAI considers important.

The OpenAI story is about greed versus the possibility of the company living up to its founders' pious promises. Greed flattened ethics because that is how everything works now.