Supreme Court guts agency power, including the FDA’s ability to regulate pharmaceutical medication safety, in seismic Chevron ruling.🇺🇸
https://www.axios.com/2024/06/28/supreme-court-chevron-doctrine-ruling
A U.S. appeals court on Thursday revived a software engineer's proposed class action claiming Facebook-Instagram’s parent company Meta refused to hire him because it preferred to give jobs to foreign workers who are paid lower wages. 🇺🇸
Stanford 🎓
2024 #funny
Supreme Court allows emergency abortions in Idaho for now, punts on final decision. Since states tightened abortion restrictions, doctors have said they can’t treat women who might lose organs or their reproductive ability or have uncontrollable bleeding.
Sundress #funny
Cool #funny
Supreme Court allows emergency abortions in Idaho for now, punts on final decision. Since states tightened abortion restrictions, doctors have said they can’t treat women who might lose organs or their reproductive ability or have uncontrollable bleeding.
Everything is bigger in the US, and its whistleblower program is no exception. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) paid out a staggering 600 million dollars in whistleblower awards last year, including the largest-ever payout of $279 million to a single whistleblower.
https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/regulatory-roundup-june-2024
Australian billionaire wins right to sue Facebook in the US over scam ads. Andrew Forrest has spent five years railing against promos that falsely claim he's found the route to crypto riches
https://www.theregister.com/AMP/2024/06/20/andrew_forrest_meta_scam_ads_case/
1900s #funny
Tapas #funny
Microsoft whistleblower Andrew Harris says firm ignored early warnings about flaw exploited in SolarWinds breach
Women have become less likely to get birth control in states that restricted abortion because of the closures of some family planning clinics and broad public confusion about what options remain legal. study finds.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/26/health/birth-control-drops-after-abortion-bans/index.html
Opinion: Facebook should pay for the genocide its algorithms instigated against the Rohingya. Many survivors are still stuck in refugee camps because of Facebook algorithm instigated violence against them. Per whistleblowers the reason Facebook algorithms weren’t turned off despite instigating violence against the Rohingya was because Facebook didn’t want to lose user engagement i.e. they didn’t want to lose money.
Flowers #funny
Alaska #funny
More than 99.7% of electricity in Albania, Bhutan, Ethiopia, Iceland, Nepal, Paraguay and the Democratic Republic of Congo comes from geothermal, hydro, solar or wind power.
House Representative Rosendale pushes spending amendment that declares IVF ‘morally wrong’
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2024/06/25/congress/rosendale-ivf-morally-wrong-00164916
Instagram activates setting to limit political content ahead of first Biden-Trump debate. Historically what we’re interested only has a small impact on what the Facebook-Instagram algorithms show us. What the Facebook-Instagram algorithms show us is primarily what Facebook-Instagram determines will make them the most money (i.e. user engagement), as detailed in previously leaked internal documents. Congress should investigate Facebook-Instagram for election fraud.