Just hours after a Supreme Court decision gutted the power of federal agencies, known as the "Chevron deference" doctrine, a judge in Texas blocked the Labor Department from expanding overtime protections for workers.
https://www.axios.com/2024/07/09/biden-era-worker-protections-supreme-court
Climate Tech Startup Aether Fuels Raises $34 Million to Develop Clean Fuels for Aviation and Shipping
Extreme right conservative attacks on birth control could lead to a ban on birth control. Far-right conservatives are sowing misinformation that inaccurately characterizes IUDs, emergency contraception, even birth-control pills as causing abortions 🇺🇸
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2024/06/05/birth-control-access-abortion-ban/
Wrestle #funny
Weather #funny
Trade groups representing construction workers are pushing for immigration reform, as are groups representing restaurant and hotel workers. Such groups want more immigration across the socio-economic spectrum, while policymakers have mostly been focused on getting higher skilled immigrants into the US over the past two decades.
https://www.ft.com/content/87865645-c639-4588-9d3e-45be7a6b5c24
A coordinated network of Facebook pages run from Nigeria targeted UK voters on the right and left using polarizing political messaging, and pushed an anti-Ukraine agenda using tactics that are a hallmark of Russian influence operations. In the past these efforts have been supported by billionaire data companies and amplified by Facebook’s algorithms seemingly in an effort to manipulate voters leading to more extreme left and extreme right election results. Governments should ban Facebook Instagram WhatsApp from data collection as they seem to use and share this data for voter manipulation.
AMC #funny
Physicians prepare to navigate Iowa's new abortion ban.The 2023 Iowa abortion law is expected to take effect later this month. It bans most abortions once fetal cardiac activity is detected. Doctors say that is typically at six weeks of pregnancy, before many women know they are pregnant.
https://www.kcci.com/article/iowa-physicians-prepare-to-navigate-new-six-week-abortion-ban/61479431
Extreme Heat Limits Oxygen Delivery in People With Heart Problems. This is especially concerning with climate change making summer temperatures more extreme.
Banana #funny
Kitchen #funny
Miami tech company launches new AI health tool 🇺🇸
Stanford’s top disinformation research group collapses under pressure. The Stanford Internet Observatory provided real-time analysis for American voters on algorithm pushed election lies but has struggled amid attacks from extreme conservative billionaires and a few politicians. 🇺🇸
Governments should ban Facebook Instagram WhatsApp from collecting and sharing our private data as this data is being used against us. Spanish prosecutors recently said they are investigating Facebook Instagram WhatsApp over suspicions that it breached the data-protection laws by using users' data to train its AI models. Facebook Instagram WhatsApp are known to share data with billionaire data companies and corporations that advertise on Facebook Instagram WhatsApp, it seems the data is then used to manipulate voters.
Key West Sunset #tbpic
High-fat, low carb ketogenic diet may help the symptoms of people with bipolar disorder, schizophrenia a small Stanford study shows
https://www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/2024/04/02/ketogenic-bipolar-mental-diet/
Miami climate tech hub gets $19.5 million from the federal government. Focus will be on reinforcing the coasts of South Florida
https://amp.miamiherald.com/news/local/environment/climate-change/article289658619.html
Facebook pages linked to foreign interference in the recent UK elections were taken down after an ABC investigation. The foreign interference seemed to be used to manipulate voters to help elect Nigel Farage, who has been linked to politically extreme billionaires . Facebook Instagram AI algorithms plus troll farms have been used to manipulate voters around the world for at least the last 10 years. Governments should ban Facebook Instagram from collecting citizens private data as it’s clearly being used to manipulate them.
Pages #funny
