Holy shit. Reuters reporting that new admin instructions on visas are if you worked at a platform in trust & safety or content moderation or on fact checking or online safety at an platform you *and your loved ones* are ineligible for H-1B visa. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

I was once up for an audience role,for a new org, that I didn't get because they allegedly thought I was "great", but didn't like that I wasn't sold on the metaverse. I didn't get into audience work to lie about how I feel about a thing so, I gotta say, it was worth it.

I have some bad news about your most recent Black Friday purchase, the AI Pervert Toilet.

‘Abbott Elementary’ star Quinta Brunson launches fund to provide free field trips to thousands of Philly students

If you need another incentive to never shop at target, here is a particularly infuriating one

Earlier this year, Oklahoma Watch published a piece about a journalism program we launched at two women's prisons in Tulsa, Oklahoma, alongside Poetic Justice, which resulted in two newspapers.

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Come say hi to PJP alumni on Monday, Dec. 8 @ 4pm ET. celebrationofpjpwriters.eventbrite.com

"Strong floor, no ceiling" doesn't even make sense, though.

The most precious commodity you have is your attention. You don’t have to waste it on poor-faith debates or arguments with strangers if you don’t think they’ll be productive. You can prioritize the things that matter to you and make your life richer.

President Trump says no aircraft should fly over or near Venezuela, the airspace is closed in its entirety.

Hollywood needs to invest in Xavier Alvardo. He just needs the right role.

“Merit based and colorblind” is when you determine who is good and bad purely by the coincidence of where a person or their ancestors were born

"[W]e have a responsibility to develop ways to describe people that don't ... stigmatize them. Stigmas tend to use even the kindest among us as their unwitting weapons."

Unbelievably, Montreal's REM still has a top speed slower than that of marta, a system that began construction 50 years ago. This is a reflection of how Atlanta was so ahead of its time back then, and how the anti-urbanist political machine and racism has strangled the system in the 50 years since

When I went home to Mississippi last week, a Black farmer welcomed folks to pick greens from his land for free. It made me wonder whether other communities across the country were also giving back ahead of the holiday. The answer: yes, they are. capitalbnews.org/collard-gree...

Parthenope and Babygirl were movies that I'd like a time refund for.

Googling because Pyrex needs to use words because all of the symbols look like ovens to me.

My only half-baked idea is that I don't think reporters should be allowed to work the same beat for longer than 5-7 years. I think this would solve a lot of media problems but not the case with the 20something.

I did not know that lady y'all are talking about is 32 years old. For whatever reason, I thought she was mid-40s.

More focused on proximity to power and book deals than doing the actual work of journalism while everyone who actually cares about this work is scrabbling for freelance scraps or being reporter/editor/ceo/social manager/cfo/cto of their newsletter.

I Am Not Your ‘Inmate’. "I didn’t always detest this term," said Lawrence Bartley. "But hearing officers use it as an insult reminded me to call incarcerated people — including myself — by our names." Story via @themarshallproject.org. #2021 www.themarshallproject.org/2021/04/12/i...

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I have been working on the Dec. 8 event. It looks like we'll likely have people on the inside at the event, too. Looking forward to having our readers come out to support our writers.

Breaking: Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, has died. She was 111 years old

“.. In some areas, such as New York City, the surge has been dramatic — with residential [utility] shutoffs in August up fivefold from a year ago, utility filings show.” @washingtonpost.com www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

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I'm down to Sister Sister vs P-Valley P-Valley wins

$12 for streaming Starz for a year with no ads? SOLD!

This is why I work with a speaker's bureau and have a publicist. The spammers are not going to bother to go through these channels, but legit folks (book festivals, libraries, etc) will. I realize this is a privilege not every author has, nevertheless I am glad to have them vet for me.

Yes, and also, leave X if you have not already

Like, this is applying the lowest possible standard here: I’m not even asking the US press to manage the impossible task of caring about the millions of poor people around the world being killed or having their lives ruined; they can’t even manage to judge it as a political win/lose story

There is a whole underworld of exploited workers who make up the foundation of digital tech. We talk about content moderators, but content farms are also very exploitative industries where moderately educated people with reasonable English skills in the global majority are used to push content.

If you’re a journalist who’s still on Twitter, from now on in your writing you have to replace “the American people want” with “troll bots in Eastern Europe demand” Being there makes your judgment suspect. I don’t care how savvy you think you are, you’re marinating in a disinformation campaign.

The early days of Twitter, identities were easy to prove because no one understood it and, at least my circle, we connected with people based on geographical location. That meant that we were doing meetups with folks in the same city/state.

I thought we already knew that people form Army's of one on the internet and the fire-starters aren't usually who they say they are. Unmasking?

Every time I got to Georgetown Hospital, I'm surprised by the fact that they do not have cafeteria. Even York Hospital has a cafeteria.

ok one last post -- oldheads are always going to "why is the web dying.... how can we get the kids invested in the free and open web" bro the kids can't read. that's why the web is dying. first things first

This story blew me away when I read it. Periods are a pain regardless of where you are, but imagine only being given a limited supply every month.

We're in prison. We know locking up more kids isn't the answer www.seattletimes.com/opinion/lock...

“AI workers said they distrust the models they work on because of a consistent emphasis on rapid turnaround time at the expense of quality.”

I'm not a PTA aficionado but I agree.

Bluesky, meet @kashawntaylor.bsky.social. He wrote several stories for us while he was incarcerated and recently has been helping me out in Audience. Say hello and give a follow! He'll be at our Dec. 8 event. Come say hi!

DO NOT call up the homeless shelter on thanksgiving or Xmas to see if you can pass a few plates and show your kids the “reason for the season” The homeless shelter is not a petting zoo of human tragedy! The homeless shelter is not a drive thru nativity scene for you to enjoy!

I wonder how they determined who to auto-add into this setting. I got the news in the group chat and my emails that are 10+ yrs old were not in this default setting. My youngest email addies were defaulted into this setting.I set up a protonmail email 1.5 years ago in preparation for this outcome.

My doc asked if she could use AI to take notes. 😭