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December 5, 2022

A most amazing demonstration of unimaginable skill!

https://twitter.com/SInow/status/1599554509373468672

Sports Illustrated @SInow
Official

Just finished a shoot with @stephencurry30,
this dude just can’t miss 😳🔥

🎥 @ari_fararooy

@warriors



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EDIT - After posting I learned that this is a fake video.

I recall being warned by Obama about how advanced the video photoshopping had become.

Sorry bout that.




November 29, 2022

After allegations of racist hiring on Delta farms, DOL finds 11 more employers misusing visa program

After allegations of racist hiring on Delta farms, DOL finds 11 more employers misusing visa program

by Sara DiNatale

Agents with the U.S. Department of Labor fined 11 Delta farms for misusing a popular visa program after a sweep of investigations in the wake of public outcry and a Missisisippi Today investigation that found Black local workers being underpaid and phased out of farm jobs in favor of white workers from South Africa.

“The allegations made by Mississippi Delta farmworkers are alarming,” Wage and Hour Division District’s Jackson director, Audrey Hall, said in a statement. “The outcome of these investigations confirms that employers denied many farmworkers their lawful wages and, in some cases, violated the rights of U.S. workers by giving temporary guest workers preferential treatment.”

Mississippi Today’s investigation found at least five farms who paid their local workers – usually Black men – less money per hour than those on farm work visas through the H-2A program – usually white men from South Africa – over the last few years.

The labor department’s Wage and Hour Division fined the 11 farms a total of $122,610 and recovered wages for 45 workers totaling $134,532 in its latest string of investigations.

https://mississippitoday.org/2022/11/28/dol-fine-mississippi-delta-farms/?fbclid=IwAR15tdMQ4sy79AlrKELEsvb7MZtC45qdmwY4FFxdn6phzzXvD1bBsV20Y7A


Apartheid is where you find it.

November 28, 2022

Young Crypto Founder Shocks Industry With Sudden Death at 30 in His Sleep

Source: The Daily Beast

Young Crypto Founder Shocks Industry With Sudden Death at 30 in His Sleep

Story by Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling, Yesterday 5:37

Tiantian Kullander, the influential young founder of cryptocurrency company Amber Group, died suddenly in his sleep on Nov. 23, the company confirmed.

The group had just received a $3 billion valuation earlier this year, and was in the process of raising another $100 million—a meteoric success in which he played an integral role after launching Amber in 2017 with a group of finance insiders, including former Goldman Sachs Group Inc and Morgan Stanley workers.

His meteoric rise continued, and in 2019 he earned a spot on the Forbes Under 30 list.

“He put his heart and soul into the company, in every stage of its growth. He led by example with his intellect, generosity, humility, diligence and creativity,” the company wrote in a statement confirming his death on their website, commemorating him as a “devoted” husband and “loving” father.



Read more: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/young-crypto-founder-shocks-industry-with-sudden-death-at-30-in-his-sleep/ar-AA14CXIK?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=e8bc2d7d6155402795201810fb372e91

November 13, 2022

Catherine Cortez Masto's doggedness pays off for Nevada Democrats

Source: MSNBC

Nov. 12, 2022, 8:15 PM CST
By James Downie, MSNBC Opinion Columnist

Nevada's Catherine Cortez Masto has been re-elected to the U.S. Senate, NBC News projects. The state's Democrats have frequently outperformed expectations in recent elections, and history repeated itself Tuesday, with Cortez Masto defeating Republican Adam Laxalt for a second term.

The first Latina elected to the Senate, Cortez Masto served two terms as the state's attorney general. Observers have long described her as a "workhorse," and in 2016, retiring Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid endorsed her as his successor. With that backing came Reid's top-drawer turnout machine, which, along with a similar operation run by the Culinary Workers Union, has driven Democrats to frequently outperform pre-election polls.

Cortez Masto's doggedness and those turnout operations helped her win election to the Senate in 2016, and re-election on Tuesday, despite Nevada's above-average inflation and unemployment rates.

In her second term, expect Cortez Masto to buck the party at times: According to FiveThirtyEight, she voted with President Joe Biden less than any Democrat other than Sens. Jon Tester of Montana and Joe Manchin of West Virginia, and tied with her fellow Nevadan Jacky Rosen. But that doesn't mean she'll be a thorn in the party's side: During the campaign, Cortez Masto touted Democratic achievements like the Inflation Reduction Act and hammered Laxalt on abortion. Her success could be a model for purple-state Democrats going forward.



Read more: https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/catherine-cortez-masto-wins-nevada-senate-election-2022-midterms-n1300391





50 SENATE SEATS, DONE

November 9, 2022

Election moon


November 9, 2022

Cyberattack launched against Mississippi secretary of state's website, CISA says

Source: WAPT

Cyberattack launched against Mississippi secretary of state's website, CISA says

Federal government working with state of Mississippi

Updated: 8:09 PM CST Nov 8, 2022

JACKSON, Miss. —

. . . News of the attack, which as of about 6:30 p.m. was still underway, was announced during a media briefing with the Department of Homeland Security and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency.

The federal government is actively assisting the state of Mississippi to recover from the Distributed Denial of Service attack to get the pages, including for election results, back online.

The cyberattack against state websites in Mississippi, including those for elections, took the pages offline by overwhelming the site with bogus traffic.

Secretary of State Michael Watson released a statement Tuesday evening about the periodic website outages.

"An abnormally large increase in traffic volume due to DDoS activity caused the public facing side of our websites to be periodically inaccessible this afternoon. We want to be extremely clear and (reassure) Mississippians our election system is secure and has not been compromised," Watson said. "Our team remains committed to upholding the integrity of the Mississippi's elections process."





Read more: https://www.wapt.com/article/cyberattack-launched-against-mississippi-secretary-of-states-website-cisa-says/41904312

November 1, 2022

Twitter Limits Content-Enforcement Tools as US Election Looms

Source: Bloomberg/


Twitter Limits Content-Enforcement Tools as US Election Looms

Kurt Wagner, Ed Ludlow, Jackie Davalos and Davey Alba
Mon, October 31, 2022 at 8:07 PM

(Bloomberg) -- Twitter Inc., the social network being overhauled by new owner Elon Musk, has frozen some employee access to internal tools used for content moderation and other policy enforcement, curbing the staff’s ability to clamp down on misinformation ahead of a major US election.

Most people who work in Twitter’s Trust and Safety organization are currently unable to alter or penalize accounts that break rules around misleading information, offensive posts and hate speech, except for the most high-impact violations that would involve real-world harm, according to people familiar with the matter. Those posts were prioritized for manual enforcement, they said.

People who were on call to enforce Twitter’s policies during Brazil’s presidential election did get access to the internal tools on Sunday, but in a limited capacity, according to two of the people. The company is still utilizing automated enforcement technology, and third-party contractors, according to one person, though the highest-profile violations are typically reviewed by Twitter employees.

San Francisco-based Twitter declined to comment on new limits placed on its content-moderation tools.



Read more: https://news.yahoo.com/twitter-limits-content-enforcement-tools-010753209.html




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SIFUABS

October 9, 2022

Songs Of Penitence For Russia



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September 23, 2022

Autumn leaves swing




September 18, 2022

Swingle Sunday


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