GOP lawmakers are deeply divided over whether to extend the enhanced Affordable Care Act premium subsidies, but millions of Republicans enrolled in Obamacare plans have a clear message for them — don’t let the beefed-up subsidies lapse.

Some 72% of Republican enrollees — and the same share of MAGA supporters with Obamacare coverage — favor extending the more generous assistance, which is set to lapse at year’s end, according to a new poll from KFF, a nonpartisan health policy research group. The same is true of 95% of Democratic enrollees and 84% of independents.

The Senate is expected to vote as early as next week on the fate of ACA, as part of a deal Democrats cut to reopen the government. But Republicans haven’t been able to agree on their own plan to put on the floor, and the White House recently withdrew a proposal to extend the subsidies amid GOP opposition.

2025 KFF Marketplace Enrollees Survey | KFF

This survey explores how ACA Marketplace enrollees expect to respond if their premium payments doubled as expected in 2026 when enhanced premium tax credits are set to expire.

^{Ashley Kirzinger (KFF)}

Wir können in den letzten Monaten einen deutlichen Rückgang der aktiven Nutzenden feststellen. Doch was genau sind die Gründe dafür und was können wir dagegen tun?

Interessanter Artikel. Bin nicht sicher was ich davon halten soll. Hier ist die Statistik auf die der Artikel sich bezieht. Meine Instanz sieht auch einen massiven Ausschlag an neuen Nutzern letzten Februar/März aber auch hier im Threadiverse war es eigentlich immer schwer neue Nutzer zu halten. Wenn es denn tatsächlich auch echte neue Nutzer waren. Wir haben immer wieder diese Ereignisse mit einem Zustrom von Leuten. Aber ansonsten gehen die Statistiken für Lemmy eigentlich regelmäßig nach unten.

Und ich denke ich beobachte auch einen gesellschaftlichen Wandel. Also vielen Leuten ist das was mir wichtig ist zunehmend unwichtiger?! Oder wir haben resigniert? Aber eigentlich wäre doch im Moment ein guter Zeitpunkt um von den Plattformen die schon lange zunehmend kommerzieller und manipulativer werden zu Alternativen zu wechseln, die von Menschen für Menschen geschaffen werden?

Das Fediverse stirbt langsam

^GNU/Linux.ch

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mapto

2025-12-04 10:40:48

Cercasi docente universitario a contratto: corso "Comunicazione digitale e social"

È nella Statale di Milano, settore informatica. Il bando scade tra una settimana, il corso si terra nel prossimo semestre.

Questo è il corso: unimi.it/it/corsi/insegnamenti…
e questo il bando: unimi.it/it/ateneo/lavora-con-…

It is great to see legendary old hardware that is still able to work in the latest PC systems.

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/gpu-drivers/ancient-3dfx-voodoo2-graphics-card-coaxed-into-working-in-modern-amd-ryzen-9-9900x-powered-windows-11-system

Swiss company Proton is further expanding its productivity suite. In addition to an email service, calendar, VPN, password manager, and drive, Proton Sheets is now available. It is an alternative to Microsoft Excel and Google Sheets, an increasingly important advantage as countries take sovereignty more seriously.

Proton launches privacy-first alternative to Excel and Google Sheets - Techzine Global

Proton is launching Proton Sheets, an end-to-end encrypted spreadsheet. It offers companies a secure alternative to Google and Microsoft.

^{Erik van Klinken (Techzine)}

A leaked briefing document gives the full picture behind the government’s talking points.

Liberals Fear Closing Arms Export Loophole Would Anger U.S.

^{Alex Cosh (The Maple)}

È nella Statale di Milano, settore informatica. Il bando scade tra una settimana, il corso si terra nel prossimo semestre.

Questo è il corso: unimi.it/it/corsi/insegnamenti…
e questo il bando: unimi.it/it/ateneo/lavora-con-…

cross-posted from: lemmy.eco.br/post/18801702

ANISTIA É O CARALHO!

Consulta pública
PL 2987/2024

Concede anistia a todos que, em razão das manifestações ocorridas em Brasília, na Praça dos Três Poderes, no dia 8 de janeiro de 2023, tenham sido ou venham a ser acusados ou condenados pelos crimes definidos nos arts. 359-L e 359-M do Decreto-Lei nº 2.848, de 7 de dezembro de 1940 – Código Penal.

Senado Federal - Programa e-Cidadania - Consulta Pública

Opine sobre a matéria: "PL 2987/2024"

^{Senado Federal - Programa e-Cidadania}

Want to wade into the snowy surf of the abyss? Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid: Welcome to the Stubsack, your first port of call for learning fresh Awful you’ll near-instantly regret.

Any awful.systems sub may be subsneered in this subthread, techtakes or no.

If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cut’n’paste it into its own post — there’s no quota for posting and the bar really isn’t that high.

The post Xitter web has spawned soo many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be)

Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldn’t be surgeons because they didn’t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I can’t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.

(December's finally arrived, and the run-up to Christmas has begun. Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this.)

BlueMonday1984

2025-11-24 00:00:18

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 30th November 2025 - awful.systems

Want to wade into the sandy surf of the abyss? Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid: Welcome to the Stubsack, your first port of call for learning fresh Awful you’ll near-instantly regret.

Any awful.systems sub may be subsneered in this subthread, techtakes or no.

If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cut’n’paste it into its own post — there’s no quota for posting and the bar really isn’t that high.

The post Xitter web has spawned soo many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be)

Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldn’t be surgeons because they didn’t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I can’t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.

(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this.)

In democracies, major policy decisions typically require some form of majority or consensus, so elites must secure mass support to govern. Historically, elites could shape support only through limited instruments like schooling and mass media; advances in AI-driven persuasion sharply reduce the cost and increase the precision of shaping public opinion, making the distribution of preferences itself an object of deliberate design. We develop a dynamic model in which elites choose how much to reshape the distribution of policy preferences, subject to persuasion costs and a majority rule constraint. With a single elite, any optimal intervention tends to push society toward more polarized opinion profiles - a polarization pull'' - and improvements in persuasion technology accelerate this drift. When two opposed elites alternate in power, the same technology also creates incentives to park society insemi-lock'' regions where opinions are more cohesive and harder for a rival to overturn, so advances in persuasion can either heighten or dampen polarization depending on the environment. Taken together, cheaper persuasion technologies recast polarization as a strategic instrument of governance rather than a purely emergent social byproduct, with important implications for democratic stability as AI capabilities advance.

Polarization by Design: How Elites Could Shape Mass Preferences as AI Reduces Persuasion Costs

^arXiv.org

https://www.aspi.org.au/report/the-partys-ai-how-chinas-new-ai-systems-are-reshaping-human-rights/