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If other developed nations with declining birth rates are any example, simply throwing money at young couples — or even fortifying social welfare — isn’t incentive enough.

Drew Goins, Molly Roberts and Bina Venkataraman discuss:
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Pinterest Reports 16% Revenue Growth, Reaches 570 Million Monthly Active Users

#financialresults #monthlyactiveusers #Pinterest #revenuegrowth #socialmedia
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Le ciel, la lune et des nuages.
#haïku #photography #photographies #lanuit
Voile sombre s'étend,
Lune pâle entre les voiles,
Nuit bleue se révèle.



in reply to Democracy Matters

Will never happen. America's sense of justice and the river of law is dead and meaningless. Americans voted for a grifter, knowing what he is. This is what they wanted.


Trump administration announces ‘illegal’ rollback of energy and water efficiency standards
https://www.theverge.com/news/665213/energy-efficiency-standards-rollback-trump-doe?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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Reviving a modular cargo bike design from the 1930s

Link: core77.com/posts/136773/Revivi…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…



The FCC should firmly reject broadcasters' invitation to lock down our publicly owned airwaves. eff.org/deeplinks/2025/05/fcc-…
in reply to Electronic Frontier Foundation

"How hefty a bribe to the president will they have to pay to make it so, I wonder.

Broadcasters are no longer public trustees but rather holders of licenses for rights to "own" spectrum under the most recent Communications Act revisions, and the government is no longer holding the radio spectrum in trust, but has rather indulged in taking for it's own profit, not the public's.

A win-win for all but the public interest."

in reply to Electronic Frontier Foundation

I wish there were a commission to regulate my neighbor's lighting to prevent it from spilling onto my property and sky creating light pollution, what's the difference between that and the poorly penetrating millimeter wave electromagnetic radiation the FCC regulates? A couple terahertz? Pfft...


I'm sure no one would notice...

House GOP sneakily proposes kicking 13.7 million people off Medicaid
dailykos.com/story/2025/5/12/2…

#Medicaid #ImpeachTrumpNow #NoRepublicansEverAgain #RepublicansOwnItAll #RepublicanKakistocracy #VoteBlue #NoFascism #USPol



Anti-doping study investigates US meat as athletes raise beef contamination fears

In elite sports, a single trace of a banned substance can derail a career. Anti-doping...
#engineering #technology
interestingengineering.com/cul…



2025.05.1 #Overte release is ready! It brings new features and improvements such as PBR materials on voxel entities, texture samplers, new graphics settings UI, #OpenXR support including hand tracking, Create App improvements and many others. Thank you to all the contributors and #NLnet foundation for making this possible! #opensource #foss #vr



To describe Trump's actions as “potential conflicts of interest” misses the point. A “potential conflict of interest” sounds like an unfortunate situation in which it’s possible that Trump might choose his own personal interest over the nation’s. Stated this way, the problem is the conflict.

But Trump isn’t conflicted. He repeatedly chooses his (and his family’s) interests over the nation’s. He is using the authority and trappings of the presidency of the United States…

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in reply to Robert Reich

Makes Secret Service stay at his hotel and pay taxpayer money.
in reply to Robert Reich

He is the head of a party with no morals, no respect for the rule of law, nothing but hatred.
He will not be held accountable by them.


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AllTrails debuts $80/year membership that includes AI-powered smart routes
https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/12/alltrails-debuts-a-80-year-membership-that-includes-ai-powered-smart-routes/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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This -- though it is delivered with the characteristic haughty NYT condescension -- is just flat wrong. It's revealing, though. The enemy that has taken up residence in their heads is not fascism, not the threatened violence of the state, but "social media," ie, their readers talking back.

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globalist.it/world/2025/05/12/…

Te quisimos y te querremos siempre, compañero Pepe.




[paper] Evidence of a social evaluation penalty for using AI


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As AI tools become increasingly prevalent in workplaces, understanding the social dynamics of AI adoption is crucial. Through four experiments with over 4,400 participants, we reveal a social penalty for AI use: Individuals who use AI tools face negative judgments about their competence and motivation from others. These judgments manifest as both anticipated and actual social penalties, creating a paradox where productivity-enhancing AI tools can simultaneously improve performance and damage one’s professional reputation. Our findings identify a potential barrier to AI adoption and highlight how social perceptions may reduce the acceptance of helpful technologies in the workplace.

Abstract


Despite the rapid proliferation of AI tools, we know little about how people who use them are perceived by others. Drawing on theories of attribution and impression management, we propose that people believe they will be evaluated negatively by others for using AI tools and that this belief is justified. We examine these predictions in four preregistered experiments (N = 4,439) and find that people who use AI at work anticipate and receive negative evaluations regarding their competence and motivation. Further, we find evidence that these social evaluations affect assessments of job candidates. Our findings reveal a dilemma for people considering adopting AI tools: Although AI can enhance productivity, its use carries social costs.

https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.2426766122





Beloved children's creator and educator #Ms.Rachel opens up in a new interview with @mehdihasan.bsky.social on #Zeteo. @daviddoel.bsky.social shares a couple clips and discusses his thoughts on this modern day #Mr.Rogers being attacked for supporting the children of #Gaza.youtu.be/4YJDOohfoag?...

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Pharmaceutical stocks plummet globally after Trump announces plans to lower... - published 12 May 2025 #Inflation #NYSE #India #Trump #media
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VPN firm says it didn’t know customers had lifetime subscriptions, cancels them
"We acknowledge that notifying users after the deactivation was a poor experience ..."
arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/0…
in reply to Ars Technica

The legality of "all assets, no liabilities" aside, why is refunding customers not on the table?

The company acquiring screwed up big time. I get that a $30-$40 lifetime subscription is ponzi-scheme levels of mismanagement.

But, if lifetime subscriptions are unsustainable and they were sold that cheap, just refund the customers the full amount they paid.

Google for all the things they've done wrong, when they shut down Stadia and refunded all purchases, they got that right.

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This is obviously thinly-veiled racism. But it’s also a bullshit premise. Haitian refugees were thriving in Springfield. Bhutanese, Congolese, other refugees from Africa & Asia have reinvigorated Rust Belt towns and cities. Trump wants to send them all back.

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So we're now doing out and out racism from the US government. The quieter racism is a thing of the past.

RE: bsky.app/profile/did:plc:4llrh…



Our main goal for this year in postmarketOS is reliability. A big step will be more automated testing with CI and real hardware, and we are excited to announce that a lot has been going on to move that forward! :blobcatcoffee:

Read all about it in our new blog post:
postmarketos.org/blog/2025/05/…

Thanks to everyone who has been contributing directly or indirectly to make this possible!

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