January 31, 2022

Roger Sherman and the Great Compromise, AKA the Senate compromise

January 28, 2022

Suicide hotline shares data with for-profit spinoff, raising ethical questions

Crisis Text Line is one of the world’s most prominent mental health support lines, a tech-driven nonprofit that uses big data and artificial intelligence to help people cope with traumas such as self-harm, emotional abuse and thoughts of suicide.

But the data the charity collects from its online text conversations with people in their darkest moments does not end there: The organization’s for-profit spinoff uses a sliced and repackaged version of that information to create and market customer service software.

Crisis Text Line says any data it shares with that company, Loris.ai, has been wholly “anonymized,” stripped of any details that could be used to identify people who contacted the helpline in distress. Both entities say their goal is to improve the world — in Loris’ case, by making “customer support more human, empathetic, and scalable.”

In turn, Loris has pledged to share some of its revenue with Crisis Text Line. The nonprofit also holds an ownership stake in the company, and the two entities shared the same CEO for at least a year and a half. The two call their relationship a model for how commercial enterprises can help charitable endeavors thrive.

https://www.politico.com/news/2022/01/28/suicide-hotline-silicon-valley-privacy-debates-00002617

Data mining of suicide hotlines is a new all time low for capitalism in the USA

January 28, 2022

Just in case you don't know Elon Musk is showing his true colors on twitter today

and those colors are a mix of fascist orange with a tint of unfettered capitalist red

He is attacking Democrats, attacking the Biden administration, attacking US, don't ever do business with that fascist piece of shit.

January 13, 2022

Kyrsten Sinema Dooms Democrats' Voting Rights Push

Source: HuffPost

Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.) took to the Senate floor on Thursday to tell her fellow Democrats that she would not support changing the chamber's filibuster rules in order to pass voting rights legislation.

"There is no need for me to restate my position," Sinema said, as she explained she opposed changing filibuster rules that require a 60-vote supermajority to pass most laws as it would deepen the "spiraling division" in the country.

"Demands to eliminate [the 60-vote filibuster] threshold from whichever party holds the fleeting majority amount to a group of people separated on two sides of a canyon, shouting that solution to their colleagues," Sinema said. "And that makes the rift with wider and deeper."

The dramatic speech came as President Joe Biden headed to the Senate to speak with members of the Democratic caucus about the urgency of changing the filibuster rules in order to pass a voting rights bill by a simple majority vote. The speech diminishes hopes Democrats have of enacting legislation to combat the wave of voter suppression bills passed by Republicans on the inspiration of ex-President Donald Trump's election fraud lies in the states they control.

Read more: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/kyrsten-sinema-filibuster-voting-rights_n_61e04f20e4b09724bb9836a5

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Its interesting that she doesn't care if she is the lone vote to destroy the greatest democracy on Earth as Manchin seems to be backing Biden on this one but for how long who knows.

January 6, 2022

Fascists on twitter R melting down because Ted Cruz just called the Jan 6 attack a terrorist attack

I love to watch them turn on one another, get the popcorn ready. Only RWers are posting the video so I can't find a copy without RW propaganda so this was the least disgusting comments I could find
https://twitter.com/jessiprincey/status/1478961543140327425