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"As cost unfortunately seems to have been a too predominant evaluation factor when organizing this, what you end up having is lower quality."
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Columbia Will Pay Survivors of Abusive Doctor $750 Million After ProPublica Revealed University’s Failures
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The sweeping deal means the Ivy League school’s settlements will total more than $1 billion for over 1,000 claims of sexual abuse by former patients of OB-GYN Robert Hadden, who worked at the university for 20 years despite decades of complaints.
#News #Columbia #University #SexualAbuse #SexualAssault #Women #Students
Millions of People Depend on the Great Lakes’ Water Supply. Trump Decimated the Lab Protecting It.
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The Trump administration’s slashing of budgets and staff have Great Lakes scientists concerned that they have lost the ability to protect the public from toxic algal blooms, which can kill animals and sicken people.
https://www.propublica.org/article/noaa-michigan-lab-toxic-algae-blooms-great-lakes-drinking-water?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Michigan #Ohio #Environment #Trump #DOGE #NOAA #Water #Science
Under #Trump, #EPA scientists say managers encouraged them to delete evidence of chemicals’ harms, including #cancer, miscarriage and neurological problems, from their reports. And in some cases, they said, their managers deleted the information themselves.
#News #Science #Environment #Health #Government
(Published Sept. 2024) https://propub.li/3Zx4ljp
The Latest Trump and DOGE Casualty: Energy Data
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The Energy Information Administration has long provided reliable data on everything from oil and gas to alternative energy. Now one of its signature reports has been slashed and a second one canceled entirely amid sweeping job reductions and turmoil.
https://www.propublica.org/article/the-latest-trump-and-doge-casualty-energy-data?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Trump #DOGE #Energy #Data #Oil #Gas #Research #Science
One Agency Tried to Regulate SpaceX. Now Its Fate Could Be in Elon Musk’s Hands.
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The Trump ally and DOGE chief is expected to turn his budget-slashing sights on the FAA’s little-known commercial spaceflight office, which has proposed fines and grounded SpaceX after explosions and other incidents.
#News #SpaceX #FAA #ElonMusk #DOGE #Aviation #Spaceflight #Trump #Regulation
When they set out to make their power supply 100% green, Northwest leaders ignored the fact that the region lacks the wiring to deliver new sources of renewable energy to people’s homes.
Little has been done to change that, ProPublica and Oregon Public Broadcasting found.
#News #Oregon #Washington #Green #Energy #Environment #Wind #Solar
“Incalculable” Damage: How a “We Buy Ugly Houses” Franchise Left a Trail of Financial Wreckage Across Texas
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Charles Carrier is accused of orchestrating a yearslong Ponzi scheme, bilking tens of millions of dollars from both wealthy investors and older people with modest incomes. Despite signs of trouble, HomeVestors didn’t intervene.
https://www.propublica.org/article/homevestors-fraud-charles-carrier-texas?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Texas #Housing #Fraud #RealEstate #Investing #Business #House
Higher Prices, Rolling Blackouts: The Northwest Is Bracing for the Effects of a Lagging Green Energy Push
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Oregon and Washington are nowhere near achieving their clean energy goals. The dramatic consequences are already being felt.
https://www.propublica.org/article/oregon-washington-green-energy-consequences?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Oregon #Washington #Energy #Sustainability #Green #Environment
When I was diagnosed with cancer, I set out to understand why a single pill of Revlimid cost the same as a new iPhone. I’ve covered high drug prices as a reporter for years. What I discovered shocked even me.
"Today, at its second annual upfront to advertisers, [Netflix] announced that it has created interactive mid-roll ads and pause ads that incorporate generative AI."
#news #technology #TechNews #netflix #AI #GenerativeAI #ads #advertising
In what could be a major escalation of U.S. pressure on Mexico, the Trump administration has begun to impose travel restrictions and other sanctions on prominent Mexican politicians whom it believes are linked to drug corruption, U.S. officials said.
#News #Mexico #Trump #Drug #Corruption #Sheinbaum #Travel #Sanctions #Politics
“No one is watching, no one will hold them accountable, so they can just do what they want,” said one HUD attorney. “The civil rights laws that people marched for and fought for, ... it’s not happening. And people are really being harmed by it.”
#News #Housing #Discrimination #CivilRights #Law #Government #Trump #DOGE
"A lawyer representing [an AI startup company] Anthropic admitted to using an erroneous citation created by the company’s Claude AI chatbot in its ongoing legal battle with music publishers, according to a filing made in a Northern California court on Thursday."
An Agency Tasked With Protecting Immigrant Children Is Becoming an Enforcement Arm, Current and Former Staffers Say
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The Office of Refugee Resettlement’s welfare mission appears to be undergoing a stark transformation as President Donald Trump seeks to ramp up deportation numbers, current and former officials told ProPublica and The Texas Tribune.
https://www.propublica.org/article/office-of-refugee-resettlement-immigration-enforcement-trump?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Immigration #ICE #Immigrants #Children #Trump #Deportation #Migrants
He Became the Face of Georgia’s Medicaid Work Requirement. Now He’s Fed Up With It.
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A 54-year-old mechanic called Pathways to Coverage a “great program” at the governor’s press conference. But after getting kicked off the health insurance program for low-income Georgians twice, bureaucratic red tape has him at his wit’s end.
https://www.propublica.org/article/georgia-medicaid-pathways-brian-kemp-luke-seaborn-testimonial-video?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Georgia #Medicaid #Healthcare #Health #Government #Insurance
For anyone still wondering whether technology or "AI" are neutral:
"Grok, the AI model from Elon Musk’s xAI, was sending strange responses to people on X earlier on Wednesday. In responses to a number of people, Grok focused on debunking claims of white genocide in South Africa – even when tagged into a post about totally unrelated topics."
https://www.theverge.com/news/667179/x-twitter-grok-ai-white-genocide-claims
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in the #arXiv
A New Strategy for the Exploration of Venus
by the VEXAG Exploration Strategy Study Analysis Workgroup
https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.06830
#Venus #PlanetaryScience #Astrodon #Science #STEM #planet #planets #solarsystem #engineering #news
Connecticut Towing Companies Use Belongings Left in Cars as Leverage to Collect Fees, Drivers Say
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The Connecticut DMV allows owners to get back into towed cars to retrieve items that are essential to their health and welfare. But people have lost work equipment, car seats, important documents and priceless mementos.
https://www.propublica.org/article/connecticut-towing-dmv-lost-belongings?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
Texas Lawmakers Push to Enforce Election Transparency Law After Newsrooms Found School Districts Failed to Comply
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ProPublica and The Texas Tribune found nearly three dozen school districts were missing required campaign finance reports online. Now lawmakers are pushing to impose steep penalties on local governments that fail to abide by the law.
https://www.propublica.org/article/texas-lawmakers-campaign-finance-posting-rules?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
Democrats Won a North Carolina Supreme Court Seat. But They Lost Control Over the Board That Sets Election Rules.
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Republican Jefferson Griffin conceded after a monthslong legal battle. But Democrats suffered a defeat that may be more consequential: losing control of the state board that sets voting rules and adjudicates election disputes.
https://www.propublica.org/article/north-carolina-democrats-elections-board-jefferson-griffin?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
🎄Screaming Museum Workers | Top Archaeologist Accused of Faking Discoveries | 350,000 Artefacts Discovered In Storage | Magnificent Stuffed Rhinos | Antiquities Theft Expert Challenges British Museum's Marbles Claim | More Museum News.
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Is it us, or do Friday the Thirteenths seem to come around more often these days? Fittingly, we have some scary stuff this #NewstodonFriday, including stories about Medicare, media obeying in advance, and AI movies that aren’t technically supposed to be horror — but they gave us a fright. All the newsrooms featured here are independent and have their own active fediverse accounts. Please follow them, click on the stories, boost them, subscribe, donate and otherwise support if you can.
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