I've been fundraising for 40 years from the grassroots level to the larger institutional funder level. I don't remember things being as difficult as they've been over the past 18 months in particular. I had to fundraise through the 2008-09 crash and it wasn't this bad.

seeing all these artists sacrifice money for what they believe in is really quite moving.

“Women’s cancers have been left out of the equation for being covered under the medical monitoring program, because the government was arguing that they didn’t have the proper statistical comparisons,” added Berkman.

"Congratulations, Eileen Burke. You win," said Julie Koehler with the county public defender's office.
"You have bullied an innocent woman into taking a plea deal that will haunt her for the rest of her life."

Though a lesser charge than murder, involuntary manslaughter is still a felony.

"I took this plea because I want to be able to raise my daughter... all she has is me," Golden said in court today.

But we are delusional (and chasing the political cover) so universities are oversupplying AI courses. many of my students are sending it.

One of them? Added a creative writing major so they could be sure to “actually learn something the analog way”.

Not only are prisons lethal, but the incarcerated population is rapidly aging. Older people now make up 5x as much of the prison population as 3 decades ago.

Turning prisons into “makeshift nursing homes” is one of the U.S.'s most wasteful, morally bankrupt experiments to date.