Most Americans have experienced real wage growth in the past couple of years, accounting for price inflation: https://www.americanprogress.org/article/workers-paychecks-are-growing-more-quickly-than-prices/

#sarahnadeau #centerforamericanprogress #cap #bidenomics #economics #wages #inflation #wagegrowth #goodnews #wageinflation #priceinflation #economyoftheunitedstatesofamerica #economyoftheunitedstates #economyoftheus economyoftheusa

Gun deaths in the United States are down since 2022, up since 2018, and way down since my birth (1982): https://www.thetrace.org/2023/12/data-gun-violence-deaths-america/

#thetrace #chipbrownlee #guns #gunviolence #death #killing #murder #gunsintheunitedstates #gunsintheusa #gunsintheus

Ants treat wounds with antibiotics: academic: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-43885-w popular: https://www.uni-wuerzburg.de/en/news-and-events/news/detail/news/ant-antibiotics/

#nature #entomology #ants #wounds #woundcare #antibiotics #eriktrank #luciekesner#joanitoliberti #quentinhelleu #adriacleboeuf #andreidascalu #douglasbsponsler #fumikaazuma #evanpeconomo #patricewaridel #philippengel #thomasschmitt #laurentkeller #UniversityofWürzburg #universityofwurzburg

@Sandywb14 The fact that the number of Republicans who believed he won fairly went from 39% to 31% is most depressing: there was no _new_ reason to believe this or new bombshell evidence. They just kept on listening to lies and let it infect their brains.

The percentage of American adults who accept the fact that Joe Biden won the 2020 United States presidential election fairly has decreased from 69% to 62%: https://www.washingtonpost.com/tablet/2024/01/01/dec-14-18-2023-washington-post-university-maryland-poll/

#washingtonpost #wapo #polling #publicopinion #politics #depressingnews #fakenews #stupidity #scams #grifts #lies #conspiracytheories #45 #joebiden #biden #universityofmaryland

For those who want a brief intro into the public domain in the United States with a link to a much more thorough explainer from Duke University: https://www.npr.org/2024/01/01/1221606624/mickey-mouse-public-domain-disney

#nedaulaby #steamboatwillie #disney #copyright #publicdomain #law #commons #culture #remixing #adaptation #npr #lawoftheunitedstates #lawoftheunitedstatesofamerica #lawoftheus #lawoftheusa

@heatherdale No doubt: Hoosier greats represent in 2024.

I am jumping the gun for most Americans, but it has been 2024 for several hours in American Samoa, Guam, and the Northern Mariana Islands, so happy Public Domain Day! https://web.law.duke.edu/cspd/publicdomainday/2024/

I hope you will join me in celebrating the expansion of the creative commons that we all share.

#publicdomainday #2024 #duke #dukeuniversity

@AlphaCentauri He destroyed them with his mind maybe?

Building on an earlier letter, Francis I explicitly allows Catholic clergy to provide blessings to same-sex couples and that these should not be disallowed: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/pope-formally-allows-priests-to-bless-same-sex-couples

#catholicchurch #catholicism #francis #popefrancis #popefrancisi #francisi #pbsnewshour #pbs #associatepress #ap #samesexunions #homosexuality #relationships

Thousands of pages of intelligence related to Russian interference in the 2016 American presidential election went missing in the final days of the last presidential administration: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/dec/15/classified-russia-documents-missing-trump

#45 #russia #electioninterference #guardian #cnn #newyorktimes #nyt #thenewyorktimes #martinpengelly

Following from my last toot, if you want to know the _worst_ gifts to get anyone you care about: https://www.latimes.com/business/technology/story/2023-12-07/column-the-worst-tech-of-2023-an-anti-gift-guide

#losangelestimes #lat #thelosangelestimes #gadgets #gifts #privacy #shopping #brianmerchant

Mozilla have a gift guide if you need any last-minute ideas: https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/tech-gifts-holiday-guide-2023-christmas/

#mozilla #gifts #privacy #privacynotincluded #gadgets #shopping

The formerly incarcerated in Michigan will now be automatically registered to vote: https://www.npr.org/2023/12/16/1219695211/new-michigan-law-means-people-leaving-prison-will-automatically-be-registered-to

#enfranchisement #michigan #voting #civilrights #politicalrights #npr #michellejokischpolo #wkar #

Google are dropping support for Usenet in February 2024: https://support.google.com/groups/answer/11036538

@_Psyber This is priority #887 for me: lots of other stuff to do before then. :/

@_Psyber If so, you had better link me up!

@_Psyber Agreed: could be an actually useful and not-horrifying application of AI. Mozilla are the best.

Mozilla roll out Solo, an artificial intelligence-powered website builder specifically marketed to small business owners and freelancers: https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/introducing-solo-ai-website-builder/

#mozilla #solo #ai #artificalintelligence #websites #webdesign #rajsingh #solopreneurs #solopreneurship #freelancers #freelancing #smallbusinesses #smallbusiness

After a Taliban crackdown virtually extinguished opium production in Afghanistan, Burma has overtaken it as the largest producer: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/dec/12/myanmar-opium-biggest-producer-overtaking-afghanistan-unodc-study

#war #conflict #drugs #heroin #drugtrade #drugwar #drugwars #burma #myanmar #poppy #poppies #theguardian #agencefrancepresse