More than two out of five American adults know someone who has died of an overdose: https://www.wbur.org/news/2024/02/21/massachusetts-brookline-rand-study-grief-opioid-overdose-crisis

#wbur #rand #randcorporation #martharebinger #addiction #drugs #drugpolicy #overdose #overdoses #suicide #health #publichealth

Deep brain stimulation may provide a solution for those suffering from depression: https://apnews.com/article/treatmentresistant-depression-dbs-deep-brain-stimulation-26383d6e5f9eb797485b7bc277cac59c

#depression #psychology #deepbrainstimulation #dbs #treatment #health #ap #associatedpress #lauraungar

Nebraska governor Jim Pillen realized that helping children is a good thing and decided to give poor kids money from a federal program: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/feb/20/food-kids-summer-ebt-nebraska-governor

#guardian #theguardian #nebraska #jimpillen #11thhourproject #avaasani #ebt #summerebt #republicans #conservatives #conservatism

Elizabeth Warren opposes the acquisition of Discover by Capital One to ensure lower costs for consumers: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/feb/20/elizabeth-warren-block-capital-one-discover-merger

#callumjones #guardian #theguardian #competition #discover #capitalone #consumerprotections #credit #creditcards #banking #monopoly

Following my last post, Reddit is complete trash, please do not ever use it: https://detailed.com/forum-serps/

#detailed #seo #forums #search #google #serp #glenallsop #viperchill #reddit #quora #verticalscope #digitalgoliath #crap

Private equity firms buy up established brands, spew out comtent (sometimes AI-generated noise), flood forums, and game Google to destroy independent research: https://housefresh.com/david-vs-digital-goliaths/

#housefresh #reddit #popularscience #popsci #comtent #giselenavarro #dannyashton #redventures #dotdashmeredith #popsci #rollingstone #rs #buzzfeed #realsimple #google

Capital One is buying Discover to create a huge internal processing network in addition to issuing third party cards: https://www.wsj.com/finance/capital-one-is-buying-discover-financial-sources-say-a7c43dd2

*Disclosure: I formerly owned stock in Discover, but do not now.

#finance #personalfinance #credit #creditcards #discover #capitalone #banks #banking #wsj #wallstreetjournal #annamariaandriotis #laurenthomas #consolidation

WikiFlix is a frontend for Wikidata-structured videos on the Wikimedia Commons (i.e. freely-licensed movies): https://wikiflix.toolforge.org/

#wikiflix #toolforge #wikimediacommons #commons #magnusmanske #wikimedia #openculture #freeculture #movies #film #cinema #movie #wikidata

WikiVibes is a frontend for Wikidata-structured sounds on the Wikimedia Commons (i.e. freely-licensed music): https://wikivibes.toolforge.org/

#wikiflix #toolforge #wikimediacommons #commons #magnusmanske #wikimedia #openculture #freeculture #music #wikidata

An Oklahoma lawmaker has introduced a bill that defines Hipsanics as terrorists and after he faced criticism, he is willing to change the language to “undocumented here illegally, or something like that”: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/jan/18/oklahoma-bill-labels-hispanic-people-terrorists

#guardian #theguardian #oklahoma #racism #antihispanic #terrorism #actualterrorism #xenophobia #hate #law #erumsalam #stupidity

Over a half-million beds have been recalled: https://www.npr.org/2024/01/18/1225441201/beds-recall-break-collapse-injuries

#walmart #ap #associatedpress #recall #recalls #bed #beds #npr #wayfair #homedesign #unitedstatesconsumerproductsafetycommission #uscpsc #cpsc #overstock #overstock.com #wayfair.com

To all Americans reading this, note that seasonal infections (COVID, flu, and RSV) are up and vaccination rates are low: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/jan/15/covid-flu-rsv-mask-policies-hospitals

#melodyschrieber #theguardian #guardian #cold #flu #rsv #covid #vaccine #vaccination #publichealth #us #usa #unitedstates #unitedstatesofamerica

The FDA have cleared Florida to import drugs from Canada: https://apnews.com/article/florida-canada-prescription-drug-imports-c2893394e952754c3d2a5a19b0edb8bd

#florida #canada #drugs #fda #foodanddrugadministration #medicine #ap #associatedpress #matthewperone #health

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

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

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

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