26 December 19
Robert Reich | 5 Ways to Stop Corporations From Ruining the Future of Work
Robert Reich, Robert Reich's Blog
Reich writes: "Artificial intelligence, robots, and other advanced technologies are already transforming the world of work - and their impact is just beginning."
Robert Reich, Robert Reich's Blog
Reich writes: "Artificial intelligence, robots, and other advanced technologies are already transforming the world of work - and their impact is just beginning."
EXCERPT:
Finally, we need to assure that our workers are protected from the downsides: That new information technologies along with their increasing potential for monitoring and surveilling workers don’t undermine worker autonomy, dignity, and privacy. That the use of algorithms to manage workers doesn’t give top management unwarranted power in the workplace. And that workplace technologies don’t make work more unpredictable for millions of workers.
Workers need some control over how these technologies and the data they produce are used. And for this they need strong unions.
New technologies advancing toward our workplace shouldn’t reduce the standard of living of Americans. They should raise our standard of living. But that won’t happen automatically.
Workers need a voice. Government needs a responsible role. We deserve a forward-looking and open industrial policy. And the rules of the game need to be fair. We should all be able to steer the direction of technological change and influence how new technologies affect our lives.
Senator Lisa Murkowski expressed reservations about Senator Mitch McConnell's approach on the impeachment trial. (photo: Sarah Silbiger/NYT)
Sen. Lisa Murkowski 'Disturbed' by McConnell's Vow of 'Total Coordination' With White House Over Impeachment
Katie Mettler and Deanna Paul, The Washington Post
Excerpt: "A key potential Republican swing vote - told an Anchorage TV station that she was 'disturbed' by the Senate majority leader's statement last week that the verdict in President Trump's upcoming impeachment trial was already determined."
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Katie Mettler and Deanna Paul, The Washington Post
Excerpt: "A key potential Republican swing vote - told an Anchorage TV station that she was 'disturbed' by the Senate majority leader's statement last week that the verdict in President Trump's upcoming impeachment trial was already determined."
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The White House at night. (photo: Susan Walsh/AP)
Public Support for Trump Conviction at All-Time High, Poll Finds
Zoe Tidman, The Independent
Tidman writes: "Public support for Donald Trump's removal from office is the highest it has ever been, according to a new poll."
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Zoe Tidman, The Independent
Tidman writes: "Public support for Donald Trump's removal from office is the highest it has ever been, according to a new poll."
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A makeshift memorial for the victims of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting victims. (photo: Mark Wilson/Getty Images)
The Kids Profiling Every Single Child Killed by Guns
Lizzie Feidelson, The New Republic
Feidelson writes: "When Madison Hahamy's editor assigned her to write a profile of a 16-year-old shooting victim named David A. Thomas, she was stumped for almost a year."
Lizzie Feidelson, The New Republic
Feidelson writes: "When Madison Hahamy's editor assigned her to write a profile of a 16-year-old shooting victim named David A. Thomas, she was stumped for almost a year."
Nazworth tweeted that he 'can't be an editor for a publication with that editorial voice.' (photo: Pexels.com)
Christian Post Editor Resigns Over Pro-Trump Editorial Slamming Christianity Today
Daniel Politi, Slate
Politi writes: "An editor at the Christian Post publicly announced his resignation, claiming that an editorial would place the evangelical publication 'on Team Trump.'"
Daniel Politi, Slate
Politi writes: "An editor at the Christian Post publicly announced his resignation, claiming that an editorial would place the evangelical publication 'on Team Trump.'"
The move illustrates the divisions that have taken center stage in evangelical circles ever since Christianity Today published an editorial characterizing President Donald Trump as “immoral” and calling for his removal from office. “Today, rather abruptly, I was forced to make the difficult choice to leave The Christian Post. They decided to publish an editorial that positions them on Team Trump,” tweeted Napp Nazworth. Even though Nazworth had worked at the publication since 2011 he said he “never got the gist they were gung-ho Trumpian types,” but pointed that “everything has escalated with the Christianity Today editorial.”
Announcement: Today, rather abruptly, I was forced to make the difficult choice to leave The Christian Post. They decided to publish an editorial that positions them on Team Trump. I can't be an editor for a publication with that editorial voice. ...
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In the editorial published by the Post earlier Monday, John Grano and Richard Land accused Christianity Today editor Mark Galli, of “obvious elitist disdain and corrosive condescension for fellow Christians with whom he disagrees.” Even those who disagree with Trump’s presidency must know that “America will certainly survive and is, in significant ways, thriving under a Trump presidency — even if it lasts another four years.” On the other hand, “our religious and other freedoms will not long survive a government of elites so convinced of their superiority that they are willing to compromise constitutional due process,” the editorial goes on to say.
Nazworth tweeted that he “can’t be an editor for a publication with that editorial voice.” His views are hardly surprising considering that earlier this year, he wrote a piece claiming that “evangelicals who rationalize Donald Trump’s misbehavior are sacrificing their moral authority at the altar of politics.”
With its editorial, Christian Post joins others in evangelical circles in blasting Christianity Today’s editorial. Evangelical leader Jerry Falwell Jr. slammed Galli as an elitist who would say Jesus was a “smelly Walmart shopper.” In an interview with Fox News on Tuesday, Falwell also characterized the editors of the publication as elitist, claiming that “they think they are more moral and smarter than the rest of us.”
Christianity Today says it has lost 2,000 subscriptions since the controversy over its editorial, but gained 5,000 others. The president of the magazine, Timothy Dalrymple, said that the publication had received lots of letters expressing support for the editorial. “Clearly, there was a profound yearning for some evangelical institution or leader to stand up and say these things,” Dalrymple told the Washington Post. “One of the most consistent phrases was ‘stay strong.’ People had rallied to the flag, and they were afraid we would abandon them, afraid we’d buckle under the pressure and bend the knee, and then their disillusionment would be even worse than before.”
Migrant children receive Christmas gifts from as they wait for visas from U.S. migration authorities outside El Chaparral port of entry in Tijuana. (photo: Eduardo Jaramillo Castro/AFP/Getty Images)
Mexico Releases Texas Woman Who Tried to Deliver Christmas Gifts to Migrants
Associated Press
Excerpt: "A Texas woman has been allowed to leave Mexico after being detained while trying to deliver Christmas gifts to a sprawling refugee camp housing people waiting in limbo at the border for US court dates to deal with their asylum claims."
Associated Press
Excerpt: "A Texas woman has been allowed to leave Mexico after being detained while trying to deliver Christmas gifts to a sprawling refugee camp housing people waiting in limbo at the border for US court dates to deal with their asylum claims."
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Texas woman has been allowed to leave Mexico after being detained while trying to deliver Christmas gifts to a sprawling refugee camp housing people waiting in limbo at the border for US court dates to deal with their asylum claims.
Anamichelle Castellano said she and another volunteer for her not-for-profit group were stopped on Monday at a bridge crossing from Brownsville, Texas, to Matamoros, Mexico.
She said authorities discovered a small box of ammunition inside the car she was driving, which she said was left by her husband.
Mexico has strict laws against entering the country with guns or ammunition. Those laws occasionally ensnare Americans crossing the border.
Castellano said she spent Monday night sleeping on a couch with her nine-year-old daughter in a government office. She gave a statement on Tuesday to someone she believed to be a prosecutor, then was allowed to leave a few hours later. The prosecutor’s office in Mexico’s Tamaulipas state did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Wednesday.
Castellano and her husband, Jehu, operate a not-for-profit called the Socorro Foundation. They are among the volunteers trying to help thousands of parents and children waiting in Mexican border towns to seek asylum in American immigration courts.
Donald Trump’s administration has prevented many asylum seekers from entering the country or removed them from the US while their cases are still pending under a policy known as “Remain in Mexico”.
“Our faith is very strong,” said her father, Genaro López, on Wednesday. “God didn’t blink. He had a plan.”
Castellano said she and a group of volunteers had worked late into the night to wrap presents for children at the Matamoros camp, which consists of hundreds of tents pitched on the land next to the Rio Grande, the river separating the US and Mexico in Texas.
She said she had car trouble early on Monday and ended up driving her husband’s car. Her husband eventually took hers. They split about 300 gifts between the two.
While her husband drove into Matamoros without incident, an official told Castellano her vehicle would require extra screening. When she was told officers would unwrap all the gifts in her vehicle to check them for anything dangerous, she consented to the officers using an X-ray machine to examine the vehicle.
That scan uncovered a small box of ammunition, which she described as about the size of the palm of a hand. Castellano said she didn’t know about the box until the scan and had not intended to take it into Mexico.
She was told conflicting information during the two days about whether she could leave or if she would be imprisoned. She identified officers from at least three different agencies who asked her questions.
Ultimately, she was told that she and the other volunteer could leave if they paid $8,000. The fee was eventually lowered to about $4,000, and her husband paid $3,000.
She was told that she may have to return to see a judge in Reynosa, which she said she would do as soon as a court date was issued.
“I serve refugees,” she said. “To tell me that I can’t go back and give them their gifts and their needed supplies, I can’t risk that.”
'Some parts of the climate system respond slowly, so that the fact that we don't yet see major consequences doesn't mean that major consequences are not in the pipeline and may be inevitable,' an author of the new paper said. (photo: Martin Zwick/REDA&CO/Universal Images Group/Getty Images)
Greenland's Nearing a Climate Tipping Point. How Long Warming Lasts Will Decide Its Fate, Study Says
Bob Berwyn, InsideClimate News
Berwyn writes: "There's new evidence that, in past geologic eras, much of Greenland's ice melted when Earth's temperatures were only slightly warmer than today's, and that human-caused global warming will push the ice sheet past that tipping point in the next few decades."
Bob Berwyn, InsideClimate News
Berwyn writes: "There's new evidence that, in past geologic eras, much of Greenland's ice melted when Earth's temperatures were only slightly warmer than today's, and that human-caused global warming will push the ice sheet past that tipping point in the next few decades."
EXCERPT:
The results show that a lot of Greenland's ice can melt with less warming than previously thought if the warming is sustained for a long time. That "helps to explain why the modestly warm, but quite as long, interglacial around 400,000 years ago lost so much ice," Ninnemann said.
"What is interesting is that, despite periods of cooling in between, it looks like the ice still went away, which suggests that a threshold might have been crossed—after enough melting had occurred—at which point the loss of large amounts of ice became inevitable."
Greenland's ice loss continued even when temperatures started to cool again because the melting changes the geometry of the ice sheet, in part by exposing more bare ice along the steep edges. That ice is darker and absorbs more heat, leading to further melting in a classic global warming feedback loop.
"Both magnitude and duration of past warmth were important influences on the ice sheet," the paper concludes. "Notably, the critical temperature threshold for past Greenland Ice Sheet decay will likely be surpassed this century. The duration for which this threshold is exceeded will determine Greenland's fate."
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