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The LA Times’ Political Rating “AI” Is A Silly Joke Aimed At Validating Wealthy Media Ownership’s Inherent Bias

4 months 1 week ago
Late last year we wrote about how LA Times billionaire owner Patrick Soon-Shiong confidently announced that he was going to use AI to display “artificial intelligence-generated ratings” of news content, while also providing “AI-generated lists of alternative political views on that issue” under each article. After he got done firing a lot of longstanding LA […]
Karl Bode

Ban on use of food stamps for candy, soda debated by Missouri lawmakers

4 months 1 week ago
Low-income Missourians who receive food assistance would be prohibited from buying soda and candy with their benefits under a bill debated Tuesday. The bill, sponsored by state Rep. Jamie Gragg, a Republican from Ozark, would restrict food purchases under the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, previously called food stamps, if approved by the federal government. The bill would “get us back to where the original program was meant to go,” Gragg argued in Tuesday afternoon during a hearing…
Clara Bates

Missouri Legislative Black Caucus criticizes anti-diversity push by Republicans

4 months 1 week ago
Members of the Missouri Legislative Black Caucus criticized the state budget and Gov. Mike Kehoe’s executive order to eliminate diversity, equity and inclusion programs in a news conference Tuesday. State Rep. Michael Johnson, a Kansas City Democrat and the caucus chair, focused his comments on Kehoe’s elimination of DEI efforts. The caucus had released a […]
Hannah Taylor

Missouri’s ‘born alive’ legislation is not what you think. It’s worse

4 months 1 week ago
Missouri legislators are once again pushing what they refer to as “Born Alive Survivors Act,” a bill that feeds off myths and miseducation about abortion in order to punish people navigating a tragic fetal diagnosis. It targets a specific circumstance in a pregnancy involving the diagnosis of a fetus as “incompatible with life” — three […]
Bonyen Lee-Gilmore