bsunderlinmsp.bsky.social
Recovering progressive MN DFL’er hoping for equity and climate solutions in my lifetime. Believe government offers the only solution to systemic problems but can’t find them on its own. Have lived in MN, NYC, VT. ChemE, MPH.
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So in an electoral context, the digital illiteracy of whites is likely to be a more of a contributing factor to getting Trump elected than that of blacks.
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The second is because the population of whites is larger than blacks the total number of illiterate folks is much higher among whites.
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In that you will find two gems of data up to age 65. The first one shows that digital illiteracy rates are higher among blacks than whites.
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Ahhh… but here’s the core data you wanted to find. It’s a bit old though. nces.ed.gov/pubs2018/201...
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Here’s one that gets more into ethnic variation of digital skills… basically outlining a connection between digital literacy and computer knowledge to wealth and education. nationalskillscoalition.org/wp-content/u...
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Here’s a good article on social literacy by race but it’s specific to youth. www.urban.org/sites/defaul...
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Oh, so you want age, race, and state effects. No, you are not going to find that. The reason why you won’t find that is to study the problem you would need an enormous sample size first, do you have reason to believe that these effects would vary by state? That doesn’t make a lot of sense to me.
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Wow… and I found all of this with the google search term you gave me “social media literacy by age”. It’s almost like my dad who asks “how do I google that”.
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Here’s an interesting one that summarizes the ways in which there are differential effects by age with using the internet, including social media and other tools. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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Here’s an interesting article on the topic that pulls from wide ranging sources about the various subgroups within older populations akademie.dw.com/en/digital-m...
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Jesus… I can get you a study for that but all you gotta do is talk to my dad who I’ve shown how to upload a picture to Facebook and still asks me every year. But seriously, here’s your study academic.oup.com/gerontologis...
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If you are a believer in Christianity, god gave us free will, which is the inherent right to be wrong. So, right or wrong it is only a positive. It is not your role to play god.
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So, why wouldn’t you want others to have that gender and sexual freedom? Because it’s wrong for religious or cultural reasons? Well, freedom also includes making my own mistakes.
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Are you all knowing? No. Have you experienced all there is to offer in life in your one body? No. I have not lived the life of a woman, a 500lb man, or a professional athlete and I recognize living life in their body is surely different than mine.
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Maybe this doesn’t change for you - great. But to deny that it could change for others is denying all the possibilities of life you may not be aware of personally.
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A sign that the Trump administration is not taking care to execute the laws of this country faithfully.
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If you do this please make sure you plan and organize follow up. A day of protest to build community, get their signals, think through follow ups with others is meaningful. But we have to start getting far more creative than street protest. Here are ideas www.brandeis.edu/peace-confli...
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" ... The thing that I can’t get over is that the actual richest man in the world directed my fucking firing. I make $50k a year and work to keep drinking water safe. The richest man in the world decided that was an expense too great for the American taxpayer."
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“No, I’m serious.” “Stop! Stop! You’re gonna make me pee! Thanks for the good laugh. I needed that.”
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It’s not urban America that’s going to feel this. Many of those researchers, programmers, scientists, and construction workers will have options for work and will stay local. The rural ones won’t. They’ll be gone and won’t come back.
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This is a real gutting of rural America. Good bye roads, bye construction projects, bye agricultural research, bye job safety, bye water quality, bye healthcare, bye food safety, bye well-paying jobs that undergird the economy and keep local grocery stores, schools, beauty salons, and plants open.
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What you are saying is republicans have been very good at appropriating needed funds and programs for their districts to secure their reelections all while decrying the expansion of the nation-state. I wonder how removing federal funds flowing to their districts is going to feel.
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The right is in this panic that the left is taking over everything… nevermind that they control the levers of power in the media, politics, business. Still, they don’t have the hearts and minds of people and they know it… hence the focus on education.
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Let’s collect up every idea, wiki style, and put them to a vote. It’s the only thing I can think of that points a way to renew our democracy without party that still fulfills our promise as members of the same citizenry. The country royally sucks and is royally great. Let’s make it great again.
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The Trump administration came in like a highly energized wrecking ball, but almost none of that energy has been directed at tackling inflation or egg supply chain issues…while much energy has focused on gutting agencies that regulate Elon Musk’s businesses. Just a coincidence I’m sure.
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Nobody will be able to recreate the numbers. No body will be able to understand what they did. With that fakery of finding fraud they have the tool to destroy every program they don’t like. Overriding judges, congress, and the will of the people. That, my friends, is called a dictatorship.
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What musk is selling and Trump is buying is the illusion of legitimacy. The mechanism is a black box of fakery — don’t look under the hood and don’t expect to be able to see the code and details — But I bet you will see a great report with big numbers outlining massive levels of fraud to cut.
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We know musk has found no fraud because if he had magic software boxes that could suck up undefined datasets and output fraud identifiers in a day or a week he would have a multibillion dollar product to sell Fortune 500 companies. He has no such product.
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There is no master federal database someone can just plug into and make all of the data and variables magically pop out with answers. To decipher federal datasets requires a deep understanding of their datasets and the marrying statutes. People study these things for years to get a grasp.
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The whole superbowl ad space is a commercial for why Video Toaster was peak video editing.