Some personal news:
I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting.
Thread incoming.
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The lawyer didn’t write the story, and she wasn’t wrong in law; she was just unfamiliar with the context.
She and the writer are clearly unaware of the AF issue. Each should have done better, but their failures are understandable.
The Minster and the University, however, are misleading at best.
I defer to your expertise, but respectfully, “your employer can terminate you” isn’t an analysis of the facts. And “depending on university policies” is a correct statement, even though the university’s actual policies are the inverse of her examples. Her comments are irrelevant but not quite wrong.
The lawyer was correct about the law, but uninformed about the university’s employment contract, which would “provide a greater benefit to an employee than the employment standard” under the ESA. Absent such a contract, any employer in Ontario can indeed “terminate you for any reason, so long as….”
The mortgage fraud claim against Lisa Cook is false, per documents obtained by Reuters.
Bill Pulte's accusation, the sole pretext Trump used to fire her from the Fed, was that she claimed two homes as primary residence.
These docs show she did not.
www.reuters.com/world/us/fed...
Recipients of the €325 weekly Basic Income for the Arts (BIA) were 6 percentage points more likely to have worked in the arts in the previous six months compared to the control group. BIA recipients increased their creative work by about 11 hours per week on average: +5.3 hours making work, +2.9 hours research/experimentation, +1 hour performing/presenting, +1 hour training and management. They were 14 percentage points more likely to have completed new works in the last six months and reported 3.9 more pieces of work on average than the control group.
The BIA had no significant effect on unpaid arts work, arts funding applications, artist residencies, or contract prices. BIA recipients spent 3.5 fewer hours per week working outside the arts compared to the control group. Income and deprivation: By October 2024, nearly 30% of BIA recipients experienced enforced deprivation versus 50% of the control group (general population: 15.7%). Well-being improvements: Recipients were 15 percentage points less likely to feel depressed or downhearted, 16 percentage points less likely to feel anxious. Life satisfaction rated ~7/10 for recipients vs ~6/10 for the control group.
BIA recipients were 3.8 percentage points less likely to cite care responsibilities as a barrier to arts work. BIA recipients invested €250 more per month in their creative practice on equipment, workspaces, and travel. Recipients allocated about 1 more hour weekly to leisure, 30 more minutes to exercise, and 20 more minutes to volunteering; no differences in household work, care, or sleep. Sectoral retention: The rate of people not working in the arts rose from about 6% to 13.5% in the control group, while remaining stable (4-5.5%) for BIA recipients.
Barriers to working in the arts: BIA recipients were 18 percentage points more likely to remain able to work in the arts. They were 10 percentage points less likely to cite "lack of jobs or clients." They were 15 percentage points less likely to cite "low pay" as a barrier. Care responsibilities were less of a barrier for recipients by 3.8 percentage points.
Here are the just published findings of 2 years of basic income for artists in Ireland.
🎨 Recipients worked 11 hours more per week on their creations and worked 3.5 hours less per week outside the arts.
⚕️ Depression dropped by 15 percentage points and anxiety by 16.
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wheel, snipe, celly boys
Leopard: I will eat your face
Bank analysts: Our baseline assumes no face-eating
Leopard: Chomp chomp chomp
As I read it, this came very close to saying "I won't work for someone who bent the knee at Mar-a-Lago"
when the world is too bright for your eyes and too cold for your nose, then you know how fortunate you are to have arms to wrap yourself in.
Leonard and I rest when we can.
