Hey folks, Iâm having a shit time of things financially speaking, being out of work since late January. My housemate is barely making enough on her own to keep us fed and keep the lights on, and thatâs with some savings to dip into (for now).
Iâm trying to find work, but Iâm struggling because most of the remote jobs available for my area are in health insurance sales, and getting and staying licensed would be expensive for me. If anyone can help with some ideas of the sort of work I should look for, here are the Musts:
- Work From Home (I assist with medical needs in my house, so this is ideal)
- $15/hr minimum
- Training and equipment provided
- Medical and dental benefits (I have some dental work that severely needs doing, and very soon, or Iâm at risk for losing at least one tooth completely)- Day 1 benefits ideal
- No licenses or certifications required, or to be paid for during training by the company
- My main skills are Microsoft Office, typing, and call center experience, but tbh my mental health canât handle much customer service work anymore, so minimal direct interaction with customers is desired.
If anyone can throw me some ideas or knows the kind of work that would fit into that list, Iâd hella appreciate it. Iâm getting kind of desperate, and opening up art commissions has never worked out for me in the past, so I donât expect it to be any help now.
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âWe have no choice but to address the challenges created by these massive facilities,â New York governor Kathy Hochul said. The executive or
New York governor Kathy Hochul signed an executive order Tuesday enacting a one-year pause on the development of hyperscale data centers, effecting the nationâs first statewide data center moratorium. The executive order comes as opposition to data center construction sweeps across the country, putting elected officials under intense pressure to take action.
The order specifically pauses state environmental reviews for facilities over 50 megawatts for a year. It instructs the stateâs Department of Public Service to assess the environmental and energy impact of data centers during this time, and to develop a new generic environmental impact statement, a general permitting process for complex environmental issues that may arise with data centers that want to build in the state. Hochul is also proposing an end to all tax incentives for data centers.
âWe have no choice but to address the challenges created by these massive facilities,â Hochul said at a press conference in New York City on Tuesday. The pause, she said, would give New York the chance to create the âstrongest possible framework to protect our communities.â
Hochul has been facing mounting pressure to act on data centers for months. In early June, the New York legislature passed the Responsible Data Center Development Act. The omnibus bill, which would put into effect several different reforms around data center development and had bipartisan support, has been sitting on Hochulâs desk since passage, as lawmakers and environmental, faith, and labor groups in the state have pressured the governor to sign. (A representative from Hochulâs office tells WIRED that the governor is still reviewing the bill.)
The executive order signed today is less aggressive than the legislation passed in May: The moratorium extends to data centers only over 50 megawatts, versus the 20-megawatt limit in the bill on the governorâs desk. But advocates for the Data Center Development Act applauded Hochulâs move.
âTechnology should make our lives better, not pollute our water, strain our energy grid, or drive up our utility bills,â said Democratic state senator Kristin Gonzalez, the sponsor of the bill, in a statement. âBy giving our state the time to plan, we can ensure that development and innovation do not come at the expense of all of us.â
Alex Beauchamp, the northeast regional director of Food and Water Watch, an environmental group that helped craft the original New York moratorium bill, says that itâs clear that the legislation passed in May was influential in pushing the governor to sign the executive order. (At the press conference on Tuesday, Hochul personally thanked the sponsors of the Act, including Gonzalez.)
âAny real moratorium is just a gigantic step forward,â he says.
In her State of the State address earlier this year, Hochul said she would ask data centers being built in New York to âpay their fair shareâ for power. Itâs not the first time that the governor has pushed through limits on Big Tech in the state. In 2022, she signed a one-year moratorium on cryptocurrency mining, despite intense lobbying from the industry against that bill.
At least 13 other states, including Georgia, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Maryland, Vermont, and South Dakota, introduced data center moratoriums in their state legislatures this year, with both Democratic and Republican sponsors of the bills. In April, Maine became the first state to pass a data center moratorium out of the legislature. Governor Janet Mills vetoed it, defending a particular data center project, built on the site of a former paper mill, that would, she said, âbring jobs and investment back.â The project was put on hold indefinitely in June.
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Girl, just do it fat. Donât wait until youâve lost enough weight. Youâre worthy of taking up the space that you fill. Live your life now. Donât wait for some future version of yourself that you think will be more deserving. You have every right to pursue your passions and dreams just as you are today. Your worth isnât tied to a number on a scale or the size of your clothes; it is inherent in who you are. Youâre allowed to be seen, heard, and celebrated in whatever body you inhabit right now. Donât let anyone or anything convince you for too long. So go out. Do it fat! Wear the clothes you love, pursue the opportunities that excite you, and live unapologetically. Thereâs no reason to put off living the life that you want, waiting for a moment that youâre not even sure will come. You deserve to be happy and fulfilled just as you are, and the world needs you exactly as you are today. Everything good that has ever happened to you, happened in this body. Girl, just do it fat.
As much as I think it would be fun to have emotive anthropomorphic ears, I also recognize I can barely control my facial expressions. Like hell can I keep from Angry Ears-ing during meetings
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it does suck that the government defunded PBS but it's also so fucking funny that now that they don't take uncle sam's slavery dollars they're running videos like "How america's foundation was built on genocide"
PBS Origins my beloved! for the unfamiliar, channel link here. they've been pointing out how fucked up USA history is for a while, but not quite that overtly.
PBS Origins is the home of history shows from PBS Digital Studios. Subscribe to dive into inclusive, intersectional history content that hel
link to the specific video from the screenshot above here:
it's part of their series "A People's History of Native America," playlist link here.
Hosted by comedian and actor Tai Leclaire, A People's History of Native America is a series that explores the current social climate in Nati
and while I'm here I'll plug some other channels because PBS does solid work. also, iirc they are (...were? I'm not actually sure what applies to them now that they've been defunded) legally required to include captions and they actually do that, so you won't run into auto-generated nonsense.
I haven't checked out PBS Documentaries yet, but they have some stuff tackling similar topics. (I am adding things to my watchlist as we speak.) channel link here.
Welcome to the PBS Documentaries channelâpresented by PBS Digital Studios and Independent Television Service (ITVS), dedicated to documentin
PBS Terra doesn't pull punches on climate change. channel link here.
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PBS Eons has some super cool videos on the history of life on Earth, channel here, and Storied does awesome work on linguistics and mythology, channel here.
Join hosts Kallie Moore, Michelle Barboza-Ramirez, Gabriel Santos, and Blake de Pastino as they take you on a journey through the history of
Storied is the home for arts and humanities shows from PBS Digital Studios. Subscribe to explore art, culture, mythology and much more!
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aaand while we're talking about defunded USA public media that doesn't pull punches when critiquing our history and government, I am once again going to plug a couple NPR podcasts. Throughline does deep-dives on history, culture, laws, and so on (link here); I'm especially partial to their We the People miniseries, which covers our rights from the Amendments. Code Switch covers culture, focusing on race and minority groups, and has been doing some especially good coverage on what the Trump administration's fuckery means on a practical level (link here). (these aren't the only NPR podcasts that talk about this stuff, but they're the big ones afaik.)
Throughline is a time machine. Each episode, we travel beyond the headlines to answer the question, "How did we get here?" We use sound and
What's CODE SWITCH? It's the fearless conversations about race that you've been waiting for. Hosted by journalists of color, our podcast tac
Compiled some basic information I know about drawing fat characters for beginners since I've been seeing more talk about absence of really basic traits in a lot of art lately.
Morpho Fat and Skin Folds on Archive.org (for free!)
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can anyone on this gay ass website give me an opinion on which translation of the epic of gilgamesh i should read? ive been wanting to read it for ages but theres a number of common translations and i know translations can make or break a story; i dont want to start with the wrong one
I've read a few so I can offer recommendations! I started with the Sandars translation, which is a good starting point but a pretty early translation. Benjamin Foster's translation is one of my favourites, and the version I read (Second Norton Critical Edition) includes some really interesting discussion essays with it. Andrew George's translation received an update a couple of years ago so is up to date with Foster's translation, though I prefer how the language flows in Foster's.
I would also recommend Gilgamesh Retold by Jenny Lewis for a translation with a more modern poetic take.
Benjamin Fosterâs Gilgamesh condenses all the different tablets weâve found together to make one cohesive narrative which is way less intimidating and therefore my go-to if you want something that feels cohesive while also sticking very close to the language of the original. 10/10
Andrew George is the most thorough and up-to-date, and sticks as close to the text as you can get. It does, however, separate out all the different tablets, and feels very unedited in its style. Definitely not a âprettyâ version. 10/10 cuz heâs a legend and this is the most definitive scholarly edition but donât start with it.
Maureen Kovacs has a lovely translation with some very interesting footnotes on word choices. Her Ninsun is absolutely incredible and if you want to cry your eyes out over Gilgameshâs fate thatâs the one for you. Itâs one step up from Fosterâs in terms of poetic-ness but still pretty close to the original. 8/10
Sophus Helle is more poetic than Kovacs but BRILLIANT, one of my favourite Enkidus and his Shamhat is wonderful. Top favourite of all time. This is a very good starting point. 9/10
I wouldnât recommend Sandars simply because itâs prose, and also condenses the twelfth tablet into a nice tidy ending that doesnât really work with the Standard Babylonian narrative. 6/10
Lewisâ Gilgamesh Retold is more of a poetic retelling than a translation; itâs beautiful but definitely not a starting point. Sweet and gentle Enkidu though, very charming. 7/10
Stephen Mitchell Iâm not a fan of. He smooths the poem out into something tame and very expected. This is my personal bias but I really dislike his Shamhat. His Enkidu and Gilgamesh are also explicitly more like brothers, which is a valid interpretation but also again not one I lean towards. 5/10
Herbert Masonâs Gilgamesh has some stunning moments in it (Enkidu! They do not know you like I know you!) However it is nowhere near the real text BUT closer than Lewisâ. Changes the ending of the poem so itâs about Gilgamesh mourning Enkidu rather than mourning his own mortality; a much sadder conclusion with less resolution than in the Standard Babylonian. 7/10
BONUS ROUND:
Derek Hinesâ play GILGAMESH is fucking DERANGED guys. Ten Gilgillion out of ten.
