Tag: Political

Med Hondo’s Vital Political Cinema Comes to New York

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This upcoming Friday, when two simultaneous New York revivals of Med Hondo’s films get under way, many viewers are going to find their cinematic map expanding. Film Forum will be screening a new restoration of Hondo’s large-scale, big-budget 1979 musical “West Indies: The Fugitive Slaves of Liberty,” while Anthology Film Archives presents a retrospective of most of his other features—from the first, “Soleil Ô” (1970), to the last, “Fatima, the Algerian Woman of Dakar” (2004)— along with a number of

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Biden’s Decision to Skip New Hampshire Is “Political Malpractice”

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Concord, New Hampshire—Kathy Sullivan was happily retired. The former chair of the New Hampshire Democratic Party and Granite State representative on the Democratic National Committee had stepped down from several of the highest-profile political posts in the country and was enjoying life away from the demanding work historically associated with the “first in the nation” presidential primary.

Then a political earthquake hit Sullivan’s state. In February, the DNC decided to eliminate New Hampshire’s first-primary status for … Read more

AI Act, Product Liability Directive, Platform Workers’ Rulebook reach political agreement – EURACTIV.com

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Welcome to Euractiv’s Tech Brief, your weekly update on all things digital in the EU. You can subscribe to the newsletter here. 

 

“This is a historic moment. The AI Act transposes European values to a new era.”

-Commission President Ursula von der Leyen on the AI Act agreement

Story of the week: After a 36-hour negotiating marathon, EU policymakers reached a political agreement on what is set to become the global benchmark for regulating Artificial Intelligence on Saturday. As

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Anger over New Zealand’s U-turn on smoking ban: Health experts say they are ‘appalled’ by ‘purely political’ move – as Rishi Sunak vows to press ahead with law to stop kids aged 14 now from ever buying cigarettes

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Plans by New Zealand’s new government to ditch its world-first smoking ban were today attacked by health experts. 

The move, to stop children from taking up the habit, was initially introduced by ex-Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern in 2022. Once implemented next year, anyone born after 2008 would have been banned from ever buying cigarettes.

New Zealand’s new prime minister, Christopher Luxon, said the U-turn would fund tax cuts.

But public health experts said the reversal was ‘extremely concerning’, warning the

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The War on Palestinian Political Prisoners

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November 20, 2023

The number of Palestinians in detention has soared since October 7. It’s a part of Israel’s strategy of control that cannot be ignored.

Protesters chant during a rally in Ramallah city in the occupied West Bank, in support of Gaza and of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails, on November 14, 2023.

(Zain Jaafar / AFP via Getty Images)

I haven’t heard from my father since October 7, when Israel intensified its violence against

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Why Don’t Biden’s Political Wins Register With Voters?

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Objectively speaking, President Joe Biden has presided over some significant, even historic, accomplishments: a massive vaccine rollout, the biggest infrastructure investment since the Eisenhower administration, the lowest unemployment rate in over 50 years. Yet, when voters are asked about these things, their responses are perplexing. Poll after poll show that voters have never heard of these programs, are annoyed the media isn’t reporting about them more, or they just don’t care. Why don’t Biden’s political and legislative victories penetrate the

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637 stakeholders call on Ursula von der Leyen to publish animal welfare proposals in current political term – EURACTIV.com

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Signatories

As animal welfare academics, researchers, veterinarians and scientists, we believe that, in accordance with current scientific knowledge, the current legislation is insufficient to protect the welfare of animals. As such, we urge the swift publication of a future-focussed and comprehensive legislative proposal within this political term.

Dr. Jane Goodall, PhD, DBE, Founder – the Jane Goodall Institute & UN Messenger of Peace

Prof.Peter Singer, Princeton University, United States

Dr. Sir. Brian Harold May OBE, United Kingdom

Prof. Carla

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How a Small Gender Clinic Landed in a Political Storm

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The small Midwestern gender clinic was buckling under an unrelenting surge in demand.

Last year, dozens of young patients were seeking appointments every month, far too many for the clinic’s two psychologists to screen. Doctors in the emergency room downstairs raised alarms about transgender teenagers arriving every day in crisis, taking hormones but not getting therapy.

Opened in 2017 inside a children’s hospital affiliated with Washington University in St. Louis, the prestigious clinic was welcomed by many families as a

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The Download: political AI models, and a wrongful arrest

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How they did it: The team asked language models where they stand on various topics, such as feminism and democracy. They used the answers to plot them on a political compass, then tested whether retraining models on even more politically biased training data changed their behavior and ability to detect hate speech and misinformation (it did).

Why it matters: As AI language models are rolled out into products and services used by millions, understanding their underlying political assumptions could not

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