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🔗 linkblog: McClatchy guts Lexington Herald-Leader newsroom, among nationwide layoffs
This sucks. I feel bad for not being subscribed to the Herald-Leader, but it was McClatchy who chased me away.
🔗 linkblog: As outcry grows, Lexington mayor announces independent review of city's Flock cameras
Review is good, removal is better.
🔗 linkblog: Lexington residents push back against Flock cameras at council meeting
Hell yes. Disappointed in myself for not being one of these people.
🔗 linkblog: Mason County official says data center could bring 400 jobs averaging $80,000; would require massive amounts of power and water
If this is so great for the community, why won’t the company even identify itself publicly?
🔗 linkblog: God’s Pantry Food Bank voices concerns about federal cuts to food stamps
We donate to this food bank, so I take their concerns particularly seriously:
“Our volume today is double what it was 12 years ago. Today, some of the early estimates that we’ve seen would suggest that we have to double our volume again in three years. That’s how daunting the task could be,” Halligan said.
🔗 linkblog: ‘Hyperscale’ data center project drawing resistance in rural Oldham County
Data centers are coming to Kentucky, and that has me worried.
🔗 linkblog: UK launching social media campaign spotlighting NIH-funded research
NIH funding is an important part of my employer’s budget, so I think this kind of advocacy is important. However, it rubs me the wrong way that we’re speaking up publicly about potential funding cuts and being largely silent and “well, gotta follow the law” when our marginalized students are being targeted.
🔗 linkblog: UK ends relationship with nonprofit amid Trump admin investigation
On one hand, if the university’s connections are tenuous, I can understand making the easy move to get the administration off our back—especially when I’m confident that UK is pushing back against NIH indirect costs and other issues. On the other, I certainly hope that our response to every attack isn’t going to be to roll over and wash our hands of things.