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Turns out that while Jay Z can buy airtime for her album he can not buy up all the votes to make country music artists like her. They beyhive is pissssed. I really thought the album was pure trash. Has nothing to do with the color of her skin. Shaboozy is black and he had one of the best songs of the year. It just really felt like the album was forced onto people. The texas holdem song was particularly bad.

Because the implication is that if you do not like the album you MUST be racist. I was clarifying that this is not the case and gave an example country music that I do like created by black artists.

“the talk” — instructions passed down in Black families for generations about what to do when pulled over by police." Wait. They think EVERYONE does not have the same exact discussion with their kids? That this is a black experience? My parents had this discussion with me and I have had it with the younger generation around me. The idea that JUST black people have the talk about how you are supposed to interact with the cops is a racist trope and not grounded in the truth. He had "the talk" and still managed to be mouthy and disrespectful to the cop AFTER getting pulled over for reckless driving. Maybe he just did not hear the talk he was given.

Has to go down as the worst trade in the history of the NFL right?

I was super happy to see him play himself into a contract last year. Good for him

Yea but the panthers have always been shitt and that is something easy to get out of. Another terrible year and treat him like Josh Rosen. Just cut bait and move on and draft a qb high again. The browns gave up 3 firsts and 250 million to a QB that can not play QB.

I doubt that will hold up with a new candidate in the mix but we shall see. I would guess that Harris has hit her high water mark far too soon and will slowly fade to the point where trump eeks out another victory. What shocks me is that the MSM and their propaganda machine is not freaking out....yet about her fading numbers now.

The margin of error in this case is likely to be the winning margn. Trump likely wins by 2-3 percent

The national polls show her falling back behind trump slightly. That will likely open up to a 2-3 point lead by election day.

The Packers have contacted Tannehill in the wake of Jordan Love suffering an MCL sprain during Friday's loss to the Eagles in Brazil, Dianna Russini of The Athletic reports. Advice: Since hitting free agency back in March, Tannehill has been waiting on the right opportunity, which includes a contender with a strong offensive line and a bevy of skill-position talent. Green Bay represents such a situation, and with Love set to miss 3-to-6 weeks due to his Week 1 injury, Tannehill has his first chance to join a team for the 2024 season. If the Packers and Tannehill find common ground on a contract, he'd get the chance to work with RB Josh Jacobs, WRs Jayden Reed, Christian Watson and Romeo Doubs and TEs Tucker Kraft and Luke Musgrave for at least a handful of games once he picks up the playbook.

Kinkaid. think he should be pretty good this year with the lack of weapons in buffalo

Worth blowing the number 2 spot to pick him up?

Zero chance. Ryan Tannahill has likely been called already. I am betting it is a grade 3 based on how much pain he was in. 6 weeks plus to recover from. If they turn to their current backups they will likely lose every game.

They 100 percent are going to have to sign ryan tannahill now

Holy shitt saquan looks super fast

this is absurd

They seem to be getting good penetration on the runs

wooooww the iggles look bad

The field is terrible there

If a game says it starts at 820 I will not tune in till 835-840. I get to just ignore all the bullshitt and watch football

Funny how they literally ignored it all season long last year.

Have any of you seen this stupid shitt? Tik Tok users are encouraging people to use a "free money glitch" which is just check fraud and a bunch of people are doing it. You could literally get 30 years in prison for this.

And the DEI advocates KNOW it. If trump is elected I could see the SCOTUS taking up workplace dei and equating it to affirmative action by another name and then outlawing it. DEI jobs fell 44% in 2023 and continue to crater. https://techcrunch.com/2024/06/23/silicon-valley-leaders-are-once-again-declaring-dei-bad-and-meritocracy-good-but-theyre-wrong/#comments Who’s afraid of the Big Bad DEI? The acronym is near-poisonous now — a word that creates almost instant tension between those who embrace it and those who want it dead. A prime example of this divide was the response to startup Scale AI founder Alexandr Wang’s post on X last week. He wrote about moving away from DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion) to instead embrace “MEI” — merit, excellence, and intelligence. “Scale is a meritocracy, and we must always remain one,” Wang wrote. “It’s a big deal whenever we invite someone to join our mission, and those decisions have never been swayed by orthodoxy or virtue signaling or whatever the current thing is.” The commenters on X — which included Elon Musk, Palmer Luckey, and Brian Armstrong — were thrilled. On LinkedIn, however, the startup community gave a less-than-enthusiastic response. Those commenters pointed out that Wang’s post made it seem as if “meritocracy” was the definitive benchmark to find qualified hiring candidates — without taking into consideration that the idea of meritocracy is itself subjective. In the days that have followed the post, more and more people have shared their thoughts and what Wang’s comments reveal about the current state of DEI in tech. “The post is misguided because people who support the meritocracy argument are ignoring the structural reasons some groups are more likely to outperform others,” Mutale Nkonde, a founder working in AI policy, told TechCrunch. ”We all want the best people for the job, and there is data to prove that diverse teams are more effective.” Emily Witko, an HR professional at AI startup Hugging Face, told TechCrunch that the post was a “dangerous oversimplification,” but that it received so much attention on X because it “openly expressed sentiments that are not always expressed publicly and the audience there is hungry to attack DEI.” Wang’s MEI thought “makes it so easy to refute or criticize any conversations regarding the importance of acknowledging underrepresentation in tech,” she continued. But Wang is far from the only Silicon Valley insider to attack DEI in recent months. He joins a chorus of those who feel that DEI programs implemented at businesses over the past several years, peaking with the Black Lives Matter movement, caused a backslide in corporate profitability — and that a return to “meritocratic principles” is overdue. Indeed, much of the tech industry has worked to dismantle recruitment programs that considered candidates who, under previous hiring regimes, were often overlooked in the hiring process. Disrupt 2024 Got Laid Off? Find Your Next Job At Disrupt. Get 50% Off The Disrupt Expo+ Pass San Francisco, October 28-30 Book Now & Save Seeking to make a change, in 2020, many organizations and power players came together to promise more of a focus on DEI, which, contrary to the mainstream discussion, is not simply about hiring someone based on the color of their skin but is about ensuring qualified people from all walks of life — regardless of skin, gender, or ethnic background — are better represented and included in recruitment funnels. It’s also about taking a look at disparities and pipeline issues, analyzing the reasoning behind why certain candidates are constantly overlooked in a hiring process. In 2023, the U.S. data industry saw new women recruit levels drop by two-thirds, from 36% in 2022 to just 12%, according to a report from HR staffing firm Harnham. Meanwhile, the percentage of Black, Indigenous, and professionals of color in VP or above data roles stood at just 38% in 2022. Alexandr Wang (pictured above) caused a stir on social media when he posted about meritocracy in tech on X. Image Credits: Drew Angerer / Staff / Getty Images DEI-related job listings have also fallen out of favor, declining 44% in 2023, according to data from the job site Indeed. In the AI industry, a recent Deloitte survey of women found that over half said they ended up leaving at least one employer because of how men and women were treated differently, while 73% considered leaving the tech industry altogether due to unequal pay and an inability to advance in their careers. Yet, for an industry that prides itself on being data-driven, Silicon Valley cannot let the idea of a meritocracy go — despite all the data and research showing how such thinking is just a belief system and one that can lead to biased outcomes. The idea of going out and hiring “the best person for the job” without taking into account any human sociology is how pattern-matching occurs — teams and companies of people who are alike, when the research has long shown that more diverse teams perform better. Moreover, it has only raised suspicions about who the Valley considers excellent and why. Experts we spoke to said this subjectiveness revealed other issues with Wang’s missive — mostly that he presents MEI as a revolutionary idea and not one that Silicon Valley and most of corporate America have long embraced. The acronym “MEI” appears to be a scornful nod to DEI, intended to drive home the notion that a company must choose between hiring diverse candidates or candidates that meet certain “objective” qualifications. Natalie Sue Johnson, co-founder of the DEI consulting firm Paradigm, told TechCrunch that research has shown meritocracy to be a paradox and that organizations that focus too much on it actually see an increase in bias. “It frees people up from thinking that they have to try hard to be fair in their decision-making,” she continued. “They think that meritocracy is inherent, not something that needs to be achieved.” As Nkonde mentioned, Johnson noted that Wang’s approach doesn’t acknowledge that underrepresented groups face systemic barriers society is still struggling to address. Ironically, the most meritorious person could be the one who has achieved a skill set for a job despite such barriers that may have influenced their educational background or prevented them from filling their résumé with the kind of college internships that impresses Silicon Valley. Treating a person as a faceless, nameless candidate, without understanding their unique experiences, and therefore their employability, is a mistake, Johnson said. “There is nuance.” Witko added to that: “A meritocratic system is built on criteria that reflect the status quo, and therefore, it will perpetuate existing inequalities by continuously favoring those who already have advantages.” To be somewhat charitable to Wang, given how acidic the term DEI has become, developing a new term that still represents the value of fairness to all candidates, isn’t a terrible idea — even if “meritocracy” is misguided. And his post suggests that Scale AI’s values could align with the spirit of diversity, equity, and inclusion even if he might not realize it, Johnson said. “Casting a wide net for talent and making objective hiring decisions that do not disadvantage candidates based on identity is exactly what diversity, equity, and inclusion work seeks to do,” she explained. But again, where Wang undermines this is endorsing the mistaken belief that meritocracy will produce outcomes based on one’s abilities and merits alone. Perhaps it is all a paradox. If one looks at Scale AI’s treatment of its data annotators — many of whom live in third-world countries and scrape by on little pay — it suggests the company has scant real interest in disrupting the status quo. Scale AI’s annotators work on tasks for multiple eight-hour workdays — no breaks — for pay ranging as low as $10 (per the Verge and NY Mag). It’s on the backs of these annotators that Scale AI has built a business worth over $13 billion and with more than $1.6 billion in cash in the bank. When asked for comment on the allegations made in the Verge and NY Mag piece, a spokesperson pointed to this blog post, in which it described its human annotator jobs as “gig work.” The spokesperson didn’t address TechCrunch’s request for clarification on Scale AI’s MEI policy. Johnson said Wang’s post is a great example of the box many leaders and companies find themselves trapped in. She pondered, can they trust that having meritocratic ideals is enough to lead to truly meritocratic outcomes, and promote diversity? “Or, do they acknowledge that ideals are not enough, and to truly build more diverse workforces where everyone has the same access to opportunities and can do their best work requires intention?”

Damn man this is about an hour and a half from where I grew up. One of my high school friends has a kid that goes to this school and was there today.

I would guess that people expect JAMO to step up this year and take that spot