Here's @GeneforTexas on which bills he's working to pass and which he's eyeing with extreme caution.
Bills by Penny Morales of D148 in northern #Houston focus on the environment and families.
Suleman Lalani of D76 is the first Muslim elected to the Texas House. A career physician, he's focused on health and education and says "the time for sofa politics is gone."
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@1NadineSmith of @equalityfl discusses a bill in the Florida state Legislature that would ban trans athletes from participating. "This was a result of focus group testing. Trans issues make people uncomfortable."
"In Florida, we have a governor trying to outflank Trump on the right, said Nadine Smith referring to @RonDeSantisFL "He has brought all the MAGA issues to the forefront. All the rhetoric is so dehumanizing." @1NadineSmith@equalityfl#transgender
Speakers are:
Hector Palacios, Research Scientist at ServiceNow Research; Chris Dede, Associate Director of Research for the National AI Institute for Adult Learning and Online Education; and Sean McGregor, Founder of the Responsible AI Collaborative @seanmcgregor@Chrsdede
Artificial intelligence has an inherent bias, says Hector Palacios of ServiceNow Research @ServiceNowRSRCH. How do we know whether an email is hand-written or artificially created, he asks
Speakers today: Steven H. Woolf, MD, MPH, Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine
Kim Parker, PEW Research Center
Mayra Alvarez,The Children’s Partnership Research Center
Kelly Sampson, Brady United @VCUFans@pewresearch@kim_c_parker@KidsPartnership@bradybuzz
@shwoolf We're seeing a high magnitude in all cause mortality, says Steven H. Woolf. Homicide, suicide, drug overdose, and car injuries are the leading causes of death in children and teenagers. "The Covid-19 pandemic poured fuel on the fire." @VCUFans
Our first speaker today is @MarkWarner (D-Virgina), Chair of the Sen Intelligence Committee and co-author of the Restrict Act. "I am a tech guy... I strongly believe in the positive power of technology," says Warner.
Why focus on TikTok exclusively and not on other platforms like FB and IG. "I have been relentless on the need to have a privacy bill... a kids online safety bill. All those are absolutely necessary."
👉Join us at 11am today for this important conversation as #California prepares to review eligibility for millions of #MediCal recipients. We'll be speaking with experts and health care practitioners about what this could mean. Follow the livestream: ethnicmediaservices.org/media-briefing…
Welcome to today's briefing sponsored by @DHCS_CA and organized by EMS and @CaliforniaBlac2. We'll be looking at who is at risk for being disenrolled from #MediCal under California's "great unwinding," and what people can do to get ready.
Our first speaker is Yingjia Huang, Assistant Deputy Director, Department of Health Care Services. April began the renewal process for 15 million MediCal recipients, says Huang. The process had been suspended during the #Covid pandemic.
Other panelists are Erika Hoagland, Co-Author of Science Fiction, Imperialism, and the Third World; and Isis Asare, CEO/Founder of Sistah Scifi, first Black-owned bookstore focused on science fiction & fantasy in the US. @IsisAsare@SolSisters@SistahSciFi
Sci-Fi is not an "old white boys club," says Erika Hoagland. Writers of color and women are now getting on the platform, she says, noting that they were always there but barred by the gatekeepers in publishing.