For my grandfather, for example, being a Communist was synonymous with being an antisemite - something contemporary Western leftists may struggle to understand.
My reading of this transformation is less about political opportunism and more about the fact that Russian supremacy and antisemitism had been at the core of the Communist Party structure, but could finally be out in the open in a newly independent Russia
I don't think I've de-skilled as much in 10 years of not working as these people have in a couple of years of relying on chatbots for everything
Nick Fuentes: "It was December 18...That's Joseph Stalin's birthday. I'm a fan." Tucker Carlson: "You're a fan of Stalin?" Nick Fuentes: "Always an admirer." Tucker Carlson: "Well that's uh...Okay. We'll circle back to that." Spoiler: Tucker never circles back.
I don’t give a shit if Will Stancil is arguendum the maximal version of whatever kind of bad person you think he is, he’s a community member who just got his tires slashed plausibly because of the way our community treats him, and if you don’t get that you shouldn’t be part of my community
#Event | Book Talk: Polish-Jewish Masculinities & the Challenge of Modernity | YIVO | June 11, 2026 | 1:00 PM EDT (7:00 PM CEST) | Zoom | Details: yivo.org/Polish-Jewis... #jewishstudies #JewishHistory
Polish-Jewish Masculinities and the Challenge of Modernity | YIVO Institute for Jewish Research
Mariusz Kalczewiak, in a talk led by Miriam Mora, explores how religion, class divisions, antisemitism, new domesticity, and militarization changed masculine ideas and practices in Eastern Europe between the 1890s and 1930s.
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I was called all possible things for my reporting. But only in Poland I get repeatedly singled out as Jew. They also declare my being Ukrainian and my @gruene.de membership as proof of me being a russian agent. forumakademickie.pl/dezinformacj...
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Modern-Day Slavery in the United Arab Emirates
Author: Aalia Garrett September 5, 2023The United Arab Emirates (UAE), renowned for its opulent skyscrapers and extravagant lifestyle, hides a dark reality beneath its glossy facade, where there exist...
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So I just wanna be clear, we discovered that Abdul El-Sayed is a landlord for property that's protected by the Iron Dome and neither the landlord bit nor the Iron Dome bit seem to bother his supporters in the slightest?
When accounts like the squirrel get pushed to the forefront begging Iranian missiles to strike israeli apartment blocks it let me know that a lot of the loudest online leftist voices view all of this shit like sports and not like…actual things happening to real people We gotta ignore those types
this goes back to born-again christianity/mormonism's tendency to interpret the bible hyperliterally and use it to justify continued marginalization of non-white non-men (eve eating the forbidden fruit and the mark of cain, for example) i wonder what scott cawthon has to do with this
If people want to see what "trans women breaking gender roles" actually looks like you need to go to spaces with actual trans women. Fun experiment - go through the top 100 posts of each of these subreddits and count how many times you see a trans gal with a beard. www.reddit.com/r/MTFButch/s...
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A space for all trans butches, dykes, bois, soft butches, futches, all types of trans women who present more masculine. Memes, selfies, rants, or anything else you think would be relevant! Join our ...
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👁️🍄🪸@bloomfilters.plus · 8mo agothe concept of a depiction of a "trans woman breaking gender roles" ime looks closer to susie deltarune than thomas jefferson miku binder
“This character has difficulty with social cues, a strong special interest, sensitive hearing, interprets things literally, speaks bluntly & with a flat affect, etc. etc.…but that’s bc he’s from a race of people who behave EXACTLY LIKE AUTISTIC PEOPLE!” Ok, & I’mma call that entire race autistic.
Rachel@rachelneedsanap.bsky.social · 2mo agoIf I call a character in media #autistic, it’s because they act like an autistic person. I’m really not interested in hearing “actually, they’re an alien” or whatever. It’s common for autistic representation in media to be accomplished via nonhuman characters, rather than including autistic humans.
A new study debunks a popular conservative meme. www.vox.com/politics/496...
The right says “suicidal empathy” is destroying the West. Here’s the truth.
A new study debunks a popular conservative meme.
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In 2023, the Times sued OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement. They’ve since spent more than $20 million on the case, and publisher A.G. Sulzberger has no plans to stop fighting it. www.wired.com/story/the-bi...
Can the New York Times Save Journalism From Our AI Overlords?
In 2023, the Times sued OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement. They’ve since spent more than $20 million on the case, and publisher A.G. Sulzberger has no plans to stop fighting it.
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in a world where ppl can record everything it's easy to take that power for granted when i was a baby my granddad went home to ireland to visit family and recorded audio of people talking, singing, laughing. because he did that, i have a clip of my ggrandmother, who i never met, saying hello to me
Matt Zoller Seitz@mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 3mo agoI realize this is really basic, but I just love how flms & TV shows documentary records of people and places that existed, on top of other aspects of interest, even if it's a work of fiction. Jimmy Cagney, among other people, is still alive to me, because of this.
I write about this in the book. Increasingly, the proposition from these companies is “let us surveil you constantly.” That’s it! That’s the deal. In return you get the (supposed) benefit of a machine that “knows” you, whatever that’s supposed to mean. finance.yahoo.com/technology/a...
In America today, the wealthiest 1% is now worth more than the entire American middle class. That never happened before.
YouTube has more Emmy nominations than Fox, Bravo and AMC.
Vinton Cerf, one of the creators of the protocols underlying the internet, will step down as Google's chief internet evangelist next week.
The "Father of the Internet" is finally retiring | TechCrunch
Vinton Cerf, one of the creators of the protocols underlying the internet, will step down as Google's chief internet evangelist next week.
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