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Liz Jackson

@lizjackson.bsky.social

#DisabilityDongle * Succeeding Downwards * she/sir * https://linktr.ee/eejackson

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Liz Jackson@lizjackson.bsky.social · 4d ago

I need to cite someone on the economic impact if the AI bubble collapses… I’m curious if anyone has a preferred source? It’s hard to find a decent Ed Zitron quote that doesn’t contain ableist language - so would prefer to find someone else

Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave@wolven.blacksky.app · 6d ago

Next time your local or state legislature parrots some lobbyists talking points trying to tell you data centers will "increase our tax revenue," ask them about this NINETY-ONE PERCENT LOSS in tax revenue in Georgia & elsewhere, and whether & How they can guarantee the same thing won't happen to you.

Ronan Farrow@ronanfarrow.bsky.social · 2w ago

Georgia audited its own data center tax breaks and found that the state gave up $474 million in sales taxes in one year—and got back just $41 million from the industry. At least 38 states have deals like this. #AI #News #US

derek guy@dieworkwear.bsky.social · 2w ago

I appreciate that Dolly Parton refused to participate in "dress respectability" and, by her own account, modeled her aesthetic after a town "tramp," who she thought was beautiful. She separated aesthetics from character and understood "classiness" to be about how you treat people, not how you dress.

Liz Jackson@lizjackson.bsky.social · 2w ago

If you were on the other team, would you hit him as hard as possible because he’s a terrible human, or would you tackle carefully, knowing the Haslam’s are banking on the insurance from his next injury to offset his contract?

Spencer German@spencito.bsky.social · 2w ago

Full back-and-forth with Browns QB Deshaun Watson as he was asked about getting booed in his first game back at Huntington Bank Field after he ruptured his Achilles back in 2023. "It has nothing to do about the performance. It's a little more personal than that so, that's a disrespectful thing."

Tony - Pod Guy - Groves@tonygroves.bsky.social · 3w ago

BBC invited Palestinian writer, researcher and analyst Muhammad Shehada on to talk about Israel’s decision to investigate the killing of Hind Rajab. Below is Muhammad’s account of what happened next. Full disclosure: I know him years and he’s a regular on the pod. So naturally I believe him 100%.

@muhammadshehad2 Disappointed the BBC cancelled my interview on Israel's killing of Hind Rajab 2 producers eagerly reached out. They confirmed the time & one called to prepare a brief for the anchor She asked me whether Israel's announcement is positive, I explained in detail it was a cover up. The IDF is blaming the killing of Hind, her uncle, aunt & 4 cousins on the family itself for trying to flee by car & on the ambulance sent to rescue her for "failures in the co-ordination of the movement." None of this is remotely true! The Red Cross immediately informed the IDF about 5-year-old Hind who was hiding in that motionless car, & they requested permission from Israel to allow an ambulance to rescue them. After multiple long hours, Israel granted greenlight to the ambulance & provided them with a designated route on a GPS to drive on.soon as the ambulance reached Hind's car, the IDF ambushed & bombed them immediately with an American made anti-tank missile then opened fire on Hind's car. The car was hit with 355 bullets. Israel then kept that area under lockdown for 12 days, & prevented anyone from approaching. Hind's mom went daily to the Ahli baptist hospital hoping to find her daughter, until her lifeless body was brought in along with the charred remains of the ambulance men. Israel then claimed after an "initial investigation" that its troops were NEVER in that area to begin with. They maintained that claim for 2 years despite ample recordings & satellite images debunking this lie. The only reason Israel is now making this new announcement of a deeper investigation is to shield its soldiers & generals from the International Criminal Court by invoking the principle of "complementarity;" that the ICC cannot investigate a state that is already investigating itself in good faith.I told the BBC producer Israel today also quietly shut down the investigation into the triple tap killing of American, Canadian, British, Australian & Polish citizens in the WCK massacre. Israel blamed the massacre on the aid workers themselves for "deviating from the predesignated route" & for hiring an armed security guard "without informing the IDF" (both claims where debunked by WCK themselves, who had coordinates their every step with the IDF). I told the producer the Israeli commander responsible for this massacre, Nochi Mendel, is a fanatical settler who had signed a petition calling for starving Gaza & that he was celebrated by settler leaders & supported by Israeli government leaders after what he did. Mendel even received a box of chocolate from the settler council's leader & a letter of support for what he did. Mendel was initially dismissed by the IDF & blamed for the massacre, but was quickly & quietly reinstated & promoted in the Defence Ministry as the head of the settlements and notionol infroctrunturo unitIt's abundantly clear Israel is NOT serious about prosecuting any of the atrocities committed in Gaza. Since the genocide began, only two soldiers were punished by the IDF; one for microwaving a living frog & another for cooking sausages in the army kitchen on Shabbat. The producer asked me: What about the 150 cases the IDF said are pending review? I answered: it's just a number designed to give the appearance of seriousness, but it's essentially meaningless. If it took the IDF two whole years to admit the simplest of facts that the entire world had already known, which is that their troops were the ones who fired on Hind Rajab's car, how do you expect them to do with the remaining cases that are not as high profile? Five minutes after the call, the producer wrote me that they decided to cancel the interview & will not even host anyone else to comment on the issue, & instead they'll play archival footage!
Liz Jackson@lizjackson.bsky.social · 4w ago

This brings us ever closer to the scenario @fractalecho.bsky.social and I laid out in our Wheelchair-to-Warfare Pipeline piece, in which Microsoft's pursuit of an accessible controller will be used to lure disabled vets back into battle as remote drone operators. newrepublic.com/article/1793...

How Disabled People Get Exploited to Build the Technology of War

The cutting-edge products that Big Tech and the Pentagon are developing could be rebuilding an untold number of lives. Instead, they’re being sent to the battlefield to ruin more.

newrepublic.com

Kathryn Tewson@kathryntewson.bsky.social · 4w ago

So, this is real, I just checked

Secretary Sean Duffy * @SecDuffy GAME CHANGER In April, we launched a NEW CAMPAIGN to recruit video gamers as air traffic controllers - and supercharged the entire hiring process to get the BEST & BRIGHTEST in faster. The results are HISTORIC AF V 94% of hiring goal met — fastest time ever to reach target V 2,000 + hired — the most in a single year V 2,000 + "best & brightest" candidates in the pipeline — reaching the Academy quicker than any class before them, thanks to the most streamlined hiring process We're building the strongest, sharpest workforce in aviation history
Jade Skarlett@jadeskarlettdragon.bsky.social · 4w ago

It's really weird that there are two random NBA players who are like "I'm trans now and gonna play in the nba" and now conservatives support trans rights but just for them. They are still using trans people as scapegoats to end women's sports.

Red Durkin@daedsider.bsky.social · 4w ago

If you replace the word "protect" with the word "control" you will so much better understand the transphobic position.

anniempeterson.bsky.social@anniempeterson.bsky.social · 4w ago

A note on Royce White, the former NBA player who says he's entering the WNBA draft, a judge ruled he abused his wife and teenage son in an April court order and determined he could not have contact with either of them for 50 years. Great way to "protect women's sports" transphobes.

Jesse Hawken@jessehawken.bsky.social · 4w ago

Y’know some people think if the big Paramount takeover of Warner Bros goes through then some fear that Bari Weiss will make CNN more of a right wing noise machine and I think to myself: “how would anyone notice the difference?”

CNN@cnn.com · last mo.

Twenty-five years after the mayor of New York City became the champion of America's grief and resilience at the time of the 9/11 attacks, families of those killed are split on whether the current mayor should attend the annual remembrance. https://cnn.it/4zkKYdc

Keezy Young🌼@keezyyoung.bsky.social · last mo.

like don't get me wrong I'm sure it sucks for him that someone he loves (in theory) was detained, but this isn't how you talk about a separate person with their own contributions to society. this is how you talk when you feel slighted that YOUR fav authorities have made off with YOUR fav possessions

Ani Bundel@anibundel.com · last mo.

I know the WSJ means this to be read in the same kind of panic usually reserved for stories like "The Earth is heating faster than climate change scientists realized" but honestly, I think it's the feel good story of the year.

The Wall Street Journal@wsj.com · last mo.

New York City’s business elites are long accustomed to direct access to City Hall, where even Democratic mayors felt the need to court the city’s wealthiest and most influential corporate leaders. That access is getting shredded by Mayor Zohran Mamdani.

Taniel@taniel.bsky.social · last mo.

Abdul El-Sayed has won, NBC News says. And there are other wins for the left in Michigan: —William Lawrence wins his U.S. House primary. —A DSA-backed candidate is leading a Democratic incumbent for state House. —Abbas Alawieh, co-founder of Uncommitted, leads for state Senate.

molly conger@socialistdogmom.bsky.social · last mo.

this is actually the wife-beatingest reply possible. this is the platonic ideal of how a guy who beat his wife would respond to a question about beating his wife.

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com · last mo.

Rep. Max Miller: "These are incredibly serious criminal accusations. If these accusations were true, I would be in jail — I would be. My former wife would not have been offering to cook me dinner and inviting me to playgrounds. Think about that."