People laughing about a potential Hegseth run need to remember it was also funny when Trump first ran for president. I can’t handle another thunderous, frothing fool stalking an overqualified woman over a glass cliff.
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✨ Beijing儿 American changeling ✨ Culture writer & editor, semiotician, illustrator. Previously @theemancipator.org senior editor She/her
EXCLUSIVE: 404 Media placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books. @evystadium.bsky.social has more. Investigation by @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social here: www.404media.co/we-tracked-a...
The likes of Arday affair is such insidious ops because they reinforces the “rep sweats” trap that causes non-white communities to self-police and demand an unreasonable levels of perfection from our own, and thereby doing the dehumanization work for the oppressors in addition to the tokenization.
federal law *used to* ban sports betting throughout much of the country but in 2018, the Supreme Court struck that law down, freeing states to partner with the gambling industry to profit off their vulnerable residents Americans are now paying the price ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...
How the Supreme Court Kicked Off America’s Sports Betting Addiction Crisis
Like many things in this country, the omnipresence of DraftKings and FanDuel is largely the Supreme Court’s fault.
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US child vaccination rates have plunged since before the pandemic, with kindergarten classrooms in more than 70% of counties now lacking herd immunity against measles.
As we eatch history unfolding real time I keep wondering if this many Americans are honestly fine with defunding any and all public services other than the police? Depressing.
Evergreen reminder this and all social media sites are free
Hi, I think you’re scolding a complete strangers you don’t know shit about and you should get a life
Out of all of the atrocities accompanied by this AI affair, nothing tears me up emotionally like hearing about the destruction of books as they get scanned to train the algorithms. This and the day and night blast of noise driving communities mad are out of the worst of dystopian fiction.
American media's obsession with elite colleges that educate a tiny fraction of the country makes sense when you understand it's the underpinning of our class system (which we pretend we don't have).
I was talking about this with a friend last night, that racists strip Black folks of humanity, their capacity for mistakes and their flaws, when they’re “elevated” to the status of the token. And thus the mistakes that are inevitably made, they become sport. Whole ass humans get hunted like prey.
Lupita Nihongo@otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 2d agoWhen a Black person fails it satisfies the societal preconceived notion that allowing Blackfolk to exist in shared space at all is an act of charity they should have been too grateful for to exhibit poor judgment or make mistakes in the first place. It justifies your collective beliefs about us all.
Great thread. It’s about how manipulating salience — raising the profile of facts that fit a desired narrative — is a potent form of propaganda. I’d go even further: this is the most important way public opinion is changed today, and it’s the core method used by rightwing media. 1/
Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 2d agoI've watched the right use this communication strategy (and close cousins of it) my entire life - and of course, it is much older. quick examples: "solar panels fail at night", "not all men" etc. In each case a true statement is made, yet each is a case of the bad kind of propaganda. 2/
"hmm maybe this whole Arday affair shows that we need to have a Serious Conversation about whether Woke 1.0 overreached in manner X, Y, of Z" motherfucker you are generally in Fascism 487.0, as is this particular affair you're talking about. worry about *that*. /Final
“It’s toasted.” It’s all marketing and racism is ever the easy sell.
Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 2d agoI've watched the right use this communication strategy (and close cousins of it) my entire life - and of course, it is much older. quick examples: "solar panels fail at night", "not all men" etc. In each case a true statement is made, yet each is a case of the bad kind of propaganda. 2/
My pursuit of super fast and easy and good dinner recipes has taken me into takikomigohan and I am very excited
While the right has a monopoly on criticizing DEI, meaningful and actionable critique to further this important practice can only come from the left. The real story is how “DEI hires” are frequently harmed by institutions that tokenize them and aestheticize their presence, setting them up to fail.
The takedown of Jason Arday has overjoyed the right, and must be a wake-up call for the left | Jason Okundaye
The Cambridge academic has rightly now resigned. But that won’t end the targeting of senior black figures or the lazy way institutions promote faux equality, says Guardian columnist Jason Okundaye
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My friend is gluten-free and diary-free while doing IVF, so I made her this almond cake instead of our usual giant pot of pasta, and it turned out amazing. I used frozen berries and didn’t separate the eggs to conserve bandwidth and it worked out just fine. It’s not too sweet!
Sunken Berry Almond Cake
This buttery, moist almond cake comes together in just 10 minutes. While the cake bakes, the fresh berry topping partially sinks, creating bursts of hidden berry flavor. Bake it for a summer gathering...
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It’s funny that the new season of “Reacher” features a out-of-work freelance journalist who got fired from WaPo considering it’s a major Prime Video franchise, how did that one get past Bezos’ people?
Two married professors and their son are being held in ICE detention, despite being legal permanent residents and having no criminal records. All, apparently, because their mom/MIL was a translator for the Iranian hostage takers in 1979, before they were even born. www.thenation.com/article/soci...
One Woman’s Message From the Hell of ICE Detention
My husband, son, and I have been locked up for months—despite being permanent residents with no criminal record. It is an unendurable, unending nightmare.
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It looks like one of those smoothing effects from Adobe Illustrator; or AI generated text in the background of some subtly melting image
HuffPost@huffpost.com · 4d ago[Squints] Sorry, does that say ... Instagzam?
this is the one that convinced me that cult is not just weird abusers finding victims or people putting faith in strange esoteric beliefs but both of these things together as a literal business model
Frankie Huang 黄碧赤@ourobororoboruo.bsky.social · 5d agoTIL Wacom was started by Moonies and once owned by that Reverend Moon’s Happy World Company
TIL Wacom was started by Moonies and once owned by that Reverend Moon’s Happy World Company
I saw this clip of Ziwe asking Leslie Jones “What turned you straight?” and I find it to be such a delightful question lol If queers get asked the “So how did you know?” question why not the straights too?
New season of big guy punching bad guys show really hits the spot
I just noticed my backyard is filled with fireflies 🥹