fascinated by this talk — on frank herbert’s indigenous politics and demagoguery in #dune
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Absolutely no one will be pleased to know that I have fixed the butterfly switch on a 10mo laptop with saran wrap, Copper, and a knife
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Burial's records registered the dejection that capitalist realism produced, whilst also recalling the collective ecstasies that it eroded. Ghost Box offers a re-dreaming of postwar public space, not as a nostalgic throwback, but as a call to rediscover all kinds of lost futures.
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There’s a good reason we don’t all live in communities filled with kin and friends and that reason is *checks notes* medieval catholic incest panic science.sciencemag.org/content/366/64
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I saw the greatest minds of my generation on instructables dot com, heating toaster coils to 2500°F with car batteries and shoving their fingers inside in order to cut plastic pieces for their DIY anime figurine
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trying to have ‘a relaxing summer’ so the long days/short sleeps don’t trigger your hypomania
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if you know 4 women, it is likely someone you know has had an abortion. support teams on the ground fighting to save entire communities
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everything that has come after is owed to it. the idea that female lives matter more than the imagined lives of fertilized eggs
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if California hadn’t signed to liberalize abortion (ironically by governor reagan), i would’ve been forced to live inside the lowest point of my life - financially and emotionally - without hope to advance or move on.
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i got pregnant a couple weeks after my last relationship fell apart, at age 25. i’d stopped taking the pill because, what was the point — I could barely maintain my existence, much less meet someone and have sex (turns out, there is ABSOLUTELY a Point)
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The Dome of the Shah Mosque, Isfahan, Iran, photograph by Konstantin Kalishko
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Inlaid flowers across the 17,000 square m. marble courtyard of the Sheikh Zayed Mosque, Abu Dhabi. Photograph by Dave Yoder
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AI needs artists: explores visual creation post-deepfake, toward the future of “electrobricolage”
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Algorithms are increasingly able to understand the *semantics* of human experience, and this is ushering in a new artistic renaissance medium.com/@josephreising
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digital revolution based on "a deep faith that when engineering replaces politics, the alienation of mass society and the threat of totalitarianism will melt away..;. we are beginning to see just how misplaced that faith has been." essential
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does your own lack of societal perspective from being anchored to the west ever boggle your mind
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I’m an intense wench who’s ground her teeth since she was a fetus because I care about what I do and I’m ambitious and I want shit. - on TMJ. (goodbye, Rookie. I will never not miss you.) twitter.com/tavitulle/stat
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i can't think of a more worthwhile goal than inclusivity.
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Before we begin, let me tell you a couple of things. First, a few years ago I started an agency called Ueno (ueno.co). Second, I’m in a wheelchair. That’s it, those are the two things you need to know before you read on. 1/?
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will 2019 be the year ~progressive tech companies~ stop forcing vulnerable employees to waive their civil-rights-era protections against harassment and discrimination, without even informed consent?
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all to say, forcing workers to waive their civil rights as a conditional to getting a job is evil as heck. arbitration removes the incentive for companies to follow anti-discrimination laws like Title VII, esp post-Gorsuch. it's stunning more companies haven't followed Microsoft
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individual workers win in ~12% of arbitrations, compared to 57% of cases in state court. as such workers are estimated 50 times likelier to sue than to arbitrate
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in 2018 a Gorsuch court upheld legality of depriving workers the right to sue and forcing victims into private arbitration. Jerry Brown vetoed the bill that would’ve ended forced arbitration for sexual harassment claims in California
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power and solidarity with humans fighting to fix a broken ladder.
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I think about my great grandfather, how even after helping to build the railroads he was sent back to China because of Exclusion, how nearly 100 years later, my mother did not need to return to China bc the promise of belonging for me via #BirthrightCitizenship was the stake.
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Having mixed feelings about how quickly Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Gab hide these murderers’ profiles. Is it to protect the public from their abhorrent ideas? To protect the company from bad optics / culpability? My gut feel is it’s the latter, but post-MURDER is too late.
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did this man sitting next to Kavanagh’s family look familiar to you too? that‘s likely because he is Facebook’s current VP of Public Policy & ex-Bush CoS, Joel Kaplan
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maybe in the small liminal space between these two impulses, we get the chance to see our situation as it truly is
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the way he transitions between idealized self-victimization and open outward rage is so goddamn eerie
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