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💯 Once you understand eugenics, everything that’s happening makes sense

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“A 2010 study that analyzed 40 years of protest coverage in five major newspapers, including The New York Times and The Washington Post, found that the papers depicted protests — even peaceful ones — as nuisances rather than as necessary functions of democracy.”

submitted 10 hours ago • 38 comments

It would be nice to just have baseline agreement on the left that retard and retarded are ableist slurs that shouldn’t be aimed at political opponents.

submitted 7 hours ago • 12 comments

The head of one of the largest unions in America is in the bottom of a fucking building with no word and no due process What exactly is more important than that right now ?

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"The new machines, manned by unskilled laborers, actually produced inferior castings at a higher cost than the earlier process. After 3 years of use the machines were, in fact, abandoned, but by that time they had served their purpose--the destruction of the union."💥

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The weird, often whitewashed way the civil rights movement is taught (or not taught) seemed to convince a lot of people that nonviolence was met with nonviolence, instead of you know, dogs, hoses, beatings, death, etc

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For obvious reasons, I'm seeing posts about the Ferguson protesters that died within a year or two of the protests. Looking back on the coverage, it is pretty distressing this was ultimately left at "police say." www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

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when eugenics is ascendant in a country, treating, curing, and preventing disease, disability, and death is indeed controversial. Those is power will say it’s “not worth the money” even if it costs very little.😕

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"Tanner, a chemist at the Univ. of Mississippi working to develop a novel approach for treating glioblastoma, was notified in April that the grant was terminated. “I would like to cure brain cancer,” Dr. Tanner said. “I think that's not particularly controversial.” www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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NEW: The rate of sepsis in Houston surged 63% after Texas banned abortion. In the Dallas-Fort Worth area, where hospital leaders empowered doctors to intervene before patients’ conditions worsened, it rose just 29%.

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One of grants frozen at Cornell: $6.7M (4 yrs) to develop heart pumps for babies born w/ heart defects. It took decades of work to get to point of prepping device for in-human clinical trials. No private company could do this. The cruelty of the Trump administration is heartbreaking. So to speak.

submitted 32 days ago • 92 comments

I’ll add that Turing is sometimes referred to as a “godfather of AI” and that his deep interest in designing machines that could (seem to) think was deeply tied up with his first crush’s untimely death😢

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“Saw some civilians hiding in a bunker, cowering, looking out the door. Saw some advancing Americans coming that way. I just figured it was time to do something, to not let these people get killed. Landed in between the Americans & Vietnamese, told my crew chief & gunner to cover me…” Please read:

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Don’t ever forget every single human deserves human rights and there’s no other qualifications you need to bring up on that matter

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Dear everyone: if there is text in your image, please include it in your alt text. Screen readers can't read images. And lots of low vision people have the font on their tech set to what they can read, whereas everything else is a gamble.

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The Trump Administration always had the power to bring Kilmar Abrego back. They were always lying about this, all of it was lies. abcnews.go.com/US/mistakenl... They chose to disobey court orders because they are authoritarians who regard the Constitution as an inconvenience.

submitted 2 days ago • 58 comments

Gotten to the point of just unfollowing people who can’t stop using “crazy” or “mentally ill” to describe people doing awful things. Would love folks to quit ruining otherwise insightful posts by equating mental illness w/violence towards others & the general fuckshittery of the rich & powerful.

submitted 5 hours ago • 3 comments

Seeing a massive divide online between Angelenos of all political stripes who understand that the protests in LA yesterday were mostly peaceful and any violence was ICE-initiated and East Coast establishment liberals lecturing “the left” on how riots just amplify right wing talking points.

submitted 8 hours ago • 70 comments

Idk gang seems like neighborhoods are in fact perfectly equipped to protect themselves without the need for the people with 40-60% of everyone's budget who are actually the ones they must protect themselves from

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A thread of London documentaries currently on BBC iPlayer from the 1950s to 1990s. Well worth a look... (1/18) 🧵

submitted 8 hours ago • 27 comments

amazing where and for whom the commitment to free speech applies

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Remember this iconic photo from Ferguson? This is Edward Crawford, throwing back a tear gas canister to protect some nearby kids. Like many identified Ferguson protesters and organizers, he was "found dead" a couple years later and neither the cops nor the media will ever investigate.

submitted 20 hours ago • 27 comments

"Interfaces, and design of all kinds, exercise decision-making. Decision making is a form of power. What, then, is generative AI for design?" Notes from my talk at the Re Shape AI Forum in Germany ⬇️

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