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I keep catching strays from "technology is neutral" people, so let's set things straight. 1) Technology is not neutral, especially the subset of technology called "algorithms" 2) The form-factor that makes a technology into a tool is not neutral 3) How tools are productized is not neutral [rant]

submitted 4 days ago • 51 comments

the sun could blow up right now and we wouldn’t know it for 8 minutes, so i’m not doing any work just in case

submitted 5 days ago • 13 comments

🧵Confirmation via a friend: Starbucks will forbid employees from masking without a medical note. Giant US-based MAGAcorp known for union-busting, actively preventing workers from protecting themselves and the public from known workplace health hazards? Starbucks wants you infected. 👉 #Sickbucks 👈

submitted 10 days ago • 87 comments

Hi I used to work at Starbucks customer service: if you call or email about this, they are absolutely tracking those numbers, and a sufficient amount of public pushback does make them rethink shit sometimes, so now would be an EXCELLENT time to let them know they’re being ableist shitheads

submitted 9 days ago • 8 comments

Hey, just a quiet reminder: it’s not true that people get more conservative as they age. Populations get more conservative as they age because poor and marginalized people die sooner. nymag.com/intelligence...

submitted 21 days ago • 179 comments

Many people who consider themselves liberals have been leading participants in the McCarthyite hate campaign waged against these opponents of US foreign policy. They paved the way for this moment - the arrest of a political dissident - as much as any card-carrying neo-fascist.

submitted 54 days ago • 4 comments

Something to know as we dish out accolades to the top of the callsheet. Nothing moves without the crew. We deserve fair treatment.

submitted 60 days ago • 6 comments

Back in the mid-20th century, the FBI could place an individual under surveillance solely for being LGBTQ. This is what enabled the anti-queer witch hunts of the McCarthy era. Now, DHS permits surveillance of LGBTQ people again. Just being queer makes you a suspect. www.advocate.com/politics/dhs...

submitted 64 days ago • 15 comments

"Exclusive analysis carried out by the Guardian found 760 rooms being advertised in hotels, apartments and other holiday rentals in illegal Israeli settlements in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, on two of the world’s most popular tourism websites." loom.ly/sG9B91E

submitted 65 days ago • 6 comments

Starting to see LIS folks use the phrase "responsibly implementing" when it comes to AI/genAI in libraries and archives, and once again, there is nothing responsible about a plagiarism machine that relies on stolen and personal data and is speeding up the climate crisis.

submitted 185 days ago • 6 comments

The indirect benefits of free lunches

submitted 217 days ago • 46 comments

Working with Taylor & Francis is simply unethical by this point. It’s unfortunately difficult to have AI use revoked from existing contracts but at least try, complain, if you have a book with them. And otherwise do not even consider.

submitted 217 days ago • 10 comments

he wants to trade zines

submitted 499 days ago • 10 comments

HAPPY PRIDE EVERYBODY WE WIN And they're Jewish queers to boot lfg www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-...

submitted 330 days ago • 90 comments

Dear God.

submitted 359 days ago • 3 comments

Pro-union cartoon, 1921. #MayDay

submitted 367 days ago • 0 comments

measuring the success of a feminist movement by its "success" in patriarchal institutions like the legal system will always frame feminist activism as a failure

submitted 373 days ago • 6 comments

as always, I’m not a political expert but the cure for homelessness is homes

submitted 376 days ago • 3 comments

The BIPOC Attention Tax fucks up all BIPOC, but it fucks up trans BIPOC in particular due to being multiply marginalized. It’s the penalty you pay in engagement for being non-white on social media, taken in less shares/visibility. anons.ee/the-bipoc-at...

submitted 377 days ago • 4 comments

Really bummed that The Nib is shutting down at the end of August. You can download free PDFs of all of their issues, buy print issues, and make a donation here:

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currently flattened under the heart-pounding anxiety of 10-minutes of free time between urgent meetings

submitted 641 days ago • 0 comments

I'm just a girl, standing in front of a conference organizing committee, asking them to please turn off their registration tool when they no longer wish to allow registrants

submitted 642 days ago • 1 comment

hovering directly over the thermacell so the mosquitoes don’t try to land in my soup

submitted 643 days ago • 0 comments

not actually muting anybody but every time my enemies say something I don’t like I go out of my way to reply “I’m ignoring you fyi btw”

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