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Medical robotics engineer. Muslim, dad, husband. Leftist (by handedness and politics) 🇧🇩🇸🇩🇺🇸
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This thread is a litany of monstrosities. Hell awaits Musk, Trump, and all their ilk

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Every time I hear about DOGE I think about this Kim Stanley Robinson line, "Efficiency was just a measurement of how fast money moved from the poor to the rich. We prefer the opposite of efficiency, which is to say, justice."

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

This is the crux. Corporate DEI being cringe/sometimes used as a distraction is not a good rationale to then publicly proclaim "well, the fascist segregationists have a point, actually". DEI is good, but sometimes the idea is co-opted; Olufemi Taiwo's Elite Capture is widely available to read

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Anybody who's immigrated to or even those who have come to the US explicitly for childbirth have put more work into being American than anybody who just happened to pop out here (myself included). If you want something, you gotta work for it; if anything they're more American

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Reminds me of the study where Chinese kids wanted to be astronauts and Americans YouTubers - which, tbh, are both unlikely! But the idea that you can work hard and succeed by doing useful work outside entertainment seems to be waning in the US arstechnica.com/science/2019...

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Primitive accumulation is basically always just stealing and then once you have enough money/power, protecting your hoard. OpenAI (among others) is taking the same paradigm digitally techcrunch.com/2025/01/10/h...

submitted 50 days ago • 1 comment

longreads.com/2018/12/04/t... Mike Davis wrote about California fires (and Avian Flu) over a decade ago. 1) I probably need to catch up and read more of his work, what else did he see for our present/future? 2) a clear reminder that we cannot conquer the world, we must live within it

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Good essay on the deterioration of quality of "content". It highlights for me that media/art doesn't *have* to be AI-generated to be meaningless slop. We can produce junk through business conditions and cultural incentives, so why not just crank the AI machine? www.nplusonemag.com/issue-49/ess...

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The last photo of Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, detained after refusing to abandon his colleagues and patients. In just one image, we see both the power of Palestinian humanity and the moral weakness of all those complicit in genocide. End all arms sales to Israel, now.

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The last hospital in North Gaza is burning. Its heroic doctors are missing, dead or displaced - along with their patients. Resigned to its complicity, the West is turning a blind eye. The genocide continues... www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...

submitted 65 days ago • 9 comments

great how the right wing is full of reckless uncompromising gogetters and the democratic party is basically a fundraising operation built around the mechanism of losing elections

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Another day another Israeli war crime: Israeli strikes on Gaza flour distribution line, residential area kill 22 www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/12...

submitted 83 days ago • 4 comments

A+ way to wake up from a nap

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Before The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe, there was: The Cat in the Closet

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Conner’s the funniest guy but it’s a little goofy to tie this to reaching white guy Trump voters www.newyorker.com/culture/crit...

submitted 99 days ago • 7 comments

This was one of my issues with Ministry for the Future. He showed carbon farmers but not the clear incentive to cook the books. To the extent we rely on capture (natural or not), strong accounting will be needed; would have loved to see more of that in a fictional setting to play out scenarios

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From Vietnam to Palestine and Lebanon

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youtu.be/XnACYdBoN28?... I've been playing jazz ballads as lullabies for my son, and I'm struck on a daily basis with how beautiful this version is

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This is the sort of thing that drives me crazy about complaints of 'government efficiency' in science: we *should* be spending millions of dollars studying eels. Not only because it's neat to know, but it's genuinely useful to know "where do eels come from and what happens if we disrupt that"

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I imported 31 friends from Twitter to Bluesky

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