M Sabella

A little reminder for everyone, particularly our friends in the Labour government:

Research from 2022 that every Democrat apologist should chew on:
“We do not find any evidence that accommodative strategies reduce radical right support. If anything, our results suggest that they lead to more voters defecting to the radical right.“

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

#FOMO

Headline from clipped from Guardian saying 'Starmer’s migration speech ‘completely different’ to Enoch Powell’s, says Yvette Cooper'

Surely if you have to make a statement that a speech is ‘completely different’ to Enoch Powell’s you are dangerously too close

DEI is emerging triumphant in shareholder battles across at companies ranging from Coca-Cola to Berkshire Hathaway Here’s what happened to anti-DEI proposals put before shareholders at several U.S. companies including Apple, Goldman Sachs and Costco.

One thing you can take from this is that companies rolling over are simply doing what they wanted to do anyway.

I won’t be there @diversitydana.bsky.social so I’m counting on you to keep me informed 🤓

Bubble Trouble An AI bubble threatens Silicon Valley, and all of us.

‘OpenAI loses $2 for every $1 it makes, a red flag for the sustainability of any business. Worse, these costs are expected to increase’
prospect.org/power/2025-0...

There are more books that exist in the world today from people whose minds amaze me than I will ever have the capacity to read (which breaks my heart btw).

Why would I waste my time reading something written by AI? Even if it is 'good.'

What problem does this solve?

🚨 Everyone needs to call their Dem Senator right now. They are starting to cave.

Tell them:
1. Vote NO on Cloture
AND
2. Vote NO on the Republican spending bill.

Don’t let them pivot to reconciliation. GOP doesn’t need Dem votes on that and they know it.

TODAY is the showdown.
🤳🏽: (202) 224-3121

Weird time to be writing a book about trans workers in the tech industry

anyway if you want to do an interview with me on signal about your job, feel free to message

Planning to be there in the afternoon @gaellewat.bsky.social. Looking forward to it!

Apologies for the social media orabouros of posting about LinkedIn on BlueSky, but I have begun my annual shout-out for Companies Being Massive Hypocrites On International Women’s Day.

Would appreciate you folks spreading the word. TY!

www.linkedin.com/posts/sharon...

Yes, this administration is dangerous and cruel, but they are also shockingly dim and incompetent.

Opportunities are everywhere.

Make everything as hard as possible. Resist every demand. Refuse entry without a warrant. Don’t take the buyout. Their problem solving skills are 📉

Apropos of a co-panelist's remarks today:

If you're asking how do we get people to trust this technology, you're asking the wrong question.

Should be: How do we build technology that is trustworthy & sufficiently transparent so people can make informed decisions abt when to trust it.

As we head into the final week before the inevitable onslaught of horrifying executive orders, please take a minute to think about what you can do for people who will be directly impacted by those orders in your life. Ask yourself what you will do to support just one specific person. Then scale up.

Whenever someone says they want "free speech" ask them specific questions like:

What things do you want to be able to say freely without consequence?
Why haven't you been able to speak freely already and what limits on your speech exist currently?

Human rights in Myanmar Stay up to date on the state of human rights in Myanmar with the latest research, campaigns and education material from Amnesty International.

The key thing to understand about Meta without guard rails is that, when they allowed their platform to exist without any content controls in Myanmar under an extremist leader, it was used to directly enable a genocide. Zuckerberg knows that its level of threat. www.amnesty.org/en/location/...

This is also part of why the PhD is being devalued as a degree. More women than men get PhDs now.

Costco did better than every tech company, university and most of your favorite podcasts

Stop accepting crumbs and stop thinking the only point is the fight

Sometimes the hardest thing you can do is say

“I will be keeping people in humane and safe environs “

fight the wall

So I’ve had my 1st Black History Month event cancellation because of “DEI concerns,” citing a fear of frivolous suits. Funny thing is, I don’t do DEI, I’m a historian of the Black American experience. A reminder that DEI is just a dog whistle about suppressing history, if you need a reminder.

Image with a yellow background and black writing, calling for a proposal Feasibility study into longitudinal equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) research. "We invite proposals from organisations or service providers for a feasibility study. We want to evaluate the potential, risks, opportunities, and optimal methodologies for conducting a longitudinal research study into the barriers that underrepresented engineers encounter throughout their careers." The deadline is 13 January 2025.

We're inviting proposals for an equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) feasibility study into the barriers that underrepresented engineers encounter in their careers.

We're looking for experienced researchers and organisations with longitudinal study experience: raeng.org.uk/about-us/wor...

sign pls

"Here the numbers as they actually exist in the real world:

Transgender: 1 percent

Muslim: 1 percent

Jewish: 2 percent

Black: 12 percent

Live in New York City: 2 percent

Gay or lesbian: 3 percent"

If they're this divorced from reality I guarantee these folks cannot conceive magnitude of $1bn

"If a woman doesn't look woman enough to a Republican, they want to be able to inspect your genitals to use a bathroom? It's disgusting.

Everyone should reject it completely... they're endangering women, they're endangering girls of all kind, and everyone should reject it. It's gross." - AOC

Welcome Don! Good to see you here. 🙌

always 🧡

Many Gen Z Men Feel Left Behind. Some See Trump as an Answer. Men under 30 are much more likely to support Donald Trump than women their age. It’s a far bigger gender gap than in older generations.

NYT is now just a troll factory for lazy wannabe liberals who try to whitewash their own reactionary instincts. This is another example of how their incompetent, lazy journalism feeds misinformation on important issues. 🧵

www.nytimes.com/2024/08/24/u...

But the report is also full of contradictions. While maintaining that "for some, the best outcome will be transition," it nevertheless effectively recommended that the N.H.S. abandon the guidelines embraced by major mainstream medical associations and restrict the use of medications that have been offered for decades to adolescents across the globe with vanishingly few negative side effects or regrets.

The reason, the report says, is that these treatments are insufficiently supported by reliable, long-term evidence. Then, remarkably, the report recommends treatments - psychological treatment and medications for depression and anxiety that have even less proof behind them in helping children (or adults) with gender dysphoria, though they may help with other mental health issues, and many children with dysphoria already get these treatments. And for all its insistence of evidence, the report is peppered with mere speculation about the potential causes of gender dysphoria: pornography and the phenomenon of social contagion are invoked, with zero credible evidence to support them.

This article by @polgreen.bsky.social in the NYT is extraordinary. Read it immediately then share it widely. It is incredible to see this in print at a paper that has otw been so clearly at war with my healthcare, community, and my field for several relentless years. www.nytimes.com/2024/08/13/o...

Report Addresses Key Issues in Legal Battles over Gender-Affirming Health Care A new report from The Integrity Project provides an evidence-based critique of a recent independent review that has become central to U.S. litigation regarding health care for transgender youth.

A damning joint report by Yale Law School and Yale Medicine finds the UK's Cass Review "levies unsupported assertions about gender identity, gender dysphoria, standard practices, and safety of gender-affirming medical treatments, and it repeats claims that have been disproved by sound evidence.”