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This is starting to get like universal basic income where every single objective study shows the same result but the people who don't like that result go "uh, well there's just really no way to know"

Video game 'reloots' stolen artefacts, by reclaiming works of art from Western museums

Johannesburg’s Nyamakop Studios turns African artifact repatriation into a bold heist game.

Protagonist Nomali and a crew of ordinary citizens reclaim 70 real-life artifacts taken during the colonial era.

The 30-person dev team includes people from Zimbabwe, Ghana, Nigeria, Ethiopia and Tanzania.

If you haven’t already, delete your TikTok

How TikTok 2.0 Became a Weapon for ICE In just one week, the company has gone from being Gen Z’s preferred social media platform to a tool for spying on Americans and the suppression of information.

"TikTok’s Terms of Service now explicitly include tracking of location and citizenship status (among other identity markers, such as sex)." newrepublic.com/article/2059...

Two ceramic tiger sculptures done with an array of underglazes that follow a rainbow pattern with sgraffito details. One is a much larger version of the other.

Rainbow Tiger Totem 🐯🌈✨

Made for the Odd Folk & Fables exhibition with Giant Robot!
Show opens tomorrow at 11am PT and all artwork will be available online at that time as well!

Future purchase link is here: www.giantrobot.com/collections/...

#art #pottery

Last October.

YouTube video by SLASH Filmfestival The Gnawer Of Rocks (Short Film) - Trailer

So we encountered the short film "Mangittatuarjuk (The Gnawer of Rocks)" last night on an Inuit channel and it's cool as heck!! I need more people to know about it!

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Small acrylic marker painting with ornamental rug design and in the middle of it there is a black cat painted from above so it is laying down on it. The rug has lots of small details, mostly pointy and square shapes. The colors are dark blue, red, orange, green and yellow. The cat has a smile on its face, enjoying the rug.

cat on a rug!
#art ✧ #painting ✧ #cat

A vibrant multi-toned pigment of blues and purples painting a star pattern of an Islamic geometry square. A pale hand holds a super thin paint brush in the top corner, as there’s still a lot left to paint!

It’s been a really rough week handling the file release (and the world realizing the horrors that consumed my childhood), so I made a little time to decompress by painting some Islamic geometry and alhamdulillah I really needed it 🥲💜

#ArtWIP #watercolor

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They're going to target Democrat districts and arrest anyone they want to. The only point will be to stop people from voting.

That's the severity of what we're dealing with but Schumer and Jeffries are falling over themselves to make sure ICE can still wear masks while they do it.

Bezos has rejected multiple offers to buy the paper, and his CEO ignored an offer to spin off the sports and local news sections.

The Epstein files provided more support for something we’ve known for quite a while:
Rightwing billionaires understand that control of media outlets gives them power.

This is bleak: Jes Staley, currently CEO of Barclays, reassuring Epstein that popular revolt against financial elites is unlikely because capitalism and pop culture have defanged social movements, leaving people more invested in consumption than justice.

From: Jes Staley < To: Jeffrey Epstein < jeevacation@gmail.com> Subject: Date: Mon, 03 Feb 2014 01:13:16 +0000 you want to know why we are not São Paulo, watch the TV adds on the Super Bowl. Its all about hip blacks in hip cars with white women. The group that should be in the streets, has been bought off. by Jay Z Jes Staley Blue Mountain Capital This e-mail is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material.…

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Epstein Backed ‘Billionaires’ Dinner’ Network of Prominent Anti-Trans Figures Lawrence Krauss, Richard Dawkins, Steven Pinker and other anti-trans influencers personally benefited from a right-wing academic social group backed by infamous human trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, somet...

You’re not crazy. The anti-trans movement is not organic; it was funded by pedophilic billionaires like Jeffrey Epstein who backed a network of conservatives to accuse the same people they were sexually abusing of being the real danger. @madycast.com exposes the truth in our in-depth report.

Gonna be honest, it did feel a bit like I had been going crazy, especially since even before any of these revelations, a lot of career transphobes were quite openly pedophilic, Germaine Greer self-described as a pederast "like all women of taste", and yet nobody seemed to see the red flags.

It Turns Out Waymos Are Being Controlled by Workers in the Philippines During a Congressional hearing, Waymo's chief safety officer, Mauricio Peña, was grilled over the company's reliance on overseas workers.

Once again, it turns out “fully autonomous” means “a guy in the Philippines.”

Gladys Mae West obituary: mathematician who pioneered GPS technology She made key contributions to US cold-war science despite facing huge barriers as a Black woman.

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition.

Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Woman facing eviction after husband ended tenancy wins case against landlord Divisional Court found the Toronto woman is a tenant despite the lease only being signed by her husband, who was removed from the home for domestic violence.

Landlord & Tenant Board ordered a mom & her two kids evicted after her husband, the sole name on the lease, was removed from home by the police. Landlord had told her to pay twice the rent or move out. A court has overturned this cruel & legally flawed order www.thestar.com/news/gta/wom... #onpoli

Sorry he just praised Carney and what Carney is doing to Canada moving so far right with the Liberal party…

Given all the damage Harper has done behind the scenes (Postmedia takeover of Canada print media) and how he is still behind the right wing and far right movement, IDGAF what he has to say.

New Cherokee fonts developed by Chris Skillern (@tulseytype.bsky.social‬) and Osage fonts developed in collaboration with Dr. Jessica Harjo, which after five years of community-partnered research, marks a complete Indigenous North American Type collection!

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Working link: www.typotheque.com/blog/cheroke...

𝐖𝐚𝐲𝐦𝐨’𝐬 “𝐚𝐮𝐭𝐨𝐧𝐨𝐦𝐨𝐮𝐬” 𝐬𝐞𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐭: 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐡𝐮𝐦𝐚𝐧 𝐥𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐫 𝐩𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐝𝐫𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐥𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐫𝐢𝐝𝐞 For the first time, Waymo has disclosed that it employs workers… | Rest of World 𝐖𝐚𝐲𝐦𝐨’𝐬 “𝐚𝐮𝐭𝐨𝐧𝐨𝐦𝐨𝐮𝐬” 𝐬𝐞𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐭: 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐡𝐮𝐦𝐚𝐧 𝐥𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐫 𝐩𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐝𝐫𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐥𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐫𝐢𝐝𝐞 For the first time, Waymo has disclosed that it employs workers in the Philippines to monitor and support its autonomous driv...

For the first time, Waymo has disclosed that it employs workers in the Philippines to monitor and support its driverless rides, which are marketed as fully autonomous.

The revelation pulls back the curtain on the manual labor still underpinning the technology www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

Most “AI" is a thousand exploited workers in a trenchcoat, example 9,302,471

U.S. News Jeffrey Epstein, Pedophile Billionaire, and His Sex Den Hedge fund mogul and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein lived in a depraved world of thrice-daily massages, pornographic artwork, and hush money—that’s only now being revealed. Conchita Sarnoff Published Jul. 22 2010 7:46PM EDT

Jack Horner (regarding financial association with Epstein in 2012 and 2016) "I regret that I did not investigate Epstein’s background beyond what was commonly known at the time"

What was commonly known at the time (pre 2012):

The Secret IRS Files: Trove of Never-Before-Seen Records Reveal How the Wealthiest Avoid Income Tax ProPublica has obtained a vast cache of IRS information showing how billionaires like Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk and Warren Buffett pay little in income tax compared to their massive wealth — sometimes, ev...

We found that Jeff Bezos paid *zero* taxes in 2007 and 2011.

In fact, he reported making so little in 2011 that he even claimed and received a $4,000 tax credit for his children.

This is how he did it (published 2021):

As amended:

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Anyone who continued their relationship with Epstein after he plead guilty to pedophilia is absolutely an active participant.

Let's be real. They're not useful idiots.

They're active participants.