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I say this regularly. People use performative as a substitute for 'inauthentic' and we could all just say the words we mean to say. Erving Goffman helps us to understand that we perform all of the time in real life. Life itself is often a performance of self.

Al Jazeera reporting that Israel has killed 31 Palestinians in Gaza *today*

Think about Alex Pretti being killed 30 more times in one day

U.S workers are taking home the smallest share of the economic pie since the feds started collecting the data in 1947.

“Can we check her pulse?”

“No! Back up! Now!”

“I’m a physician.”

“I don’t care.”

Google Has Chosen a Side in Trump's Mass Deportation Effort Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, while simultaneously removing apps that report the location of ICE officials because Google sees ICE as a vulnerable gr...

Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, while simultaneously removing apps that report the location of ICE officials because Google sees ICE as a vulnerable group.

Our ancestors did more with much less. We have no excuse.

Donate to Help support our teacher illegally detained by ICE, organized by Erin Horetski Our beloved teacher, who was not just an educator but a central part … Erin Horetski needs your support for Help support our teacher illegally detained by ICE

Go Fund Me for the teacher who was kidnapped in front of children in her classroom today: www.gofundme.com/f/stand-with...

Let’s do this Alan

Even worse when you find out Middlebury College had another death of a trans student in 2023, then hosted an anti-trans talk last winter, before kicking Lia off of both her teams this fall.

Now is the time to be curious about our universe, to be imaginative about all its possibilities, including the potential for humans to live in good and sustainable relations with each other and the ecosystems that we depend upon.

This is a time of stubborn freedom dreaming.

It Feels Like Hell on Earth, but Another World Is Possible A magazine of Black politics and culture

"The state of the country is dismal. The decline of the United States into a more open form of authoritarianism continues...But cracks in the right-wing offensive are also starting to emerge."

the newest issue of @hammerandhope.bsky.social is out now

hammerandhope.org/article/trum...

Iron Giant sits with Hogarth who's sat upon an old Train Carriage

"You die?

"Well, yes, someday."

"I die?"

"I don't know. You're made of metal, but you have feelings, & you think about things, & that means you have a soul. And souls don't die."

All shot practically using real figures, lighting & miniature sets

redraw of Richard Scarry's famous Lowly Worm in his apple-shaped car. he is a quaint little worm in a blue shirt, red bowtie, and green hat.

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The staff at this public elementary school in DC showed far more courage than an Ivy with $15 billion endowment

In Memory of Eden Knight 🔆 Memorial page and details on the life of Eden Knight.

Two years ago today, trans woman Eden Knight died at 23 after being trafficked out of the US and forcibly detransitioned in Saudi Arabia by her father Dr. Fahad Ibrahim Alshathri. In her final message, Eden named the individuals responsible for luring and capturing her: trans.cx/in-memory-ed...

This is the take I both wanted and needed

Donate to Stand with Louisiana Abortion Fund, organized by Andrea Fullington Help me raise $1500 for the Louisiana Abortion Fund! LAAF is a community fund tha… Andrea Fullington needs your support for Stand with Louisiana Abortion Fund

The Louisiana Abortion Fund—the only one of its kind in the state—gives direct funding to people across the state who need to access abortion care. Right now, this Black-led org is trying to raise just $1,500 and any help is appreciated www.gofundme.com/f/stand-with...

reads: The Ways AI Decides How Low-Income People Work, Live, Learn, and Survive The use of artificial intelligence, or AI, by governments, landlords, employers, and other powerful private interests restricts the opportunities of low-income people in every basic aspect of life: at home, at work, in school, at government offices, and within families. AI technologies derive from a lineage of automation and algorithms that have been in use for decades with established patterns of harm to low-income communities. As such, now is a critical moment to take stock and correct course before AI of any level of technical sophistication becomes entrenched as a legitimate way to make key decisions about the people society marginalizes. Employing a broad definition of AI, this report represents the first known effort to comprehensively explain and quantify the reach of AI-based decision-making among low-income people in the United States. It establishes that essentially all 92 million low-income people in the U.S. states—everyone whose income is less than 200 percent of the federal poverty line—have some basic aspect of their lives decided by AI.

"92 million low-income people in the U.S. states—everyone whose income is less than 200 percent of the federal poverty line—have some basic aspect of their lives decided by AI"

www.techtonicjustice.org/reports/ines...

this is a damning report

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Legit one of the happiest days of my life. Until Crystal dropped and I discovered I could gender-swap ☺️

Cannot overemphasize how evil this is. And that this tech came from Tel Aviv and Palo Alto. Palestine will be free! Our struggles are connected!

here’s a comic about ❤️being kind❤️