Nordstahl @Nordstahl@social.cleverlibre.org

A Punjabi Celtic musical and dance fusion while acknowledging and paying respect to the Indigenous Peoples of Canada

https://youtu.be/ZKQ1ILG7WX0

Fellow #histodons who are staying off the bird site: lots of conversation over there about a panel at #Berks2023 last night where Lois Banner (emerita, USC) apparently said she thought her career would have been easier if she had been Black.

I share this bc I think it's important, esp for white scholars, to be aware that this kind of attitude is still in our profession. I'm only surprised that she said it publicly; when working on DEI efforts for my home conference, some (mostly senior) white scholars either refused to or could not see that there is a lot of necessary work to do to make our field more welcoming and equitable.

I look forward to seeing a statement and action from the Berkshires Conference; they immediately released a tweet condemning the remarks. But that group shouldn't be singled out; please consider what you could be doing at your institutions and conferences to make change.

🚨 Kolektiva.social SECURITY ALERT 🚨

This is an alert for Kolektiva.social users. Please read this post in its entirety!

In mid-May 2023, the home of one of Kolektiva.social's admins was raided, and all their electronics were seized by the FBI. The raid was part of an investigation into a local protest. Kolektiva was neither a subject nor target of this investigation. Today, that admin was charged in relation to their alleged participation in this protest.

Unfortunately, at the time of the raid, our admin was troubleshooting an issue and working with a backup copy of the Kolektiva.social database. This backup, dated from the first week of May 2023, was in an *unencrypted* state when the raid occurred and it was seized, along with everything else.

The database is the heart of a Mastodon server. A database copy such as the one seized may include any of the following user data, in this case up to date as of early May 2023:

- User account information like the e-mail address associated with your account, your followers and follows, etc.
- All your posts: public, unlisted, followers-only, *and direct ("DMs")*.
- Possibly IP addresses associated with your account - IP addresses on Kolektiva.social are logged for 3 days and then deleted, so IP addresses from any logins in the 3 days prior to the database backup date would be included.
- A hashed ("encrypted") version of your password.

🚨 👉 As a precaution we highly recommend that all users on Kolektiva.social *change their password immediately* to a new, unique, and strong password.

We sincerely apologize to all our users and regret this breach. In hindsight, it was obviously a mistake to leave a copy of the database in an unencrypted state. Unfortunately, what would otherwise have been a small mistake happened to coincide with a raid, due to bad luck and spectacularly bad timing.

We understand that our users and other people on the Fediverse will have a lot of questions. We will try to answer them as best we can, but please be patient and bear in mind that we may be overwhelmed with messages, and may be delayed in responding or unable to provide answers to certain questions for legal or technical reasons. As a security culture reminder, it can be extremely harmful to the individuals charged and to our community to openly speculate on the Internet about alleged criminal activity or about what law enforcement may be able to do with seized data. Our present awareness is that the seized Kolektiva data is unrelated to the federal investigation and prosecution and we are exploring legal avenues to have the seized data returned and copies destroyed.

Thank you for your understanding and solidarity

👇 Please see our replies to this post for additional information (1/?) 👇

In case you need some delight in your day, it’s impossible not to smile at David Zinn’s latest sidewalk #art

A partial list of those bigots who fund the "Alliance Defending Freedom", the hate group behind basically every bigoted law and lawsuit of the last decade.

https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Alliance_Defending_Freedom#Funding

'I'm White, We Rule': Karen Goes Off On Black Man Picking Up His Daughter

NOW THAT'S! A MOMS FOR LIBERTY RECRUIT IF I EVER SEEN ONE!

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/i-m-white-we-rule-karen-goes-off-on-black-man-picking-up-his-daughter/ar-AA1dgrdk?ocid=winp2fptaskbar&cvid=4d29f09fe1c945cdc68be9829d12c2d6&ei=17

The world is in shock today as millions of US citizens took to the streets in protest of corrupt judges and politicians removing rights while making unpopular laws against the will of the people

Lol.

Just kidding.

These images are from France

Enjoy your reality tv and instagram, America 🇺🇸

@coolxenu may her business fail even harder now.

Turns out nobody ever asked #303Creative to make a wedding website because #Lorie has very poor design skills, but she needed the attention of a bunch of alt-right religious suckers to bolster her failing business.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/united-states-supreme-court-web-designer-web-same-sex-wedding-1.6893981

#America #uspoli #SCOTUSFuckYeah

Ukraine conducted nuclear disaster response drills in parts of the country yesterday, as worry rises about a meltdown at the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant.
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/ukraine-conducts-disaster-response-drills-near-zaporizhzhia-nuclear-plant-2023-06-29/

Dear Americans,

Affirmative action was never about admitting unqualified Black kids. It was always about ensuring qualified Black kids could also get accepted despite a world of systemic racism.

The “unqualified admission” you’re thinking of are legacy students—like how Kavanaugh got into Yale.

And sexually assaulted female classmates.

#law #corrupt #SCOTUS

Posted by LeVar Burton from his backyard this afternoon.
#TNG #StarTrek

Medicare for All would save $450B a year.

Every dollar spent on food stamps generates $1.50-$1.80 in economic activity.

Each dollar going to low-wage workers adds $1.20 to the economy overall.

It’s not about what this country can or can’t afford.

It’s about priorities.

Dean's #Scoobynatural 🥰🥰🥰

“Pocahontas”

StreetArt by Anna Conda in Sant’Angelo di Roccalvecce, Italy
#streetart #artist #fediart #mastoart #artmatters #art

You eventually reach the age when you become very critical about people parking near your house.

Missing Child in Toronto, Ontario - Annalyn, 14 - #Toronto #Ontario #missingperson #missingpeoplecanada #missingincanada

Annalyn was last seen on Wednesday, June 28, 2023 at approximately 12 p.m., in the Warden Avenue and Ellesmere Road area.

Annalyn is described as 5', thin build, long dark hair...

More Info: https://missingpeople.ca/missing-child-in-toronto-ontario-annalyn-14/