ZingerLearns @ZingerLearns@social.cleverlibre.org

When an individual steals a few thousand dollars in merch, major retailers demand they get sent to jail

But when retail execs steal millions in wages from employees no one says the execs should go to jail

The worst that happens is the company pays back the money + a fine

Hearing #gratitude from students is 💯. I subbed portfolios for exams this semester and I’m never giving an exam again.

I’m reading short notes and whole reflective essays showing appreciation for seeing / hearing / #learning about people like them who are responsible for our so much of our #history but missing from our standard texts.

Also, students who just completed an intro course are vowing to learn more! 🤩 #histodons #teaching #CivicEducation

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The site I write for, like almost every news site from the NYT on down includes a twitter button for sharing.

I'd like to see a mastodon button that anyone can put on their websites to replace the twitter button that is readily available

Google’s Quest to Digitize Troops’ Tissue Samples
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#Google had a confidential plan to turn the collection—slivers of skin, #tumor biopsies & slices of organs from #veterans—into an immense archive that could help create tools to aid the diagnosis & treatment of #cancer & other #diseases. And it would seek first, exclusive dibs to do so.

“The chief concern,” Google’s liaison in the #military warned, “is keeping this out of the press.”

#privacy #ethics #DOD #Health
https://www.propublica.org/article/google-human-tissue-jpc-military?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

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@ambihelical @freemo "after our idiot behavior came to light and was publicly discussed , we decided that being held accountable for our actions was too much so we backpedaled and hope you forget” 👍🏻

@ambihelical

If they really recognized their error I'd expect it wouldnt have been a silence.. but it is improvement at least.

@tonic

"International Statistics of the Year" according to the Royal Statistical Society

Americans killed annually by
All Islamic jihadist terrorists 9
Armed toddlers 21
Lightning 31
Lawnmowers 69
Being hit by a bus 264
Falling out of bed 737
Being shot by another American 11,737

2017 winner: https://rss.org.uk/RSS/media/File-library/News/Press%20release/18-12-2017-THE-RSS-ANNOUNCES-ITS-STATISTIC-OF-THE-YEAR-FOR-2017.pdf

Mastodon and the Fediverse are at their best when you are following lots of people, not only because you see their posts, but because you also see the posts they share. Seeing lots of shares makes it much easier to discover stuff.

➡️ For tips on finding people to follow click here: https://fedi.tips/how-to-use-mastodon-and-the-fediverse-basic-tips/#HowDoIFindPeopleToFollow

Following people is how discovery works on here. There's no computer algorithm pushing stuff to you, instead there are millions of human beings manually sharing stuff they find interesting.

When I was active at the wikipedia there were a group of other writers who would follow my around and mark my articles on women and black people for deletion. They marked my edits CN even when there was a citation. They reworded everything I wrote to minimize the contributions of minorities to history, and hint at theories of racial inferiority. I'd just go to the library and bury them in more citations. It was kind of violent TBH.

77% of Black Americans say voting is a right for every U.S. citizen and should not be restricted, as do 63% of Hispanic Americans and 66% of Asian Americans. White Americans are divided: 51% say voting is a right, while 48% say it is a privilege.

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2021/07/22/wide-partisan-divide-on-whether-voting-is-a-fundamental-right-or-a-privilege-with-responsibilities/ #PewResearch @sociology @politicalscience #BlackMastodon

New research looks at the effects of repeated Covid infections and finds pretty much what you would expect: you not only do not get any kind of superimmunity, you increase your risk of long-term consequences, hospitalization and death. The worse news is that this holds true regardless of vaccination status.

This is not over. Please take care. Mask up.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-022-02051-3

#Covid #CovidIsNotOver #RepeatInfection #WearAMask #MaskUp

@dave @Bam @thetitanborn

1) Don't ask Black users to CW discussions of their own racism.

2) Don't be on a server where mods mistreat Black folk.

3) Support the mods on your own server, financially and otherwise.

4) Don't engage with sea lions that say "Mistreatment? Here? prove it!" There have been enough threads shared on Black folk receiving racism. Individually convincing each one is exhausting, and expecting that is a tactic of bad faith actors.

Do all the people on Twitter using the platform to complain about Elon ad nauseum not understand that if they left the platform and stopped engaging, it would turn into Parler, lose its advertisers and die? It's just a private app that monetizes off of engagement. So don't engage.