Phillip Winn @pwinn@social.cleverlibre.org
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Love conquers fear
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Joined Nov 2022
Great callout, but I keep thinking of the Luddites, and how they were right. They saw technology displacing their work and they were 100% correct. Today we use the label to describe backward-thinking people who resist progress, and sure, maybe direct action wasn’t the best approach, but at least we remember them!
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Today would be the 96th birthday of #CliftonWalker.
On February 28, 1964, near midnight, on a dirt road in #SouthwestMississippi, a mob of whites ambushed Walker. They stopped his car, gathered around it with shotguns and fired in at close range. It was possibly the first organized #lynching of a Black man by the #Mississippi White Knights of the #KuKluxKlan. No arrests have ever been made. The murder could still be solved.
#BlackHistory #RacistViolence #ColdCase #KKK (1/14) 🧵
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Happy #BlackHistoryMonth !
Still working through white US history.
Q: Why are so many Black folk early adopters of tech like Uber and Amazon? Sometimes this willingness to try new tech early backfires on y'all, like the whole crypto scam. Tech companies don't always love you back. So... why so eager? Is it because of Deltron 3030 and André 3000? 🤔You're... you're going to say racism aren't you?
A: Yep! Racism. And go ahead and add Sears to that list of "technology" companies.
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Happy #BlackHistoryMonth !
I still haven't made it to Black history. I'm still working through all this white US history.
Q: Why do Black folk commit more crime? I hear you on "wage theft should be a crime too" and all that... but if we look at convictions for murder, sexual assault, and drug possession, Black folk just commit way more crime! Those are facts!
A: Black folk are *convicted* more. Black folk are *many times* more likely to be wrongfully convicted. Because racism.
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It’s free during #BlackHistoryMonth. What better time than to take this course? I was honored to be a part of it with so many scholars I admire. Make this a part of your curriculum this month. @MasterClass
Black History, Black Freedom & Black Love learn.masterclass.com/blackhistorymo…
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Happy #BlackHistoryMonth !
I hope to get to Black history soon, but I'm still working through white US history. There's so much of it!
Q: Why are Black people in the US so much more likely to die in traffic accidents than white people? Are Black folk more likely to drive under the influence of alcohol or drugs (DUI)? Is it street racing? Are y'all just bad drivers?
A: Hmm. I'm stumped! No one knows the answer to why this happens! Just kidding. It's racism. It's always racism.
@cautionwip @OctaviaConAmore @futzle qoto.org has a 65535-character limit, but not based on the Bee Movie.
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Boosting this with alt-text because #librarians rule! 💪
I love the last panel. 😊
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1/ Many potential users complain about Mastodon's sign-up process.
So I'm going to put this under the microscope right now.
To be sure, I'm not going to say it is "bad" or that there shouldn't be a barrier to entry.
Just pointing out ways the sign-up process can be easier. 🧵
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So thrilled to discover my EYE ON SCI-FI Podcast named by FeedSpot as one of the "100 Best Sci-Fi Podcasts." I'm so humbled to be included in such esteemed company!
Check out the listing here:
https://blog.feedspot.com/sci_fi_podcasts/
@natalied I'm so sorry, Natalie.
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Yall can't handle this. Listen. Feel this.
I Made Myself Lonely - The Dramatics https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kAijYwb3aA
@davidbruchmann Yeah. 😢
So many young girls suffered for so long. It's hard to believe that would have gone on for as long as it did if any of the girls had been white.
But it's Friday! Better to focus on Black Excellence, not some pervert abuser!
@davidbruchmann But it's the freakin' weekend! 😅
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Once you understand white US history instead of Black history, you'll understand why the following interventions will do much more to improve US Black educational achievement than most of the nonsense we're trying today:
• Bail reform
• Fire racist teachers, including the Bill Cosbys
• Retain anti-racist Black, white, AAPI, Latinx teachers
• Get rid of school cops
• Provide all students free lunch. And breakfast. And afternoon snack.
• Transfer police budget to school budget. Bring back art.
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Oh! I almost missed an opportunity to plug Hair Love again!
"Toxic masculinity" doesn't mean that masculinity is toxic, any more than "rabid dog" means that all dogs are rabid. Some masculinity is toxic, and some dogs are rabid.
If you're comfortable with your masculinity, you get to be a better dad.👍🏿
Matthew Cherry. Former NFL player. Martial artist. Black dad. Decided he wants to write children's stories.♥️
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kNw8V_Fkw28
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Another #BlackMastodon #BlackHistoryMonth appreciation post
Salute Mark Dean 🫡 — computer scientist/co-inventor of the color PC monitor & processing devices that made PC plug-ins possible (disk drives, vid gear, speakers, & scanners)
He also led team of IBM engineers in creating the 1st gigahertz chip—a revolutionary innovation enabling a billion calculations/second. The man holds 3 of IBMs original 9 patents & now has 20 patents under his belt 👊🏾✊🏾💪🏾
@seanalan I got onto the subject because of @mmasnick's TechDirt site, although I think Karl Bode wrote about the subject most there.
I live in Dallas, which will likely be one of the last places to succeed with community broadband, for many reasons, but I keep thinking about moving, and I keep thinking about making community broadband one of the things I look for if I do. It just make so much sense, and I hate the big companies controlling access so much!
@seanalan I appreciate your work on community broadband! It’s one of many issues I care about at the intersection of tech and politics, so I follow your content on the subject with great interest.
@I_Choose_Exile@mastodon.social I'm so sorry I didn't re-check your address when I first posted! I double-checked the first five, then decided to drop in another five I had queued up, and... I'm sorry.
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Love conquers fear
#nerdery #books #puzzles #ttrpg #anime #Christian #feminist #antiracist #photography #sudoku #golang #python #OpenWeb #AIart #GenshinImpact #tfr
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