Sasha Akhavi @sakhavi@social.cleverlibre.org

The U.S. is a country that has really embodied that famous old saying, "an ounce of prevention is going to be worse for our Q1 earnings projections than would be the fine our neutered government can potentially levy after decades of appeals, should we destroy an entire town."

The Tennessee senate is criminalizing public drag performances (which they helpfully extend to all “burlesque” including “go-go” and “stripping”), because kids aren’t dying from guns, bullying, opiates and state violence, they’re getting dragged to death
https://www.actionnews5.com/2023/02/09/tenn-senate-passes-bill-criminalizing-public-drag-performances/

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In the men's restroom, someone punched a hole in the wall. The staff decided not to repair the hole, but to frame it... #art

My #book @themitpress has a cover! "Insolvent: How to Reorient Computing for #JustSustainability" brings computing in dialogue with its 'critical friends' to show how we can enact meaningful change in #computing to meet the urgent need for #sustainability and #justice. It will be part of #Direct2Open, i.e. #OpenAccess from the start.
https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/insolvent #InsolventBook #Books

So, the Heritage Foundation somehow got their hands on personal data of 30,000 of the most marginalized people staying at 'geofenced' migrant aid shelters and CBP facilities, and tracked their phone location across the US for some sh*tty propaganda? #wtf
https://www.tpr.org/border-immigration/2023-01-06/conservative-group-targets-migrant-cell-phone-data-at-ngos-raising-privacy-concerns

#Democrats respond to GOP calls for #DebtCeiling negotiations: No

“In exchange for not crashing the United States economy, you get nothing,” Sen. Brian Schatz said in an interview with The Daily Beast. “You don’t get a cookie. ... You’re just a person doing the bare minimum of not intentionally screwing over your constituents for insane reasons.”

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/democrats-respond-gop-calls-debt-ceiling-negotiations-no-rcna65944

Need a bit of GOOD news? #UCLA researchers developed a small implantable device that drove cancerous tumors into remission, eliminated metastasis, prevented the growth of new tumors, and resulted in longer survival in laboratory mice. Next up: clinical trials in humans. Very exciting and hopeful stuff!
Article can be found here: https://newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/ucla-designed-implantable-device-combats-cancer
#Cancer #AnimalResearchSavesLives

Canadian selfies

"Your new approach failed to solve the problem in 1 week. We will therefore go back to our old approach, which has failed to solve the problem for a year."
—Legacy org thought process
#ProductManagement

faculty of informatics at TU Wien is advertising a tenure-track position for AI Ethics. feel free to distribute this call: https://informatics.tuwien.ac.at/news/2273 (in fact, i would be grateful :)

“Mansplaining as a service.” Spot on.

Quoting @andrewfeeney: https://phpc.social/@andrewfeeney/109466122845775778

I'm sharing this as an actual solution to empower civilians.

Please check out TurnSignl, an app founded by Black civil rights lawyers. It lets you video call a lawyer asap through voice activation or single touch when police pull you over. The lawyer manages & records the entire convo w/police & works to get you home safe.

It's like $7/mo and free for low income people. It's in a few dozen states & will be nationwide shortly. I have it myself.

See it here:

https://m.turnsignl.com/get_app/NbAW