Sasha Akhavi @sakhavi@social.cleverlibre.org

How Marjorie Taylor Greene’s ‘pedophile’ slur made it to ‘60 Minutes’ https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/04/03/lesley-stahl-interview-marjorie-taylor-greene-pedophile-slur/

This is textbook fascism where problems are being blamed on a marginalized and powerless minority.

As other previously targeted minorities have become politically necessary to appease, right wingers have found a demographic small enough to abuse without election consequence risk

Microsoft Word?

I haven’t heard that name for years…

It's amazing how much you can learn about risks to the future of the internet by just watching attacks on sex workers and their livelihoods.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/88x9mb/spankpay-sex-work-payment-platform-shuts-down

🚨 “what we do in the next few years will determine our fate for millennia” 🌎

Humanity at the climate crossroads: highway to hell or a livable future?

#IPCC report released.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/mar/20/humanity-at-climate-crossroads-highway-to-hell-or-a-livable-future

The scientific publisher Elsevier is involved with the fossil fuel industry. As #scientists, we cannot work any longer with publishers promoting a dead world. We ask #Elsevier to stop supporting #fossilfuel. Join us in a fight for a #FossilFree Research.
https://stopelsevier.wordpress.com/

new collective noun dropped: A Bailout of Libertarians

The techno-libertarians want on-demand government with just-in-time regulation.

Republicans, led by DeSantis, ludicrously blaming the Silicon Valley Bank crash on "woke" is the same exact thing as Republicans blaming the Great Recession on too many Black people taking home loans.

They don't come with new ideas. Just new ways of saying the n-word.

Iggy Pop’s full name is Ignatius Lollypop.

There are only 14 counties in the world that offer full legal rights to women. The US is not one of them.

Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Greece, Iceland, Ireland, Latvia, Luxembourg, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Germany and the Netherlands
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2023/03/only-14-countries-have-full-equal-rights-for-women

Every time one of these articles come out, I remember the time in 2013 that the editor of a major academic journal desk-rejected an article of mine about data leakage from gay dating apps via ad networks, because “gay-focused apps are too niche and non-representative a topic for research to warrant mainstream publication.”

Also, this story is absolutely wild: https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2023/03/09/catholics-gay-priests-grindr-data-bishops/

happy international women’s day we demand reproductive rights