Phil Landmeier @shuttersparks@social.cleverlibre.org

Had Anita Hill been a White woman, Clarence Thomas never would’ve made it to the SCOTUS.

Had Obama been a White man, the Affordable Care Act would’ve been a fait accompli instead of the years-long, knock-down, drag-out affair that racist GOP sociopaths — excuse the redundancy — made of the bill’s path to approval.

Had Trump been a Black man, given his history as a career criminal, he’d have been impeached, removed from office, arrested, tried, and imprisoned years ago.
#ClarenceThomas #racism

"(W)hat we are witnessing is the wealthiest companies in history (Microsoft, Apple, Google, Meta, Amazon …) unilaterally seizing the sum total of human knowledge that exists in digital, scrapable form and walling it off inside proprietary products, many of which will take direct aim at the humans whose lifetime of labor trained the machines without giving permission or consent."

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/may/08/ai-machines-hallucinating-naomi-klein

oh just a judge casually reminding jurors who found a former president liable for sexual abuse and defamation that he might inspire his followers to seek retribution

IF WE CAME FROM BABIES WHY ARE THERE STILL BABIES?? Check mate science!

And because things must be strongly consistent, AND because any user can REWRITE THEIR OWN FUCKING HISTORY AT ANY TIME, you have to, as an indexer, account for lots of different edge cases where your recorded history diverges.

The protocol for federation is built to make federation as difficult and painful as possible. It is built so that Bluesky, the private company that makes the protocol, is the only 'indexer', the only one with a whole view of the network.

More on the #Russia FSB 'Snake' #malware from #CISA: https://www.cisa.gov/sites/default/files/2023-05/aa23-129a_snake_malware.pdf

@freemo @TruthSandwich @shuttersparks And this racism now has, with Musk, a platform with global reach, and the alacrity with which people in very many places swallow white supremacist ideas tells us that white supremacist thinking is hardly confined to any one society.

Anyone who still thinks that Elon Musk is "just" a spoiled rich white boy tech bro whose political views are, as New York Times tries to tell us, "complicated," needs to read Popular Information's outstanding commentary on his blatant attempt to spread white supremacist disinformation following the choking of Jordan Neely by Daniel Penny on a train in New York.

Musk is a crude out & out white supremacist. And his platform makes him dangerous.

#ElonMusk #WhiteSupremacy

https://popular.info/p/elon-musks-obsession-with-anti-white

1. Are we witnessing a decades-long criminal conspiracy to corrupt judicial nominees to deceive the Senate? Do they await orders as judge to perform their quid pro quo for their criminal principals like the Federalist funders? Then thomas got caught doing old fashioned graft.

2. A US Senator is now asking for Judicial Conference, the Judiciary's self-policing authority that can recommend an impeachment, to this time report a #SCOTUS justice for prosecution. The game has indeed changed as #45's indictment proved nobody gets a get out of jail free.

3. I bet they all wish Thomas would just go away. When the truth takes a long time to emerge it can often come in a flash flood. Who are the witnesses? What do they know? Who wants to be the first one to make a deal and avoid a long jail term?

4. How many powerful lawyers who were clerks of other members of the cabal, now know things & may not want to loss their licenses? We need to make joining the Federalists the end of a career, not the beginning.
#law #crime

@BigAngBlack "Encourage free schools, and resolve that not one dollar of money shall be appropriated to the support of any sectarian school. Resolve that neither the state nor nation, or both combined, shall support institutions of learning other than those sufficient to afford every child growing up in the land the opportunity of a good common school education, unmixed with sectarian, Pagan, or Atheistical tenets. Leave the matter of religion to the family altar, the church, and the private school, supported entirely by private contributions. Keep the church and the state forever separate."

— Ulysses S. Grant, Speech to the Society of the Army of Tennessee (1875) —

#RuleOfLaw #DefendTheConstitution #EducationMatters #BanTheGOP #Insurrection #Rebellion #Confedereds

@fsinn

These are the Republican billionaires funding the Texas GOP.

They are the ones who give Abbott his marching orders.

https://www.texastribune.org/2022/10/18/greg-abbott-texas-fundraising-governor-donors/

@RobertDaleParker

Illinois is about to become the first state to ban . . . book bans at public libraries and public school libraries.

https://bookriot.com/illinois-to-become-first-state-to-ban-book-bans/

#Books #Libraries

If thoughts and prayers did any good, all of mine would have seen Ted Cruz lose his job long ago.

"Entire [Editorial board of Neuroimage] resigns over actions of academic publisher [Elsevier] whose profit margins outstrip even Google and Amazon"

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/may/07/too-greedy-mass-walkout-at-global-science-journal-over-unethical-fees

Extremely relevant to discussions I've had here yesterday about #academic #publishing

$2700 to publish in their journal. Elsevier made nearly $3 billion in revenue with 40% profit margin last year.

Another example of #academia being pay to win

#scicomm

New to Mastodon. Thought id give an #introduction!

My name is Dillon. I am a biologist and Science communicator mainly active on the instagram. If im not hyperfixating on my R code, I am creating online courses and educational material, being opinionated about conservation, or out looking for frogs!

Anyone mind giving me a primer for how Mastodon works? Im still very new to it all

Picture is of my favorite salamander! (Bolitoglossa mexicana)

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/07/us/texas-allen-shooting-gun-control.html?unlocked_article_code=Vc0Tn4uYsn1Smlng3v5HumX-AXLOOy8TysbZKgCaZtRXy53XtHxO4sHNalHMq8jdfEzG4wAaQoMy8VxmheFu4kU1DWX-MUijTQ1RjMe2qAaMpK1WyW96VGQqajfS_dDcFKBTtMR8M774Ng9rt_Qq0ttJhz613UlHdbs35xKrTYFpOvsKmEA5syjPcAF3qhIdymY-Hw3iyq7n_tiXTpDyeTrMrgV4Z-NXLpUGEVHfMLbU5DzT3CAWdhco8fdOxkIHHeTwMO8638zlZvP90lZCWQKQV66WLUjvguQuwr3SovVft_HXpkcR-9sQMO9FfpQv12RNNuR_kwCVFT4CBc3O5Dq8Tvg&smid=url-share

Texas Singer and songwriterJames McMurtry was wearing a dress at his Nashville show last night because the state of Tennessee just made drag shows illegal

How media enables white supremacy.

First pic: How NY Times depicted an unarmed Black teen killed by law enforcement—“problematic & no Angel.”

Second Pic: How NY Times depicts a white woman who unapologetically stole $700M & harmed countless people—“a loving mother & a new beginning.”

#RussiaIsATerroristState