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Lauren Donohue @stolenbytigers.bsky.social · 3h

Yeah weird line to draw which native populations “count” here given Christopher Columbus was active in the Caribbean/central/South America and never made landfall in what is now the US mainland.

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Bolts @boltsmag.org · 6h

Yesterday, California adopted a law to raise the pay received by incarcerated firefighters when they’re fighting a fire from $1 to $7.25 per hour—meeting the federal minimum wage. Four other new laws also give new rights to incarcerated firefighters.

California's incarcerated firefighters to see a ‘historic’ pay increase in laws Newsom signed

Hundreds of California state prisoners worked to put out this year's deadly Los Angeles wildfires, inspiring new laws that will improve their pay and open other opportunities.

calmatters.org

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Lauren Donohue @stolenbytigers.bsky.social · 5h

people (Stancil and his coterie again) argue that supporting two adults off $60k is not living in poverty because it’s above the federal poverty line as if the same government that set a minimum wage that low can also be counted to accurately index poverty.

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 17h

What's funny — unbearably sad and pathetic — is they mostly seem (these days and since recently, circa 2019) totally bought out by the tech industry. theintercept.com/2019/12/20/m...

How Big Tech Manipulates Academia to Avoid Regulation

“AI ethics” is a field that barely existed before 2017. It’s become a Silicon Valley-led lobby to avoid legal restrictions of controversial technologies.

theintercept.com

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 17h

Also: "This paper reflects on the tech industry’s colonization of the AI ethics research field and addresses conflicts of interest in public policymaking concerning AI." — Gerdes. The tech industry hijacking of the AI ethics research agenda and why we should reclaim it. doi.org/10.1007/s441...

Client Challenge

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Lauren Donohue @stolenbytigers.bsky.social · 18h

It’s how obsessed with optimization we’ve become as a culture. Surely there should be an empirical answer to most held up author!

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Lauren Donohue @stolenbytigers.bsky.social · 18h

Robert Smalls as one of the POV characters? Commandeering the Planter? That's way more interesting than the drama in Turn I'm sorry.

Lauren Donohue @stolenbytigers.bsky.social · 18h

We can stop being sensitive to the confederates feelings when telling stories about them now too, because they already hate our media for being woke.

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Lauren Donohue @stolenbytigers.bsky.social · 18h

(this is me pitching a netflix prestige drama if anybody wants to hop on with this and make it happen for me?)

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Lauren Donohue @stolenbytigers.bsky.social · 18h

Every state that seceded also raised unionist regiments except South Carolina. So I guess they win most confederate more than competitors Georgia and Virginia. Still seems to be true of current electoral trends ahem.

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Lauren Donohue @stolenbytigers.bsky.social · 18h

Also? Union and Imperial Russia fought on the same side and where is the story about that?

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Lauren Donohue @stolenbytigers.bsky.social · 18h

We love an aggrandizing tale of white supremacist woe in this country! Where is my movie?!?

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Lauren Donohue @stolenbytigers.bsky.social · 18h

A ship built and sailed out of Maine with more accurate gunnery bc they believed in science, named for a mountain in New Hampshire, adapted from a native word — the USS Kearsarge sank the CSS Alabama

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Lauren Donohue @stolenbytigers.bsky.social · 19h

The union ran the confederacy all the way to France and was like well do you want your racists back and France said nah, but Great Britain was like WE’LL TAKE EM

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Lauren Donohue @stolenbytigers.bsky.social · 19h

Fun reminder—we do not have enough triumphant naval stories of the civil war. Like I get WWII is very exciting, but Sorry, you can’t beat the drama of early iron-hulled ships battling slavers off Cherbourg.

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Lauren Donohue @stolenbytigers.bsky.social · 20h

I take it we’re not counting the indigenous population of Hawaii?

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Lauren Donohue @stolenbytigers.bsky.social · 1d

Beyond that, it is not good for anybody’s brain to not have the regular exercise of reading and writing. Like sorry you don’t want to do your mental pushups, I’m sure having the computer do it for you won’t progressively make the issue worse or anything!

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Andrew Blum @ablum.bsky.social · 1d

We had Angela Davis speak at my university a couple of years back. One of the many insightful things she said - protest in the way that aligns with your passion. If that’s poetry do poetry or music etc. Because then you will be able to sustain it. If naked bike rides are your passion, 100% do that.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1d

Someone in my mentions is upset because these people haven’t suffered the worst at ICE’s hands and therefore they shouldn’t be praised for being out on the streets?

Yeah, no. To push back on these people we need everyone — especially those with relative privilege — to get up and get involved.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 2d

Portland, you magnificent weirdos

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Courtney E. Thompson @cethompson.bsky.social · 1d

Just think of how many TT faculty lines, graduate stipends, and resources for teaching and research this kind of money could buy...

Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 1d

the more things change, the more they stay the same in college football (coaches being showered in cash for not working)

Firings so far this season by Arkansas, Oklahoma State, Oregon State, Penn State, UAB, UCLA and Virginia Tech have those schools committed to buyouts totaling $93.9 million, subject to mitigation and offset, but not including amounts that also will be owed to assistant coaches

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 2d

Finally realized what the freakout over Mamdani becoming mayor reminded me of, and it's the freakout over the first black mayors in southern cities.

New post at CAMPAIGN TRAILS:

"Too Young to Die"

As the seemingly endless NYC mayoral campaign enters its final weeks, the howls of the Democratic establishment in the city are only getting louder. They've really convinced themselves that the elect...

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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 2d

New levels of hell: just got an email from our local AYSO cancelling today’s youth soccer games because ICE is at the Home Depot across from the soccer fields at James Park in Evanston.

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Lauren Donohue @stolenbytigers.bsky.social · 2d

Essentially true in a more indirect way with how, through years of consolidation, continued access to scientific and medical research is controlled by a few players who continuously raise subscription prices.

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Lauren Donohue @stolenbytigers.bsky.social · 2d

Worst part is that librarians warned this is exactly where we would end up nearly 30 years ago.

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Lauren Donohue @stolenbytigers.bsky.social · 2d

It’s one of the great tragedies in librarianship—how digital content providers have us totally over a fucking barrel and keep jacking up the prices so we can’t easily provide more licenses.

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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 2d

Whistling when ICE is about to kidnap someone for no reason is incredibly effective. They know what they are doing is wrong and will scatter in the wind when too many witnesses gather.

FORM A CROWD
STAY LOUD
PROTECT EACH OTHER
CODE I:
ICE NEARBY
BLOW QUICKLY IN A BROKEN RHYTHM:
PRE-PRE-PRE!
→ ALERTS THE COMMUNITY THAT ICE AGENTS ARE IN THE AREA.
ROGERS PARK WHISTLE PROTOCOLS
WHY A WHISTLE? ON THE STREETS
• A SIMPLE TOOL FOR FAST ALERTS.
• LOUD.
RECOGNIZABLE.
IMPOSSIBLE TO IGNORE.
• OUR VOICES ARE
STRONGER TOGETHER.
WHISTLES GUIDE
PEOPLE TO:
• FOLLOW ICE CARAVANS
• CATCH UP WITH THE CROWD
• ALERT NEIGHBORS
TO JOIN IN
NOISE = VISIBILITY.
CODE 2:
CODE RED
BLOW THREE LONG BLASTS:
PREEEE-PREEEE-PREEEE!
→ ICE IS DETAINING SOMEONE.
FORM A CROWD, STAY LOUD.
DON'T STAY SILENT. STAY NONVIOLENT.
WHY IT WORKS
• INSTANT ALERT
SYSTEM
• FASTER THAN SOCIAL MEDIA
• TURNS SILENCE INTO COMMUNITY
ACTION
ORIGINAL FLYER CREATED BY:
WHAT YOU CAN DO
• WEAR YOUR WHISTLE AROUND YOUR NECK
TEACH FAMILY
EIGHBORS TH
CODES
• USE IT WHEN ICE IS
SPOTTED
• PROTECT EACH OTHER, ALWAYS
TOGETHER, WE KEEP OUR COMMUNITY SAFE.
FORM A CROWD, STAY LOUD.
THIS FLYER DISTRIBUTED BY:
PROTECT RP
• @PROTECTRP_

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