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Pixel-stained Technopeasant, Iconoclast, Creative Co-Conspirator Co-operator
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muiren, to science
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Stunning photos show the Sun like never before | BBC News

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICRRjS9s3AY

muiren, to random
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The Black Elite Are Out Of Their Minds!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvY3jzqfc3o

muiren,
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@kat_kime @fulanigirl I bought and studied it, but never was able to find anyone local interested in reading and discussing it. I try to ignore people who throw shade and are too intellectually lazy to offer evidence and logic to support their opinion. That isn't the case with Professor Ball's critique.

muiren,
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@fulanigirl @kat_kime Caste doesn't suffer from a lack of research so much as it appears written to avoid making a white audience uncomfortable.

It offers no critical analysis or solution to ending the racialized class/caste hierarchy. The racialized class hierarchy is a Ponzi scheme only s few can ever benefit from at the expense of a permanent underclass.

A scheme that requires the willing duplicity of the middle class and poor, who fantasize they too can one day be on top, and so defend the status quo of oppression instead of uniting to end it.

The solution to the deliberately created system of caste and racialization, is their deliberate ending, NOT racial equality.

As I have said before, diversity among the ruling class is never progress, it is a bribe that discourages BIPOC elites who gain access, from fighting to end a system they benefit from.

muiren,
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@fulanigirl @kat_kime I'm always open to new sources of knowledge.

muiren,
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@fulanigirl @kat_kime I was born into a family obsessed with elitism, status, wealth, and power at any cost. An obsession that permanently estranged us.

As late as 2016 my brown bag club father, aunt, and first cousin dismissed my experiences of having my paternity questioned because of my much darker skin, and bizarrely claimed colorism doesn't exist in Washington DC Black culture, that it might rarely happen elsewhere.

That level of denial is virtually pandemic among the most educated and affluent of the Diaspora.

muiren, to random
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Racialized gender stereotypes harm Cis and Trans Black Women.

"With all of this I got, you think I look like a man because of my hair cut?"
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/h84M7l5LrSY

muiren, to random
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Erin In The Morning
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JK Rowling Transphobia: Rowling Calls Trans Woman Journalist "A Man...Cosplaying"

Rowling took to Twitter on Monday to call trans journalist and broadcaster India Willoughby "a man," "cosplaying a male fantasy," the latest in a long list of transphobic remarks from the author.
https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/jk-rowling-transphobia-rowling-calls

muiren, to random
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In This Town, Only The Rich Get Water • More Perfect Union
Water is running out in Pearce, Arizona. Residents tell us that their wells are running dry. Meanwhile, a massive dairy farm is using 900 million gallons of water each year. But it's not just Pearce. This is happening across Arizona, where corporations are racing to profit from the state's disappearing water.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DcLKp0vDBT0

muiren, to history
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How Did Opinions Get In Our News? • PBS Origins

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3yvGLROXLM

futurebird, (edited ) to random
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Still thinking about the concept of studying ant communication by getting down to ant level. Make a tiny robot (we don't know how to make walking robots that small, so wheels it is) the robot would have a camera, little pads to collect pheromones (which could be dropped off to be analyzed) antennae IR sensors and maybe a way to stridulate?

Then one could really find out what's going on in there.

Worst case you have made an immersive ant VR experience!

muiren,
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@futurebird Not sure if that was humor, but there are prototype nanobots far below the size you would need. Practical micro or insect scale bots have made a lot of progress over the past few years, by experimentalist at the corporate, academic, and hobbyists.

muiren, to random
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Adapting Dune (Without Arabs) • Miranda Ketita
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_IaHOTO1qY

muiren, to random
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My first reading of Frank Herbert's “Dune” was in 1969, and I couldn't convince anyone else to read it, mostly because the reviews weren't that good.

When others did come around to reading it, the message they got from the book was the opposite of mine, which is a cautionary tale warning of unfettered capitalistic extraction, exploitation-based cultures and the fanatical belief in strongmen, messianic figures.

muiren,
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@cynblogger Not sure if you were looking for a response. Without some context or reason why, there is no way to respond. What were your expectations of the book? Do you believe it was badly written? What did you think the book was about verses what Herbert clearly said inspired and informed writing Dune? Do you believe in unrestricted capitalism, deny climate change, do you believe people have to be led by dictators or religious prophets?

muiren, to random
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For decades, I've had idiot white and black folk try shaming me for playing and listening to bluegrass, high lonesome blues, country swing by JD Loudermilk, Bill Monroe, Louvin Brothers, and many more. I wish Vassar Clements, Father of Hillbilly Jazz was alive to set these idiots straight!

Backlash against Beyoncé’s country album shows ignorance of genre's Black roots

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTzFpIcSRy0

muiren, to news
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CNN DESPERATE To Stop Nina Turner From Spitting Facts • The Kyle Kulinski Show

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRZqR89pt64

muiren, to random
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UC Berkeley spent $6.6M to close People’s Park in January • Berkeleyside
The university spent $972,000 on shipping containers and $3.77 million to hire, feed and lodge law enforcement, including $1.5 million in police overtime.
https://www.berkeleyside.org/2024/02/28/uc-berkeley-spent-6-6m-close-peoples-park-january

muiren, to random
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-LGBTQ -Semitic Neo-Nazi Massachusetts Republican Candidate Slated To Win
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAS79KL4LYw

muiren, to LGBTQ
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Erin In The Morning
The American Psychological Association, representing 157,000 members, has issued a resolution calling for an end to trans care bans and misinformation around care.

https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/worlds-largest-psych-association

muiren, to random
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If they are confident their cause is just, then why can't these polite white supremacists just be honest and own their bigotry?

“Just Like A Dog”: Fans Blast John Schneider For “Racist” Remarks About Beyoncé’s Country Album
https://www.boredpanda.com/john-schneider-compares-beyonce-new-country-songs-to-dog-marking-territory/

muiren, to random
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The mayor of Berkeley says he’s concerned about the city, and the East Bay as a whole, becoming a hospital desert. Berkeley’s only full-service hospital, Alta Bates Summit Medical Center, is scheduled to close by 2030.
https://kron4.com/news/bay-area/alta-bates-scheduled-closure-raises-concerns-about-east-bay-becoming-a-hospital-desert/

muiren, to random
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Star Trek fans raise over $60K in funds for Discovery actor Kenneth Mitchell's wife and children... after star dies at age 49 of ALS
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-13127513/Star-Trek-fans-raise-60K-funds-actor-Kenneth-Mitchells-family.html

muiren, to random
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White House, tribal leaders hail 'historic' deal to restore salmon runs in PNW region
https://komonews.com/news/local/white-house-tribal-leaders-columbia-river-basin-tribes-oregon-washington-pacific-northwest-region-1-billion-dollar-plan-depleted-salmon-populations-federal-dam-yakama-nation-government-white-house-complex-umatilla-indian-green-energy-transition

muiren, to random
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If we were serious about not being a white Christian Ethnostate, then all courts would be science courts and both federal and state law would require a vetting process to ensure compulsory laws based on pseudo-science, quasi-religious, and religious assumptions are barred from further consideration.

The fact this isn't even a discussion, suggests that regardless of party, a majority of people don't really want to.be held accountable for insinuating their "deeply held personal bigotry" into law.
https://apnews.com/article/alabama-frozen-embryos-conservative-christian-views-ruling-d9b7f720b5ef865ab35205ad36061f2d

Jaden3, to random
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Shit da South was so racist they had to publish a book to show where black folk were allowed to eat, sleep, drink, dance and fill up with gas!
Yall watch the movie Green Book? It good 👍🏾

muiren,
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@Jaden3 When I was a child in the late 50s and 60s we still used the Negro Motorist Green Books throughout Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana, and the rest of the Midwest. It was NOT just for travelling safely through the deep south.

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