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seachanger

@seachanger@alaskan.social

obligate organizer, systems thinker, radical optimist, public good believer, artsy generalist

living in Lingít Aani, my ancestors were quebecois & ukrainian jews

posting ideas at #SocialTech; always boosting #alaska;

⚠️: I’m often wrong

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seachanger, (edited ) to random
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NYT published a pro- lab leak Covid piece because:

seachanger,
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@bedirthan that is weird and gross but also shouldn’t prevent us from a clear eyed examination of the lab leak hypotheses

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@lightning since I found out about those labs and our funding of them, Occam’s razor for me pointed to a lab leak of some kind. I think there’s a significant reactionary bias against these theories from people who are afraid of looking like conspiracy theorists, a pattern I find irritating on many issues

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@lightning for some people I guess, it is also an important stand alone question tho

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@lightning you don’t think it matters that our own taxes funded a super shady firm to do super shady stuff that very well may have caused covid?

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Here is the piece, which is good to read prior to voting

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/06/03/opinion/covid-lab-leak.html?u2g=c&unlocked_article_code=1.w00.ot6u.Y1doZMx4c2EF&smid=url-share

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@lightning I see where you’re coming from and am sad that governments have memory holed covid prevention as a priority, but significant research and discussion about the virus’s origins will go on nonetheless. To me it matters that we do find out what happened, because otherwise weaponized unreality just swallows up another huge facet of our current human experience, and I do not want that particular future

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@lightning yeah it’s just not an either or, we can agree to disagree on that maybe

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Me: I really care about the hostages but the horrors unfolding in Gaza require all our attention

Rando: you're a pick-me Jew pandering to global antisemites and the Arab Islamist Imperial expansionist project of Pan-Arab hegemonic domination

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seachanger,
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@raph thanks for using your voice so clearly and effectively!

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Macklemore Gaza anthem ‘Hind’s Hall’ climbs US music charts
https://globalvoices.org/2024/06/04/macklemore-gaza-anthem-hinds-hall-climbs-us-music-charts/

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@aram @globalvoices what pretending that photo was intentionally antisemitic is willful misinformation, since this was reported on 10 years ago. Whether or not you like his music, the guy is earnest and not a bigot

https://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/macklemore-explains-controversial-costume/story?id=23792455#:~:text=Macklemore%2C%20who%20wore%20a%20big,t%20fit%20most%20of%20them).

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@aram @globalvoices it’s one thing to make an assumption and be concerned, it’s another thing to blow off any information that conflicts with your preferred assumptions. Macklemore is not an antisemite and spreading bizarre misinfo to the contrary does not help keep Jews or anyone safe

seachanger,
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@aram @globalvoices but he didn’t, and wouldn’t. the performance wasn’t about Palestine or Israel, it was a costume party and he felt super bad and apologized that the get up he chose ended up appearing to some as antisemitic. Generally when people do blackface they are trying to look like Black people — so this really isn’t comparable at all

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“Because of my Jewish origin, because of my love for Mexico and because I feel like a citizen of the world, I share with millions the desire for justice, equality, fraternity and peace, and therefore, I can only see with horror the images of the state bombings,” she wrote at the time, adding, “No reason justifies the murder of Palestinian civilians … Nothing, nothing, nothing, can justify the murder of a child.”

https://mastodon.social/@7sleepersmusic/112553957578352484

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Very compelling. Would love to hear more from the authors of the Science articles who argued for the animal market. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/06/03/opinion/covid-lab-leak.html?u2g=c&unlocked_article_code=1.w00.ot6u.Y1doZMx4c2EF&smid=url-share

seachanger,
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@EBecker I mean it’s always been a head scratcher that we were asked to simply overlook the fact that that particular lab just so happened to be operating in that particular city in that particular time

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@dcbaok @EBecker i tend to be skeptical of absolutists on this issue

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My favorite fire prevention methodology: goats eating all the dried vegetation, just down the highway from me.

seachanger,
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@jeridansky I was surprised to learn how many catastrophic fires really get bad due to dry, often non native, grasses - go goats!

seachanger, (edited ) to random
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just to expand on Arendt's whole banality of evil thing: this entire climate crisis, gaza genocide and a great deal of past and modern white supremacy and colonizer bullshit coasts on social processes made possible by careerism and respectability politics. the road to right now has been so polite, so professional

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@ricardoharvin and really what's more important, justice for oppressed communities or the career trajectory of individual americans!

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@Loukas seriously! Raucous and loving community among the malcontents is the only thing with the power to flip the script

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Injustice proceeds via long timelines of thousands of bureaucratic acts, protected by careerists who are personally invested in being unable to see anything nefarious about any of it, and of course far more concerned with not appearing as a dreaded conspiracy theorist than they are with stopping actual conspiracies

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@inquiline im just like at what point in this poly crisis will folks start to assume that those in power may actually be doing bad things on purpose and also coordinating them with one another — apparently never! apparently it will always all be random and we will always all be insane for suspecting otherwise

seachanger,
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if evil is operationalized by all of us putting our heads down and doing our jobs, than it is a distraction to focus on a particular political figure or party or even group of (non)voters as The Problem. the problem is that we are all caught up in a very tangled web and it takes a lot of courage -and mutual aid- to break free & practice solidarity with the vulnerable, rather than the powerful

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@Loukas and by better surviving this shit we do change the world ❤️

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There was a wave of “It’s actually a 3-3-3 Court!” takes in 2021, when the rightwing supermajority decided it was best to wait another term before going full berserk on democracy and the modern state. That was just regular dumb.

Resurrecting them now is next-level bizarre. Remarkable stuff.

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/06/02/supreme-court-justice-math-00152188

Screenshot of a graph in the Politico piece, presenting Roberts, Barrett, and Kavanaugh as centrists

seachanger,
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@tzimmer_history “right but this is just math Thomas”

-weird nerds diving in front of fascist takes

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People shaming others to vote and saying we mustn't say anything bad about Biden/DNC makes more sense when they reveal that they think the problem is the voters, not the very, very rigged system we are forced to submit to

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@inquiline I know I’m Sarah Kendzior pilled right now cuz I’m listening to her book but she really names institutionalism a lot and I think that explains so much here — if you believe that change hinges on the good experts being in governmental office than all of this really does come down to voting (spoiler the institutions haven’t and won’t save us)

seachanger,
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rage-loaded binary thinking seems to happen when people are scared/traumatized/triggered 🤷🏻‍♂️

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