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This is probably a timely reminder to say that I'm working on a new fediverse software thing with friends that actually gives a shit about addressing the kind of situations where some idiot scientists scrape thousands of posts without permission and then call some of the people in those posts 'sexual deviants'
https://parast.at/blog/2020/01/03/what-is-parastat.html
(-> @parastat)
Quite frankly, people arguing separating artist from art is a white imperialist talking point. You can't really separate an artist from their work, since so much of themselves are poured into it, and you can't separate cultural context from the art either.
I am done hearing excuses like this. There are millions of better doom mods out there, gaming journalists are doing a lot of harm by continuing to cover nothing but Sgt Mark IV's work.
Hello everyone
From a still unclear start date until October 2018, many English-language instances had their public posts scraped, without consent and without seeking consent, by a Milan University student for the purpose of a paper which, maliciously or not, misrepresents the interest of the content warning feature present on Mastodon and other fediverse software.
https://likeable.space/notice/9qwGoknsLbUGV0M5lQ
donphan.social has been targeted and 3220 public posts from here are present in the dataset.
The University has removed the accessibility of the dataset, but some people have it saved so it's not entirely gone from the internet.
Local users, I apologise for this mishap and remain available for any questions regarding this.
Anti-intellectualism needs to be destroyed. Why do you think scientific racism still exists? Why do you think the whole "XX AND XY CHROMOSOMES DETERMINE YOUR SEX" thing exists? Why do you think people deny climate change? Or think vaccines are dangerous?
There's a dangerous trend of anti-intellectualism and deliberate ignorance. It isn't the source of every problem but it sure as fuck needs to have something done about it. This is why I think it's so important for things to be explained for normies without jargon in ways they can understand. Otherwise, someone else will give them the wrong explanation... and it's that much harder to deprogram.
This is why education is important too. Just not the way we educate our children right now, which is as dull and boring as possible, and overworks them for no reason.
If I can walk out of a fascist white cut that I had been a part of for years, in order to reduce the harm I had been doing to others and myself, surely you can be expected to grow and change for the better when told that your behaviour is harmful.
suicide, ACAB
WaPo: Seattle cops deliberately lie to a friend of a fender-bender hit and run saying he’d left someone critically injured, the suspect dies by suicide, and the cop claims it was justified because the friend wasn’t scrolling through her phone book fast enough: https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/01/11/man-killed-himself-after-police-officer-lied-that-hed-seriously-hurt-someone-hit-and-run/
And that, kids, is why we don’t believe *anything* out of a cop’s mouth.
Can we dispense with the idea that capitalism drives innovation? Especially in things like for-profit healthcare and the like, but really across the board.
You know what drives innovation? Not profit motive, but sharing information and techniques. Capitalism promotes trade secrets and preventing other people from using and building on your work. It's geared toward a kind of innovation, the kind that maximizes profits. But for everything else, sharing is far and away more effective.
Hey my enbies, I'm looking for some info about being nb. I identify as this and enjoy it very much. But I'd like to know more about this : where does it comes from, who said it first, which country, etc. So if you have articles, books, a rosetta stone or even authors about these I'd be glad!
Boost to show ancom enby propaganda
Artist and Composer. Trans plural voidpunk anarchist and antifa nonbinary gremlin. My voice is for the oppressed, and I shall fight for freedom with no quarter, so that those around me won't have to.
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> Velvet Silmeria (Fae/They/She/Ey/He)
Räsvelg AY-N4 Tiyaga (Kit/Bit/She/They)
Lenneth Crimson (She/Xey/They/It)
Ashlynn Valefor (Xey/They/It/She)
Ricardo Sophia du Sol (Ey/He/They)
Saturnine Stargazer (She/They/It)
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Yuri Sunbreaker (It/She)