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JA Westenberg

12/14 Instead of crying rigged election, maybe it’s time to admit that biases are still alive and kicking. It’s easier to blame secret plots than face the fact that a lot of people have too much hate and misogynoir in their hearts to vote for a Black woman to have power.

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Sara Bishop

Tuiter se ha convertido en una cloaca filofascista así que a partir de ahora estaré mucho más por aquí.

¿Me ayudáis a encontrar a mis sáficas seriéfilas y moots con intereses similares?

Aviso: soy más roja que las amapolas.

#sapphic #series #cine #arte #tech #music #cats #actualidad

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Tim Mak

We will continue to put people first: narrative journalism that illustrates how ordinary citizens are resisting tyranny.

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David Renton

A piece I wrote in January, calling the election for Trump, arguing he won't govern like a fascist but he will be worse than last time: more vengeful, supported by a base with which he has party-like relations and the state retrospectively accepting the Jan 6 coup

tempestmag.org/2024/01/what-it

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JA Westenberg

Thread:

Why Kamala Lost Has Nothing to Do with Some Secret GOP Conspiracy, Election Rigging Plot.🧵

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Thomas Zimmer

Even though fascism’s key thinkers and intellectual enablers came from different ideological backgrounds, this is what appealed to them, what ultimately united them behind the fascist leader. And so it is again today. 9/

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JA Westenberg

How to Talk About Fascism in Trump's Second Term

Once the “Fourth Estate,” now the sideline observer. When did journalism start treating democracy’s meltdown as casual news? It’s time to ask: where’s the outrage?

joanwestenberg.com/how-to-talk

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Dave T-W

Watched this movie the other day, was half joking with my brother that the imagery was prophetic. Too soon. :(

Still from the opening of the movie" Malcolm X", where the US flag catches fire against the outline of a giant X (X of course symbolising voting). Underneath, the closed caption reads "We don't see any American Dream".
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I made the right decision not to stay up and watch the impending doomscape.

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RIP Quincy Jones - such a massive figure and yet I still didn't realise half of the stuff he'd done - The Italian Job soundtrack, for example.
theguardian.com/music/2024/nov

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Matt Bors

One more In These Times comics section before the election
inthesetimes.com/article/comic

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M.Bjoernstroem, a Swedish mechanic/air traffic controller/one man construction company/videographer, in his latest 5 hour video where he builds a base for his new garage. for middle aged blokes.

youtu.be/W0bDzIiK91o

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Longreads

In this excerpt of The Atavist's latest, Mira Ptacin recounts Christopher Pohlhaus' plans to build a fascist training compound in rural Maine. The local journalists, veterans, lumberjacks, and policymakers weren't having it.

longreads.com/2024/10/31/how-c

#Longreads #NeoNazi #Maine

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Dave T-W

The piece that piqued me, for and is here, introduced by Revd Dr Sam Wells at St Martin's in the Fields last Thursday.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=o0yQHZNe

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OMG the McMaster-Carr website is an absolute fucking TREAT. In SO SO MANY WAYS.

Check it out, honestly. If you've never used it before, just go. Just click around. It is fucking *BRILLIANT*.

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Dave T-W

I was at a recital yesterday of some choral and organ church , and after looking up one of the composers, was surprised to find that he wrote one of those annoying viral tiktok tunes you hear all the time.

So here's Thomas Hewitt Jones a couple of years back on how that ended up going viral.

youtu.be/5BxjG0AwAT8?si=JaVlVk

And more recently how the internet / social media / AI generative music puts creativity at risk:

youtu.be/aBG3i4v9EK4

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Dave T-W

First time ever commuting with Mrs Davoloid to our respective new buildings at Stratford. Lovely open examples following tradition. And a thoroughly nice day.

Staff Common Room at UCL East Marshgate building. A long double height room with tables and chairs, a window to the left on the upper section of that wall, and a whole window to the right. A large concrete pillar in the right hand side of the image too. Dark wooden flooring and a large tapestry at the far wall.
Marshgate, looking down from an upper floor into the atrium, with a large revolving globe suspended in the centre. Study spaces are visible on balconies below.
Curved concrete staircases cross a curved stairwell in UAL's Eastbank building.
UAL Eastbank interior. Curved stairwell, looking out to large bright windows.
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Cory Doctorow

State-affiliated Chinese hackers penetrated AT&T, Verizon, Lumen and others; they entered their networks and spent months intercepting US traffic - from individuals, firms, government officials, etc - and they did it all without having to exploit any code vulnerabilities. Instead, they used the back door that the FBI requires every carrier to furnish:

wsj.com/tech/cybersecurity/u-s

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A stainless steel, riveted cubic vault. On one face is a giant vault door surmounted by the FBI logo. On the other face is a rusty screen door with the words NO ENTRY on it; through the screen we see a Chinese flag. Image: Kris Duda, modified https://www.flickr.com/photos/ahorcado/5433669707/ CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/
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Katy Elphinstone

The way autism is currently diagnosed seems quite unreliable, to me.

I feel this would be ok if it were not generally taken to be so definitive and consistent 🤷‍♀️

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#ActuallyAutistic #Autism #Diagnosis #Neurodivergent

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Dave T-W

This hits hard.
mixmag.net/feature/rip-daniell

"Danielle Moore believed in the idea of dancing as a deliberate act of community or a salve for personal anguish and the numerous benefits that came with moving together on a dancefloor. It was this experience that enabled a shy and otherwise under-confident woman to perform as though she owned the stage."

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