Jayson Massey @jaysonmassey@qoto.org

"At first it seemed impossible to speak about the unfolding catastrophe except as a repetition, an echo of that unholy litany: Bhopal, Three Mile Island, Chernobyl. Objections to such comparisons are easy to come up with. The chemical leak at Union Carbide’s pesticide plant in Bhopal, India killed over two thousand people more or less immediately, and as many as 16,000 in the long run."

#eastpalenstine #ohio

https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/it-is-happening-again/

Find the episode at:

https://www.pbs.org/weta/finding-your-roots/about/meet-our-guests/angela-y-davis

“No. I can’t believe this,” Davis responded. “No, my ancestors did not come here on the Mayflower.”

https://www.blackenterprise.com/angela-davis-discovers-an-ancestor-was-mayflower-pilgrim/

"Too often, the teaching of the American Revolution fails to mention the contributions of Black and Indigenous soldiers, and at worst, it completely erases them from the historical record. By establishing a memorial in their honor, this legislation will rewrite these brave soldiers into the narrative"

--Congresswoman Watson Coleman
 
#blackhistorymonth #americanrevolution

https://watsoncoleman.house.gov/newsroom/press-releases/rep-watson-coleman-celebrates-black-history-month-passage-of-legislation-to-honor-black-revolutionary-war-heroes

Russian propagandists are buying Twitter blue-check verifications via @thewashingtonpost

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/02/22/russian-propagandists-said-buy-twitter-blue-check-verifications

"let’s build a Chrome extension that steals as much data as possible. I’m talking kitchen sink, whole enchilada, Grinch-plundering-Whoville levels of data theft.

This will accomplish two things:

Explore the edges of what is possible with Chrome extensions

Demonstrate what you are exposed to if you aren’t careful with what you install"

#data #privacy #google #chrome

https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/118drwg/lets_build_a_chrome_extension_that_steals/

"This is the mainstream American press in a nutshell. Competing sets of billionaires use the power afforded to them by their wealth to advance their profit-driven and political agendas that may or may not be good for the country or society"

https://www.damemagazine.com/2023/02/21/legacy-media-tilts-two-ways-center-right-and-far-right/

"In need of a loan to fund her son’s schooling, Abbey’s mother walked into one of the largest financial institutions in the U.S. — and was turned away because she didn’t have a credit score. Not only was she forced to borrow money from a predatory lender at a 400% interest rate, but she also had to borrow from church members and pawn her husband’s wedding ring."

#blackhistorymonth #business

https://www.blackenterprise.com/this-black-founder-stayed-true-to-his-triple-win-strategy-to-build-a-1-billion-business/

FILE UNDER: Grooming, indoctrination, crime

"Raised as a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, she said she was taught to defer to men in leadership.

“I viewed him as being a man in authority,” Mateer said. “He’s a doctor.”"

94 Women Allege a Utah Doctor Sexually Assaulted Them. Here’s Why a Judge Threw Out Their Case.
by Jessica Miller, The Salt Lake Tribune

https://www.propublica.org/article/94-utah-women-sue-obgyn-for-sexual-assault-judge-tosses-case?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

Congrats to Patty Jackson on her induction to the Philly Music Walk of Fame!

"The most listened-to radio station in Philadelphia is 105.3 WDAS-FM. And the best-known local personality at that station is its midday host, the one and only Patty Jackson"

https://www.phillymag.com/news/2022/06/22/patty-jackson-wdas/

"Talent is insignificant. I know a lot of talented ruins. Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck, but, most of all, endurance.

-in a 1984 interview with The Paris Review"

#writing #literature #prose #civilrights #blackhistorymonth

https://getpocket.com/explore/item/write-a-sentence-as-clean-as-a-bone-and-other-advice-from-james-baldwin

"The software inside devices like elevators is often written in languages like C++ or C, which are famous for allowing programmers to write code that runs very quickly and is quite compact. The problem is those languages also make it easy to accidentally introduce memory bugs—errors that will cause a crash. Microsoft estimates that 70% of the vulnerabilities in its code are due to memory errors from code written in these languages."

https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/02/14/1067869/rust-worlds-fastest-growing-programming-language/

Morgan Fairchild boosted my posts!!!💖

"While GoDaddy discovered the security breach following customer reports in early December 2022 that their sites were being used to redirect to random domains, the attackers had access to the company's network for multiple years."

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/godaddy-hackers-stole-source-code-installed-malware-in-multi-year-breach/

#blacktwitter: In lieu of boycotts, let's just STOP SPENDING MONEY. It's hard, but it's time to just focus on savings and investment.

Actually, it IS a BOYCOTT. I'm saying BOYCOTT spending money. Again, it's not easy, but we might hurt these guys in the pocket enough to make a difference, and if we don't, we'll have money! Just limited the downside.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jaredcouncil/2023/01/26/after-vows-of-more-diversity-tv-commercials-and-digital-ads-are-getting-whiter-survey-says/?sh=44c3ca4b394c&utm_source=ForbesMainTwitter&utm_campaign=socialflowForbesMainTwitter&utm_medium=social

"“I told them up front that I might not stay where they’re sending me,” he said. “San Francisco is a place that people always end up going back to at some point.”"

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2017/dec/20/bussed-out-america-moves-homeless-people-country-study

Don't ask me to tolerate Nazis. I'm not tolerating Nazis. On social media? Please! Get 'em outta here.

Nazis are not in my range of tolerance. If they are in yours, that's a you problem. I don't want or need that.

Some of y'all, especially on #blackhistorymonth, need to get your range of tolerance together. If you're tolerating Nazis, then people like me SEE YOU AS NAZIS. Period.