Toots 𦣠from 04/01 to 04/05
John ColagioiaAs discussed previously, on Fridays, I present my weekly social media roundups. Note that toots of articles generally include header images from the articles, which I donât include here unless their creators happen to have released them for use under a free license, and I notice. Most have not, or I donât notice. But I now add my commentary here, where I donât feel restricted by message length.
Also, I donât generally attach pictures to posts with quotations.
9:01 â Mon 01 April 2024
Image Not Shown: Protests outside a London hospital in 2017 about terminally ill baby Charlie Gard
Inside network setting global right-wing agenda from openDemocracy
The groupâs actions include campaigning on referendums that successfully prevented equal marriage rights, challenging calls to end gender-based violence, and influencing the rise of anti-abortion, anti-LGBTQ+ feelings and policymaking in multiple European countries.
Hashtags: #Politcs #Influence #Abortion #LGBT
As usual, while I suspect that everybody can see the danger in this storyâin that their results mean trouble for everyoneâI also want to point out the aspect of this that exceeds my wildest expectations: They have so little power that, globally, theyâve largely consolidated into a single group.
People will get hurt while they peddle their terrible ideas, but it doesnât take nearly as much work to defuse and eliminate a single destructive organization as it would take to get rid of a broad and diverse movement, like you see elsewhere. One bad investment, one significant scandal, one banking restriction, or any number of other problems, and their house of cards begins falling apart.
12:04 â Mon 01 April 2024
The harmonization of Greek philosophy with Islam begun by Al-Kindi, an Arab, was continued by Al-Farabi, a Turk, and completed in the East by ibn-Sina, a Persian.
Hashtags: #Quotes #ArabAmericanHeritage
9:04 â Tue 02 April 2024
Content Warning: Transphobia, Murder
Image credit: by Arzu Geybullayeva
In Azerbaijan authorities remain silent over the murder of a trans woman from Global Voices
Citing QueerRadar media monitoring reports from previous years, Hasanova said local media bias in their coverage of the LGBTQ+ community appeared in over 70 percent of the stories the initiative monitored last year.
Hashtags: #Azerbaijan #LGBT
Between when they ran this article and my sharing it, I should note that weâve seen the Transgender Day of Visibility pass. And because I donât say it often enough, though I (presumably) donât know you, I value you, and know that someone needs or will need your strength to make it through their own transition.
12:05 â Tue 02 April 2024
War is war.
Hashtags: #Quotes #ArabAmericanHeritage
9:07 â Wed 03 April 2024
Content Warning: Suicide mention, racism
Image Not Shown: Sad depressed black man on a bench in a park
Early trauma, racism may drive suicide risk among Black men from Futurity
The study found that growing up in a low-resource environment and experiencing racial discrimination during young adulthood makes it difficult to engage in healthy, trusting relationships. Strong feelings of mistrust and caution toward social relationships can lead to feelings of isolation, which in turn can prompt thoughts of death and suicide.
Hashtags: #Racism #Suicide
Youâd almost think that racism maybe causes deep societal problems that outweigh the tiny value of whatever catharsis bigots get out of making peopleâs lives worse, rightâŚ?
12:07 â Wed 03 April 2024
Though Indian fairy tales are the earliest in existence, yet they are also from another point of view the youngest. For it is only about twenty-five years ago that Miss Frere began the modern collection of Indian folk-tales with her charming âOld Deccan Daysâ
Hashtags: #Quotes #ArabAmericanHeritage
9:03 â Thu 04 April 2024
Image Not Shown: A robber baron steals the United Nations seal from the General Assembly room
End of the line for corporate sovereignty from Pluralistic
The modern ISDS was perfected in the 1990s with the Energy Charter Treaty. The ECT was meant to foam the runway for western corporations seeking to take over ex-Soviet energy facilities, by making those new post-Glasnost governments promise to never pass laws that would undermine foreign companiesâ profits.
Hashtags: #CorporateSovereignty #Honduras #Prospera
Iâve often made the point that corporations stand as the last real bastion of authoritarianism in the world. Countries (that donât have oil money propping them up) have moved on, and now we need the series of reformsâor revolutions, if things donât move quickly enoughâto put them under democratic rule.
12:06 â Thu 04 April 2024
Let us disperse from our aloofness and serve the weak who made us strong, and cleanse the country in which we live. Let us teach this miserable nation to smile and rejoice with heavenâs bounty and glory of life and freedom.
Hashtags: #Quotes #ArabAmericanHeritage
9:02 â Fri 05 April 2024
Image Not Shown: A windshield with Uber and Lyft decals
How Uber Overcharges Riders and Underpays Drivers from OtherWords
In fact, the opposite happened. Over the four years we studied, Uber and Lyft raised fares by 54 percent in Chicago, where drivers have no pay protections. In New York, they only increased fares by 36 percent. The reality just doesnât match Uberâs scare tactics.
Hashtags: #Uber #Economics #Greedflation
We already knew that Uber and similar companies routinely lie about their finances. But lying about the results of the policies that they agitate forâsomething directly disproven by looking at the public record, as opposed to their trade secretsâseems like a new level.
If only some Silicon Valley company could come up with the idea of bus serviceâŚ
12:03 â Fri 05 April 2024
How much more infinite a sea is Man? Be not so childish as to measure him from head to foot and think that you have found his borders.
Hashtags: #Quotes #ArabAmericanHeritage
Bonus
Because it accidentally became a tradition early on in the life of the blog, I drop any additional articles that didnât fit into the one-article-per-day week, but too weird or important to not mention, here.
Content Warning: Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM) discussed
Image credit: Alexander Shatov/Unsplash
Criminals Are Weaponizing Child Abuse Imagery to Ban Discord Servers from 404 Media
Beyond the obvious ethical black hole of using CSAM as a means to an end, re-victimizing the child again by distributing images of them, the illegality of CSAM is what makes this attack especially potent. Possessing CSAM is a federal crime; theoretically someone simply using a targeted Discord could accidentally commit a crime if someone uploaded material to the server.
Iâve heard about this sort of thing happening in other spaces for a couple of months, but seeing that this has an organized aspect seems particularly newâŚand worrying, for people building online communities.
Image Not Shown: The Wall Street sign is framed by American flags flying outside the New York Stock Exchange in New York City on January 3, 2020
Competitive workplaces donât work for gender equality from The Conversation
âŚhighly competitive workplaces worsen gender inequality in two ways. The first is that women are less willing to enter and persist in high-stakes tournaments. Our findings here are consistent with previous research showing that women are less attracted than men to competitive work environments and tend to perform worse in them.
This seems like another case where we probably already all knew thisâwe socialize certain people to shun competition and sacrifice for others, then reward the people who do the oppositeâbut I greatly appreciate having numbers to back up the intuition.
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