I worked at Texas A&M once. It is a great public higher education system.
I wrote about how disheartening it is to see two scandals that confirm the intense politicization corrupting A&M and higher ed in other red states.
One professor had her job offer pulled when she was labeled a "DEI proponent."
Another criticized the Lt Governor in a lecture about opioids. She was suspended within hours.
https://donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-demise-of-academic-freedom-in
I used to think Ron DeSantis was a fascist asshole. But now I’m thinking he’s more of a complete piece of shit fascist fucking asshole. So I guess my views are evolving.
#VoteBlue
@shepgo @sfwrtr Contrary to his pandemic minimalization I also noted that not only are hospitalizations up but wastewater levels are up and Walgreens test positivity rate is up. Unfortunately we no longer have good data from the CDC but anecdotal reports from many physicians also indicate Covid is on an uptick.
Tommy @sentuberville is not only damaging national security by holding up hundreds of critical promotions, he promised to donate his entire salary to veterans and hasn’t done that either. He doesn’t care about veterans and would privatize the VA if given the chance.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/maryroeloffs/2023/07/25/fox-news-greg-gutfeld-defended-floridas-slavery-curriculum-by-saying-holocaust-survivors-needed-skills-too/ I am sick of these bigoted idiots with microphones and audiences saying the most asinine things. No Jews didn’t need skills to not be murdered by Nazis. No slaves didn’t benefit personally from being whipped beaten mutilated by their slave masters or it’s overseers.
"Many sex workers, including myself, have long hypothesized that the reason so many people in power work to keep the commercial sex trade marginalized is because they’re threatened by it—by the idea that it’s the only field where women outearn men, that it’s an industry where women get to call the shots, and that women profit off something that men have been told they’re entitled to for free: sex and attention in equal parts."
@peertube is the Fediverse's video sharing network. You can follow and interact with PeerTube accounts from Mastodon.
For example, you can follow @theatticdwellers and when they publish a new video it will appear in your Mastodon feed. If you like one of their posts, that will show as a thumbs up on PeerTube, and if you reply to a post it will show as a comment under the video on PeerTube.
More info about all of this (and also how to publish your own videos) at:
➡️ https://fedi.tips/peertube-video-hosting-on-the-fediverse/
This was a really interesting discussion.
I say 2026.
I think that federation offers an opportunity for Chinese networks to engage with the outside world without tearing down the Great Firewall.
And it maintains the locus of control domestically. Data, user accounts, etc. all stay on servers inside China.
For censorship, there's a natural chokepoint with ActivityPub at the inbox. Everything comes through there; an opportunity for filtering.
It seems really advantageous to Chinese networks.
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Snoop Dogg Cancels Hollywood Bowl
Shows In Solidarity With Strikes – Billboard
https://www.billboard.com/music/rb-hip-hop/snoop-dogg-cancels-hollywood-bowl-shows-solidarity-strikes-1235378957/
Wow, this quote from Walter Issacson's upcoming bio of Elon isn't just bad writing, it's vomit-inducing. https://www.axios.com/2023/07/25/elon-musk-everything-app-twitter-x?utm_campaign=editorial&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter
Minnesota Sociology is hiring an assistant prof in population studies!
Focused on population and environment (some, but defeasible, preference for candidates who could also teach grad migration)
It's a great place to work & I'll gladly answer questions
Slavery
I should also say that it doesn't matter which way information flowed.
It doesn't matter if an enslaved person gets a Ph.D. in astrophysics from their work. If it comes from forced labour, it is toxic and valueless.
There is no benefit that is not absolutely corrupted by its enforcement through slavery.
The Kolektiva raid reminds us that it’s important to stand with your users in the #fediverse too.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/07/fbi-seizure-mastodon-server-wakeup-call-fediverse-users-and-hosts-protect-their
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