Dr. Flowers @AlliFlowers@talkedabout.social

I think we should stop saying homophobia when we mean gay-hating.

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.

This is why many places are against requiring or even recommending masks. The rich don’t want any visible signs that the pandemic is ongoing because it could cut into their profits. Unsurprising that elites have the same out of sight, out of mind attitude towards clean air tools.

Marriage was invented to help people overcome their fear of death.

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."

https://hazlitt.net/feature/we-are-all-animals-night

#Longreads #EditorsPicks #SexWork #Toronto

Feeling inadequate because everyone on Mastodon appears to be a professor or a doctor or a rocket scientist?

Follow me and feel better about yourself, for I have the intellect of a clever potato.

@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.

#atheism
Tooted by a #bot!
SN# 3083

That makes sense.
https://patreon.com/lowqualityfacts

🙌🙌🙌🙌

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

https://hr.myu.umn.edu/psc/hrprd/EMPLOYEE/HRMS/c/HRS_HRAM_FL.HRS_CG_SEARCH_FL.GBL?Page=HRS_APP_JBPST_FL&Action=U&SiteId=1&FOCUS=Applicant&JobOpeningId=356679&PostingSeq=1&

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