The FBI is going after the founder of Sci-Hub, for the appalling crime of making publicly funded research freely available.
Weird that in all this talk of labor shortages in the U.S. there's little mention of the almost 600k people who have died from COVID. How many of them worked in industries that are having trouble hiring? How many of their coworkers decided it wasn't worth the risk anymore?
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This is right. All Donald Trump did was take the GOP's Southern Strategy and elevated it from subtext to text in neon lighting.His presidency is not an aberration, but rather the culmination of what the GOP has been trying to bring to fruition for decades.
When you see tweets from accounts like this, please keep in mind that they're intentionally perpetuating the VERY DISTINCTLY NAZI idea that modern art is "corrupt" or "degenerate."Don't retweet them.
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Reminder that “Fountain” is over 100 years old and was intended as commentary on the authority of critics who think they get to decide what’s allowed to be Art, it’s intentionally provocative. Dadaism was an anti-fascist movement, that’s why this piece gets trotted out every time
Imagine if a US adversary attacked worshippers in a church. How would the US media cover it?If you’re a journalist say something, cover this story & stop trying to water down what Israel is doing. This is criminal. Call it what is is.
This is one of my biggest problems with capitalism in the end. There's so much racism and cruelty baked into the system. It leads to all kinds of "trip over a dollar to rush to a dime" bullshit. Capitalism can't even do capitalism right, because hurting people is more important.
You know maybe the reason we are having trouble getting people back to work at the substandard rates they were working at before isn't so much because we are giving people too much support now as it is we didn't give them enough support in the earlier stages of the pandemic.
They're going to steal the 2024 presidential election. They're specifically eliminating anyone in the party who might impede or push back against that effort. It could not be more obvious -- big red flags waving all over the place.https://twitter.com/zackbeauchamp/status/1390682697304092676
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The push for vaccinated people to get “back to normal” isn’t just about rushing the end of the pandemic.It’s also a sign of a culture profoundly unaccepting of grief, trauma and the process needed for healing.
CW: COVID trauma (1/x)
American exceptionalism is ridiculous for a lot of big, obvious reasons, but then there's smaller stuff like this that just really rubs it in.
This country is nonsense!
YOU CANT BANK TRANSFER IN AMERICA???!????
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…aaand it's not his fault.
Funny though that the EU made a bunch of moves to actually force US card companies to stop doing shady business about asking money for nothing. Also forcing banks to [kind of] stop askin for money just for international money transfer, but also provided a unified way to do it, instead of the US way of "whatever works, or may work, or whatever whatever".
And I haven't said you said that it'd be his fault. :smiling face with smiling eyes
(And he's an investor, no wonder he try to profit from any situation.)
This thread. Papers Please is a masterpiece of game design.
I think Papers Please is one of the most interesting game to watch letsplays of, because WOW the way people react to this game is telling.
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there’s no way landlord should be considered an actual job “oh ur a doctor? nice i threaten ppl poorer than me with homelessness and never fix the shower”
Ajit Pai knew that there was overwhelming consensus in favor of net neutrality. The goal of the telecom giants who funded these fraudulent comments was to muddy the waters, create confusion, and provide cover for Trump's FCC to repeal these democratically enacted protections.
NEW (via NY AG Letitia James): “After a multi-year investigation, we found the nation's largest broadband companies funded a secret campaign to influence the FCC's repeal of net neutrality rules — resulting in millions of fake public comments impersonating Americans...”
One of the interesting things about Basecamp as a ~discourse~ is how it reveals that we have folks running around UNABLE TO PERCEIVE powerIt’s invisible to them, both in isolation and as a gradient between those who have it and those who don’t.
The gall.
The fucking audacity.
Brands are not your friends.
Well, there’s no way around it: @tumblr is one of the queerest places on the internet.How queer? Apparently, folks on Tumblr are 193% more likely to identify as LGBTQIA+ than on any other social media platform … including t.w.i.t.t.e.r. Is that you? Are you #tumblrqueer?
All of this is even more of a reason to reject calls from Centrists and the State for a new 'war on terror' against 'violent extremism' which will only result in a continued assault against popular social movements as the far-Right continues to grow.
It seems that the FBI is cultivating a similar relationship within groups like the Proud Boys, in order for them to act as an independent vehicle for violence against the State’s enemies: autonomous social movements from below.
WINNER and did it in one tweet 🙌🏾
"Transparency concern" is one way to put it, I guess. "Fascist Klaxon" is another...
Guy who invented the clock: there will be 12 numbers on itFriend: so the day will be divided into 12 segments?
Inventor: no, 24
Friend: so will the day start at 1
Inventor: the day will start at the 12, which is at night
Friend:
Inventor: the 6 means 30
The biggest criminal gang out there wears uniformshttps://twitter.com/davenewworld_2/status/1390052753985228807
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$300 is $7.50 an hour, if you can't compete against a $300 unemployment check from the government you should probably just go out of business
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Both:
1) this is long overdue and the proof's in the pudding; and
2) good first step.
BREAKING: Biden just announced support for waiving IP protections on COVID-19 vaccines to end the global pandemic.This is huge.
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I hope Canada does its best to pretend to be good by finally caving now that the US did it
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I don’t think Congressional leadership has really internalized that if they don’t admit DC and PR, they’ll lose the Senate until at least 2030And if they don’t do a strong redistricting bill they’ll lose the House until the next Republican president’s first midterm
Fun fact about sidewalks: we pay for them and they're not included in the area on a business's rental contract.
These folks are literally stealing space from the public.
I know everyone is very excited about the idea of retaining outside dining and I am too but not like this: Sidewalks cannot be privatised for business use.[video shows a wheelchair user struggling to navigate a series of crowded outdoor seating areas]
Remember, if you buy an album from bandcamp, it's around the financial equivalent to the artist of you streaming their music every day for 3 years.
Billionaire wealth, May 1st update
I've seen two separate tweets about how William Jackson Harper would be a great Clark Kent/Superman, and how Giancarlo Esposito would be a great Lex Luthor.Seeing them side-by-side, I absolutely agree. I'd love to watch a Superman movie with these two
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When we talk about why becoming a billionaire shouldn't be a thing, this is what we mean.A divorce should not determine the state of public health research or whether 1000s of small businesses get money or if funding for school initiatives will go through. Like y'all. HUH?!
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[share author='Anna Gifty' profile='https://twitter.com/itsafronomics' avatar='https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/1381110194076258305/QFV3_Y69.jpg' link='https://twitter.com/itsafronomics/status/1389387855215144963' posted='2021-05-04 01:14:12']Imagine being so rich that your divorce can literally impact the state of funding for thousands of initiatives worldwide. That is literally wild.
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@Popehat Really important to recognize that this was exactly the situation the racist channers who rebranded the OK sign were trying to create.
This is what is at the center of the shrubbery maze. Folks like Sohrab have never liked freedom. They actually hate it. Freedom, to them, means "everyone agrees with me and everything I like is legal and everything I don't is not."
Politicians who take money from the meat industry, disproportionately Republicans, are trying to ban plant-based meat companies from using that phrase; this is the real political battle around meat today, and it’s a bona fide attack on free speech.
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