I love Google! They're the most ideal company to have in Africa! With all of their knowledge, they're no way they'd play into caricatures of the contine-
2. Whiteness is a construct and is deployed across phenotypes, geographical markers and the like: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whiteness_theory. This is how folks like the Karshadians are able to also deploy a sense of whiteness on a global scale: https://ajammc.com/2017/08/29/armenian-whiteness-america/. In short, in the way that I can't run from my Blackness because of whiteness, society will not allow you to run from that. It's on how you utilize it that makes a difference.
3. I'm going off the word of the founder of Elementary, who's highlighted that (and you've blocked?). To follow your example regarding System76's COSMIC, what's available to people (i.e. a layperson isn't building Comet from source, they're pulling it from AppCenter) is what they'll perceive as available. If you haven't updated it, that's on you to fix (and that's easy it sounds like).
This is something Angela Davis wrote about as well.
I wrote https://www.jacky.wtf/essays/2024/oh-aral/ about the recent accessibility campaign that @aral's been holding in (or against) the GNOME community, how it's an inversion of privilege preservation and how I fell for it.
I saw red flags and ignored them because of the messaging.
"There's no evidence of said behavior. But because of the increase of independent knowledge discovery that counters mainstream narratives, especially during the recent uprisings across schools, more legislators are moving to prevent those same events from happening again by weakening what younger folks tend to rely on for general mass communications." - me
In tech, there's a lot of anti-Chinese sentiment (Have you seen John Gruber's posts on the topic?) without the acknowledgement that without China, none of the devices we have here would be built. Without the global South for that matter. It's an inherently xenophobic (and nationalistic) stance that encourages states to organize themselves to INCREASE the chances of AAPI communities being harmed by disease (especially when the governments have been weakened by the states under which corporations are chartered - every company works indirectly as a branch of economic military).
I know there's still a big contingent of people who believe that, at its core, the United States can be a force for good.
And I want to remind you that it's never been the case for those who don't fit the image or ideology of the core of America: colonial Europeanized identities (or an alliance to it), wealth (by means of forced capital extraction) and imperial moves (like having thousands of bases around the world and being the largest contributor to child slavery around the globe).
This is the type of shit that a state government aligned to those values and its acolytes sign off on.
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