@mekkaokereke

Great actor. He starred in my favorite Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode, "The Visitor": https://reactormag.com/star-trek-deep-space-nine-rewatch-the-visitor/

In the past week, the U.S. executed two Black men, each of whom might have been innocent of their alleged crimes. Five more executions are slated to follow. In this post on @medium, I write about the man executed last Friday and why we should honor his name, Khalil Divine Black Sun Allah.

Click the link, not the image preview, to bypass the paywall:

https://medium.com/afrosapiophile/respect-for-our-names-should-be-unconditional-261d4964d608?sk=9284f865e93d1993d3014fcd76451153

#BlackMastodon #BlackLivesMatter #DeathPenalty #CapitalPunishment #CriminalJustice

I'm #Black, #trans, have a uterus, and am in a same-sex marriage. I'm well aware of the threats that #Trump and the #Republicans pose to marginalized people.

I still don't support the #Democrats, and will not vote for #KamalaHarris.

You're welcome to disagree with my stance, but shaming me or other progressives for abstaining or voting for third-party candidates is not helpful.

(Click the link, not the image preview, to bypass the paywall)

https://funcrunch.medium.com/my-gender-is-not-binary-and-neither-are-my-politics-e872c131f66e?sk=7b2e5f3f259405fb51f51b3c1950b39c

#USPol #BlackMastodon

In today's story on @medium, I discuss the decision of U.S. sprinter #NoahLyles to compete while infected with #COVID19.

Click the link, not the image preview, to bypass the paywall:

https://funcrunch.medium.com/be-like-biles-not-like-lyles-75e0383be69e?sk=9364172ba2f079a332ff8d46cf386aa3

#Olympics

In my latest story on @medium, I reflect on the song “Tennessee” by Arrested Development in advance of the upcoming #Juneteenth holiday.

Click the link, not the image preview, to bypass the paywall:

https://medium.com/afrosapiophile/tennessee-and-the-legacy-of-lynching-3fed8dd7f242?sk=b96e7f258e75baab512bf741cd48438a

#BlackMastodon #racism

#Black #bus driver evacuates all children from a burning #SchoolBus just before it explodes. She is rewarded for her heroics with... a drug test. 🤦🏾♂️

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/mar/18/new-orleans-bus-explosion-children-saved

#BlackMastodon #racism #NewOrleans

@molly0xfff

I think #POSSE is a good way to go for anyone who has the technical skill to do it, or the resources to hire someone else to do it for them 🙂

Shameful treatment of #Black #Deaf employee #JalonHall by #Google. This company has more money than God; they can afford to provide world-class #accessibility and #accommodations. Not doing (under the excuse of "confidentiality") is a deliberate choice.

https://www.wired.com/story/google-black-deaf-worker-diversity-suing-discrimination/

#BlackMastodon

Great article (as usual) by @pluralistic on "bestselling" books, botshit, and bezzles:

https://doctorow.medium.com/how-a-billionaires-mediocre-pump-and-dump-book-became-a-bestseller-2ed7a8c472d7

(Paywall-free link)

#books #crypto #ChrisDixon #ReadWriteOwn #NYTBestSeller

Sharing this not to endorse #KatiePorter (or any other candidate), but because I LOL'd at the start of the lead sentence:

"Whatever remaining cryptocurrency moguls who are not looking at prison time have coalesced around a common enemy in Senate candidate Katie Porter, as money from Ron Conway and Andreessen Horowitz just bought $2 million worth of attack ads against her."

https://sfist.com/2024/02/13/new-crypto-bro-pac-spending-millions-on-ads-to-defeat-katie-porter-in-california-senate-race/

#crypto #California

@molly0xfff

No, I got the impression that he's leaving it up to his audience, instead of following his own moral compass.

@molly0xfff

I'm also disappointed in Casey Newton's post on this where he literally asks his audience if Substack's pathetic response is good enough for him to keep supporting their platform. Several commenters who clearly didn't read beyond the headline said it was great news. Or maybe they just don't care.

Regardless, I'm not sharing his post for that reason. I'll wait for a news article or blog post *not* hosted on a Nazi Lite platform.

More #Substack writers with large subscription bases are leaving or considering leaving the platform:

"They’re not just OK with, but in principle supportive of, having loads of out-and-out #Nazis on their platform"
- @swordsjew, The Sword and the Sandwich

"It is our hope that Substack will reverse course and remove all pro-Nazi material under its existing anti-hate policies. If it chooses not to, we will plan to leave the platform."
- @caseynewton, Platformer

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2024/jan/03/substack-user-revolt-anti-censorship-stance-neo-nazis

Just noticed that the user contributions page on the English @wikipedia, #Wikimedia Commons, and other related projects now shows the number of edits and account creation date right at the top. Handy!

(And yes, in five days I'll hit 15 years as an editor on #Wikipedia 😁)

@DAIR

Here's a link to the full privacy FAQ on using #AI in #Dropbox:

https://help.dropbox.com/view-edit/privacy-settings-dropbox-ai

It looks like Basic (free) users don't have this functionality currently, so that explains why some users (including me) don't see a checkbox in the settings to disable it.

@hj @eal @shpuld

Ah, that explains why #Doom is currently the featured article on the main page of the English @wikipedia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doom_(1993_video_game)

We have so many #MassShootings in the U.S. that @wikipedia has lists of them broken down by year.

The six in this screenshot are from just the past 24 hours.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mass_shootings_in_the_United_States_in_2023

#GunViolence

Giving the #police even more power is the last thing #SanFrancisco (or any U.S. city) needs. Voting against dangerous ballot measures like this is the main reason I still go to the polls in every election.

https://sfist.com/2023/10/17/mayor-london-breed-announces-ballot-measure/

@jwz

Wow. I know nothing about this author or series, but I'm intrigued by his proposal to reform copyright to last for 30 years max (20 years for the original author with an option to grant another 10 years to someone else). The endless "Mickey Mouse" extensions of copyright clearly need to go.

@anarchopunk_girl @Oozenet @rhiannongrant @fraying

Regarding how "religion without faith" works, if faith is defined as belief in a deity, there are a number of religions that are not centered on this. Buddhism, for example (though some Buddhists do recognize and/or worship deities). I identified as both a Buddhist and an atheist for a good 20 years.

As not all atheists have the same views about divinity, I wrote about what it means to me to be an atheist here:

https://funcrunch.medium.com/atheism-explained-713528c574d1?sk=12f70ab8a8cf4c63539b951f28ea5513