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What Really Happened When Google Ousted Timnit Gebru https://www.wired.com/story/google-timnit-gebru-ai-what-really-happened/

sad girls club for all the babes crying their eyes out because their landlord is still alive and breathing

Gaza-based journalists say their accounts blocked by WhatsApp https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/5/25/israel-blocks-whatsapp-accounts-of-gaza-journalists

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"Anything less than uncritical support of China is accused of being apologia for American imperialism—and one expects such criticisms to follow regarding this essay, New Bloom, and aligned projects that seek to be critical of both the US and the PRC such as Lausan."

https://newbloommag.net/2020/06/22/qiao-collective-nationalism/

basically, China's poverty alleviation efforts have *in general* involved publicly-funded vocational training, such as is widely available at a price in the U.S. through community colleges and the like, and its efforts to combat terrorism in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region — terrorist attacks largely *against* Uygur people — have centered poverty alleviation as a chief concern. this is the source of forced labor claims: that vocational training was offered *as part* of re-education efforts for former terrorists

reports of forced labor camps based on satellite imagery have mislabeled normal, well-documented prisons, schools, factories, and even a five-star hotel. in-person independent international investigators, of which there were over a thousand from dozens of countries in 2019, have not found evidence of forced labor, religious repression, or genocide. Xianjiang Uygur Autonomous Region is, has been, and has remained open to foreigners except briefly during containment of COVID-19.

How to Use the Ouija Board Safely

Every leftist, anarchist, communist and socialist right now

A few years ago I discovered "solastalgia", a word coined in 2005 to describe the emotional distress of having a homeplace change due to human action.

I just learned that the concept existed in the Irish language as "díláthair" which means "absense felt when something or somewhere has been depopulated or destroyed by other human beings" (quote from Manchán Magan - "Thirty-two words for Field" (2020), p51).

The word has gone out of use in recent times.

Díláthair: An absent word about absense.

Scully matches wits with a mysterious nanny. Mulder tries to tie CIA assassins to alien babies.

Urgent! Black liberation fighter Russell “Maroon” Shoatz has tested positive for COVID-19. The former Black Panther and Black Liberation Army member has been imprisoned since 1972, when he was given a life sentence for an attack on a police station. More info and how to help: https://kersplebedeb.com/posts/urgent-take-action-for-russell-maroon-shoatz/