this.ven1d ago

Yeah, that's "the solution" (sarcasm): #OpenAI is going to buy #Chrome to stop #Alphabet from monopolizing the search market with #Google integrated in this #WebBrowser.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-04-22/openai-would-buy-google-s-chrome-browser-chatgpt-chief-says

First of all, stopping Google's monopolization–or that of #Meta/ #Facebook, #Twitter / #X, #Microsoft or any other #BigTech product–is so 2015 and seem to me like a staged charade.

Second, the fact that other companies threatening our society due to #copyright and #privacy violations speculate about buying reveals that this is not about regulation but #whitewashing a brand and strategically combining tools to even better exploit the resource of human data.

SankofabApr 16

🇪🇺 Europe's elected leaders are punished for attending the victory parade in Moscow to commemorate the defeat of Nazi Germany
- Criminalising diplomacy has been a disaster and should end. Otherwise, peace in Europe will be negotiated solely by non-Europeans

https://x.com/Glenn_Diesen/status/1912344861862244648

#whitewashing
#whitesupremacy #racism #nazism
#russia #Palestine #Genocide #geopolitics
@palestine@a.gup.pepe
#AntiImperialism #tiktok #cdnpoli
#canada #usa #antifascism #democracy #humanrights #history
@blackmastodon

Glenn Diesen (@Glenn_Diesen) on X

Europe's elected leaders are punished for attending the victory parade in Moscow to commemorate the defeat of Nazi Germany - Criminalising diplomacy has been a disaster and should end. Otherwise, peace in Europe will be negotiated solely by non-Europeans

X (formerly Twitter)
JiKoApr 13

Health groups urge the World Health Organization (WHO) to revoke the PH's nomination to lead the 78th World Health Assembly (WHA), citing serious concerns about the country's recent engagements with the tobacco industry.

The PH health secretary Teodoro Herbosa recently posed for photos while accepting donations from Philip Morris International (PMI).

#Philippines #Asian #Health #WHO #PublicHealth #WHA #Tobacco #WhiteWashing #Cigarettes

https://www.gmanetwork.com/news/topstories/nation/942055/health-groups-urge-who-to-drop-ph-s-wha-nom-over-tobacco-industry-ties/story/

Health groups urge WHO to drop PH’s WHA nom over tobacco industry ties

More than 50 public health and tobacco control organizations around the world are calling on the World Health Organization (WHO) to revoke the Philippines’ nomination to lead the 78th World Health Assembly (WHA), citing serious concerns about the country's recent engagements with the tobacco industry.

GMA News Online
Show threadNonilexApr 8

The #Trump admin has frozen more than $1 billion in funding for #Cornell & $790 million for #Northwestern amid *#CivilRights* [white man sad] investigations into both schools.

The #funding pause involves mostly grants & contracts with the depts of #Agriculture [HUGE school at Cornell], #Defense, #Education & #Health & Human Services.

#law #AntiIntellectualism #NaziState #ThoughtPolice #Censorship #WhiteWashing #FreeSpeech #FirstAmendment #education

NonilexApr 8

I’m an alum, so… 🤬

#Trump Officials Freeze $1 Billion for #CornellUniversity & $790 Million for #NorthwesternUniversity

The funding pause amid *#CivilRights* investigations into both #universities sharply escalates the Trump admin’s campaign against elite #colleges.

#law #AntiIntellectualism #NaziState #ThoughtPolice #Censorship #WhiteWashing #FreeSpeech #FirstAmendment #education #Cornell
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/08/us/politics/cornell-northwestern-university-funds-trump.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=p&pvid=0C341DDC-17F7-403A-A100-B68F51396C05

Trump Administration Freezes $1 Billion for Cornell and $790 Million for Northwestern, Officials Say

The funding pause amid civil rights investigations into both universities sharply escalates the Trump administration’s campaign against elite colleges.

The New York Times
Purple Haze IIApr 7

https://www.whatimreading.net/p/trump-national-park-service-harriet-tubman-underground-railroad?publication_id=1277192&post_id=160776808&isFreemail=true&r=4s4hf8&triedRedirect=true

#harriettubman
#undergroundrailroad
#slavery
#blackhistorymonth
#blackhistory
#americanhistory
#BlackHistoryIsUSHistory
#blackpeoplematter
#blackfediverse
#blackmastodon
#maga
#FuckTrump
#whitewashing
#nationalparkservice
#maryland
#phillewis
#dei

Trump’s National Park Service edited references to Harriet Tubman and Underground Railroad

The National Park Service edited its website to replace key facts about Harriet Tubman and slavery with phrases like “Black/White cooperation.”

What I'm Reading
NonilexApr 6

#GiftArticle

Amid anti-#DEI push, #NationalParkService rewrites history of #UndergroundRailroad

Since #Trump took office, the #ParkService -- an agency charged with preserving #AmericanHistory -- has changed how its website describes key moments from #slavery to #JimCrow

#whitewashing #WhiteSupremacy #History #racism #lies #censorship #propaganda #trumpaganda #USpol
https://wapo.st/4jdXL8m

Amid anti-DEI push, National Park Service rewrites history of Underground Railroad

Since Trump took office, the park service, an agency charged with preserving American history, has changed how its website describes key moments from slavery to Jim Crow

The Washington Post
Show threadWilliam Lindsey Apr 6

"President Trump’s team is selectively stripping away the public record, reconstructing his preferred vision of America in the negative space of purged history, archivists and historians said. As data and resources are deleted or altered, something foundational is also at risk: Americans’ ability to access and evaluate their past, and with it, their already shaky trust in facts."

~ Tiffany Hsu

#Trump #education #history #whitewashing #censorship
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https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/05/technology/trump-history-websites.html?unlocked_article_code=1.9U4.iHJP.fB7-omPjZJy7&smid=url-share

The White House Frames the Past by Erasing Parts of It

As the Trump administration pulls government websites and data offline, it is selectively stripping away the public record, letting the president declare his own version of history, archivists and historians said.

The New York Times
Show threadWilliam Lindsey Apr 6

"To create a new American authoritarianism, Trump and Hegseth must invert our most cherished values, maligning truth-telling as divisive ideology and censoring critical scholarship in the name of freedom of speech."

#Trump #Hegseth #BookBans #libraries #education #history #whitewashing #censorship
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William Lindsey Apr 6

Robert P. Jones reports that his book White Too Long has been removed from holdings of the prestigious library of the US Naval Academy. He writes:

"This defilement of a respected academic institution by those who are waging an outright assault on higher education is, disturbingly, the goal. Honor and integrity are inconvenient stumbling blocks on the road to absolute power."

#Trump #Hegseth #BookBans #libraries #education #history #whitewashing #censorship
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https://www.whitetoolong.net/p/my-book-white-too-long-banned-from

My Book, "White Too Long," Banned from US Naval Academy

The book bans are coming for American universities.

White Too Long by Robert P. Jones