Mastodawn

Keira Apr 22, 2023

This is a masterpiece of a lazy-journalism takedown from someone who has been here with eyes wide open and sees what is actually going on. Nice job @[email protected]!
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/economist-southern-white-migration-racism/

How Reading “The Economist” Helped Me to Stop Worrying About White Supremacy

A recent viral sensation identifies the migration of poor whites as the cause of the problem—letting the rest of us off the hook!

The Nation

Keira Apr 17, 2023

Writing again, this time about the transparent narrative of race scientists and their willingness to betray humanity over and over again for the only petty little future they are capable of imagining.

https://medium.com/@Keira_Havens/box-of-rocks-2-flat-earth-society-9004888f94c6

Box of Rocks #2 — Flat Earth Society - Keira - Medium

One of the most exhausting things about biological essentialism is that it is profoundly boring — every few decades the same core of true believers regurgitate debunked and disproven arguments to…

Medium

Keira Dec 2, 2022

AkivaMCohen Dec 2, 2022

So here's the thing. You can only violate people's legal rights and your own word so far before they lawyer up and come after you.

I really do hope Musk changes his mind and does the right thing - the employees deserve that. But it'll be fun as hell if he doesn't.

Keira Dec 1, 2022

Timnit Gebru (she/her).Nov 30, 2022

I have finally said something substantial about this topic.

https://www.wired.com/story/effective-altruism-artificial-intelligence-sam-bankman-fried/

Effective Altruism Is Pushing a Dangerous Brand of ‘AI Safety’

This philosophy—supported by tech figures like Sam Bankman-Fried—fuels the AI research agenda, creating a harmful system in the name of saving humanity

WIRED

Keira Nov 28, 2022

NASA Nov 28, 2022

Open Clusters:

These contain between a few dozen to a few thousand stars, all formed from the same cloud of gas and dust. Their shape is more irregular than spherical, with large amounts of gas between the stars.
#Hubble

Keira Nov 28, 2022

I've been writing letters with VoteForward to turn out the vote for the special election in Georgia and it's honestly been really nice to watch the "number of voters to be reached" tick down over the days. Yesterday they were at 20K, today they're at 15K - that means I joined about 1000 ppl who care yesterday. votefwd.org to check out their org!

Keira Nov 27, 2022

Hey new folks! I'm guessing you all found your way here via the Box of Rocks post, so I'm hoping you're good people (or at least are very tired of the incredibly lazy writer's room that is late stage capitalism). Gonna try out this poll thing here...What are y'all interested in?

Participating in a Good Money network

25%

Science that is aware of its own biases

75%

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Poll ended at Nov 28, 2022 at 8:15pm.

Keira Nov 23, 2022

Well let's try this out! Had some thoughts on Effective Altruism, natural order, and a guy who thought rocks might be DTF. Is this the sort of thing we talk about here? https://medium.com/@Keira_Havens/box-of-rocks-b8aec0c8710e

Box of Rocks - Keira - Medium

400 years ago, a guy who thought rocks could fuck decided that you could read God’s Divine Plan in the way the living world organized itself. Two weeks ago, a guy with easy access to billionaires and…

Medium