@erikjohansson

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"What borders on stupidity?" "Canada and Mexico".
Welcome to the Age of the Coward—where billion-dollar corporations crumble faster than a wet paper bag, and craven CEOs like Bob Iger and Tim Cook prove their “values” were just expensive PR stunts with an expiration date.
https://www.theindex.media/this-is-the-age-of-the-coward-2/
This Is the Age of the Coward

The Age of the Coward is here, where America’s most powerful corporations, once eager to preach their values, now fold like cheap umbrellas at the first gust of political wind.

The Index.

Hello EU people:

There is an EU citizen petition to ban the use of "conversion therapy" on LGBTQ+ folks (i.e., trying to de-LGBTQ us— a process often described as "torture"). If you're interested, you can sign it here:

https://eci.ec.europa.eu/043/public/#/screen/home

Please especially take note if you are a national of Spain, Slovenia, Belgium, or the Netherlands; the petition needs about 5x as many votes as it has now, but also needs to hit a threshold in four additional countries, and those are the four closest.

Being #blind is fun. Just encountered a visual captcha with no audio option. So I used JAWS Picture Smart to get AI to read me the text of the visual clue, which I typed in and got through. So basically I'm a human who needs a robot to prove to another robot that I am not a robot. Without my robot, the other robot would have thought I was a robot. Also I was trying to make a payment on my PAP machine, which really should in itself indicate that I am not a robot. #Disability #Disabled
4 years ago, I was locked down in the Capitol. When the majority of the Republicans voted to overturn the election AFTER the attack, something broke in Congress that still hasn’t healed. Truth is truth. And while it should never be partisan to defend democracy, we can’t pretend it isn’t.

Fascinating article on how reading increases our capacity to interpret the world around us and understand the minds of others.

#Reading #Brains
People who are good at reading have different brains
https://theconversation.com/people-who-are-good-at-reading-have-different-brains-244786

People who are good at reading have different brains

Reading can change the brain.

The Conversation
Never forget: misogyny is a skill issue
David Hasselhoff refers to himself as The Hoff because it’s less hassel.

Journal: Going Offline is online …for free

Read the book I wrote about service workers. It’s all yours.

🔗https://adactio.com/journal/21578

Going Offline is online …for free

Read the book I wrote about service workers. It’s all yours.