Conservative calls for women to have more babies hide pernicious motives | Kenan Malik
https://lemmy.world/post/2760901
Conservative calls for women to have more babies hide pernicious motives | Kenan Malik - Lemmy.world
"There are good reasons for expanding affordable childcare and funding proper
parental leave; not because this might increase the fertility rate but because
such policies are good for women, for children and for society. There are good
reasons for thinking more concretely about the consequences of falling
birthrates and the policies needed to respond to it; and to acknowledge, too,
that immigration cannot be the sole answer, but is likely to be part of it.
“There are, though, no good reasons for using concern about birthrates to
exacerbate hostility to immigration, to project divisive notions of identity and
to restrict the rights of women and gay people. That is to enclose iniquity in a
“family friendly” wrapping”
The Crooked House: Fire rips through famed 'wonky' pub
https://lemmy.world/post/2754191
The Crooked House: Fire rips through famed 'wonky' pub - Lemmy.world
Oh look, another historic building going up in flames shortly after it was
bought by developers. Coincidence, I’m sure.
Letters from the lawyers: Musk threatens CCDH with brazen attempt to silence honest criticism. — Center for Countering Digital Hate | CCDH
https://lemmy.world/post/2432014
Letters from the lawyers: Musk threatens CCDH with brazen attempt to silence honest criticism. — Center for Countering Digital Hate | CCDH - Lemmy.world
“Last week we got a letter from Elon Musk’s X. Corp threatening CCDH with legal
action over our work, exposing the proliferation of hate and lies on Twitter
since he became the owner. Elon Musk’s actions represent a brazen attempt to
silence honest criticism and independent research in the desperate hope that he
can stem the tide of negative stories and rebuild his relationship with
advertisers.” [With apologies to anyone who dislikes endless Musk/Huffman spam
in this community. I put it here because misusing the law to silence independent
tech researchers this has wider implications.]
The BBC on Mastodon: experimenting with distributed and decentralised social media
https://lemmy.world/post/2425479
The BBC on Mastodon: experimenting with distributed and decentralised social media - Lemmy.world
“As the social media landscape ebbs and flows, the team at BBC Research &
Development are researching social technologies and exploring possibilities for
the BBC. One part of our work is to establish a BBC presence in the distributed
collection of social networks known as the Fediverse, a collection of social
media applications all linked together by common protocols. The most common
software used in this area is Mastodon, a Twitter-like social networking service
with around 2 million active monthly users. We are now running an experimental
BBC Mastodon server at https://social.bbc [https://social.bbc] where you can
follow some of the BBC’s social media accounts, including BBC R&D, Radio 4 and 5
Live. We hope to be able to add more accounts from other areas of the BBC at
some point.”
Cloudflare being awkward today, I will edit that subtitle when it decides to play nicely.
Fewer than 20 Black women physicists in the U.S. have earned tenure. This scholar just joined the club.
https://lemmy.world/post/2383562
Fewer than 20 Black women physicists in the U.S. have earned tenure. This scholar just joined the club. - Lemmy.world
And, at the risk of crossing subLemmy boundaries, here’s Mekka Okereke
(@[email protected]) on that achievement, and Mastadon’s loss: And when
she tried to join the Fediverse, she was greeted with a barrage of hate, sexism,
racism, and anti-semitism that should have never been allowed to happen. So now
no one on Fediverse gets to interact with her directly about her work on here.
Our loss. 😢 Which is why we’ll make it so that this type of terrible welcome is
unlikely to happen again. Allowing it to happen to her was a choice. We will
make better ones. #BlackMastodon
Mastodon is easy and fun except when it isn’t
https://lemmy.world/post/2340367
Mastodon is easy and fun except when it isn’t - Lemmy.world
"After my last long post, I got into some frustrating conversations, among them
one in which an open-source guy repeatedly scoffed at the idea of being able to
learn anything useful from people on other, less ideologically correct networks.
Instead of telling him to go fuck himself, I went to talk to about fedi
experiences with people on the very impure Bluesky, where I had seen people
casually talking about Mastodon being confusing and weird. “My purpose in
gathering this informal, conversational feedback is to bring voices into the
“how should Mastodon be” conversation that don’t otherwise get much
attention—which I do because I hope it will help designers and developers and
community leaders who genuinely want Mastodon to work for more kinds of people
refine their understanding of the problem space.”
Pluralistic: Tesla’s Dieselgate (28 July 2023) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
https://lemmy.world/post/2313179
Pluralistic: Tesla’s Dieselgate (28 July 2023) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow - Lemmy.world
Tesla is a giant shell-game masquerading as a car company. The important thing
about Tesla isn’t its cars, it’s Tesla’s business arrangement, the
Tesla-Financial Complex:
Grandma refused bus ride suffered horror injuries
https://lemmy.world/post/2288965
Grandma refused bus ride suffered horror injuries - Lemmy.world
This is a staggering story. This jobsworth closed the doors on her because she
forgot her bus pass the week before. Despite knowing that she definitely has a
bus pass because all pensioners in the UK get one. Just a total loss of
humanity.
Police called on boy with autism and mum using toilet in anti-trans incident
https://lemmy.world/post/2244769
Police called on boy with autism and mum using toilet in anti-trans incident - Lemmy.world
More toilet hysteria. A manufactured panic about trans people using the toilets
they feel safest in, making them (and any other gender non-conforming
individual) unsafe regardless of which choice they make, also makes it unsafe
for parents to take their young or disabled children to the toilet if the child
happens to be a different sex from the parent. We need to bury these
establishments in costly litigation that force these laws to be repealed.
Ridiculous people.
