Kerim Yasar

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I teach Japanese lit and East Asian cinema at USC in L.A. Translator of 100+ Japanese classics for Criterion
Faculty Pagehttps://dornsife.usc.edu/cf/ealc/ealc_faculty_display.cfm?person_id=1080379
Bookhttp://cup.columbia.edu/book/electrified-voices/9780231187138
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Epipens should be available for people who need it. This kind of horrific tragedy could be easily avoided. https://twitter.com/patricia_ann_e/status/1616482077842472972

šŸ¦šŸ”—: https://twitter.com/yuhline/status/1616677997729153025

Patricia Ann on Twitter

ā€œA girl died in one of my allergy groups yesterday because after a reaction at school, no staff had access to the locked up epipen as the nurse wasn’t there that day. Epi-pens are meant to be on someone’s person at all times, not locked away. I hope they’re sued into oblivion.ā€

Twitter

Our latest: Employees at TikTok and ByteDance have access to a secret back-end button that can make any video go viral, immediately pushing it to more viewers. The practice, which TikTok has never disclosed, is known internally as ā€œheating.ā€

https://www.forbes.com/sites/emilybaker-white/2023/01/20/tiktoks-secret-heating-button-can-make-anyone-go-viral/

TikTok’s Secret ā€˜Heating’ Button Can Make Anyone Go Viral

TikTok and ByteDance employees regularly engage in ā€œheating,ā€ a manual push that ensures specific videos ā€œachieve a certain number of video views,ā€ according to six sources and documents reviewed by Forbes.

Forbes

The funniest aspect is how the Taliban is literally praising Elon Musk, saying he's "making Twitter great again".

What an endorsement!

I'm sure that today you'll wade through a sea of sfw quotes from the whitewashed version of Dr Martin Luther King Jr that has been popularized since his assassination by the state that worked so hard to silence him while he lived.

But if you really want to honor him for who he really was: an avowed Socialist, a proponent of unionization, and a tireless crusader against war, capitalism, income inequality, and racial division and injustice.

https://www.hamptonthink.org/read/martin-luther-king-jr-and-the-socialist-within

#BlackMastodon #BlackFedi #MLK #MLKDay #socialjustice

Martin Luther King Jr. and the Socialist Within — Hampton Institute

By Stephen Joseph Scott To date, the image and memory of Martin Luther King Jr., social justice warrior, peace activist and civil rights icon in the United States, and around the world, has been manipulated, watered-down or diminished of meaning to serve the very forces of capitalist power and d

Hampton Institute

This huge #COVID19 study should spark change, but sadly, it won't:

Most long COVID cases are in non-hospitalized patients with a mild acute illness

Debilitating illness occurs in at least 10% SARS-CoV-2 infections

At least 65M individuals worldwide are estimated to have long COVID, with cases increasing daily

Significant proportions of individuals are unable to return to work, contributing to labor shortages

There are currently no validated effective treatments

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41579-022-00846-2

Long COVID: major findings, mechanisms and recommendations - Nature Reviews Microbiology

Long COVID is an often debilitating illness of severe symptoms that can develop during or following COVID-19. In this Review, Davis, McCorkell, Vogel and Topol explore our knowledge of long COVID and highlight key findings, including potential mechanisms, the overlap with other conditions and potential treatments. They also discuss challenges and recommendations for long COVID research and care.

Nature
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Parler’s parent company has laid off a majority of its staff

Parlement Technologies, the parent company of ā€œcensorship-freeā€ social media platform Parler, has laid off a majority of its staff and most of its chief executives over the last few weeks. The sudden purge of staff has thrown the future of Parler, one of the first conservative alternatives to mainstream platforms, into question.

The Verge
We are at most, a few months away from apps with content and sharing mechanisms just not possible on Twitter or other centralized, closed-source platforms. That's when the momentum will really start to build for Activitypub and other protocols supporting federated networks. We have stop talking about it being a twitter "alternative" and start talking about is as an evolutionary step forward in global social networking. Because that's what it is.

I gave up 15 years on Twitter and 22,000 followers. I used my anniversary to invite others to follow me to Mastodon, and I pointed out that every tweet is a donation to Musk. We know what he is and what he's doing. He gave Michael Flynn his account back on the anniversary of the Jan. 6 insurrection.

I started my #Twitter exodus as a boycott against Musk. Now, I'm thrilled to be here. I miss a few things, but Mastodon is just built better. I feel like it makes me (and you) better, too.