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@timnitGebru Thank you for sharing this!
Painting the situation in Venezuela as a Progressive vs Conservative issue is many people fav go-to, but it is idiotic. Well-informed articles like this one make a difference.
The regime in Venezuela is an oppressive dictatorship, with fake elections akin to ru and cn.
Tim Walz: A public school teacher who was in the military and supported queer students in the 1990s while coaching a winning football team who talks about his own family's experience with IVF and can lay out attack line after attack line against his opponents while still talking about the importance of joy.
What a moment. What a pick.
The best EV ad I've seen.
Seriously, if EVs had been first to capture the car market, people would have laughed at the ICE.
@alexwinter Unless we make this whole business of people farming socially unacceptable, we have an uphill battle on our hands. And yes, that means even before a proto-fascist like Elon Musk ends up owning one. Why are we ok with building and profiting from the infrastructure of fascism as long as our (mild mannered neoliberal?) friends own it and only start to worry when the full-cream fascists take over? It’s a bit too late then, no?
More on the tech side of things: https://ar.al/2019/01/11/i-was-wrong-about-google-and-facebook-theres-nothing-wrong-with-them-so-say-we-all/
It’s always difficult admitting you’re wrong. But sometimes, it’s exactly what you have to do in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary. So, today, I admit that I was wrong about Google, Facebook, and surveillance capitalism in general being toxic for our human rights and democracy. You see, it simply cannot be true given how they are endorsed by some of the most well-respected groups and organisations in the world.
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