in honor of his birthday, my favorite Johnny Cash song: https://youtu.be/t_DSnfVNLwY
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Sarah McLaughlin
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Senior Scholar, Global Expression at FIRE. Writing about international censorship, higher ed, and the relationship between the two. Opinions mine. Posts about free expression, authoritarianism, and Philly sports. Go birds.
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@Popehat how have you gotten more snow than we have in Philly this winter
“HB 999 would eliminate ‘any major or minor’ that ‘engenders beliefs in the concepts defined’ in the unconstitutional Stop WOKE Act, as well as any ‘major or minor in Critical Race Theory, Gender Studies, or Intersectionality,’ or any ‘derivative major or minor of these belief systems.’
As we have said before, efforts to purge universities of gender studies because of the viewpoints they advance are reminiscent of attacks on academic freedom abroad.” https://www.thefire.org/news/thought-stop-woke-act-was-bad-new-florida-bill-worse
@Popehat you’re always welcome to visit us in philadelphia, we’ll introduce you to the charming local jargon
@Popehat @JacobRussell I wrote a message about Gritty on it lol
@Popehat There is a Philadelphia themed bar there, you can let me know if the dollar bill I wrote a message on and put on the wall is still there. Obviously this will be at the top of your list.
if you’re ever wondering what’s going on in the background of every zoom meeting I’m in
Twitter appears to have stopped publishing transparency reports showing what takedown demands governments have issued and, importantly, which demands Twitter honored. This is a bad development for free speech and transparency — especially after the recent censorship demands India has been granted on Twitter. https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/elon-musk-twitter-no-transparency-reports-government-data-1234684941/
IFEX#Turkey 🇹🇷 indicts 10 Kurdish journalists on terrorism charges
The ten journalists - nine of whom have been under pre-trial arrest since October - face up to 15 years in prison if found guilty under Turkey’s anti-terrorism laws.
https://ifex.org/turkey-indicts-10-kurdish-journalists-on-terrorism-charges/
Richard Van Noorden"In the middle of the tragedies of lost lives, bombed buildings and thwarted careers, many Ukrainian scientists are forging collaborations with institutions outside the country that, some think, are laying a strong foundation for a thriving, Western-facing scientific community after the war." Aisling Irwin reports for Nature on how Ukrainian scientists are faring a year into Russia's invasion. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-00508-0
