#Slavery

Chris S. Sims

ChrisSSims

Incoming thread on writing and game design re generalizations, hedging, and superlatives. All three see common usage, but they’re hard to do well. I know. I've made all these mistakes

Stephen Shapiro

shapirostephen

Notes on the “feudal” hypothesis for analysing our contemporary moment of datalogic capitalism.Thanks to @IliasAlami for bringing @cedric_durand Techno-féodalisme: Critique de l'économie numérique to my attention, which I read to

Latif Nasser

latifnasser

The US election is tomorrow. If you, like me, are tired of horse-race-style reporting, and need to zoom out, I wanna tell you a story. It’s about an ancient force influencing the

Niskanen Center

NiskanenCenter

NEW ESSAY from @Lindsey_Brink: The initial goals of the libertarianism were simple: lower taxes, less spending, fewer regulations. But the champions of free markets made deep-seated intellectual errors. As a

John Lubbock

jwsal

Simon Heffer, writing in the Telegraph, eggs on the culture secretary Oliver Dowden to remove the charitable status of heritage bodies which are “hijacked by activist sentiment”. This may be

🦋Nidhi Sharma🦋

Nidhi7007

The year was 1555. Portuguese colonial power was at its peak in the 1500’s. They destroyed Zamorins of Calicut. Defeated the Sultan of Bijapur. Took away Daman from the Sultan

Sarah Asch

sarahradinasch

1/ I got several emails today about racial disparities in suspension rates at Austin schools in response to this story. Many folks had questions related to the causes of/context around

Emily

seelix

I don't think that anyone calling for confederate statues to be displayed in museums really understands the interpretive burden of having a racist objects on the museum floor. 1/x What

Sirens Conference

sirens_con

We hope you’ve already read LA Banks, Octavia Butler, Toni Morrison, and Gloria Naylor, indisputably luminous Black SFF writers. But we want to recommend another 50 brilliant Black women, nonbinary,

Erich Arbor

ArborErich

The ACTUAL Top 10 Human Rights Abusers of 202010: UkraineForced disappearances of Left-wing political dissidents, neo-Nazi pogroms against the Roma, rampant attacks on feminists and LGBT groups, book bans, and

Renee Bracey Sherman (she/her)

RBraceySherman

I see a lot of people sharing this thread and while I understand what it's trying to do, it's not quite accurate. Abortion bans in the US (and around the

Denise Balkissoon

balkissoon

Canadians, this is a big deal: the former security chief at a Guatemala mine has pleaded guilty to criminal charges re: an alleged homicide and serious assault on Indigenous ppl.

Benedict Rogers 羅傑斯

benedictrogers

This major new report exposing #XiJinping's #CCP #China human rights crisis is endorsed by two former UK Foreign Secretaries, two former Conservative Party leaders, the last Governor of #HongKong &

Seth Cotlar

SethCotlar

I want to piggyback on this insightful thread to dig into one dimension of the contemporary conservative "culture war" around racism. To a great extent, conservative political culture in the

LibertySavage

AxelSavage4

1) Thread entitled: 'The nitty gritty on the #scamdemic ':On pg 39 of CDC document entitled "CDC 2019-Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) Real-Time RT-PCR Diagnostic Panel," dated July 13, 2020, the CDC

Ask_the_Q🇺🇸

AsktheQ4

Organ trafficking, child sex trafficking, drugs, and terrorist. Please anons feel free to add to this.https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/06/30/bill-clintons-serbian-war-atrocities-exposed-in-new-indictment/#gsc.tab=0 https://www.counterpunch

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