(Alice Wong blasted StoryCorps from beyond the grave at her memorial last month—they wanted her "diverse" stories but didn't want to broadcast any disabled voices on NPR that might make (abled bodied) people "uncomfortable" if they heard a stutter or such... so she started disability visability)
Ofc, as I've said for...almost 18 years now... StoryCorps was also the most economically exploitaive place I've worked. White liberal toxic nonpfofit. Based on Studs Turkel's WORKING but v anti worker and anti union. Paid us PT in NYC (to avoid health insurnace) & FT on the road (to avoid overtime)
As a former StoryCorps facilitator, this is fucking disgusting.
End the project already, Dave.
You created a good model: you encouraged people to sit and do oral history for 20 yrs.
Turning StoryCorps into a surveillance capitalism nightmare is not worth the money to keep the project going.
it really is remarkable *how mild* the op-ed that she wrote was. It really shouldn’t matter what she said, but I think they chose to make an example of her precisely *because* she didn’t do anything remotely wrong. They wanted to show they could do this to anyone.
mamdani being a cheerful normal guy that people project absolute insane things on is one of the things that make him very relatable to me, personally
Oh:
A 2022 study found that children in households that used voice commands with tools like Siri and Alexa became curt when speaking with humans, often calling out “Hey, do X” and expecting obedience, especially from anyone whose voice resembled the default-female electronic voices.
Got asked an ideology question during my talk at Chicago and shared that my first question is always "Which viewpoints are y'all looking for? Folks who say I'm not human because I'm Black?"
Say it with your whole chest.
www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...
these are the fun quips you'll get if you hire me
not to be reviewer 2 but if you argue Newsom is both a hater and an asshole then these should be represented as separate axes and not ends on a single dimension
Also, if you don't think there's an ableism problem on the left, you need to make friends with more disabled people.
The last time I tried to engage with Jay Bhattacharya in dialogue I ended up on administrative leave. 🤷♀️
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Pass it on.
the artemis ii pics of the moon and perfect splashdown reminded me what actual science looks like – instead of, say, an ai program named clifford that can write christmas cards for me.
Artemis II? more like are da mets 2 in over their heads am i right
As the Integrity crew splashed down TO THE MINUTE of their estimated arrival and hit the BULLSEYE, this is a reminder that Katherine Johnson was an absolute genius. My God. #NASA #ArtemisII
there's a lot of terrible stuff going on right now but don't think that means it's okay to not use alt text, you are still not being the person mr rogers believed you capable of being when you refuse. please be a helper thank you
BREAKING: study shows men love having young ladies around, but men do not like it when mom, wife, or teacher tells them what to do
Americans suffer from a desperate need to believe in the inherent goodness of the American electorate--the idea that a voter in 2024--after nearly a decade of unfiltered, widely broadcast, deeply fascist rhetoric from Donald Trump--was simply "tricked" by a Facebook algorithm or a Fox News segment.
I'm the daughter of an Army paratrooper who refused orders during our illegal invasion of Vietnam back in the day. He went to LBJ military jail.
Dad taught his girls this: "Just following orders" is NEVER any excuse for anyone who's complicit in war crimes. You MUST refuse heinous orders.
everything we are seeing now is the consequence of having a political environment in which indifference to the deaths and suffering of other people - even by the state whose supposed responsibility is to safeguard their welfare - is a superpower rather than a political liability
You can condemn Trump without making the incorrect insinuation that evilness is associated with aging/mental illness.
The fact that this isn't even hyperbole is what will send me spiraling forever.
The threat of nuclear annihilation, of not living in a world at all, was preferable to the idea of treating any given trans person with dignity or learning like five words in Spanish, to not harassing ladies at work.
It's impolite to call Musk a genocidal white nationalist because "civility" in American discourse functions not as a neutral procedural norm but as an asymmetric weapon to shield the powerful from accurate moral characterization while policing the tone of those who object.
Did Victor Glover attend Cal Poly on a wrestling scholarship & later play on the football team? Yup. Was he a prime agitator in forcing the administration to create a DEI plan of action? Yup. Was he part of a group of men selected to inform students about rape & sexual assault? YESSIR
how long's that flight to the moon www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCKF...
To do this on Trans Day of Visibility is violence.
At 15, I was sent to a "troubled teens boarding school" that used conversion "therapy"...it is torturous & I know of five who experienced it that died by suicide.
This "therapy" is not evidence-based, it is unscientific, and it kills.
try and imagine a bigger W as an academic
That the average community college adjunct is much better at teaching in the classroom than the average prestigious R1 full professor
