My employer spelled my name wrong twice — this is why it matters
Andrew Jakubowicz, an online racism expert at the University of Technology Sydney, last year told The New Daily that due to oversights in Australian law, "Australia has been for some time the best place in the liberal democratic West to be an online racist."
https://thenewdaily.com.au/news/national/2019/05/12/racism-online-australia/
Despite the 2016 census showing that 49 per cent of all Australians were either born overseas or have at least one parent born overseas, and more than 300 languages (including Indigenous languages) are spoken in Australian homes, research from Deakin University in 2019 found that more than a third of Australian media articles reflected negative views of minority communities.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0220569/ I, a Man (1967)
About a male hustler who talks with and sleeps with a series of women.
About a male hustler who talks with and sleeps with a series of women.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lAoJm_WV1g I a man Part 5 (Ultra Violet)
The shooting, in June of 1968, brought national attention to her name and work. The story of the incident was splashed across the front pages of papers like The Daily News in New York and The New York Times, which misspelled her name as Solanis. Copies of “SCUM” quickly sold out.
She was deemed unable to stand trial and was sent for a psychiatric evaluation at Elmhurst Hospital in Queens, where she received a diagnosis of paranoid schizophrenia. The evaluators also noted her intelligence-test scores, which placed her in the 98th percentile.
“I keep thinking what a shame it is that she’s mad, utterly mad,” Ultra Violet wrote in her 1988 memoir, “Famous for 15 Minutes: My Years With Andy Warhol.” “For in the beginning, beyond her overheated rhetoric, she had a truly revolutionary vision of a better world run by and for the benefit of women.”
She Took a Knee in College. She’ll Do the Same as a Pro.
Kaiya McCullough plans to continue to kneel during the national anthem when the N.W.S.L. returns to play on Saturday. This time, though, she might not be alone.
June 26
It almost didn’t feel like a choice to Kaiya McCullough. She was 19, a U.C.L.A. sophomore with hopes of becoming a professional women’s soccer player, when she first decided to take a knee during the national anthem.
After Rapinoe knelt in solidarity with Kaepernick during the anthem in 2016, becoming the first white player to do so, she faced immediate backlash, including from McCullough’s new team, the Spirit.
Feds Point to Daily Caller Writer as Part of Abramoff Payola Scheme
Derek Hunter says he wasn’t paid by the disgraced lobbyist to plug his bitcoin project. But the SEC cites his article, among others, in their complaint.
June 26
As part of their plans to promote AML Bitcoin, Abramoff and Andrade had allegedly cooked up what prosecutors call a “false rejection plan” to claim that the NFL and NBC had refused to air a Super Bowl ad for the coin that mocked North Korean leader Kim Jong-un.
Twitter closes Graham Linehan account after trans comment
Account of Father Ted creator permanently suspended over ‘hateful conduct rules breach’
The Father Ted creator Graham Linehan has been permanently suspended from Twitter for breaching the site’s rules on banned words.
Twitter said the account, which uses the handle @glinner, had been suspended after “repeated violations of our rules against hateful conduct and platform manipulation”.
Linehan’s account was closed after he reportedly tweeted “men aren’t women tho” in response to a post by the Women’s Institute wishing their transgender members a happy Pride.
The post said Linehan had been locked out of his account and forced to delete tweets to regain access several times before. It said “trans rights activists” had searched through his old tweets and reported them.
It concluded by asking Mumsnet readers to “let people know it’s entirely down to malicious reporting from the usual suspects” and urged them to watch his YouTube channel and visit his “depressing blog”.
Linehan had hundreds of thousands of followers on Twitter. In recent years he has used the platform to critique what he calls “trans ideology” which he says misrepresents trans people and lesbians; and in 2018 he was accused of comparing trans activism to nazism.
In the same year, Linehan received a warning from West Yorkshire police after a row with the transgender activist Stephanie Hayden on Twitter, where she accused him of dead-naming – calling a transgender person by the name they used before their transition.
Trump bruised as polls favour Biden – but experts warn of risk of dirty tricks
“You look at the polls and think ‘he can’t win’,” tweeted Bill Kristol, who served in two Republican administrations. “But Trump’s path to victory doesn’t depend on persuading Americans. It depends on voter suppression, mass disinformation, foreign interference, and unabashed use of executive branch power to shape events, and perceptions, this fall.”
Kristol, editor at large of the Bulwark website and director of the advocacy organisation Defending Democracy Together, said in an interview: “The special circumstances with Trump are his total abandonment of any constraints and even more important, perhaps, his having people around him who’ve abandoned any constraints on the way in which they’ll use the federal government, the executive branch, to say things, do things, pretend to do things.
US restricts visas for Chinese officials over Hong Kong freedoms
Secretary of state Mike Pompeo says visa restrictions apply to ‘current and former’ communist party officials, but does not name them
The US visa restrictions apply to “current and former” Chinese communist party officials “believed to be responsible for, or complicit in, undermining Hong Kong’s high degree of autonomy,” Pompeo said, without naming them.
Last month, President Trump responded to China’s plans by saying he was initiating a process to eliminate special economic treatment that has allowed Hong Kong to remain a global financial centre since its handover by Britain in 1997.
Pompeo’s announcement represents the first concrete US step in response to China’s moves, but Bonnie Glaser, an Asia expert at Washington’s Center for Strategic and International Studies, said visa restrictions were largely symbolic and the fact that no names were given could lessen their impact.
Robby Soave on the New York Times / Slate Star Codex Controversy
EUGENE VOLOKH |THE VOLOKH CONSPIRACY | 6.24.2020 6:11 PM
The New York Times's Inconsistent Standards Drove Slate Star Codex To Self-Cancel
Scott Alexander has deleted his popular blog to deter a reporter from exposing his real name.
ROBBY SOAVE | 6.24.2020
Cade Metz Pulls a ‘Deep Capture’ on Slate Star Codex
https://twitter.com/gary_weiss/status/1276655855107289088 Here are the 1,640 articles profiling and mentioning Banksy.
https://nytimes.com/search?query=Banksy+
Funny isn't it? All those stories, not one dox of this noted anonymous artist.
https://twitter.com/webdevMason/status/1275516063489253376 The @nytimes writer threatening to dox Scott Alexander for no apparent reason reached out to me earlier this month — and offered to keep identity out of the story if I would talk to him about Scott.
Twice. Without my ever requesting it.
https://twitter.com/puiwingtam Technology Editor, The New York Times. pui-wing.tam@nytimes.com
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HiAhDKKrinI New York Times Threatens To Doxx Slate Star Codex. Journalist Explains.
https://twitter.com/BostWiki/status/1275922826395095040 Journalist explains New York Times Doxxing of SlateStarCodex: https://youtu.be/HiAhDKKrinI
#slatestarcodex #newyorktimes #nyt
*Behind the scenes receipts* on Slate Star Codex & NYT's
https://twitter.com/sirkanda/status/1276736257159245825 Here a living example of energy well invested: one guy - all by himself - has scrapped data from public yet hard to use databases of public tendering and contracting with political parties census. Now he is creating the "Corruption-O-Pedia" - with
@Patreon
https://twitter.com/mmpadellan/status/1276947782146961408 This crazy woman who filled out at Trader Joe's and said "I have a breathing problem" and therefore cannot wear a mask WAS LYING.
Even people with COPD can wear one.
Please, stop the bullshit and WEAR A MASK.
https://twitter.com/vivian_v_/status/1276922364144447488 What doctor tells you not to wear a mask during a pandemic? Just stay home Karen and organize your 2002 BeBe wardrobe #TraderJoes #Karen #KarensGoneWild
Josh Hawley warns Trump on Supreme Court disappointments
Trump first released a list of possible Supreme Court nominees in May 2016 with input from conservatives affiliated with The Federalist Society and The Heritage Foundation. The names helped ease concerns about the GOP nominee, and many credit the move with encouraging evangelicals to come to the polls.
“There is the more secretive and narrow process of judicial selection that brought us David Souter and John Roberts,” said Leonard Leo, who was involved in the Supreme Court confirmation of Justices Brett Kavanaugh and Gorsuch. “And there is the process that President Trump established and created which is to create as much transparency as possible by publishing a list for all conservatives to see and respond to.”
Workers removed thousands of social distancing stickers before Trump’s Tulsa rally, according to video and a person familiar with the set-up
As part of its safety plan, arena management had purchased 12,000 do-not-sit stickers for Trump’s rally, intended to keep people apart by leaving open seats between attendees. On the day of the rally, event staff had already affixed them on nearly every other seat in the arena when Trump’s campaign told event management to stop and then began removing the stickers, hours before the president’s arrival, according to a person familiar with the event who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss internal matters.
The actions by Trump’s campaign were first reported Friday by Billboard Magazine. As rally preparations were underway, Trump’s campaign staff intervened with the venue manager, ASM Global, and told them to stop labeling seats in this way, Doug Thornton, executive vice president of ASM Global, told the magazine.
As the crowd entered the day of the rally, the Trump campaign handed out masks and small bottles of “Make America Great Again 2020” branded hand sanitizer.
The BOK Center also put down floor decals in front of concession areas and put up plexiglass to protect vendors.
At 1:47 p.m. that day, Fox 23 News posted on its Facebook page a photo from inside the BOK Center showing two members of the event staff putting stickers on seats. “Stickers are going on every other seat in the BOK Center saying ‘Do Not Sit Here’ to try to spread the crowd out for President Trump’s rally tonight,” the post read.
President Eisgruber’s message to community on removal of Woodrow Wilson name from public policy school and Wilson College
Wilson’s racism was significant and consequential even by the standards of his own time. He segregated the federal civil service after it had been racially integrated for decades, thereby taking America backward in its pursuit of justice. He not only acquiesced in but added to the persistent practice of racism in this country, a practice that continues to do harm today.
https://twitter.com/worldstar/status/1274746480486764544?s=21 J. Alexander Kueng, one of the 4 ex officers involved in the death of #GeorgeFloyd has been spotted at a grocery store in Minnesota. Keung is out of jail on a $750,000 bond. 👀😳 #RIPGeorgeFloyd
https://twitter.com/JohnathanPerk/status/1276923143471288320 The biggest spike in construction of Confederate monuments was btwn 1900-1920s.
This coincides perfectly w/ the country’s first blockbuster film, the KKK epic, Birth of a Nation (1915).
This isn’t complicated. Confederate monuments are instruments of terror and must come down.
https://twitter.com/mpiii1/status/1276964990575050753 Yes, Democrat president Wilson raved about the movie when it was shown in the White House.
Stop Firing the Innocent
America needs a reckoning over racism. Punishing people who did not do anything wrong harms that important cause.
How Americans Feel About the Country Right Now: Anxious. Hopeful.
mood poll. interesting 3d graphic
This chart shows the link between restaurant spending and new cases of coronavirus
Firm That Tracked Protesters Targeted Evangelicals During 2016 Election
The CEO of data broker Mobilewalla, which worked with Republican SuperPACs, says it tracked Evangelicals’ cell phone locations for six months.
BuzzFeed's reporting and this revelation show just how pervasive the use of cell phone location data can be, and how specifically it can be targeted. As Motherboard has shown many times, the market for cell phone location data is vast and largely unregulated. The data itself can come from apps that track GPS location; in some cases, location data can come from cell phone companies themselves.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlBTC5gtMDw Velshi: Trump’s Theatrics Are Killing Americans | MSNBC
SNBC’s Ali Velshi says the president’s “nonsense talking points” are no match for the coronavirus pandemic’s deadly reality.
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