I think this story is a really good example for people to look at when it comes to understanding bias at NYT. It's not that the reporter, Dana Rubinstein, says anything outright false. But the framing, word choices, etc., add up to an unprofessional and biased account.
Like, yes, it sucks that tech hasn't unionized, it sucks even more that the $$ made a lot of folks into zombies spouting the nonsense of capitalist inhumanity.
I was explaining to my therapist today that in most cases the financial incentives for many folks working in tech have been enough to keep them from unionizing, and I think that has trickled down to them using the language of inevitability for so many of these things that tech rolls out.
When I joined as the head engineer of the Torment Nexus project, it was to work on fascinating technical problems and make the world a better place along the way. I am appalled to discover that the Torment Nexus would be used this way and, now that my options have vested, will be leaving the project
I have watched this approximately 47 times and laughed out loud 47 times
usually if you ask experts why an empire fell they’ll say it’s nuanced and multifaceted, so i think it’s kind of cool that with America future historians will get to just say like “oh they took the idiot train to moronsville”
One of the Israeli strikes in Tyre, Lebanon, nearly hit an ancient archeological site www.lorientlejour.com/article/1497...
Tyre is one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world
To donate havenwatch.org. I’ve never met any of these folks but honestly this is the top tier of awesomeness in Minnesota
Havenwatch had a ton of their supplies stolen for greeting and taking care of those released by ice.
www.instagram.com/reel/DVfGGCn...
They'll get to stay home while delivery drivers stay on the roads www.wired.com/story/with-m...
Finally, an article about the real victims of this war: piles of money
the german word for this is lebensraum
I love this so much
Preparing the graves for more than 150 elementary school girls who were killed by an Israeli-American strike. Photo: IRNA #Iran
Thousands of Iranians gathered for a mass funeral of students and staff of an elementary girls’ school in #Minab, who were killed in a strike by the US and Israel.
The death toll has crossed over 160, in what was the deadliest incident in the conflict so far.
📷Reuters, AFP
RIP to hundreds of Iranians and one American vacation
The regime won’t let you have clean hands if you work for them, even if they’re punishing you. This was leaked on purpose, is uncomfortably close to confessing to a war crime, and highlights once again how tech’s unthinking growth directly leads to dead kids.
Part of our work is to create a political environment where folks who do find ways to act heroically receive public recognition and support.
The more we do that, the more likely it is we see at least a few military personnel taking risks to oppose the horrors and refuse illegal orders.
The entire millennial identity is being prepared and groomed for a version of the world that stopped existing by the time we reached it
we slammed into a horizon painted on a brick wall like fucking looney tunes
Who needs sabotage when you have AIPAC and a high risk of stroke?
In describing how he felt after her, he was told in the hospital that he couldn’t eat he said this: “"I was so sad," he said. "I love to eat." When he was discharged, he went straight to Redhot Ranch for the cheeseburger he'd been craving. "I just experienced some trauma. I wanted this cheeseburger," he said.”
"Me being trans has nothing to do with me jumping in a lake and saving someone who can't save themselves," he said. "If anything, take away the fact that I'm a human being who did a human act, and my gender has nothing to do with it."
I love this little kreplach.
Also, it might seem like 70k is a lot of money, because it is. But that money will very quickly be eaten up by an ER Bill. Keep it little kreplach and maybe don’t close down the gofundme till you get a sense of the bill.
I am loathe to support any war, and I think nation states are mostly awful. But even if I were the most rah-rah, go-USA, pro-military strategist I would know this is a glaringly awful move, and it will surely blow back to the US as the years after the Revolution did.
That the current administration thinks they can just run a playbook for regime change from the 1940s and 50s and get a different result is both mind blowingly stupid and unsurprising.
That the strikes today also were reportedly on leftist, dissident, pro-democracy targets strikes me as telling - the US government's plan is to do the same goddamn thing over again. Not to deliver true freedom to the Iranian people.
It's okay to not know the history in immense detail, but a brief primer on Iran: the US led efforts to install the Shah in Iran after they democratically elected a prime minister (Mossadegh) who moved to nationalize their oil reserves. The Shah's reign directly led to the Iranian revolution.
jesus christ
I know that I spent a good portion of my graduate school years hanging out with expat Iranian musicians in LA, so I probably know a little more about Iranian and Persian history than most, but.... The lack of historical awareness of regime change by the US in Iran is staggering right now.
In 1979 when Iranian students seized the US embassy they eventually let go all of the Black people working there because they understood that the US would only care about white Americans. Iran understands our society far better than we understand theirs or our own.
Picture of Marjane Satrapi alongside a quote from her. The quote reads: The world is not divided into countries. The world is not divided between East and West. You are American, I am Iranian, we don't know each other, but we talk together and we understand each other perfectly. The difference between you and your government is much bigger than the difference between you and me. And the difference between me and my government is much bigger than the difference between me and you. And our governments are very much the same... - Marjane Satrapi, Iranian-French graphic novelist
Thinking about this quote from Persepolis creator Marjane Satrapi again.
