@Lana Every moral panic is a quiet campaign for just a little more state authority, a little more overt repression, a little more leeway for the police to put "those people" back in the desired social order.
The right desperately wants to return to the type of minority, white, patriarchal rule they enjoyed by depriving voting & other civil rights during Jim Crow.
But they also have to say they "hate government overreach" because Federal civil rights acts banned these racist state laws.
So they covertly campaign for a state that will actively intervene in their narrow interests—but not the diverse majority's interests—by zigging and zagging through all these scare tactics.
society doesn’t see disabled people as people. We’re symbols—either of triumph over adversity or tragic cautionary tales.
It’s easier for non-disabled people to project their fears or fantasies onto us than to engage with complex realities of disabled lives.
#Disability #HumanRights #SDGs #Poverty #Technology #Cinema #DisabilityInclusion
Worryingly, several public health academics and scientists are rushing to sane-wash Trump's nominees. They naively think that trying to place nice with them now will limit the damage. The history of authoritarian governments proves otherwise. Do not obey in advance. It only makes things worse.
So if I wanted to be a DBA for scientific databases (preferably biology) is that a realistic job market? And how would I break into that? What SQL variety is industry standard? Are there many remote positions?
#databaseadministrator #biology #sysadmin #jobthoughts
"Settlerism is closely associated with the political project of whiteness. White people tend to think whiteness is about skin color alone, and that prejudices about melanin, and indigeneity, and gender, and ability, are both inevitable and mutual. All of these are political beliefs that gird a universe of policy and practice, and they are taken for implicit fact by ignorant millions. Racism, and all the prejudices whiteness unites, are neither inevitable nor mutual. One finds common the fear that the wronged will simply return the favor. You sweet child, we are not all barbarians. There will be truth, and then reconciliation."
Biologist
Love old tech and anti-authoritarian praxis
RISC and singlecore CPUs
#runbsd
Lots of body no worky Just a puppy