"In theory, nobody has a problem with anti-racism. In practice, as soon as people start /doing/ anti-racist things, there is no end to the slew of commentators who are convinced anti-racists are doing it wrong. It even happens among people who consider themselves to be progressive"
- Reni Eddo-Lodge (Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race)
ableism, eugenics
CW'ed repost of https://mastodon.lol/@alexispurslane/108986248558881508:
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"A team of scientists in Texas used CRISPR to edit out genes associated with autism traits in mice and observed clear results: The animals stopped digging obsessively, their erratic jumping around the cages slowed to a halt and they became more calm."
This sounds like a fucking lobotmy. They're just editing out all the behaviors except placid "normal" ones.
The article also refers to autism as a "developmental disorder" that autistic people "suffer from."
https://www.newsweek.com/scientists-edit-autism-genes-traits-texas-crispr-research-mice-997948
Hello everyone
Need to get moving, literally, back overseas to finish studies, and could really use the help. Crossposting, boosting, donating, sharing, all the ways help.
Im so grateful to everyone who has done so already, thank you, you've kept me from losing it!
There's lots of fedi tools that I've helped create,(fediblock) so if you use them pls consider a donation
to be clear, from a political perspective blockchain is how people who used to do money laundering via art sales are now doing money laundering
but from a technical perspective blockchain is a great example of what happens when people in charge of designing a system misunderstand nearly every part of it
“The crimes of her ancestors”
I’m just going to link to this little… event… that happened one decade and a half into HER reign.
Keep in mind the hopelessness you feel at times is the desired result of the capitalist society we exist in, so we don't fight it.
Every act we do, from calling it out to housing unhoused people and creating sustainable methods to how we feed each other, matters.
We are limiting ourselves if we fight how bigots fight.
And there are more of us than them.
(ID&T Radio used to broadcast hour+ long mixes by serious DJs over FM in the Netherlands, but when they rebranded to SLAM!FM, it all changed to the standard format of "guy talking about bullshit and a bunch of ads interspersed with some EDM tracks")
mini software dev rant, pol?
I wonder whether this can be convincingly explained to people (who have bought into that ideology) by equating it to the saying about "teaching someone to fish", as that saying seems to resonate with a lot of tech folks on an emotional level - an opinionated framework is giving someone a fish, providing guidance on how to select options and what options there are is *teaching* someone to fish.
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Technical debt collector and general hype-hater. Early 30s, non-binary, ND, poly, relationship anarchist, generally queer.
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My spoons are limited, so I may not always have the energy to respond to messages.
Strong views about abolishing oppression, hierarchy, agency, and self-governance - but I also trust people by default and give them room to grow, unless they give me reason not to. That all also applies to technology and how it's built.