yunyun333
1yr ago
there's definitely more signal boosting of certain content on twitter now. just a few weeks ago there was a kerfuffle over musk retweeting interracial crime statistics
yunyun333
1yr ago
They're trying to go for the "racist backlash" reason as to why it's not doing well, but unfortunately that then means calling China and Korea racists - which is a racist thing to do!
cnn's one step ahead of you - they got three asian lady writers to call chinese and korean audiences racist.
yunyun333
1yr ago
cinderella made $542 million, alice in wonderland made over a billion. were those considered unsuccessful?
lady and the tramp and pinocchio were disney+ exclusives. disney+ has kind of been a flop, so fair enough there.
the christopher robin movie was one of those 'kid character turns into jaded adult' movies like hook.
yunyun333
1yr ago
https://twitter.com/AnechoicMedia_/status/1660934240580562946
south africa is obviously not some great predictor of what will happen to the US, but it does show an extreme example of what a fanatic obsession with affirmative action and equity results in.
yunyun333
1yr ago
comparing two cases that are pretty different doesn't really make any point. the second case did have some hilarious reasoning from the defense:
She was "unaware of what is going on", attorney Mark Iverson told the jury, "She is moving, but without conscious thought".
yunyun333
1yr ago
last week, SCOTUS ruled on a case from 2017 about whether teamsters were allowed to walk off the job, leaving their trucks with drying cement.
Drivers showed up to work on strike day as normal. Those with early routes had their trucks filled with cement and went out to make deliveries. But after the final negotiations with the company broke down, the drivers went on strike. Those out on routes were told by the union to drive their trucks back to the company and leave them running so the cement wouldn’t immediately harden, which the drivers did. Management couldn’t decant the cement or make all of the deliveries in time, and some of the cement hardened and had to be destroyed.
Unlike, say, abortion rights, the right to strike is protected under federal law—specifically, under the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA). That law normally supersedes (lawyers use the word “preempts”) state tort claims like the one filed by Glacier, but there are edge cases. The law requires striking employees to take “reasonable precautions” to make sure that their employers’ property is not damaged, and the law clearly prohibits striking employees from taking active measures to damage or vandalize property. A striking UPS driver could not, for instance, drive their truck into the middle of Madison Avenue, shout “gifts from Jeff Bezos,” and walk away. But a striking driver could refuse to make deliveries and, if those packages contained perishables that spoiled, the strikers wouldn’t be liable under the NLRA, even if management wanted to lodge a state tort claim against them.
SCOTUS ruled 8-1 against the strikers, with the newest justice KBJ the sole voice opposed. this article from the cato institute sides with them. there's also a bunch of legal stuff about whether the courts should even get to rule on this instead of the NLRB.
yunyun333
1yr ago
this is the best summary of how the citibike system works from a new yorker:
https://twitter.com/adamnewyork/status/1661905991829536768
so basically they were waiting for someone to take the last regular non-electric bike so they could get another free 45 minute rental, and guarding their 'own' bike, which is generally considered a dick move.
yunyun333
1yr ago
the chatlogs showed make it hard to believe these people are functioning adults at a big company.
"matt walsh said karen is a racial slur, do you agree with him???
"you deserve a pay raise and/or time off for all of this emotional unpaid labor"
and my favorite
"it was more of a lecture - I felt like I was being scolded for the entirety of that meeting"
yunyun333
1yr ago
the endless shoving of emmett till in our faces means that a white woman crying or attempting to get help when being accosted by black men is equivalent to attempted murder.
yunyun333
1yr ago
people on twitter gloating about posting her home address. for getting emotional (not even being racist or any actual american mortal sin) over a bike. you couldn't think of a better psyop to further annihilate race relations
yunyun333
1yr ago
whether this was self defense is what's up for debate. if all he was doing was schizo ranting then does that really justify a chokehold?
yunyun333
2yr ago
comparing this to the rittenhouse shooting is surprising. they're both clearly controversial, but opinion on the rittenhouse case was pretty clearly left-right divided. here there are plenty of 'liberals' sympathetic to the white guy who choked a black man to death.
yunyun333
2yr ago
the daily beast is calling the guy a public servant.
Personally, I don’t care what his motives were or whether his ideological convictions bear any resemblance to my own. If he’s “guilty” of leaking these documents, Airman Teixeira was performing a public service.
if he really just leaked the documents to impress his discord buddies then no one's going to defend him that hard though.
yunyun333
2yr ago
yunyun333
2yr ago
the handwringing over kids not caring about the holocaust is weird. anything that happened before you were born might as well be ancient history.
remember the maus drama a year or so ago where some school board decided maus was inappropriate because bad words and boobs, and the national media latched onto it as a story of how red state schools were trying to erase the holocaust. the debate was over whether that book was appropriate to use in their language arts holocaust unit. because a whole months-long unit studying the holocaust isn't enough.
yunyun333
2yr ago
Like, we tried this before, and when try to force people into this kind of life and allow even mild forms of mass communication, you get the 60's eventually, everywhere. Hell, Iran is dealing with this right now. I realize the median opinion on this site appears to be that women just need to get married at 22, start having babies, and they'd be much happier, but again, that happened. It turned out, a lot of people weren't happy with that arrangement.
in high school US history, during our unit on feminism and the 50s/60s, one thing we read was about the use of tranquilizers among women to demonstrate that being a housewife wasn't all it was cracked up to be. fair enough, but then what does the rate at which people today use antidepressants and other mind changing drugs say?
yunyun333
2yr ago
when provorov sat out the NHL put out a total non statement in response to the outrage. if a team or the NHL actually tried to suspend someone for not participating the union would raise hell. anyways, you're allowed to dislike anyone for participating or not participating, standing or kneeling, whatever. they just shouldn't be disciplined for it.
yunyun333
2yr ago
he's basically just instituting martial law, or at least the rationale is the same: we're legally suspending your rights because you don't actually have them right now anyways. obvious parallels with duterte whom the west hated but was hugely popular in his own country.
yunyun333
2yr ago
A Black Professor Trapped in Anti-Racist Hell
Very interesting longform article about how a professor had a summer seminar for high school students taken over by his radical TA, in a course focusing primarily on anti-blackness - this despite Dr. Vincent Lloyd's confused self description:
I am a black professor, I directed my university’s black-studies program, I lead anti-racism and transformative-justice workshops, and I have published books on anti-black racism and prison abolition. I live in a predominantly black neighborhood of Philadelphia, my daughter went to an Afrocentric school, and I am on the board of our local black cultural organization.
What's striking about this is how miserable it seems to have made everyone involved:
Furthermore, in the 2022 community, afternoons and evenings would no longer be spent having fun and doing homework. Two college-age students called “factotums” (led by one I will call “Keisha”) were assigned to create anti-racism workshops to fill the afternoons. There were workshops on white supremacy, on privilege, on African independence movements, on the thought and activism of Angela Davis, and more, all of which followed an initial, day-long workshop on “transformative justice.” Students described the workshops as emotionally draining, forcing the high schoolers to confront tough issues and to be challenged in ways they had never been challenged before.
From the initial “transformative-justice” workshop, students learned to snap their fingers when they agreed with what a classmate was saying. This practice immediately entered the seminar and was weaponized. One student would try out a controversial (or just unusual) view. Silence. Then another student would repeat a piece of anti-racist dogma, and the room would be filled with the click-clack of snapping fingers.
hilariously, two of the asian students ended up being 'expelled' from the program, for reasons that were not shared with the professor.
During our discussion of incarceration, an Asian-American student cited federal inmate demographics: About 60 percent of those incarcerated are white. The black students said they were harmed. They had learned, in one of their workshops, that objective facts are a tool of white supremacy. Outside of the seminar, I was told, the black students had to devote a great deal of time to making right the harm that was inflicted on them by hearing prison statistics that were not about blacks. A few days later, the Asian-American student was expelled from the program.
Finally, about halfway through the seminar, the TA led a struggle session where all the students accused the professor of doing a lot of anti black harm to them, and then they all did their own thing without his involvement.
I emailed the students and Keisha with this decision, and with an offer to read and respond to any written work the students produced—and I never heard back. No one sent written work. None indicated a desire to attend a meeting where I would be a “guest speaker.” The students had almost two weeks left. With the seminar canceled, did they go home? Did they tell their parents? Did Keisha lecture to them all day? I don’t know. I had extricated myself from the abusive relationship, but nine students remained captive.
yunyun333
2yr ago
they hyped it up to prevent people being shocked by it, in order to prevent a violent reaction. contrast that with the floyd case where the initial police public report was a blatant fabrication compared to the video that everyone saw.
yunyun333
2yr ago
that one is pretty eyebrow raising as well. cops claimed that
“suspected shooter engaged in a verbal altercation with officers and emerged from a camper trailer and confronted officers. Members of the Cherokee Indian Police SWAT Team fired upon the suspect and wounded him.”
which is a very charitable framing of "guy gets woken up with bright lights and horns, mutters some profanities, opens the door, and gets shot after complying with orders to come out with his hands up".
tyre nichols, a 29 year old black man in memphis, was beaten up by several cops on jan 7th and died three days later. all five of the cops, who are black, were fired, arrested, and charged; the police chief denounced their actions as 'inhumane'. the bodycam video will be released about 3 hours after this post at 7pm EST. hopefully we won't see a recurrence of the floyd riots, although several cities, including atlanta which is dealing with its own controversial cop shooting incident, are preparing for an eventful evening. the police reform movement, which has stalled, may also be pushed back into the forefront of public consciousness.
4 videos have been released on the city of memphis vimeo account: https://vimeo.com/cityofmemphis
yunyun333
2yr ago
this was a hilarious story. the cops gassing this technology up when all it really tells you is "it was a black guy", which they already knew from the suspect description by the victim, was hilarious. the outraged reaction was interesting, though - would they have been as mad if the police just said 'it was a black guy'? perhaps it's just how generic that face looks.
news from ukraine: the leader of wagner group has accused the russian military of bombing his forces. seems to be preparing some kind of
coupspecial military operation. russian generals are asking mercenaries not to join in. prigozhin has vocally criticized russian military leaders recently, but this is a massive escalation. could we see a civil war break out in the middle of this war?update: prigozhin claims that he has entered rostov without resistance. lots of unverified videos on twitter of wagner/russian convoy movements, and some combat footage; wagner claims to have shot down a russian helicopter.
video of supposedly wagner soldiers and tanks surrounding the MoD building in rostov.
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