After years of progress on gay rights, how did the US become so anti-LGBTQ+? | US news | The Guardian

Source: After years of progress on gay rights, how did the US become so anti-LGBTQ+? | US news | The Guardian

Elon Musk doesn’t understand free speech – or Twitter – at all | Siva Vaidhyanathan | The Guardian

Twitter, like every Starbucks, McDonalds, shopping center, and radio station, has other obligations and interests. Those spaces must maintain order, decorum, cleanliness, and comfort to keep revenue flowing and customers or audiences happy. That’s why the US constitution protects us only from the censorious power of government, not the needs of private entities to restrict expression that might harm their core missions. US law, Musk might be frustrated to learn, not only allows but encourages digital platforms to moderate the content that flows across them.

Twitter is an advertising company. But it’s also a forum for expression. So its rules and design are, understandably, built to consider both the commercial and expressive desires of advertisers and users. That’s a difficult balance to maintain. No social media company has come close to protecting users and fully satisfying advertisers while also allowing for full range of expression in more than 100 languages around the world. Content moderation at a global scale is impossible to do well, but it can always be done better.

Musk’s pledge to limit Twitter’s content moderation to that which the law of any nation demands leaves, in the US anyway, vast arrays of distracting, destructive, and dehumanizing expression able to flow freely to their targets. For years, women who have expressed themselves freely on Twitter have done so expecting and experiencing threats, the exposure of private information, and constant harassment. This phenomenon – one caused by the proliferation of expression – impedes the ability of millions of Twitter users to express themselves confidently and have their ideas taken seriously.

Trolling is expression that crushes expression. It undermines the ability of groups of people to think collectively and productively about serious issues. Musk knows this. He’s the richest troll in the history of the world. And he’s frighteningly unserious.

Some Musk fans have found their accounts suspended for violating clear Twitter rules against, for instance, deadnaming and misgendering transgender people. Musk himself has mocked the practice of clarifying one’s preferred pronouns.

Source: Elon Musk doesn’t understand free speech – or Twitter – at all | Siva Vaidhyanathan | The Guardian

Don’t be the last person|آخرین نفر نباش

A Voice from Iran

“113th story”

First published: Oct.17.2019

In the 1960s Barbara was driving on a very stormy night. She was exhausted and hungry when she felt a flat tire. Barbara parked beside the road and stood by her car for help.

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She waved to every vehicle that was passing, but none of them stopped to help Barbara. She was there for almost an hour, and it was freezing when a rusty old car parked behind her car.

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A young man walked out of the vehicle; Barbara got a little scared. The young man said: “It is frigid, go and sit in the car while I change the tire.”

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Barbara got very happy. When the young man changed the tire knocked on the window, Barbara walked out of her car, thanked him, and handed him a bill of fifty.

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The young man refused and said: “I didn’t do it for money, just promise…

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2021 tropical forest loss figures put zero-deforestation goal by 2030 out of reach

  • The world lost a Cuba-sized area of tropical forest in 2021, putting it far off track from meeting the no-deforestation goal by 2030 that governments and companies committed to at last year’s COP26 climate summit.
  • Deforestation rates remained persistently high in Brazil and the Democratic Republic of Congo, home to the world’s two biggest expanses of tropical forest, negating the decline in deforestation seen in places like Indonesia and Gabon.
  • The diverging trends in the different countries show that “it’s the domestic politics of forests that often really make a key difference,” says leading forest governance expert Frances Seymour.
  • The boreal forests of Eurasia and North America also experienced a spike in deforestation last year, driven mainly by massive fires in Russia, which could set off a feedback loop of more heating and more burning. 

Source: 2021 tropical forest loss figures put zero-deforestation goal by 2030 out of reach

Thoughtless Commentary Thursdays -La Casa de Papel (Money Heist) Part 1, ep. 10: La Puerta del Sol…

Context, Thought, and Learning: ShiraDest Offers Project Do Better

       My reaction this week tries not to spoil the episode:  Se acabaron las máscaras, and gives random reactions in the original Spanish, and most of the time in English, for the majority of my current readers:

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     Y por qué no van a entrar, los policias, chicos??   Por qué, son los héroes…

 

 
  Mientras dando pruebas de vida muy lentas:
 

 

     Si sabe cazar sí puede hacer algo que dice que Soy la puta Ama!  Gracias, Nairobi, nuestra amada profesora!
 
Y el profe, haciendo sus deportes!
 
   Y todavía no saben quién es el tope.  
 
Pero, Angel, no es un poco personal, eso?    El subinspector quiere que ella  entra en celos.
 
 
Y Arturo!  Que asco!!  Y con la chica herida, dolorida, ni siquiera ha preguntado por ella!
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   Qué rápido han localizado…

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Chi sono i veri guerrieri

le pagine dei nostri libri

Per noi i guerrieri non sono quello che voi intendete. Il guerriero non è chi combatte, perché nessuno ha il diritto di prendersi la vita di un altro. Il guerriero per noi è chi sacrifica sé stesso per il bene degli altri. È suo compito occuparsi degli anziani, degli indifesi, di chi non può provvedere a sé stesso e soprattutto dei bambini, il futuro dell’umanità.”

Toro Seduto (1831-1890)- nativo americano, capo tribù dei Sioux Hunkpapa.

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And The Snark Goes On … And On … And ON

Filosofa's Word

My radar had a busy, busy day yesterday … news items were flying onto the screen at a pace I couldn’t even keep up with.  You’ll hear about them all, eventually, but for this morning, here are two that stuck in my craw.


One Million Moms

… sounds like a group of mothers concerned about their children’s future, a group willing to stand up and fight against such things as racism, homophobia, and misogyny.  A group who wants their children to have the best chance possible at a future, who will fight for their child’s right to a widely-varied education that opens their minds and prepares them for the future, right?  WRONG!!!  One Million Moms is a hate group that supports bigotry in all its forms, who would happily eradicate the LGBTQ community, and who would turn back the hands of time hundreds of years, given the chance.

One…

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A Wonderful book, a Treasure not to be missed! –  « Amazon Rainforest Magic The adventures of Meromi, a Yanomami girl » – For ages 8 to 12 to 100!  – written and illustrated by Barbara Crane Navarro  — Barbara Crane Navarro

illustration from « Amazon Rainforest Magic – The adventures of Meromi, a Yanomami girl » « A wonderful book, (and it comes with a companion volume)! The « Amazon Rainforest Magic » books are two treasures about the Yanomami, a rainforest tribe.“The Adventures of Nanowë, a Yanomami boy” and “The adventures of Meromi, a Yanomami girl” both explore the […]

A Wonderful book, a Treasure not to be missed! –  « Amazon Rainforest Magic The adventures of Meromi, a Yanomami girl » – For ages 8 to 12 to 100!  – written and illustrated by Barbara Crane Navarro  — Barbara Crane Navarro

Todo Dia é Dia de Indígena! — Existe Guarani em São Paulo — Barbara Crane Navarro

A escolha da data recorda a realização do Primeiro Congresso Indigenista Interamericano, que ocorreu em 19 de abril de 1940 em Patzcuaro, México. Calendar Prefeitura Municipal de Goiás O objetivo deste congresso era reunir os líderes indígenas das diferentes regiões do continente americano e zelar pelos seus direitos. Na ocasião, foi proposto que os países da […] […]

Todo Dia é Dia de Indígena! — Existe Guarani em São Paulo — Barbara Crane Navarro

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