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If you’re a leader and not every single being in your charge has all they need to thrive, you’re basically a tyrant.

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Joined December 2008
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This is fantastic —> “Healing Your Thousand-Year-Old Trauma” by Resmaa Menakem link.medium.com/s8XixP5ZIAb
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It's my birthday! If you want to buy me a drink or meal for my birthday or send money as a gift, I'll be grateful for that. Here's some links to do that. - paypal.com/paypalme/adaburro… - cash.app/$jillburrows - account.venmo.com/u/adaburro… [Random photo I took in Ashland, OR]
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Also, if you just want to catch up, send me a message and lets schedule a time to chat.
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How wonderful. Github and many of Github pages have gone down. This is a pretty epic fail.
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This is incredible. The New York Times is complaining that "Americans invested billions in Chinese companies" and "now their money is stuck", giving TikTok as a salient example (where international investors, mostly Americans, own 60% of the capital)... omitting to mention the fact that it's entirely the fault of the U.S. government. Last I checked it's not China that asked the US to put an ultimatum on TikTok: "sell yourself to us or get banned"... It's the NYT's thing now, just like on Gaza: they'll report on the consequence of the deed but won't name the perpetrator, because it's inconvenient to do so.
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“Make time to pursue things that can’t scale. I’d bet it does you as much good as ‘real’ therapy ever could.” workingtheorys.com/p/pursuit…
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Colonial powers have always portrayed anticolonial resistance as savagery.
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The racism behind chatGPT that we aren't talking about... This year, I learned that students use chatGPT because they believe it helps them sound more respectable. And I learned that it absolutely does not work. A thread. 🧵
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Do you think consumers should have a Right To Repair the items they own? Have the FTC create rules governing consumers’ rights to repair their own devices or have a contractor of their choice do so.  The FTC is taking comments til 2/2/24: regulations.gov/document/FTC… #RTR #repair
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We @pinasoulspc in sponsorship with @sustainseattle currently raising funds to sponsor an Afro-Indigenous community from Washington to attend the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP) 28 in December 2023. flipcause.com/secure/fundrai…
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Self-determination from the global majority ⬇️ This is what it looks like ‼️‼️‼️
There were emotional scenes of celebration when Indigenous groups in Brazil got a ruling from the Supreme Court that will help protect their ancestral lands from mining, drilling and farming ⤵️
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“This is, for us, genocide.” Keʻeaumoku Kapu headlines a rare piece in a sea of reporting about the Maui wildfires. @McKayJacqueline’s article in @CBCIndigenous examines it in relation to the erasure of Kānaka Maoli & Hawaiian land rights. A must read. cbc.ca/news/indigenous/maui-…
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The build back of Lahaina, Maui is an opportunity for #LandBack to Native Hawaiians And should not at all be an option for opportunists to do their continual landgrabbing kitv.com/news/do-not-sell-to…
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Really interesting piece in PNAS: Are #microplastics spreading infectious disease? One cited study in it shows that the expression of #AntiobioticResistance could increase due to microplastics. #plastic pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.23…
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Here's why I'm still trying to ignore the metaverse: zephoria.org/thoughts/archiv…
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This is super important to keep in mind.
Your regular reminder about LLMs - a 🧵. LLMs are, by nature, a type of ~generative~ AI model (as opposed to, e.g., supervised AI models), and the task that they were trained for is to produce the most plausible next word given an input string. (1/n)
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It definitely elicited a deep groan within a pretty fun movie… I couldn’t believe it when I heard it. Went something like: “the patriarchy is to women like smallpox was to Indigenous peoples; they had no defense against it.” 😵‍💫
The Barbie movie made an Indigenous smallpox joke...🧵 [Response from a Nádleehí and Diné Two Spirit Indigiqueer Trans Woman]
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Imperialism, colonialism, racism, capitalism, and heteropatriarchy "cannot be struggled over only at the level of text and literature."
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Yes, that’s why an accurate historical material analysis of race/ism must trace the FULL historical genealogy of Eurocolonial capitalist power dynamics. Eurocolonial capitalists used the labor of displaced & dispossessed enslaved Indigenous peoples (Africans) to develop the profits needed to colonize & settle what is today called the Americas.
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This absolutely brilliant essay by ⁦@mer__edith⁩ helped me to understand how labor techniques of plantation slavery are built into computational structures—& how these structures have obscured our understandings of Freedom & Unfreedom. It is WOW. logicmag.io/supa-dupa-skies/…
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