It is really important to be able to spot the difference between AM versus FM technology, particularly when it comes to their promises. Actual Machine (AM) technology involves a lot of well-understood costs & challenges. It’s usually not very exciting. The solutions offered are quite obvious. Example: How do we lower traffic fatalities and provide […]

Rightfully, liberals find it very easy to notice (and laugh at) conservatives when they utilize slave imagery or yellow stars to compare themselves to persecuted Jewish people before and during the Shoah — particularly for such things as haircuts or mask-wearing during a deadly pandemic. But the desire to cosplay as victims of one sort […]

There is a 30-year gap in the life expectancies of Black and white Chicagoans depending on their ZIP code. On average, residents of the Streeterville neighborhood, which is 73% white, live to be 90 years old. Nine miles south, the residents of Englewood, which is nearly 95% Black, have a life expectancy of 60. Journalist […]

You don’t believe in a god. Neat. That wasn’t really the problem, though, was it? Imagine Sam Harris or Richard Dawkins weighing in on a social issue, or how YouTube atheists feel about feminism, intersectionality, or structural racism. If you’ve never heard the term “cultural Christian”, that’s the sort of thing we’re talking about. They […]

If you identify who’s in these photos and were in those “social clubs” at the time, their families today prolly still own the farmland, still call themselves “farmers” while exploiting the actual farmworkers or “blue collar” while managing a franchise restaurant or car dealership. Today, their descendants prolly still complain about immigrants and socialists all […]

@bonecouch: “but without the profit motive people won’t work” [Archive] We need to talk about how cities will have to re-orient our infrastructure around community agriculture and animal husbandry, incorporating the knowledge that many immigrant groups and the poorest rural people already have. As it is, our food comes from far away, is produced at […]

Ableism isn’t something that results from a lack of education but how disability and disabled people are fundamentally viewed within a society. There is no technological development that can come about that will fix a structure that views you as subhuman. Capitalism can’t contribute to accessibility because capitalism makes access to products dependent on wealth; […]

Reminder on why cigarettes matter (CW: SA, death, lynching, poison). In 2014 in Staten Island, Eric Garner was strangled by the pig Daniel Pantaleo on accusations Garner was selling otherwise-legal single cigarettes. Garner had been targeted for violence by pigs over cigarettes and their own opaque discretion multiple times in his life, including at least […]

“You are not immune to propaganda” is an extraordinarily important thing to grasp about the world and your place in it. If you watched “Captain America: Winter Soldier” and thought, “This is a criticism of the U.S. surveillance state”, then that was propaganda working incredibly effectively. Because if you notice, the problem with SHIELD in […]

Tumblr @sepulchritudeGlasses-wearing folks, do you remember when you first put on glasses and you were like, “This is how other people go through life? You all just walk around, seeing things??” and you just sat there for a while, staring at the leaves or the billboards or the texture of the sidewalk, amazed and baffled […]