Caitlin Waddick @CaitlinWaddick@social.coop

**COVID Exposes "Significant Racial Health Inequities" as Black, Brown & Indigenous People Suffer Most**

"The coronavirus continues to hit communities of color the hardest, with federal data showing African American and Latinx people are nearly three times more likely to be infected and twice as likely to die from the virus compared to their white neighbors. There were "pretty…"

http://www.democracynow.org/2020/7/8/racial_disparities_healthcare_coronavirus

#news #bot

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Here is a short video that explains what the 4th of July holiday means to some Americans:
https://youtu.be/z3YsMWLSyxY
"What to the Slave is the 4th of July" Frederick Douglass Speech

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Starting on July 7th!!! Agaric offers FREE trainings on Drupal 9 site building.

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For example, Kantrowitz says: "The tech giants are successful largely because they’ve reimagined how we approach work. [...] they’ve figured out how to maximize the time their employees spend coming up with new ideas and minimize the time they spend supporting existing products."

This is simply incorrect. FAANG are successful largely thanks to the increased exploitation that is facilitated by digital products at scale, especially when coupled with lock-in, network effects and globalization.

The idea that the tech giants are successful because of "innovation" driven "by employees" is also largely a myth. For example, Google continues to make over 90% of their profits from ads on their search engine: two products, out of the dozens they've built. In fact, Google has struggled to diversify their revenue streams for over a decade now.

On this 4th of July, Cat Ur Day, Mouse demonstrates how to optimally subjugate a white man, extracting his valuable body heat to maximum personal advantage.

#caturday #independentlycolonising

@CaitlinWaddick mix it all together, shape it into a patty and fry it? FWIW I would avoid seed oils that are extracted with heat and chemicals, and use an oil like olive or hemp oil, ideally extra virgin. Also one with a high burning point like coconut fat for frying in.

Fuck YES! They cancelled the Atlantic Coast Pipeline!!!!

Source: https://apnews.com/5e4dec29b0da663e6243a71aea016940

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Is anyone else here interested in doing it. Today is the last day to sign up.

55% of Americans report that they are more stressed now than they were in January.

Fascinating article on the concept of kegare 穢れ - impurity, contamination, etc. - which is central in the discrimination against women, foreigners, and so-called buraku people. I learned about this first from my friends in the buraku liberation movement, including workers at the Tokyo slaughterhouse.

https://www.mariannazanetta.com/2016/10/14/japanese-culture-facts-kegare-between-power-and-discrimination/
@emi @chiematsumoto #jinkore #人コレ

... real, but referenced in an eerily fictionalized and magical novel of Jim Crow North, "Lovecraft Country" by Matt Ruff.

Fear is palpable in so much of our unexamined racial interactions in this country. And comfort in caste.

"Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced." - James Baldwin

This Abolition Study Guide if filled with great pointers and content. https://abolitionjournal.org/studyguide/

So much to read/watch/learn, so little time! 🙀