Posts tagged activism

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Posted 1 year ago

There is a country where the leading cause of death of pregnant women is murder by a partner. In this same country, more than a million women were raped in 2008 and women are much more likely to live in poverty than men. Local laws don’t protect their right to bodily freedom and integrity; some rape laws even state that once a woman initially consents to sex, she doesn’t have the right to change her mind.

You may have caught on by now — yes, I’m talking about the United States.

Jessica Valenti, in “Equality begins at home: U.S. lags pathetically behind other nations in some basic rights for women.” (via thedailyfeed)
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Journalism Warning Labels « Tom Scott

It seems a bit strange to me that the media carefully warn about and label any content that involves sex, violence or strong language — but there’s no similar labelling system for, say, sloppy journalism and other questionable content.

I figured it was time to fix that, so I made some stickers. I’ve been putting them on copies of the free papers that I find on the London Underground. You might want to as well.

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Posted 1 year ago
slavin: Thank you, Ronald Reagan and co. I can’t wait for all that to trickle down. Zoom

slavin:

Thank you, Ronald Reagan and co. I can’t wait for all that to trickle down.

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szymon: 4th Amendment Wear: X-ray scanner + metallic ink - from cargocollective

szymon:

4th Amendment Wear: X-ray scanner + metallic ink - from cargocollective

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Google Instant Blacklisted Words - NSFW?

Besides the expected blacklinsting of obscenities and slurs, some choices are puzzling. Amongst them the choice of which religious denominations and other groups to block after appending “are” to the query. Why would the query “atheists are” be blacklisted, but “mormons are” not? Also why are sexologists, sex columnist and other sex advice experts blocked? It is also interesting to consider what is not blocked and what that might mean. What Googler or committee at Google researches and decides what to block? What will be the future implications? Considering their content and community, having 4chan blocked, does it mean to them that they have made it? 

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Posted 2 years ago
The Florida Keys, third longest barrier reef in the world, is a dead zone. Ninety percent of the big fish, the tuna, the sharks, and other things, are already gone in the oceans. There’s a dead zone in the Gulf Of Mexico every summer the size of New Jersey, where there’s not enough oxygen for things to live. So it’s not a question of ‘Can the oceans take any more?’ The oceans can’t take any more. They couldn’t take any more fifty years ago. The question is, when are we going to stop?
Phillippe Cousteau (via unburyingthelead, inothernews, dpstyles) (via pdemul) (via mikehudack)
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neversmile: (via thestohs) Marriage vs Civil Union, that’s it really isn’t it? Zoom

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Marriage vs Civil Union, that’s it really isn’t it?

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Posted 2 years ago
Try never mentioning your spouse, your family, your home, your girlfriend or boyfriend to anyone you know or work with - just for one day. Take that photo off your desk at work, change the pronoun you use for your spouse to the opposite gender, guard everything you might say or do so that no one could know you’re straight, shut the door in your office if you have a personal conversation if it might come up. Try it. Now imagine doing it for a lifetime. It’s crippling; it warps your mind; it destroys your self-esteem. These men and women are voluntarily risking their lives to defend us. And we are demanding they live lives like this in order to do so. Yes, Admiral Mullen. It is about integrity. It’s also about a minimum of human respect.
Andrew Sullivan, responding to Rich Lowry who said it’s no big deal to live hiding one’s sexual orientation. (via apsies) (via amberlrhea)
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productiveatwork: There’s photoshop and then there’s this … A Florida judge awarded custody of a 1-year-old boy to the foster family he’d been living with, saying the boy was “happy and thriving.” The adoptive parents, however, happen to be gay. And that didn’t sit well with the Florida Family Policy Council of Orlando, who sent out an alert to its members about the judge’s “arrogant judicial activism.” On the left is the picture that the Policy Council used to illustrate the gay couple that was awarded custody. On the right is the actual couple. (from The Orlando Sentinel)

productiveatwork:

There’s photoshop and then there’s this …

A Florida judge awarded custody of a 1-year-old boy to the foster family he’d been living with, saying the boy was “happy and thriving.”

The adoptive parents, however, happen to be gay.

And that didn’t sit well with the Florida Family Policy Council of Orlando, who sent out an alert to its members about the judge’s “arrogant judicial activism.”

On the left is the picture that the Policy Council used to illustrate the gay couple that was awarded custody. On the right is the actual couple.

(from The Orlando Sentinel)

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Posted 2 years ago
Today’s decision is backwards in many senses. It elevates the majority’s agenda over the litigants’ submis­sions, facial attacks over as-applied claims, broad constitutional theories over narrow statutory grounds, individual dissenting opinions over precedential holdings, assertion over tradition, absolutism over empiricism, rhetoric over reality…While American democracy is imperfect, few outside the majority of this Court would have thought its flaws included a dearth of corporate money in politics.

- Justice John Paul Stevens in his Citizens United dissent.  The last sane person on a Court of fools. (via doublethink)

The Supreme Court’s ruling in Citizens United v. FEC allows corporations and unions to pour unprecedented amounts of money into elections. From this moment on, when Congress acts, we won’t be able to know whether it was because of reason or judgment… or only because of the need for campaign money. The system is broken, and we need to act.

-Lawrence Lessig