... Civil rights protesters countered white violence with black stillness, especially during lunch counter sit-ins. Journalists and editors had to make moral choices of which voices to privilege, and they chose those of peace and justice, championing stories of black resilience and shutting out white extremism. This was strategic silence in action, and it saved lives."
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jun/01/extremist-ideas-media-coverage-kkk
"The KKK was so intent on getting the coverage they sought that they threatened violence and white boycotts of advertisers. Knowing they could bait coverage with violence, white vigilante groups of the 1960s staged cross burnings and engaged in high-profile murders and church bombings. ...
It's also the site of a good Google Maps glitch: it mapped mid-demolition photographs onto a pre-demolition building shape and labeled it with post-demolition business names
IHOP IS CHANGING THEIR NAME TO IHOB
THE B STANDS FOR "BURGERS"
YES YOU READ THAT RIGHT
INTERNATIONAL HOUSE OF BURGERS
you know when you're talking to someone and they say something you don't really agree with but you're being nonconfrontational so you nod and smile along but then someone else in the group says exactly what you were thinking and now you look like a twat
https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2018/05/im-not-black-im-kanye/559763/
ta-nehisi coates, on kanye's trumpism and also fame and also black celebrity and the freedom to not give a fuck
"I tried leaving Facebook. I couldn’t" by Sarah Jeong https://www.theverge.com/2018/4/28/17293056/facebook-deletefacebook-social-network-monopoly
Great read, and this comment in a thread by her also hits home for me: https://twitter.com/sarahjeong/status/990974005162094599
very very important question is the black cat chekov or sulu???
a bonus learning: i miss east campus so much i had to go out and buy so many tools and supplies, like my house didn't have clamps or countersinking bits and all the screws we did have were thrown haphazardly into a box and unlabeled anyway shop managers (professional or de facto) are heroes pure pure heroes that nobody deserves
things i learned while repairing my mom's cabinet door:
- oak is a hardwood
- steel screws will apparently react with the sap in the oak and permanently stain the wood?? so you're supposed to use plated, brass, or stainless
- brass is weak as fuck holy crap i sheared off so many brass screws
- countersinking bits can be 82 degrees or 90 degrees
- this wood screw chart: https://www.reddit.com/r/woodworking/comments/2takxv/wood_magazines_screw_chart_traditional_wood/
- pilot!! holes!!!!!!!!
https://www.instagram.com/directory.of.worlds/
what.is.happening
If someone made a "decentralized Facebook competitor" that was actually just email, I wonder how long it could last before anyone realized
so incredibly heartbroken by this, by gene demby (of npr code switch), on being a Black reporter covering violence against Black people #blacklivesmatter
very very delightful, mysterious, uncategorizable, inscrutable conversation between bell hooks and john perry barlow in lion's roar, 1995 - on "prana" in cyberspace, faith, mothers, how to love, and mindfulness to small and little things
https://www.lionsroar.com/bell-hooks-talks-to-john-perry-barlow/
this quote from Bunnie Huang is, i think, probably the best justification for proactive correction of biases i've seen
fascinating article about life at the border, surveillance tech, and border culture/colonialism, by matthew longo: http://bostonreview.net/global-justice/matthew-longo-border-not-wall
"In 2012, as part of my field research on the United States–Mexico border, I attended a border security expo in Phoenix, Arizona, to see these technologies for myself. It was there I learned that border security is as much a culture as it is an institution."
police surveillance, Cambridge MA call to action, please boost Show more
we need #carepunk more than ever at this point
being good to people needs to become seen for what it is: rebellion against a system built to reward assholes as much as possible
martin luther king, jr. assassinated 50 years ago today -- here is a gorgeous thing by eve ewing in commemoration
http://www.chicagomag.com/Chicago-Magazine/April-2018/April-5-1968/
been thinking about the whole “social media boycott” “”””movement””””. i understand it’s a move of power for change, but who is it asking to leave? is it asking artists and vloggers to leave their audience? mothers and marginalized to leave support networks? the boycott isn’t feasible or attractive for everyone.
there *must* be another way users can exert power and demand change.
