https://www.europesays.com/2093618/ Memo to Hegseth: No snowflakes in Annapolis | Editorial #AffirmativeAction #AndInclusion #Culture #diversity #Død #equity #HumanRights #IKnowWhyTheCagedBirdSings #INJUSTICE #pentagon #PeteHegseth #Politics #PoliticsAndRace #Prejudice #PrejudiceAndDiscrimination #Race(humanCategorization) #Racism #SecretaryOfDefense #SocialIssues
LOUDER FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE BACK!!!
❝ Chatbots are made by companies, to serve those companies’ ends… Grok is a reflection of X and xAI, which exist to advance Musk’s worldview and make him money — and it’s thus unsurprising to think that the bot would say things about race in South Africa that largely align with Musk’s political opinions. ❞
"Elon Musk’s Latest Grok Glitch Is A Reminder All Chatbots Are Biased"
https://www.forbes.com/sites/emilybaker-white/2025/05/15/groks-south-africa-glitch-is-a-reminder-all-chatbots-are-biased/
“Let us disarm #communication of all #prejudice and resentment, #fanaticism and even #hatred; let us free it from #aggression,” #PopeLeo told more than 1,000 #journalists, including the #Vatican Press corps, who gathered in an auditorium in Vatican City on May 12, 2025. “We do not need #loud, forceful communication but rather communication that is capable of listening,” he added, delivering his address in #Italian. #peace #liberty #democracy #journalism #civilliberties #freedom
The #university has said it has worked to combat #antisemitism & other #prejudice on its campus while seeking to fend off accusations from #CivilRights groups that it was giving in to #Trump government intrusions on #AcademicFreedom.
#Columbia #University said late on Wed that it had requested #NYPD assistance "in securing the building," & that 2 of its public safety ofcls were hurt in the standoff.
May is book's month in Uruguay, May 26th being National Book's Day. I promised to release my books freely in a #FediverseEdition proposal.
I expected to do that in their original language (Spanish).
Translation is a full time professional job which I am not prepared to do. However, some LLM helped me improve a bit my amateur translation attempt of my opera prima The Hungarian Soprano.
The main story is a nonlinear chronology which mirrors the dissonant harmonies of La Traviata.
Its structure forces the reader to become the investigator, piecing together a conspiracy the text refuses to spell out.
It is a historical fiction work covering espionage, arms traffic, government cover-ups spanning South America and Europe during the Yugoslavian wars.
The prose’s clinical tone (dates, decrees, serial numbers) sharpens the horror, making The hungarian soprano's death feel not like fiction, but like history’s darkest aria.
Six more parts await inside covering #fanaticism, #prejudice, #mystery, #psychedelia, #medicaldrama, #travel, #alcoholism, #friendship, #africa, #trans, #MedecinsSansFrontieres, #southamerica, #Brazil, and more.
Hope you enjoy it. If you feel like #commenting, #sharing or #rating it, thanks in advance.
Completely #free. 
This book is distributed under a Creative Commons License CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.
https://cloud.undernet.uy/s/jxozFDWGZcaNR3Q
Entirely written in #FOSS.
This could get really bad. If you are a neurodivergent American and don't have a passport, apply for one TODAY!
Fascism demands a level of conformity that is impossible for most of us.
#GetYourPassport
#autism
#AutismResearch
#AutismResearcher
#AutismResearchers
#ActuallyAutistic
#prejudice
#DisabilityRights
"high autistic-like trait burden"
"'rescued' low-social monkeys’ ability to respond prosocially"
"at risk of developing social deficits related to autism"
This is language from an actual paper on rhesus monkeys being used to model autism.
Burden. Rescue. Risk. Deficit.
How do these people not recognize that their language is chock full of value judgments? Value judgments don't belong in science, where conclusions are supposed to be based on objective fact.
They've already made up their minds about us. Put another way, they've already made judgments ahead of time. That is, they've already pre-judged us. Or, the most blatantly recognizable way to put it: They are prejudiced.
#autism
#AutismResearch
#AutismResearcher
#AutismResearchers
#ActuallyAutistic
#prejudice
#DisabilityRights
WRT "...It’s not legal to snatch people off the street for looking like farm workers or day laborers..."
Why would anyone assume that farm workers and day laborers are all darker complected?
When even those on the side if justice make those subconscious, or maybe conscious, assumptions we are in worse trouble than I thought.
#Trans people banned from toilets of #gender they identify with, says #UK minister | #Transgender | The Guardian
The #SupremeCourt's decision has the UK going backwards rapidly in terms of #equality and #prejudice. It’s shameful.
In a continuing rowing back of regulation, The Financial Conduct Authority & the Prudential Regulation Authority have both shelved plans to get financial services to disclose more about their (claimed) diversity & inclusion policies...
What, really annoys me is that these policies are regarded as 'anti-growth' rather than seeing the prejudice that keeps a range of social groups out of top jobs is not pro-growth, rather its a calamitous under-use of talented individuals!
#prejudice
h/t FT
It's been proposed on fedi that with the NSA being handed a new 'naughty word' list today that including them in your communications might keep them from eavesdropping, not sure if it'll work but i'm start sprinkling these hashtags into all my posts 
#Bias
#DEI
#Diversity
#Diverse
#ConfirmationBias
#Equity
#Equitableness
#Feminism
#Gender
#GenderIdentity
#Inclusion
#Inclusive
#AllInclusive
#Inclusivity
#Injustice
#Intersectionality
#Prejudice
#Privilege
#RacialIdentity
#Sexuality
#Stereotypes
» For Your Eyes Only / Read and Delete «
NSA's list of 27 banned words »
#Anti-Racism
#Racism
#Allyship
#Bias
#DEI
#Diversity
#Diverse
#ConfirmationBias
#Equality
#Equity
#Equitableness
#Feminism
#Gender
#GenderIdentity
#Inclusion
#Inclusive
#All-Inclusive
#Inclusivity
#Injustice
#Intersectionality
#Prejudice
#Privilege
#RacialIdentity
#Sexuality
#Stereotypes
#Pronouns
#Transgender
» End «
» Do Not Forward «
Having (a) exerted enough soft pressure to get a lot of companies to voluntarily drop their #DEI programs (or any semblance thereof), and (b) taken over the federal government and banned DEI there, the #GOP is now (c) threatening legal action against companies that have not complied with their demands to stop recognizing that historic and systemic #bias and #prejudice continue to interfere with their newly-sanctified worship of "merit."
Hope #Costco hangs in there.
A video about the resurgent demonization of Arabs and Muslims. European Antisemitism needs a new boogeyman.
#Antisemitism #Prejudice #Gaza #Genocide #Holocaust #Palestine #PalestinianShoah #21stCenturyHolocaust #Shoah
The New Anti-Semitism: The Arab Global Conspiracy
https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=UMXSrm2Loig
"Two common approaches to combating #antisemitism are raising awareness about its prevalence and impact and promoting #Holocaust #education to counter #prejudice. While well-intentioned, these methods alone are insufficient. Recent studies suggest that focusing solely on the history of antisemitism, without providing a broader understanding of #Jewish #history, #culture, and #values, may even backfire.
A study by the Texas Holocaust, #Genocide, and Antisemitism Advisory Commission highlights this risk: “Students should be introduced to the themes of who the #Jews are and what #Judaism is before any Holocaust instruction occurs. Otherwise, students will be inclined to perceive Jews as natural and inevitable targets of persecution.”
https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/why-the-jewish-story-must-transcend-antisemitism/
“A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices."
WILLIAM JAMES
#belgium #palestine #israel : #culture / #cinema / #dispute / #gender / #lbgtq / #discrimination / #prejudice
»'Belle from Gaza,' which portrays Palestinian society as anti-LBGTQ, is not Israeli and only partly filmed in Israel, but Cinemamed decided to pull its screening after various activist groups said it 'Contributes to the pinkwashing and colonialist narrative of genocide'.«
https://www.haaretz.com/world-news/europe/2024-12-05/ty-article/.premium/under-pro-palestinian-pressure-belgian-festival-removes-documentary-on-transgender-gazan/00000193-973b-d6ba-afdb-9fbfffc80000
If you've never seen "The Children Were Watching" (docu, 1961, 26 min), it is definitely worthwhile and still highly relevant. https://drewassociates.com/films/the-children-were-watching/ (on the Criterion Channel) #racism #prejudice #movies #children #history #education #integration
Some of you may notice you got unfollowed recently. I muted a few too, so if we interact a bit, you may not see it.
I like Mastodon because people approach each other in good faith and almost everyone is respectful, but Trump's reelection seems to have driven many to manifest their worst impulses.
It doesn't matter to me which group you hate, whether it's one of the fashionable targets are not.
Even if by necessity only, you should be doing better.
