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Banu Ozkazanc-Pan
@banuop.bsky.social

Barrett Hazeltine Professor of the Practice of Engineering at Brown University.
Researches #culture, #inclusion, & #innovation. Loves #travel & #chocolate.

My books:
📕 https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009023641

📖 https://doi.org/10.46692/9781529204551 .. more

Business 53%
Sociology 16%

We end up micro-dosing hate when we let fear masquerade as safety.

We have an administration who uses our fear to justify violence against immigrants.

We must learn from history:

“Generally speaking, violence always arises out of impotence. It is the hope of those who have no power” Hannah Arendt
"According to his running club, the man, who is a U.S. citizen, was returning from a team run when agents pulled him out of his vehicle, tackled him to the ground and kneeled on top of him, allegedly breaking six ribs and causing internal bleeding"
US citizen, 67, ‘has six ribs broken’ by Border Patrol agents, his running club says
The incident unfolded Saturday in Chicago’s Old Irving Park neighborhood, where residents say federal agents disrupted a children’s Halloween parade
www.independent.co.uk

Yes and that’s the issue - they hide behind MEI

We want MEI at work:
Merit, Excellence & Intelligence

👉 But we hire thru word-of-mouth

👉👉 We fill positions internally

👉👉👉 Social events after work get you the tap on the shoulder

Don’t let the anti-DEI folks fool you: MEI protects resources, power & status for select few.
#science 🧪

Yes, we’re seeing this in our research on the backlash to DEI: sometimes it’s not done right at all or worse, done very, very wrong

👉 We spend 90,000+ hours or about 1/3 of our lifetime at work

👉👉 Imagine spending that time at a place with a culture of exclusion & unfairness

👉👉👉 Or imagine spending that time in a place that has a culture of inclusion & fairness

DEI done right = legal, ethical & strategic
#science 🧪

Thanks for including me! Best musical ever #Hamilton :)
"Why I’m leaving the GOP and why I’m urging my former colleagues to do the same." Miles Bruner
My Last Day as an Accomplice of the Republican Party
Why I’m leaving the GOP and why I’m urging my former colleagues to do the same.
www.thebulwark.com
Yesterday, we made history. Around 7 MILLION people across the United States stood up to say #NoKings, with allies around the world in countries like Japan, the United Kingdom, France, and Australia joining us in solidarity.

BUT OUR FIGHT IS NOT OVER.
KARL: I mean, you could swear in Adelita Grijalva tomorrow, right?

MIKE JOHNSON: No, not tomorrow. We couldn't. We wouldn't.
Mike Fanone Is A Hero Of J6,
Don Old Chump is a ZERO......

Bots and trolls out in full force with this post and today in particular #NoKings
Our federal tax dollars are being used to fund a network of government social media accounts that pump out disinformation 24/7. Even during a government shutdown. It’s definitely not essential work.
An ICE agent, who is being arrested for drunk driving and nearly killing his little kids & others, tries to stop the arrest by racially profiling the officers arresting him. Amazing to watch the courtesy given to him as he is belligerent and uncooperative

We have a choice:

👉Deploying National Guard to D.C.: over $1.8 million per day

👉👉Deploying National Guard & Marines to LA: over $2.2 million per day

👉👉👉Deploying 20,000 National Guardsmen for one year: projected to cost $9.9 million per day

Voting in midterms 🗳️: Priceless and you #savedemocracy

That’s super smart!

Yessss! Wish the whole quote fit on the page :)

The mainstream media loves making it seam like dysfunction in Washington is coming from both parties.

Hello?

Much of the GOP no longer accepts the rule of law, or the norms of democracy, or the legitimacy of the opposing party.

Enough of the false equivalence.
👇👇

DO NOT normalize:

👉ICE arresting US citizens

👉👉Deploying National Guard to intimidate

👉👉👉Administration posting partisan messages during shutdown

“Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear.” - spoken by Nemik in Andor
Yesterday they were shooting priests in the head with rubber bullets. Today they're arresting journalists. If you have anyone in your life who doesn't regularly follow the news and doesn't understand how bad things are and how bad they're about to get, you need to tell them right now. Time is short.
"They put me on suicide watch and they put me in the cell, I'm naked, in like a hospital dress and just a concrete bed with like a mattress, like a thin mattress and, they leave the light on 24/7."

@timmiller.bsky.social talked to a veteran who ICE wrongly detained and brutalized

Thank you for sharing and it’s these powerful stories that remind us of the promise and possibilities of America 🇺🇸

Exactly - I always think about Mon Mothma’s Senate speech in Andor:
“The distance between what is said and what is known to be true has become an abyss. Of all the things at risk, the loss of an objective reality is perhaps the most dangerous. The death of truth is the ultimate victory of evil.”