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@carynbell.bsky.social
NC native living in NO. Teaching health equity, consulting on health equity/Black health/anti-racism, crunching numbers and making maps, sewing, and watching reality TV
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I just wanna be clear concerning the Church protest in Minneapolis...
and please feel free to disagree
are you more concerned with the sanitation of the worship experience
Than the dehumanization of the human beings around you?
and please feel free to disagree
are you more concerned with the sanitation of the worship experience
Than the dehumanization of the human beings around you?
January 20, 2026 at 5:13 PM
I just wanna be clear concerning the Church protest in Minneapolis...
and please feel free to disagree
are you more concerned with the sanitation of the worship experience
Than the dehumanization of the human beings around you?
and please feel free to disagree
are you more concerned with the sanitation of the worship experience
Than the dehumanization of the human beings around you?
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i have been meaning to write something longer about how the various ideologies of the tech right are just warmed over pro-slavery apologetics
So much of the reactionary tech elite and rationalist movements' views, epitomized in Elon Musk, are indistinguishable from Calhounism. Here is Calhoun's famous 1948 speech arguing that Jefferson's assertion that "all men are created equal" was wrong. teachingamericanhistory.org/document/spe...
January 13, 2026 at 7:15 PM
i have been meaning to write something longer about how the various ideologies of the tech right are just warmed over pro-slavery apologetics
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Reminder: slavery hasn’t been abolished in the United States.
The 13th amendment says slavery is legal as a punishment for a crime.
Black Americans have been living under mass incarceration for decades, what we are seeing is an acceleration of this system.
The 13th amendment says slavery is legal as a punishment for a crime.
Black Americans have been living under mass incarceration for decades, what we are seeing is an acceleration of this system.
January 17, 2026 at 5:57 PM
Reminder: slavery hasn’t been abolished in the United States.
The 13th amendment says slavery is legal as a punishment for a crime.
Black Americans have been living under mass incarceration for decades, what we are seeing is an acceleration of this system.
The 13th amendment says slavery is legal as a punishment for a crime.
Black Americans have been living under mass incarceration for decades, what we are seeing is an acceleration of this system.
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"More specifically, it was college-educated Black women — not those with less education or advanced degrees — who lost the most ground. In 2024, 74 percent of Black women with bachelor’s degrees were employed; that rate fell to 71 percent in the first nine months of 2025"
“The unemployment rate for Black women rose significantly from the start of 2025 to December, where it stood at 7.8 percent. That pattern of dramatic job loss was not seen for other groups.” www.nytimes.com/2026/01/17/b...
Black Women Turn to One Another as Their Career Paths Suddenly Recede
www.nytimes.com
January 17, 2026 at 8:22 PM
"More specifically, it was college-educated Black women — not those with less education or advanced degrees — who lost the most ground. In 2024, 74 percent of Black women with bachelor’s degrees were employed; that rate fell to 71 percent in the first nine months of 2025"
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This is surreal. 4 Oglala Lakota men kidnapped by ICE in Minneapolis have finally been located. One of them was released but the other 3 are being held at Fort Snelling, a former concentration camp used to imprison Native people incl. the Dakota 38 during Dakota Wars.
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Four Oglala detainees located, three still in ICE custody - ICT
The four Lakota detainees were reportedly sent to a former concentration camp used during the Dakota Wars
ictnews.org
January 14, 2026 at 10:31 PM
This is surreal. 4 Oglala Lakota men kidnapped by ICE in Minneapolis have finally been located. One of them was released but the other 3 are being held at Fort Snelling, a former concentration camp used to imprison Native people incl. the Dakota 38 during Dakota Wars.
ictnews.org/news/north-c...
ictnews.org/news/north-c...
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ICE is being reported at the Dong Phuong Bakery in New Orleans East - Willow Brook.
January 15, 2026 at 5:28 PM
ICE is being reported at the Dong Phuong Bakery in New Orleans East - Willow Brook.
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Anthropic has two simple messages these days. AI is going to destroy the economy by stealing all the jobs but don't worry they're building the "good AI" and the AI has already stolen the jobs of their development team but that's actually a good thing.
Anthropic says its buzzy new Claude Cowork tool was mostly built by AI — in less than 2 weeks
Boris Cherny, head of Claude Code, said that Anthropic's AI coded "pretty much all" of Cowork, a new tool that's been well-received among techies.
www.businessinsider.com
January 14, 2026 at 5:10 PM
Anthropic has two simple messages these days. AI is going to destroy the economy by stealing all the jobs but don't worry they're building the "good AI" and the AI has already stolen the jobs of their development team but that's actually a good thing.
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Students be asking me if I can tell when they use AI. Girl, YES.
January 13, 2026 at 4:21 PM
Students be asking me if I can tell when they use AI. Girl, YES.
Semester shenanigans have already begun!
a woman is smiling with the words " i reject that and rebuke it in the name of jesus " above her
Alt: a woman is smiling with the words " i reject that and rebuke it in the name of jesus " above her
media.tenor.com
January 11, 2026 at 8:48 PM
Semester shenanigans have already begun!
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Cf.: Jasmine Crockett's "unelectability".
January 11, 2026 at 3:09 AM
Cf.: Jasmine Crockett's "unelectability".
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+ approximately half of the weight loss while on GLP-1s is muscle and bone mass. The implications of muscle and bone mass loss for an aging population are considerable.
Many people who stop using weight loss drugs will return to their previous weight within two years, a new review of existing research has found. https://cnn.it/4jzMQHs
January 9, 2026 at 3:36 PM
+ approximately half of the weight loss while on GLP-1s is muscle and bone mass. The implications of muscle and bone mass loss for an aging population are considerable.
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It's too funny. WHY CAN'T BLACK PEOPLE DO THE REVOLUTION FOR US? Look we built this country as slave labor now you want us to make it right as slave labor? Look, I wanna do my part! Can white folk do theirs?
January 9, 2026 at 4:53 PM
It's too funny. WHY CAN'T BLACK PEOPLE DO THE REVOLUTION FOR US? Look we built this country as slave labor now you want us to make it right as slave labor? Look, I wanna do my part! Can white folk do theirs?
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The Plot to Enslave America
This week: we execute a U.S. citizen.
Next week: we take over elections to stop “fraud.”
It's so transparent what's going on here.
Next week: we take over elections to stop “fraud.”
It's so transparent what's going on here.
January 9, 2026 at 4:24 PM
The Plot to Enslave America
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New Orleans pretty much the next 40 days till Fat Tuesday 💜💚💛
January 6, 2026 at 10:55 PM
New Orleans pretty much the next 40 days till Fat Tuesday 💜💚💛
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Since ChatGPT came out in late 2022, over *half a million* tech workers have been laid off. That fact, and their voices, aren't really shaping the conversation about AI, and what "AI" really means in culture. So I started to get into it: www.anildash.com/2026/01/06/5...
500,000 tech workers have been laid off since ChatGPT was released - Anil Dash
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.
www.anildash.com
January 6, 2026 at 9:09 PM
Since ChatGPT came out in late 2022, over *half a million* tech workers have been laid off. That fact, and their voices, aren't really shaping the conversation about AI, and what "AI" really means in culture. So I started to get into it: www.anildash.com/2026/01/06/5...
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I do a lot of editing of others' writing at my job. It just occurred to me that I'm likely editing a lot of AI-generated content and now I'm mad.
January 5, 2026 at 7:54 PM
I do a lot of editing of others' writing at my job. It just occurred to me that I'm likely editing a lot of AI-generated content and now I'm mad.
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Whenever I correctly point out that there is no opposition party in US politics, the usual suspects swarm to screech about Dems having no power. If these folks are correct (they are not), then they should BUILD POWER. They aren't doing that.
January 3, 2026 at 8:01 PM
Whenever I correctly point out that there is no opposition party in US politics, the usual suspects swarm to screech about Dems having no power. If these folks are correct (they are not), then they should BUILD POWER. They aren't doing that.
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there's just something morbidly funny about how he just throws everyone who sucks up to him under the bus.
Trump on María Corina Machado: "I think it'd be very tough for her to be the leader. She doesn't have the support or the respect within the country. She's a very nice woman but she doesn't have the respect."
January 3, 2026 at 6:20 PM
there's just something morbidly funny about how he just throws everyone who sucks up to him under the bus.
We just trying to set resolutions and be excited about the new year and here we go...
January 3, 2026 at 6:46 PM
We just trying to set resolutions and be excited about the new year and here we go...
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For years now, moderates have decried the division of identity politics of Democrats, ignoring of course that the Republican Party was defined by identity politics itself — the identity of whiteness. Now that it’s explicit the inability to call it out and to cover it aptly is starkly disappointing.
December 22, 2025 at 5:06 PM
For years now, moderates have decried the division of identity politics of Democrats, ignoring of course that the Republican Party was defined by identity politics itself — the identity of whiteness. Now that it’s explicit the inability to call it out and to cover it aptly is starkly disappointing.
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My Christmas wish for AI and robots in 2026:
Help this is the funniest thing I’ve ever seen I can’t stop watching Kyrie Irving vs the robot 😭😭😭
December 18, 2025 at 10:27 PM
My Christmas wish for AI and robots in 2026:
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1-the one extended period where this ratio <2 (still >1 tho) *and* rates were low in absolute terms was post-peak pandemic in the Biden era (2022-4).
2-a target rate of 5-6% unemployment (policy for much of the last few decades) is a perpetual recession for Black workers.
2-a target rate of 5-6% unemployment (policy for much of the last few decades) is a perpetual recession for Black workers.
I hear there's discourse about race and employment in the US
December 17, 2025 at 4:30 PM
1-the one extended period where this ratio <2 (still >1 tho) *and* rates were low in absolute terms was post-peak pandemic in the Biden era (2022-4).
2-a target rate of 5-6% unemployment (policy for much of the last few decades) is a perpetual recession for Black workers.
2-a target rate of 5-6% unemployment (policy for much of the last few decades) is a perpetual recession for Black workers.
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Y'all do not hate A.I. enough for me.
December 17, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Y'all do not hate A.I. enough for me.
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All of the cameras must come down for a free society to bloom.
December 16, 2025 at 4:13 PM
All of the cameras must come down for a free society to bloom.