Boz Handy Bosma, Ph.D.
@bbbozzz.bsky.social
Twitter escapee and tech leader posting about systemic racism, systemic sexism, and intersectional -isms in relation to AI, technology, and policy. Opinions my own. Please follow / amplify. #EndSystemicRacism #EndSystemicSexism
It’s not clear we will have a civil war, but it may be that the white wing wins with nothing approaching even a single military battle, much less a civil war.
I’ve been writing about what I call “slow civil war” for some years now. This won’t tip us into the fast kind but it could bring us much closer. & friends, nobody would win that war. Nobody.
September 18, 2025 at 4:21 PM
It’s not clear we will have a civil war, but it may be that the white wing wins with nothing approaching even a single military battle, much less a civil war.
FBI Director announced the suspect was in custody, then less than two hours later said the suspect had been released. In the meantime, AFAIKl they ended the lockdown of the campus and that may have allowed the shooter to escape. We don't know the motive. It HAS prompted calls for mass slaughter.
September 11, 2025 at 12:43 AM
FBI Director announced the suspect was in custody, then less than two hours later said the suspect had been released. In the meantime, AFAIKl they ended the lockdown of the campus and that may have allowed the shooter to escape. We don't know the motive. It HAS prompted calls for mass slaughter.
Cut through the noise. This us the nest explainer on the history of racial eugenics in the context of the SS American Aragon ad I’ve seen. Worth your time.
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Dawn Belcher Neufeld (@dawnieneufeld) on Threads
This is my friend Therese - her TT handle is on the video. Neat explanation I’ve seen yet about why the Sydney Sweeney ad is so problematic.
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August 2, 2025 at 3:48 AM
Cut through the noise. This us the nest explainer on the history of racial eugenics in the context of the SS American Aragon ad I’ve seen. Worth your time.
www.threads.com/@dawnieneufe...
www.threads.com/@dawnieneufe...
I am a lifelong Democrat largely because it's been the only effective means electorally to support equality for all. he gutless and irrational silence of the Democratic leadership in the face of American Eagle's normalizing racial eugenic messaging in business is beyond disappointing.
August 2, 2025 at 12:40 AM
I am a lifelong Democrat largely because it's been the only effective means electorally to support equality for all. he gutless and irrational silence of the Democratic leadership in the face of American Eagle's normalizing racial eugenic messaging in business is beyond disappointing.
I hope people understand that multiple declarations of national emergencies are coming in the next few months. Those will almost certainly be used to justify suspending habeas corpus and possibly martial law.
If people don't like being unfavorably compared to Nazis, they should not do things that Nazis do.
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Trump Says Undocumented Immigrants Shouldn’t Get Trials Before Deportation (Gift Article)
The president claimed that countries were sending their prisoners to the United States and that he needed to bypass the constitutional demands of due process to expel them quickly.
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April 23, 2025 at 2:46 PM
I hope people understand that multiple declarations of national emergencies are coming in the next few months. Those will almost certainly be used to justify suspending habeas corpus and possibly martial law.
Law firms” decision to do pro bono reminds me of the restaurant scene in Goodfelllas. First, they were going to do in controversial work. Now, it’s coal industry or trade shakedowns. Later, maybe it will be renditioning immigrants and citizens alike. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/16/u...
Law Firms Made Deals With Trump. Now He Wants More From Them. (Gift Article)
To avoid retribution, big firms agreed to provide free legal services for uncontroversial causes. To the White House, that could mean negotiating trade deals — or even defending the president and his ...
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April 16, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Law firms” decision to do pro bono reminds me of the restaurant scene in Goodfelllas. First, they were going to do in controversial work. Now, it’s coal industry or trade shakedowns. Later, maybe it will be renditioning immigrants and citizens alike. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/16/u...
We need to rethink the who will pick the crops truism. In the context of AI-driven autocracy, many will be downward mobile. Who will pick the crops? Maybe you … most likely people who have only recently made it into the middle class and are vulnerable to downward mobility.
April 16, 2025 at 1:55 PM
We need to rethink the who will pick the crops truism. In the context of AI-driven autocracy, many will be downward mobile. Who will pick the crops? Maybe you … most likely people who have only recently made it into the middle class and are vulnerable to downward mobility.
The tally tells a story of who really won the debate. We all knew Vance was going to lie, but wow.
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Fact checking VP debate claims from Walz and Vance's 2024 showdown
CBS News is fact checking the biggest claims made by Tim Walz and JD Vance during the vice presidential debate.
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October 2, 2024 at 4:40 AM
The tally tells a story of who really won the debate. We all knew Vance was going to lie, but wow.
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And of course they let Vance break the rules and cut Walz off when he replies.
October 2, 2024 at 1:31 AM
And of course they let Vance break the rules and cut Walz off when he replies.
Why oh why are they calling him Mr. President???
September 11, 2024 at 1:14 AM
Why oh why are they calling him Mr. President???
My brilliant wife would like to know - when is the Tias, Aunties, Grandmas, and Post-Menopausal Women for Harris call going to happen? ;)
August 16, 2024 at 3:57 PM
My brilliant wife would like to know - when is the Tias, Aunties, Grandmas, and Post-Menopausal Women for Harris call going to happen? ;)
Battle Cry of Freedom - I imagine Matthew Sabatella and the Rambling String Band might get a few cents from the thousands of plays they're getting after this song was played at the Harris-Walz rally in Wisconsin. Worth a listen.
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The Battle Cry of Freedom
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August 8, 2024 at 8:30 PM
Battle Cry of Freedom - I imagine Matthew Sabatella and the Rambling String Band might get a few cents from the thousands of plays they're getting after this song was played at the Harris-Walz rally in Wisconsin. Worth a listen.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGKn...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGKn...
Quite disappointing to see the Vatican participating in the campaign of falsehoods about the opening ceremonies at the Olympics. I'm not at all surprised, but it's still bad.
August 4, 2024 at 1:11 AM
Quite disappointing to see the Vatican participating in the campaign of falsehoods about the opening ceremonies at the Olympics. I'm not at all surprised, but it's still bad.
The Grey Lady at it again, saying the problem with Trump's racist remarks is he claim that "she is not one of us." The true meaning is not just to say she's not one of us - it's anti-Black racism. Adam even analogizes this to Obama's 2008 criticism of Romney as an out of touch billionaire.
August 2, 2024 at 8:50 PM
The Grey Lady at it again, saying the problem with Trump's racist remarks is he claim that "she is not one of us." The true meaning is not just to say she's not one of us - it's anti-Black racism. Adam even analogizes this to Obama's 2008 criticism of Romney as an out of touch billionaire.
Based on his statements about MVP Kamala Harris today, Trump would probably have to say Eartha Kitt was not Black. He is a very weird man, thinking he gets to define that.
August 1, 2024 at 12:18 AM
Based on his statements about MVP Kamala Harris today, Trump would probably have to say Eartha Kitt was not Black. He is a very weird man, thinking he gets to define that.
The latest weirdness from the JD Vance archive: he worries about “sociopathic tendencies” and says if you go on Twitter, “almost all of the most psychotic and deranged people don’t have kids at home.” He’s not just talking childless people; he’s talking about people who don’t have kids at home.
July 30, 2024 at 9:11 PM
The latest weirdness from the JD Vance archive: he worries about “sociopathic tendencies” and says if you go on Twitter, “almost all of the most psychotic and deranged people don’t have kids at home.” He’s not just talking childless people; he’s talking about people who don’t have kids at home.
Disbelief is holding back White Dudes for Harris ... I admit I was unsure if it was a false flag, given personal experience and the fact it's being promoted primarily on right wing news sites. The Daily Kos thing helped. Speakers confirming independently would help. docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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July 29, 2024 at 2:17 AM
Disbelief is holding back White Dudes for Harris ... I admit I was unsure if it was a false flag, given personal experience and the fact it's being promoted primarily on right wing news sites. The Daily Kos thing helped. Speakers confirming independently would help. docs.google.com/document/d/1...
It's really weird to see Vance defend his insults of childless people by claiming Democrats are anti-family, given that Vance and Trump supporters have shown us they absolutely hate our family simply because my wife is Black and I'm white and our daughters are biracial.
July 26, 2024 at 8:40 PM
It's really weird to see Vance defend his insults of childless people by claiming Democrats are anti-family, given that Vance and Trump supporters have shown us they absolutely hate our family simply because my wife is Black and I'm white and our daughters are biracial.
With fear for our democracy, I am canceling my subscriptions.
Yep. Or, as @volts.wtf puts it:
July 7, 2024 at 3:19 PM
With fear for our democracy, I am canceling my subscriptions.
This is exactly right. About 40 percent of the country thinks they have been blocked by a low single digit percentage of Black people. The math ain’t mathin.
it’s why you have people still blaming affirmative action for why their kids couldn’t get into harvard et al. it’s not legacies or the fact that these places are hyper-selective. it’s that there is *a* black person who took *your* spot.
July 3, 2024 at 3:23 PM
This is exactly right. About 40 percent of the country thinks they have been blocked by a low single digit percentage of Black people. The math ain’t mathin.
@histoftech.bsky.social Hi - so sorry I missed your deadline on new conference date - have sent reply.
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June 11, 2024 at 10:02 PM
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Some are shocked this could happen in any business. Given trends, I'm completely unsurprised. Companies don't and probably can't screen for politics, so they will have employees who do these things. They often don't have policy or process in place to prevent them. www.cnn.com/2024/05/29/b...
Black passengers sue American Airlines, alleging they were thrown off a plane because of false body odor complaint | CNN Business
A lawsuit filed Wednesday on behalf of three Black men alleges “blatant and egregious race discrimination” by American Airlines after being removed from a flight.
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May 29, 2024 at 5:50 PM
Some are shocked this could happen in any business. Given trends, I'm completely unsurprised. Companies don't and probably can't screen for politics, so they will have employees who do these things. They often don't have policy or process in place to prevent them. www.cnn.com/2024/05/29/b...
Reading shanty arson stories today. The shanty at the University of Texas where I was a grad student was burned 20+ times. I have stories about who I think did that at least once, but I’ll hold them for now. Same thing happened all over. Here’s Dartmouth. www.nytimes.com/1986/02/12/u...
DARTMOUTH SUSPENDS 12 FOR ATTACK ON SHANTIES (Published 1986)
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May 1, 2024 at 6:28 PM
Reading shanty arson stories today. The shanty at the University of Texas where I was a grad student was burned 20+ times. I have stories about who I think did that at least once, but I’ll hold them for now. Same thing happened all over. Here’s Dartmouth. www.nytimes.com/1986/02/12/u...
Our daughter, who is biracial, is a freshman at UT. There are so many welcoming people there, but I fully endorse your message about DEI firings. These seem to me to be prompted by the state legislature and SB 17. Whether it's an over-correction or the law itself, I don't have enough details to say.
Denied the nooses, firehoses, and dogs used in previous generations, Texas racists turn to mass firings, in keeping with the anti-DEI theories of Chris Rufo and other GOP darlings, to ensure that people of color never feel comfortable at the University of Texas. www.texastribune.org/2024/04/02/u...
UT-Austin announces round of firings in latest step to comply with Te…
The firings come after state leaders criticized universities for not doing enough to enforce the ban. Students say UT-Austin has already overcorrected.
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April 3, 2024 at 8:15 PM
Our daughter, who is biracial, is a freshman at UT. There are so many welcoming people there, but I fully endorse your message about DEI firings. These seem to me to be prompted by the state legislature and SB 17. Whether it's an over-correction or the law itself, I don't have enough details to say.