Ben McDaniel
@benmcdmusic.bsky.social
trying to learn to do better
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every site needs a version of somethingawful's "we can just ban you" policy to use against bad actors who make a game of ruining the site while making sure to always stay 1% shy of violating the rules as-written
December 13, 2024 at 9:14 PM
every site needs a version of somethingawful's "we can just ban you" policy to use against bad actors who make a game of ruining the site while making sure to always stay 1% shy of violating the rules as-written
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It's wildly unhealthy and inhumane for a society to expect its people to have "rational" and emotional-less conversations about genocide.
December 3, 2024 at 6:50 PM
It's wildly unhealthy and inhumane for a society to expect its people to have "rational" and emotional-less conversations about genocide.
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The ongoing genocide in Gaza has resulted in nearly 100,000 individuals sustaining life-altering injuries and disabilities.
One. Hundred. Thousand.
One. Hundred. Thousand.
December 3, 2024 at 7:19 PM
The ongoing genocide in Gaza has resulted in nearly 100,000 individuals sustaining life-altering injuries and disabilities.
One. Hundred. Thousand.
One. Hundred. Thousand.
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Your weekend Umlaut:
Straight and narrow.
Straight and narrow.
November 30, 2024 at 12:36 PM
Your weekend Umlaut:
Straight and narrow.
Straight and narrow.
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Free, high quality online courses, open to everyone - computing, languages, literature, music, politics, design Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) are a great intro into a new subject area without the cost.
Check them out, link below.
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MOOC.org | Massive Open Online Courses | An edX Site
Find MOOCs from Harvard, MIT, Microsoft and other top universities and institutions in subjects like computer science, data science, business and more.
https://www.mooc.org/\
November 30, 2024 at 1:13 AM
Free, high quality online courses, open to everyone - computing, languages, literature, music, politics, design Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) are a great intro into a new subject area without the cost.
Check them out, link below.
Please share
Check them out, link below.
Please share
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The richest people on earth believe they can create so much hatred and disgust for trans folks that it can be used to roll back women's rights, queer rights, privacy rights, rights to public education, rights to free assembly.
It's all the same fight. I wish more of y'all saw that.
It's all the same fight. I wish more of y'all saw that.
June 10, 2024 at 1:26 PM
The richest people on earth believe they can create so much hatred and disgust for trans folks that it can be used to roll back women's rights, queer rights, privacy rights, rights to public education, rights to free assembly.
It's all the same fight. I wish more of y'all saw that.
It's all the same fight. I wish more of y'all saw that.
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a little late to catch up on the reading, man
President Biden and family exited Nantucket Bookworks this afternoon with the president carrying the book, "The Hundred Years' War on Palestine" by Rashid Khalidi, according to pool reporters.
November 29, 2024 at 11:09 PM
a little late to catch up on the reading, man
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I made this list as an alternative to her trash: Beautiful Books with Characters of Color.
Magic or superhero or ghosts or other imaginative fun starred
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Magic or superhero or ghosts or other imaginative fun starred
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Books with Characters of Color
Beautiful Books with Characters of Color^ **Magic or superhero or ghosts or other imaginative fun ^^Early chapter books **Mia Mayhem (series)-Kara West Planet Omar (series)-Zanib Mian-Audio Sadiq (s...
docs.google.com
November 28, 2024 at 4:59 PM
I made this list as an alternative to her trash: Beautiful Books with Characters of Color.
Magic or superhero or ghosts or other imaginative fun starred
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Magic or superhero or ghosts or other imaginative fun starred
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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The problem with pieces like this, which are countless, is the prevailing media assumption that left-of-center Americans need constant corrective instruction about how to be in and engage with the world, whereas right-of-center Americans are simply to be observed in awe, like rainbows or mountains.
Opinion - The problem with Bluesky: It won’t broaden our horizons: In the wake of Donald Trump’s election win, the social-media platform has enjoyed a surge of new users looking for an alternative to Elon Musk’s X. But will it be useful, if it just creates an echo chamber for the left?
The problem with Bluesky: It won’t broaden our horizons
In the wake of Donald Trump’s election win, the social-media platform has enjoyed a surge of new users looking for an alternative to Elon Musk’s X. But will it be useful, if it just creates an echo chamber for the left?
www.theglobeandmail.com
November 22, 2024 at 4:41 PM
The problem with pieces like this, which are countless, is the prevailing media assumption that left-of-center Americans need constant corrective instruction about how to be in and engage with the world, whereas right-of-center Americans are simply to be observed in awe, like rainbows or mountains.
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Louder for those in the back.
Plus, it inevitably reproduces every kind of social bias, leading students to parrot racist and sexist tropes.
Plus, it inevitably reproduces every kind of social bias, leading students to parrot racist and sexist tropes.
No, ChatGPT won't help in the classroom, won't save teachers time, and doesn't represent a set of skills students need to learn.
On OpenAI's latest nonsense:
buttondown.com/maiht3k/arch...
On OpenAI's latest nonsense:
buttondown.com/maiht3k/arch...
ChatGPT Has No Place in the Classroom
By Emily On November 20, 2024, OpenAI and an outfit called "Common Sense Media" released a guide to using ChatGPT in K-12 education—a guide which shows a...
buttondown.com
November 22, 2024 at 3:37 PM
Louder for those in the back.
Plus, it inevitably reproduces every kind of social bias, leading students to parrot racist and sexist tropes.
Plus, it inevitably reproduces every kind of social bias, leading students to parrot racist and sexist tropes.
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Everyone who analyzes elections needs to understand this: Self-reported financial condition is no longer an independent variable.
For many people, it no longer explains voting decisions. It *reflects* voting decisions.
For many people, it no longer explains voting decisions. It *reflects* voting decisions.
The share of Republicans who say that they’re worse off financially than they were a year ago is already down 15-points since the election.
November 22, 2024 at 12:34 PM
Everyone who analyzes elections needs to understand this: Self-reported financial condition is no longer an independent variable.
For many people, it no longer explains voting decisions. It *reflects* voting decisions.
For many people, it no longer explains voting decisions. It *reflects* voting decisions.
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1994: internet is ephemeral
2004: internet is forever
2014: only internet is forever. Print pubs and owning physical media are for idiots
2024: your favorite shows have been removed for tax breaks and private equity firms bought up the websites you worked for and deleted your entire life's work
2004: internet is forever
2014: only internet is forever. Print pubs and owning physical media are for idiots
2024: your favorite shows have been removed for tax breaks and private equity firms bought up the websites you worked for and deleted your entire life's work
February 24, 2024 at 3:26 PM
1994: internet is ephemeral
2004: internet is forever
2014: only internet is forever. Print pubs and owning physical media are for idiots
2024: your favorite shows have been removed for tax breaks and private equity firms bought up the websites you worked for and deleted your entire life's work
2004: internet is forever
2014: only internet is forever. Print pubs and owning physical media are for idiots
2024: your favorite shows have been removed for tax breaks and private equity firms bought up the websites you worked for and deleted your entire life's work
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This cannot be stressed enough. Policing trans women’s bodies & movement thru society necessitates policing cis women’s as well. Policing who & how “woman” is to be defined for these purposes means enforcing strict visible social codes & identities on all women. And so much more.
It may be hard for some to accept, but the truth is the fate of all women is inherently tied to the fate of trans women.
November 22, 2024 at 3:32 AM
This cannot be stressed enough. Policing trans women’s bodies & movement thru society necessitates policing cis women’s as well. Policing who & how “woman” is to be defined for these purposes means enforcing strict visible social codes & identities on all women. And so much more.
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I try to be an objective professional reporter guy but trans rights are a civil rights issue. Respecting and welcoming trans people is simply the moral thing to
do.
do.
November 21, 2024 at 11:20 PM
I try to be an objective professional reporter guy but trans rights are a civil rights issue. Respecting and welcoming trans people is simply the moral thing to
do.
do.
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Transphobia isn’t a distraction. It’s an attack on one of the most vulnerable populations and a reinforcement of biological essentialism, a pillar of patriarchal control that trans identity rightfully threatens
November 21, 2024 at 2:31 PM
Transphobia isn’t a distraction. It’s an attack on one of the most vulnerable populations and a reinforcement of biological essentialism, a pillar of patriarchal control that trans identity rightfully threatens
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Power comes from knitting together our different struggles. There is no power in ‘what polls best.’
November 20, 2024 at 10:45 PM
Power comes from knitting together our different struggles. There is no power in ‘what polls best.’
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The US has once again issued the only vote (a veto) against a UN Security Council resolution for a ceasefire in Gaza.
I am old enough to remember when the ruling class tried to convince us people hated America for “our freedom.”
I am old enough to remember when the ruling class tried to convince us people hated America for “our freedom.”
November 20, 2024 at 6:27 PM
The US has once again issued the only vote (a veto) against a UN Security Council resolution for a ceasefire in Gaza.
I am old enough to remember when the ruling class tried to convince us people hated America for “our freedom.”
I am old enough to remember when the ruling class tried to convince us people hated America for “our freedom.”
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A Trump supporting, anti-trans, anti-gay Republican was elected commissioner of the county where I grew up. He won despite being in jail on election night for a sexual assault in Vegas.
It’s now come out that the woman he assaulted was his daughter.
fox59.com/news/indycri...
It’s now come out that the woman he assaulted was his daughter.
fox59.com/news/indycri...
Politician pleads guilty in sexual assault case after being elected to Hancock County Council
HANCOCK COUNTY, Ind. — A current central Indiana county commissioner has pleaded guilty in a Nevada sexual assault case, days after being elected to his local County Council. John D. Jessup – a cur…
fox59.com
November 20, 2024 at 1:22 AM
A Trump supporting, anti-trans, anti-gay Republican was elected commissioner of the county where I grew up. He won despite being in jail on election night for a sexual assault in Vegas.
It’s now come out that the woman he assaulted was his daughter.
fox59.com/news/indycri...
It’s now come out that the woman he assaulted was his daughter.
fox59.com/news/indycri...
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Black folks know more than any of us what’s ahead and what’s needed.
Strikingly, the only group that responded en mass and IMMEDIATELY to the neo-Nazi march this weekend in Columbus was a group of black men.
Everyone else? Oh, they put out statements. Black men linked arms and marched the NEXT day.
And this is why I say “Godspeed” to everyone who ain’t us.
Everyone else? Oh, they put out statements. Black men linked arms and marched the NEXT day.
And this is why I say “Godspeed” to everyone who ain’t us.
The only weekend march that mattered – Matter News
Less than 24 hours after a dozen or so masked Nazis walked the streets of the Short North on Saturday, Brian Winston, president of 100 Black Men of Central Ohio, helped lead a counterdemonstration mea...
matternews.org
November 20, 2024 at 3:59 PM
Black folks know more than any of us what’s ahead and what’s needed.
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Things I've been told are more important than a genocide:
1) an American election
2) Feelings of college students
3) Feelings of the dudes doing genocide
4) Feelings of actors, comedians, and singers
5) Feelings of settlers
6) Drinking mid coffee
7) eating horrible burgers
1) an American election
2) Feelings of college students
3) Feelings of the dudes doing genocide
4) Feelings of actors, comedians, and singers
5) Feelings of settlers
6) Drinking mid coffee
7) eating horrible burgers
November 20, 2024 at 12:35 PM
Things I've been told are more important than a genocide:
1) an American election
2) Feelings of college students
3) Feelings of the dudes doing genocide
4) Feelings of actors, comedians, and singers
5) Feelings of settlers
6) Drinking mid coffee
7) eating horrible burgers
1) an American election
2) Feelings of college students
3) Feelings of the dudes doing genocide
4) Feelings of actors, comedians, and singers
5) Feelings of settlers
6) Drinking mid coffee
7) eating horrible burgers
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Rep Jasmine Crockett bringing the fire.
November 19, 2024 at 4:53 PM
Rep Jasmine Crockett bringing the fire.
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I spent a decade on Twitter telling everyone Roe was in danger only to be told time and again that it wasn't.
Then came Dobbs. And now they are using Dobbs to strip away every right that isn't rooted in history and tradition. They're citing it in Skrmetti (the trans rights case) for fucks sake.
Then came Dobbs. And now they are using Dobbs to strip away every right that isn't rooted in history and tradition. They're citing it in Skrmetti (the trans rights case) for fucks sake.
November 19, 2024 at 2:42 PM
I spent a decade on Twitter telling everyone Roe was in danger only to be told time and again that it wasn't.
Then came Dobbs. And now they are using Dobbs to strip away every right that isn't rooted in history and tradition. They're citing it in Skrmetti (the trans rights case) for fucks sake.
Then came Dobbs. And now they are using Dobbs to strip away every right that isn't rooted in history and tradition. They're citing it in Skrmetti (the trans rights case) for fucks sake.