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Mayo T
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Mostly inscrutable, here for credible news, information, and constructive discourse. European in mindset, Canadian in background, Japanese in heritage. Former MIT undergrad and IBMer ‘00-‘25. Thoughts expressed are my own.
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Truly hoping this place has anti bot and “political technology” measures that work. Blocking toxic content is not how anyone on social media should spend their time.
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This article takes the leaked internal memo and debunks each of its assertions.

I’m not saying that every DEIA program has had an unassailable implementation, but I do believe racial bias is subconscious and pervasive and should be faced head-on.
Federal Government Bans DEIA—Requires Employees to Snitch On Each Other
Sharing a confidential memo sent to me by multiple Federal Employees, one that demonstrates how heavily this White House is leaning into fascism
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January 23, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Every major religion advocates for compassion and caring. How we treat the least fortunate and the voiceless reflects on who we are as a collective.
January 23, 2025 at 5:11 AM
Sunrise over #Vienna only lasted a few minutes but the crepuscular rays of sunlight were awe inspiring - January 8 2025 #nofilter
January 8, 2025 at 7:12 PM
I believe Gisele Pelicot should have been Time Magazine’s Person of the Year. open.substack.com/pub/annawhar...
What Would A Woman Do To An Unconscious Man If She Thought No-One Would Find Out?
I’ve been thinking about this a lot over the course of the trial of Dominique Pelicot and his fellow accused: what would a woman do to an unconscious man if she thought no-one would find out?
open.substack.com
January 3, 2025 at 6:31 PM
It was frosty and foggy in Vienna today. Wishing everyone a healthy and peaceful year ahead. #happynewyear
January 1, 2025 at 6:56 PM
How to survive the broligarchy: 20 lessons for the post-truth world | Carole Cadwalladr

The shift to “conservative” politics is a global phenomenon. My main takeaways are to not preemptively relinquish agency, and to know that we still collectively hold power and influence.
November 23, 2024 at 5:18 AM
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Russia did exactly this to HRC in 2016, aiming to suppress her vote, and probably did. Musk no doubt did suppress Harris voting as well with these demotivation techniques. This should be illegal.
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Inside the Republican false-flag effort to turn off Kamala Harris voters
A multi-pronged dark money effort by advisers to Elon Musk targeted liberals, Jews, Muslims and Black voters with ads that were not quite what they seemed.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 16, 2024 at 1:56 AM
For political analyses and insights, I spend a lot of time on Substack.

open.substack.com/pub/thebante...
How Trump and the Far-Right Media Broke America's Mind
We are witnessing one of the biggest, most brutally effective psyops in modern history.
open.substack.com
November 17, 2024 at 7:00 AM
I haven’t taken such a draconian stance on this, but agree that as Twitter and tweets have died, taking up “skeet” doesn’t make sense.
I will unfollow anyone who uses the weird BlueSky terms "skeet" and "reskeet", because "skeet" is definitely also slang for ejaculation.

Proposal for scientists 🧪 to use the less ambiguous terms of "Post" and "repost"
November 17, 2024 at 6:40 AM
Truly hoping this place has anti bot and “political technology” measures that work. Blocking toxic content is not how anyone on social media should spend their time.
November 17, 2024 at 6:22 AM
I’ll provide two:

Tori Amos’ first album “Little Earthquakes” and Ani DiFranco’s “Not a Pretty Girl”.
November 17, 2024 at 6:06 AM
November 16, 2024 at 8:57 PM
Hello, world!

For now I’m skipping the more work related thoughts here and plugging my fitfully updated Insta. I’m also on Threads but keeping it private for the time being.

www.instagram.com/mayotakeuchi/
November 16, 2024 at 8:24 PM