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this that i just wrote bears repeating:
https://mastodon.social/@blogdiva/113476542540461872

Toni Morrison described as the twin hydra of . they are different faces of the same monster.

if Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. worked his speeches in a way to soften the blow of telling folks, yeah USA IS FASCIST; folks like Malcolm X, Angela Davis, Fred Hamptom never held back.

so the Civil Rights Movement remains to this day the most relevant American movement ever.

THE CRM IS OUR ROADMAP

Anti-Racism Demo in Perth on 30 Nov

Reform UK are holding their Scottish conference at the Royal George Hotel on 30 November.

Perth Against Racism, in collaboration with Stand Up To Racism, are organising a 'fun, vibrant, and peaceful' protest from 4pm-6.30pm.

Info via the Courer: https://www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/politics/5118191/perth-racism-protest-reform-conference/#:~:text=Perth%20Against%20Racism%2C%20organising%20the,stoking%20riots%20during%20the%20summer.
Or their FB page: https://www.facebook.com/share/WrLGxXfDteM2CFiN/

A banner for the anti-racism protest in Perth. It is yellow and black, with photos of Richard Tice and Nigel Farage with red crosses over them. The text reads: Reform Party Conference PERTH PROTEST November 30th 4 - 6.30pm (TBC) Royal George Hotel There are bubbles with the organisers names in them: Perth Against Racism, Perth Against Reform, Stand Up To Racism

Federal judge bars from purging voters in ’s home stretch

The argued that eligible voters were getting swept up in the state’s effort to remove noncitizens.

The judge barred VA ofcls from automatically canceling the voter registrations of *suspected* noncitizens, saying the prohibits states from purging their voter rolls 90 days before a presidential election.


https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2024/10/25/youngkin-voting-law-injunction-noncitizens/

" is not magic. LLMs are not sentient beings, and they won’t become sentient. And the problems with these technologies aren’t abstractions — they’re here now and we need to take them seriously today.

"'People’s lives are at stake, but not because of some super intelligent system,' [researcher Joy] Buolamwini says, 'but because of an overreliance on technical systems. I want people to understand that the harms are real, and that they’re present.'"

- Lorena O'Neil, These Women Tried to Warn Us About AI https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/women-warnings-ai-danger-risk-before-chatgpt-1234804367/ (discussion of , and other systemic harms at link)

'An extreme right-wing group with links to a violent white supremacist collective has been recruiting young men to support its efforts to "revive" what it called England's "warrior culture" by masquerading as a sports club, a BBC investigation has found.'

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5ydnqdq38wo

'However, it is connected to the Rise Above Movement (RAM), which played a key role in the Unite The Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, in 2017'