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"Intersectionality as a Blueprint for Postcolonial Scientific Community Building"
Chanda Prescod-Weinstein

https://medium.com/@chanda/intersectionality-as-a-blueprint-for-postcolonial-scientific-community-building-7e795d09225a

"A video game against official nationalism. Enter the National Palace, navigate subterranean dungeons, confront ghouls and politicians, witness the desecration of Mexico’s sacred symbols."
https://www.canopycanopycanopy.com/contents/high-treason/#title-page

"The Masculine Mystique of T"
by Katrina Karkazis

https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2018/06/28/the-masculine-mystique-of-t/

a collection of objects to get lost into

https://belowthesurface.amsterdam/en/rokin

this is FANTASTIC

https://belowthesurface.amsterdam/en/

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"Queer enough? Categories and norms at the border"
https://xyz.informationactivism.org/en/queer-enough

"Uncomputable" by the School For Poetic Computation

http://sfpc.io/uncomputable/

"Documentation will be published via distributed, peer to peer network in August. " ❤️

'The Self-Construction of Black Women Physicists'
https://medium.com/space-anthropology/decolonizing-science-by-reconstructing-observers-d62168fca19f

experiencing human company again, at last. for another brief cycle. trying too continuously reboot Human UX, keeps crushing. total sensory overload.
ghaa.

by Darius Kazemi

"Got some time to kill and want to read a meandering essay by an algorithm with a short attention span? Tell us how many minutes you want to spend reading and a starting topic, and we'll whip something up."

this work is more fascinating and deeper than it may seem at first glance...

https://tinysubversions.com/contentForever/

HeartMob - "End online harassment"

https://iheartmob.org/

"The End of Policing - How the police endanger us and why we need to find an alternative"

by Alex S. Vitale

https://www.versobooks.com/books/2426-the-end-of-policing

apparently software can definitely be a kink

'Dark pictures, thrones, poems that take a thousand years to die: algorithms, butterflies, and enigmas of extinction'

https://medium.com/@matthewbattles/dark-pictures-thrones-poems-that-take-a-thousand-years-to-die-algorithms-butterflies-and-a85a7e56065b

tired: techies
wired: tech workers
inspired: tech class-conscious workers

when national governments are often failing to commit seriously enough (for example by pulling out of the Paris Agreement...), other organizing approaches are being tried, a project worth keeping an eye on:

"Around the world, C40 cities are taking bold climate action, leading the way towards a healthier and more sustainable future. "
https://www.c40.org/

"To conform to Trump’s policies, Reuters has learned, ICE modified a tool officers have been using since 2013 when deciding whether an immigrant should be detained or released on bond. [...]
Previously, the tool automatically recommended either “detain” or “release.” Last year, ICE spokesman Bourke said, the agency removed the “release” recommendation, but he noted that ICE personnel can override it."
https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-immigration-court/

"Where LGBTQ War Refugees Finally Feel Safe"

http://narrative.ly/where-lgbtq-war-refugees-finally-feel-safe/