phenolology 🐢 @susannah@octodon.social

"Amazon staff have called on CEO Jeff Bezos to stop selling facial recognition technology to law enforcement and government agencies, due to the potential that the tech is used to "harm the most marginalized." This follows similar demands from Microsoft employees and Google workers over those companies' contracts with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the Department of Defense, respectively."

Working people are the last bastion of ethics under capitalism.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/06/amazon-workers-tell-bezos-to-stop-selling-facial-recognition-to-police/

https://cen.acs.org/environment/greenhouse-gases/Study-finds-natural-gas-climate/96/web/2018/06

Study finds natural gas climate advantage nixed by methane loss
U.S. natural gas production loses 2.3% of methane to leaks

This piece on trans women's inclusion is a really solid introduction to how to think about gender in a feminist, non-essentialist way! https://medium.com/@alysonescalante/how-we-talk-about-trans-inclusion-matters-75e1c6fce5dc

“At the end of the day, however, particularly in a rich country like the United States, the persistence of extreme poverty is a political choice made by those in power,” the report reads. “With political will, it could readily be eliminated.” http://thehill.com/policy/international/un-treaties/393659-nikki-haley-ridiculous-for-un-to-analyze-poverty-in-america

"High child and youth poverty rates perpetuate the intergenerational transmission of poverty very effectively, and ensure that the American dream is rapidly becoming the American illusion. The equality of opportunity, which is so prized in theory, is in practice a myth, especially for minorities and women, but also for many middle-class White workers."

Janelle Monáe at the BET awards. Happy Pride, y'all 😍

Congratulations, Missouri, for making #7 on Fodor's No List, and for really sounding like a complete hell hole.

https://www.fodors.com/news/photos/fodors-no-list-2018

me: straight men suck at writing romance
me, watching lethal weapon 2: straight men are good at writing romance but only when they think they're writing friendship