Tariq K ✅ @tariqk@octodon.social

and no, your don't get to talk about how it's impossible that discrimination of Muslims cannot possibly be racist since it's a religion...

...when the first victims of hate crimes after 9/11 were SIKHS.

how do you know if someone was as devout Muslim, by the way? by racialised features, including having a tendency to grow beards, and “looking Muslim”?

fuck off.

don't you dare use my religion as a rhetorical tool to defend your security state

my brother-in-law was stopped by the DHS while entering the US because he no longer had his Christian name, also he's brown and tall and burly. a friend just lamented that she gets patted down, REPEATEDLY, not because she's a devout Muslim — she's NOT — but because she's dark-skinned and has an “Arabic” name.

you do not use my religion in defense of your security state.

@awilfox @Elizafox @Nire @csilverman okay, no. don't use my religion like that.

yes, in theory i can leave my religion, it's a system of thought with adherents. but unless I'm willing to abandon everything, including my relatives, my past, my name, i will always be suspect. I don't *look* Muslim, but that's also a consideration, esp. for other brown ppl, some of who aren't.

You can leave a profession.

@kellerfuchs oh yeah, but you are technically supposed to go about your business as much as you possibly can, within reason.

@thefishcrow sounds fun! i hope it goes well!

@GinnyMcQueen 🙋

@noelle GOD THO, TELL ME ABOUT ITTTTT 😂

@noelle in any case, some info about the book: https://www.worldswithoutend.com/novel.asp?ID=412

@noelle if you do manage to find it, don't warnings tho: there's a lot of violence, some of it sexual, some gross orientalism, and a pretty WTF-worthy thing with pregnancy done by someone who was very evidently not a biology major.

@noelle I don't recommend the story at all — the author was very fond of being edgy™ and literary™ — but I honestly don't know if it's worse than subjecting portions of the world to such a fundamental inequity.

@noelle there's this sort of literary SFF story called “AIR” in which everyone in the world — literally EVERYONE — gains this sort of wireless connection to the Internet in their brains.

Like, no choice, no opt-out. You're going about your business, and suddenly you and everyone in your province gets this before BOOMING VOICE that tells you that this service is coming, there's a test period etc. and then on that day, it happens.

It goes as well as you think it does.

TIL that someone actually made malware that seems out unsecured IOT devices, infects them, and then BRICKS them:

https://arstechnica.com/security/2017/04/brickerbot-the-permanent-denial-of-service-botnet-is-back-with-a-vengeance/

Someone in the comments days that 'tis a pity that this malware isn't an omnipresent threat, rather than being released in bursts, which... I guess kind of illustrates how fucked up the IOT field is.

@noelle fuck no, not charity. if there's BMI, EVERYONE gets it or NO ONE gets it.

We already live in a society that dehumanises those considered “unintelligent”. The genocides of the 20th century began because intelligent people decided that the mentally ill and the learning disabled had no rights to breeding, voting, and, eventually, living.

@noelle @starbreaker you know, because of Mirai, they now have malware that will literally brick insecure IoT devices before it can get compromised by a botnet.

I'm not suggesting anything at all.

@Caelyn oh, but it turns out that Perlmutter is still in control of Marvel Television and Animation.

@Caelyn that sounds completely reasonable tbh.

but, as you say, they're not great. straight-washers, white-washers, misogynists...