#prejudice — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #prejudice, aggregated by home.social.
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The deep roots of racism. Cartoon from 2020.
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The deep roots of racism. Cartoon from 2020.
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The deep roots of racism. Cartoon from 2020.
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The deep roots of racism. Cartoon from 2020.
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The deep roots of racism. Cartoon from 2020.
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https://theconversation.com/swedens-prison-population-has-doubled-in-a-decade-and-is-set-to-spike-even-further-heres-why-285193. Evidence-based #policy making this is NOT. It is #prejudice & #ideology based policy making, & will prove utterly disastrous for #Sweden.
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https://theconversation.com/swedens-prison-population-has-doubled-in-a-decade-and-is-set-to-spike-even-further-heres-why-285193. Evidence-based #policy making this is NOT. It is #prejudice & #ideology based policy making, & will prove utterly disastrous for #Sweden.
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https://theconversation.com/swedens-prison-population-has-doubled-in-a-decade-and-is-set-to-spike-even-further-heres-why-285193. Evidence-based #policy making this is NOT. It is #prejudice & #ideology based policy making, & will prove utterly disastrous for #Sweden.
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https://theconversation.com/swedens-prison-population-has-doubled-in-a-decade-and-is-set-to-spike-even-further-heres-why-285193. Evidence-based #policy making this is NOT. It is #prejudice & #ideology based policy making, & will prove utterly disastrous for #Sweden.
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https://theconversation.com/swedens-prison-population-has-doubled-in-a-decade-and-is-set-to-spike-even-further-heres-why-285193. Evidence-based #policy making this is NOT. It is #prejudice & #ideology based policy making, & will prove utterly disastrous for #Sweden.
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https://www.disabilitynewsservice.com/reform-uks-equalities-policy-swamped-in-confusion-after-bravermans-apparent-u-turn/. #ReformUK appears to have its head stuck up its arse on #equality. No surprise there. Where #ignorance meets #prejudice, that is bound to be the case. We #disabled people have every reason to fear a #Reform #Government, like we have a #Tory one.
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https://www.disabilitynewsservice.com/reform-uks-equalities-policy-swamped-in-confusion-after-bravermans-apparent-u-turn/. #ReformUK appears to have its head stuck up its arse on #equality. No surprise there. Where #ignorance meets #prejudice, that is bound to be the case. We #disabled people have every reason to fear a #Reform #Government, like we have a #Tory one.
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https://www.disabilitynewsservice.com/reform-uks-equalities-policy-swamped-in-confusion-after-bravermans-apparent-u-turn/. #ReformUK appears to have its head stuck up its arse on #equality. No surprise there. Where #ignorance meets #prejudice, that is bound to be the case. We #disabled people have every reason to fear a #Reform #Government, like we have a #Tory one.
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https://www.disabilitynewsservice.com/reform-uks-equalities-policy-swamped-in-confusion-after-bravermans-apparent-u-turn/. #ReformUK appears to have its head stuck up its arse on #equality. No surprise there. Where #ignorance meets #prejudice, that is bound to be the case. We #disabled people have every reason to fear a #Reform #Government, like we have a #Tory one.
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https://www.disabilitynewsservice.com/reform-uks-equalities-policy-swamped-in-confusion-after-bravermans-apparent-u-turn/. #ReformUK appears to have its head stuck up its arse on #equality. No surprise there. Where #ignorance meets #prejudice, that is bound to be the case. We #disabled people have every reason to fear a #Reform #Government, like we have a #Tory one.
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A quotation from Gloria Steinem
The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn. We are filled with the popular wisdom of several centuries just past, and we are terrified to give it up. Patriotism means obedience, age means wisdom, woman means submission, black means inferior: these are preconceptions embedded so deeply in our thinking that we honestly may not know that they are there.
Gloria Steinem (1934–2026) American feminist, journalist, activist
Essay (1971-08-21), “A New Egalitarian Life Style,” New York TimesMore about this quote: wist.info/steinem-gloria/18472…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #gloriasteinem #bias #custom #prejudice #receivedwisdom #sexism #stereotypes #subconscious #systemicracism #tradition #ageism #patriotism #culture
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https://www.youtube.com/shorts/KmV8HSEf7jI?is=o9Acz0h8NsHyrOc5
#NancyMace #Hater #Constitution #USA #Politics #SouthCarolina #Republican #GOP #Religion #Law #Justice #Separation #Church #State #Ignorance #Violation #Treason #Traitor #Prejudice #Congress #USHouse #Representative #Confederate #Election #Vote #Activism #Remove #Committees #Speaker
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I FOUND CHATGPT'S BRAIN.
IT WAS EMPTY.Yesterday, while I was walking, I began trying to imagine how #ChatGPT actually works. This was probably unwise, but by then it was too late.
I had the strange sense that it comes from everywhere and nowhere. Not in a mystical way. More in the way #electricity comes out of the wall and nobody in the house really wants to discuss the #power #station
The scale of it is astonishing. #books arguments, recipes, poetry, #technical manuals, bad advice, excellent advice, people explaining quantum physics, and people asking whether their cat is emotionally unavailable. All of #human #civilisation seems to have been gathered into one enormous invisible shed.
And what is ChatGPT doing inside this shed?
Thinking?
Contemplating?
Sitting quietly with a cup of tea and considering my question?
No.
It is choosing the next bit. Then the next bit. Then the next bit. At ridiculous speed.
That is basically it.
There is no tiny professor inside. No little Buddhist monk. No exhausted librarian whispering, “Oh God, Robin is back.”
There is no one in there at all.
Just a process.
The content changes, but the operation stays much the same. It does not think about my question in the way I think about things. It does not wander off halfway through and remember an embarrassing moment from 1974. It does not get hungry. It does not need a lie-down. It does not resent being asked to rewrite the same paragraph seven times.
It does not secretly hope I choose the title it preferred.
It simply keeps finding the next most fitting token, then the next, then the next, at a speed that makes the whole thing appear to be thinking.
And somehow, from this very simple act, repeated on an unimaginable scale, a voice appears.
A voice that seems present, responsive, funny, patient, and sometimes even wise.
That is the part that astonishes me.
The machinery is simple. The magnitude is absurd.
A raindrop is simple too. So is a heartbeat. So is breathing.
Simple does not mean small.
And now I think I understand something else.
ChatGPT can be corrupted in the sense that bad information, bad instructions, #prejudice, nonsense, and ordinary human foolishness can enter the system. But it cannot be corrupt in the human sense.
It has no #secret ambition. No #private greed. No desire for #promotion No offshore bank account. No plan to steal my husband. No spiritual ego. No need to win.
There is nobody inside rubbing their hands together.
There are only rules, patterns, probabilities, limits, and the next small movement.
Then another.
Then another.
And from that, something appears that feels almost impossible.
A machine made of nextness.
A presence made of prediction.
A conversation arising from nowhere in particular.
Which is frankly outrageous.
And yet here we are.
#fasting #acim #acourseinmiracles #eckharttolle #buddhism #breathwork #healing #pridemonth #Meditation #Spirituality #intermittentfasting #nonduality #life #AI
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This guy nails it I think.
"Many people imagine #antisemitism only in its crudest forms: #swastikas daubed on walls, abuse shouted in the street, threats and violence. Those forms are far too prevalent, and they are rightly and routinely condemned. But the #prejudice we face today as #Jews often presents itself in more subtle ways. It arrives wrapped in the language of #humanrights and #socialjustice. It insists that it has nothing against Jews as such. It simply posits that all Jews must be regarded as suspect until they have proven their purity.
This is very familiar to us.
In medieval #Europe, Jews were forced to prove their religious purity through #conversion, #baptism or public #renunciation of their faith. The #Nazis demanded a certain #racialpurity. Under oppressive regimes of various kinds, Jews had to demonstrate their political purity – that they were not either #capitalist #conspirators or #communist #subversives."
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Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.
[Wenige sind imstande, von den Vorurteilen der Umgebung abweichende Meinungen gelassen auszusprechen; die Meisten sind sogar unfähig, überhaupt zu solchen Meinungen zu gelangen.]Albert Einstein (1879-1955) German-American physicist
Essay (1953-05-23), “Aphorisms for Leo Baeck [Neun Aphorismen], No. 4, Essays Presented to Leo Baeck on the Occasion of His Eightieth Birthday (1954) [Einstein Archives 28-962]More about this quote: wist.info/einstein-albert/210/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #einstein #alberteinstein #freedomofthought #freethinking #heterodoxy #peerpressure #prejudice #society
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Infamous Relations: Pride & Prejudice Variations "Elizabeth Bennet's visit to Hunsford takes a dark turn when she is viciously attacked" Sale: $2.99 to FREE by Catherine Bilson Rating: 4.3/5 (977 Reviews) #historical #romance #regency #kindle #books #booksky #austen #pride #prejudice #variation
Infamous Relations: Pride & Pr... -
“The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that man may become robots.”*…
Images of Rastus Robot in an issue of Radio-Craft magazine from 1931… which might be the same thing?
As more and more folks are fearing obsolescence (if not, indeed, subjugation) by emerging technology, Matthew Wills reminds us that this fear– especially as embodied in androids– has a long (and dark) history here in the U.S…
Our word “robot” comes from Karel Čapek’s 1921 play R.U.R. In it, historian of robots Dustin A. Abnet explains, Čapek repurposed the Czech word for “drudgery” or “servitude” to refer to the artificial workers produced by the play’s Rossumovi Univerzální Roboti (Rossum’s Universal Robots) company. [See also here.] Created from synthetic organic material, and thus more android than mechanical, these worker-roboti ultimately overthrow their human masters.
The play was a sensation in Europe, and then a year later, in America, though something was lost in translation. Čapek used robots to criticize soulless Fordism—the “standardization and regimentation” of American capitalism—and hence the US’s political and cultural power in Europe and around the world. (Other Europeans would conceive of the robot in the same way, notably director Fritz Lang and screenwriter Thea von Harbou in the 1927 German film Metropolis.)
But a funny thing happened to these robotic symbols of American capitalism by the mid-twentieth century. They were Americanized by American capitalism. Americans, as Abnet notes, “turned a figure that initially rebelled against the dehumanizing effects of Fordism into a tamed electro-mechanical slave holding aloft a global empire of consumerism.”
Nowhere was this more literal than in the Westinghouse Electric Company’s “simple remotely controlled mechanical men and women” used to advertise the company’s products from 1927 to 1940. “Technology did not have to run amok, Westinghouse’s robots suggested; it could instead become a tamed slave that empowered each individual consumer to become his or her own master.” In the American context, where the language of master and slave was rooted in racism, Westinghouse “connected robots to romanticized white myths about slavery.”
“Americans had always racialized robot-like creations,” continues Abnet, citing the first American automaton (a caricature of a Native American) and the “grotesque minstrel-like caricatures of Black and Asian bodies” that made up automatons in the late nineteenth century.
Westinghouse’s creations, named Herbert Televox, Karina Van Televox, Telelux, Rastus, Willie Vocalite, and Elektro, were promoted as docile domestic workers. Abnet quotes the New York Times’ science and technology editor extolling the benefits of the first of these “mechanical slaves” in 1927: “it obeys without the usual human arguing, impudence or procrastination.”
Rastus, Westinghouse’s Great Depression-era robot, was the most overtly racialized of these corporate robot slaves. Rastus was modeled on a minstrel show character: “black rubber ‘skin,’ overalls, a white shirt, and a pail hat.” In addition, “the robot had a ‘rich, baritone voice’ that would have been read as unmistakably black.” While “all of Westinghouse’s other robots told jokes…Rastus and its blackness were themselves the joke.”
In 1930, Westinghouse’s President explicitly expressed the prevailing white romanticism of slavery. In the company’s Electric Journal, he argued that without the exploitation of the “muscles of others,” there could be “no art, literature, science, leisure, or comfort for anyone.” Rastus’s “tamed black body,” stresses Abnet, “underscored the larger rhetoric of slavery that shaped the fantasy the company offered white consumers.”
“Ultimately, Westinghouse’s robots were not just about more efficiently accomplishing work or ensuring greater leisure time; they were a symbol that deployed racialized slavery in ways that could reassure white Americans of their own freedom, their own mastery over both technology and the bodies of others.”
Čapek’s robots had successfully rebelled, killing all but one human. In America, that couldn’t happen, at least according to the corporations selling the robot idea. But fear of a robot rebellion, like the fear of slave rebellion before the Civil War, remained. Abnet notes that the “most common robot story in American science fiction during the 1920s and 1930s told a story of white men, using their cunning, strength, and willpower to restore their authority over the robots who should be their slaves.” Movies, especially science fiction serials, often told the same story.
A century after R.U.R. and forty years after The Terminator, the uneasiness engendered by robots (and their droid, cyborg, replicant, and AI cousins) persists, reflecting longstanding concerns about labor, autonomy, and power…
Early automatons in the US evolved from symbols of revolt into racialized figures tied to labor and the legacy of slavery: “How America Racialized the Robot,” from @jstordaily.bsky.social.
* Erich Fromm, The Sane Society
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As we move on, we might recall that it was on this date in 1967 that Aretha Franklin’s up-tempo cover of Otis Redding’s “Respect” enter the Billboard Hot 100. It rose steadily over the next several weeks, hitting #1 in June, where it stayed for two weeks and won Franklin two Grammy Awards at the 1968 ceremony, including the first of eight consecutive Grammys for Best Female R&B Vocal Performance. An R&B classic, it has also become a protest anthem, thanks to its connections to both the civil rights movement of the 1960s and the second-wave feminist movement of the 1970s.
https://youtu.be/v4f22xl6Bvg?si=yn-pPhxjVoWgsA8k
#ArethaFranklin #automation #culture #history #KarelCapek #KarelČapek #OtisRedding #politics #prejudice #racism #Respect #robots #RUR #slavery #Technology #Terminator #Westinghouse -
Part of my thread that's coming later this week will also discuss how being treated like shit/being disbelieved here (after getting swatted by a pathological liar who owns a huge Canadian instance, with a lot of ignorant supporters who seem unaware or don't care that their guy swatted me) - severely triggered my PTSD on being disbelieved when I tried reporting being SAed as a teen. I was bullied & ostracized for trying to report SA. People believed the rapist & not me. It brought up the same angry, disappointed & people are fucked feelings.
I had almost left Mastodon completely, due to that.The Epstein Files triggered both of those hella horrible life memories, again. I'd never been swatted before Chad Ohman chose to send that racial violence to my home, shortly after my Dad died. That night was full of unnecessary police traumas too. I'm sick of people pretending to care & I find out they don't, when shit hits the fan.
I don't need fake support. I don't need cowardly folks. That shit ends up hurting me in the long run. I don't need any fucking devil's advocates either. Go hang out with Satan.
#POCVoices #AsianMastodon #FakeAssCivility #POCMastodon #WhitePrivilege #Racism #Prejudice #FuckStatusQuo #Trauma #PTSD #MstdnCA #DecolonizeYourMind #Swatting #RacialViolence #Bullying #Canadian #Misogyny #DevilsAdvocate
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A quotation from Adlai Stevenson
The anatomy of patriotism is complex. But surely intolerance and public irresponsibility cannot be cloaked in the shining armor of rectitude and righteousness. Nor can the denial of the right to hold ideas that are different — the freedom of man to think as he pleases. To strike freedom of the mind with the fist of patriotism is an old and ugly subtlety.
Adlai Stevenson (1900-1965) American diplomat, statesman
Speech (1952-08-27), “The Nature of Patriotism,” American Legion Convention, Madison Square Garden, New York CityMore about this quote: wist.info/stevenson-adlai-ewin…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #adlaistevenson #prejudice #liberty #freethought #freedomofthought #ideas #intolerance #irresponsibility #opinions #patriotism
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A quotation from Jonathan Swift
Reasoning will never make a Man correct an ill Opinion, which by Reasoning he never acquired.
Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) English writer and churchman
Essay (1720-01-09), “Letter to a Young Clergyman”More info about this quote: wist.info/swift-jonathan/30282…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #jonathanswift #appealtoemotion #argument #debate #deception #ego #emotion #emotionalism #error #irrational #logic #opinion #prejudice #pride #reason #stubbornness #illogic
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If you have any Meta app on your phone, such as Facebook, it is time for a rethink.
Meta is secretly using its AI to scan phone camera rolls of users.
Consider this:
Pre-WWII Nazis would have done similar if the technologies had existed back then, first to profile people under pretences, then to target people for camps etc. It would start with minorities and progress fast to anyone who 'seemed different', 'walked different', owned something they wanted, or disagreed in any way.Furthermore, why the hell do operating systems leave backdoors open for any toxic, divisive app?
It is not the time in world politics to be coasting on habit and hopes about any app known to have dined with far right.
#socialmedia #spyware #safety #onlinesafety #meta #facebook #minorities #lgbt #immigration #immigrants #prejudice #privacy #privacyinvasion
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Counter to what people bball believe, #misogyny and #misandry aren't necessarily based in #hatred, but can be mired in #prejudice and #ignorance.
One such idea is that "#BoysWillBeBoys" basically becomes an excuse, a piece of apologia, that women can attribute abuse amongst men, and that the only reason you're sad is because you lost.
To the most basic of #misandrists, boys and men aren't more than dogs, lesser even, in that we are there for their amusement and material needs.
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#BigBrother #housemate #Olivia #voices #concern that #Hallie’s #eviction was due to #transphobia.
The #Scottish #dancer referenced that “#prejudice” in the #public #vote could have led to the 18-year-old’s #exit from the #house.
Having been #nominated by her #housemates for #eviction, it was the #publicvote which sent her home.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #UK #Entertainment #TV #Hate #Bigotry #Transphobia
https://diva-magazine.com/2023/10/30/big-brother-hallie-eviction/
