Tag: race
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Black Twitter, quoting, and white views of toxicity on Mastodon
Last updated: January 12, 2023. See the update log at the bottom. For a detailed look at design considerations of a “quote boost” implementation, see the followon post Social threat modeling and quote boosts on Mastodon “The platform is made up of people. Elon Musk bought Twitter, but he did not buy the communities that…
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Supreme Court Legalizes Voter Suppression
The headline’s from Project Vote’s post on OpenLeft, which also has a great quote from their board member Donna Massey: The real purpose of strict photo voter ID rules is to make it more difficult for some Americans to vote. It’s the voters who are less likely to vote who are also less likely to…
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“9.5 Theses for Technology Policy in the Next Administration”
On the CFP08 blog, Laura DeNardis of the Yale Internet and Society Project writes: To help shape public debate in this election year, the Information Society Project at Yale Law School recommends the following policy principles – The 9.5 Theses for Technology Policy in the Next Administration The principles include Privacy, Access, Network Neutrality, Transparency,…
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A Carnival of Allies
From The Angry Black Woman: I call a Carnival. The Carnival of Allies. Where self-identified allies write to other people like themselves about why this or that oppression and prejudice is wrong. Why they are allies. Why the usual excuses are not good enough. I figure allies probably know full well all the many and…
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When I’m right, I’m right: Geraldine Ferraro and “The day after”
The Obama campaign’s response to Geraldine Ferraro’s attack perfectly illustrates several things I talked about last week in The day after. Campaign strategist David Axelrod emphasizes the pattern: Axelrod said Ferraro’s comments were part of a “pattern” of negative attacks aimed at Obama. He pointed to Clinton’s former New Hampshire co-chairman Bill Shaheen, who questioned…
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The day after: narrative through the lens of strategy
original essay March 5, 2008 see the comments for updates Back on February 7, Catherine Dodge and Alex Tanzi of Bloomberg News broke a story on an Obama campaign spreadsheet, “inadvertently” released by the campaign, with their projections (or maybe predictions) of delegates. Ben Smith on Politico has a nice screenshot, and even better a…
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Two articles on Obama and one on Hillary from the Atlantic
There were a couple of interesting articles about this year’s presidential election in this month’s Atlantic. Andrew Sullivan suggests in Goodbye to all that that Obama’s real significance is that “unlike any of the other candidates, he could take America—finally—past the debilitating, self-perpetuating family quarrel of the Baby Boom generation that has long engulfed all…