cogitation

[Jacob Shell @JacobAShell]

My most "boomerlib" opinion is that S + SW Asian development is massively held back by women not having the kind of autonomy in public space which is normal for them in East Asia, SE Asia, the West, and Latin Am.

[Harrison Mann @Harrison_J_Mann]

Interesting argument from this senior Biden official that we shouldn't fixate so much on the war crimes of senior Biden officials

[EigenvalueDDS @JofChalcedon]

Alternately you could raffle off permits to international shipping and palm oil magnates to hunt CNAS alumni however they see fit, vaporized outside Anthropologie in McLean, whatever

[Books Behind Borders @MHTruthUltra]

I remember when I was young they had these people called “investigative journalists” who could find out stuff like if a senator was dead or not

[isaac Samuel @rhaplord]

**not-so-fun fact

There is still no authoritative translation of the Ethiopian bible, more than 500 years after the outside world learned about it

So it will be long before we get any translations of the hundreds of thousands of African manuscripts discovered in the last 30 yrs

[Ben @kitchentowel]

In the UK, its traditional for the Secretary of State for Transport to visit Japan to learn all about how well they build and operate their transport infrastructure and then come home and do fuck all about it.

[Matt Darling 🌐🏗️ @besttrousers]

The reason the gender wage gap narrative continues is that it is based on pay statistics and not AI generated infographics.

[Lee Hepner @LeeHepner]

There is a very intentional strategy by corporate lobbyists to render legislative text incomprehensible and therefore unenforceable. That's the whole point.

A huge percentage of laws are meaningless slop. Elected officials celebrate their wins. It's deeply nihilistic.

[dylan saba @shaabiranks]

It’s extremely funny that if you let a liberal zionist speak for long enough uninterrupted they will eventually say that Jews are treated worse than Black people in the United States. It happens 100% of the time

[Adam Johnson @adamjohnsonCHI]

Now that we’re getting our 9000th “rising antisemitism” trend piece casually conflating Palestinian existence with hate speech, let us examine US media’s coverage of campus antisemitism vs islamophobia Oct 2023 - April 2024. Does 1,385 vs 22 seem reasonable and balanced to you?

[Wontwo Badsoup @wontwobadsoup]

it seems fairly stupid that you have to stop inquiries once someone is no longer an mp. Seems like you would want the system to also handle former mps. Just some thought, maybe one of the politicians in government outraged about this could look into changing that

[Flying_Rodent @flying_rodent]

So that’s a country where the poor are left to starve, only the right type of person has rights and freedoms are exerted by state force. Whom will assert this force? People of will who will not flinch to do what must be done. Are you seeing what this is and where it’s going yet?

[Lorenzo Kamel @lorenzokamel]

Today—54 yrs ago—the Mossad killed Ghassan Kanafani & his niece in Beirut.
“A commando who never fired a gun, whose weapon was a ball-point pen and his arena the newspaper pages,” wrote the Daily Stars for his obituary.
Kanafani was born in Acre/Akka & expelled at the age of 12.

[Martin Gak @DrMartinGak]

And now the pogroms is targeting Jews.

[Duncan Kinney @duncankinney]

incredible peasant mindset. "i'm glad i work in a hot warehouse for 40 hours a week because capitalism is good and socialism is bad."

[Richie Assaly @rdassaly]

“I cannot think of another country that stands so firmly on the wrong side of international law, yet continues to enjoy normal relationships with Canada,” —Professor Michael Lynk.

[Adam Smith @adamndsmith]

Farage brought his 18yo daughter onto I’m A Celebrity and if the media class don’t count that as “into politics” they still don’t understand what’s going on

[jordan peterson's favourite postmodern neo-marxist @herzbollah]

The introduction of VAR into soccer tournments is actually a great example of how introducing technologies that are meant to better surveil for the sake of better arbitrating and enforcing the rules end up emboldening and strengthening pre-existing abusers and usurpers of power.

[Austin MacNamara @gremloe]

The entire incel/tradcon/fascist movement is built around vaccum advertisements in the 50s for a world that never existed.