Saikungreader

librarian; HK permanent resident; history; politics; environment; #infolit | likes & retweets aren’t necessarily endorsements
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[MIT Technology Review @techreview]

Four ways to protect your art from AI https://t.co/YULu4iz9j2

[Cory Doctorow NO LONGER ON TWIT TER @doctorow]

Since Trump hijacked the Supreme Court, his backers have achieved many of their policy priorities: legalizing bribery, formalizing forced birth, and - with the *Loper Bright* case, neutering the expert agencies that regulate business:

https://t.co/OaI47vYJC5

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[Hong Kong Free Press HKFP @hkfp]

Stay tuned to HKFP on Tuesday as 45 democrats are set to be sentenced under the Beijing-imposed security law: https://t.co/5hQ0Y6kr2F They have been convicted of conspiring to commit subversion over planning to use legislative powers to indiscriminately veto bills, ultimately forcing the chief executive’s resignation and a government shutdown.

Of the 47 democrats initially charged with subversion, 16 pleaded not guilty, while 31 pleaded guilty. The court, presided over by a panel of three designated judges instead of a jury, found 14 guilty, acquitting two.

The scholars, lawmakers, activists and a former journalist could be jailed for life.

[Democratic Wins Media @DemocraticWins]

BREAKING: Marie Gluesenkamp Perez is one of very few Democrats who won in a heavily red district. Make sure every American sees this video showing off her successful playbook.

[Soviet Visuals @sovietvisuals]

"Welcome to the elections of our dear Soviet power!" poster, 1950.

[A.R. Moxon 🦋 @JuliusGoat]

"I just want to make an observation: All of this is absolutely unacceptable in a decent society. It cannot by definition be permitted in a decent society, because a society that permits such things cannot be considered decent."

https://t.co/uMUZa81Nj9

[derek guy @dieworkwear]

Clothes have long been political. 🧵

[Library of Congress @librarycongress]

Something to ponder as you head out to vote today, for free. In the Library's Rosa Parks Papers collection, there's a receipt for the poll tax she had to pay to vote in Alabama in 1956. Poll taxes, a Jim Crow-era voter suppression tool, were not abolished federally until 1964.

[Chris Alvino @ChrisAlvino]

Notice how it's "smart people in tech" and not "smart people in climatology OR meteorology OR atmospheric science", OR literally ANY SCIENCE THAT STUDIES CLIMATE CHANGE! These tech bros are so insular & arrogant. They refuse to acknowledge any actual branch of science.

[Victor Shih @vshih2]

Also of course the first formal work unit of Chairman Mao

[Ben See @ClimateBen]

We must anticipate 1.75-2°C for the first time by 2029.

Alt text here:

https://t.co/rW89N7U6Og

[Edward W. @edwardW2]

if the temple who posted that sign has a presence on twitter I earnestly entreat them not to use this wording ever again.

[AFP News Agency @AFP]

In the bustling heart of Old Delhi, Indian bookseller Mohammed Mahfooz Alam sits forlorn in his quiet store, among the last few selling literature in a language beloved by poets for centuries.
https://t.co/exYugDPYJm

[A.R. Moxon 🦋 @JuliusGoat]

Interesting how white dudes voting for white dudes is somehow never “identity politics.”

[Headquarters @HQNewsNow]

From his own staff 👇

[Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump]

You were warned

[NeiJingLover @NeiJingLover]

Listening to a very pleasant talk on the Yi Jing by @BryanVanNorden on YT. (Link below) & learned that Leibniz came up with the binary system. I had no idea!
This sent me down a rabbit hole, reading about a French Jesuit who saw the similarities between the hexagrams & binary…

[The Wire @thewire_in]

Mumbai fish markets were established by Koli women. Today, they’re being squeezed out of them as private redevelopment of markets has taken off.

Women vendors are pushing administrators to include their traditional spaces in the city's development plan.
https://t.co/JzZij7NKLK

[Keith Boykin @keithboykin]

On this day in 1948, Democrat Harry Truman defeated Republican Thomas Dewey in a presidential race that the media got so wrong that the Chicago Daily Tribune printed an erroneous headline, which Truman held up at St. Louis Union Station the next day.

https://t.co/k2dcUU263U

[Pramila Jayapal @PramilaJayapal]

I have been spending time in swing states, talking to voters who are considering voting third party or not at all, due to the deep pain around the war in Gaza. My message on why I hope we will all join together to vote for Vice President Harris.