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title: Let's Fix...Facebook
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date: 2021-10-17 07:41:12-0400
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tags: [lets-fix, facebook, socialmedia]
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tags: [letsfix, facebook, socialmedia]
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summary: How do you hold a Facebook in your hand?
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It has been a while since I've written a Sunday-morning post, because I've been working on a lot of future projects. So, to try something new on the blog, I'm launching an *extremely* irregular series of posts---as in, I only know what the first one, this one, will be or when I might write them---called [Let's Fix...](/blog/tag/lets-fix), wherein I take a look at some major property and ramble a little about what I think that it would take to...well, *fix* it.
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It has been a while since I've written a Sunday-morning post, because I've been working on a lot of future projects. So, to try something new on the blog, I'm launching an *extremely* irregular series of posts---as in, I only know what the first one, this one, will be or when I might write them---called [Let's Fix...](/blog/tag/letsfix), wherein I take a look at some major property and ramble a little about what I think that it would take to...well, *fix* it.
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As I've hinted at [once]({% post_url 2019-12-08-greetings %}) or [twice]({% post_url 2020-01-12-quora %}), I'm recycling some answers that I've written on Quora and updating them for my current line of thinking, not to mention whatever topic I actually want to talk about.
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This post is partly based on [<i class="fab fa-quora"></i> What are some of the hardest things to believe in comic books?](https://www.quora.com/What-are-some-of-the-hardest-things-to-believe-in-comic-books), which I originally answered on Sunday, April 23rd, 2017. Obviously, it has been edited substantially to better fit the tone and format of **Entropy Arbitrage**.
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* Media criticism, such as [racial dynamics in superhero fiction]({% post_url 2021-03-07-super %}), representation of [Asian women in fiction]({% post_url 2021-03-21-asian %}), the [lack of media websites that care]({% post_url 2021-05-02-wanted %}), the [Free Software Foundation's ethical mess]({% post_url 2021-05-09-fsf %}), [how media deals with moral issues]({% post_url 2021-07-11-mmedia %}), and the [comprehensive misunderstanding about how superheroes should work]({% post_url 2021-11-21-super %}),
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* Technical and career topics, such as [estimating schedules]({% post_url 2021-01-27-estimate %}), [CSS dark modes]({% post_url 2021-03-24-darkmode %}), [cryptocurrency]({% post_url 2021-05-16-crypto %}), [prioritization and scheduling]({% post_url 2021-06-13-priorities %}), [maybe-useful approaches to hiring]({% post_url 2021-06-27-hiring %}), the [use of a Stack Overflow account in education]({% post_url 2021-07-25-stack %}), the [value of GitHub Copilot]({% post_url 2021-07-18-copilot %}), and the [stagnation in web frameworks]({% post_url 2021-08-08-framework %}).
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I also launched the irregular [Let's Fix...](/blog/tag/lets-fix) series of posts, though there's only one post, so far.
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I also launched the irregular [Let's Fix...](/blog/tag/letsfix) series of posts, though there's only one post, so far.
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The posts aren't all as polished as I wish they were---several of them were intended to be published later but moved up the schedule due to align more sensibly with then-current events---but I think that I'll be able to continue standing behind what I wrote in them, and I can always go back for another round of editing.
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title: Abandoned Concept — The Heralds of Justice 🎺
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date: 2022-03-27 07:01:12-0400
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tags: [freeculture, lets-fix, womens-history]
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tags: [freeculture, letsfix, womens-history]
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summary: Introducing (and mostly abandoning) The Heralds of Justice
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title: A Heritage-Based Reading Schedule
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date: 2022-07-03 07:04:12-0400
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tags: [books, lets-fix, quotes]
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tags: [books, letsfix, quotes]
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summary: A functional list of heritage/history months
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title: The AllStore — Hypothetical E-Commerce
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date: 2022-07-10 06:46:12-0400
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summary: Could we have a Free-Licensed Amazon?
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For example, if we imagine for a moment that a hypothetical toy company wanted to sell [Octoplushy](https://freesewing.org/docs/designs/octoplushy) in various forms, a [jointed robot](https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:555242) figure, a [rocket playset](https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:15582), a [set of props](https://opengameart.org/content/sci-fi-prop-set), and maybe more, can you think of story ideas that would justify their inclusion in the same space? I picked those fairly arbitrarily, specifically so that it would require some work to fit everything together. Once you have that story, can you find *other* projects with appropriate licenses that could build that world out?
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Personally---ideas always come to mind---I see this as potentially a story about alien robots crashing in one of Earth's oceans. In seeking help, they form a bond with local cephalopods. And while attempting to fix their ship to return home, they partner with their new friends to defend the ocean from its attackers. With that premise, we'd need the primary antagonists---maybe human pirates or some sort of monstrous aliens, either presumably using [sharks](https://freesewing.org/docs/designs/hi) as labor---and some investigation found some potential theme music in [*Special Ops*](https://www.scottbuckley.com.au/library/special-ops/). Oh, and if we really did want to make a cartoon about this, we'd need to do some work on 3-D models of the cephalopods, since we wouldn't have much luck otherwise trying to turn a sewing pattern into something that [Blender](https://www.blender.org/) (for example) could use.
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Personally---ideas always come to mind---I see this as potentially a story about alien robots crashing in one of Earth's oceans. In seeking help, they form a bond with local cephalopods. And while attempting to fix their ship to return home, they partner with their new friends to defend the ocean from its attackers. With that premise, we'd need the primary antagonists---maybe human pirates or some sort of monstrous aliens, either presumably using [sharks](https://freesewing.org/docs/designs/hi) as labor or somehow allied with them---and some investigation found some potentially appropriate theme music in [*Special Ops*](https://www.scottbuckley.com.au/library/special-ops/). Oh, and if we really did want to make a cartoon about this, we'd need to do some work on 3-D models of the cephalopods and sharks, since we wouldn't have much luck otherwise trying to turn a sewing pattern into something that [Blender](https://www.blender.org/) (for example) could use.
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Maybe that sounds like the worst way to get robots and octopuses working around a rocket, to you. Or maybe you'd to use an AI chatbot to come up with the premise, to---and I almost did exactly this---make a point about how we could launch projects like this without bringing in *any* original ideas until it comes time to write the stories. But no matter how it happens, it definitely makes the point that we could build Free Culture stories around existing Free Culture projects.
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As such---with the understanding that I might not move on this as quickly as I would like due to the aforementioned priorities, or put consistent time in on it once I do start working---I might as well start putting out the "call to arms" now: If, dear reader, the idea of getting involved in producing Free Culture media for an I-hope-long-term space opera story appeals to you, then get in contact. Bear in mind that you will retain ownership of your work, but I'll need you to make it available under a public license that'll let me (and anyone else) make use of it, probably [CC BY-SA](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).
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I will consider any genre or medium, no matter how flaky you think that it might sound to pitch it. Drop me an...actually, no. I can set up a survey for this, so that I don't need to explain what information I want out of you, and keep your information encrypted. Yeah, let's go that route.
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I will consider any genre or medium, no matter how flaky you think that it might sound to pitch it. Seriously, this story has potential hooks that could go in weird directions, so I might eventually have some oddball requests. Drop me an...actually, no. I can set up a survey for this, so that I don't need to explain what information I want out of you, and keep your information encrypted. Yeah, let's go that route.
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[**Tell me about your work in the survey**](https://jcolag.limesurvey.net/683932?lang=en). Short version, I'll want to know things like where I can see samples of your work, how far in advance I should think about what I'll need from you, and how much your work costs.
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I went with a Lime Survey free account, meaning that it'll only accept a handful of responses before demanding that I pay. However, as Free Software, if I somehow have the luxury of seeing *too many* responses, then I'll try running an instance of my own, or pay them for a month or two. If the survey responses do fill up before you can submit your own, contact me, and I'll either set up the instance or give you the list of questions to answer back to me.
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I went with a Lime Survey free account, meaning that it'll only accept a handful of responses before demanding that I pay. However, as a Free Software product, if I somehow have the luxury of seeing *too many* responses, then I'll try running an instance of my own, or pay them for a month or two. If the survey responses do fill up before you can submit your own, contact me, and I'll either set up the instance or give you the list of questions to answer back to me.
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title: Toots 🦣 from 01/15 to 01/19
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date: 2024-01-19 17:18:03-0500
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summary: Toots for the Week of January 15th, 2024
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teaser: This week, we have the Pacific slave trade, YouTube scams, transgender rights, sugar taxes, public transit, Creuza Oliveira, Project 2025, and quotes.
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spell: Creuza Deepfaked ware Rochefoucauld Catharine Selden
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As [discussed previously]({% post_url 2019-12-31-new-year %}), on Fridays, I present my weekly social media roundups. Note that toots of articles generally include header images from the articles, which I don't include here unless their creators *happen* to have released them for use under a free license, and I notice. Most have not, or I don't notice. But I now add my commentary here, where I don't feel restricted by message length.
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Also, I don't generally attach pictures to posts with quotations.
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## 9:06 -- Mon 15 January 2024
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{% embed https://images.theconversation.com/files/567986/original/file-20240105-21-aftxx8.jpg|A black and white illustration in an old book of a cloaked woman whose hands are folded in prayer.|false| %}
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[<i class="fab fa-mastodon"></i>](https://mastodon.social/@jcolag/111760346978999712) [From South Asia to Mexico, from slave to spiritual icon, this woman’s life is a snapshot of Spain’s colonization – and the Pacific slave trade history that books often leave out](https://theconversation.com/from-south-asia-to-mexico-from-slave-to-spiritual-icon-this-womans-life-is-a-snapshot-of-spains-colonization-and-the-pacific-slave-trade-history-that-books-often-leave-out-214692) from The Conversation
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> From the late 16th to early 18th centuries, Spaniards forced some 8,000-10,000 captives onto rickety galleons, where they would endure a six-month odyssey from the Philippines to Mexico.
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Everything about this story makes me want to learn more, honestly.
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## 12:02 -- Mon 15 January 2024
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[<i class="fab fa-mastodon"></i> Quoted on Mastodon](https://mastodon.social/@jcolag/111761039438112685)
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> Talents are best nurtured in solitude; character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.
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{% cite Johann Wolfgang von Goethe %}
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## 9:05 -- Tue 16 January 2024
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{% embed https://www.404media.co/content/images/size/w2000/2024/01/Untitled-1.png|A collage of faked celebrity appearances|false| %}
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[<i class="fab fa-mastodon"></i>](https://mastodon.social/@jcolag/111766005878275442) [Deepfaked Celebrity Ads Promoting Medicare Scams Run Rampant on YouTube](https://www.404media.co/joe-rogan-taylor-swift-andrew-tate-ai-deepfake-youtube-medicare-ads/) from 404 Media
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> The ads, their prevalence, and the fact that they are still on YouTube despite widespread outrage from YouTube users and some of the impersonated celebrities themselves show that AI generated scams and content is either overwhelming YouTube or that Google simply is not trying to protect its users from these scams.
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What, you say that a company has stopped protecting people from bad actors on their platform at the same time that they have taken action to stop users from protecting themselves? You'd almost think that they don't care about users at all and only want the ad money...
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## 12:07 -- Tue 16 January 2024
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[<i class="fab fa-mastodon"></i> Quoted on Mastodon](https://mastodon.social/@jcolag/111766721013711176)
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> I shall ne'er be ware of mine own wit 'til I break my shins against it.
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{% cite William Shakespeare %}
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## 9:02 -- Wed 17 January 2024
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{% embed https://cdn2.opendemocracy.net/media/images/GettyImages-1259095640.max-760x504.jpg|A pro-trans-youth demonstration|false| %}
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[<i class="fab fa-mastodon"></i>](https://mastodon.social/@jcolag/111771656137860972) [Anybody who values democracy must stand up to attacks on trans rights](https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/5050/attacks-trans-rights-us-republicans-election-democracy-biden-florida-texas/) from openDemocracy
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> Ohio has become the latest state to ban care for trans adults via prohibitive and absurd regulations, including the head-scratching provision that the care team for any trans individual must include a bioethicist.
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I'll never understand the resistance to this idea: If we value equality among and governance by the people, then we fight for a pluralistic society or reject those values. You can't find some compromise, where we only have a pluralistic society for the people who we already find comfortable.
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No, you haven't found a loophole to act badly. Pluralistic doesn't mean accepting of abuse.
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## 12:03 -- Wed 17 January 2024
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[<i class="fab fa-mastodon"></i> Quoted on Mastodon](https://mastodon.social/@jcolag/111772368134681478)
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> The first forty years of our life give the text, the next thirty furnish the commentary upon it, which enables us rightly to understand the true meaning and connection of the text with its moral and its beauties.
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{% cite Arthur Schopenhauer %}
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## 9:03 -- Thu 18 January 2024
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{% cw Junk food %}
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{% embed https://www.futurity.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/sugary-drink-tax-soda-1600.jpg|Open empty aluminum can top view on blue background|false| %}
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[<i class="fab fa-mastodon"></i>](https://mastodon.social/@jcolag/111777322294960967) [Sugary drink purchases fizzled after tax](https://www.futurity.org/sugary-drinks-taxes-consumers-313571/) from Futurity
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> The price increase and purchase decreases appeared immediately after the taxes were implemented and continued to be sustained months later. At the same time, there was no evidence that consumers were traveling to bordering areas without sweetened beverage taxes to make purchases there.
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I can remember when New York City rolled out its restrictions on sugary drinks. People swore that they would fight "the nanny state" by drinking even *more* soda, even if it meant buying multiple smaller drinks or carting in beverages from home on their commute.
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## 12:05 -- Thu 18 January 2024
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[<i class="fab fa-mastodon"></i> Quoted on Mastodon](https://mastodon.social/@jcolag/111778037777407795)
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> Philosophy triumphs easily over past evils and future evils; but present evils triumph over it.
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{% cite François de La Rochefoucauld %}
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{% embed https://i0.wp.com/otherwords.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/shutterstock_2081491195.jpg|Light rail in downtown Kansas City, Missouri|false| %}
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[<i class="fab fa-mastodon"></i>](https://mastodon.social/@jcolag/111783000277781995) [The Case for Free Public Transit](https://otherwords.org/the-case-for-free-public-transit/) from OtherWords
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> Zero fares is a direct way to put cash in the pockets of those who need it most. Most of those who use ABQ RIDE are people of color, 74 percent are low income, and 73 percent don’t have access to a car.
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Running public transit like a business has never made sense. By charging, you exclude people from using it. In excluding people from using public transit, you have lower ridership. With fewer riders, you need to cut back on service and probably also raise fares. And so, you end up with a system not only slower than driving, but also more expensive and more difficult to use.
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Or rather, I should say that it has never made sense to treat public transit like a business **unless** you intend for it to fail.
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## 12:01 -- Fri 19 January 2024
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[<i class="fab fa-mastodon"></i> Quoted on Mastodon](https://mastodon.social/@jcolag/111783684845568599)
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> Wit and wisdom differ. Wit is upon the sudden turn, wisdom is in bringing about ends.
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{% cite Catharine Selden %}
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## Bonus
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Because it accidentally became a tradition early on in the life of the blog, I drop any additional articles that didn't fit into the one-article-per-day week, but too weird or important to not mention, here.
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{% embed https://es.globalvoices.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Creuza-Maria-Oliveira-01.jpg|Survivor of child exploitation, Creuza works to guarantee the freedom of other children with the same experience|false| %}
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<i class="fas fa-square"></i> [Creuza Oliveira: The first domestic worker celebrated with the honorary doctorate in Brazil](https://globalvoices.org/2024/01/11/creuza-oliveira-the-first-domestic-worker-celebrated-with-the-honorary-doctorate-in-brazil/) from Global Voices
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> Creuza Oliveira is an organic intellectual who managed to organize Black women throughout Brazil around the labor issue. Few doctors ensure that the knowledge they produce at the university has a social impact and can transform lives. Creuza has a doctorate because she has managed to lead the human rights of domestic workers, and the UFBA understands the importance of their struggle.
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It feels good to see schools realizing that honoring people from different walks of life reflects far better on them than the alternative.
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<i class="fas fa-square"></i> [Republicans actually published a blueprint for dismantling our democracy. It's called Project 2025](https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/1/12/2186747/-Republicans-actually-published-a-blueprint-for-dismantling-our-democracy-It-s-called-Project-2025) from Daily Kos
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> The new book calls for schools to literally ban terms in our language such as “gender equality,” “reproductive health,” and “reproductive rights.” It also calls to install “biblically-based ideologies” in all facets of our government, a clear violation of the First Amendment.
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If you couldn't read between the lines of Republican actions over the last few decades to see their goals, they have published a convenient handbook for you, so that you can see them say in black and white, that they want to treat women as second-class citizens, ethnically cleanse the United States, and replace "a government of the people, by the people, for the people" with a system to enrich themselves at your expense.
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This shows their impotence, too, if you give it some thought. If they had much power left, they'd work quietly in the background to make things happen, continuing the same old gimmicks of manufacturing controversy in order to manufacture support. They'd play the "long game" of continuing to subvert state legislatures so that they can draw and redraw voting maps to lend themselves some legitimacy. Instead, they realize that their only chance of winning involves getting enough literal fascists to the polls---and scare away everyone else---so they'll campaign on how much they hate this country, because you can't use ethnic slurs and need to treat women like people, and then they'll probably still need someone to cheat in the Electoral College, on top of that.
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## Follow Me
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If you appreciate this sort of content, then you should probably [follow me <i class="fab fa-mastodon"></i> on Mastodon](https://mastodon.social/@jcolag/) to get it as early as possible...and feel free to reply, at least to the good stuff.
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**Credits**: Header image is [Circular diagrams showing the division of the day and of the week](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:CLM_14456_71r_detail.jpg) from a manuscript drafted during the Carolingian Dynasty.
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