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Daily Alchemy: a question to think on together
“When someone speaks up against a cause they once believed in, are they being brave or just burning a bridge?”
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The Open Question Jun 24: What makes humans unique & valuable?
Hey y'all! This week Oracle said in its official SEC filing it replaced 21,000 jobs with AI. And last month Pope Leo XIV delivered his first encyclical arguing that the real danger of is that we start treating people, including ourselves, as products to be optimized and... Came across this James Baldwin clip on my Facebook feed. He said: “Love has never been a popular movement. And no one's ever wanted, really, to be free. The world is held together, really it is held together, by the love and the passion of a very few people.... - annabeth...
Economic Class is the biggest discrimination factor today?
Back in my 20s, I used to read Paul Graham and bought into the whole entrepreneur is a magical wizard that takes disproportionate risks and deserves all the wealth and equity they receive. But, that assumed a good social safety net and level playing field.... - Sassiebrat67...
Shaking My Head...
We are led to believe, no, actually , willing to believe, that for the good of our Nation, as true American Patriots, we must make Concessions, sacrifice our quality of life, because of a lack of funding. I call B.S.... - annabeth...
Oppress me
Is it possible? Can you oppress me right now? Context: The guy I’m dating (Ken) had said he was frustrated with the Austin School District teachers that he’s teaching Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion to because they were all giving wrong answers to the question, "Who is the... - NatalieJ...
I’m passionate about the power of storytelling—whether through music, writing, visual art, or conversation—to inspire change and bring people together. Much of my work focuses on women’s empowerment, resilience, social justice, and finding hope in difficult circumstances.... - ballz2dwallz...
I didn't know anything about Charlie Kirk and the policies he advocated, but I know that we cannot have a society we love without due process in determining someone's guilt and punishment, and we are very very unlikely to have a society we love without freedom of speech.... - ColbyBalch...
Deportations in Dominican Republic
This morning, on my drive home after dropping my boys off at school, I saw a pickup truck full of Dominican soldiers stopping various vehicles, mostly public transport, looking for dark-skinned Haitians to arrest and deport.... (Alignment of "Us"- Excerpt #159 from an epistolary I'm releasing next year)
Dear Johan, A great example of alignment is when someone knows that I love them even when, in the moment, I can’t feel it. A great example of alignment is when what I do, when I’m not trying to signal, signals to the other person that I love them.... - gayle...
The price of my favorite ice cream has nearly doubled. I like the idea of inclusiveness but don't see how making it harder for people to get medicaid is going to do that. And it is already too hard for people to qualify if you ask me.... - onIf people cannot change the commodities society depends on, then protest alone will never produce lasting change.by
Love this framing of protest as a signal of pain rather than a lever that actually reroutes capital flows. It lines up a lot with how I think about discrimination and opportunity: if we never touch the institutional and structural incentives underneath, the same systems keep... - jocawrites...
I have seen a "counter" to this argument. Providing ID is all good and well. If it's the requirement, make it free and more accessible. Some portions of the populace don't live near a DMV, and don't have the means to travel to one.... - akabigD...
An Open Letter to the Men and Women of ICE and DHS To the agents, officers, and staff serving under Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the Department of Homeland Security: We write not in accusation, but in concern.... How is it we can celebrate anything while human beings are still dying from drugs and homelessness? What kind of humanity have we become to celebrate while actually children are dying in the streets of America.... Keep up the racist statues, but add whips to them
I don't know if this is still happening, but a few years ago a bunch of statues got replaced because they were of people whose ethics don't match our what our society currently thinks is OK. Our new ethics is a vast improvement—slavery is abhorrent.... Some opinions are just wrong. Homophobia, transphobia, sexism, racism, and bigotry are not political issues. They're moral issues. Simply shouting "echo chamber" and insisting that moral people agree with your immorality in the name of 'unity' does not constitute an echo chamber...