If you’re a leader and not every single being in your charge has all they need to thrive, you’re basically a tyrant.
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Jillian Ada Burrows retweeted
This is incredible. The New York Times is complaining that "Americans invested billions in Chinese companies" and "now their money is stuck", giving TikTok as a salient example (where international investors, mostly Americans, own 60% of the capital)... omitting to mention the fact that it's entirely the fault of the U.S. government.
Last I checked it's not China that asked the US to put an ultimatum on TikTok: "sell yourself to us or get banned"...
It's the NYT's thing now, just like on Gaza: they'll report on the consequence of the deed but won't name the perpetrator, because it's inconvenient to do so.
Jillian Ada Burrows retweeted
Colonial powers have always portrayed anticolonial resistance as savagery.
Jillian Ada Burrows retweeted
The racism behind chatGPT that we aren't talking about...
This year, I learned that students use chatGPT because they believe it helps them sound more respectable. And I learned that it absolutely does not work. A thread. 🧵
Jillian Ada Burrows retweeted
Do you think consumers should have a Right To Repair the items they own?
Have the FTC create rules governing consumers’ rights to repair their own devices or have a contractor of their choice do so.
The FTC is taking comments til 2/2/24:
regulations.gov/document/FTC…
#RTR #repair
Jillian Ada Burrows retweeted
We @pinasoulspc in sponsorship with @sustainseattle currently raising funds to sponsor an Afro-Indigenous community from Washington to attend the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP) 28 in December 2023. flipcause.com/secure/fundrai…
Jillian Ada Burrows retweeted
Self-determination from the global majority ⬇️ This is what it looks like ‼️‼️‼️
Jillian Ada Burrows retweeted
“This is, for us, genocide.”
Keʻeaumoku Kapu headlines a rare piece in a sea of reporting about the Maui wildfires. @McKayJacqueline’s article in @CBCIndigenous examines it in relation to the erasure of Kānaka Maoli & Hawaiian land rights. A must read.
cbc.ca/news/indigenous/maui-…
Jillian Ada Burrows retweeted
The build back of Lahaina, Maui is an opportunity for #LandBack to Native Hawaiians
And should not at all be an option for opportunists to do their continual landgrabbing
kitv.com/news/do-not-sell-to…
Jillian Ada Burrows retweeted
Really interesting piece in PNAS: Are #microplastics spreading infectious disease? One cited study in it shows that the expression of #AntiobioticResistance could increase due to microplastics. #plastic
pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.23…
Jillian Ada Burrows retweeted
Here's why I'm still trying to ignore the metaverse:
zephoria.org/thoughts/archiv…
Jillian Ada Burrows retweeted
It definitely elicited a deep groan within a pretty fun movie…
I couldn’t believe it when I heard it. Went something like: “the patriarchy is to women like smallpox was to Indigenous peoples; they had no defense against it.” 😵💫
Jillian Ada Burrows retweeted
Imperialism, colonialism, racism, capitalism, and heteropatriarchy "cannot be struggled over only at the level of text and literature."
Jillian Ada Burrows retweeted
Yes, that’s why an accurate historical material analysis of race/ism must trace the FULL historical genealogy of Eurocolonial capitalist power dynamics.
Eurocolonial capitalists used the labor of displaced & dispossessed enslaved Indigenous peoples (Africans) to develop the profits needed to colonize & settle what is today called the Americas.
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Jillian Ada Burrows retweeted
This absolutely brilliant essay by @mer__edith helped me to understand how labor techniques of plantation slavery are built into computational structures—& how these structures have obscured our understandings of Freedom & Unfreedom. It is WOW. logicmag.io/supa-dupa-skies/…
Jillian Ada Burrows retweeted
Jacobin publishing yet another reactionary article, this time a superficial reading & critique of decolonial thought that assumes it’s a monolith. This article disavows thought situated in sites of struggle. Decolonial thought is apparently hegemonic.
jacobinlat.com/2023/04/16/th…
Jillian Ada Burrows retweeted
The term THIRD WORLD forms part of a racist & colonial discourse. It establishes a hierarchy of underdeveloped, developing, & developed peoples & regions. It naturalizes this hierarchy while hiding how domination & exploitation structures the world as such.
Jillian Ada Burrows retweeted
Fun fact; 3M’s Novec is a popular cooling solution among Bitcoin miners. The product, however, contains a class of hazardous “forever chemical” known as PFAS, which has already caused a contamination crisis in Europe. 3M is set to exit PFAS manufacturing news.3m.com/2022-12-20-3M-to…
Industrial #bitcoin mining computers are submerged in a non-conductive dielectric coolant fluid to improve heat dissipation and energy efficiency:
Jillian Ada Burrows retweeted
1/8 Great review! @Prof_FSultana
Political ecology is honored!
"...the field emerged to counter the separation of nature & society in theorizing, challenge the myth of neutrality and objectivity & detachment of scholarship...." 😻@PolEcoNet
There are some points to raise⬇️
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Jillian Ada Burrows retweeted
La lucha de los mayas contra el Tren Maya en México
Publicado en Latino Rebels
23 de abril de 2023
Por Diego Estebanez García
caminoalandar.org/post/la-lu…
Jillian Ada Burrows retweeted
When you have never read anything from the Global South, you can make sweeping claims that the left is no longer producing intellectuals. The geopolitics & coloniality of knowledge convinces people to believe intellectuals only reside in one region, the Global North.
