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Tongva territory / Los Ángeles
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Living in LA, I’ve lived in many a neighborhood in which police helicopters circle all day and they don’t do anything except be loud an annoying.
You know what improved the morale and safety of my neighborhood in less than two weeks?
A new taco stand. I’m 1000% serious.
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A group of University of Redlands students allied with community social justice activists to map 3,400 large warehouses in the South Coast air basin, powerfully juxtaposing them with health, race, ethnicity and online shopping data.
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If you ever wondered how @LeafletJS works under the hood and want to build your own tiny map library, here's an interactive introduction for beginners I made with @observablehq 🌿🗺 observablehq.com/@mourner/si…
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I refuse to use “whitelist”/“blacklist” or “master”/“slave” terminology for computers. Join me. Words matter. – at San Francisco, CA
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Last night, after nearly 6 anxious months of being told "the company will have a response for you shortly," my employer, @latimes, finally handed me a decision on the pay discrimination claim I filed through my union.
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Reminder for those excited for #BlackInDataWeek starting on Monday!
You can sign up to FREE events curated by @BlackTIDES1 here: eventbrite.com/e/blackindata…
And add yourself to our GLOBAL @BlkInData 🌍 directory here: blkindata.github.io/profiles…
Excited to (virtually) meet you all 🙌🏿
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Getting a new president is one thing but have you ever been hyped about getting a new Secretary of Education
Just like how if Biden wins, systemic racism won't magically disappear, misinformation in Vietnamese American community & language barriers are still there - we will still have to fight it.
follow👉🏼@PIVOTorg & @VietFactCheck who fight misinfo w/ bilingual fact-checking ✊🏼
As stressful as this election (and the last and the last) is, it has been heartbreaking to see how it has divided Viet American (and Cuban American) families - and this division was based on lies, misinformation, and trauma.
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Recently I've been seeing more news stories about how Vietnamese Americans as the largest AsianAm group in support of Trump, which is true, bc thru misinformation, the GOP and right have benefited and preyed on the trauma of Vietnamese refugees.
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Vietnamese Americans came from a country where regime change were coups and fraudulent elections. So we are prepared for this.
Here are our videos regarding protect the vote in Vietnamese with English sub and in English only.
tinyurl.com/y32ezeg5
tinyurl.com/y4my76bl
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Don’t come at me with your anti-union dribble. Uber & Lyft didn’t spend $200m talking about unions, they spent it lying about worker protections (120% min wage /healthcare/ flexibility) Exit polls said 40% who voted yes thought it gave drivers a living wage. It doesn’t.
~ my ambitious [tentative] plan for tonight ~
limit news to 2x/hour
self-soothing distractions:
tidy/clean
bake some cookies
animal crossing
stretch
pet/cuddle our dog
binge on the snacks i just got
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"Anti-blackness & Technology"; Nov 18, 2020; 3:30-5 pm Pacific Time
Featured experts:
* Safiya (@safiyanoble) Noble, UCLA
* Ruha (@ruha9) Benjamin, Harvard
* Andre (@DocDre) Brock, Georgia Tech
* Charlton (@cmcilwain) McIlwain, NYU
Register here:
ucsb.zoom.us/webinar/registe…
ALT Anti-Blackness & Technology; November 18, 2020; CBSR & MCC at UCSB