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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg

The entire genre of dancehall (more or less) came about when a reggae producer repurposed a "rock" beat he accidentally discovered on a casio kid's toy keyboard. People recently discovered the long-anonymous Japanese woman who programmed the beat was in fact a huge reggae fan and scholar.

Okuda Hiroko: The Casio Employee Behind the “Sleng Teng” Riddim that Revolutionized Reggaewww.nippon.com The “Sleng Teng” riddim revolutionized reggae music in the mid-1980s, and has spawned hundreds of versions in the decades since then. Less well known is the story of how the distinctive bassline origi...

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Went fine.

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I’m not sure there’s anything you can say about a society that wants to protect kids from Anne Frank’s Diary but won’t protect them from guns.

Texas school district agrees to remove ‘Anne Frank’s Diary,’ ‘Maus,’ ‘The Fixer’ and 670 other books after right-wing group’s complaint - Jewish Telegraphic Agencywww.jta.org The district in the Rio Grande Valley immediately agreed with activists who said the books were "filthy and evil."

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One of the big unmentioned reasons for the closure is that these pharmacies, including Walgreens, have multi-billion opioid settlements against them. Walgreens is on the hook for $5.5 billion. www.mlive.com/public-inter...

Rite Aid closing stores across Michiganwww.mlive.com As a part of its bankruptcy proceedings, Rite Aid is shuttering more stores in Michigan and Ohio.

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New injection is 100% successful at preventing HIVwww.cnbc.com

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PAULIE: Not for nothin, T, but there's a big difference between undecided and persuadable. TONY: Yeah like what? CHRIS: No he's right, T. It's in all the literature. TONY: Did I ask you? BOBBY: Thing is, you got your leans left and leans right. TONY [shouting]: Either way it's bend the fuck over!

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there are frequent reminders that palestinian lives just don’t count in the west, but an operation that killed 200+ to save 4 hostages being celebrated like it’s a success is a visceral one

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In Dec. 2023 Tesla CEO Elon Musk ordered Nvidia to divert a shipment of 12,000 of their very much in-demand AI chips which had reserved for the EV maker over to X Corp. and xAI first, leaving Tesla to get a shipment of chips months later. My latest @cnbc www.cnbc.com/2024/06/04/e...

Elon Musk ordered Nvidia to ship thousands of AI chips reserved for Tesla to X and xAIwww.cnbc.com Emails circulated inside Nvidia show that Elon Musk was telling the chipmaker to prioritize shipments of GPUs to X and xAI ahead of Tesla.

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In 2023, only 0.5% of all VC funding for U.S. startups went to Black founders. The first time it was less than $1B since 2016. It has declined every year since 2021. They'll try to kill programs like this, Black Ambition Prize, Google's Black Founders Fund and then act like Black ppl don't innovate.

An appeals court suspended the Fearless Fund’s grant program for Black women business owners, ruling that a conservative group is likely to prevail in its lawsuit claiming that the program is discriminatory

A grant program for Black women business owners is discriminatory, appeals court rulesapnews.com A U.S. federal court of appeals panel suspended a venture capital firm’s grant program for Black women business owners on Monday, ruling that a conservative group is likely to prevail in its lawsuit c...

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Guy who keeps talking about how he has taken the red pill and sees beyond the lies given to the brainwashed masses by powerful shadowy forces: financial fraud isn’t a crime, crime is stealing skittles from Walgreens

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There is no justifying felons being disenfranchised if it’s also okay for felons to run for president.

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I feel like the way to get rid of "AI" is to use every version of it to fake JK Rowling talking about how much she respects trans people, then just sit back and let her billion dollars and litigious rage do the work for you.

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www.nytimes.com/2024/05/16/o...

Opinion | The View Within Israel Turns Bleakwww.nytimes.com Attitudes toward the “Palestinian problem” range from detached fatigue to the belief that driving Palestinians into submission is God’s work.

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Obi-Wan Kenobi, living under a fascist occupation that purged everyone he loved: The guys in this airport bar are the worst people in the universe

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The cat design was created by Vera Zvereva, art director at Depot, using her own cat Brunhilde as inspiration. Milgrad Milk, Bryansk Dairy

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It’s kinda morbidly hilarious that The Democrats’ response to the news that another Supreme Court Justice supported the insurrection will be absolutely nothing. #ThisIsNotNormal

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This is a very good read: www.nytimes.com/2024/05/16/o...

Opinion | I Was Shot in Vermont. What if It Had Been in the West Bank?www.nytimes.com The dehumanization of Palestinians has become a norm.

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Indeed. www.anildash.com/2023/07/07/v...

"VC qanon" and the radicalization of the tech tycoons - Anil Dashwww.anildash.com A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

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Palantir, the combination military contractor/nexus of the worst of VC culture has a leader who *ranted about pagans and wokism* during an _investor call_. Like, they're so extremist and lost in the pit of VC Qanon that they are yelling at bankers about their conspiracy theories.

This is the Palantir guy who championed the U.S.' possible ban of TikTok, which he called a Chinese weapon of war, and who now has the ear of Congress on AI policy: "Wokism ... is a dark & sinister anti-Western ideology that must be done away with entirely." www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

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"The student left is the most reliably correct constituency in America. Over the past 60 years, it has passed every great moral test American foreign policy has forced upon the public, including the Vietnam war, apartheid South Africa, and the Iraq war." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

US students, once again, have led the way. Now we must all stand up for Palestine | Osita Nwanevuwww.theguardian.com Campus protests in solidarity with the people of Gaza have braved abuse and police raids but history will be kinder

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Every day but particularly today is a good day to read @prisonculture.bsky.social's zine White People Hate Protests. (Depending on your settings, this link auto-downloads a PDF, fyi.)

https://queer.archive.work/library/download/prisonculture/whitepeoplehateprotests.pdft.co

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Imagine being a freshmen in college, probably your first experience of independence, your first chance to find yourself and express your views, your first opportunity to influence the world around you. And the college you put your faith in responds by beating that independence out of you.

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My modest counterpoint to the "stupid campus discourse has replaced real news from Gaza" is that campus discourse has taken over because no one but a handful of weird and odious dead-enders can argue for Israel or against Palestinian aspirations at this point.

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The EA cult at the heart of silicon valley is just the culmination of the whole ethos, which is based on such a failed understanding of systems, humanity, value, purpose, ethics and people. They're only open about it now because they've amassed enough power they think they're untouchable.

Like… at some point you'll believe those of us who tell you that silicon valley's values are inextricably interwoven with eugenics, and that this isn't a new development, but merely a louder one. newrepublic.com/article/1804...

The Tech Baron Seeking to “Ethnically Cleanse” San Francisconewrepublic.com If Balaji Srinivasan is any guide, then the Silicon Valley plutocrats are definitely not okay.

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I’m glad SOMEONE is finally fucking saying it www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Auntie Naomi comin’ thru with 🔥🔥🔥

We need an exodus from Zionism | Naomi Kleinwww.theguardian.com We don’t need or want the false idol of Zionism. We want freedom from the project that commits genocide in our name

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Tell me again how leftist student activists and “cancel culture” are the worst threat to free speech and diversity of thought on college campuses

This Barnard College student who is one of the lead anti war organizers on campus was suspended today. And, arrested and processed. Now the university is evicting her too. They're informing her she will be given 15 MINUTES to retrieve her belongings. tweet: x.com/bluepashmina...

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Making students homeless and without healthcare the same day, destroying their belongings, banning them from campus, having them arrested for trespassing—this institution has far too much power to do harm to the students for whose safety it’s responsible.

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USC canceling Asna Tabassum’s valedictorian speech is so wrong and misguided. She works hard for four years, achieves this honor, and is told she can’t give her speech because of “safety concerns?” Always telling, who gets free speech and who doesnt. t.co/RqkIQw2Kpj

Citing safety concerns, USC cancels pro-Palestinian valedictorian's graduation speecht.co USC cites safety reasons in canceling the upcoming graduation speech of pro-Palestinian valedictorian from speaking onstage at her ceremony.

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*David Attenborough voice* and now we see the newly-minted Heterodox Thinker emerge from its cocoon to begin the journey to the right wing grift-o-sphere