pinboard September 30, 2020

• The case for quarantining extremist ideas | The far right | The Guardian
  RT @BostonJoan: Journalists!

  Please please please do not try to interview the Proud Boys. They seek media attention and then use it to spread their toxic message.

  When reporting on tonight’s debate, call them white supremacists. But do not give them a mic.

• ExamSoft's remote bar exam sparks privacy and facial recognition concerns | VentureBeat
  RT @hypervisible: Black woman has to shine bright light in her face during entire 2 day exam so ExamSoft remote monitoring tech doesn’t flag her as a cheater. 🤬🤬🤬
• (500) https://nyer.cm/EkxueUw
  RT @NewYorker: What if, once New Yorkers had made it through the grief and despair of the spring, we’d refused to settle for less in every area of our lives? Imagine what this September might look like then, @mashagessen writes.
• (500) https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/transportation/seattle-to-require-minimum-wage-for-uber-and-lyft-drivers/?utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=owned_echobox_tw_m&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1601438792
  RT @seattletimes: The Seattle City Council has approved a new pay formula meant to ensure that Uber and Lyft drivers make the same $16.39 minimum wage as other workers in the city.
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  RT @SamanthaJPower: This is so good. @HillaryClinton on why she’s so “polarizing”: “It’s not about me. It’s about the fight.”
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  RT @Pinboard: When I was trailing @JDScholten around Iowa, at every gathering there were questions about ballot integrity and how to vote safely. As things get more heated, please remember that the easiest way to subvert a free, fair election is to undermine people’s faith in the process
• Massachusetts rejected nearly 18,000 primary ballots amid surge of mail-in voting – The Boston Globe
  RT @EllenBarryNYT: In Massachusetts, election officials rejected 18k mail-in ballots in Sept primaries, 2% of early votes, bc they arrived late, "failed delivery," or envelope didn’t have a signature. More than 3x ballots rejected in 2016 general, reports @MattPStout.
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  RT @AshaRangappa_: In case you were wondering
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  RT @JoeBiden: There’s no other way to put it: the President of the United States refused to disavow white supremacists on the debate stage last night.
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  RT @TechMoBio: Hello everyone! I’m a first-year PhD student @Stanford and it feels great to be a part of #BlackInMicro! I’m interested in using biophysical and computational approaches to study bacterial pathogenesis and host- pathogen interactions

  #BiMRollCall @BlackInMicro

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  RT @jentaub: True story. When I was three, our apartment had a telephone with the base attached to the wall in the kitchen. The receiver was connected to the base with a long curly cord that allowed you to bring the phone with you as you walked around the kitchen or into another room.

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• Twitter
  RT @BillCorbett: much better thank you
• Where in the U.S. Are You Most Likely to Be Audited by the IRS? | ProPublica
  RT @the_etheropian: A mostly Black and poor county in Mississippi is the most heavily audited by the IRS.

  “The five counties with the highest audit rates are all predominantly African American, rural counties in the Deep South.”

• Which Hollywood Sex Symbols Actually Have Sex on Screen? A Study. – The Ringer
• It can happen here. It is – The.Ink
• Twitter
  RT @AudraEqualityMc: Got yelled at by my ballet teacher when I was 9 for having the wrong color tights for the recital. I had on brown tights cause she said to buy “skin-color” tights.
  When I said “But you said skin color” the teacher pointed to her own white skin & yelled “Skin color! SKIN COLOR!”
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  RT @brightwell08: Ernst Haas ‘Lights of New York City’ 1972
  Kodachrome photograph
• When a Prison Abolitionist Is a Victim of Sexual Assault – The Atlantic
  Ayelet Waldman
• How to Thwart Facial Recognition and Other Surveillance | WIRED
• Save Our Democracy!
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• 13 security tips for journalists covering communities of hate online
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  RT @JGreenblattADL: It’s astonishing that, when asked a simple question, will you condemn white supremacists, @POTUS responded – "The Proud Boys should stand back and stand by." Trying to determine if this was an answer or an admission. @POTUS owes America an apology or an explanation. Now.
• Twitter
  RT @CiaranWest: Anyone want to see a woman fire an arrow through a moving Polo Mint?

  The answer is "yes".

• Twitter
  RT @gelliottmorris: Huge spike in Google searches for moving to Canada tonight
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  RT @PGourevitch: the most essential review of Pete Wells’s storied run as restaurant critic is this reckoning with NYC’s reopening of indoor dining:
• New Zealand firms switch to using nation's Māori name, Aotearoa | World news | The Guardian
• Beautiful paperback novels with Ulysses – Matt Gemmell
• New York Dining Is Moving Indoors. How Nervous Should You Be? – The New York Times

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