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I think this story is a really good example for people to look at when it comes to understanding bias at NYT. It's not that the reporter, Dana Rubinstein, says anything outright false. But the framing, word choices, etc., add up to an unprofessional and biased account.
The Crank Report basically laid out the methodology for how an evidentiary basis for transphobic policy can be assembled, by cooking the books and being selective with "evidence" for no good reason.
Really importantly - THIS 1000 page 'evidence' review, does not dignify a detailed response.
I will NOT be preparing a detailed analysis of every wrong step taken.
We need to instead state openly & clearly that this fraud is abusive and beneath contempt. That we reject it.
Yesterday the NHS banned all under 18 prescriptions of HRT for trans young people.
This ban was justified by 10 new studies that largely stated NO EVIDENCE for under 18s HRT exists.
The study underpinning this played one particular trick.
Let's briefly look at how the NHS rigged the game 1/5
They’re literally pushing out Black women to make sure they can try to permanently staff the federal government with white supremacists.
If you can get someone to admit that they believe trans women have no place in sport then they are admitting that they don't see trans women as women.
It's really that simple.
I was in Tehran this time last year. I want you to see how beautiful my city is. I want you to see the city the US/Israel is trying to wipe off the face of the earth
At least 10 people have died in Los Angeles County Jails this year (2 months). An unpleasant reminder that in-custody deaths are common AND very few people do anything about it.
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I’m sorry to say it but there’s no getting around the fact everyone is going to have to get much more stubborn. No, I won’t rush. No, I won’t use that. No, I won’t buy that. No, I won’t compromise on that. Stubbornness is a muscle we have to work daily.
The main predictor of being banned seems to be low cost. You're only allowed with expensive instruments.
Honestly at this point it's less apologism and more a cliche mafia goon knocking over breakable objects and going "Oh, looky what happened by accident. Wouldn't want any more accidents, wouldya?"
Though it is day, the sun cannot be seen in Tehran today because of all the smoke following the US and Israel bombing Tehran's oil refineries. People on the ground describe it as armageddon. History will not forgive Reza Pahlavi, Masih Alinejad, Nazanin Boniadi, and all other "leaders" who tricked Iranians into thinking this war would set them free.
Oh my god: this is *daytime* in Tehran.
Screenshot from the beginning of an article from the Marketing Daily section of the website MediaPost. Title: Apple Criticized For Removal Of International Women's Day From Calendar by Danielle Oster. Image with the following caption: Image above: Earlier incarnation of Apple's Calendar still featured Women's History Month. Main text: International Women’s Day is March 8, but you wouldn't’ know it from Apple’s Calendar app in the U.S., or several other countries. Apple appears to have removed the holiday, along with Women’s History Month, from the app in the U.S. as well as some other countries. The move has not gone over well online. On Meta’s Threads, Dr. Jolene Brighten, host of the women’s heath podcast, “The Dr. Brighten Show,” drew attention to the removal, asking Apple “why did you take International Women’s Day off the calendar?” in a post yesterday tagging the brand. The post received around 1,900 likes since yesterday, as well as 169 reshares and 70 comments.
I don't feel good about this at all
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This is becoming a bit of a problem for Nature titles...
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“No consciousness without class consciousness” is pretty good!
Class consciousness is the most important consciousness.
If I can’t unionize Claude then it’s not conscious, next question
They kill because they want to kill.
Not because they've been threatened, not because they're in danger, because they want to kill.
Murderers under color of law.
Thing that really gets my goat is the way people are eager to fund this bullshit but you need eleven layers of analysis and a ton of collateral if you want to open a small grocery store in a food desert.
Honestly, any analysis of antivaxxers that doesn't start from them being, first and foremost, a hate movement against autistic kids, is wrong from the off.
This is a Disingenuous Attack, US State Media Says, Referring Not to the 175 Girls Killed By US Bombs
Mr. Erdoğan wants to lead the Islamic world and believes himself to be the guardian of Islam, a kind of modern-day Ottoman sultan. This explains why Turkey has been a bad partner for NATO when it comes to Iran. Ankara in 2012 reportedly divulged to Iran the identities of up to 10 Iranian citizens who were spying for Israel and gathering information on Iran’s nuclear-weapons program. Danny Yatom, a former chief of Israel’s Mossad, described this incident as a major blow against Western agencies trying to gather intelligence on Iran’s nuclear program. The U.S.-led Delta Force raid in 2015 on the compound housing Islamic State’s chief financial officer, Abu Sayyaf, found undeniable links between the terrorist group and Turkish officials. At the time, ISIS was earning millions of dollars a month selling oil on black markets. Turkey has also used the Syrian refugee crisis to extract concessions from the European Union. Examples include the 2016 EU-Turkey deal, under which the EU has agreed to provide €6 billion in aid to Turkey in exchange for Ankara’s commitment to stop irregular migration into the bloc, and the 2020 border crisis, in which Mr. Erdoğan announced that Turkey would no longer prevent refugees from entering Europe, an act the Greek government labeled “extortion diplomacy.” Should NATO continue its relationship with Turkey? What should its role be in the Middle East after the Iranian regime falls? When considering these questions, the U.S. shouldn’t forget that Turkey opposes U.S. foreign policy and is a headache for its allies.
Frankly this is a pathetic and also strangely short article but it says something about how deeply neurotic and ill the American intelligentsia is that it can even be published by WSJ
In which a Wall Street Journal op-ed explicitly compares Erdogan to the Ayatollah after the fall of Saddam Hussein and implicitly makes the case for an eventual war of aggression against Turkey by the US and Israel.
An investigation from Transitics has discovered something highly alarming: Indiana AG Todd Rokita has been making a list of trans people. Following in Kansas’ footsteps, he’s preparing to revoke trans people’s documents by declaring them “falsified records.”
transitics.substack.com/p/indianas-a...
The @theijf.org has found Surrey Speak’s content appears to be largely AI-generated and is laden with factual inaccuracies.
The website also published AI-generated imagery based on real events, including an altered portrait of a murder victim. @zakvescera.bsky.social reports. #CdnMedia
The entire anti-trans care grift is built in treating the usual way medicine works as if it's a scandal.
Therapists figure out if a kid is trans the same way they figure out if they're depressed. They ask questions, maybe using a formal scale to quantify how kids compare to similar kids.
one of the most insane conspiracy theories that is commonly believed in human society is simply, "children cannot be trusted to offer information about themselves"
Polymarket • @Polymarket • 22h BREAKING: It's now more likely Iran's Supreme Leader position will be abolished than any given person taking the role. X World - Iran Next Supreme Leader of Iran? • Position abolished 17% ②口 & Polymarket 25% 20% 15% 10%
Another example: no, it's not "now more likely that Iran's Supreme Leader position will be abolished than any given person taking the role." It's simply what the most gamblers on the platform are guessing will happen.
Like... no, you're not "projecting" or "calling" races, Polymarket. You're showing people the current betting line and misrepresenting it as something more than that.