@anneroth@systemli.social2024-05-01 09:25:56
“The German government’s failings in protecting Muslims from hatred and discrimination start with a lack of understanding that Muslims experience racism and not simply faith-based hostility,” said Almaz Teffera, researcher on racism in Europe at Human Rights Watch.
“Without a clear understanding of anti-Muslim hate and discrimination in Germany and strong data on incidents and community outreach, a response by the German authorities will be ineffective.”
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2024-05-01 09:30:31
A look at potential Telegraph bidders after RedBird IMI walked: Daily Mail proprietor Jonathan Harmsworth, Czech billionaire Daniel Kretinsky, Murdoch, and more (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-0…
@david@boles.xyz2024-05-01 14:17:12
Task Failed Successfully: The Cracked Columbia Takeover and Expulsion
The sputtering 18-hour barricade-aided takeover of Columbia University by Hamas supporters ended last night faster than Humpty Dumpty falling off the wall; of course, the occupier's task failed successfully only after being rightly pushed from the second story ledge of Hamilton Hall by NYPD riot officers. As a graduate of Columbia University, I was chagrined for the students who occupied Hamilton,…
@kcarruthers@mastodon.social2024-03-31 21:52:27
They came for Florida’s sun and sand. They got soaring costs and a culture war.
“One of the first signs Barb Carter’s move to Florida wasn’t the postcard life she’d envisioned was the armadillo infestation in her home that caused $9,000 in damages. Then came a hurricane, ever present feuding over politics, and an inability to find a doctor to remove a tumor from her liver. “
@tekphloyd@social.lol2024-03-01 07:01:04
@Defiance@sfba.social2024-03-01 20:19:43
#OTD March 1, 1994
Sublime release their second album, “Robbin the Hood”
I love this album for its raw authenticity and chaotic flow. Two years after their debut album, this one is more experimental and eclectic, with lots of free flowing dub jams and weird spoken word soliloquies. You can even hear pieces of future Sublime songs here and there. Probably the best example of the band’s collect…
@timbray@cosocial.ca2024-03-01 18:46:58
Gack, this story about Google apparently laying off YouTube Music employees who were trying to unionize? (Haven’t seen any reported/verified coverage yet, but watching.)
Long time YTM customer here. Initial feeling is that this is unacceptable and I guess I’m looking for streaming alternatives?
#YouTubeMusic #Google
@Techmeme@techhub.social2024-04-01 14:45:43
Filing: Sam Altman no longer controls the OpenAI Startup Fund, which has a $325M gross asset value; Ian Hathaway, who has helped manage the fund, is in charge (Dan Primack/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2024/04/01/sam-altman-openai-startup-fund
@kontrafiktion@hachyderm.io2024-05-01 13:06:16
She described seeing a photograph—she and her younger siblings, as kids, on their gold velvet couch—and remembering sitting there and reading her parents’ cues, looking for tension. She knew when a fight was coming, when to take her siblings upstairs. “Pattern-making ended up being a survival skill for me,” she said.
I know that feeling. My step father drank for quite some time when I was a teen and I always put my antennas out to discern his mood …
@redstarfish@social.linux.pizza2024-04-30 04:53:50
French professor sending me invites repeatedly to join her #WhatsApp group (related to the french course I just joined).
Forget it! Professors from my own department (Computer Science) couldn't make me join their groups, there's no way I'll be joining yours. In your course, I'm not even afraid of failing.